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100. Do you encourage government departments
to test the market to make sure they are getting the best value
for service?
(Miss Johnson) Yes, and some of them do. Occasionally
they decide not to use the Government Actuary's Department. We
are relaxed about that and I am sure the Government Actuary's
Department is too. It is good that there is competition and that
things are looked at in that way.
101. And you are quite sure that the costings
are done in a transparent way? In other words, that overheads
are properly accounted for?
(Miss Johnson) I am, yes.
102. The Government Actuary can and,
indeed, does - report to Parliament on matters to do with social
security and pensions but not in terms of the life insurance industry,
which seems closely linked to those. Is that satisfactory, do
you think?
(Miss Johnson) Obviously the way in which the Government
Actuary's role is set up is defined in a variety of statutory
responsibilities which he has and which the Department exercises,
and those are set out in legislation. There is obviously no problem
about the Government Actuary's Department being called to account
in other ways by the House: obviously appearance in front of the
Treasury Select Committee is a good example of ways in which their
work can be further investigated, as you currently are doing.
103. There may be a legislative reason why it
does not report on life insurance to Parliament, but is that logical?
Should we not be coming back to the legislation and considering
a change?
(Miss Johnson) We have not contemplated that and it
has not seemed obviously desirable to us in some way. I am not
aware of anyone particularly suggesting it, either.
104. It is just that, as you know, we are investigating
the Equitable Life matter and the Government Actuary could not
tell us anything about the advice he had given to the DTI, to
the Treasury or the FSA, because his relationship with the regulator
is a commercial one. Is that a desirable arrangement, do you think?
(Miss Johnson) It is a matter of fact that his relationship
is a contractual one and, under those contractual arrangements,
he is bound to maintain the confidentiality of the information
that he supplies to clients. That has always been the case.
105. But have not we potentially got a whistleblower
here who has had his pea removed? Could we have avoided Equitable
Life if the Actuary had been able to speak out on these matters
and not be restrained by commercial considerations?
(Miss Johnson) I am not privy to the actuarial advice
that has been supplied on those occasions any more than the Committee
is so I cannot comment on that, but I think it is unlikely that
your speculation is so.
106. When you say you have not been privy, who
does the Government Actuary give his advice to, if not to the
(Miss Johnson) The advice has obviously been supplied
to the FSA as the regulator. Where the advice was supplied to
the Treasury then clearly we had advice. We are also able to seek
advice ourselves from the Government Actuary's Department.
107. So did he blow a whistle during the time
the Treasury got his advice?
(Miss Johnson) No.
108. At the end of October 2000 the FSA announced
its intention to transfer actuarial advice from the Government
Actuary's Department to an in-house actuary. Are you at all concerned
about the ending of the traditional separation between regulator
and actuary which that implies?
(Miss Johnson) It is a matter for the FSA who they
get their future actuarial advice from. They have felt that it
would be the best arrangement - and the Government Actuary's Department
clearly did not disagree with that that the staff should
be transferred from the Government Actuary's Department and they
are being transferred shortly to the FSA. They have been doing
work for the FSA in recent times in any event and, as you know,
a cohort of staff are going across to the FSA and the future actuarial
advice arrangements for the FSA are a matter for them. As the
regulator I am sure you would not be happy in other ways if we
were telling them what we thought their advice arrangements should
109. Treasury does not have a view on this arrangement?
(Miss Johnson) No.
110. Minister, this morning we have received
from the Government Actuary's Department their service level agreement
with the Treasury. I cannot truthfully say that in the time available
to me I have done anything more than just whizz through it and,
of course, I am not sure whether you will have it in front of
you yourself.
(Miss Johnson) I am not sure I have but do not let
that stop you asking me a question, at least.
111. It is clear from the service level agreement
that the Government Actuary's Department is the key source of
information about the liabilities of insurers and the ability
of insurers to fulfil policyholders' reasonable expectations.
That is crystal clear in the service level agreement. The agreement
also points out that, unless there are special circumstances,
the Government Actuary's Department will be with the DTI and then
the Treasury regulators, now the FSA regulators, on all their
visits to companies and the Government Actuary will be used as
their key source for advice in the scrutiny of the annual returns
of the appointed actuaries. The service level agreement goes on
to say that the key indicators the government actuaries will use
in their advice to ministers will be, amongst other things, trends
in free asset ratios, worrying exposures and impacts on bonus
strategy. Those are clearly identified as specific points on which
the Government Actuary's Department will act as the key source
of advice. It goes on to say in point A 17 that, if the Government
Actuary's Department considers that the insurance directorate
might need to exercise Her Majesty's Treasury's powers of intervention,
it will make appropriate recommendations. In the light of that,
could you reconsider the answer you gave to Mr Kidney in which
you said that ministers had not been informed about the Equitable
Life situation, because the service level agreement makes it crystal
clear that the Government Actuary's Department was the central
crucial source of advice to government on all the issues which
have figured in the evolution of the Equitable Life saga. Would
you disagree with that?
(Miss Johnson) Clearly the reading that the reference
you have made is an interesting one; however, I do not in any
way go back on what I said to Mr Kidney earlier. The point is
the advice is confidential on each specific case and so the Government
Actuary's Department has an individual relationship and the advice
on each specific case is confidential advice. I am not aware of
what arrangements are made between the Government Actuary's Department
and officials; as a minister I am not privy to any of that information.
112. I see. Clearly what is of great importance
in the evolution of the Equitable Life sagaand in a way
that is just an example of a wider body of problemsand
you will agree with me it is clear from the service level agreement,
is that the Government Actuary's Department had the dominant central
role in providing the specific advice to ministers on all of the
issuesbonuses, with-profits policies, free asset ratios,
lapse rates, it is all spelt out in detailand that the
Government Actuary's Department is the key source of advice to
officials on all those sorts of issues?
(Miss Johnson) The point is we have to make a distinction
between generic advice and specific advice. On generic advice
it is certainly the case that the Government Actuary's Department
will supply advice both to officials and ministers of a generic
kind, but on specific, individual, cases that advice is confidential
between the Government Actuary's Department and whoever is their
113. Can I say that it is clear from the service
level agreement that the advice that the Government Actuary's
Department gives is not just generic advice, point A7(a): "Government
Actuaries will report to Her Majesty's Treasury immediately if
the initial scrutiny of any company raises serious concern; (b)
the Government Actuary's Department will send to Her Majesty's
Treasury by the end of August a report covering all initial scrutinies
which will consist of a priority rating for each company, an indication
of solvency cover for each company...", et cetera. This is
not generic advice: this is advice very specific to companies
and their performance?
(Miss Johnson) But that advice is being supplied to
the regulator. I believe that the FSA told the Committee, Sir
Michael, about their 1998 concerns over Equitable's reserving
on guaranteed annuity options and they clearly took the Government
Actuary's Department's advice into account in pursuing these.
That is a matter on which the FSA has, rightly, given you evidence
and it is not for me to gainsay that or interfere in that in any
114. I do not want to pursue this point unduly
this morning but it is a matter of record that the FSA regard
their duties as beginning on 1 January 1999 -
(Miss Johnson) Quite rightly.
115. Exactly soand everything before
that is, so to speak, on that ground. Can you advise the Committee,
therefore, as to where Parliament goes if it wishes to examine
what advice was given to the Treasury and what the Treasury did
with that advice prior to 1 January 1999?
(Miss Johnson) The FSA, as you are aware, is producing
a report and the report is going to set out the background and
the events leading up to the point at which responsibility for
prudential insurance regulation moved to the FSA. I cannot pre-judge
what will be in that report but the FSA has the brief to look
into the background and the events leading up to the time at which
it obviously assumed, as you rightly say, on 1 January 1999 responsibility
for prudential regulation.
116. The main Committee had in front of it Mr
Roberts, who is now the insurance regulator at the FSA and had
previously been the insurance regulator at the Treasury and before
that had been the insurance regulator at the DTI. When I sought
to ask him questions about matters before 1 January 1999, Sir
Howard Davies intervened and said that that was covered by advice
to ministers and I could not ask him questions about that. That
leads me to the conclusion, therefore, that it is to ministers
we should come if we wish to pursue those issues about how the
Government Actuary's advice was treated at the Treasury and what
the quality of that advice was. Given Sir Howard Davies' rulingwhich
I acceptedit does seem to me that logically I can only
come to ministers to pursue those points?
(Miss Johnson) I think there are two separate issues
here, possiblyone is advice to ministers on which obviously
Sir Howard was commenting at that particular pointas you
tell meand there is clearly the question of the advice
more generally, as it were. Much of the advice is clearly not
going in all cases to ministers, but I cannot see any reason why
the FSA, in doing its job and I expect it to do a thorough and
complete job in preparing its report, as I am sure you do, cannot
cover these matters in terms of the background to the report.
117. I understand that but, Minister, you do
see the dilemma that Parliamentary scrutiny is now faced withand
I do not want to labour this point this morning but it does seem
right at least to draw this to your attentionwhere Parliament
is being told that it cannot ask the FSA questions about the advice
that was given to the Treasury and to ministers prior to 1 January
1999 and, therefore, it is to ministers that Parliament must come
to seek some explanation of the quality of the Government Actuary's
advice to the Treasury before 1 January 1999 and, of course, what
was done with that advice?
(Miss Johnson) Well, as I have said, the report is
down to cover the background to the events prior to 1 January
1999 and, clearly, issues can be brought into consideration in
that background.
118. I am grateful for that reply but can I
just leave you with this thought: that perhaps this is something
you might care to discuss with Sir Howard so that Parliament can
be assured that, should it wish to, these matters about what happened
between the Government Actuary's Department, the Treasury and
actions that were taken before 1 January 1999 can be properly
scrutinised because, as of now, I think there is a gap which seems
to block effective Parliamentary scrutiny. I am sure that is not
being done wilfully but it is there nonetheless, and I think we
need some clarification about how that gap is to be closed.
(Miss Johnson) I understand the point you are making
but I think it is also important to recognise that there are elements
of information which you may be interested in which are down to
the confidential individual relationship between the Government
Actuary's Department and any of its clients whichin the
case of Equitableare a matter for Equitable as a client
to decide whether they make them available.
119. Is the Government Actuary's Department
involved in the FSA inquiry into Equitable Life directly?
(Miss Johnson) I am not aware of them being involved.

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AW the conquerors
3AW leapt ahead of the Melbourne radio pack in the first ratings survey of the year, achieving figures others in the industry describe as unheard of in the competitive local market.
Although AW has dominated the ratings surveys for the past two years, this was one of breakfast king Ross Stevenson's best results.
At 21.4 points, his breakfast program was aeons ahead of rivals 774 and those on the FM band.
AW was up in all shifts, with Stevenson easily the best performer.
The station's dominance was fuelled by the Asian tsunami catastrophe and Mark Latham's demise as Labor leader, as well as the fact that main talk rival 774 failed to have its regular announcers on deck when the ratings period began in mid January.
ABC 774 dropped in all timeslots, though general manager Ian Mannix had a positive spin, saying the station performed much better than this time last year.
On the FM band, Triple M was the surprising victor. Shifting its music format to appeal to older listeners is clearly working.
Sister station Fox continues to weather lacklustre ratings, and though outsiders wonder whether changes are ahead in the line-up, manager Gary Pert says he is "definitely" committed to the on-air team.
Kate Langbroek, Dave Hughes and Dave O'Neil at Nova remain Melbourne's No. 1 FM breakfast shift, providing some comfort for the station as it dropped overall and in every shift.
In the baby boomer segment, Gold FM continues to perform strongly. Sister station Mix confounded management by dipping.
However, manager Steve Smith was at pains to point out he does not expect the new Mix breakfast team to turn that timeslot's dismal performance around for quite a while yet.
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Over a span of the 6 years he designed and developed learning and testing content for all national and international aptitude tests such as the CAT, GMAT® and the GRE® and by 2010 became the Head of the Academics Department of IMS. It was during this period, that he took up both the GMAT® and the GRE®.
He is currently the Chief Mentor for IMS Pune and is actively involved in teaching and mentoring students.
His favorite teaching areas are GMAT Verbal Ability Strategies, shortcuts or alternative solutions for Quant on both the GMAT as well as the CAT and test-taking strategies for all tests.
Given the amount of information and number of forums on the GMAT, it has become increasingly difficult for aspirants to find a lean & efficient online resource that will help them to navigate their preparation and maximize their GMAT score.
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The GMAT is an extremely structured test that poses a limited number of well-defined question types. In a way it is as if it is a machine that is churning out the questions and not people. Given this, the strategies to tackle these question types are also very well defined and limited.
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If standards have to be changed in order for a woman to be part of a team there is something very unequal about that situation.
A female FDNY recruit has graduated from the Fire Academy after her instructors fudged on her strength, agility and running requirements, insiders say.
Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder, 39, never achieved a passing score of 17 minutes and 50 seconds on the Functional Skills Test, a course of job-related tasks in full gear such as stretching hoses and dragging dummies, according to an FDNY source familiar with the training. She did not come in under 24 minutes in practice tests.
Doirin-Holder also failed to run the required 1.5 miles in 12 minutes or less — even after the running course was slashed by an estimated quarter-mile, the source said, alleging that the start and finish lines were moved to shorten the run.
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She completed the abbreviated run in 12:06, the source said.
Under a recent loosening of rules ordered by FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro, probationary firefighters who fail the run can demonstrate adequate aerobic capacity on a StairMaster machine — which she was allowed to do, the source said.
The FDNY has come under fire for its lack of female firefighters, who now number 49 — less than half of 1 percent of the 10,500-person force.
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Very thin and light, Strong build quality/sturdy materials
More battery-friendly Intel Haswell CPU
Still thin, light, and attractive, Battery life is much improved
Good performance, Great battery life, Digitizer support
Not too bulky in tablet mode, Good build quality
Long battery life, Bright and colorful screen
Increased battery life, Bigger screen looks fantastic
Ten-point touchscreen, Good battery life, Reasonably priced
Very good viewing angles, Very bright screen
A bit slower than competing Windows 8 tablets, Short battery life
IPS panel is bright and vibrant with excellent viewing angles
Responsive touch screen, Good battery life, Premium build quality, Plenty of ports
Weak Performance, Limited Screen Viewing Angles
Very, very slow, Chintzy network connectivity options
Costs very little for a touch-screen Windows 8 laptop
Attractive soft-touch chassis, Strong performance
Comfortable keyboard and touchpad, Strong performance levels
Offering good performance, and great ergonomics and feel
Solid design, Comfortable backlit keyboard
Slim, stylish all-metal construction
Very good benchmark performance, High-res touchscreen
Looks and feels great, Excellent battery life
Attractive, if somewhat predictable, exterior, Excellent display
Solid Windows 8 ultrabook, Folds back for tablet and stand modes
Fully functional 10-finger touchscreen
Bright display, Very long battery life
Solid performance, Great display
SSD+HDD performance, Discrete 3D graphics
Pros: Brilliantly built, great materials and design.
Resurrects the flip-and-fold display
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Attractive design, Responsive touch-screen display
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Miley Cyrus' brother Braison, 18 made his modeling debut this weekend for Troix Magazine.
Braison, signed with Wilhelmina Models late last year made a modelling debut via as the cover of Troix Magazine's "Boys of Summer" issue.
Miley Cyrus' brother Braison, 18 made his modeling debut this weekend for Troix Magazine.
Braison, signed with Wilhelmina Models late last year made a modelling debut via as the cover of Troix Magazine's "Boys of Summer" issue.
More entertainment news from other source in the web shared below!
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Pinoy Movie Update: "Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang" tops Philippine Box-office on its 2nd week!
Sexy Men's Health Cover: Goncalo Teixera Graces Men's Health Portugal
Dabaw Pinoy Update: Sam Milby is on the cover of M Magazine!
Noypi Tayo Update: PBB Unlimited Big 4 revealed!
BB Gandanghari is back in showbizlandia and in her recent interview she/he revealed that she had never been surer and happier now than before!
After almost two years absence from local showbiz, she revealed that she lived and worked in New York. She's also raring to be recognized as androgynous model as she transformed herself from a weight of 140, she now drops to 115 model body. here she worked hard to achieve.
She was asked in an interview by Mariel Rodriguez the following questions:
If she is a 'real woman' now:
"Whatever you're seeing now is a manifestation of how I really feel deep inside. And I've made decisions in my life and I guess (they're) the best decisions I've made. It made me surer, it made me happier, more peaceful. I have peace of mind [now]."
Asked to elaborate further:
"But I hope you will forgive me if I don't wanna talk more about it. Because whatever is in between my legs is my own private thing. And hopefully my partner's."
On her body change:
"Exactly. I have nothing against change. Ang sabi ko nga I've embraced my change, I've embraced everything and yun happy ako. Day, aapak-apakan ka sa New York kung hindi ka buo ano [They will walk all over you in New York if you're not complete]!"
BB is just here for a vacation and will be glad if she will be offered to work since she is raring to act again.
What role is she going to play , if offer comes? Do you have any suggestions
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Monday, September 1, 2008
6 x 6 Layout for SWAP
I have to confess that I have never made a 6x6 Layout before. I also do not feel my Layouts look all that great. I used a PageMap to come up with this. I think it looks pretty good. I wanted to show how the same layout could be used for different occasions. Here is the Layout as a wedding theme. Yes, that is me and my husband. We look so young! Oh right, it was before kids! :-)
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Crab and Company Card front
I LOVE this cute set! I made this card front, my second one since joining Stampin' Up, for a SWAP at a Downline meeting. I used the Versamark ink for the shell background. I think I am going to get a lot of use out of this set!
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Western Washington tops Stonehill
Vikings hold on to early lead, advance to first title game
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. -- Coming out of halftime, Western Washington huddled beneath a banner that said: "NCAA Champions Play Here." By making a big lead hold up, the Vikings gave themselves a chance to play for their first title.
Rory Blanche overcame foul trouble and scored 16 points on Thursday night, and the Vikings made a 20-point lead hold up for a 71-66 victory against Stonehill and a spot in their first NCAA Division II title game.
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"I've played on a lot of teams," said Zach Henifin, who scored 10 points. "And I've never made a championship. Amazing, that's all I can say."
The Vikings (30-5) set a school record with their 30th win. They got ahead by 20 against the fourth-toughest defense in the nation and held on, reaching the title game against either defending champion Bellarmine or Montevallo.
Brian Hamor scored 22 for Stonehill (25-9), the only unranked team in the national semifinals. The Skyhawks had won 10 in a row to reach the semifinals for the second time in school history. A bad start became too much to overcome.
"They're strong, physical," Stonehill coach David McLaughlin said. "It took us a while to get into that type of game."
Blanche hit a 3 that got Western Washington out of a sloppy start and on a 21-3 spurt that put the Vikings ahead to stay. It seemed well in hand when Blanche hit a pair of jumpers during a 15-5 run that opened the second half and built the lead to 47-27 with 13 minutes left.
But it wasn't.
"You couldn't have been able to pick five people in that stadium that thought we'd be able to cut it to what we did," McLaughlin said.
The momentum changed quickly.
"We got a little tired," Western Washington coach Brad Jackson said. "I was pleased with the way we were able to hang on."
Hamor, a point guard who has been one of the Skyhawks' leading scorers during their winning streak, took the game into his hands by repeatedly driving for tough layups or passing back outside for open shots. His step-back 3 completed a 10-0 run that got the lead down to 50-41 with 8:02 left and gave Stonehill a sense it could still pull this one out.
"Offensively we were a little slow, so I had to be a little more aggressive," Hamor said.
The Skyhawks called a timeout after Patrick Lee's basket cut it to 63-59 with 46 seconds to go. In the Western Washington huddle, Jackson reminded his players what they had to do to hold on.
Don't make mistakes. Don't give up an open shot. Get the ball in the hands of John Allen.
"We said we wanted to manage the game out," Jackson said. "We didn't want to give up 3s."
Allen, one of the nation's best free-throw shooters at 88.9 percent, was fouled after the inbounds pass and made two free throws. After a Stonehill miss, Allen was fouled again and made two more. Western Washington went 7 of 8 from the line in the final 46 seconds to finish it off.


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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> Javier Castellano was one of the top earning jockeys in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 and set a record of $28.1 million in 2015 for earnings. He has won 4.664 races and has earned $276 million in his career that started in 1996. He was the winner of the Eclipse Award in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Those are just some of the accomplishments that led Castellano to being named one of the 11 candidates to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. The ceremony is 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion. Admission to the event is free.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
My Powder Bath...BIG REVEAL!!!
Wooo Hooo!!!!
Its DONE...D.O.N.E.!!! Dunzo!!!
Im THRILLED with it...and my arms and handes are THRILLED too!
SO!?!? LOVE IT! All the white mud areas are covered with small areas peeking through...
Now I just have to Reload everything BACK into the room..Once I get that done I will share more pics! WHEW! 3 days to finish...but it was SO worth it!
So...Its "Whassup Wednesday" # sumthin sumthin....
Link up AS MANY TIMES as you want....And whatever you would like....
ALL I ask is that you would :
*PRETTY PLEASE copy and paste my Whassup Button and put in your Post
*If you Arent one of my FRIENDS { Follower via Google Connect } PLEASE click that lil button and BECOME a Follow...put your Pretty lil face up there...and I will come visit you back!
Aaaand REAL QUICK, before we get this party started.....
APRIL FOOLS!!!! My Powder IS Done HOWEVER...THOSE pics above are NOT the finished room!
Oh...WAIT! I cant use April Fools??? Uuuhhh...Psych??? Is that how you spell it? How about ...
Are yall SOOOO relieved! Some of yall are and then others were probly like "Whatevs"...I know Kara ALL TOO WELL for THAT to be IT! TeeHeeHee!!!
I have 2 Full posts ready to TUTE ya! It IS DONE though! And I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE IT!
It really turned out FAB! I CANNOT wait to show you the FINISHED pics!
SOOOO excited I could tinkle! OH! Now I have the PERFECT PLACE to go tinkle!!!
Cant wait to show yall!!!
Now...LETS Par-Tay!!!
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33 comments:
- Honey at 2805 said...
OK! When looking at your pictures this morning, I thought "she is not finished...maybe she's still under the weather". Will be looking forward to the big real reveal.
Thanks for being a gracious hostess and be sure to come by for my $30 give card giveaway!
Hugs, Honey
- January 26, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- g.suzie said...
Oh boy you had there. . .I was thinking "well the last project was so awesome, maybe I'm just not catchin the vision" :+((( Shoooie, I was so relieved.
Can't wait to see the real REVEAL!
You are such good therapy,
Luv ya,
- January 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- Honey at 2805 said...
Thanks for your visit. So happy your following.
I've been following your forever!
- January 26, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Honey at 2805 said...
Oops, my mistake. You're not following, but sure wish you would.
- January 26, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Tete said...
Morning! I made it to the party. Hope my post is ok.
Love your bathroom, but I really thing you need to glaze those walls so you can see all the details. You have so much movement going on there!
Can't wait to see it loaded back up!
Hugs- Tete
- January 26, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Jemsmom said...
Girl, you are on a roll!!!
- January 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- AliLilly said...
WOW!! Kara it looks amazing!!! You did, Y'ALL did so good!!!
Thanks for hosting! :)
- January 26, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Traci said...
WHY are you making us wait????? I wanna see nooowwwwww!!!
- January 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- Debilou~Mississippi Mama said...
oh oky,,I'm so releived..lol.. i've seen your other work and it was beatiful and I'm not a designer or anything but I just wasnt getting this one. Cant wait to see the final.
ps..(do you know powder is misspelled in your title??).. you are so funny
- January 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Liz said...
You crack me up!! I can't wait to see the final reveal, silly girl! ;) Waiting, waiting, REFRESH, F5, F5, nothing, Nada....I give up!! Seriously, though, I'm dyimg to see the pics! ;)
I'll be back, as Arnold Schwarzenegger would say! XOXO ~Liz
- January 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Jamie Leigh said...
Your bathroom looks great! I love the bible pages, how inspiring!!
- January 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- marty (A Stroll Thru Life) said...
Oh, I can't wait to see the final reveal. I know it will be stunning. Hugs, Marty
- January 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Vanessa said...
I usually end up doing my devotional in the bathroom anyway so I would fit right in there! :-) It is looking so beautiful and unique and I can't wait to see it when you get your things moved back in!
Thanks for hosting, my friend, and for your absolutely sweet and encouraging email!
- January 26, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Becca said...
What an awesome bathroom! Only you could pull off such a brilliant idea! I look forward to seeing the final reveal. Woo Hooooo! And, thanks for hosting. Not feeling very creative in this nasty weather, so I'm sharing my little fella's playroom, which I am planning on tweaking just a bit! *Becca*
- January 26, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- Dear Sweet Home said...
Can't wait to see it!
- January 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Carrie @ Dittle Dattle said...
Okay how could you tease us like that!!! We want to see the finished room!!!! like now.... okay, I'll stop being so bossy (for now) I can't believe you have it done! This would have been a week (maybe two week) job for me! You've got me sitting on the edge of my seat.....
- January 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- NanaDiana said...
When I saw those pictures and heard you RAVING about how great it looked...I thought to myself...SELF...you are NOT gonna say anything sassy and bad...you are not even going to reply cuz then you don't HAVE to say anything sassy or bad. I am just relieved that you have not slumped into "I can do this" overload and gone off the deep end...well...you are ALREADY a bit off the deep end but there are a few of us oldtimers here willing to pull you back up over the edge. Now..hurry up and post the dang thing, will ya? xxoo Diana
- January 26, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Gypsy Heart said...
When I first saw these pics, I thought "Nope, she's not through!" She's leading us on 'cause I know the quality of her creative genius. Nope, can't fool us girlfriend! :-)
Anxiously awaiting the REAL reveal!
- January 26, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Sonya@Beyond the Screen Door said...
Kara, my dear! You are amazing! If you could figure out a way to bottle & sell your energy and creativity you'd be set for LIFE! Beautiful, creative and funny too! You just...amazing! Waiting to see the full reveal!
- January 26, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- designchic said...
Know you are thrilled to have it done...looks wonderful!!
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A Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney, who is representing the Obama administration in an HHS mandate lawsuit, has also represented members of Al-Qaeda who were detained at Guantanamo.
Ian Heath Gershengorn helped to prepare the DOJ brief that outlined the Obama administration's argument that businesspersons have no constitutional rights to freedom of religion.
Hobby Lobby Stores, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is a Christian-owned business that claims that ObamaCare's HHS mandate to provide abortion-inducing drugs, under threat of penalty, is a violation of the Green family's religious freedom rights.
Gershengorn is among the new lawyers representing radical causes who have been advancing inside the DOJ. A member of the "Al-Qaeda bar," Gershengorn has served as deputy under Tony West who was promoted in March from head of the DOJ Civil Division to associate attorney general. Among areas West oversees are enforcement of federal election laws in the 2012 presidential election and GITMO detainee policy. Prior to working for DOJ, West's San Francisco firm represented some of the most radical Islamist terrorists as well as American Taliban John Walker Lindh.
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has anyone purchased from Neo Ranchu before? if so what was your experience like? did the fish arrive healthy? thank you.
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I'm in NYC and is a Ranchu collector. Only quality Ranchu you will find is from on-line. Try goldfishnet.com, NeoRanchu and Fishsempai. Sometimes the Chinatown fish stores sells baby Ranchu that have promising tail tucks and heads. I was able to pick one such baby Ranchu with square heads and nice tail tuck for about $6 last year from the fish store on Broome Street. Unfortunately he got sick. So don't stop looking. Sometimes you may get lucky.
Curious what type of filters do you all use for your Ranchus? I have Rena XP3, but they give me crystal clear water.
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Dear Stech
Many thanks for your reply, it looks like we all have the same problem. I am going to make a trip to Chinatown and hope for the best, worst case scenario is I get a day looking at fish!
I am currently mainly keeping Ryukin, I have various filters, some sponge, some external and some home made. My 'best' filter is a combination of an external filter which runs in combination with a home made trickle to both improve the water quality and take the energy out of the water flow. It makes more of a rainfall effect than a flow. The water quality is great and the fish get O2 rich water.
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In this blog I'm going to talk about how Tongal has revolutionized the world of video-content creation, and how it's been upending the closed world of advertising and Hollywood entertainment by opening up the creative process to the crowd.
I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. Mix that with the plummeting cost of 1080p high-definition cameras and the awesome software available on every Mac and you have the making of a video production revolution.
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Tongal, founded in 2008, helped spur the creation of groundbreaking video content by crowdsourcing creativity through contests. Tongal has 30,000 members worldwide, and will likely see a million within the next five years. In this interview, DeJulio briefed me on the company's origin and how it works.
DeJulio began his career in investment banking, but quickly realized that finance was not the kind of world he wanted to be in. So he tried Hollywood, "the traditional content development business," as he called it. Like a lot of gifted and highly qualified people in Hollywood, DeJulio started at the bottom. "I couldn't believe how hard it was to get a job that paid so little," he recalled. DeJulio eventually got a position in production at Paramount but grew as disappointed as he had been in the world of finance. "I was frustrated by how many good ideas never saw the light of day, and how there was a small list of people who tightly controlled all the creative work," he said. "It upset me how many talented people there were who want to do this work but couldn't break into the system."
DeJulio's experienced this Hollywood mentality firsthand when his boss, having received a pre-publication copy of Dan Brown's mega-best-seller "The Da Vinci Code," asked DeJulio to read it. He read it, thought it was a real page-turner and gave it to his boss, saying, "This is really exciting. The studio should make this film." At that point the studio passed it off to yet another person to read whose coverage read: "This doesn't have any real entertainment value." "That summer I was walking around airports and everybody had a copy of the book under their arm," said DeJulio. "I was getting really frustrated with where we were and how hard it was to get good ideas out there and how every production was based around a financial model."
He thought about how to tackle this challenge, knowing there had to be a better way to develop content. Eventually, DeJulio befriended Jack Hughes, founder of the crowd-sourcing software-solutions company TopCoder (more on TopCoder in a future blog), who helped him realize that the same sort of approach that TopCoder employs in helping companies with their software needs would work for creativity: unleashing the imagination and genius of the crowd (in fact, DeJulio used TopCoder to help build the first iteration of the Tongal website).
"I started to think about how we could turn Hollywood on its head and attack the video content creation problem in a very different way, an incentive-based, self-selected way," said DeJulio. "There are so many people who really want to do this work. It's our mission to unlock the world's creativity and make it accessible. That's very clear. So, we're doing that in a process that we call social-content development. Right now, that process is based largely around connecting global businesses with global creativity. At Tongal our creative workforce consists of 30,000 people all over the globe who are opting in to do this work."
For now, Tongal focuses on short-form content -- videos, commercials and such -- but concentrates on working with name-brand products.
So far Tongal has run about 150 projects. The average project runs from six to 10 weeks (but can be much shorter). Tongal's customers are typically the kind of companies that might normally hire a Madison Avenue advertising firm to create a TV commercial or a webisode for one of its branded products -- a short-form video running between 15 seconds to 2½ minutes. How does it work? To initiate the creation of a commercial the company puts up a purse -- anywhere from $10,000 to $200,000 that will be awarded in phases of a competition.
On the other side of the equation are the creative users of Tongal. What DeJulio calls "Garage Studios" -- a couple of guys with a 1080 HD camera and a Mac. For these creative users the service is free -- all they do is log on, browse through the projects and decide what they want to work on.
Tongal breaks down every project into three phases of a competition: (a) ideation, (b) production and (c) distribution. The site allows creative users with different specialties and talents such as writing, directing, animating, acting and social media promotion to focus on what they do best.
In the first competition, the "ideation phase," a client (say a large commercial brand) creates a brief describing its objective. For example, "we want a Super Bowl advertisement to promote product X." A small percent (say 10 -- 20%) of the total purse is set aside for this initial competition. Tongal members read the brief and submit their best ideas on what they think the commercial should look like. They are restricted to only 500 characters (about three tweets). The customer looks at the submissions and picks a small number of ideas they like, for example the top five, and pays a small portion of the purse to those five winners. Participants can track each other's progress on leaderboards, and there's a record on the site of each individual's winnings: an online résumé of creativity.
In the second phase of the competition, the production phase, any Garage Studio can choose one or more of the five winning concepts and submit a video (e.g., a commercial) into the second phase of the competition.
To make this more concrete, I asked DeJulio for one of his favorite winning video examples. That's when he told me about a $10,000 competition they hosted for ShureTech Brands, the makers of DuckTape. SureTech wanted a 30- to 90-second video to revitalize the DuckTape public image. After launching the "ideation phase" of the process, "SureTech received over 500 video concepts (each about 500 words in length), then used our site to down select and pick the five they want to see brought to life," says DeJulio. "About $2,000 of the $10K purse was split among the winners of this phase. This makes it possible that a person can earn money by winning different phases of the contest, individually or in teams."
Ultimately this second phase of the ShureTech competition drove the creation of 60 different completed videos. "My favorite winning video, called Duck Tron, used various colored roles of duck tape to replicate the Light-Cycle race from the movie 'Tron.' It was so good it became a viral Internet sensation. The Internet just took hold of this thing and it completely disseminated itself across all kinds of channels," DeJulio said. In summary, this $10,000 prize generated some 500 usable video concepts, over 60 completed videos created by people working in their garage studios, and ultimately led to millions of free video impressions for ShureTech. Everything was done outside of the standard operating procedure of an advertising agency and a client. "This was open to the crowd, and the results were far better, and far more cost effective," said DeJulio, "than would have been possible using the old way."
In my next blog, I'm going to explore how Tongal saves companies money, and DeJulio's five steps to keep in mind when considering working with Tongal.
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The recession may be finishing what environmentalists started a few years ago: the end of the bottled-water fad. Twice in the past week I have been in restaurants that just a year ago would have been pushing still or sparkling water at their patrons from the moment they sat down. This time the waiters said merely: "Tap water OK?" When low-margin businesses like restaurants start passing on juicy profit centers—in this case, the chance to charge premium prices for a cheap commodity—you know something dramatic has happened. The rise and fall of bottled water may be the best case study yet in the strange politics of trendy environmental causes.
Bottled water got its foothold in the U.S. as a statement about healthy living. The 1980s craze for sweating at the gym launched a durable fad for toting around bottles of mountain spring water. To drink something so natural was to be "Fit on the Inside"—in the words of an ad campaign that nicely captured the soul-craft of the treadmill set.
But even without the example set by aerobicizers, the popularity of bottled water had a push. Go back to the mid-'90s, when the trend was booming, and one finds a steady drip-drip of frightful tap-scares. Perhaps no one did more to promote the bottled water craze than the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based activist organization that issued report after breathless report about the lethal dangers spewing from American taps. There were the 1995 studies alleging that 1,000 Americans a year were dying from tainted municipal water, with an extra 400,000 sickened by faucet-flowing pathogens. In 1997 came the alarm that some 245 Midwest towns were serving up a toxic cocktail of HO and weed killer. In 2001 it was rocket fuel in California aquifers. In 2002 the group warned that the chlorine used to disinfect tap water led to "a health risk for pregnant women."
Faced with this drumbeat of doom, consumers might be forgiven for having taken to the bottle. How else were they to quaff the 64 ounces of water a day they had been told was essential to health? For a little while, carrying a bottle of water was the very symbol of fashionable health-consciousness. But fashions change: Now bottled water is the eco-equivalent of last year's frock. And so none other than the Environmental Working Group was on Capitol Hill last month mounting a full-throated campaign against the stuff. The thrust was that, hey, if you run tap water through a filter, it isn't really so bad after all—and quite the bargain too!
Environmentalists complain of all the energy wasted shipping and trucking bottled water around, but their most ardent scorn is reserved for the bottles themselves. Once upon a time plastic bottles made from lightweight polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, were an innovation meant to be relatively friendly to the planet. They could be stomped into thin discs, crushed by hand or even rolled up like toothpaste tubes, thus taking up a small space in landfills. Now they are seen as bad in every way, choking the rising oceans and poisoning our precious bodily fluids with leaching carcinogens (an idea promulgated by such august academic journals as the Proceedings of the Society of Anonymous Chain Emails).
The trendy disdain for plastic bottles has produced a new fad for reusable containers. Helping to shame the sinners is Sigg, a Swiss manufacturer of stylish little metal jugs. The bottles are available with eco-slogans such as "Make Love Not Landfill," "Rise Above Plastic" and "Green Is the New Black." Or how's this for pushy: "Friends don't let friends drink from plastic." (In my book, friends don't bully friends over the water they drink.)
And so an innocent choice consumers were urged to feel good about comes to be fraught with moral peril. Part of the appeal of bottled water, after all, was that you didn't have to plan ahead by filling a canteen. It was available at a moment's notice, purchased at a bodega or wrangled from a vending machine. It could stand as a healthy alternative to soda, packaged attractively enough to lure consumers who would otherwise be seduced by caramel-colored fructose bombs.
It wasn't that long ago that making water available everywhere was itself a sort of crusade. In 2005 the American Beverage Association urged its members to stop selling sugary drinks in schools. A year later the Clinton Foundation, acting on the former president's preoccupation with weighty issues, persuaded Coke and Pepsi to phase out their signature products from campus vending machines, replacing the siren-song of soda with pure, healthful water and juice for kids. But now schools such as Washington University in St. Louis have made "Ban the Bottle" a campus cry. Thus does one crusade lead to another, with the solution to yesterday's crisis providing the stuff of today's.
One problem with fashionable causes—whether for healthy living or a healthy planet—is that the more broadly they are adopted, the less fashionable they become. Eco-chic isn't quite so chic when it becomes as common in Des Moines as it is in Marin County.
What began as an elite taste for rare French and Italian mineral water was soon democratized into a mass preference for pseudo spring water—municipal tap water reverse-osmosis-filtered by megacorporate bottling factories. Just as Canal Street vendors can chill the appeal of a hot new handbag by flooding the market with fakes, the ubiquity of knock-off water stripped the symbol of its status. As important as it may be to save the planet, the eco-system still comes in second to the ego-system.
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When we last covered Mavizon Technologies in early 2011, the Louisville, KY team was hard at work refining the Mavia, a device that tracks and transmits basic information regarding your vehicle. A year and a half later, it's ready – recently announcing a limited pre-sale of the device at mavizon.com.
"The team here wanted to build a product that brought in-car connectivity to everyone, at a decent price, with a feature set that was useful every day. We wanted to give users valuable insight to their vehicle and driving habits, while at the same time offering peace of mind through a host of location-based services – geo-fences, reminders, and friends' nearby check-ins. We also wanted make the device a connected device to offer higher resolution of information, and a no hassle installation – no bluetooth, no USB loading, no buttons," says Madison Hamman, CEO at Mavizon.
The small Mavia box (officially called a "dongle") plugs into the OBD-II port (where the car's diagnostics information is sent), located underneath the dash of any car made after 1995. The information can then be viewed on your mobile device once you've created an account at mymavia.com. The device tracks your driving habits, including your MPG and total distance traveled, and it also provides GPS information. Spying on your teenage daughter has never been easier.
Mavia seems to be targeting those interested in keeping close tabs on one another (i.e. families), as well as the DIY-junkie. With its interactive service log, car nerds should keep themselves busy with plenty of diagnostics to dig through. My personal favorite feature is the location-based reminders that users can set up through geo-fencing – something I've been clamoring for for quite some time.
The device is currently available for pre-sale in the US for $169 plus $4.99 per month or $49 for an annual subscription. Hamman promises that the Mavia will "be open for pre-orders for a bit longer," which is code for hurry. In terms of the device's future, Hamman adds, "We're prepared to open up our API to allow developers to build their own location-aware features and incorporate the connected car into their own apps."
To learn more about the Mavia, check out the video below.
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