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As a physician I would like to make a brief comment re lactose tolerance in humans following your article on the Paleo Diet. Tolerance of milk beyond the lactation period and early childhood is mainly present in Caucasians, especially in North and Central Europeans and their descendants and people in North India. Most African and Asian races have lactose intolerance of various degrees due to a rapid decline in lactase production after weaning. The continuous expression of the lactase gene may not only be genetically determined, but also due to the continuous consumption of cows milk (or other mammalian milk) among Caucasians. If no milk is consumed after lactation, there is no substrate for lactase, hence the promoter region of the lactase gene is no longer activated. I do not know whether this status is reversible with gradual re-introduction of milk.
I am an (retired) allergist and is often confronted with the differential diagnosis of milk allergy vs. milk (lactose) intolerance.
Although lactose intolerance is reportedly the rule in adult Blacks and Asians I find it fascinating that so many tribes in Subsaharan Africa and people in the steppes of Central Asia (i.e. Mongolians) engage in animal husbandry, especially raising cattle (or buffalo and yaks, etc.). Although this is primarily done I presume for the meat, the milk is consumed, although usually processed as yogurt, cheese or kefir in which the lactose is turned into lactic acid, at least partially.
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Amitabh Bachchan turns 75: Interesting facts about the superstar every true fan must know
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This French toast was inspired by one of my favorite traditions. Each Thanksgiving, I always look forward to enjoying pumpkin pie the next several days for breakfast! I made the custard the night before, so all I had to do in the morning was whip up the French toast itself and stuff it. Topped with crunchy roasted pecans and maple syrup, making this French toast each fall may become my new favorite breakfast tradition.
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Pumpkin Custard:
1 cup pure pumpkin puree (from a 15-ounce can)
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 large eggs
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
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1/2 cup pure pumpkin puree (from a 15-ounce can)
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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2 tablespoons unsalted butter
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1/2 cup chopped roasted and salted pecans
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
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Paradoxes are the oxygen of good actors: you have to seek attention for yourself but you can't be narcissistic, you have to perform but not show off, you have to communicate but in someone else's voice, and if you don't find the balance between these opposites, acting is just showing off. But to play one thought while thinking three or four others and moving dexterously around a stage or film set is the essential professional requirement. No less essential requirements for life as an actor are resilience and fortitude. They breed stoicism: grace under pressure, as Hemingway called it. "An actor must affect an immoderate buoyancy of spirits while perhaps his heart is breaking," said the actor Macready, and no one could have followed his dictum more earnestly than Judi Dench when we filmed Iris not many weeks after her husband's death. Grief can make you cruel; with Judi it made her determined, producing a ferocious energy that translated into an unusual immersion in preparing for the part. This involved a previously untried approach: reading the script before she started to work on it.
Before that she used to recklessly court disaster by insisting on starting with a blank page so that the whole of the process – from the acceptance of the part until the end of the read-through on the first day of the rehearsals – was a blindfold journey, where she'd be innocent of what was around each corner. She wouldn't even use Denholm Elliott's test for accepting a role: "I open a script in the middle," he said to me once, "and if I think there's anybody in it that I'd like to have a drink with, I turn back to the beginning and read it." Not Judi: she'd ask someone to paraphrase the script for her or just fall back on her sense of smell – and I'm not sure I'm being metaphorical.
With Iris she departed from her normal preparation for a part, which is to rely almost entirely on her instincts and, through a process of osmosis, soak up the details and absorb the character's life without allowing anything of herself to encroach on the character. To prepare for playing Iris Murdoch she read the script (two drafts even) and watched a documentary. She was fascinated by Murdoch's accent – particularly the way she sounded the "h" in words such as "which" or "whist" as she does herself. Discovering that their mothers were from the same background, genteel Dublin Protestants, was another point of access to the character.
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More typical of her approach to studying a part was to sit in the car when we were filming in Oxford outside the house that John Bayley had shared with Iris Murdoch. What she gleaned from this was their diffidence to possessions: the windows of the house were open and his dusty little car was in the driveway, unlocked, while he was away. She accumulates small details like a detective, asks you questions that seem barely relevant to the character she's playing, then leaves you as soon as you answer, as if she'd disturbed you while you were reading a book, afraid that talking about it more will muddy her instinct. It was through intuition rather than study that she achieved that alchemical physical transformation at the end of Iris, when her eyes became vacant but her soul still seemed at home. She didn't go to old people's homes to observe patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease; she asked little about my mother, who had had a cruelly long decay into the terminal stage, and she talked for a short time to an old friend of hers who was in the very early stages of the illness. The rest – the progressive descent into oblivion – she guessed.
Judi works through doubt, scepticism and guesswork and, like a prospector panning for gold in a stream, is never content until she's found something solid. The way she works is entirely idiosyncratic, it's like Churchill's description of Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Like all good actors she doesn't really have a method, still less The Method. One of the things I dislike about The Method is that with its catechism of "impro", "emotional memory", "private moments" and "relaxation exercises" it's become a credo rather than a process. Actors become more concerned with finding themselves than the author's character. All acting "methods" have to be empirical, they're just means to an end; if they're codified – like Stanislavsky's and Lee Strasberg's – the means become the end.
Some actors lose themselves in research as if to elevate the business of acting into a pseudoscience; others improvise and paraphrase; others literally become the character, on set and off. Others get drunk. The aim, whether it's in theatre, film or television, Shakespeare, Scorsese or EastEnders, is to be – or more importantly to appear to be – spontaneous: you have to look as though the thoughts and words and feelings and actions are occurring for the first time. However it's achieved, all actors have to keep a corner of their brain actively deployed as a monitor, cold, detached, critical and unengaged. It's their third eye, that facility for being utterly aware of what they're doing and yet appearing utterly unselfconscious and innocently spontaneous. That's what the job is, Judi would say. Nobody does it better.
She has technique to burn – she can turn a line on a fragment of a syllable, a scene on the twist of a finger – but her technique never shows. She has the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter. With her voice, that bluesy alto, she can bend a note from joy to a sob and she has a dancer's dexterity, always using her body expressively. In film they say you should hold everything in, in theatre the opposite. But Judi breaks the rules; in any medium she seems mercurial and yet constant, she's entirely open yet never lets you feel – as in life – that you've glimpsed the whole person.
In rehearsal the elements of her performance seem disparate but gradually, and invisibly, the elements come together: head, heart, voice and body into a marvellous harmony – never a wasted gesture, never a superfluous move. She always reminds me of what the famous English theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay told me once about recognising whether an actor was in character: "Look at the feet, dear."
When I was editing Iris, the editor was reluctant to cut the clapperboard from the beginning of one take. At the start of the shot (a close-up of Judi) you could see her laughing – she'd been telling a joke – then you could hear my voice, "and… action", and within four frames – that's one sixth of a second – there was a woman in the latter stages of decay from Alzheimer's disease, or more to the point there wasn't a woman, there was an absence of a woman, totally vanished behind the eyes. It was like watching a musician rehearse. "Bar 34," says the conductor, gives the downbeat and the soloist and orchestra pick up on the first note of the bar, no shuffling, no prevarication: pitch and tempo perfect.
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I think Judi is a genius and I know exactly how she would react if I said so to her face. "Oh Rich," she'd say and shrug like a cat arching its back. And then she'd laugh. That word "genius" is rather debased currency – we tend to sprinkle it about like Italian waiters with pepper mills – but I think it's accurate to call Judi a genius, because she's one of those people, like Oscar Peterson or Yehudi Menuhin or Cary Grant, who appear to do what they do brilliantly as if it cost them nothing, as if it were effortless. Judi acts like Matisse draws, never taking his hand from the page.
Once, at the end of a day's rehearsal after the actors had left the room, the stage manager held up a script and called out to me in horror: "Judi's left her script." At the time I think I was shocked too that Judi could be so cavalier, but now I understand that it's her way: she harvests the part in rehearsals, lets it ferment outside. Only when we were doing Amy's View, for the first time in her life she found that her way was failing her. Tired from promoting a film and from every other call on her seemingly inexhaustible well of energy, she wasn't picking up the lines in rehearsals. She found she had to take her script home and learn her lines in the bath. She was sufficiently worried to tell me that she thought she'd have to withdraw from the play. She wasn't using her pessimism as a charm to ward off ill spirits; the insecurity was genuine and she overcame it. It was only then that I realised that a controlled sense of panic underlies all her work: the way she chooses her parts, the way she rehearses, the way she performs.
Why does she act? Maybe there's no more sufficient answer than the existential proposition: because that's what she does; because she was born to do it. All actors act because they want their existence to be corroborated: they want to be seen, they want approval, but however fine the actor's performance and however distant the characterisation from the actor's personality, the audience doesn't draw a fine line between approving the performance and approving the actor. So in seeking approval the actor is seeking love. If this implies a childhood devoid of affection, it's hard to square with Judi, who was loved and encouraged by her parents and has a way of capsizing everyone she meets with affection.
All of us ask ourselves: am I loved? Judi's acting is an attempt to answer this question of others and of herself. Every part she takes on has to test her; it has to be something that she thinks she might not be able to do. Every time she acts she has to feel just enough fear to keep self-love at bay and need to find affirmation from the audience. The lure of acting – of doing something really well – is that when she's finished a performance there's a sense of triumph over the fear: danger is overcome and love is requited. She'd be frightened if she wasn't frightened. While there's danger and insecurity there can never be boredom, which could be why she's still at the peak she's been at since she played Juliet in 1957.
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Abdul-Rahman, P.S.; Lim, B.K.; Hashim, O.H. (2007) Expression of high-abundance proteins in sera of patients with endometrial and cervical cancers: analysis using 2-DE with silver staining and lectin detection methods. Electrophoresis, 28 (12). pp. 1989-1996. ISSN 0173-0835
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The expression of high-abundance serum proteins in newly diagnosed patients with endometrial adenocarcinoma (EACa), squarnous cell cervical carcinoma (SCCa) and cervical adenocarcinorna (ACCa), relative to control female subjects, was analyzed by subjecting serum samples to 2-DE followed by image analysis of the silver-stained protein profiles. The three cohorts of cancer patients demonstrated different altered expression of serum high-abundance proteins compared to negative control women. Tl-ie expression of alpha(1)-antitrypsin, alpha(1)-B glycoprotein, cleaved high-molecular-weight kininogen (light chain) and antithrombin III were consistently altered in all the patients. However, clusterin was upregulated only in the patients with EACa, while those with SCCa and ACCa were typically characterized by the upregulated expression of zinc alpha-2-glycoprotein. The aberrant expression of selective serum proteins in the various cohorts of cancer patients was validated by competitive ELISA as well as by lectin detection. Analysis by using the charnpedak galactose binding lectin further highlighted an unidentified protein that may be differently glycosylated in the sera of the EACa patients that were studied.
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The second big idea of the sixth is the shift towards service. The distinction between the things we consume and the things we use is a fundamental one for the sixth wave. We use a car but don't consume it. We consume food rather than simply using it. The world of consumables and the world of technology and tools have become known as the biosphere and the technosphere respectively, and both have a very different future ahead of them.
Dividing our world into the biosphere and technosphere gives us greater insight into why we are consuming resources unsustainably. In the biosphere humanity has a reasonably small footprint (the biomass of humans is one-tenth of that of ants, for instance) and our waste products are, in theory, entirely recyclable. However, we have allowed a whole range of things in the technosphere to drift into the biosphere, things that consume resources and produce waste products.
To consume the smallest amount of resources possible and produce the minimum amount of waste, everything in the biosphere – the things we consume – will trend towards being fully recyclable, or closed-loop. On the other hand, everything in the technosphere – the things we employ but which do not necessarily involve irreversible consumption of a tangible resource – will trend towards becoming a service.
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Lara serves as President & CEO of NOW Corp, a company she co-founded to free small businesses from the burden of funding trade credit and to enable small business growth.� The concept for NOW Corp�s NOWaccount stems from the challenges Lara faced when growing her manufacturing business, Nourish.�Lara co-founded Nourish Inc, and introduced its first patented products for children, in airports, hotels, entertainment venues and retail outlets across the US.� Lara experienced the challenge of managing cash flow in a growing business and having to fund the trade credit required to support growth.� Not finding a solution that worked, she partnered with John Hayes and launched NOW Corp and NOWaccount, the first revenue accelerator for B2B.� NOWaccount enables businesses to get paid immediately in a way that is not a loan, feels like but costs less than taking a credit card for payment and is largely invisible to their customer.� NOWaccount will change the way small businesses manage cash flow, has done over $75M in transactions and aims to turn a portion of the $1.2T of trade credit that small businesses hold into cash.� NOWaccount�s innovative structure is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.Lara co-founded and served as CEO of Insomnia, LLC, a firm specializing in investment, development and management of complex and innovative �world-changing� projects. Lara developed a white paper on the state of global infrastructure and the impending shift in the global balance of power.� She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on innovative thinking that can reshape our infrastructure and community.�Lara spent 5 years at Dewberry Capital Corporation, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, where she served as the company�s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing development, sales & leasing, property management and marketing.����Lara was the Executive Vice President of Dunk, a performance footwear and apparel manufacturing/retail company built on the concept of mass customization and founded with Shaquille O�Neal & Mike Piazza. She built the operations, IT and sales & marketing groups.Lara was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Retail and Consumer Products Division of iXL (now Scient), an Internet strategy and consulting firm. She founded the division in 1999 and built it into one of the top performing groups within iXL. The group operated across 26 offices worldwide with clients such as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, and Nike. �Lara began her career with Andersen Consulting as the first Business Analyst in the Strategic Services South Practice.Lara is an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation and access to capital.� Internationally, Lara has worked in Koriyama, Japan with the U.S. Defense Department�s EAGLE Japan Program and served as the Ambassador to Lebanon for the 1996 Olympic Games.Lara received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was featured in USA Today as one of the top 20 students in the US and was the ODK National Leader of the Year. Lara was a scholarship member of the varsity Track & Field team at Georgia Tech.Lara has served on several Boards including: Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees, Georgia Tech�s Scheller College of Business, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering, ACE Loans, Atlanta Heights Charter School, Flag Bank, Georgia Tech�s Alexander Tharpe Fund, and Society of International Business Fellows. Lara is a member of the Leadership Georgia Class of 2005 and the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2004. Lara taught finance as an adjunct instructor in Georgia Tech�s MBA Program for 10 years.� Lara was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to serve on the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) Board.� Lara was recently honored by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association with the Total Person Alumnus Award and by the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering as the Alumnus of the Year.� She is a member of the Georgia Tech Young Alumni Hall of Fame and was a recipient of a Womenetics 2013 POW! Award honoring Purposeful Women.�
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Despite being about the size of New Jersey, Israel has a winter season that offers tourists a unique opportunity to experience the country's mystical meteorological rollercoaster in different urban and suburban settings.
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Jerusalem is also a mecca for thousands of families who jet over during the annual January winter break, in order to reconnect with siblings who attend the various post-high school yeshivot and universities in the metro region.
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Inbal Laromme Hotel
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Atrium lobby of Tel Aviv's David InterContinental Hotel.
Dan Boutique Hotel
The impeccably designed facility highlights "Go Dan" five- and seven-night special packages through the end of February that are based on a bed and breakfast program. As the Dan Boutique is part of the large Dan hotel chain, which features impressive facilities across Israel, tourists can combine the "Go Dan" packages among various danhotels.com.
Mamilla Hotel
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David InterContinental Hotel
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Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel and Towers
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Dan Tel Aviv
The legendary luxury hotel, which plays host to many prominent business moguls, celebrities and politicians, is also offering its regular customers a four-night winter package that runs through the end of February. The package is based on a standard bed and breakfast program. The hotel features a high standard of service, plush rooms and suites, an indoor pool and several dining experiences, including the chic Hayarkon 99 restaurant. danhotels.com.
Prima Spa Club indoor pool.
Prima Spa Club
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Indian Oil XtraRewards Card
Registered for the Indian Oil XtraRewards Card while I filled at one of their pumps. Costed me Rs 60 for registration and was given the card AND the PIN immediately.
Some pointers:
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|3rd December 2009, 01:31
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Bahahahaha!!! This is a joke.
|3rd December 2009, 01:42
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There is another one. Petro Card by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited - http://www.petrobonus.com/. I guess this one too is quite annoying and impossible.
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And after all that time trying to get 334 points (imagine if you have bike - 40+ kmpl) fuel prices would have risen up meaning you get even less for your money
|3rd December 2009, 08:22
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I have a Citbank IndianOil credit card that seems to be a better deal---I get around 500 bucks of fuel free for around 25000 spent,which in my case works out to once in 6 months.
|3rd December 2009, 09:24
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I also have Citibank Indian oil card and on every Rs 150/- fuel it gives 4 points. Each point is having value = Rs 1/- and you get points for other purchases done through this card(approx 1 point per 150 Rs). In all I almost get Rs. 1000/- fuel coupon every 6-7 months with approx 10 to 15K bill of credit card each month.
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Man these guys are just playing with people money and we are falling for their prey. All these are bogus. imagine a guy spending 25K for fuel will never look back to put an extra 100/- fuel IMO
|3rd December 2009, 11:32
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Just checked out the Citibank offers. Citibank always seems to have great initiatives. I've been having the Shoppers Stop card since many years and you can easily earn points no matter where you use your card. You can spend at any store, any restaurant, anywhere and the points will be transferred to your Citibank Card. You can then redeem these points directly at Indian Oil, Shoppers Stop, Vodafone outlets and even Jet Airways. An alternative is a Citibank catalogue of gifts to choose.
P.S. Mods can we rename the thread to 'Fuel Reward Cards'.
|3rd December 2009, 12:20
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I have this one: HP DriveTrack - HP Cards - Retail(Petrol Pumps etc.) :: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Got it for the convenience and cost saved compared to our account at the pump that charged 2.5% service.
|3rd December 2009, 12:28
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I use a ICICI HP card and each time i fuel at HP, i get the service charge as refund in the monthly statement.
The Indian oil card is very funny. What if we forget to swipe the card, then we might loose out on the precious 2/3 drops of Petrol rewards.
|3rd December 2009, 12:34
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feel cheated by IOC
Hi all!
I too own the IOC Xtrarewards card since the last six months. in Oct i did Pune - nagpur - pune and could not find a single IOC outlet with the card machine either on the way or in nagpur and had to do two refuels worth Rs 4000/- without the card. i felt cheated and wrote to IOC customer care. And guess what? I got a robotic reply as below
My complaint:
Complaint Subject: participating outlets
Complaint: dear sir, the number of participating outlets is disappointing and pathetic compared to BP. i made a trip to pune - nagpur - pune and could not find a single outlet with reward crediting machine inspite of buying petrol worth Rs 4000 /- . customer care is impossible to reach and is clueless about outlets with machines..i feel really cheated and will now shift to Bharat Petroleum...especially if my bills are not credited to my account..either ur management is oblivious to coustomers or is plain simple not bothered. really pathetic
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Dear Customer,
This is with reference to your feedback referenced above. We thank you so much for your patronage and for the effort taken in providing us this feedback. Such feedbacks are quite critical in enabling us update our systems and services periodically.
We hope your querry has been solved for any other querries please contact toll free no 1800 22 8888.
We thank you once again for your feedback.
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|3rd December 2009, 14:21
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|3rd December 2009, 16:22
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Correct me, I may be wrong.
For any Citibank card there are two types of points. Citibank points and the Partner (Shoppers Stop, Indian Oil, etc) points. When you shop at the partner, you earn Partner points. When you swipe at any other places, you get Citibank points. Citibank points can be used for fuel redemption, online Citi Catalogue and other services too, but not the Partner points. But the Citibank Points can be used alongwith the Partner Points ONLY at that specific Partner store of whose card you are a member of. I guess No matter what partner card you possess, its also possible to redeem points for the fuel spent at an Indian Oil pump.
For example, if you have a Shoppers Stop Citibank card. You swipe the card at Shoppers Stop and get Shoppers Stop points. You swipe the card at any other place, you get Citi points. You can use the Shoppers Stop points alongwith the Citi points ONLY at Shoppers Stop. You can use the Citi points anywhere they are valid (fuel, etc). The Citibank points cannot be used elsewhere.
However, I may be wrong. Other alternative may be that the Citi points are automatically converted into Shoppers Stop points and can be redeemed only at Shoppers?
Have to patiently read the terms & conditions and faq on the Citibank website!
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|27th December 2014, 11:53
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Re: Indian Oil XtraRewards Card
Waking up an old thread here: Would any one know if IndianOil pumps in Thrissur (kerala) where they have the CitiBank EDC in order to accept points?
The Citibank website seems to have the old document which still lists only 800 pumps nationwide.
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Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about saving time - Agree or disagree?
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Rich Carmona's U.S. Senate campaign will be receiving some high-profile support today.
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The federal omnibus spending bill President Obama approved Wednesday includes about $34 million for research programs at Mississippi State University, $1.4 million to extend the runway at Golden Triangle Regional Airport and $950,000 to improve the Lowndes County road by the Severstal steel mill.
There''s also $260,000 for wastewater structures in west Lowndes County, $285,000 for Mississippi University for Women and $20 million to build barge mooring cells on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
The money is part of the long-delayed $410 billion appropriations Congress passed this week for funding federal government agencies this fiscal year.
"The FY 2009 funding that will be directed to Mississippi will do much to help our state recover from the economic downturn we face," U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran said in a statement issued by his office.
It''s in addition to the special $787 billion economic stimulus package enacted last month, which sends about $2.8 billion to Mississippi.
Cochran, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, had a key role in steering millions of dollars to Mississippi.
"With these funds we will be able to continue the important work of improving our state''s infrastructure, enhancing quality of health care and education and creating an environment to attract new businesses," he said.
The U.S. Senate passed the federal spending bill Tuesday on a 62-35 vote. Cochran and Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi were among only eight Republicans voting for the legislation pushed by Democrats; 32 Republicans opposed it.
The bill was initiated two weeks ago in the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed it on a 245-178 vote. U.S. Rep. Travis Childers of Mississippi''s 1st Congressional District was among only 20 Democrats voting against the bill.
"Many of the omnibus-funded programs are valid. However, there is overall too much unnecessary spending included in the bill, and the government cannot afford to spend without discipline or concern for the dire state of our economy," Childers said in a statement issued by his office
A nonpartisan budget watchdog group estimates Mississippi is among the big winners when it comes to getting congressional funds.
Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates that both Cochran and Wicker sit atop the heap for getting earmarks, the controversial practice of lawmakers steering money to pet projects.
The group says Cochran is the congressional champion with $437.7 million in earmarks brought to the state both alone and in combination with lawmakers from other states. Wicker is No. 2 on the list at $391 million.
Mississippi is third overall in earmarks, the group''s research shows, with a total of $325 million, a figure that doesn''t include multistate funding.
"This is where Mississippi is always impressive," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Mississippi trails much larger California ($568.7 million) and Texas ($370 million) overall, but swamps them when earmarks are figured on a per capita basis. Mississippi is fourth in the country with $110.59 per resident accrued in earmarks. Alaska remains No. 1 at $209.71 per resident.
Overall, the group estimates there are $7.7 billion in earmarks in the $410 billion spending plan.
Ellis said the group uses Congress'' own definition of an earmark to reach its conclusions. But Margaret McPhillips, a spokeswoman for Cochran, said it''s impossible to tell how much money legislators steered toward the state in earmarks because the definition is debatable.
Wicker said he still feels the government spends too much money, but does not favor taking the right to choose what projects are approved away from Congress.
Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum -- Cochran''s former chief of staff -- has pointed to the importance of getting federal research dollars to the university. "We''re a major part of growing and expanding the Mississippi economy," Keenum said.
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While many will congratuate the two senators from MS, I must say I;m very disappointed in them both. At a time of great recession and on the heels of two losses by the republicans, our senators who claim to be conservatives act like spending liberals. While these may be worthy projects this is not the time to spend like a drunken sailor. I for one will remember and hope we get true conservatives to represent us in the senate
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Newly released archival records show that even the cream of Canada's foreign service was not immune from scrutiny in the top secret RCMP investigation known as Operation Feather Bed.
The legendary Feather Bed probe, which stretched from the late 1950s into the 1970s, saw RCMP security branch investigators pore over the backgrounds of possible Communist sympathizers in the public service and political sphere — including a future Mountie spy chief.
There is no evidence the highly confidential investigation ever identified a Soviet agent.
Even so, details of the operation have long remained a closely guarded secret, decades after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service took over surveillance duties from the RCMP.
A three-page, July 1968 memo reveals the Mounties asked allied intelligence services to check their files for information on 68 senior government officials — most of them current or former diplomats — as part of the Feather Bed investigation.
Among them were Arnold Heeney, Norman Robertson, Tommy Stone and Hume Wrong — accomplished foreign service officers who helped forge the international reputation of Canada's External Affairs Department following the Second World War.
Two other senior diplomats on the list — George Ignatieff and Saul Rae — had sons, Michael and Bob, respectively, who would become leaders of the federal Liberal party.
Charles "Bud" Drury and Jack Pickersgill, meanwhile, were influential Liberal cabinet ministers.
A cover sheet says inquiries concerning the 68 met with "negative results." However, a handwritten notation to a registry official asks that the memo be placed "on the files of each of the individuals listed in the attachment" — suggesting that RCMP interest was deeper than a simple check with foreign counterparts.
The Canadian Press used the Access to Information Act to obtain a copy of the list, long buried in retired RCMP security records at Library and Archives Canada.
The focus on members of External Affairs seems to reflect the concern that Soviet agents would target the most important government agencies of the day — the foreign policy and international fields coming to the forefront following the war.
In that sense, the nature of the list is not surprising, given the suspicion on the part of police toward the "fancy-pants diplomats," said Reg Whitaker, a research professor emeritus at Toronto's York University.
Yet in many cases it is far-fetched to believe the individuals could ever have been traitors, Whitaker added.
"Some of them are so bizarrely far from being in any way potential moles."
One of the more ironic inclusions on the 1968 list is John Starnes of security and intelligence at External Affairs, who would be appointed director of the RCMP security branch the following year.
Starnes said in an interview that considering the many intelligence contacts he had accrued during a lengthy foreign service career, the Mounties were only exercising due diligence by vetting him as part of the hunt for subversives.
"I did not know I was being investigated by Feather Bed, but that doesn't surprise me the least," said Starnes, his recall still sharp at 94. "In fact, I would've been surprised if they hadn't done so."
A followup request to Library and Archives Canada for a separate RCMP file opened on Starnes turned up nothing — suggesting there was no dossier or that it was destroyed. At least 136 Feather Bed files were purged in authorized reviews.
However, there is a voluminous file on Ignatieff, which includes a June 1970 study — prepared in connection with Feather Bed — of the career diplomat's family tree extending back to czarist Russia. It also makes brief mention of George's son and future Liberal leader Michael, then a recent graduate of the University of Toronto who had caught the Mounties' eye while organizing conferences on international affairs.
"Based strictly on the information contained in our files, there is no reason to doubt the loyalty of the Ignatieffs to Canada," concludes the RCMP study, recently released under the Access to Information law.
For much of the last century, the RCMP kept a close watch for left-wing subversives, monitoring peace groups, the labour movement, halls of higher learning, and even the upper ranks of the public service and the political worlds. For instance, the Mounties amassed large files on NDP leaders David Lewis and Tommy Douglas.
Among the best-known names on the list of 68 officials is Herbert Norman, a former ambassador to Egypt who had killed himself 11 years earlier by jumping off a building in Cairo. Norman's name had come up during U.S. congressional investigations into suspected Communists within government ranks, and it is widely believed the resulting stress and anguish prompted him to commit suicide.
It has long been public that Norman was a principal figure in the Feather Bed investigation. In fact, his inclusion on the list of 68 names was made known to a Carleton University professor Peyton Lyon, hired by the federal government in the late 1980s to look into Norman's loyalties.
However, the other 67 names on the list were withheld from Lyon — underscoring the sensitivity of the Feather Bed file.
The investigation can be traced to 1958 when the RCMP tried to determine whether the Canadian government had been infiltrated by Communist elements along the lines seen in the United States and Britain.
"The basic objective of Feather Bed was the identification and neutralizing of any influential person working as a high level agent of the RIS (Russian intelligence services) against the Canadian government," says a still partially secret memo on the operation.
Five specific cases were singled out, suggesting a need for further investigation.
The effort was invigorated in May 1962 when Anatoliy Golitzyn, a defector from the notorious Soviet KGB, provided "information of Canadian interest" to the Feather Bed probe, say declassified notes.
The leads were used to further the hunt for a Soviet mole suspected of compromising a number of RCMP operations.
Emblematic of the mistrust and paranoia of the era, the RCMP's head of counter-intelligence, Jim Bennett, would himself come under suspicion of being the mole. Though there was no proof, he was quietly forced out of the security service due to incessant chatter and suspicion.
"I liked Jim Bennett very much," Starnes said. "He was a very able man. And I felt very badly the way in which his story unfolded. He certainly wasn't a spy of any kind."
By April 1972, the RCMP was still pursuing 74 Feather Bed leads. But the operation would soon wither as the Mounties began grappling with new realities including the Quebec separatist movement and international terrorism.
The RCMP noted in a 1980 memo that release of any document from the Feather Bed file "would be regretted since it could lead to unfounded suspicions and the defamation of character of innocent people."
In a final irony, it later emerged that one of the RCMP's own, Sgt. Gilles Brunet, had been a paid informant of the Soviets.
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