When I was in Michigan last week speaking at an Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship conference, many people asked me how I made it work. Leaving my kids at home - that is. Well here's the thing...there is a lot at play that makes it work for me and my family.
First, it has been almost 14 years. Time helps! For years I chose not to leave at all. Then for the next years I left a bit, but kept it at a minimum. Now I can leave without a lot of fall out.
Second, I am very intentional about having everything in place before I leave. Food is made by me. Plans are all in order and posted. Kids all have something of mine. And so much more.
Last but definitely NOT least, I make sure that I Plug In as often as possible. Call or text while I am gone. (needed less and less these days), but most importantly...when I get home I work really hard to get plugged back in even though it is the last thing I want to do cause I am tired. This time I took my girls to eat and a movie. I literally arrived home, changed my clothes and turned around and drove 30 minutes to the theater. Not that I didn't want to see my girls, but the couch was REALLY calling me. They needed it though...they talked non-stop, running through every detail of every minute while I was gone. They needed my undivided attention for a bit. Then, we sat at the theater - one on either side of me. Then back in the car and more talking. A few days later now they have softened up and we are all plugged back in...emotionally Plugged IN!
If you have to leave either physically or are busy emotionally, causing you to get unplugged, make that intentional decision to plug back in - our kids need us and don't always know how to ask or even that that is what they need. But trust me, even if you don't feel up to it or it is the farthest thing from what you want to do....go for it; it really cuts down on fall out behavior!


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Home Interesting People These "porcelain weapons" perfectly capture what it means to be a woman
These "porcelain weapons" perfectly capture what it means to be a woman
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A 29-year-old French artist, Helena Hauus is based in Paris where she is known for her extremely detailed ball-point pen drawings.
Hauss recently decided to flex her creative muscles and tackle sculptures for a change.
"There were some things inside me I wanted to express which I felt I couldn't do with just a drawing, I wanted to go beyond that. I needed to create an actual object that would say it all once you saw it," she shared. "Something allegoric, a metaphor where people could go, "Here. This is exactly how I've been feeling all this time."
She titled her 'porcelain' project "Hell Hath no Fury."
"It's an approach to represent the inner strength and fury that comes with being a woman, in contrast to an appearance of delicacy we're too often branded with," the artist revealed. "Women have repeatedly been construed as the "weaker sex" and are regularly being preyed on or diminished in some way or another," Hauss continued on.
"Too often portrayed as fragile and delicate, this project is an expression of the contrasting subtleties that come with femininity, as well as an attempt at vindication from a feeling of constant vulnerability that's been forced upon us."
The "ceramic" weapons symbolize "inner strength, fury, and empowerment."
While the sculptures appear to be delicate and look like precious china sets hidden in a cupboard, they are actually very sturdy and made from polyurethane.
The substance is actually a polymer that can be used for sculpting but appear like porcelain.
"I wanted something strong that wouldn't break easily, as a metaphor for its subject. Something that would look like porcelain but actually isn't," the artist shared.
When asked about what her art represented, Hauus shared how she does not want to make it political but rather, a testimony of her personal feelings.
"I think that's when art works best: not with an agenda, but when done with sincerity," she continued. "It's the difference between a song written for the masses and one written from the heart: where the lyrics hit you as something you can really relate to. That's the human experience and in the end, it's much more powerful than any political agenda: because that's when we'll all do better, when we actually truly understand each other."
"The word perception is the best one you could have used: in the end, that's the real problem, misunderstanding and ignorance," the artist shared.
Hauus also pressed how her art is a sincere expression to being uniquely yourself.
"We're too often perceived as something we're not, and the best way to change that is to actually show ourselves, make ourselves be seen, be heard".
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Bolts' Johnson scores a hat trick in victory
by Gary Shelton on October 17, 2018 · 2 comments
One: Johnson celebrates his first goal with Mathieu Joseph./JEFFREY S. KING
Wednesday, 4 a.m.
The first goal was a gimmie putt. Tyler Johnson took a perfect pass from young Mathieu Joseph and simply steered it into the net. Of the 110 goals Johnson had scored before that one, most of them were
Two: Johnson looked like his old self./JEFFREY S. KING
more difficult.
The third goal was a layup. That goal, the one that put the hats on the ice, was an empty netter. Johnson had made a tougher play diving to try to block the puck a few seconds earlier. Nothing for the memories, either.
But it was the second goal, the slashing, take-it-to-the-net attack that gave you hope. It was that goal that made you think that maybe, just maybe, Johnson could be the all-star he once was. It was that goal that made you see the possibilities.
Johnson lit up the night Tuesday, scoring his fifth career hat trick to lift the Bolts to a hard-fought victory, 4-2, over the Carolina Panthers.
Three: Johnson scores an empty-netter at the end./JEFFREY S. KING
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Domingue kept his eyes on the puck all the time./JEFFREY S. KING
Is Johnson capable of scoring the way he once did? In 2013-14, when he was 23, he scored 24 goals. A year later, he scored 29. But Johnson hasn't had that touch since them. He has scored 14, 19 and 21 goals the last three years.
"I don't really think too much about hat tricks," Johnson said. "I'm more happy that we won that game. I was probably more pumped
Stamkos checks a Hurricane hard into the boards./JEFFREY S. KING
that Gourdo scored that third (goal) than anything. I've been playing with some good players and had some good opportunities tonight and luckily it went in for me."
Johnson has enjoyed being reunited with the Triplets (Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat).
"They're unbelievable players," Johnson said. "I love playing with them. It kind of just makes the game easier, it kind of slows it down, we get some opportunities. I think as everything progresses, we're going to get a little bit closer and closer and be able to work
Nikita Kucherov had an assist for Bolts./JEFFREY S. KING
and kind of progress on a few things I think we can be better. Hopefully we can just continue to work on things and work on video and just be on the same page here."
Lightning coach Jon Cooper likes seeing Johnson play center.
"We like him in the middle," Cooper said. "That's helped him. But if there's one thing about Johnny and the competitiveness and all that, that's taken for granted. He competes. But it's his skating. And when he's skating, really it's game changing for him. And he was definitely skating tonight, just bursting through holes, creating chances for himself. I know he had three, he probably could have
Miller had an assist on Johnson's second goal./JEFFREY S. KING
had more just from the chances he was creating. His linemates were obviously helping him out, but boy that kid was flying tonight."
Johnson played well for most of the night, recording six shots. As Cooper said, "he could have had more."
Johnson wasn't the only Bolt who played well. Backup goaltender Louis Domingue had 38 saves in his first start of the season. And Yanni Gourde scored the tie-breaking goal in the third period.
Domingue played well despite hurting his neck in pregame while playing basketball (the teams generally loosen up playing other sports in the hallways). He said after the game he was still having trouble turning his neck. "Fortunately," he said, "I only had to turn twice."
Joseph moves into the open ice./JEFFREY S. KING
For the Bolts, it had to be good to see Domingue play well. Last year, starting goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy played so much he was weary by the end of the season.
"It felt great," Domingue said. "I had a little tweak in my neck from playing basketball before the game, so I was a little stressed out about that. But we have great staff here that fixed it right up. It was fun. It was fun to play in front of the fans and obviously to win is the cherry on the sundae."
Domingue thought that Johnson's first goal was a bitg one.
Cooper has his penalty-kill working well./JEFFREY S. KING
"To get back to the room 1-1 is huge for us, especially on the PK, something we struggled with last year and we clearly made the right adjustments," Domingue said. "But there's always room for better and obviously in this league, teams are going to adjust to what you're going to do so we've got to keep getting better and working on that. I think the time we've put in at practice on special teams paid off tonight."
The Hurricanes tied the game at 2, but Gourde knocked in the winner.
"(Palat) made a very good pass to me," Gourde said. "I tried to get it off as quick as I could, but it hopped over my stick and went and finally I got the puck back and shot right away. I think it squeezed through his arm.
"Louis was amazing tonight. The way he plays the puck to help our defensemen make plays. He made a huge save on our penalty kill. That was very important for us. We know they were going to shoot a lot of pucks tonight, and they did that. But Louis was there and standing up. It was a very good game for him."
The Lightning close out their season-opening homestand by hosting Detroit on Thursday at Amalie Arena. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m.
Gourde scores the go-ahead goal in the third period./JEFFREY S. KING
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African Research Journals: The Importance of African Content in Research
17 Aug 17 15 Jul 19 Hannes Mitchell
Technology has allowed us to share information effortlessly and on a global scale. As a result, the planet's population is moving ever closer to a universal knowledge-base. However, while the concept of universally shared and accepted knowledge is possible, it cannot exist (at least in the foreseeable future) because of a single factor; the individual knowledge of nations, such as that contained in African research journals.
Sarpong (2002) wrote that a people's approach to knowledge and science (and the investigation thereof) cannot be removed from its history. African content is thus important in relation to research for the following reasons:
1. It Allows for Comprehensive Research
Even if the topic being researched stems from a foreign school of thought, African content is important for comprehensive research. The African literature on the topic might provide supporting or sometimes opposing evidence, making the research on the topic more complete. And, when it comes to research, it is often desirable to include other perspectives in order to validate the position of the research.
2. It Is Absolutely Relevant to African Studies
When it comes to researching African-centric topics, African content is invaluable, for obvious reasons. There is no better perspective on the topics relevant to African development than that portrayed in the literature and journal entries published in Africa by Africans.
3. It Portrays Development over Important Fields
Historical views on certain topics might not always be consistent with modern thinking, but they are always important when it comes to research. This is true for a number of reasons, but one definite advantage of historical literature is the fact that it can be used to portray development over certain fields, and present an accurate time-frame for that development.
Sabinet provides access to the African Journal Archive, which covers historical writings on a variety of topics, including politics, history, geology, education, law, medicine, botany, agriculture, and zoology.
Sabinet's African ePublications
The African Journal Archive was sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in an effort to preserve the important literature of Africa and make it available for research projects. The result is a collection of journal articles covering the topics mentioned above, and dating back to 1906.
The African Journal Archive contains more than 182 African journals, incorporating over 150,000 articles, which are full-text and fully searchable through our information services.
To learn more about this service and how you might access it, be sure to contact Sabinet right away.
African Journal Archive content integrated into Sabinet Reference platform
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The content of the African Journal Archive has been integrated with the Sabinet Reference platform (http://reference.sabinet.co.za).
It is now possible to search for information in this archive together with Sabinet's South African and African electronic journals from a single search page (http://www.ajarchive.org). Users can also search for items contained in the archive separately from other online journal content.
The content is completely open access and the full text is available to anyone searching the archive – no subscription or registration is required.
Currently 49 of the 182 titles making up the archive have been loaded on the platform – the rest will follow in the very near future.
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, the Social Sciences and Humanities and was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The archive provides access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa's research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature with some articles dating back to 1902. For more information about the archive and the project, please go to http://www.ajarchive.org.
The inclusion of the African Journal Archive data on the Sabinet Reference platform means that the additional functionality provided by the platform can now also be used for the retrieval and storage of relevant information. This functionality includes: facets to facilitate the refining of search results; efficient keyword searching; relevance ranking; display of related items (items from other databases which contain the same search terms); an Action List, where selected records can be saved for a session from where printing, emailing or exporting can be carried out; mySabinet – each user's personal space for saving searches or lists and sharing these with other mySabinet users; mobile access from smartphones or tablets. With the addition of these titles from the African Journal Archive, Sabinet is creating a resource containing more than 300 000 full-text articles from African journals.
Please contact Support at info@sabinet.co.za if you have any questions or experience any difficulties with accessing the archive.
The African Journal Archive supports Open Access Week 18-24 October 2010
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The African Journal Archive is pleased to support Open Access week (18-24 October 2010).
The project is collecting journals published exclusively in Africa and about Africa, with a focus on the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The Archive contains issues digitised retrospectively back to the first issue. The journals are available free of charge on the African Journal Archive website at www.ajarchive.org.
The African Journal Archive provides a unique opportunity for universities and research organisations to digitise their journals free of charge back to the first issue. The digitised materials are then sent back to publishers for preservation and use on their own websites, further extending open access to African scholarship.
We invite African publishers to submit requests for inclusion as soon as possible to benefit from currently available funding. Any recommendations for new titles would also be appreciated.
Browse the Archive at http://content.ajarchive.org/index.php.
Sabinet supports Open Access Week 18-24 October 2010
Sabinet is proud to communicate its support for Open Access Week in 2010.
Sabinet's Open Access Journal Collection currently consists of 46 predominantly Southern African journal titles. Users can search within these individual titles and immediate access to the PDF version of 8000+ full-text articles is provided.
Fourteen of the journals in the collection are accredited journals and appear on the DoE Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list or the IBSS list.
The journals in our Open Access Collection are also made available in the SA ePublications Full Collection as well as associated subject collections. Publishers who would like to make their journals available as Open Access titles are welcome to
Also affiliated with Sabinet is the African Journal Archive.
This project is collecting journals published exclusively in Africa and about Africa, with a focus on the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The Archive contains issues digitised retrospectively back to the first issue. The journals are available free of charge on the African Journal Archive website at www.ajarchive.org.
The project provides a unique opportunity for universities and research organisations to digitise their journals free of charge back to the first issue. The digitised materials are then sent back to publishers for preservation and use on their own websites, further extending open access to African scholarship.


Rosh Hashana – the Jewish new year – just ended, and not without a bit of prayer and reflecting on my part. I've come up with several resolutions I'd like to work on this year; I always love a good self-improvement challenge.
I'm the only one to blame for my feelings of blandness lately. I've let laziness, skepticism and un-inspiration take over. Who can inspire me better than myself? I've become too comfortable with the status-quo.
I've been caught up in a very negative pattern of judgment lately. I was never one for being overly judgmental, and I certainly don't think myself almighty-enough to play the role. However, I've realized, like in resolution #1, I've become too comfortable with myself and where I am in life and have repeatedly forgotten to place myself before my peers in line for judgment.
Here's to a new year (in the Jewish calendar, that is 5768) – a year of adventure, pro-action, inspiration, and even a new path or two.
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The evolution of Ukhozi FM and their role in promoting language & culture
by Simba Anthony | Jul 6, 2018 | Radio Day 2018 | 0 comments
Ukhozi FM's Nongcebo McKenzie talked us through the history of their station and what makes them tick. You may be fooled into thinking that what makes Ukhozi FM South Africa's number one radio station is the fact that it broadcasts for a large demographic of Zulu speakers says McKenzi, but it is not the case. She says Ukhozi FM (The wise bird) is the mother of all radio stations in SA, which gave birth to new entries in the industry such as Metro Fm.
Radio in SA started in 1924, with the then Radio Zulu established in 1960, which then led to it being renamed in 1995/6 to Ukhozi FM. Contrary to popular belief; Ukhozi FM is a Zulu radio station and not a traditional radio station, even though they portray culture and tradition very well, because language and culture are interwoven entities. Music is just one of the mediums they use to speak to their audience, but they are mandated ICASA to play a minimum of 70% local music.
The numbers of awards the shows and presenters have won are because of the pioneering example of Bhodloza Welcome Nzimande who was the first presenter to host a Maskhandi based music show, breaking barriers and popularizing this music genre. So far the Sigiyangengoma music show segment, which loosely translated means, to dance to a song, is now being hosted by two female presenters, Zim Dollar and Zimphi Biyela which shows that the music has not changed, but tradition surely has.
Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi who was a host on the station, according to McKenzie has also published a book called, Inkinsela Yase Ngubudlova, which later became one of the Top 100 African literature in Africa set book in South African schools. Prof Thokozani Ernest Nene, who joined radio Bantu in 1970 as a translator during the apartheid era, when he joined Ukhozi, he became one of the lexicons, coining the word Inqculaza- HIV term in IsiZulu, he has since been awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze.
Literature, events and radio dramas brought have black stories in a way that they bring forward the basis of one's identity as being Zulu and identifying with the culture.
In 2017, Khozi FM hosted the Zulu 200 at the Immighubo, an event honouring the 200 years of history of the Zulu nation, Ukhozi also honoured the 45 year rule of King Goodwill Zwelithini.
The Jabula ujule show, called Ingono yomsandi, is one of the shows that keep people especially young people who want to stay in tune with their culture, language, traditions and conserve the aspects that identify with being Zulu.
Lebohang Bridget Lepere
(Edited By Simbarashe Honde)


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NetIDEAS, Inc. (NetIDEAS) announces the addition of FlexPLM®, PTC's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for Retail and Consumer, to its offerings of hosted PTC Products. As the premier Cloud Provider for PTC's Windchill® PLM solution, NetIDEAS is uniquely positioned to successfully manage joint customers' FlexPLM deployments and help them reach their business goals as efficiently as possible.
"Our twelve-year relationship with PTC has resulted in thousands of users worldwide who trust NetIDEAS' highly available and secure infrastructure to meet their PLM deployment needs," said Tom Rassmann, NetIDEAS President and CTO. "We are extremely excited to be extending our offering of hosted PTC solutions to support the Retail and Consumer industry."
"Built on a web-based architecture, PTC's PLM solutions have long been deployable on demand -- or via what is now called 'the cloud,'" said Will Kohler, senior vice president, Product Management, PTC. "As a global provider of secure cloud hosted solutions purpose-built for product lifecycle needs, NetIDEAS is an excellent partner to PTC and we are pleased to further expand the deployment options available to our customer base."
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NORD Issues Statement on the Latest ACA Repeal and Replace Developments
Posted by Lisa Sencen
Washington, D.C., July 28, 2017—The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the leading independent nonprofit organization representing the 30 million Americans with rare diseases, issued the following statement regarding the latest efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act:
"In the early hours of the morning, the Senate voted down a plan to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The latest proposal, called the Healthcare Freedom Act, but better known as the "skinny repeal," would have repealed the individual and employer mandates, among a handful of additional provisions. The Senate failed to move forward with this plan by a 49 to 51 vote.
We were very concerned with the approach taken by the Senate, and are grateful to the 51 Senators who joined us in our concerns. The "skinny repeal," if enacted, would cripple private health insurance markets by repealing, but not replacing, the incentive for healthy individuals to sign up for health insurance. We opposed this measure, and we joined hundreds of our advocates in urging Senators to vote no.
While we do not believe a skinny repeal is the answer, something must be done to repair the ACA and stabilize the private health insurance market. With our Principles for Health Coverage Reform in hand, we are eager to work with both parties and both houses in crafting solutions to the ACA's problems. Premiums and deductibles are too high, networks are too narrow, and there are far too few insurers to compete in the marketplaces.
Most of all, we want to thank the thousands of rare disease patients, family members, caregivers, and engaged members of the community who made their voices heard loud and clear as the debate continued. There is still much work to be done, and we hope our advocates join us as we continue the conversation on how to fix the Affordable Care Act and improve our nation's insurance coverage for the 30 million Americans with rare diseases.
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River Ave. Blues » The Puzzling Middle Infield Picture
The Puzzling Middle Infield Picture
February 24, 2019 by Matt Imbrogno
Feb. 23rd Spring Training Notes: Severino, Happ, Bird, Voit, Frazier, Paxton, Tanaka
Spring Training Game Thread: Game Two
Even without signing Manny Machado and even with Didi Gregorius sidelined, recovering from Tommy John Surgery, the Yankees middle infield is already pretty crowded. There's returning youngster Gleyber Torres, as well as free agent additions Troy Tulowitzki and DJ LeMahieu. We should also throw an honorable mention towards Tyler Wade, since he's nominally a middle infielder. With this many guys for two of the four up-the-middle positions on a baseball team, there are many options for deployment. The one the Yankees are opting for is puzzling. Per this tweet by Lindsey Adler, the Yankees are having Tulo work exclusively as a shortstop this spring. Plans can change, of course, but this one isn't great for reasons both offensive and defensive.
Offensively, the problem starts with Tulowitzki himself. The next time he takes the plate in an official Major League game, it'll be the first time he's done so since 2017, when he was an 79 wRC+ hitter in 260 plate appearances across 66 games. He was last a league average hitter in 2016 when he posted a 104 wRC+ in 544 PA in 131 games; he was also league average in 2015 at a 101 wRC+. However he does in Spring Training, there's going to be a steep relearning curve for him when the real action starts on March 28. While slow starts happen, they're different for a guy who just missed a year due to injury and hasn't been decent since 2016.
LeMahieu also offers a potential problem offensively. I may be a touch alarmist here since I'm not exactly sold on this acquisition, but it's worth noting that despite playing the plurality of his career's home games in Coors Field, DJLM has only one above average offensive season. Add that to switching leagues and teams and it's not hard to imagine a rough going at the start. The Yankees signed him because they think his batted ball profile will play in Yankee Stadium, and that's great, but is that really what you wanna pin your hopes and $24M guaranteed on?
This leaves Gleyber Torres, ironically, as potentially the most offensively reliable of this middle infield troika as he's not coming off an injury and isn't switching leagues or teams. Still, he's a second year player who could easily have a sophomore slump and it's a lot to expect of a guy–even if these are my expectations–to be the best out of these three players.
On the other side of the ball, the Yankees are going to have a guy who's recovering from heel surgery play shortstop, the most demanding infield position that side of the mound. That's not a good look in and of itself, let alone with Miguel Andujar playing next to him, who has plenty of defensive issues to work out. Additionally, LeMahieu's definite value comes from his great glove at second base…where Gleyber Torres will be getting most of the action. Not only are the Yankees putting a potentially compromised player at shortstop, they're also going to be putting a Gold Glove caliber second baseman at….not second base most of the time. The smarter play is probably to have Tulowitzki as the backup with Torres at short and LeMahieu at second. But, really, counting on Tulowitzki for anything is probably a fool's errand.
Bringing in LeMahieu afterwards brings the entire Tulowitzki signing into question, even as a low-risk move because of how muddled it makes things. Surely, though, the Yankees have thought of this if I have and have a plan. I still have my doubts. If (when?) Tulo gets hurt and it becomes wholly necessary to move Torres to short, thus allowing LeMahieu to play second full time, this all looks a bit better, since elite defense at second is nothing to scoff at, even if the player leaves a lot to be desired offensively.
With this puzzling middle infield picture, the Yankees have made their bed. Hopefully, it's more comfortable than I've made it out to be.
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'You really want to have this?' Danbury bank's app dives deep on spending habits
Peter Scotch, director of Union Savings Bank's innovation center, inside a glass display truck touting the new USB Mobile Insights app. The Danbury-based bank is the first in the state to make the the FIS-developed artificial intelligence tool available.
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On one note, "Legos" was scrawled. On another, "gift for Mom," and a third showed "pay medical bills."
What would you do with an extra $50? In an offbeat promotion of a new mobile app — through the big bay window of a glass display truck — Union Savings Bank is posing that question to people throughout western Connecticut, asking them to jot their thoughts for all to see.
Danbury-based Union Savings Bank is the first to offer a new artificial intelligence app developed by FIS, a Jacksonville, Fla. company that is among the largest offering banking and merchant processing systems.
USB Spending Insights tracks 50 data points and makes suggestions on how users can save money based on their spending and saving patterns. The app is available to USB checking customers.
"It's an artificial intelligence tool that actually analyzes the activity in your account and gives you a little idea of what you've been doing," said Peter Scotch, director of USB's in-house innovation center. "It can also give you hints and little quizzes to see how good you are at understanding ... how much you spend."
Traditional banks have been scrambling the past several years to keep up with online financial platforms that have lured away customers with savings and checking accounts and other services. The top six "fintech" apps generated more than 16 million downloads in the first half of this year, according to Apptopia, with Chime the most popular.
In a consumer poll last summer, the consulting firm EY found that nearly a third of U.S. customers said their primary financial relationship was with a fintech company, up from just 6 percent who said so in 2019.
Speaking in September on the Banking Transformed podcast, an EY executive said the COVID-19 pandemic helped accelerate a trend that was already under way as people sought alternatives for financial transactions from home.
"What we're really seeing now is this complete shift and acceleration of trust," said Nikhil Lele, a leader in EY Americas financial services office. "Fintechs...are solving very specific needs for very particular target audiences, in a way that's highly relevant."
Bridgeport-based People's United Bank plans to wean off FIS systems when it completes its $7.6 billion sale to Buffalo, N.Y.-based M&T Bank, at which point Union Savings Bank will be the third largest Connecticut-based bank in deposits, behind Webster Bank and Liberty Bank as ranked by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Scotch thinks USB Spending Insights provides similar value by delving into many aspects of a customer's financial decisions — as one example in the instance of a larger-than-normal paycheck at which point USB Spending Insights might suggest possible ways to sock away the surplus cash.
"If you have multiple music streaming services, it might point out to that out to you and ask if you really want to have this," Scotch said. "You might say, 'You know what? I've been really meaning to turn off this one' — then it takes you through a link right to that service where you can cancel right away."


Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, in Asia (where the greatest species diversity is found), Europe and eastern North America; it is not native to western North America. Under the Cronquist classification system, this genus was placed in the family Tiliaceae, but genetic research by the APG has resulted in the incorporation of this family into the Malvaceae. They are generally called lime in Britain and linden or basswood in North America.
Tilia species are large deciduous trees, reaching typically 20 to 40 m tall, with oblique-cordate leaves 6 to 20 cm across, and are found through the north temperate regions. The exact number of species is subject to considerable uncertainty, as many or most of the species will hybridise readily, both in the wild and in cultivation.
The Tilia's sturdy trunk stands like a pillar and the branches divide and subdivide into numerous ramifications on which the twigs are fine and thick. In summer these are profusely clothed with large leaves and the result is a dense head of abundant foliage.
The leaves of all the Tilias are heart-shaped and most are asymmetrical, and the tiny fruit, looking like peas, always hang attached to a curious, ribbon-like, greenish yellow bract, whose use seems to be to launch the ripened seed-clusters just a little beyond the parent tree. The flowers of the European and American Tilias are similar, except that the American bears a petal-like scale among its stamens and the European varieties are destitute of these appendages. All of the Tilias may be propagated by cuttings and grafting as well as by seed. They grow rapidly in a rich soil, but are subject to the attacks of many insect enemies.
Tilia (the classical Latin name). Tiliaceae. Linden. Lime. Basswood. Whitewood. Ornamental trees, grown for their handsome foliage, good habit, and also for their fragrant flowers.
Deciduous: winter buds large, obtuse, with several imbricate scales, terminal bud wanting: lvs. alternate, petioled, usually cordate, serrate, with caducous stipules: fls. small, in long-peduncled drooping cymes; the peduncle for about half its length adnate to a membranous ligulate bract; sepals 5; petals 5, often with 5 opposite petaloid staminodes; stamens many, with the filaments forked at the apex; ovary superior, 5- celled; style slender, with 5-lobed stigma: fr. globose or ovoid, nut-like, usually with 1-3 seeds.—About 25 species throughout the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, in N. Amer. south to the highlands of Mex., except W. N. Amer., and in Asia south to Cent. China. The names of the lindens, and particularly of those in cult., have been much confused, owing to the great variability of some species, the rather slight differences between many of the species and to the presence of many hybrids originated spontaneously and in cult. The light-colored soft and light wood is easily worked and much used for the interior finish of houses, for wood-carving, wooden baskets and other small wooden ware. The tough inner bark is used as a tying material and, particularly in Russia, in the manufacture of mats, cords, shoes, and other articles. The fls. yield large quantities of nectar and afford an excellent bee pasture, except T. tomentosa and T. petiolaris, which are poisonous to bees.
The lindens are very desirable trees of comparatively rapid growth and regular pyramidal habit while young, with slender-stalked medium-sized or rather large leaves and with small yellowish fragrant flowers in drooping clusters followed by small inconspicuous nutlets. The species in cultivation are nearly all hardy North and not particular as to the soil, but do not thrive well in dry locations or in dry climates. They are much planted as shade and ornamental trees and, particularly in Europe, are favorite avenue and street trees. The best for avenue planting are T. tomentosa, T. euchlora, T. americana, T. cordata; T. tomentosa stands heat and drought better than any of the others, while T. platyphyllos, although often planted for its rapid growth, is likely to suffer in dry seasons or in dry localities.
Propagation is by seed which must be sown soon after ripening or stratified, as it does not germinate until the second year if kept dry and sown in spring. Also increased by layers; in layering usually the method of "stooling" is employed; this consists of cutting a younger tree close to the ground and of laying down and covering partly with earth the numerous shoots which will appear. Varieties or rarer species are often grafted in spring or budded in August on common stock. Plants raised from layers or grafts remain often one-sided for many years, as the lateral branches usually employed for propagation have the tendency to grow horizontally instead of strictly upright.
T. caucasica, Rupr.-T. rubra.—T. corinthiaca, Bosc -T. rubra, DC.—T. Henryana, Szyszyl. Tree, to 50 ft.: branchlets pubescent at first: lvs. broadly ovate, obliquely cordate or truncate, with bristly teeth, brownish tomentose beneath, with axillary tufts of hairs, 2-5 in. long: fls. 20 or more in a cyme. Cent. China.—T. intonsa, Wilson (T. tonsura, Veitch). Tree, to 60 ft.: young branchlets pubescent: lvs. broadly ovate, cuspidate, serrate, pubescent and grayish green beneath, 3-6 in. long: fls. 1-3: fr. ovoid, 5-angled. W. China.—T. kiusiana, Makino & Shiras. Tree, to 50 ft.: lvs. oblong-ovate, acute, obliquely truncate at base, serrate, glabrous, 1 1/2 - 2 in. long; petiole about 1/3 in. long: cyme 20-35-fld.: fr. globose. Japan. Very distinct on account of the small and narrow, short-stalked lvs.—T. orbicularis, Jouin. Very similar to T. petiolaris, but lustrous and glabrous above, grayish tomentose beneath, on shorter petioles. Supposed to be a hybrid between T. petiolaris and T. euchlora, but probably only a variety of the former; originated in the nursery of Simon-Louis near Metz, Germany.—T. paucicostata, Maxim. Small tree; allied to T. cordata: lvs. ovate, usually truncate at base, with long-pointed teeth, green on both sides, about 2 1/2 in. long. W. China.—T. pubescens, Ait. Tree, to 40 ft.: branchlets rusty stellate-pubescent: lvs. ovate, obliquely truncate at the base, coarsely serrate, rusty tomentulose beneath: fr. rusty tomentose. N. C. to Fla. and Texas. Tender and rarely cult.; the plant cult. under this name is usually T. No. 8.—T. rubra, DC. (T. caucasica, Rupr. T. corinthiaca, Bose). Tall tree with red glabrous branchlets: lvs. similar to those of T. platyphyllos, but glabrous, lustrous above, light green beneath, with long-pointed teeth: cymes 3-7-fld.: fr. ovoid or subglobose, slightly angled. S. E. Eu., Caucasus, W. Asia. Apparently not in cult., often confused with red-branched, slightly pubescent forms of T. platyphyllos.—T. Spaethii - T. americana x T. cordata.—T. tonsura, Veitch -T. intonsa.— T. Tuan, Szyszyl. Tree, to 50 ft.: young branchlets glabrous or nearly so: lvs. broadly ovate, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, minutely toothed, entire below the middle, grayish tomentose beneath with axillary tufts, 2 1/2 – 5 1/2 in. long: cymes 10-20-fld.: fr. subglobose, thick-shelled. Cent. China.
The following list comprises those most widely accepted as species and cultivars.
Tilia foliage in autumn colors from Ekoparken in Stockholm.
The venation within the bract of a Tilia tree.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Keeler, Harriet L. (1900). Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons. pp. 24–31.
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The competition is in PC market is so strong that the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) or the total solution integrator tends to switch from one chip maker to another from time to time. Just recently, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project announced that its Gen 1.5 will migrate to VIA Technologies' platform solution, replacing existing solution using AMD Geode that has been used since its first launch few years back.
OLPC is a non-profitable organization that helps to coordinate the whole design and manufacturing of the low end laptops targeted for poor children in emerging market. Similarly to current AMD's Geode microprocessor running at 433MHz, the new replacement intends to use VIA C7-M clocking between 400MHz to 1GHz depending on the applications and heat requirement. Besides, the processor will be coupled with a new chipset that is claimed to be able to handle 3D video acceleration and HD (High Definition) graphics decode capability without complicating the whole system design. Surprisingly, it is believed that the new solution consumes less power while able to offer greater feature sets at much cheaper cost. Some features include the 1GB RAM and 4GB storage capacity (or optionally upgrade to 8GB) as well as Wi-Fi capability and LCD display with better brightness and clarity.
No further information on pricing and availability yet, the first prototype will be available by second half of this year.


For most of the past year, the filing fees for the Secretary of State's office were $1, including filing Articles of Incorporation (corporations), Articles of Organization (limited liability companies), and Certificates of Limited Partnership. That temporary reduction of fees has ended, and the filing fees are now back to $50 for each new fling, and generally $25 for amendments. Certificates of Good Standing are free on-line, and periodic reports are $10 on-line. The periodic reports cannot be filed in paper form.


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In addition to your statutory rights we have a "Good Faith Returns Policy". Our Good Faith Returns Policy means that if you are not entirely happy with your purchase you can return your item(s) within 28 days of receipt of your order for a full refund to the original payment method used. You must ensure the products are returned to us in the state it was received by you within 28 days otherwise your refund may be refused.


The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) conducted a referendum pursuant to Texas Agriculture Code, Ch. 80, and Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Title 4, Ch. 27, for the establishment of a citrus pest and disease management zone, a maximum annual assessment rate and the election of members to the board of directors (Board) of the Texas Citrus Pest and Disease Management Corporation (the Corporation). The referendum passed, establishing the Lower Rio Grande Valley Pest Management Zone, which consists of all of Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy counties (Zone), with a maximum assessment rate of $125 per acre, and ten members were elected to the Board.
The Corporation, a Texas nonprofit corporation, is designated to plan, carry out, and operate suppression programs to manage and control pests and diseases, including the Asian citrus psyllid and citrus greening, in citrus plants in the state under the supervision of TDA.
Texas citrus producers in the Zone are required to participate in the program. A citrus producer is a person in the Zone who grows citrus and receives or intends to receive income from the sale of citrus. The term includes an individual who as owner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper is entitled to share in the citrus grown and available for marketing from a farm or to share in the proceeds from the sale of the citrus from the farm. The term includes a person who owns land that is primarily used to grow citrus and that is appraised based on agricultural use under Ch. 23, Tax Code, regardless of whether the person receives income from the sale of citrus, and there is an irrebuttable presumption that the person intends to receive income from the sale of citrus.
All citrus producers within the Zone are required to participate in the suppression program by timely reporting acreage and payment of assessments, and complying with program rules.
All commercial and noncommercial citrus, citrus grown for ornamental, research, or any other purposes and the location of such acreage, must be reported yearly to the Corporation, no later than March 1, 2017. Documentation of acreage can be submitted as a copy of your most recent tree insurance acreage report, the most recent county appraisal district records, or by appointment with the Corporation to review maps.
Assessment shall be $25 per net planted acre. The assessment rate will be set yearly by the Board, and shall not exceed $125 per acre. Billing statements for assessments based on reported acreage will be sent to citrus producers by May 1, 2017, and assessment payments are due by June 30, 2017. Payments will be considered past due on July 1, 2017.
Compliance with any rules or procedures established by the Department or the Corporation for implementation of the suppression program in the pest management zone is required. The suppression program itself will consist of a coordinated effort to mitigate the threat of HLB transmission to commercial citrus groves by scouting for ACP in managed groves and using an ACP biocontrol approach in residential areas near commercial citrus groves.
Compliance is achieved in any individual grove by a finding of ACP population levels at or below a threshold of an average of 10 ACP per grove or 10% egg/nymph infestation. If a grove stays at or below the accepted threshold for all 3 consecutive cycles, the grove is considered in compliance and monitoring is terminated after the end of the 3rd cycle.
If ACP population levels are above threshold (non-compliance) during any of the 3 consecutive cycles, as a first step at helping to improve the situation the TCPDMC will provide educational materials on suggested treatment programs to the affected grove owner and request that they arrange treatment for the grove as soon as possible. On the next scheduled visit (2 weeks later), if ACP levels remain out of compliance a certified letter will be sent to the grove owner requesting again that they treat for ACP. On the third visit (1 month after initial non-compliance), if ACP levels remain out of compliance the TCPDMC will initiate its own treatment of the grove as soon as possible. A follow-up visit will be conducted 1-2 weeks post-treatment to confirm that ACP levels are in compliance after which monitoring in that block will terminate.
Through grant funding, the Corporation is providing biological control near conventionally-treated groves throughout the citrus production zone, organically-certified commercial groves throughout the citrus production zone and abandoned and smaller residential groves (not traditionally managed for ACP).
27.303. Penalties for Non-Payment of Assessment and Failure to Timely Report Acreage.
Upon receiving notice from the Corporation that a producer has failed to pay an assessment by the past due date of July 1, 2017, the Texas Department of Agriculture may assess an administrative penalty against the producer. A penalty assessed for failure to timely report acreage shall not exceed $50 per acre.


As part of its effort in equipping individuals who will play a vital role in proffering quality solutions to many of Africa's problems; especially that of unemployment, Marichworld is set to host the Digital Skills JuniorClass in March, 2019.
The Digital Skills JuniorClass (DSJ), is a problem-solving based digital program for millennials.
It is specifically designed to equip strategically selected groups to start or grow their businesses with 21st century relevant skills.
It is also designed to make employees tech-inclined, hence, increasing their value.
The event is scheduled to hold on the 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th of March.
4pm for each class in Legon, Accra.
Some practical courses to be taught include Design Thinking, Social Media, Coding, and Digital Skills Literacy with Financial Literacy, Business & Leadership Development and Graphic Design as complementary courses.
However, to participate in the class, interested persons are expected to be either startup owners, young entrepreneurs, young employees, Tech Enthusiasts, University Students or National Service Personnel.
Amongst the list of mentors and facilitators to impact participants at the March class are, Design Thinking Ghana facilitator, Kofi Gyamfi and the CTO of Jumeni Technologies, Emmanuel Oduro.
information on partnership and group participation, call +233556575859 or send a mail to digitalskillsjnr@gmail.com.
The DSJ joins the world and the United Nations in addressing the SDG Goal 9 on Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.


The mobile unit is the "heart" of the entire WEBDISPATCHING service, collecting and sending all the necessary information from the vehicle and driver.
This mobile unit needs to be professionally installed in each vehicle to be connected to WEBDISPATCHING.
The mobile unit processes and sends a signal from GPS satellites, a global positioning system that incorporates either an onboard navigation unit or mobile telephone navigation). This makes it possible to monitor the exact position of your vehicle in real time (position, speed, direction, elevation, etc.).
The mobile unit is likewise connected to a vehicle bus from where various operational information is retrieved (fuel level, axle load, cargo hold temperature, diagnostic messages, etc.) and subsequently processed and sent. If necessary, additional sensors with specialized functions can be also connected to the mobile unit.
Last of all, the mobile unit can be connected to a car alarm. Unauthorized use of the vehicle causes the mobile unit to send an alarm message and information about the vehicle's movement and position.
Information is sent to the WEBDISPATCHING application through your mobile operator's network (data are sent using a SIM CARD and the mobile unit transmitter to the mobile operator, traveling from there to WEBDISPATCHING's central server).
We currently offer two versions of seventh-generation Vetronics units.
Individual versions differ in the support of some special functions. We will recommend you a version that ideally suits your requirements. Familiarize yourself with these options.
1) The product can be fitted with an additional power source at the desired voltage at customer's request.
2) The product can also be set to other required voltages at customer's request.
3) Option of either analog or digital voice set interface to a GSM modem. Must be specified before production.


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Meeting of Joint Waste Disposal Board, Thursday, 8 October 2020 9.30 am (Item 14.)
To brief the re3 Joint Waste Disposal Board on progress in the delivery of the re3 Joint Waste PFI Contract.
The Board considered a report on progress in the delivery of the re3 Joint Waste PFI
Contract. The report covered:
• Waste Flows (since commencement of virus Lockdown)
• Ongoing Operation of re3 HWRCs as Covid-19 Measures Evolve
• re3 Waste Statistics
• Trade Trial
• Chargeable Wastes at HWRC
• WRAP Contamination Project
The report gave an operational and policy briefing covering the period since the last Board meeting in July and explored the increase in waste received by the re3 councils since the UK lockdown and a section on the booking system which was currently implement for residents in order to gain access to the HMRCs. The report included a proposal to adopt a new system for the booking system which would allow for cancellations of bookings for residents (and consequent rebooking of that slot by other residents) and to allow the councils to have a better understanding of the proportion of visitors per Borough.
The report also covered the current recycling rates and included descriptions of how re3 officers were currently trying to improve the quality of collected recycling via secured funding and support from WRAP.
There was also a communications section within the report, which updated members on activity undertaken including the completion of a second information video of food waste processes which was very informative and helpful for residents.
Members commented that the booking system had been well received across the three Councils, and were pleased that the cancellation facility would be introduced as a number of the 'no shows' were people that had been unable to cancel, which had been the main frustration with the system.
The new system would allow residents to cancel almost in real time.
The process of switching to the new system should be straight forward, and this process was starting now. It would use information from the existing system. The process should take between 3 and 4 weeks, and there would be a testing stage and it was possible that board members may be asked to help test the new system to provide reassurance.
There would be postcode look up system included in the new system, to be able to accurately work out the breakdown of who was visiting each site. It had been important to take only a certain amount of data from residents through the booking system, but enough to be assured that only re3 residents were gaining access to the sites.
Winter hour changes had been pre planned in the system, once the new system in place there were plans to try an increase booking numbers again.
It was also commented that there had been an increase in glass recycling numbers over the lockdown period.
The Chair reminded the Board that they would be looking at the waste charges at the next meeting in January.
RESOLVED that
i. Members noted the contents of this report.
ii. Members endorsed the proposal to change the booking system, as
described at 5.17 of the report, in order to improve utilisation of bookings and enable patronage (by council) data to be assessed.
iii. Members agreed, subject to review at each re3 Board meeting, to
provisionally retain a booking system, for access to the two re3 Household Waste Recycling Centres, until the end of March 2021, as described at 5.20 of the report.
iv. Members agreed to make the trade waste services at the recycling centres permanent, as described at 5.36 of the report.
v. Members agree to review the Chargeable Waste price at the next Board
Meeting on 21st January 2021, in preparation for any amendments to the prices from 1st April 2021, as described at 5.39 of the report.
vi. It was proposed that any re3 Board consideration of glass recycling is timed to coincide with future, Government consultations on relevant sections of the forthcoming Environment Bill, as proposed at 6.21 of the report.
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The classic Ford Mustang just has to be considered as legendary, no other car has really had the same impact over the years; kids had wall posters, adults wanted them and if you were cool enough to own one, you were doing well.
Perhaps the biggest boost to the 'Stang was its big screen appearance in the Steve McQueen film, Bullitt in 1968 – that firmly cemented the Mustang as the #1 muscle car.
The Mustang was first introduced in 1964 and the Mach 1 performance package came along in 1968 for the '69 model year.
2-door coupe with SportsRoof styling. For 1971, the dual NACA hood scoops were standard on all but the lowest spec car. If you optioned the RamAir kit, they'd even be functional!
The Mustang almost gave birth to the muscle car movement, it's looks were just brawn.
The Mustang had the 'Knitted Vinyl Sports Interior' fitted, this included high back buckets seats, console, molded door panels, twin-pod instrument cluster and an option for a tachometer.
Overall length: 189.5" Wheel base: 109" Price when new: $3,268 Numbers sold (1971): 36,499 of the Mach 1's, which was just part of the near 150,000 overall.
The base Mustang had a 302 ci (4.9 liter) Windsor V8 with 210 BHP and 296 lb/ft of torque, but there were plenty of other options; 4 x 351 ci (5.7 liter) Cleveland V8's – 2-V, 4-V, CJ (Cobra Jet) and H.O. (Boss 351). There was also top end engines for that added performance kick; 429 ci (7.0 liter) CJ and SCJ (Cobra Jet and Super Cobra Jet). Maximum power available was 375 BHP.
Along with a multitude of engines was the same number of transmissions: 3-speed C4 auto, 3-speed C6 auto, 3-speed FMX auto, 3-speed manual and a 4-speed manual.
The base model did 0 – 60 MPH in 8.3 seconds and went on to a top speed of 117 MPH.
The Ford Mustang is collectible. Period.
It doesn't matter what engine is fitted (although of course the bigger engines command more money) or what spec the 'Stang is, they are worth good money.
For a concours model, expect to pay anywhere above $100,000 for the big engined Mach 1 with all the goodies fitted; prices have been as high as $130,000+ in the past, and we'd guess that they'll get back up there again over time.


Last weekend (Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September), Ultra festival took place in the South East of Asia, in the country of Singapore. The festival hosted a variety of incredible acts over two star studded days, including Deadmau5, DJ Snake, Marshmello and Kygo. Among the line-up was the mighty Axwell and we've been fortunate enough to get hold of a full clip of his set for you to enjoy!


Driving my turbo 3.2 TT has always been a lot of fun. But one thing always kept coming back, almost to haunt me at night: The bolts that connect the turbo to the manifold were always coming loose.
At first, I thought: let's find bolts that won't get loose. Simple, no? I had the Audi S4 stainless steel "locking" bolts installed, to find out they broke 3 weeks later… My tuning guy decided to solder them in place. We both didn't like the idea, but hey, I was really fed up. And I had a track day coming a few days later… You know what? After one day at the track, it still came off! The soldering didn't work as it melted or broke off, not sure. But anyhow, I still had a problem.
My tuning guy came up with an idea, and I sure hope it's the last time we go through this. He proposed the V-Band Clamp. So it was installed on December 23, 2010. Let's see if it holds.
While I was on the spot, I took a few pics with my iPhone. Look at the 4th pic. There are interesting vehicles where I bing my car. In the background: a Porsche GT3 and an Audi RS4.
Lets hope that new bit stays on that DP as the heat will put some stress on those welds. Is your engine moving too much and that causes the bolts to come loose? Maybe stiffer engine mounts would help.


Ashlyn, Brittney & Conner – I am so excited to watch all the excitement of your senior year unfold. Before you know it, the year will have flown by and you will be walking across a stage with a diploma in your hand. Don't let a moment sneak past you- savor it all. Don't let the excitement of the next big thing steal this time from you. After this year everything changes. You might all head in your own directions for college and then careers. Make the most of your time together. Spend extra time with your parents. Sit and chat about your lives and your hopes and dreams. Be intentional about creating deeper bonds, and fight the urge to cut the strings to your childhood too soon- even though you are turning 18 this week! I know your parents are more than proud of each of you! Keep up the great work and I know you will accomplish great things, both this year and onward.


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Astros snap Marlins' win streak
MIAMI - Hunter Pence hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning and Houston averted a series sweep by beating Florida, 2-1, and ending the Marlins' season-high five-game winning streak.
Pence also drove in the game's first run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
Nelson Figueroa and two relievers combined on a six-hitter. Wilton Lopez (5-0) faced only six batters in two innings, and Brandon Lyon earned his sixth save in seven chances by retiring Mike Stanton with two on to end the game.
Pence's 19th homer, one of only five hits for Houston, came with one out in the eighth off Jose Veras (2-1).
Phillies 6, Nationals 0
PHILADELPHIA - Roy Oswalt struck out eight in seven sharp innings and led the Philadelphia Phillies over the Washington Nationals on a rainy day.
Oswalt (9-13) has won three straight starts for the first time this season, helping the Phillies try to make a move on Atlanta for the NL East lead.
Oswalt allowed five hits, and the Phillies backed him with the kind of run support he rarely got in Houston before getting traded in July. He never came out for the eighth after the game was delayed 1 hour, 44 minutes by rain.
The right-hander also got two hits and scored a run.
Scott Olsen (3-6) took the loss.
Reds 5, Dodgers 2
LOS ANGELES - Bronson Arroyo earned his 100th career victory, Joey Votto homered and drove in three runs and the NL Central-leading Cincinnati Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Reds took two of three in the series and held their 3 1/2-game division edge over St. Louis.
Arroyo (14-7) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out six and walking none. The right-hander came in 0-3 with a 5.56 ERA lifetime at Dodger Stadium.
Francisco Cordero pitched as perfect ninth for his 34th save in 40 attempts.
Clayton Kershaw (11-8) struck out 11, allowing three runs and five hits over seven innings. He threw a career-high 118 pitches.
Votto hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth and added a two-run single in the ninth.
Padres 7, Brewers 3
MILWAUKEE - Adrian Gonzalez and Chase Headley each homered for San Diego.
Jon Garland (13-8) had his scoreless-innings streak ended at 21 innings when he gave up Ryan Braun's 18th home run in the fifth, but he won his third straight start and four of five.
Manny Parra (3-10) gave up seven runs in six innings on eight hits and four walks. He struck out five.
Pirates 2, Mets 1
PITTSBURGH - A slumping Zach Duke limited the Mets to one run over seven innings and Jose Tabata and Lastings Milledge homered, allowing the Pirates to salvage the final game of the three-game series.
Duke (6-12), a loser of eight of his previous 11 starts, struck out five and walked two to win for only the third time in 13 starts since May 18.
The Pirates, trying to dodge their first 100-loss season since 2001, had lost five in a row and 12 of 13 to fall 43 games below .500 at 40-83.
Mets starter Johan Santana (10-8) didn't allow a hit until Pedro Alvarez's leadoff single in the fifth. Santana went the distance for New York, giving up only two other hits over eight innings while striking out nine and walking one.
Rockies 1, D-backs 0
PHOENIX - Dexter Fowler hit a run-scoring single in the eighth inning and Jhoulys Chacin pitched 7 2-3 strong innings to lead the Colorado Rockies over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Fowler also helped Chacin with a diving catch in center field that took away a hit from Adam LaRoche in the fourth inning. Fowler landed hard on his left side but held onto the ball. He was shaken up for a few moments but remained in the game.
Eric Young singled with one out in the eighth off reliever Aaron Heilman (4-5) and stole second base before Fowler's hit.
Chacin (6-9) allowed three hits and a walk with nine strikeouts. It was the longest outing of the 22-year-old rookie's major league career.
Huston Street got his 10th save of the season with a perfect ninth. The Rockies ended a three-game losing skid and avoided a road sweep by the last-place Diamondbacks.


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Amazon takes workplace surveillance to the next level by incentivizing employees to report on each other
The Crazz Files October 1, 2015
Amazon's corporate offices encourage white collar employees to use an electronic reporting tool to tell their managers how their colleagues are doing on the job. Unsurprisingly, this practice results in some bad outcomes for workers.
From a fascinating and disturbing New York Times profile of Amazon's unorthodox business practices:
In 2013, Elizabeth Willet, a former Army captain who served in Iraq, joined Amazon to manage housewares vendors and was thrilled to find that a large company could feel so energetic and entrepreneurial. After she had a child, she arranged with her boss to be in the office from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, pick up her baby and often return to her laptop later. Her boss assured her things were going well, but her colleagues, who did not see how early she arrived, sent him negative feedback accusing her of leaving too soon.
"I can't stand here and defend you if your peers are saying you're not doing your work," she says he told her. She left the company after a little more than a year.
Ms. Willet's co-workers strafed her through the Anytime Feedback Tool, the widget in the company directory that allows employees to send praise or criticism about colleagues to management. (While bosses know who sends the comments, their identities are not typically shared with the subjects of the remarks.) Because team members are ranked, and those at the bottom eliminated every year, it is in everyone's interest to outperform everyone else.
Craig Berman, an Amazon spokesman, said the tool was just another way to provide feedback, like sending an email or walking into a manager's office. Most comments, he said, are positive.
However, many workers called it a river of intrigue and scheming. They described making quiet pacts with colleagues to bury the same person at once, or to praise one another lavishly. Many others, along with Ms. Willet, described feeling sabotaged by negative comments from unidentified colleagues with whom they could not argue. In some cases, the criticism was copied directly into their performance reviews — a move that Amy Michaels, the former Kindle manager, said that colleagues called "the full paste."
Soon the tool, or something close, may be found in many more offices. Workday, a human resources software company, makes a similar product called Collaborative Anytime Feedback that promises to turn the annual performance review into a daily event. One of the early backers of Workday was Jeff Bezos, in one of his many investments. (He also owns The Washington Post.)
Lookout for something like the 'Collaborative Anytime Feedback' tool in an office near you.
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Q: Virtual functions for 2 derived classes (Hex + binary) I have base class Array in which I have virtual function Add for addition
class Array
{
public:
    unsigned char arr[100] = { 0 };
    int size;
    Array();
    Array(int);
    char operator[](int);
    virtual Array& Add( Array);
};

I have two derived classes Hex ( for storing hexidecimal numbers ) and BitString( for storing binary numbers ):
class BitString : public Array
{
public:
    BitString& operator&(BitString&);//and
    BitString& operator|(BitString&);//or
    BitString& operator^(BitString&);//xor
    BitString& operator~();//not
};

class Hex: public Array
{
public:
    Hex& operator+(Hex);
    Hex& operator-(Hex);
    Hex& operator*(Hex);
    Hex& operator/(Hex);
    bool operator==(const Hex);
    bool operator>(const Hex);
    bool operator<(const Hex);
    Hex DecToHex(int);
};

My task, except make operators for Hex and BitString,  is to override virtual Add function for addition BitString and Hex objects.
I dont properly get :
1) Need I make 2 functions in both Hex and BitString
2) What these functions should return? Hex, BitString or Array.
3) What is the  fastest way to do this? Convert both Hex and BitString to decimals, make addition and then convert again?
Thank you.

A: Since your classes are polymorphic, the Add() function should be taking a reference or pointer parameter:
class Array {
    // ...

    virtual Array& Add(Array&);
};

You can now override Add() in your derived classes with a different return type:
class Hex: public Array {
    // ...

    Hex& Add(Array&) override;
};

The return type must be a reference type of the class that does the override. This is the only case where an override can change the return type.

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What was your greatest business or sales & marketing challenge before using Hatchbuck?
One of our biggest challenges was reducing the number of software programs, apps, plugins we used to run our business.
For example, we do a lot of webinars and needed 6 different pieces of technology to automate our sign-up process. It took 2 people way too long to set up a meeting – keeping track of who signed up and who didn't, who attended and who didn't – so we could automatically show those results in our CRM in real time and market to them properly.
With Hatchbuck's combination of sales and marketing automation and its integration with Zapier, we are now down from 6 to 3 pieces of technology (so far). Now we can set up a webinar in about 15 minutes with no extra time on the back end after an event. And I can use my tags to look up my attendance activity. We can actually do more marketing now because it isn't so exhausting.
Previously we were Act consultants who also used Act CRM and email marketing to run our business. Although our mission is to help clients with lead generation using database marketing principles, we found ourselves, instead, helping clients fix their broken software and training them how to use it more effectively. That was so tiresome for our technophobes–and so expensive–that many didn't want to take the next step with marketing.
We realized about 3 years ago that, although Act invented the first CRM in the 80s, the company had stopped being an innovator. Our progressive, marketing-driven clients were leaving us to move to the cloud, and were left with a client base that was risk-averse to change because "that's the way they'd always done it." At the same time, it was taking us longer and longer to execute our own lead-generation strategies because we were working with outdated software that had no scoring and no website tracking. We knew it was pointless to do good marketing and not be able to see the results. So we made the decision to find a better system. We ended up researching, vetting and trialing more than 35 different CRM/marketing automation systems before we found and fell in love with Hatchbuck.
How has the one-two-punch of email marketing and CRM specifically addressed your challenges?
First of all, an email template used to take me 2 hours to create "perfectly." In Hatchbuck it takes 15 minutes, including the follow-up actions. On a good day, we generate 10 times more good marketing ideas than we can possibly implement. But we definitely implement more now than we could before. And Hatchbuck makes it easy to get real-time feedback on your ideas so you can change them on the fly if they don't work, or ramp up more like them if they do.
No one has time to clear their calendar for a "marketing day." With Hatchbuck's automation, you can string together a series of 15-minute sales and marketing tasks everyday. This has helped The Database Diva achieve a company goal of everyone in our database getting at least 2 touches per month–initiated by our contacts, not by us, either via a webpage visit, a submitted online form or a reminder email. Hatchbuck's Actions notify us automatically to review each prospect's contact info to see their score and determine if and how we should follow up.
What measurable results have you seen through incorporating your email marketing with CRM?
Our drip marketing messages are hyper-targeted because of Hatchbuck's tagging feature. We use Hatchbuck's Tag Rules to launch our drips based on individual contact-generated tags. This has resulted in an average open rate of 50%+ and a click thru rate that has been as high as 25%. That's amazing!
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Pope visited Morocco March 30-31 and engaged in interreligious discussions and celebrated Mass for the country's Catholic minority
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Pope Francis and King Mohammed VI of Morocco spoke on a visit to the Mohammed VI Institute for the training of imams and preachers in Rabat, Morocco, March 30.
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RABAT, Morocco -- Greeted by King Mohammed VI, a steady rain, ululating women and cheering crowds, Pope Francis arrived in Rabat March 30 for a 28-hour visit to Morocco.
In a sign of great honor, the king rode in his limousine from the airport alongside Pope Francis riding in the popemobile. They went directly to the Hassan Tower, a 12th-century minaret that is a symbol of the city.
With thousands of people gathered on the esplanade in front of the tower, which sits where the Bouregreg Rivers meets the Atlantic Ocean, the pope and the king spoke of peace, tolerance, respect and religious freedom in a country where 99 percent of the people are Muslim, but tens of thousands of Christian students and migrants live temporarily.
The king, who has the constitutionally assigned role of "commander of the faithful," told Pope Francis that role includes being "guarantor of the free practice of religion" for Muslims, Christians and Jews.
"The three Abrahamic religions were not created to be tolerant of one another out of some unavoidable fate or out of courtesy to one another," King Mohammed said. "The reason they exist is to open up to one another and to know one another, so as to do one another good."
The king, who has devoted energy and resources to training imams and other leaders and to fighting fundamentalist forms of Islam, told the pope, "What all terrorists have in common is not religion, but rather ignorance of religion."
"Religion is light; religion is knowledge; religion is wisdom," he said. "And because religion is peace, it calls for diverting the energy spent on weapons" to other, "loftier pursuits," he said.
Pope Francis described his visit as another occasion to promote interreligious dialogue as part of the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of the meeting of St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in Egypt.
The meeting of the saint and sultan during the Crusades, he said, "shows that the courage to encounter one another and extend a hand of friendship is a pathway of peace and harmony for humanity, whereas extremism and hatred cause division and destruction."
Too often, the pope said, Christians' lack of knowledge of and friendship with Muslims and Muslims' lack of knowledge of and friendship with Christians has been "exploited as a cause for conflict and division."
Dialogue, he said, is the only sure way "to halt the misuse of religion to incite hatred, violence, extremism and blind fanaticism and the invocation of the name of God to justify acts of murder, exile, terrorism and oppression."
Religion is not just about an individual's relationship with God and eventual hope of heaven, he said. All religions teach the sacredness of human life and anyone who claims faith in God must demonstrate that through the highest level of respect for the life and dignity of others.
Pope Francis greeted women as he arrives to visit the Rural Center for Social Services at Temara, south of Rabat, Morocco, March 31.
Respect for life and for all God's gifts also implies respect for creation and caring for the poor and for migrants, the pope said. Christians and Muslims can and should work together to protect the planet and assist those in need.
Pope Francis also urged further steps in Muslim-majority countries to progress beyond seeing Christians and Jews -- "people of the book" -- as minorities to protect and instead recognize them as full citizens with equal rights and obligations.
In a joint declaration signed March 30 at the royal palace in Rabat, the pope and king said they were "deeply concerned" for Jerusalem's "spiritual significance and its special vocation as a city of peace."
Referring to the city as both Jerusalem and "Al-Quds Acharif," its Arab name, the two leaders said it was important to preserve the city "as the common patrimony of humanity and especially the followers of the three monotheistic religions, as a place of encounter and as a symbol of peaceful coexistence, where mutual respect and dialogue can be cultivated."
"It is our hope, therefore, that in the holy city, full freedom of access to the followers of the three monotheistic religions and their right to worship will be guaranteed, so that in Jerusalem, Al-Quds Acharif, they may raise their prayers to God, the creator of all, for a future of peace and fraternity on the earth."
The statement did not get into questions over political control of the city or even the ongoing international debate about moving other embassies to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Spread mercy, build fraternity, pope urges Morocco's Christian minority
Pope Francis celebrated Mass at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, March 31.
RABAT, Morocco -- Celebrating Mass with members of Morocco's tiny Catholic community, Pope Francis praised them for the many ways they "bear witness to the Gospel of mercy in this land." At the Mass March 31 in an arena at Rabat's Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, the pope honored the way that Catholics, although much less than 1 percent of the population, reach out to help their Muslim brothers and sisters and the thousands of migrants who pass through, hoping to reach Europe. "I encourage you to continue to let the culture of mercy grow, a culture in which no one looks at others with indifference, or averts his eyes in the face of their suffering," he said.
Pope visits Muslim training center, migrants in Morocco
RABAT, Morocco -- Moving from ideals and principles to concrete examples, Pope Francis met in Morocco with Muslim men and women studying to be prayer leaders and preachers and with dozens of migrants assisted by Caritas. A religious faith respectful of others and care for migrants were key themes in Pope Francis' speech at his arrival ceremony in Rabat March 30. After meeting privately, Pope Francis and King Mohammed VI went on to the school the king founded to counter violent strains of Islam by training imams and "murshid," men and women preachers and spiritual guides. And the pope ended his day at the Rabat Caritas center for migrants, a facility providing special care to women, unaccompanied minors and others among the most vulnerable of the estimated 80,000 migrants currently in Morocco. Neither the pope nor the king gave a speech at the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams, Morchidines and Morchidates. Instead they listened.
Mission success isn't measured by numbers, pope says in Morocco
RABAT, Morocco -- The Christian mission is not about numbers of converts, but about changing people and the world by being witnesses of God's mercy and love, Pope Francis told missionaries in Morocco. "Christians are a small minority in this country," much less than 1 percent, but the pope said, "to my mind, this is not a problem." "Jesus did not choose us and send us forth to become more numerous," the pope said March 31 as he met Catholic priests and religious and leaders of other Christian churches in St. Peter's Cathedral in Rabat. Jesus "called us to a mission. He put us in the midst of society like a handful of yeast: the yeast of the beatitudes and the fraternal love by which, as Christians, we can all join in making present his kingdom," the pope said. The success of a Christian mission, he said, is not so much about the space Christians occupy, "but rather by our capacity to generate change and to awaken wonder and compassion." "The problem is not when we are few in number," the pope said, "but when we are insignificant, salt that has lost the flavor of the Gospel or lamps that no longer shed light."
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