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AirPlus International made available to all U.S. corporate card accounts a new set of reports on ancillary airline fees. Company executives conveyed during a Tuesday briefing that while these new reports are not perfect, for now they're about as good as you're going to get.

Tested with some clients during the past several months, the reports sort into five categories spending on hundreds of ancillary purchases using data provided by all airlines from which U.S. AirPlus customers purchase tickets. The reports rely on an "assumption engine" to fill in the gaps. The five categories are "award," including loyalty program mileage purchases, point redemption and club membership; "onboard" items like beverages, meals, headsets and inflight Internet access; "service," covering reissue charges, preferential seat assignments, standby fees, ticketing penalties and the like; "miscellaneous" and "bags."
AirPlus is providing summaries and detailed reports that break down charges by carrier and fee type, and list individual fee transactions. That enables clients to "query specific transactions, if they need to," said AirPlus product expert Matthew Talbot.

When asked to detail how the assumption engine works, Talbot said, "That's our secret sauce. We have set up a whole bunch of rules, and when a particular transaction falls out and does not get captured by any of those rules--if the customer wants--we will use essentially price information to make an assumption that it falls into that category. A good example is Delta. With bag fees, that is not something we can identify, so if none of the other rules captures a particular transaction and it happens to be a $23 fee or a $25 fee from Delta, we put in a first-bag fee. Delta charges $23 if you pay for a checked bag online and $25 if you pay for it at the airport.

Mix with a wooden spoon or spatula until the new ingredients are mixed in with the old ingredients. Now you have a biodegradable brew from which you'll take out just one cup of this 'starter.'

You set aside four or five plastic baggies with sealable edges such as zipper-top bags, or glass jars. And you pour four or five one-cup starters into small glass jars that hold at least one cup of liquid, or in water-proof bags. To avoid plastic leaching out into your batter, use small glass jars with covers instead of baggies.

You can use 16 ounce jars with lids or smaller jars that hold at least 8 ounces of liquid. Back in the 19th century no body used plastic zipper bags. They used glass jars with lids.

You'll be using just one cup of the batter or one jar to bake bread. If you want to bake a cake, use another jar of this starter which takes the place of yeast in making no-yeast breads or cakes.

Start baking bread or cakes from the start on the 10th day. Your batter will be fermenting, bubbling and thickening. Do not refrigerate. You want the bacteria from the atmosphere to mix with the milk, flour, and sugar to form a fermented brew.

Now that you have the starter and 10 days have passed, it's time to bake a no-yeast bread. This recipe can use honey or sugar for the bread and spices. You can use dark flour instead of white flour and use either rye flour or garbanzo bean flour or any other whole-grain or whole legume or lentil flour or a mixture of any flours you want.

Or you can grind your own grains in a dry grinder and make the flour the same day you're going to eat it. For example, you can grind black rice, quinoa, lentils, or use other flours such as sweet potato flour or pea flour. Here are the ingredients for baking this old-world 19th century bread.

The  managing director of Obajana Cement Plc Jagat Rathee, an arm of Dangote Group, also told Business Day that Dangote Group alone produces over 60  per cent of local production as the firm’s expansion project in  Obajana, Kogi, and the construction of Ibese Cement Plant would inject  about 17 million tonnes into the market annually. The company has already commenced the construction of some facilities to actualise the export dream, but the poor condition of roads has been the limiting  factor for poor sales.

He maintains that the current plant capacity is five million metric tonnes per annum, but by the time the two new lines currently under  construction are completed, the capacity will increase from five million  to 7.5 million metric tones and target 10 million tonnes in the next 2  years. “We should have been making three trips per day but we are able to  make one trip per day, we currently export very little quantity to  Niger, Togo and Chad. If there is good road or rail lines connectivity, we should be exporting more to Cameroon and other neighbouring States,” Rathee said.

Benue  Cement Company (BCC) another subsidiary of Dangote Group has five new generating plants installed at a total capacity of 52 mega watts to  boost production capacity. These projects operators say, would inject millions of tonnes of cement into the market and even begin export in  large quantity to other ECOWAS countries.

Thirumoorthy Sukumars,  told Business Day that its five  new generating plants are installed at a total capacity of 52 mega watts to  boost production capacity. The company which locally sources raw  materials currently produces 6000 tonnes of bagged cement per day an  equivalent of 200 trucks per day.

For Lafarge WAPCO Cement, the company has completed the construction of Ewekoro plant which will be commissioned next month  to enable it keep pace with the growth in the Nigerian cement market  and maintain its market share.

The company say it is part of  strategic plans to boost its production capacity by 2.5 million metric  tonnes of cement per annum. The Lakatubu plant is expected on completion to  add 2.2 million metric tonnes to the current 2 million metric tonnes  capacity from the two plants at Ewekoro and Sagamu in Ogun State.

Two men stole $7,565 worth of designer handbags Saturday from Neiman Marcus at Stanford Shopping Center and fired pepper spray at store security officers who tried to stop them, police said.

On the store's security camera footage, "you can see one guy putting like six purses on one arm and three on the other, while the other person's doing the same," Palo Alto police Sgt. Wayne Benitez said Monday.

The two men walked out of the store with the 13 Diane von Furstenberg purses, which ranged in price from $225 to $645 each, at about 3 p.m., Benitez said.

Two of the store's loss-prevention officers caught up with the suspects outside but lost them after the pepper spray attack, Benitez said. The suspects drove away in a black, newer model Chevrolet Impala with paper license plates.

Only one of the loss-prevention officers got hit with the pepper spray, Benitez said. He was treated by paramedics at the scene but not taken to a hospital.

The suspects were both described as in their 20s, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds, Benitez said. They both wore black-hooded sweatshirts, black jeans and black shoes.

The annual greenhouse gas progress report, issued yesterday by Ontario's environmental commissioner, Gord Miller, has produced a mixed reaction from Ontario trucking companies, according to the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA).

In his report, the commissioner talks of the need to expand the province's toolkit for dealing with greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) referring to current efforts as "unambitious and uninspiring." Among the things he'd like to see introduced are specific GHG reduction targets for individual sectors of the economy.

The OTA says that this may in and of itself not be problematic, but some of the measures he proposes to meet these targets are of great concern to the trucking industry, such as the commissioner's call for a road pricing system, via either a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax. The OTA says it finds neither methodology particularly palatable if applied to goods movement.

"Economists or people who think they understand economists can talk all they want about road pricing, but what it comes down to is a cash grab to pay for more spending on transit or non-starters like high speed rail," said OTA president and CEO David Bradley. Bradley contends that the correlation between increased spending on transit and reduced congestion or emissions is murky at best. "Besides, you can't shift truck freight to transit," he says.

However, the OTA said it found two suggestions made by the commissioner to be of particular interest: a recognized need for incentives for the purchase of fuel efficient vehicles; and the environmental benefits of Ontario's law requiring the mandatory activation of speed limiters.

While not directly addressing the federal government's proposed fuel economy/GHG reduction standards for heavy trucks, the commissioner does say that with regard to the light-duty vehicle program, the "Ontario government should reexamine financial incentives for highly fuel-efficient gasoline and diesel vehicles. While performance based standards, such as federal GHG emission requirements, force the adoption of newer technologies, they provide no incentive for vehicle manufacturers to exceed minimum requirements." He does take note of the fact that programs like the Green Commercial Vehicles program "quietly came to an end" and lists consumer incentives such as tax credits and rebates as things that need to be considered.

An assistant at Sainsbury’s in Kidderminster got her colleagues on board with a bag pack to raise money for charities that supported her through breast cancer.

Patricia Branford, 59, was diagnosed with cancer a year ago and has since undergone a full mastectomy along with breast reconstruction surgery.

She decided to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and Kidderminster Breast Care Trust after they took care of her during her traumatic time.

With the help of family, friends and colleagues Mrs Branford raised $720, which will be split equally between the two charities.

She said she chose to divide the money as there were so many people that helped her during her illness. After her operation she ballooned due to steroids and Macmillan were able to offer her a grant to buy new clothes. The Kidderminster Breast Care Trust also offered Pat help and advice whenever she needed it.

Mrs Branford, who has worked for the company for more than 15 years, said: “I would like to thank everyone that helped and bag packed for us on April 17. Sainsbury’s have been brilliant to me during the time that I was off sick. Bag packing is a great way to help our loyal customers, and their generous donations will be greatly appreciated and change many lives.”