Reinsurance and insurance, on whose profitability Bermuda’s economy depends, can be a complicated and confusing business – especially when figuring out who owns what and which subsidiary is covering whose parent company’s ass when it comes to risk. So allow Slabbed, an insurance blog, to explain the relationships of companies in the insurance and finance industries:
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Naked ambition
Posted: October 3, 2008 in Bermuda, miscellanyTags: Alan Gilbertson, Feedback, food relief, Full Monty
My good friend Alan Gilbertson [left] is not only brave enough to get on stage in the upcoming production of The Full Monty, but is courageously offering to virtually go The Full Monty in aid of a worthy cause.
Alan and his wife Carol are long-time supporters of Feedback, a South African food relief charity which persuades food producers, supermarkets, and restaurants to donate quality excess food, most of which would otherwise be wasted. Feedback operates a fleet of trucks to collect this food and deliver it, fast and free, to feed the young, aged, sick and helpless of South Africa. Last year, Feedback redistributed enough food to provide an amazing 12.6 million meals.
Feedback has set up a special Full Monty page complete with Monty Meter to clock donations. As the donations come in, Alan’s picture on the site will shed an item of his Monty costume. Alan has promised to match every donation dollar for dollar (I told you he was a brave and foolish man) and if he gets $50,000, the whole lot comes off.
I urge you to send a few dollars Alan’s way – and of course to see the show, which by all backstage rumours hear is going to be brilliant!
This is the first Breezeblog post to be dictated instead of being typed! For some time I have Dragonrious as to how voice recognition software works but never found anything that worked well with the Mac. I recently got my hands on the new MacSpeech Dictate, which I’m using now, and it’s made writing … well, a bit of a breeze. It is powered by the well-known Dragon voice recognition engine and I was amazed at how easy it was to set up and start working. It took about five minutes of listening to my voice to train it and now I can pretty well say anything, insert grammatical marks, and so on. It still stumbles over unfamiliar words — like breezeblock for Breezeblog — but with a little work you can correct those. Not only that, but it writes a lot faster than I can type! MacSpeech also allows you to control pretty much every application on your desktop although I’m still getting the hang of that. The software isn’t cheap — about US$199, including headphones — but I think that’s a small price to pay for improved writing productivity. It might not be as sexy as a secretary — but it’s a cool and clever piece of software.
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