The Deck of Cards

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Jack or Knaves: Satan or the Devil	2
Five: The two groups of five virgins who trimmed their lamps for a wedding. Five were wise (by saving enough oil) and we	2
Trey: The Holy Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit/Ghost	1
Twelve Face Cards: Months in a year	1
Nine: The ten lephers who Jesus cleansed; nine of whom didn't even thank him.	1
Ace: The one true God	0
365 Spots: Days in a year	0
52 Cards: Approximate number of weeks in a year	0
Four Suits: Approximate number of weeks in a month (can also mean the four seasons but this is not included in the song)	0
Thirteen Tricks: Approximate number of weeks in a quarter	0
Queen: Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Queen of Heaven.	0
King: Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.	0
Ten: The Ten Commandments God handed down to Moses.	0
Eight: The eight righteous people who God saved during the Great Flood: Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wive	0
Seven: God rests on the seventh day, now known as the Sabbath.	0
Six: God creates the Earth in six days.	0
Four: St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John, authors of the four Gospels	0
Deuce: The Old Testament and New Testament in the Bible	0
He then ends his story by saying that "my deck of cards serves me as a Bible, an almanac and a prayer book."	0

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

reaction-diffusion patterns in mathematica; nutrition facts on the backs of receipts; mississippi john hurt's stack o' lee

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:33 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

There are several types of insurance captives, the most common are defined below:

* Single Parent Captive - is an insurance or reinsurance company formed primarily to insure the risks of its non-insurance parent or affiliates.

* Association Captive - is a company owned by a trade, industry or service group for the benefit of its members.

* Group Captive - is a company, jointly owned by a number of companies, created to provide a vehicle to meet a common insurance need.

* Agency Captive - is a company owned by an insurance agency or brokerage firm so they may reinsure a portion of their clients risks through that company.

* Rent-a-Captive - is a company that provides 'captive' facilities to others for a fee, while protecting itself from losses under individual programs, which are also isolated from losses under other programs within the same company. This facility is often used for programs that are too small to justify establishing their own captive.

Two other types of insurance company which have developed recently are special purpose vehicles (SPV) and segregated portfolio companies (SPC):

* SPV - Although used extensively in the past for various financing arrangements, recently they have been used for catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars.

* SPC - SPCs can be formed as a rent-a-captive facility to enable those companies who lack sufficient insurance premium volume, or who are averse to establishing their own insurance subsidiary, access to many of the benefits associated with an offshore captive.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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