"Shopaholic"

Shopaholic

Looooooooooooooooove shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have I become a shopaholic?????????????? Well, maybe not ......... ok maybe a  little............... but it ain't that bad its for a good reason................ it can be addictive........ you just have to be very wise when shooping............I enjoy shopping especially with the little business I've started...................... shopping can be done at the multiple places, places, and boutiques. However, on-line is a lot helpful since you can do so at home or at any place you may be at the time with the aid of technology.  Yes, shopping is fun but can also be tedious at times when making the best possible desicions in choing fashion, quality and prices................................................................. yep! Sometimes being Shopaholic  ......................................................... can be rewarding...........................as I mentioned if its for a good reason................................ or else...................you know the consequences. Who doesn't like to shop? Well, perhaps a few men............................................................................................................................ but I'm sure most people like to shop............................................................................................................



Shopaholic is a term used to describe individual who consider themselves as addicted to shopping. I really enjoyed that movie confessions of a shopaholic expect that I'm not that type of a shopaholic.

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a 2009 American film adaptation of the shopaholic series of novels by Sophie Kinsella. Directed by P. J. Hogan. the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist and Hugh Dancy as her boss.

Rebecca Bloomwood is a shopping addict who lives with her best friend Suze. She works as a journalist for a gardening magazine but dreams to join the fashion magazine Alette. On the way to an interview with Alette, she buys a green scarf. Her credit card is declined, so Rebecca goes to a hot dog stand and offers to buy all the hot dogs if the seller gives her back change in cash, saying the scarf is to be a gift for her sick aunt. The hot dog vendor refuses but a man offers her $20.
When Rebecca arrives at the interview, she's told that the position has been filled. However, the receptionist tells her there is an open position with the magazine Successful Saving. Rebecca interviews with Luke Brandon, the editor of Successful Savings and the man who just gave her the $20. She hides her scarf outside his office, but Luke's assistant comes into the office and gives it back to her. Rebecca knows the game is up and leaves.
That evening, drunk, she and Suze write letters to Alette and Successful Saving, but she mails each to the wrong magazine. Luke likes the letter she meant to send to Alette and hires her. Rather than completing a work assignment for a new column, Rebecca goes to a clothing sale. While inspecting a coat, she realizes it is not 100% cashmere, which gives her an idea for the column, which is an instant success.
Rebecca returns home to renewed confrontations with debt collector Derek Smeath, so Suze makes her join Shopaholics Anonymous. The class leader, Miss Korch forces Rebecca to donate all the clothes she just bought, including a bridesmaid's dress for Suze's wedding and a dress for a TV interview. Rebecca can't afford to buy back both and buys back the interview dress. During the interview, Rebecca is accused of not paying her debts and loses her job. Suze is angry when she finds out that Rebecca sold the bridesmaid dress. Alette offers Rebecca a position at the magazine, but Rebecca declines. She sells most of her clothes to pay her debts. Meanwhile, Luke starts a new company, Brandon Communications.
Rebecca's clothes sale makes it possible for her to pay her debts. Rebecca attends Suze's wedding after reclaiming her bridesmaid dress. Suze forgives her. Rebecca and Luke meet, and Luke returns the green scarf after revealing that the person who bought it at an auction was acting as his agent. Rebecca becomes romantically involved with Luke and starts work at his new company. 

"The importance of El Nino"

“El Nino”

El Niño is a quasi-periodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean with on average five year intervals. It is characterized by changes in the temperature of the surface of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean causing warming or cooling creating extreme weathers such as floods, droughts and other weather disturbances in many regions of the world. Developing countries such as Belize are dependent upon agriculture and fishing.  The term "El Niño" the 'Christ Child' in Spanish was originally used by fishermen on the coasts of Peru and Ecuador to refer to an unusually warm ocean current that appears around Christmas time, and prevails for several months. However, for some years the current becomes unusually warm and suspends the fishing season until May, and sometimes June.

Hereby, some of its causes are the occasional development of a warm ocean current along the Peru Coast as temporary replacement of the cold Peru Current which normally flows in this region. Under normal circumstances the air pressure over the cold waters off the coast of Peru is quite high. Nevertheless, over the warm tropical waters of the western pacific, air pressure is normally low. The difference in air pressure creates airflow from east to west creating the trade winds which push sun-warmed surface waters westward and exposing cold water to the surface in the east. During El Niño, the easterly trade winds collapse or even reverse due to a change in air pressure. The low pressure over the west is trading places with the high pressure normally prevalent in the eastern pacific. As this happens, the wet weather conditions normally present over the western Pacific moves to the east, and the barren conditions of the Peruvian coast appear in the west.   The Western Caribbean region encompasses some of the largest islands in the Caribbean, including the mainland of Central America from Mexico to Columbia, and the island of Cuba and includes tracts specific to Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, Columbia and Ecuador, Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman Islands. It is also home to considerable and significant areas of coral reef. The region is also severely impacted by extreme weather conditions linked to El Nino, which can cause excessive warming which leads to widespread coral bleaching and subsequent mortality, causing local extinctions of particular species. The frequent occurrence of such weather related events also helps to explain the lack of more extensive reef development in the region.

One of the strongest naturally occurring environmental impacts on the coral reefs of Belize has been hurricane damage. For instance, Glover's has been affected by the global problem of coral bleaching, the process in which stressed coral polyps discharge their symbiotic algae. In addition, the worldwide bleaching event, intensified by El Niño, caused a 20 percent mortality rate at Glover's and in 1998, Hurricane Mitch, which stalled off the coast of Belize for several days, caused major damage to vast areas of the reef.  El Niño has increased algae growth, lower abundance of reef fish, and reduced herbivory seem to impact the survival and abundance of certain coral types.   During El Nino’s weaker climate patterns it has caused temperatures to rise. Hence, the cause of windstorms, heat waves, and droughts, storms with extreme rain, snow, and dust storms.  Also, it is the result of increased forest fires. Dry and dying trees are a set-up for forest fires. Forest fires release greenhouse gases and destroy the trees that can absorb CO₂ from the air. El Nino has been destruction not only to the food chains but has also created pollution destroying the ozone layer.

"Technological drawbacks"

“How will technological advancement affect students in their studies?”

Technology according to the American Heritage dictionary is the scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective. Technology has now become a part of our lives and is advancing day by day drastically.  Technology has become like a drug since the majority of students can’t seem to live without it. Everyone is someway affected by technology whether it be at home, school or work.

 Technology is used for vast purposes and comes in different forms.  It has changed the lives of many people, however students are the ones that are mostly affected by it, since they are constantly on computers and have become even more knowledgeable about it.  This has caused students to become more and more dependent on it every single day. Hence, technological advancement has led to the fear that students are no longer learning for it has made their lives easy making them lazy by not putting much effort in their studies. 

Thus, before this era when computers and internet did not yet exist, people practiced more critical thinking and used there imagination because they were dependent on themselves and not technological machines.  Students are now memorizing, hence just copying, pasting, and plagiarizing instead of learning the material taught. Amidst this many of us question why so much poor performance?  Technology has blinded us into only seeing its positive effects when it is aiming at destroying the world. Technological advancement has taken over students study time buy leisure activities and a host of entertainment provided by the internet for which its inventions continue to multiply everyday. Some of these forms of entertainment are virtual sites or accounts in which their personal information can be displayed along with their pictures. Also, chatting is nothing unheard of, as this is one of the most common forms of distraction on these sites which could only lead to internet addiction and danger in every student’s lives. These dangers are being subjective to hacking, prostitution, murders and viruses which can destroy a promising future. This also affects students social interactions since more communication is happening through the computer network and is greatly different from face to face contact. For instance, in the United States of America whereby some schools practice e-learning instead of actual teacher and student class method.

Furthermore, working at home with this information technology, we would certainly be concerned with work all the time at home that would affect the family. Although using multimedia interface and emotional communication tools we can build up a better environment for communication that does not suffice the real world. On the whole, it will make the people isolate and decrease social skills to be dependent on computers also affecting the manner in which some students learn at school.  This is due the fact that not everyone can just sit there and listen and not being able to interact or ask questions during an explanation of the given subjects.

Nevertheless technology comes in different forms and television is one of the major technological advancements. Thereby, over the year’s television another form of technological advancement has proven to be very harmful to more than 50% of students.  Therefore, parents should exercise greater control over their children’s television viewing.  The many areas in which television can dangerously affect the student’s lives are in social development, social influence, health problems, and incompetent academic performance. In the first place, social development is a major problem since the majority of student’s watches television or use the computer for more than five hours a day.  Hence, they spend less time studying or doing their assignments.  Thus, the television becomes their best friend or more likely their worst foe.

            Furthermore, television plays a substantial role on social influence since children believe and imitate everything they see.  Many television shows promote drug trafficking, pre- marital sex, violence, and vulgarity as being cool and the norm.  Also, it promotes fame such as having the perfect body and living “la dolce Vita” like celebrities as being everything in this world.  This may cause them to get involved in gangs, drugs, theft, early sexual relationships, or may even lead them to become bulimic.

            However, due to the long hours of viewing television health problems may not only include bulimia as stated before, but may also cause other irregular health problems such as insomnia and obesity.  This is caused by the lack of recreational activities and exercise.  Generally, students spend most of the day lying on a couch eating unhealthy snacks until wee hours in the morning. Moreover, this dilemma has caused students to have poor reading skills once more drastically affecting their education, since there are not able to concentrate properly. 

            In addition, believe or not some students have become addicted to porn, gambling, games, and virtual sites such as Face book, My Space and twitter which are widely and openly displayed on internet sites.  This has only served as a distraction to students from school material which they may find very boring. This type of technological advancement has a negative effect on students writing skills for instead of using appropriate grammatical language they now insist on using “Slang” which seems rather ignorant of one’s knowledge and capability to learn the right things.  This has become common because of the practice of instant messaging one another, e-mailing and texting. Students get use to this form of writing “slang” that they eventually become unconscious of it, and then use it in their everyday school writing and assignments. As stated in the website (http://www.slideshare.net/guest2630606/negative-effects-of-technology-on-children) it is a fact that “50 percent of teens say they sometimes use informal writing styles instead of proper capitalization and punctuation in their school assignments.”

            Technological advancement has also caused problems in classrooms whenever students intend to use their cell in class either as a distraction or cheating and result in failure. Therefore, it is more than clear that technological advancement has more negative effects on student’s studies and will continue to do so as it just keeps on advancing everyday and students have become very dependent on it. Technology has evaded our world everywhere we and effective. Nevertheless, they are forgetting that meeting personally can never replace online cturn and everything we do is affected by it even if we try to avoid it as students. Technology is making us so busy that we can’t even find time to spend with our closed ones or to do our school work. It would be surprising to know that people are in contact through chat and online messaging though they are in same city because they think it is more efficient hatting.

Also, before the invention of television and internet, people had ways of having fun together every day.  Many of these primitive methods of fun have almost disappeared in the modern world. People used to actually talk with each other, they would play games with each other but now they play games with computer giving no reaction at all making people drift away from one other.  It’s the same with students at first they were able to work in groups, read books, research and discuss the topics thence, actually learn the subject.  However, in this era it have become so technological that the computer does everything for the student that they no longer want to share ideas with others because they consider it unimportant and less effective when its actually not.  This is so because there would be fewer distractions while working on the computer such as chat and internet games etc.

Thus, in many ways modern technology had the opposite effect of making us worker harder and faster just to stay in the same place and as to students it has affected them negatively in their education.

"Orgami"

Have you tried organmi? well, its quite fun to do and can certainly be of great help when teaching kids to do art. Save you from having having to run behingd them all day. lol!

Origam from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper"; is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.

The number of basic orgami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The best known origami model is probably the Japanese paper crane. In general, these designs begin with a  square sheet of paper whose sides may be different colors or prints. Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.Paper Heart

 

Step 1

Fold top right hand corner, so that its edge aligns with the paper.

Repeat previous step with left corner

Step 2

Fold the paperback, at center crease.

Fold at the center crease, pressing inward

Step 3

Fold the right hand corner upward, aligning it with the top point (creating a diamond shape).

Repeat previous step with the left hand corner, completing the diamond

Step 4

Fold the right hand side of the paper, aligning the edge with the bottom point of the diamond

Fold the left hand side

Step 5

Turn the paper over then flip the bottom part approx. an inch and a half of paper

Step 6

Flip down the triangular section at the top, making sure it folds all the way, at the original crease

Step 7

Fold the bottom right hand corner, creating a triangle that aligns at the bottom center of the paper.

Make sure you insert the triangle from the previous step in between the slot created by the larger triangle.

Repeat the previous two steps with the left bottom corner

Step 8

Fold the top right point toward the center right, to form the top shape of the heart and insert the remaining paper inside the slot created by the larger triangle, to hold the top in place

Step 9

Fold the left hand side and insert the remaining portion of the previous triangle into the slot created by the larger triangle

Step 10

Flip the paper over, and will you look at that???
You have created a paper heart!

 Its fun!...................................................................................:)

"La Chismosa"

Here's a little story I wrote...............langauge can indeed be interesting.....................
sit back, chilax and have a laugh!

“La Chismosa”

“Maria!” “Maria!” “!Levántate!” My mother, Mrs. Linda, yelled at me before six o’ clock in the morning.  My mom a proud mestizo who was born and raised in Mexico City migrated to Belize, seventeen years ago a few months before I was born.  Hence, I know to speak the Spanish language quite well due to my mom’s origin and have adopted the English language. The Kriol dialect is spoken here and due to circumstances of living in a rather ghetto neighborhood I have learned to speak it, but I think of it as being informal and improper so I rely on speaking proper English.

 Indeed, my neighbor Ms. Margaret grew to hate me for this since, she believes I am just trying to be British when I am not. Nevertheless, she had often asked me to help her write letters for her family in the Caribbean I could remember her saying “Como se espellea esta palabra?” I would often correct her saying “Deletrear Margaret””Se dice Deletrear!” Ms Margaret had many characteristics she was very ignorant, jealous and a hypocrite. That very morning after helping her, I went to my music recitals my teacher was from England and definitely influenced me in speaking the English language more fluently. While, I attended classes my mother stayed home to do the house chores and prepare dinner for me and my stepfather whom she claimed to love so much. Ms. Margaret knew my father was having an affair but never told my mom because she envied her and just enjoyed spreading rumors. I could clearly remember how it all happened.

After my classes were over, I went home all excited because I was going to represent the music class for the annual music competition in England.  As I entered my home, I saw my mom chatting with Ms. Margaret through a little window that separated the two apartments and so I greeted them as usual. “Good afternoon!” “How are you Ms. Margaret?” “Ehmemm!”  That was the only response I got from her. Her facial expression said it all as she frowned and wrinkles formed in the corners of her hazel eyes that now deemed to be a bomb wanting to explode with so much hatred and envy. That afternoon my mother and Ms. Margaret stood washing and chatting.

            Linda- “How’s life treating you Margaret?”

Ms. Margaret- “Más o menos!” “Adonde esta Pedro?”

Linda- “He is at work quite busy.”  “He is quite a hardworking man.” “That’s why I love him mucho, mucho.” “He really cares about our well-being as a family.”

Ms. Margaret- “Lucky you Ms. Linda!” “I don’t have such luck.”

Linda- How bout Don Domingo? “El es soltero y muy bueno.” “You should get to know him better may be you two are meant to be.” (winks eye)

Ms. Margaret- “Aha!” “Maybe I should.” “Anyway, got lat a ironing to do chat with you lata dalin!”

Linda- “Yea!” “Me too!” “Got to go done mi cooking before mi loving husband come home.”

Ms. Margaret- “No kill up yo self woman!”

Linda- “No man!” “This isn’t any hassle.” “It is mi job!”

The next day I left for my recital and my mom had left early for her shopping where she encountered my stepfather with another woman.  I got the message quite soon right after the “Chismosa” informed the entire neighbor even though she knew it long ago. Mr. Domingo must have been sorry after he told her the story. Here’s how it all happened.

Ms. Margaret -“Good manin!” “Good manin!” “Anyone home?”

Don Domingo -“Aye! Misses” “Who you looking for?”

Ms. Margaret- “Mi fren, mi fren, Dona Linda.” “Where she is?”

Don Domingo- “At the hospital.”

Ms. Margaret- “ Nuh tell mi!” “Weh you seh?”

Don Domingo- “At the hospital misses.” “ I heard she in her death bed, ketch a stroke this ya maning.”  “She find out her husband cheatin on her and left her for another mujer misses.” “A twenty year old, blue eye, blond hair gringa. A rich, anorexic figured Barbie.”

Ms. Margaret (covers her mouth as if in surprise) - “Pobrecita!” “Wat a thing!” “Don Pedro nuh know what he getting into. If he think that ginga wah cook, wash, clean and tek good care a him like Mrs. Linda he darn crazy, but you know sir weh goes around comes around!”  “Dios lo va castiga!”

Don Domingo- “Castigar!” Margaret, but “True that! True that!” “Him must be dreamin!” “If Mrs. Linda were mi wify I mi wah cook breakfast everyday for her and even wash the dishes!”

Ms. Margaret- “But you know, she find it, da she fu blame, always cleaning and stuff!” “Not even try go tha the beauty parlor now and then.”

Don Domingo-  “Weh kind a fren you?” “She beautiful as she is.”

Ms. Margaret-  “No, just sayin.” “You still love her nuh?”

Don Domingo (Stares back with dreamy eyes and breathes deeply) – “Hmmmm!”

Ms. Margaret (who is now jealous) - “Viejo!” “You listening to mi?”

Don Domingo- “Oh! Yes! Yes!” “ You were sayin?”

Ms. Margaret- “That you still love her nuh?”

Don Domingo- “From tha one night I saw her at the village dance.” “It seems like just yestodeh she was standing there lookin so lovely in that straight fit red dress and long, shiny, brunette hair.”

Ms. Margaret- “Why you neva marry ah den?”

Don Domingo- “Oh she never loved me so. We were good fren, you know, pero en el corazon no se manda.”

Ms. Margaret- “Que?””Qué?” “Corazón qué?”

Don Domingo- “It just means you can’t change what your heart feels, you know”

Ms. Margaret- “Oh!” “Aha! A si weh yo mean.”

Don Domingo- “Oh really!” “Why you seh that?”

Ms. Margaret- “Nothin important Viejo!” “It a long story tell you lata.”

(Pretends to care) “Got to go si Mrs. Linda.” “You comin?”

Don Domingo- “Yes man!” “But Ms. Margaret please no remind a bout it!” “Yo si she must be all heartbroken, no wa si her suffer more.”

Ms. Margaret- “How yo tink a wa do that veijo?”

Don Domingo- “Just sayin. Yo know?”

Ms. Margaret- “I she fren man!”

Don Domingo- “Wait fu mi.” “Just mek a go get some roses from the garden!”

Ms. Margaret- “Sure thing man!” “Tek yo time!” (Rolls eyes)

Don Domingo- (Picks up his walking stick) “I’ll be back in a second misses!”

They went to visit my mom at the hospital.  Ms. Margaret’s intentions were no good, as she just wanted to know more about what had occurred and then added more to it so that she could share the “news” to her delight. However, she blamed it all on my mom when already she knew about the affair.  She had encouraged my stepfather’s relationship just to seek revenge because of Don Domingo’s love for my mom. She was so interested in him but he never lost interest in my mom.

 Therefore, after my mom recovered, we went to live in the City to start over where we got no new versions from what had occurred. Don Domingo surely missed my mom’s presence while, Ms. Margaret only continued her interfering in people’s lives when her new neighbor moved in.  Ms. Margaret’s jealously and fake friendship led her to be called  “La Chismosa!” by the neighborhood after she went on spreading rumors about other people’s business and making their lives impossible.

"Scarlet Macaw"

Ara Macao Scarlet Macaw, Red and Yellow Macaw 35-36 inches.  A vivid scarlet, with yellow on upper wings, blending into blue. The rump of the bird is a bright light blue. The tail is a deep shade of blue mixed in with red. Horn upper and black lower bill, greyish feet. The bare facial patch lacks feather stripes, and is a pinkish white.

The Scarlet seems to be a particularly sensitive macaw, and if mistreated while young can grow up to be aggressive and prone to biting. They tend to be more aggressive than the other macaws, and do not tolerate other birds, pets or children well. But if raised in a caring, disciplined manner, it can absolutely be the most adoring pet ever. A scarlet macaw has unusual feet 2 toes point forward and the other 2 point backward. This helps the bird keep a strong grip on tree branches. It lives high in the trees, at the very upper layer of leaves and vines of the forests. But did you know that they also eat clay from river banks? There seems to be some nutrient in the clay that is important to the survival of the scarlet macaw. Scarlet macaws can fly as fast as 35 miles an hour, especially if they are startled by an enemy. The scarlet macaw sometime lives in small groups but will mate with only one other bird for life. This is why they are most often seen flying or in a nest in pairs. During mating season, the female will lay 2 or 3 round white eggs. Both parents guard the eggs until they hatch. Young macaws stay in the parents' nest for up to 2 years. The female will not lay another group of eggs until the first group is independent. This means that the population does not grow quickly, a big problem because scarlet macaws are often killed or captured by humans as pets.

Reproduction-Macaws are monogamous. Breeding takes place during the first half of the year. The nest is usually in a hole at the top of a tall dead tree. The hole may previously have been made and used by a woodpecker. The female lays one or two eggs and incubates them for 24-26 days, while the male feeds her. On hatching, the young are blind and almost naked. The eyes open after 7-14 days. At first only the female feeds the young, but after about a week the male joins in. The young are fed by the parents' regurgitation (transitive verb to bring undigested or partially digested food up from the stomach to the mouth, as some birds and animals do to feed their young) of partially digested vegetable crop contents. The young are born featherless. At ten weeks they are covered with feathers and the wings and tail have attained their full length. At six months it is hard to distinguish the young from the parents. After the breeding season is over they molt. The old worn and faded feathers fall out and are replaced by new ones. The molt is gradual and takes place over several months.

Behavior- There are regular roosting sites and in the early morning the flocks fly some distance in search of food. They return to spend the night in the roosting trees just before sunset, flying above the forest canopy.
Macaws use their beaks as an aid in both eating and as a "third foot" when climbing. Food is obtained using the beak. The beak is strong and is used to crush the seeds and nuts, while the thick fleshy tongue is used to move the food around. Very hard nuts are cracked open after the macaw files down the thickness of the shell in one place. This is done with the lower part of the beak.

"Tropical Fruit Pie"

You don't need to go on vacation to experience the flavors of the tropics. Top this delicious frozen dessert with a variety of tropical fruit, such as mango, kiwi, and papaya. We can find many of these luxirious tropical and juicy friuts here at our own country Belize except for the kiwi and rasberries which could be replaced by pineapples and dea grapes. Delicious! Isn't it?  This A pastry crust serves as the base for a luxurious cream cheese filling and the colorful crown of fruit. Melted apricot preserves combine with orange liqueur to make a shiny glaze that helps hold the fruit in place. Pie! Pie! Pie! yum!yum!

Ingredients for this wonderful treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water
• 1-1/2 8-ounce package cream cheese (12 oz.), softened
• 2/3 cup sifted powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon orange liqueur or orange juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 to 2-1/2 cups assorted fruits (peeled and cut up kiwi fruit, raspberries, peeled and chopped papaya, and/or cut up strawberries)
• 2 tablespoons apricot preserves
• 1/2 teaspoon orange liqueur or orange juice

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degree F. For pastry, in a medium bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in egg yolk and enough cold water to moisten. Knead gently until mixture forms a ball.
2. On a lightly floured surface roll dough to a 12-inch circle; carefully transfer to a 9-inch pie plate. Trim pastry to 1/2-inch beyond edge of pie plate. Fold under extra pastry. Crimp edge. Generously prick bottom and sides of pastry with a fork. Line pastry with a double thickness of foil. Bake 8 minutes; remove foil. Bake for 10 minutes more or until golden. Cool on a wire rack.
3. For filling, in a bowl beat cream cheese and powdered sugar until combined. Add whipping cream, the 1 tablespoon liqueur, and vanilla. Beat until combined. Spoon filling into baked pastry shell. Cover and chill 1 to 4 hours.
4. To serve, arrange fruit on top of filling. Heat preserves and 1/2 teaspoon liqueur until melted. Drizzle over pie. Makes 8 servings.