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Leaked documents show that McDonald's is adding international hits to its American menu, including the Spanish Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger and the Dutch Stroopwafel McFlurry (MCD)

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McDonald's worldwide favorites

  • McDonald's is bringing some of its most popular international menu items to America this summer. 
  • New menu items include the Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain and the Stroopwafel McFlurry from the Netherlands. Cheesy bacon fries will also make their return. 
  • Last week, McDonald's confirmed that it is cutting its "Signature Crafted" line of more expensive, upscale burgers. 
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McDonald's is adding some of its biggest hits from around the world to its American menu. 

In early June, the fast-food giant is adding four "Worldwide Favorites" to the menu, according to internal documents shared with Business Insider.

The new menu items are the Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain, the Stroopwafel McFlurry from the Netherlands, the tomato-mozzarella chicken sandwich from Canada, and the cheesy bacon fries from Australia. 

In an email to Business Insider, a McDonald's representative said "Geen commentaar," which translates to "no comment."

McDonald's tested the Grand McExtreme and the Stroopwafel McFlurry at 50 locations in South Florida in 2018. The locations also served Malaysia's BBQ McShaker Fries and the McSpicy Chicken from Hong Kong, which do not appear to be making the national rollout this time around. 

The Grand McExtreme, as tested in Florida, is a fresh-beef Quarter Pounder topped with McBacon sauce, bacon, Gouda cheese, and slivered onions. The Stroopwafel McFlurry is a vanilla-soft-serve-based McFlurry with added caramel waffle cookies, called stroopwafels, and caramel sauce. 

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The tomato-mozzarella chicken sandwich, which is served in Canada, tops a chicken breast with onions, lettuce, tomato, mozzarella, and a tomato-and-herb sauce. And the cheesy bacon fries will likely be the same as the limited-time offering that McDonald's rolled out earlier this year. The fast-food giant has long served the fries in other countries around the world. 

The Worldwide Favorites will hit McDonald's menus around the same time that the chain's "Signature Crafted" line disappears in early June. Last week, McDonald's confirmed that the chain is cutting the line of more upscale burgers after two years. 

Read more: McDonald's is killing its heavily hyped fancy burger lineup 2 years after launch

According to internal documents shared with Business Insider, McDonald's is cutting the Signature Crafted line in part because the chain is looking to "reduce the number of products in restaurants."

"With our new Quarter Pounder Deluxe and Quarter Pounder Bacon, we've introduced even more ways to enjoy the classic burger toppings they know and love, now on the fresh beef Quarter Pound patty," McDonald's said in a statement last week. "Based on their feedback, we'll move away from the Signature Crafted Recipes line on our national menu." 

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How to free up space on an iPhone that's running out of storage

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  • If your iPhone is running out of storage space, it can run slowly or prevent you from creating or saving important files.  
  • The iPhone's Settings app lets you assess which apps and data take up the most space and delete them.
  • There are several ways to save space on an iPhone by optimizing your photos and the way your camera saves images.
  • You can save additional space by deleting music and text messages as well as clearing your browser cache.
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The next time you upgrade your iPhone, you may never have to worry about running out of space again, thanks to the gargantuan capacities available in new models.

But for now, if your phone is running dangerously low on space, fear not: there are some quick ways to valuable recover space.

How to find out how much space you have left on an iPhone

The first thing you need to do is determine exactly how much space you have left.

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap "General," and then tap "iPhone Storage."

3. You may need to wait a few moments, but you should see a graph at the trop of the screen displaying how much free space you have and what is using up your memory (media files, apps, photos, and so on).

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How to delete non-essential apps and data that are taking up a lot of space on an iPhone

Under the iPhone storage graph, you should see all your apps listed in order from largest to smallest. What you're seeing isn't just the size of the app itself, but also how much space its data takes up as well.

This varies greatly from app to app; the Music app is only about 20MB by itself, for example, but if you have a lot of songs on your phone, this app could be taking up gigabytes of space.

To check, tap on an app in the list on the iPhone Storage page. You'll see the app's details page, where you can choose to delete the app and all of its data or just offload the app from the iPhone temporarily.

  • "Offload App" removes the app from the phone but leaves all of its data behind. If you reinstall it later, the data will still be there and you can continue using it normally. This is a good option if you plan to use the app again later, and the app itself is very large but the data takes up very little space. A good example of this is Google Maps — the app is about 124MB, but its data is probably just a few megabytes.
  • "Delete App" deletes the app and all of its data. This is a good choice if the app's data is much larger than the app itself, so there's little advantage to deleting just the app—like Spotify, if you download a lot of music, or the Music app itself.

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How to optimize your iPhone photos

There are a couple of ways your iPhone can help you store photos more efficiently. First, if you have an iPhone 7 or later, you have the option to shoot all your photos in Apple's new "High Efficiency" mode. Your image quality won't be affected, but each photo takes significantly less space to store. This might be turned on already, but it bears double-checking.

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap "Camera," and then tap "Formats."

3. Make sure that the camera capture mode is set to "High Efficiency."

In addition, you can tell your phone to store lower resolution versions of your images on the device itself, but to be sure to keep the original full-resolution images in iCloud. You can save a lot of space this way — potentially gigabytes — but if you share images directly from your phone, you'll be sharing lower-res versions, so this is admittedly a bit of a compromise. If you want to turn it on, do this:

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap "General," and then tap "iPhone Storage."

3. To the right of "Optimize Photos," tap "Enable."

There's more. If you take a lot of photos in the iPhone's HDR (High Dynamic Range) mode, you might be unwittingly saving two copies of each photo — the improved HDR photo, and the unretouched original, which you probably don't need.

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap "Camera."

3. Turn off "Keep Normal Photo" by sliding the switch to the left.

How to delete music from your phone

If you store a lot of music on your iPhone, you can recover a lot of space by pruning your library.

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap "General," and then tap "iPhone Storage."

3. Find the Music app in the list — if you have a large digital music library, there's a good chance it'll be at the top of the list — and tap it.

4. Swipe left on any artists that you want to remove from your phone, or you can tap the artists to delete specific albums or even individual tracks. You can see how much space all of these songs take, making it easier to choose. You can also tap "Edit" and remove multiple artists at once.

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Note that this only removes tracks from the Music app. If you download tracks in other music apps, like Spotify, you need to open that app and "turn off" the downloaded tracks from there.

How to clear Safari's cache

Your web browser's cache could be taking up a lot of space — all those temporary internet files add up. If you do this, be warned that you'll be logged out of any websites you are signed into, and all your cookies will be deleted. But this can save you dozens of megabytes. To clear your cache, see our article "How to clear the cache on your iPhone and make it run faster."

How to delete older messages in Messages

Messages generally won't take up a lot of space unless you have a lot of texts with images attached. But if every megabyte counts, you can manually delete messages or entire conversations. And you can change the iPhone's settings to automatically delete older texts after a month or a year. For details, see our article "How to delete messages on a iPhone."

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I baked pizzas, croissants, and cakes in Cuisinart's toaster oven to see if it's worth $230, and it's the best one I've ever used

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  • You may wonder why you need a toaster oven, but if you love to bake and you've ever had to use a full-sized oven in the summer, you know why a toaster oven is a good appliance to have in your kitchen.
  • Cuisinart's Chef's Convection Toaster Oven (currently $231 on Amazon) is the best toaster oven I've tested. 
  • It bakes evenly, doesn't take up a ton of room, is easy to use, and comes with pans and a pizza stone so you can get baking right away.
  • I've made countless pizzas, cookies, pastries, slices of toast, and delicious dinners in this toaster oven since I got it last July.

I'm something of a toaster oven expert. From the age of 11 to 18, I lived in a house without an actual oven. We used a rinky dink $40 toaster oven from a brand I don't even remember. Although it wasn't the best toaster oven, it served its purpose: It baked things, toasted bread, roasted chicken, and even baked a loaf of bread once.

Since then, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for toaster ovens, and I've tested ones that cost way more than that humble $40 toaster oven I grew up with. And boy are they so much better. The best one I've used, though, is the Cuisinart Chef's Convection Oven.

Not only does it come with everything you need to get baking right away — from two baking racks and baking pans to a 13-inch pizza stone — it also bakes evenly, heats up quickly, and doesn't take up much counterspace at all.

I've been using it almost exclusively since I got it in July, and my actual oven is starting to feel a bit neglected. Keep reading this review to find out why I think it's so great — but first, some specs.

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Specs and dimensions

  • 1800 watts of power
  • 0.95-cubic-foot capacity oven fits 13-inch pizza, 9 x 13-inch baking pan, or 9 slices of bread
  • 15 cooking functions, including innovative Dual Cook, Sandwich, and Speed Convection
  • Digital controls on a backlit display, clock, 2-hour timer
  • Includes 13-inch pizza stone, 2 cooking racks, 9 x 13-inch enamel baking pan and broiling pan
  • Interior light and auto-slideout rack
  • Pull-out crumb tray, nonstick interior
  • 3-year warranty
  • Size: 20.87 x 16.93 x 11.42 inches
  • Weight: 32 pounds

Design and accessories

Cuisinart's oven has a sleek, stainless steel build that looks great in any kitchen. Although it's not the smallest toaster oven, it doesn't take up a ton of space, either. It measures 20.87 x 16.93 x 11.42 inches, and it fits on the relatively slim bar-like countertop on one side of my galley kitchen. The sides of the oven can get warm, so it's important to have a few inches of clearance on the back and sides.

It has a 0.95-cubic-foot capacity, which is large enough to fit a 13-inch pizza, a 9 x 13-inch baking pan, or nine slices of bread. Cuisinart includes everything you need to get cooking right in the box. You get a 13-inch pizza stone, two cooking racks, one 9 x 13-inch enamel baking pan, and one broiling pan of the same size. 

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What it's like to use

The toaster oven is incredibly simple to use. I've baked everything from cupcakes and croissants to salmon and potatoes in it without any hassle. I also regularly make pizza with the included pizza stone, and it turns out a perfect, crispy crust every time so long as I use the pizza setting and let the stone heat up first.

Cuisinart put a nice crisp screen on the front of the toaster oven along with a dial you turn to run through the various preset cooking functions. You can choose between toast, bagel, bake, pizza, and other settings to cook any kind of food to perfection. You can also adjust the temperature to your liking and ignore the modes.

I particularly love using the toast setting, because you can decide the shade of your toast on a scale from 1 to 6 with 1 being the lightest and 6 being the darkest. I use the toast function to make garlic bread and sandwiches with melted cheese in them. 

The oven shuts off when the preset baking time is over, too, so you won't burn your toast unless you chose the wrong setting for your bread.

Normally, during the summer months I have to bake less often or risk turning my apartment into an inferno because big ovens pump out so much heat. With this toaster oven, I could still bake and keep my kitchen fairly cool — well, cooler than I would if I'd baked those croissants in the actual, full-size oven. It's also a great help during the holidays when you need to cook a lot of things at once and the oven is quickly filled up with dishes.

The included pans, racks, and pizza stone are all high quality and well made. There's really no need to go out and buy more pans, which is great, because this toaster oven isn't cheap. If you factor in the cost of all those baking pans and the pizza stone, you're getting a great deal. This isn't the rinky-dink toaster oven of my youth that cost $40 and lasted but a few years — this is one that's made to last.

Frankly, if this were the only oven I had, it would be perfectly adequate because it's so well made. I sometimes joke that my regular oven is languishing from lack of use these days.

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The bottom line

If I could go back in time and gift myself this toaster oven back when we didn't have an actual oven, I would. It is a wonderful toaster oven that comes with all the accessories you need, bakes food evenly, and has a lot of helpful presets that cook food to perfection.

  • Should you buy it? Yes. It's the best toaster oven you can buy and it's a good investment if you like to bake, make pizza, or cook a lot.
  • What are the alternatives? You can check out alternatives in our buying guide. We also recommend the Breville Mini Smart Oven if you need a smaller one or the Panasonic Flash Xpress Toaster Oven if you want an infrared one. There are plenty of cheaper toaster ovens, but they lack the features and accessories of the Cuisinart one. They also typically bake less evenly. 

The Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven may be expensive, but it's well worth the money if you like to bake and cook a lot, if you need an additional oven, or if you simply want to use this in lieu of a full-sized oven.

Pros: Bakes evenly, easy to use, includes pans and pizza stone, lots of settings, heats fast, good size

Cons: Expensive, gets hot on the sides

Buy the Cuisinart Chef's Convection Toaster Oven at Amazon for $231

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How to add, update, and use a PIN on your Roku device

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  • Your Roku PIN is a four-digit code you set up in your Roku account for use on your device.
  • A Roku PIN can be used to limit purchases made through your device.
  • Set up a payment method in your Roku account to use your Roku PIN to purchase movies, TV and channels.
  • A Roku PIN can be required to install new channels or make purchases, but it does not function as a content filter. No content played on Roku will be affected by requiring a PIN.
  • You can even buy Roku accessories and devices using your PIN on your device.
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A Roku PIN (personal identification number) is a four-digit code you can set up from your Roku account to help manage payments and channel additions.

You can enter your PIN on your Roku (when prompted) to make on time purchases and subscribe to premium content from channels that support it. Roku refers to this payment method as Roku Pay.

Adding a PIN to your account is a quick and easy process.

How to add or update your Roku PIN

1. Go to my.roku.com. Log in to your account if prompted.

2. Click the "Update" button under PIN preferences to open the PIN settings menu.

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3. Create a new PIN or update your current PIN by entering four digits in the fields provided. Both fields must match.

4. Select your PIN usage preference from the list provided. You can choose to always require a PIN for purchases and channel installation or require a PIN only for purchases. You can also choose to turn off the PIN function.

5. Click "Save Changes" to save your PIN and setting selection.

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Tips & tricks for managing your PIN and payment methods

  • The Roku PIN settings will only affect your ability to make purchases or add channels to your Roku. Channel, TV, and movie purchases made through a Roku device are final. Roku usually doesn't refund these purchases.
  • Not all channels support paying through your Roku account with a PIN so you may be required to purchase some content directly from the provider.
  • Requiring a PIN to install new channels will not affect the content played on Roku. Parental controls are available on premium channels like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, and HBOGo. Content filtering can be set up through your online account with each service. Consult your provider's help section for additional information about available options.
  • To use a PIN for purchases, be sure to set up a payment method from your Roku account. An outdated payment method will prevent you from making purchases using a PIN. Purchases made on your devices will be billed to the credit card on file. You can set Paypal or a credit or debit card as your default payment method in your Roku account. Add a payment method by clicking "Update" from your Roku account menu.
  • Using a Roku PIN is a quick way to make purchases from your Roku devices and access your new content immediately. You can even use your PIN to purchase Roku accessories and device upgrades if you like.

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We taste-tested 8 of Trader Joe's 'Two-Buck Chuck' wines. Here's how they ranked from worst to best.

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Trader Joe's has quite a reputation when it comes to wine.

After all, each of the grocer's line of signature Charles Shaw wines sells for just $3.99. Though a bit of a misnomer now, the wine's low costs have earned it the nickname "Two-Buck Chuck," as it used to retail for $1.99. But despite the spike in prices, the wine continues to be popular with thrifty wine shoppers.

I put together a workplace wine tasting with eight Charles Shaw bottles. Five of us from Business Insider's retail desk ended up sampling the wines together last week.

Read more: We taste-tested 7 of Costco's Kirkland wines and were blown away by their price and quality. Here's how they ranked from worst to best.

Overall, we found Costco's private-label Kirkland wines to be superior to their Trader Joe's counterparts.

But that assessment comes with two important caveats. The white wines weren't properly chilled beforehand — that's my bad. Also, Charles Shaw wines are significantly cheaper than Kirkland wines.

Here's what we thought of Trader Joe's Charles Shaw wines:

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8. We collectively hated the white zinfandel.

The Charles Shaw white zinfandel didn't just fail to win us over. This wine — the first bottle we popped open for the taste test — aggressively assaulted our taste buds and left us feeling anxious to sample the rest of the Two-Buck Chucks.

I likened the taste to "painful candy" — sickly sweet with a nasty bite. Other reviewers slammed the selection as tasting "way too sweet" with a "burn-y aftertaste."

"It's just ... candy," one taster wrote. "It tastes like a headache."

Another colleague likened the taste of the bright-pink liquid to that of a "melted Jolly Rancher."

Everyone rated the white zinfandel a one — indicating that we all agreed that it's "terrible" — and everyone agreed that it wasn't even worth its rock-bottom price.



7. The chardonnay called to mind cheap dehydration-inducing popcorn.

Popcorn is a nice treat. White wine that tastes like low-quality popcorn butter? Not so much.

An uncanny similarity to the taste of liquid popcorn butter had the retail desk collectively agreeing to chuck out the Two-Buck Chuck chardonnay. 

Tasters described the wine's flavor as "bland and slimy," "gross," and "oily." We agreed that we wouldn't be reaching for this option again anytime soon.



6. The sauvignon blanc reminded me of a different mind-altering substance.

Truth be told, I felt that this wine smelled a bit like a different substance folks use to get a buzz. That is to say, this drink smelled like weed.

But I want to note that the wine's pungency is likely at least partly my fault. In my rush to organize the wine tasting, I didn't chill the white wines. That fact led a number of us reviewers to agree that this beverage could be a reasonable option when cold.

At the time of the tasting, however, we were less than impressed. On the issue of whether the wine was worth its low price, we were split, with two negative answers, two affirmative answers, and one taster writing, "I think so?"

The wine brought to mind adjectives such as "skunky," "spicy," "pungent," "punchy," and "mineral."



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Watch Bill Gates tear up the dance floor at a Miami club

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Billionaires, they're just like us.

According to a TMZ report, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder and chairman Bill Gates hit the dance floor at Miami's exclusive LIV Nightclub recently.

TMZ obtained video of Gates' dance moves, which included dancing along to Waka Flocka Flame's "Grove St. Party" and Nicki Minaj's "No Frauds."  Gates is held in high esteem for his insight on technology, economics and global development, but to judge by this footage, the 63-year-old's footwork is ready for an upgrade. 

Gates was in Miami to watch his daughter compete in an equestrian tournament, according to TMZ.

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Trump insists 'nobody disobeys my orders' after Mueller report cited numerous examples of aides disobeying his orders

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  • President Donald Trump said on Monday that his staff members follow his orders.
  • "Nobody disobeys my orders," Trump told CNN's Kaitlan Collins when she asked whether he was worried about his advisers ignoring his directives.
  • The remark came after the special counsel Robert Mueller's report painted a picture of a chaotic White House and a president whose aides routinely refused to follow his orders.
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Days after the special counsel Robert Mueller's final report in the Russia investigation landed with a bang, President Donald Trump told reporters that his staff follows his directives.

The comments came after Mueller's report painted the picture of a chaotic White House and a president who felt besieged by a sprawling investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether members of his campaign conspired with Moscow in the effort. Trump was also personally investigated over whether he sought to obstruct justice in the inquiry.

In the obstruction probe, Mueller found that Trump's "efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."

The report, which was released on Thursday with light redactions, identified at least 10 current or former staffers who refused to follow the president's orders, including former FBI Director James Comey, the former advisers Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and former White House counsel Don McGahn.

Read more: Mueller's report carved the overarching theme of Trump's wild presidency into stone

On Monday, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked the president whether he was worried about his staff disobeying his orders, as the Mueller report depicted.

"Nobody disobeys my orders," Trump replied.

The president and his allies initially took a victory lap after Attorney General William Barr announced — before the report was released — that Mueller found "no collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Mueller declined to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" in the obstruction case, but Barr concluded there was not sufficient evidence to charge Trump with an obstruction crime.

Trump's allies painted Barr's remarks as being a "total and complete exoneration" of the president despite the fact that Mueller's report explicitly stated that it "did not exonerate" him.

But Trump's legal team, which got to look at the report in the days before it was released, is said to have become increasingly uneasy about its contents, especially in regard to the obstruction probe. In particular, Trump's lawyers were said to be worried about what it said about McGahn's conversations with Trump.

Read more: About 33% of Americans think the Mueller report implicates Trump

Trump, meanwhile, is reportedly fixated on the report's characterization of how his subordinates routinely ignored his commands to avoid being implicated in the Russia probe.

People close to the president told CNN he is newly furious at many of those people, McGahn in particular, for disregarding his orders.

Indeed, the president appeared to target McGahn in an early-morning tweetstorm last week, in which he accused people who spoke with Mueller's office of making statements that were "total bulls---."

McGahn took extensive notes of his conversations with the president, according to Mueller's report.

"Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue," the president tweeted. "Watch out for people that take so-called 'notes,' when the notes never existed until needed."

Trump added: "I never agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the 'Report' about me, some of which are total bulls--- & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened."

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How to share photos, PDFs, and other files on Google Drive

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  • Google Drive allows you to store all sorts of files and folders on a remote server, so you can access them any time from any device with internet access — this includes files made outside of Google, like photos and Word documents.
  • Sharing non-Google files stored in your Google Drive allows another person to access them instantly, making collaborative work much easier.
  • You can customize the settings of a file you share in Google Drive, limiting the way in which recipients can interact with and alter the file.
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Whether you have a slew of vacation photos you want to share with friends and family, a spreadsheet you need your colleagues to work on, or a project your fellow classmates need to add to before a presentation at the end of the week, Google Drive offers the best way to share all sorts of files.

Google Drive allows you to share photos, written documents, PDFs, videos, and all sorts of other files quickly and easily. And better yet, you can limit the ways in which people engage with the files you share, restricting access to viewing only, to commenting only, or granting full permission for the file's recipient to make edits and alterations.

Note that this guide will detail how to share files that were made outside of Google Drive, like PDFs, photos, and Word documents. Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets files require a different process.

How to share singular files on Google Drive

If you only need to share a single photo, PDF, or other file, the easiest way to do it is to first open the file. Then:

1. Click on the three dots stacked in a vertical line found at the top right corner of the page.

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2. Click the word "Share" (there may also be an icon of a person with a + symbol).

3. Enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the file with.

4. Click the pencil icon beside the email address to set the access level you with to grant ("Can edit," "Can comment," or simply "Can view").

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5. Hit "Done" to share.

And if need be, before entering the names, hit the word "Advanced" at the bottom right of the "Share with others" pop up window, then set the privacy access. This will also present you with a few more options.

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How to share multiple files or folders from Google Drive

Open the folder with multiple files you want to share or locate the multiple folders you wish to share, then...

1. On a Mac, hold down the Command key, then left click on each file or folder to be shared, or hold Shift to select many items at once. On a PC, use the Control key to select a single item, or the Shift key to select many.

2. Right click on one of the highlighted files, then click Share.

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3. Follow the steps above as you would for a single file.

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This website is my best-kept secret for finding trendy but affordable jewelry — it's also a great place to shop for Mother's Day gifts

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  • Spending a lot of money on trendy jewelry can feel like a waste — once the trend is out of style, you're left with an expensive piece you'll likely get little wear out of.
  • BaubleBar was founded as a solution to this problem, and it's now a retail destination for women seeking affordable, trendy jewelry.
  • We love BaubleBar's selection of trendy jewelry for everyday wear, but its fine jewelry and personalized jewelry options make great Mother's Day gifts, too.

Unless you're shopping for something specific at a fine jewelry store, jewelry tends to be an afterthought. You go to your favorite store to pick up some clothes and there happens to be some necklaces and earrings clustered just before the check-out counter. You either throw a couple on the check-out counter, or glide on by without much thought.

Daniella Yacobovsky and Amy Jain started to wonder why there wasn't a go-to retail destination for jewelry. Of course, there are the high-end jewelers, but most women reserve those for special occasions if they shop there at all. And, while most women could easily rattle off a list of their favorite places to buy affordable, trendy shoes and clothing, the retail world was lacking these reliable, one-stop shops when it came to jewelry. 

To fill the gap, Yacobovsky and Jain created BaubleBar— a retail destination for women seeking trendy jewelry at affordable prices. 

Since 2011, BaubleBar has been growing its brand as a go-to spot for fun, fashionable, and affordable baubles. The founders' fashion philosophy is one that most of us would agree with: invest in the essentials, play around with trends. BaubleBar is a reflection of that; a playground of colorful, chic gems and jewels for fashion lovers to explore. 

BaubleBar is the perfect way to try out the latest jewelry trends without dropping hundreds of dollars on an of-the-moment necklace that will be so passé next season. They have everything from trendy lucite bangles to simple, delicate gold necklaces. Prices start as low as $24 for a simple ring and go up to $240 for a dainty, 14-karat gold necklace. While affordable, none of the jewelry looks cheap — everything is high-quality and stylish. My everyday gold hoops that I've been wearing for almost a year still look as good as new.

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Each Sunday, BaubleBar introduces a host of new arrivals, so there's always something new to shop. You can shop its best sellers or look at the "It List," a collection of pieces that fit the latest trends of the moment. Right now you'll find trendy twists on everyday essentials, like gold hoops accented with pearls, stacks of brightly colored stone rings, and summery pieces adorned with shells. BaubleBar also has a selection of fine jewelry— simple, timeless pieces that are still relatively affordable.

Jewelry, be it trendy or timeless, always makes a great gift. So, if you're searching for a sweet gift for Mom this Mother's Day, definitely check out BaubleBar. If she's a trendsetter, go for some of the bright, playful pieces like the colorful stacking rings or gold huggies embellished with rainbow stones. If simple is more her style, go for a set of simple gold hoops she can mix and match or a delicate ring that goes with everything. Opt for a personalized piece if you want an extra-special touch.

There are so many options, you're sure to find something that fits your mom's tastes. And, with such reasonable prices, you'll probably find something you love, too.

Shop trendy jewelry at BaubleBar here

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Chase just launched its first-ever rewards transfer bonus — here's why you might want to take advantage

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  • Chase is offering the first-ever transfer bonus for its credit cards Ultimate Rewards program: Get a 30% bonus when transferring points to British Airways' frequent flyer program, Executive Club.
  • While AmEx and Capital One have offered transfer bonuses before, this is a first for Chase.
  • British Airways Avios are particularly useful for short-haul flights with partners, or even business class on partner airlines. You can also transfer them to Iberia's Avios program, which includes lower taxes and fees.
  • If you're looking to earn Ultimate Rewards points, click here to learn more about the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card.

JP Morgan/Chase has quietly launched a transfer bonus for its credit card rewards customers, offering a 30% bonus when they transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to the British Airways Executive Club frequent flyer program.

There are a few different kinds of credit card rewards — including cash-back — but the most valuable kind of credit card reward is transferable points— points that can be transferred to hotel and airline partners.

Credit card reward programs generally have set transfer ratios for how many proprietary points are worth a set number of partner miles. Occasionally, those credit card programs will offer transfer bonuses, giving you more airline miles when you transfer your credit card points over.

While Chase has one of the most useful rewards programs out there, it's never offered a transfer bonus before — until now.

Normally, Chase Ultimate Rewards points transfer to each of its nine airline partners at a 1:1 ratio in 1,000-point increments. For example, 1,000 Ultimate Rewards points equal 1,000 United MileagePlus miles.

Starting today, and through June 16, you'll get a 30% bonus on transfers to British Airways. Every 1,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points transferred will equate to 1,300 British Airways Avios, or miles.

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While British Airways miles are, ironically, not the best frequent flyer currency to use for flights to or from the UK due to high taxes and fees, Avios can be extremely useful on the airline's various partners. The airline uses a fixed, distance-based award chart, so Avios are most effective at covering otherwise-expensive short-haul flights on partners like American Airlines, Qantas, and Japan Airlines. You can also have good luck using Avios for long-haul business class flights on partner airlines.

Generally, it's best to have a particular use in mind before you transfer miles over, since transfers only work one way — it's impossible to get points back once you transfer them out. So make sure to find the flights you want — and confirm that you can use Avios to book them — before initiating the transfer. Most Ultimate Rewards transfers are instant, so you should be able to book with Avios right away.

If you're looking to stock up on Ultimate Rewards points, the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is currently offering its highest-ever sign-up bonus: 60,000 Ultimate Rewards points when you spend $4,000 in the first three months. 

Also worth considering: The Chase Sapphire Reserve, the Chase Freedom Unlimited, and the Chase Ink Business Preferred Credit Card, which is offering a massive 80,000 point bonus when your small business or side-gig spends $5,000 in the first three months.

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Accenture execs explain why a company's true investment isn't in AI — it's in retraining its current workforce

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  • Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes are the authors of "Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World."
  • A survey conducted by consultancy firm Accenture found that the vast majority of senior executives plan to use intelligent technologies like AI over the next three years to automate tasks, differentiate their offerings and enhance human capabilities — but scarce few plan to increase their companies' investments in reskilling their people.
  • The authors think that's a mistake that could lock those companies into costly cycles of layoffs and rehiring to meet their constantly evolving needs for new skills — and lead to a skills gap costing G20 countries $11.5 trillion in GDP growth over the next 10 years.   
  • The excerpt below illustrates how Accenture, facing disruption of its core consulting business in 2014, embarked on a massive reskilling of its workforce as part of its own strategic pivot to a "digital-first" future.
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The Accenture leadership team was fully on board with the need to get ahead of both big bang and compressive disruption heading our way. But what about the wider organization, now some 450,000 employees? To succeed with our wise pivot, we clearly needed new talent strategies.

First, we needed to help our Accenture managing directors, who run the day-to-day business of serving clients, understand what the new strategy demanded of them personally.

We started by surveying our top leaders on the characteristics they believed essential for success in the future. When the synthesis of this was presented to a receptive management committee, one thing everyone agreed on was that being a digital-first organization required continual reskilling.

Pivoting to the new would mean retraining and redeploying each and every one of our employees for a sometimes vaguely defined future, even as we asked them to dig in deeper to achieve revenue, quality, and market share gains in the present.

Management's responsibility, we agreed, was to make sure our people would have the skills they needed to serve current and future clients, able to compete head-on with competitors old and new. And to do all of that in a coordinated effort across a global footprint. So since 2015 we've invested approximately a billion dollars in employee education every year.Pivot To The Future

In addition to classroom learning at five global learning centers, the resource at the heart of our reskilling imperative is Accenture Connected Learning (ACL), a digital-learning environment that connects users directly to knowledge as well as to experts they can learn from.

ACL reaches more than 370,000 employees around the world. We offer tens of thousands of courses that have made it possible to redeploy over 220,000 technology professionals as experts in new technologies, including AI, cloud services, mobile applications, and security, all in less than three years.

Fortunately, Accenture is blessed to have more than 75 percent of its employees from the millennial generation, a cohort with a hunger to learn and to improve its own employability.

New learning content, in fact, is increasingly generated and distributed by our employees themselves, using crowdsourced collaboration spaces we call "learning boards." A typical learning board might include links to a dozen or so different sources, including YouTube videos, white papers, TED talks, articles, and self-assessment tests. Topics range from A (acute respiratory distress syndrome, relevant to our health-care practice) to Z (Zuora, a cloud software company).

For us, success in the wise pivot also requires an extremely diverse mix of people. All our leaders know that in addition to its being the right thing to do, inclusion is a business imperative.

But sometimes altering perceptions at the field level is hard. Why? Research in human resources shows that leaders hire and promote in their own image, and that people tend to follow role models they can relate to. What's more, we all suffer from unconscious biases. And across cultures, people have different expectations for their careers at different points in their lives. All these factors make moving the lever on diversity difficult.

Here, Accenture has experienced tremendous gains in recent years, thanks to the singular and uncompromising leadership of our then-CEO, Pierre Nanterme, who made inclusion and diversity a priority. By 2018, we had increased the number of women in our workforce to 42 percent. Women now comprise more than 45 percent of our new hires, putting us well on the way to our goal of gender balance by 2025.

Outside of Accenture, we're also working with Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization working to increase the number of women in computer science. The goal is to help break up the "boy's club" of the digital economy. Our people host summer immersion programs and year-round Girls Who Code clubs across the United States, offering skills training and exposure to real-world mentorship opportunities in technology fields.

The 'people pivot'

Achieving our goals in hiring, retraining, and diversity required a complete overhaul of our human resources function. Rankings and annual performance reviews have been largely eliminated, replaced with more direct day-to-day feedback. Employees with the same job title, such as "analyst," but with very different responsibilities, are now evaluated based on the work they really do rather than their title.

To combine the value of our acquisitions with our existing expertise, we also broadened the range of career paths available, successfully advancing the CEOs of some of our acquired companies into leadership roles elsewhere in Accenture.

Finally, we needed to retire what had been a core tenet of Accenture's corporate culture: that despite our size and geographic reach, Accenture could still have a single set of processes, methodologies, and a culture that applied to everyone everywhere—our "one firm" model of operation.

While the one-firm model had served us well in the past, our continued expansion made it unsustainable. We have retained a single set of core values, of course, such as creating value for clients and respect for the individual, and hold all our people to the very high standards of our code of business ethics.

Pivoting to the new often requires companies to adapt more elements of the kind of open and entrepreneurial culture that spawned the information revolution, including the social values and work ethic of a younger generation of workers. Employees working in and serving customers in a global marketplace at the same time, is challenging businesses to move from a single set of uniform operating principles toward a more inclusive model, a "culture of cultures." In doing so, leaders must take care not to lose sight of the principles that distinguish their brand, including a shared mission everyone believes in.

This excerpt is from "Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value And Creating Growth in a Disrupted World" by Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes, which publishes on April 23.

Omar Abbosh is group chief executive of Accenture's Communications, Media & Technology operating group and a member of Accenture's Global Management Committee. Previously, he served as Accenture's chief strategy officer. Paul Nunes is the global managing director for thought leadership at Accenture Research and the coauthor of "Big Bang Disruption." Larry Downes is senior fellow at Accenture Research. He is the author of "Unleashing the Killer App" and the coauthor of "Big Bang Disruption."

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20 great Mother’s Day gifts for another important mom in your life — your grandma

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  • Mother's Day celebrates all the mothers in our lives, including Grandma.
  • Feel free to treat your grandmother this year for everything she has done and continues to do for you with one of these 20 gifts.
  • Pair it with a phone call or brunch date — after all, she really just wants to hear your voice and see your face.
  • You can find even more Mother's Day 2019 gift ideas here.

From swooping in to change your diaper while your mom had her hands tied to slipping you an extra piece of candy after dinner, Grandma is another important woman in your life who you know always has your back.

If you've browsed any of our dozen (and counting) Mother's Day gift guides, you may have already successfully secured a gift for Mom. Now, you can show that same love and appreciation for your grandma with these 20 thoughtful and useful gifts.

They'll make life a little more comfortable, efficient, and entertaining for her, or simply show her you're thinking of her.

Make Grandma feel special this Mother's Day with these 20 gifts. 

SEE ALSO: Check out all of our Mother's Day 2019 gift ideas

A subscription to the biggest book club in the country

Gift a 3-Month Book of the Month subscription, $44.99

Book of the Month offers five new book choices a month, and they're always all top-quality picks. The biggest struggle of being a Book of the Month member is deciding which one to read.



A pair of new glasses

Gift a Zenni Gift Card, from $25

Give her a gift card from this affordable and stylish glasses brand so she can pick out a new pair of frames for herself. Frames start at less than $10 and after she enters her prescription info online, they'll be on their way straight to her front door.



A set of quirky tea towels

Gift the Dapper Animal Tea Towels (Set of 4), $19.99

Tea towels don't have to be boring. These accessorized animals will give her a laugh and let her identify the towels in a crowded kitchen in a snap.



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How to enable cookies on an iPhone to help streamline your web browsing

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  • You can enable cookies on an iPhone to help personalize and streamline your web browsing experience.
  • Cookies are small text files that save information about websites you visit.
  • Most browsers enable cookies by default. If you've turned cookies off, it's easy to turn them back on.
  • You can enable cookies for the iPhone's Safari browser in the Settings app.
  • For most third-party web browsers, cookies are not only enabled by default, but they generally can't be turned off.
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You sometimes hear advice from security- and privacy-minded individuals suggesting that you should "block" or "disable" cookies in your web browser. But is that really the best advice?

Cookies are simply small text files that web pages store on your computer (or phone, or wherever you are web surfing), and their main purpose is to store settings and preferences for whatever site you're browsing.

These settings can remember what country you're from, that you're logged in, and that as a returning customer, you already have items in a shopping cart or other work in progress.

So, in defense of the cookie, it's a good idea to leave cookies enabled to personalize and streamline your web browsing. If you've ever disabled cookies on your iPhone, it's easy to turn them back on.

How to enable cookies on an iPhone

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Scroll down and tap "Safari."

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3. In the Privacy and Security section, make sure that "Prevent Cross-Site Tracking" is turned off by swiping the slider to the left.

4. In the same section, ensure that "Block All Cookies" is turned off by swiping the slider to the left.

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How to enable cookies in third-party browsers on an iPhone

If you install third-party browsers on your iPhone, the good news is that cookies are always enabled by default, and they generally can't be turned off in those apps.

In fact, with browsers like Firefox and Chrome, if you want to browse without cookies being stored on your phone, you should use the "Incognito" mode (in Chrome) or "Private" mode (in Firefox). There's no way to turn off cookies in the main browser mode, so there's nothing to enable.

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Save 20% sitewide on bedding at Boll & Branch — and 7 other sales and deals happening now

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We rounded up the eight best sales and deals happening today to save you time, with savings at Boll & Branch, Target, and Foot Locker. For even more deals and savings across the web, check out Business Insider Coupons.

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1. Save 20% on everything at Boll & Branch

Luxury bedding startup Boll & Branch used to have its only sale of the year on Black Friday. Now, the brand is adding a spring sale to its very short list of promotions held throughout the year. During its first spring sale ever, you can automatically save 20% on everything until April 28. Sheets, blankets, pillows, and mattresses are just some of the many times available on sale. 

Shop the Boll & Branch sale now

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2. Save big on baby products at Target

Whether you're shopping for your own kids or for a baby shower gift, you'll find plenty of great deals at Target. Now through May 4, you can bring in your old car seat and receive 20% off a new car seat or stroller. Some of the other deals include 50% off baby clothes, a free $5 gift card when you buy two containers of formula, and a free $10 gift card when you buy two packs of diapers. For more deals and savings at Target, visit Business Insider Coupons here

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3. Save an extra 20% on Groupons

If you're searching for fun things to do, but you don't want to spend too much money, Groupon can help you maximize your dollars. The site regularly has great deals on local entertainment and dining, and for today only, you can save an extra 20% by using the promo code "SAVE" at checkout. Based on your area, you'll find deals on things like dining, spas, go-kart racing, sporting events, aquariums, workout classes, and more. To potentially save even more at Groupon, visit Business Insider Coupons here

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4. Save $300 on a 15.6-inch ASUS 2-in-1 laptop at Best Buy

With a vibrant 1080p touchscreen display, 16GB of RAM, and a large 2TB hard drive, the ASUS two-in-one laptop can handle all of your work and entertainment needs. It has the computing power of a high-end laptop and the functionality of a tablet when you need it. Right now, you can save $300 on one at Best Buy. Keep in mind that a 15-inch MacBook Pro with the same RAM and half the storage space costs more than $3,000, so this is an amazing deal for anyone on a budget. For more deals and savings at Best Buy, visit Business Insider Coupons here

ASUS 2-in-1 15.6-Inch Laptop 16GB RAM/2TB Storage, $699.99 (Originally $999.99) [You save $300]

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5. Save 20% on orders of $99 or more at Foot Locker

It's about time to start stocking up on new sneakers, and right now you can save 20% on orders of $99 or more by using the promo code "GREEN20" at checkout. The sale includes sneakers, apparel, and accessories from all of your favorites sportswear brands. For more deals and savings at Foot Locker, visit Business Insider Coupons here.

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6. Save 20% on frames and 30% on lenses at EyeBuyDirect

Direct-to-consumer eyewear company EyeBuyDirect makes buying prescription glasses online easy and affordable with frames priced as low as $6 — and to make the deal even better, there's a great promotion going on right now. Currently, you can save 20% on frames and 30% on prescription lenses by using the promo code "BOLD" at checkout. To potentially save even more at EyeBuyDirect, visit Business Insider Coupons here

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7. Save up to $175 on dress shoes at Allen Edmonds

This month, Allen Edmonds has been celebrating its 97th anniversary with a huge sitewide sale — and it's almost over. Until April 24, you can get up $175 off dress shoes, boots, and sneakers. Additionally, you can save up to 40% on briefcases, wallets, dress shirts, and more. With only three days left in the brand's biggest sale of the season, you may want to start adding items to your cart now.

Shop the Allen Edmonds anniversary sale now.

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8. Save $150 on green and vegan mattresses at Avocado Mattress

While Avocado Mattress does its part in protecting the environment year-round by making organic and vegan mattresses, the brand is having a big sale this Earth Day. Right now, you can save $150 on its mattresses by using the promo code "NATURE150" at checkout. Verified military personnel can save an additional $50. If you prefer two free pillows (valued at $198) rather than the $150 discount, you can use the promo code "2FREEPILLOWS" at checkout.

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REI has a little-known section of its website that sells gently used gear and clothes for up to 70% off — here's how it works

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  • REI sells gently used items for as much as 70% off retail prices at REI Used Gear.
  • Aside from making REI's supply chain more sustainable, this means shoppers can save hundreds on high-end camping gear without traveling in-person to member-only Garage Sales
  • The selection is smaller but spans REI's traditional offerings. You can find everything from tents to base layers from brands like Patagonia and Merrell

If you've ever a) gotten excited about a 25% off sale at REI before or b) expressed genuine enthusiasm about sustainability, odds are you're going to like the sound of REI Used Gear— the company's venture that sells gently used clothing and gear at up to 70% off its retail price, all online. 

REI inspects items that are returned either in-store or from online purchases, and selects the best to resell online at a deep discount. This keeps the company from having to produce new stuff, and it gives customers discounts on gear that, like refurbished tech, has been quality-tested to ensure it still meets the company's high standards.

The idea isn't new; REI's member-only Garage Sales, which happen in stores, have been popular for years. But offering the recycled gear online has made it more convenient and open to all REI shoppers (Garage Sales are a members-only perk). 

The REI Used Gear selection ranges from hiking shoes to rain jackets to tents and gadgets. Just like the company's regular offerings, REI Used Gear is stacked with great outdoors brands like Merrell, Big Agnes, Patagonia, and Mountain Hardwear. Sizing may be limited, but it's a smart first stop before heading to REI.com to see if you can save yourself some money. Prices and sizing will fluctuate based on condition (excellent versus lightly worn). 

Recycling outdoor gear also makes for a more sustainable supply chain, since, no matter how sustainable the materials or processes are, virtually no products are as sustainable as simply not buying something new. This aligns with the ethos of most outdoors companies, but especially with one as seemingly committed as REI. The company has made headlines for continually closing on Black Friday, traditionally the largest sales day of the year, in order to encourage customers and its employees to instead opt to spend the time outdoors (employees are still paid for the day).

It also reinvests nearly 70% of its profits back into environmental nonprofits — which, in 2018, amounted to $8.4 million given to 431 organizations, stewarding more than 5,000 outdoor places and over 86,000 miles of trails. It instituted universal on-site Product Sustainability Standards in 2018, and, in 2019, the company plans to expand on its sustainable practices with used gear and increased rental options at more than 115 stores across the country. 

REI Used Gear may have a slimmer selection of sizes and offerings, but you may be able to score exactly what you're looking for — at the quality level you typically associate with REI — at a heavy discount. If you're looking for new outdoor gear, it's worth checking REI Used first. 

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A $2,000 bridal get-up, $100 of body glitter, and $30 thrift store discoveries: We asked 11 people how much their Coachella outfits cost, and here's what they told us

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The Coachella Music & Arts Festival is a music festival in Indio, California, but it's arguably more famous for what happens off-stage.

There are the glitzy daytime pool parties and exclusive afterparties that double as entertainment-industry parties, the oh-so Instagrammable art pieces that dot the landscape, and the hordes of Orange County teenagers skipping school to drink.

Read more: I got a last-minute ticket to Coachella, the festival as famous for its flashy outfits and Instagram-heavy attractions as its music. Here's what it's really like to attend.

For years, the festival has become known as a scene so distinct that The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern described it as a "celebration of music [that] has degenerated into a weird marriage of fashion and commerce." The weekend is such an event for social-media influencers, models, and celebrities that some have dubbed it the "Influencer Olympics."

Those elements were certainly present when I headed to the festival for the first time earlier this month, but it was hardly an overwhelming part of my experience

One thing I did notice: the colorful and, occasionally, wildly creative outfits that attendees wear each day. On Sunday of this year's festival, we walked around to find the best outfits and asked how much attendees spent to get them.

The answers were pretty surprising. Here's what we found:

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TJ Sonnier, a 26-year-old artist from Los Angeles, handmade his outfit from rainbow fringe fabric and lanyards. He helped Russell Thomas, a 21-year-old student, put together his outfit from $30 thrift store finds and a piece of his from Di$count Universe, an Australian fashion brand. "Why would you come here and buy a shirt? It should be your own vibe," Sonnier said.

Source: Discount Universe



Kate Price, a 24-year-old from Manchester, England who works for Sky TV, spent $330 on her outfit. The dress, from ASOS's A Star Is Born collection, cost $325 of that. The headscarf and other accessories cost only a few bucks, she said. Of the fashion at Coachella, Price said, "There's a lot of denim shorts and vest tank tops this year. I'm not into that."

Source: ASOS



Josh Brown, a 26-year-old graduate student from Huntington Beach, spent around $200 on his outfit between his colorful jacket from ASOS and his Calvin Klein bottoms.



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The 25 richest people in Texas, ranked

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Everything is bigger in Texas — including big business.

Consistently ranked as the state with the third-highest number of billionaires in the US, the Lone Star State's wealth is distributed across investment bankers and professional sports team owners. The majority, however, is held by oil tycoons, as Texas produces almost 40% of the nation's oil supply.

Read more: 11 mind-blowing facts about Texas' economy

According to U.S. News & World Report, Texas' billionaire population is third only to superrich hubs New York and California, whose wealthiest individuals include real-estate empires in Manhattan and top execs in Silicon Valley, respectively.

Real-time data from Forbes' billionaire list includes notable names such as Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones, Shark Tank's Mark Cuban, and Walmart heiress Alice Walton. Additionally, Tito's Vodka and Dell Technologies are headquartered outside Austin, Texas' capital city.

The list features several sets of siblings. In cases where siblings inherited family fortunes and now share the same net worth, as reported by Forbes, we listed them as a single entry. In others, they are listed separately along with their separate sources of wealth.

Keep reading for a complete look at the 25 richest people in Texas.

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25. Gerald J. Ford

Source of wealth: Ford Financial Fund

Industry: Finance & Investments

Net worth: $2.78 billion

According to Forbes, Dallas-based businessman Gerald Ford earned his fortune by purchasing distressed banks. Today, Ford owns 16% of shares at Hilltop Holdings and is the majority shareholder at Mechanics Bank.



24. Thai Lee

Source of wealth: SHI International

Industry: Technology

Net worth: $2.80 billion

Thai Lee is the reigning CEO of SHI International, an IT provider that earned $10 billion in sales last year. The company — which is the largest woman-owned business in the United States— started as a software reseller, purchased by Lee and her now ex-husband for $1 million in 1989. Major clients include Boeing and AT&T.



23. Joseph Liemandt

Source of wealth: Trilogy Software, ESW Capital

Industry: Technology

Net worth: $3.00 billion

Joe Liemandt earned his fortune by founding Trilogy Software company and investment firm ESW Capital, which focuses on acquiring software companies. Liemandt lives in Austin, Texas.



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This $82 retinoid serum helped get rid of my acne scars almost overnight — it’s saved me hundreds on laser treatments

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PTR 3% Retinoid Plus

  • Retinoids are a family of vitamin A and its derivatives that help speed cell turnover and boost collagen, which is why they're commonly used to help improve skin texture, even out hyperpigmentation, and minimize the appearance of fine lines. 
  • I've been using Peter Thomas Roth Professional 3% Retinoid Plus for seven months, but I noticed a difference in my skin the very next morning after my first use. 
  • The high 3% percent of retinoid works with caffeine to penetrate deep into my pores for immediate results, and it also soothed and nourished my dry patches so I didn't need to add a heavy moisturizer on top to overcompensate. 

Like any good beauty junkie whom the skin-care gods did not bless with baby-soft skin and air-tight pores, I've dropped thousands of dollars on facials, masks, peels, and elixirs that promise to firm, tone, brighten, and more.

I suffered from about a decade of confidence-crippling acne when I was a teen and well into my 20s. But once I finally nailed an intricate routine that cleared it up, I was left with PTSD manifested in the form of blotchy scarring and discoloration, and the cycle of reading product reviews from Sephora and my favorite beauty bloggers started again.

I had almost given up hope on even being able to walk out of my apartment without makeup until I picked up a bottle of Peter Thomas Roth Professional 3% Retinoid Plus after seeing its 4.6-star review on Sephora (from nearly 175 customers).

Retinoids are a family of vitamin A and its derivatives that help speed cell growth and have been used to treat acne, fine lines, and hyperpigmentation. The collagen-boosting ingredient can be found most widely in serums, but also in primers, face masks, eye creams, concealers, and even lip balms. 

Because my skin is so sensitive, finding a retinoid product with potent, fast-acting ingredients that won't cause my face to peel or flake is a balancing act. That's because retinoids essentially shed the top layer of your skin. Peter Thomas Roth's serum soothed my sensitive skin with a combination of allantoin, bisabolol, and ceramides. The allantoin helps heal and calm skin while bisabolol (a form of vitamin B) and ceramides protect from moisture loss.

"I tell my most of my patients that they can see results of improved skin smoothness literally within two to three days," dermatologist Dr. Julie Russak tells Business Insider. But Russak warns against using a retinoid during the day because it can make your skin more sensitive to light. 

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PTR 3% Retinoid Plus

After removing my makeup, double cleansing, toning, and then using a peel pad, I press four to five drops of the serum into my skin every night. Though the serum comes out in a dropper like an oil would, it absorbs into my skin quickly. I follow up with a brightening eye cream and moisturizer, or an overnight mask if I feel my skin needs the extra hydration. 

The real winning ingredient here is not just the retinoid — it's the combination of retinoid with caffeine that helps make the serum penetrate deeper into my large open pores. It's also the reason I saw results the very first time after I used it.

"The marriage of the high percentage of retinoid with caffeine is a dream team. The caffeine carries the retinoid even deeper within the skin to penetrate through to deep layers fast," said dermatologist Dr. Manjula Jegasothy.

As an Indian woman, I'm predisposed to discoloration, according to Dr. Jegasothy, and in my experience, this serum is well-curated for anyone with particularly deep-rooted scars or deeper skin tones. Of course, this is all from my personal experience, so definitely check in with your dermatologist before trying out new skin-care products or routines. 

Dr. Russak warns that the new cells being repaired and created by retinoids become extremely sensitive to sun, making them highly susceptible to being damaged — making the discoloration I have even worse — so using an SPF in the morning was even more essential after I started using this product. 

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The $82 price tag hurt a little bit, but I've tried more expensive products and facials that have promised more and delivered next to nothing. I've been using the serum every single night for seven months and still have a little less than half the bottle left. True, there are many retinoid serums out there, but few have such a high percentage of retinoid or are paired with caffeine.

There's also the fact that seven months in, I'm no longer spending money on heavy foundations. I even went on a date with only a bit of concealer on, so this one bottle has taken me pretty far.

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'Sorry, but you can't come in': A VC on the unfairness she faced at work while raising kids — and the 5 hard truths she learned from other parents in the same boat

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Bonnie Foley-Wong

  • Bonnie Foley-Wong is the CEO of Pique Ventures, founding investor in Pique Fund, and author of Integrated Investing. She has 20 years of experience in mobilizing capital for entrepreneurial businesses.
  • In this op-ed, she shares the struggles she faced as a venture capitalist raising funds while raising a family. She's included testimonies from other VCs who have faced similar challenges as well.
  • Foley-Wong is calling for a change in the stereotype that women cannot run a business and care for children simultaneously — and says it's up to all of us, not just parents, to drive this change.
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"I'm sorry, but you can't come in."

I had decided to venture out to a networking event to reconnect with colleagues, to talk to them about the second venture fund I was raising, and to show off my 8-week old baby. The event staff turned me away because I had my baby with me. Perhaps it was so unusual to see a woman with a baby at a networking event that no one thought to challenge that decision nor the potential biases behind it.

This incident was minor in comparison to some of the other stories I've heard  —  such as an investor telling someone toprioritize their baby over their startup or, on the flipside, investors changing their minds about investing because they were worried that a CEO would prioritize their baby over the startup and abandon their company. The response — "You can't come in" — feels fitting in an industry where family and business don't mix well in some people's minds.

But that may be changing. Increasingly I'm hearing stories about people persisting in raising capital while raising children. They are doing so by seeking out investors who aredemonstrably values-aligned and who understand that it isn't work-life balance at issue, but instead building businesses and families at the same time is simply life.

Before I had children, I was a fierce advocate for people who were building startups and families at the same time, especially women. I had heard stories about women being turned down for investment because they had young children. Few women dared to raise capital while pregnant. I wanted to make sure parents  —  especially mothers or expectant mothers  —  were not discriminated against in the venture ecosystem. I wanted to ensure they had access to the resources they needed to start, build, and grow.

Of all US venture capital investment in 2018, only2.2% goes to female-founded startups, as reported by Fortune. The field of venture-backed businesses continues to be an unforgiving environment for women entrepreneurs, especially when upwards of 75% of caregivers are women, according to the Institute on Aging.

I was pregnant with my first child while raising my first fund at Pique Ventures, the impact investment firm that I founded. I delayed telling investors that I was pregnant because I felt uncertain and anxious about how they would react. It turned out to be no cause for concern. Many of my investors had either "been there and done that," or they felt so highly aligned with the values and investment strategy of Pique Ventures that my pregnancy was a non-issue. Pregnant with my second child, I felt more prepared and confident enough to present the investment opportunity of Pique's second fund to investors in person and by video-conference well into my third trimester.

The following are some of the themes I heard across different conversations I had with a number of fund managers and founders when I asked them about their experiences of raising capital while raising a family.

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1. Speak your truth

Eric Bahn is co-founder and General Partner of Hustle Fund, a venture capital fund investing in fast-executing teams at the pre-seed and seed stages, and is part of a new breed of emerging venture capital managers that is challenging the status quo. Eric welcomed a second child into his family shortly after Hustle Fund launched. He shared his perspectives on Twitter, stating that kids are terrible for careers, but having children was also the best decision he's ever made and as a result, he feels richer. Eric told me that his posts attracted a lot of passionate responses, revealing that mixing family and business is still contentious to some. Others still, like myself, saw it as bold leadership as rarely do I hear of people – let alone VCs  — share their experiences of raising a fund (or starting a venture) while raising a family with such candor.

2. While raising, seek aligned investors

Investors that asked Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner, how she was going to manage having a baby and managing a fund at the same time, yet didn't ask Eric that same question, essentially signaled to Hustle Fund that such investors were unlikely a fit for them.

Lally Rementilla, Pique investor and president of Quantius, a private debt provider focused on technology ventures backed by strong intellectual property, is another example of a fund manager who integrates family and business. She said, "conversations [with Quantius investors] often include family." She tells them how proud she is of her daughters and takes pride in talking about her work with her daughters.

3. Build strong support systems and structures

Juggling business and family is possible only with solid support systems personally and professionally. What helps is, "Having a really good network and that starts at home. If there is strain at home, then there is strain at work," said Jessica Regan. She is the CEO of FoodMesh, a technology company that reduces food waste by getting surplus food into the hands of people who need it (and a Pique portfolio company).

When Jessica had a baby two years into building FoodMesh, she found that having a supportive and understanding team was critical. Jessica had raised a seed round from external investors and knew she had a responsibility to her shareholders as well as her staff. "I took it very seriously and didn't want to let others down," she told me. "Having a baby made me perform even better. I'm more focused and am extremely structured with my time."

4. Prioritize and get ready for a mind shift

A key lesson for Jessica was to moderate her expectation and shift her world to accommodate what's important. Elizabeth echoed this. She too had to prioritize, and called it a "mind shift." If it meant abandoning cloth diapers and not breastfeeding beyond the fourth trimester, that was fine with her. It meant she could define what success of running Hustle Fund and raising her children looked like.

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5. Take a long view

In the impact investing field, we're often focused on long-term sustainability. At Pique Ventures, I talk about investing in companies that are built to last. Eric is thinking long-term in venture capital as well. "We think about growing old together with our [investors]," he said. Likewise, Lally notes that building a firm and raising a family are both marathons, not sprints.

More and more leaders are demonstrating that it is possible and perfectly acceptable to start a fund or business and raise capital while raising a family. But it's not just up to parents to drive this change. The people and organizations around them and actors within the venture ecosystem also need to shift. They need to recognize that the participation of parents in the venture community is an important contribution to how problems get solved. At Pique, we believe impact investing is about taking care of the village and ensuring that everyone has access to the resources they need to survive, thrive, and be happy. And as Lally reminds me, it certainly does take a village to raise capital and a family.

Bonnie Foley-Wong is the CEO of Pique Ventures, founding investor in Pique Fund, and author of Integrated Investing. Bonnie helps people make impact investments confidently and in an integrated way. She is an accomplished financier and investor with 20 years of experience in mobilizing capital for entrepreneurial businesses. Over the course of her career, she has financed over $1 billion dollars of alternative investments in Europe and North America.

 

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How to copy and paste on a Mac computer, and from a Mac to other Apple devices

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  • There are multiple ways on a Mac computer to quickly transfer text, images, links, and more from one document to another, or from an email, website, or between other types of media.
  • Mac users can copy and paste using the mouse, using keyboard shortcuts, or using a combination of methods.
  • If your Apple hardware uses some of the latest operating systems, you can even copy text or other media from one device and instantly paste it onto another.
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The copy and paste function is one of the great triumphs of the computer era.

Whether you're copying and pasting a quote or a statistic while writing an essay for class, or adding a link to an email you're sending a friend or colleague, copying and pasting text saves time and ensures a proper transcription.

You can also copy and paste images, GIFs, charts, tables, and all sorts of other media.

And if you're using a Mac, you can copy and paste in multiple ways.

How to copy and paste on a Mac a mouse or trackpad

1. Highlight the text to be copied or hover your cursor over the other file type, then right click.

2. Click the word "Copy" from the popup menu that appears.

3. Navigate to the space where you want to put the text or file, then right click.

4. Click the word "Paste" from the popup menu.

How to copy and paste with Mac shortcut keys

1. Highlight the text to be copied.

2. Hold the "command" key (by the space button) and then hit the "C" key.

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3. Click on to the space where the text is to be pasted, then hold command and hit the "V" key.

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How to copy and paste to match formatting on a Mac

The above methods will transfer the text in the same style as it appeared in its original context, which might not be a fit for its new destination. To change the text to match the style of its new location, follow these steps.

1. Highlight the text to be copied and pasted, then right click and hit "Copy" or hit Command + C.

2. Navigate to the spot where the text is to be placed, then hit the word "Edit" from the task bar at the top of the screen.

3. Click "Paste and Match Formatting."

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Alternately, you can use a keyboard shortcut to accomplish the same thing.

1. Highlight and copy your selected text.

2. Navigate to the spot where the text is to be placed, then press Command + Shift + V on your keyboard to paste the text without its original formatting.

How to copy and paste between Apple devices

If you use an iPhone or iPad with the same iCloud account as your Mac computer, you can use the Universal Clipboard tool included with the operating system Sierra to paste between two different devices.

1. Go to your MacBook's system preferences, and under the General tab, enable the "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices" setting.

2. On your iPhone (or iPad) go to Settings, General, then tap the Handoff tab and make sure the function is enabled (switch is green, e.g.).

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3. Highlight and then tap "Copy" on your mobile device.

4. Hit Command + V on your computer, and the text should copy to the document (or email) open on your Mac.

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