 agencies include websites such as Priceline.
In brief, you can earn points with most of your spending except grocery. It will be better if you have another grocery credit card.
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A retention offer is something that credit card issuers present to customers who want to have their cards closed. Citi is known for its generosity about retention offers. In fact, you may even get a retention offer for a card you just opened several months ago or a no annual fee card. And there are savvy consumers who earn more points this way than with card spending.
Citi’s retention offerson points are like: Earn x amount of ThankYouPoints if you spend x in total or monthly for x amount of time. Or earn 2x, 3x, 4x, etc points per dollar in x category for x amount of time (often with upper limits).
But how do you get your desired offers? The general process is as follows.
First, you call the number on the back of your card and indicate that you are thinking about whether to keep the card. Then you should be transferred to the retentions department. Next, tell the retentions associate why you want to cancel the cardand see if they have any offers available for you. Typically, you’ll be offered some options, and you can choose your favorite. In addition, you can even try your other cards and see if there are more offers for you.
And here are some tips for you.
Be NICE to associates at customer service and Retentions Department. Because they are the people who provide you with options fromsystem auto-generated retention offers based on your account characteristics. Sometimes, a goodwill gesture is critical in getting your desired offer.
Come up with convincing reasons why you should cancel the card. For instance, you don’t want to pay for the annual fee, or you don’t feel you are earning enough rewards.
Do not start by saying you are going to cancel the card. The representative may not even provide you any offers and choose to let your business go. If he/she does so, you are getting yourself into trouble.
Check other offers available before you make your final decision. Card issuers usually have a range of offers that they can present to customers, so take your time.
Take advantage of every opportunity. Although it seems impossible, you may end up getting a retention offer for your no annual fee cards or 3-month-old cards.
Do not ask for retention offers too often. We do not recommend you try more than once in 6 months since most offers are based on 6-month cycles. And there are posts saying consumers got rejected because they had been provided offer in the preceding x months. Besides, abuse of retentions offer may lead to stricter Citi regulations, which may jeopardize consumers’ interests in the long run.
Remember that the Retentions Department works during bank opening hours (EST) rather than 24/7. If you call when retentions are out of office, the Customer Service is authorized to cancel your card directly without informing Retentions Department. So plan ahead and call at appropriate time. If things do not work out as your plan, just hang up and call later.
Here is a brief summary of Citi cards available for your reference.
We really hope this article could help you out, and don’t forget to follow our next one about how to redeem points in the upcoming article.The one player that has been linked to the Panthers most in 2019 mock drafts is Clemson defensive end Clelin Ferrell, and for good reason. Carolina absolutely needs to add youth at the edge position and Ferrell is an excellent pass rushing prospect. He is our next 2019 potential draft pick profile for the Panthers.
Ferrell was a four-star recruit coming out of high school from Virginia and a consensus top-10 defensive end prospect (including No. 5 by ESPN) and a top-200 overall prospect among all the major recruiting sites, his highest rank coming from 247sports.com, who ranked Ferrell No. 115. This all despite Ferrell suffering a torn ACL as a senior. He was also a multi-sport star, having also played basketball in high school.
After red-shirting his freshman season, Ferrell went on a tear for three years at Clemson. He started all 44 games for the Tigers, including both national championship wins. Over those three years, Ferrell racked up 166 tackles, 50.5 tackles for a loss (including an outstanding 20 in 2018) and 27 sacks (11.5 in 2018).
Ferrell was named to the AP All-American team twice, the first Clemson player to do so since Terry Kinard in 1981-82. He was also named to the First Team All-American by the AFCA, Sporting News and Walter Camp in 2018.
All the folks over at The Draft Network ranked Ferrell within their top-30 in their respective pre-Combine big boards, including a No. 10 ranking from Kyle Crabbs as his fourth-ranked edge behind Nick Bosa, Brian Burns and Josh Allen.
There is a lot of love out there for Ferrell’s physical attributes and sheer ability on the field, both rushing the passer and stopping the run. While he’s not as big as Julius Peppers, his size is excellent for the position, coming in at 6-foot-4, 264 pounds. He’ll fit right in for any team needing help on the edge, but moreso teams that run a 4-3.
Check out the tape to get to know Ferrell before he takes off in the NFL.
Ferrell vs. Texas A&M
Ferrell vs. Notre Dame
Ferrell vs. Pitt
The recent addition of free agent edge/linebacker Bruce Irvin might make it less likely that Carolina makes a play for a DE in round one, but Ferrell is well worth considering taking at No. 16 overall.Lord Byron’s writings are more patently autobiographic than even those of his fellow self-revealing Romantics. Upon close examination, however, the paradox of his complex character can be resolved into understandable elements. Byron early became aware of reality’s imperfections, but the skepticism and cynicism bred of his disillusionment coexisted with a lifelong propensity to seek ideal perfection in all of life’s experiences. Consequently, he alternated between deep-seated melancholy and humorous mockery in his reaction to the disparity between real life and his unattainable ideals. The melancholy of Childe Harold and the satiric realism of Don Juan are thus two sides of the same coin: the former runs the gamut of the moods of Romantic despair in reaction to life’s imperfections, while the latter exhibits the humorous irony attending the unmasking of the hypocritical facade of reality.
Byron was initially diverted from his satiric-realistic bent by the success of Childe Harold. He followed this up with the Oriental tales, which reflected the gloomy moods of self-analysis and disenchantment of his years of fame. In Manfred and the third and fourth cantos of Childe Harold he projected the brooding remorse and despair that followed the debacle of his ambitions and love affairs in England. But gradually the relaxed and freer life in Italy opened up again the satiric vein, and he found his forte in the mock-heroic style of Italian verse satire. The ottava rima form, which Byron used in Beppo and Don Juan, was easily adaptable to the digressive commentary, and its final couplet was ideally suited to the deflation of sentimental pretensions.Teachers. We’ve all had some great ones, and we’ve all had some teachers who didn’t rank among the best. What makes a good teacher? How has the profession changed over time? How has technology impacted the way teachers do their jobs? In this week’s episode of KUT’s podcast Higher Ed, KUT’s Jennifer Stayton and Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger talk about the evolving role of teachers. Ed has taught Math for about 30 years so he has lots to say about what he thinks teachers can do to reach and inspire their students. He and Jennifer reminisce about some memorable teachers they have had and discuss the ways in which the profession has changed. Listen on to hear some classroom tales and to get the new puzzler which, by the way, happens to involve a mean Math teacher.
This episode was recorded on March 24, 2017.
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# Layout Blocks

Reusable layout components for your React project

```
npm i layout-blocks
```

## Components

All layout components support an `as` prop to define the html element you want the block to render as (defaults to `div`).

### `VStack`

Renders children in a vertical stack with a prop to control horizontal alignment.

```
import { VStack } from 'layout-blocks'
```

| prop      | values                                  | description                                   | default   |
| --------- | --------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| alignment | `leading` `center` `trailing` `stretch` | Controls the horizontal alignment of children | `stretch` |

### `Screen`

A special opinionated version of a vertical stack that assumes height and width of the viewport and also centers content both horizontally and vertically.

```
import { Screen } from 'layout-