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(PL) Insurance Industry Stock Outlook – May 2013 – Zacks Analyst Interviews
The year 2013 started off much better than expected for the U.S. insurance industry, with most of the primary insurers beating first quarter earnings estimates and reporting relatively low combined ratios. Moreover, the sector continued to witness rising premium rates which started a year back after a long period of softness.
The sector seems to be reaching a favorable pricing cycle and its near-term outlook for pricing power remains upbeat in the wake of rising demand from economically recovering American households. But a dearth of positive catalysts is delaying the recovery process of the insurers. Among the fundamental challenges, weak underwriting gains and low investment yields stand out.
Climate change further adds to the concerns. The ravages of Superstorm Sandy resulted in billions of insured losses last year. Notably, insured property losses due to Sandy were much higher than the average over the last decade.
Though insurers are preparing themselves better to withstand significant losses, an increasing probability of natural catastrophes due to growing global warming will continue to raise concerns. This is without mentioning the tornado devastation in Moore, Oklahoma this week, which, although nowhere near as concentrated as the East Coast, will nonetheless result in further losses for insurers.
The events outside the country such as continued debt crisis in the Eurozone will further limit the industry's growth prospects.
However, the overall health of the industry has improved somewhat in the recent past riding on an economic recovery, after enduring pricing pressures and reduced insured exposure since the latest recession.
Rising premium rates should ultimately translate into margin expansion and mitigate the negative impact of the ongoing low interest rate environment on insurers' investment income. Further, increasing awareness on the risk of catastrophe, strong underwriting discipline and favorable reserve development in the recent quarters should place the industry at least one step ahead.
That said, though the market condition doesn't remain soft anymore, reasonable hardening is not expected at least until the end of 2013. Moreover, a stressed balance sheet, lack of real employment growth and legislative challenges are threatening insurers' ability to rebound to the historical growth rate.
Also, limited organic growth opportunities and strict regulatory capital requirements will push the industry more toward consolidation. Insurers are seeking structural economies of scale through mergers and acquisitions to enhance market share. While this will help insurers stay afloat, inter-segment competition will alleviate. So, increasing profitability after complying with the regulatory requirements and coping with the challenges of climate change could prove difficult.
Zacks Industry Rank
Within the Zacks Industry classification, insurers are broadly grouped in the Finance sector (one of 16 Zacks sectors) and are further sub-divided into five industries at the expanded level: Insurance-Accident & Health, Insurance-Brokers, Insurance-Life, Insurance-Multiline and Insurance-Property & Casualty. The level of sensitivity and exposure to different stages of the economic cycle vary for each industry.
We rank all the 260 plus industries in the 16 Zacks sectors based on the earnings outlook and fundamental strength of the constituent companies in each industry. To learn more visit: About Zacks Industry Rank.
As a guideline, the outlook for industries with Zacks Industry Rank of #88 and lower is 'Positive,' between #89 and #176 is 'Neutral' and #177 and higher is 'Negative.'
The Zacks Industry Rank for Insurance-Property & Casualty is #6, Insurance-Multiline is #13, Insurance-Accident & Health is #50, Insurance-Brokers is #60 and Insurance-Life is #71. Looking at the Zacks Industry Rank of the five insurance industries, one could certainly say that the near-term outlook for the group is 'Positive.'
Life Insurers
A reduction in underwriting expenses and a modest increase in premiums have been helping life insurers increase net income in the last few quarters. But downward pressure on investment yields due to a low interest rates, higher hedging costs, lower income from the variable annuity business and more burdensome capital requirements will continue to mar profitability going forward. Also, low rates are spoiling life insurers' efforts to grow fixed annuities and universal life insurance sales.
As the Federal Reserve plans to hold interest rates at low levels through mid-2015, life insurers will have to seek alternative asset classes to optimize return from investments. However, the addition of any risky asset class in their investment portfolios with hopes of better yield may lead to further losses.
As the industry's statutory capital level fell sharply during the recession, life insurers will need to optimize their capital levels to address the ensuing challenges. In the short term, traditional sources of capital are expected to fulfill most of what life insurers need in order to stay in good shape. However, non-traditional sources of capital will take years to strengthen financials.
The underlying trends amid a recovering economy indicate stability in the sector over the medium term with respect to credit profile and financial prospects. However, higher-than-average asset losses, primarily resulting from their real estate exposure, will remain a major concern.
Further, the sluggish pace of economic recovery is making it difficult for life insurers to expand their customer base. In fact, insurers are struggling to even retain their existing clientele. Narrowed disposable income owing to high unemployment and huge credit card debt has made it difficult for Americans to invest in retirement products such as life insurance. Americans, primarily the youth, have significantly reduced expenditures on life insurance products, and are instead choosing alternative investments that promise better returns.
Though the carriers are transforming their products and businesses to make them attractive and profitable for customers, significant improvement in demand is not expected in the near term.
In December, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the credit outlook for the U.S. life insurance industry at stable for 2013. This action was primarily based on the expectation of insurers' improved liquidity and balance sheet strength.
However, the rating agency expects statutory capital growth to be moderate in 2013 given subdued earnings growth due to the low interest rate environment. Also, the agency does not expect a significant improvement in portfolio credit quality due to the expected weakness in investment income.
Currently, the life insurers with favorable Zacks Ranks worth considering include Protective Life Corporation (PL) and StanCorp Financial Group Inc. (SFG) with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), and China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (LFC) with a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Health Insurers
As U.S. health insurers are preparing themselves to comply with the mandates of the health care reform, their financials are expected to remain strong. Broad-based moderation in utilization has been primarily boosting the bottom line of health insurers. Also, increased access to capital and better retention opportunities are helping them grow consistently despite tardy economic growth.
Moreover, the carriers have been witnessing better credit quality in the recent quarters, reflecting a moderate industry risk.
In 2010, the historic health care reform legislation – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – was passed by the Congress with the intension of making health care facilities more affordable, preventing private health insurers from continuing with the pre-existing condition clause and at the same time reducing the number of uninsured by bringing in 32 million more people under coverage by 2019.
The legislation had many detractors who contested several of its stated benefits and considered it another entitlement program that the country can ill afford. Finally, in Jun 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the reform, rejuvenating the industry by removing major uncertainties. Further, Obama's re-election in Nov 2012 essentially ensured a future to the law.
While the legislative overhaul brings more regulatory scrutiny for private insurers such as WellPoint Inc. (WLP) and UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (UNH), the net negative effect is expected to be far softer than was initially feared.
Although the full implementation of PPACA will be in 2014, the industry is expected to see gradual changes through the reminder of 2013. While bringing more people under coverage will add prospects for growth, the requirement to reduce health care costs will lead to margin compression.
Also, while the reform will provide more cross-selling opportunities for health insurers, their overall profitability will be limited over the long run as the negative impact of Medicare Advantage payment cuts, industry taxes and restrictions on underwriting practices will more than offset the benefits of bringing more people under the umbrella.
Consequently, substantial growth in industry revenue is not expected until 2015 as insurers will be forced to adjust the benefits to comply with the health care legislation. Among others, providing coverage to everyone regardless of an expensive pre-existing condition would put their top lines at stake.
Property & Casualty Insurers
Market hardening has been the key to improvement for property-casualty insurers in the recent quarters. After struggling with falling prices for years, insurers seem to finally reach a period of better premium rates. However, property-casualty insurers are still feeling the pressure on their investment portfolios due to the prevailing low interest rate environment. This has been continuously reducing the capital adequacy of most carriers.
Along with continually improving pricing power, better preparation to withstand catastrophe-related losses should help insurers perform better in the upcoming quarters despite the pressure on investment income.
As property-casualty insurers hold about two-thirds of the invested assets in the form of bonds, their capacity is highly sensitive to changes in credit market conditions. And with credit markets remaining weak plus bond prices hovering at low levels due to persisting concerns over defaults, insurers may incur significant realized and unrealized capital losses on their portfolios in the upcoming quarters. Moreover, catastrophe losses continue to keep the balance sheets of a number of carriers under pressure.
However, the ongoing recovery in the credit and equity markets is leading to a reduction in unrealized investment losses. Also, once the economic recovery gains momentum, insurance volume will grow rapidly. With growing employment in the private sector and recovery in the housing markets, a number of carriers have already started seeing growth in insurance sales.
The recent quarters have been increasingly witnessing a rebound in claims-paying capacity (as measured by policyholders' surpluses), which reflects the industry's resilience over the prior years. Conservative investment strategies and capital restructuring efforts will continue to help property-casualty insurers improve their financial footing in the upcoming quarters.
Currently, ProAssurance Corporation (PRA), XL Group plc (XL), Hilltop Holdings Inc. (HTH) and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (AXS) with a Zacks Rank #1 are worth a look in the property-casualty industry.
The industry has been undertaking several structural changes that will make underwriting and pricing schemes even more attractive to consumers. Also, improving financial fundamentals on the back of favorable macroeconomic trends make the stocks of a number of industry participants appear attractive.
We remain positive on Alleghany Corporation (Y), American Safety Insurance Holdings Ltd. (ASI), White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (WTM), Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGO) and Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (EIHI) with a Zacks Rank #1.
Other insurers that we like with a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) include The Chubb Corporation (CB), Cincinnati Financial Corp. (CINF), Everest Re Group Ltd. (RE), PartnerRe Ltd. (PRE), American International Group, Inc. (AIG), Cigna Corp. (CI), The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (HIG), MetLife, Inc. (MET), Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) and Amerisafe, Inc. (AMSF).
We expect continued pressure on investment yield and lower income from the variable annuity business to restrict the earnings growth rate of life insurers. Also, reduced financial flexibility and weak underwriting will hurt the earnings of many property-casualty insurers. Moreover, the overall industry is vulnerable to the ever-increasing threat of natural disasters.
Among the Zacks covered U.S. insurers, we prefer to stay away from the Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) stocks: ING Groep NV (ING), AFLAC Inc. (AFL), Loews Corporation (L), Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. (MIG) and Stewart Information Services Corporation (STC). Currently, there are no stocks with a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).
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Well, sometimes when you hit certain plateaus, you sometimes feel the need to "espouse" something great.
This won't necessarily be great but *eh*.. it'll do.
AO has come a long way from when I first joined and lurked. I came here because of "troublesome" students (particularly one brightness who printed out ALL his video pr0n --- I figured he wanted to make a flip book or something... *shrug*). Anyways, since then the direction and feel of the site has changed. Maybe for good, maybe for bad. It has changed however.
One of the changes that has occurred is the attitude I find that people take towards "hacking" (I'm using the general term rather than what I envision "hacking" to mean -- those that truly understand the system in question, be it an OS, a network, the art of hockey or cycling). I took from this site, and still believe, that to truly understand what goes on as far as malicious attacks, you need to know and understand those attacks. It helps you defend your systems. There shouldn't be a fear of discussing those attacks in these forums (I see too often the whipped out "THIS IS A SECURITY FORUM, YOU MORON!"). The advantage of letting those "morons" talk is that you'll see sometimes what some attackers are doing, even if they are script kiddies. Keep in mind that they will do their illegal activities regardless of the answer they get here. The difference is that you won't know who their target is and won't be able to prevent it from happening (errr.. social engineering anyone?!).
I choose to have wargames in my classes so that students can explore this safely and legally in an environment without having to go outside and potentially get arrested. Granted I do tend to use a fair amount of ethics and remind them of the legal issues that can happen but at least in this environment they can let out what it is they want. Is this a perfect solution? Naw but it helps. It can get a few over the scriptkiddie stage and that initial "oh look how kewl this is!!!!" giggles that comes with first experiments. It's interesting to see them go beyond that when it comes to security because now they've looked at even the simplistic and start (*GASP*) thinking outside of the standard "security practises" box.
IMO, if we ignore the activities of even the simplest scriptkiddies we'll end up behind again in our defenses of systems (do a search for University of Berkley and Nipissing University for recent examples). We will ignore the simple while looking for finesse. We'll never find the finesse, however, if we don't see the basics (mostly because it'll stand out in stark contrast). In essense we do need the Full Disclosure option to be here. I joined the FD list so that I could see more of what goes on and have a better heads up than what the SecurityFocus lists (BugTraq in particular) provide. I find that BT tends to be behind somewhat and censors out too much. Symantec may believe, much like MS, that "exploits are only created after patches are released" but I believe that's too risky of a view to have. I'd rather have everyone know about a problem and even put in a "Bandage" temp solution than no solution. Not that patch systems work either (I'm surprised that more Patch Management companies aren't making killings out there).
Is having FD a perfect solution? No. It may bring to light to some attackers that a specific hole exists without any fixes (even if we have followed proper bug submittal procedures -- that is, submit it to the software developer and give them 4-6 weeks to fix) but I suspect there are still channels that the "underground" use and they'll find out somehow, wouldn't they? Even with that risk I'd rather have everyone know -- even if it means scriptkiddies will use the POC -- than attempt some half-assed "security through obscurity" by trying to hide it until a patch can be produced.
Anyways, that's my "great post" for this plateau. Perhaps not so earth shattering but maybe some will consider it when responding to the "how do I ....". Knowledge and information are powerful things. Why are we choosing to ignore them?


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22 U.S. Code § 5501 - International negotiations concerning aviation security
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§ 5501.
International negotiations concerning aviation security
(a) United States policyIt is the policy of the United States—
to seek bilateral agreements to achieve United States aviation security objectives with foreign governments;
to continue to press vigorously for security improvements through the Foreign Airport Security Act [1] and the foreign airport assessment program; and
(b) Negotiations for aviation security
(1) The Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall be responsible for negotiating requisite aviation security agreements with foreign governments concerning the implementation of United States rules and regulations which affect the foreign operations of United States air carriers, foreign air carriers, and foreign international airports. The Secretary of State is directed to enter, expeditiously, into negotiations for bilateral and multilateral agreements—
to implement the Foreign Airport Security Act 1 and the foreign airport assessment program to the fullest extent practicable; and
A principal objective of bilateral and multilateral negotiations with foreign governments and the International Civil Aviation Organization shall be improved availability of passenger manifest information.
(Pub. L. 101–604, title II, § 201, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3081.)
[1] See References in Text note below.
References in Text
No act with the title Foreign Airport Security Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(2) and (b)(1)(B), has been enacted. The Foreign Airport Security Act probably means part B (§§ 551–559) of title V of Pub. L. 99–83, Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 222. For complete classification of part B to the Code, see Tables.
Congressional Findings
Pub. L. 101–604, § 2, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3066, provided that:
"Congress finds that—
the safety and security of passengers of United States air carriers against terrorist threats should be given the highest priority by the United States Government;
the report of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, dated May 15, 1990, found that current aviation security systems are inadequate to provide such protection;
the United States Government should immediately take steps to ensure fuller compliance with existing laws and regulations relating to aviation security;
the United States Government should work through the International Civil Aviation Organization and directly with foreign governments to enhance aviation security of foreign carriers and at foreign airports;
the United States Government should ensure that enhanced security measures are fully implemented by both United States and foreign air carriers;
all nations belonging to the Summit Seven should promptly amend the Bonn Declaration to extend sanctions for all terrorist acts, including attacks against airports and air carrier ticket offices;
the United States Government, in bilateral negotiations with foreign governments, should emphasize upgrading international aviation security objectives;
the United States Government should have in place a mechanism by which the Government notifies the public, on a case-by-case basis and through the application of a uniform national standard, of certain credible threats to civil aviation security;
the United States Government has a special obligation to United States victims of acts of terrorism directed against this Nation and should provide prompt assistance to the families of such victims and assure that fair and prompt compensation is provided to such victims and their families;
the United States should work with other nations to treat as outlaws state sponsors of terrorism, isolating such sponsors politically, economically, and militarily;
the United States must develop a clear understanding that state-sponsored terrorism threatens United States values and interests, and that active measures are needed to counter more effectively the terrorist threat; and
the United States must have the national will to take every feasible action to prevent, counter, and respond to terrorist activities."
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By Mike McDonald
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Survivors of Guatemala's bloody civil war relived the massacre of relatives as they testified on Wednesday against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who is accused of overseeing genocide during the 36-year conflict.
Rios Montt, 86, the first ex-head of state to stand trial for crimes against humanity in his own country, was not prosecuted for years for alleged atrocities committed during his 1982-1983 rule because of his protected status as a congressman.
But after retiring last year, Rios Montt was ordered to face trial by a judge who found sufficient evidence linking him to the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous people in a counterinsurgency plan executed under his command.
On the second day of the landmark trial, civil war victims recounted horrific tales of watching their family members killed and their homes torched by soldiers.
"They came and they massacred my mother, my brother and my brother-in-law. They burned homes," said Tomas Chavez, 45, in tears as he recalled the November 1982 massacre in Nebaj in the northwestern state of Quiche.
Santiago Perez, described the murder of his son in July 1982 near the same village.
"We were at home with other people and a man came. He tied up (my son), putting a lasso around his neck and hung him. Then he took him out, pulled him and killed him. They shot him dead," Perez said. He fled to the woods and returned two weeks later to find his home and crops burned, his sheep killed.
Prosecutors allege Rios Montt turned a blind eye as soldiers used rape, torture and arson against leftist insurgents and targeted indigenous people in a "scorched earth" offensive that killed at least 1,771 members of the Mayan Ixil group.
The defense argues that Rios Montt did not control battlefield operations and that there was no genocide.
"It's not possible to prove these crimes. It's impossible at this moment to prove that there was a genocide in Guatemala and that is what we will prove," said Marco Antonio Cornejo, a lawyer for Rios Montt.
Humans rights advocates and victims have described the trial as a sea change for Guatemala.
"It's a strong voice against impunity and a strong voice in favor of victims," said Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, who attended the trial. "We hope that from now on, we (the indigenous people) are accepted by Guatemala's polarized society that carries with it the genocide of the past."
Roughly 200,000 civilians, most of them of Mayan descent, were killed during the 1960-1996 civil war as a string of right-wing governments attempted to rid Guatemala of leftist guerilla fighters suspected of being in league with Communists.
Another 45,000 people disappeared.
A United Nations-backed truth commission report released after the 1996 peace accords found that the army and paramilitary groups were responsible for more than 90 percent of the hundreds of massacres carried out during the war.
Born in Huehuetenango, a province in Guatemala's rural western highlands dotted with indigenous communities, Rios Montt took power in March 1982 when he led a military coup that toppled President Angel Guevara.
He remained politically active after being overthrown in a coup in August 1983, serving in Guatemala's legislature and launching an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2003.
Genocide trials have been rare for ex-leaders in Latin America, which was scarred by bloody civil conflicts and repression. Charges were raised against Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, but he died in 2006 before standing trial.
A three-judge panel must debate the evidence, then sentence or exonerate Rios Montt. A prosecutor has said that up to 130 victims and 75 experts are expected to testify during the trial, which could run several months.
(Reporting by Mike McDonald; Writing by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Eric Beech and Stacey Joyce)


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Management Students Earn First Place in the International Glo-Bus Competition
Concord, NH – Last week, students at Granite State College ranked #1 world-wide for their performance in Glo-Bus, a competitive simulation of the digital camera industry that is widely used in upper-level Management courses at colleges and universities across the country.
From a pool of more than 2,000 teams from 159 colleges and universities, a group of five students taught by Professors Michael Russell were recognized for their top ranking for the week of November 5 to November 11, 2012.
Glo-Bus provides an active learning experience for students with authentic managerial situations. Working in teams, students are responsible for assessing market conditions, determining how to respond to the actions of competitors, forging a long-term direction and strategy for their company, and making decisions relating to workforce compensation and plant operations, assembly plant capacity, pricing and marketing, finance, and corporate social responsibility/citizenship.
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Hunters can buy Montana's over-the-counter antelope licenses and surplus licenses for deer B, elk B and antelope beginning Aug. 5, but in some areas very few licenses are available so they're expected to go fast.
Surplus licenses are those still remaining after Montana's recent special hunting license drawings. The left-over licenses are sold on a first-come first-served basis. "B" licenses are for hunting antlerless deer or elk.
"We've seen a steady increase in the use of the Internet to purchase surplus licenses and while 12,000 are available, many hunting districts will be sold out in a hurry," said Hank Worsech, the licensing bureau chief for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks in Helena. "Hunters seeking to buy these licenses should plan ahead to be online or at a license provider that's open early."
Online sales will begin at approximately 5 a.m. on Aug. 5.
The licenses can be purchased online at fwp.mt.gov, then click "Buy a License"; or from any FWP license provider. FWP offices will open at 8 a.m. on Aug. 5 to accommodate walk-in customers.
Hunters may hold one either-sex and up to two doe/fawn antelope licenses, and may possess a total of seven deer B licenses in any combination via drawing, over-the-counter, or surplus purchase. The list of available licenses can be viewed online at fwp.mt.gov.


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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the legends who were there
Film by Rick McKay
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By Jerry Tallmer
Film director Rick McKay with Carol Channing
Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
I can hear it now, and in her voice, and so all his life could Tom Wingfield, also known as Thomas Lanier Williams, a/k/a Tennessee Williams, and so, as they talk to Rick McKay, can Gena Rowlands, Uta Hagen, Ben Gazzara, Fred Ebb, Charles Durning, and dozens of others.
Durning says it best: I thought theyd pulled her in off the street.
He is talking about, they are talking about, we are talking here about Laurette Taylor (1884-1946), whose performance as Amanda Wingfield. Toms mother, Lauras mother, in the 1945 New York premiere of The Glass Menagerie at the Royale Theater on Broadway is and will always remain the American high-water mark of acting that goes beyond acting to be (that is, to seem) no acting at all.
I saw her five times in The Glass Menagerie, says the also great Uta Hagen whom we lost only some months ago, and ten times in Outward Bound.
Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb saw The Glass Menagerie SEVEN times. In one instant that Ebb still carries in his gizzards, Laurette Taylor turned around and pulled down her girdle, and I have never been so affected by a stage action in my whole life. It made me weep.
She could have been my mother, says Ben Gazzara, speaking of the telephone scene in which a desperate Amanda Wingfield tries to get a female acquaintance to renew a magazine subscription at 5 or 6 oclock in the morning. It makes you laugh and cry in the same breath. How do you do that? says Gazzara. Only PEOPLE do that. I think weve all been striving to be her, one way or another.
Rick McKays movie is the heart-stopping two-hour documentary Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, opening June 11 at the Angelika. If you think Im kidding about your heart skipping a beat or two, just wait till there suddenly jumps out at you from the screen a little touch of Julie Harris in The Member of the Wedding (1951-52), of Kim Stanley in Bus Stop (1955), of Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in Streetcar (1947), of Gwen Verdon, of West Side Story, of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Also some very rare footage of a 1930s Laurette Taylor screen test for David O. Selznicks Young in Heart in a Hollywood that, looking at it, thought she didnt know how to act and threw it, and her, away.
It is this playgoers belief that Rick McKay made Broadway: The Golden Age just for said playgoer. When I was in my infancy artistic infancy anyway I one after another not only saw Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie but that unknown somebody named Brando who thundered out on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire as the living embodiment of the Eddie Szemplenski and Johnny Wodarski I had only lately served with in the Army.
Durning on (pre-Streetcar) Brando in Truckline Cafe I thought: another guy they pulled off the street. Too good to be an actor.
These were the years a little before Rick McKay of Beech Grove, Indiana, got to New York. The years of Brando. Julie Harris. Geraldine Page. Kim Stanley, Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera, Paul Newman, Uta Hagen, Ethel Waters, Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Eva Marie Saint, Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, John Raitt, Patricia Morrison, and on and on and on.
Living stage. Living actors. I never got tired of watching Kim Stanley, Elaine Stritch tells McKay and his camera. Never! Never! A golden age indeed.
Those were the years also of the gathering places: Walgrens and Grays drug stores, the all-night Childs on Columbus Circle, Downeys Steak House on Eighth Avenue at 44th Street, the Automat, the Rehearsal Club. In those years four young actresses would gang up together as Carol Burnett remembers to buy and share one $20 go-to-auditions dress from Bloomingdales. Subways were five cents, hamburgers were a dime.
Somebody told me: You dont need that stuff about Downeys. Nobody today knows about Downeys. And THAT. says Rick McKay, is why Downeys is in this film.
Theater was a community then, says playwright Arthur Laurents. Oh, a big family, says dearly missed artist Al Hirschfeld, who eternalized everyone in this whole movie and thousands more. A big family except for the cold secretaries in producers and agents offices, as Marion Seldes all too well remembers.
Rick McKay stands in his not very big living room maybe 16 feet by 20 feet in an old building on the Upper West Side, and says: I shot and interviewed a lot of them right here: Gwen Verdon, Elizabeth Ashley, Hume Cronyn, Alec Baldwin, Fay Wray, Fred Ebb, Chita Rivera, Marian Seldes, Tony Roberts, Lainie Kazan, Lilian Montevecchi, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Cook, Kaye Ballard at least 40 of them [of 90 in the complete movie] here in this room.
Alec Baldwin arrived with his agent. He expected a studio. In the mirror I saw him mouth to his agent: Ill kill you. Then he looked at my two cats and started sneezing. I said: Mr. Baldwin, arent you an animal-rights activist? He sniffed and said: Dogs! But in the end he warmed up and gave a terrific interview.
Where did you put all this together?
In my bedroom. Here, let me show you.
Leads the way to his bedroom, half the size of the living room. An in-a-door foldaway Murphy bed makes space for the editing process.
An actor and cabaret performer himself before he turned producer for WNET 13s City Arts, McKay in the summer of 1998 was at a July 4th party at June Havocs house in Connecticut. Havocs assistant, Tana Sabillio, introduced him to two quite beautiful young women, sisters Jessica and Deborah Winer. Heres a good piece for you at City Arts, said Ms. Sabillio. Deborahs a writer. Jessicas an artist. Shes doing a huge mural of Broadway show people for the Visitors Center on Times Square.
The mural, 40 feet long, was being laid out at that moment on the floor of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Square.
I went down, took a look at it, made a little demo, brought it to Channel 13, where, to make a long story short, I was told: Oh, Broadway theaters too old fashioned, we want young and hip, so I decided to try to make it a documentary on this Broadway mural on my own. When he discussed his idea with topnotch film editor Wendey Stanzler, she said: You know whats missing? You have to talk to the people in the mural.
So he set forth to do that.
Two of the people he filmed first were Patricia Morrison and Gwen Verdon.
When he asked Patricia Morrison if anyone had known in advance that Kiss Me Kate was going to be a hit, she replied: Oh, no, not till we opened in Philadelphia and we made our own costumes.
Gwen Verdon said: Why did no one ever ask me these questions? They always just asked about Bob [Fosse], Rick watched her walk away from his building a dancers walk, the walk of royalty. Not long later, Gwen Verdon, who all her life never thought she was beautiful, died in her sleep.
Its not in his movie, but 43-year-old Rick McKay vividly remembers when, at the 1985 Tony Awards, Chita Rivera in top hat and cutaway, doing a number from Chicago, grasped a cane handed her from behind by a shadowing Gwen Verdon and the audience went crazy.
I dont know if we live to be 100 if Bebe Neuwirth will generate that madness, says McKay. There was a time when people grew up as going-to-theater people. No longer. Its too expensive just to go to the theater to see one person that you love on stage.
Or as Rex Reed puts it in the film: Every year there used to be a new Kim Stanley play. When will there be a Cherry Jones play? She cant wait for one.
Making a movie even in your own living room/bedroom costs money.
I couldnt afford archival rights, music rights [the film is full of gorgeous standards], all that. I needed, and, thank God and thanks to Jamie deRoy, who gave the party I got an investor. Hes also a composer and his name is Al [Albert M.] Tapper.
One day out of the blue McKay received a phone call from Jane Klain of the Museum of Television and Radio.
It was one of those things that dont happen in life. She said: Ive heard about your film, and I know where theres footage of Bus Stop right off the stage. I said: I cant pay you anything. She said: I dont want money. I know where the bodies are buried. The Bus Stop footage was at UCLA. Jane also came up with that Laurette Taylor screen test.
McKay, who was born in Natick, Mass., on Aug. 30, 1960, but grew up in Beech Grove, Indiana, arrived in New York in the early 80s with a voice that I WISH sounded like John Raitt and then I found out John Raitt didnt have a job either.
When young Ricks mother was doing the vacuuming, shed play Judy Garland at the Palace or at the Paladium. What chance did I have?
One of the people who did NOT come to McKays Upper West Side apartment to be filmed was Elaine Stritch. He shot her at the Regency Hotel, having paid in advance for her limousine in from the Hamptons and for her hair make up.
But in the end it was worth it. She gave me the last line in the movie: Rick, you got enough, for Christs sake.
Well, yes, except theres a whole other movie somewhere out there in space, of wonderful stuff he had to edit out to get down to two hours. And theres Broadway: The Next Generation. Thats what the wannabe John Raitt is working on now.
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CARACAS, Venezuela – A Venezuelan judge placed under house arrest by an infuriated President Hugo Chávez is getting help from Human rights officials from the United Nations.
UN officials told the government Thursday to free Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, who has been charged with corruption, abuse of authority and aiding an inmate's escape.
Afiuni maintains she is innocent.
After that episode was when I got sick and they removed my uterus.
- Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni
Margaret Sekaggya, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, joined other U.N. officials in the Afiuni's appeal.
Afiuni infuriated Chávez in 2009 when she freed a banker from prison while he was awaiting trial on charges of flouting currency exchange controls. A day after Afiuni's arrest, Chávez said on television that she should face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
"Judge Afiuni's situation represents an emblematic case of reprisal," Sekaggya said in a statement issued by the United Nations.
The U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Mendez, criticized Venezuelan authorities for failing to investigate Afiuni's allegations that she was raped in the infirmary of a women's prison where she was being held in 2010.
"Rape and other grave acts of sexual violence by state authorities" amount to torture, Mendez said.
Afiuni's rape allegations became public in November when a book by Venezuelan journalist Francisco Olivares detailing her arrest and detention was published. Afiuni said she was 47 at the time of the purported crime and that she became pregnant.
"After that episode was when I got sick and they removed my uterus," Afiuni is quoted as saying in the book.
Venezuelan officials have rejected the judge's rape-related allegations.
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By Melissa McCutchan
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Some of Christianity's top missiologists, mission administrators and teachers gathered at Columbia International University for the annual Southeast regional meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS) March 8-9.
The keynote address was given by Dr. Jerry Rankin, the director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies at Columbia International University. His address titled "The Family: An Asset to Fulfilling God's Mission," pulled from personal experience and the experience of other missionary families. Rankin and his wife Bobbye served for 23 years in Asia as missionaries in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world.
"God has established certain institutions," Rankin said. "Why indeed do we exist as a family structure? To fulfill God's mission in the world."
Rankin continued saying, that while the family contributes to God's mission, the mission field also contributes to the missionary family.
"There's something much more valuable to be gained," Rankin said. "[Missionary children] don't just hear the Bible stories. They live them."
Rankin also emphasized ministering to the needs of the missionary, including counseling and adequate social care. He says that while the family is an asset in accomplishing the mission of God, it must also be nurtured.
"The opportunity to nurture a [child's] walk with God is unique to the mission field, not only for the lack of distractions but for the chance to teach our children why we would take them to a place of spiritual darkness," Rankin said.
The weekend featured other professors from CIU's College of Intercultural Studies, including David Cashin, Chris Little, Ed Smither and Trevor Castor; and College of Counseling professors Harvey Payne and Leah Herod.


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Computer Science (Accelerated Masters Program)
The Accelerated Master's Program (AMP) in Computer Science allows students with strong ability and motivation to complete a bachelor and a master's degree in computer science within five years. It is expected that students enrolled in this program will pursue a master's thesis on original research commencing in the summer following their senior year.
Undergraduates interested in the AMP should discuss this option with the Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science during their junior year.
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The first four years of the AMP consist of a complete undergraduate program in Computer Science, satisfying the curricular requirements for either (i) the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, (ii) the Bachelor of Science, major in Computer Science and Information Systems, or (iii) the Bachelor of Arts, major in Computer Science. During the fourth year, a student in the AMP has dual status, being an undergraduate student in Computer Science, and simultaneously a first-year graduate student in Computer Science. Up to six credits of courses taken during an AMP student's senior year can be applied simultaneously towards the bachelor's and master's degree requirements. These courses must be approved in advance by the Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science.
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Scope and Contents: Materials relating to Purdue University's involvement in the Formosa Taiwan project. Relates to work Professor Norris Shreve and others at Purdue were involved in to expand curricular offerings, particularly in engineering, in Taiwan. The university Purdue worked with eventually became known as the National Cheng Kung University.


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Synapsids include mammals and all extinct amniotes more closely related to mammals than to reptiles. Synapsids are the dominant large terrestrial animals worldwide, and they have also invaded the oceans (whales, pinnipeds) and the air (bats). The oldest known synapsid is an ophiacodontid from the Middle Pennsylvanian (320 million years ago) of Joggins, Nova Scotia. By the Lower Permian, therapsids (the group that includes mammals and most of their Upper Permian and more recent relatives) had appeared (Laurin and Reisz, 1990, 1996). However, the oldest known mammal only dates back to the Jurassic (Rowe, 1988). The fossil record of synapsids is one of the most extensive of any groups of vertebrates. This fossil record has been used to illustrate the concept of evolution (Hopson, 1987) and to test macroevolutionary patterns (Kemp, 1985). The largest gap in this fossil record is between the Permo-Carboniferous synapsids and therapsids.
The fossil record provides conclusive evidence that synapsids are the first amniotes to diversify. Synapsids quickly became the most diverse, widespread and most common amniotes in the Late Carboniferous, and they maintained this predominant position throughout the Paleozoic. Only during the Early Mesozoic are the synapsids eclipsed by the evolutionary radiation of reptiles (Benton, 1983; Charig, 1984). Within the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian, two different herbivorous and several faunivorous synapsid groups can be recognized.
The fossil record suggests that during the Carboniferous and Early Permian, synapsids and other amniotes were restricted to the paleoequatorial and subequatorial regions. During the Late Permian, the distribution of synapsids, and of some of the other amniotes becomes cosmopolitan. However, the evidence for this pattern rests on rather weak negative evidence (i. e., no Permo-Carboniferous synapsids have been found outside paleoequatorial regions, but other areas have not been prospected intensively).
Early synapsids had a sprawling posture and a small brain, like most early tetrapods. The parasagittal gait characteristic of most mammals (Fig. 1) appeared gradually because some therapsids were apparently capable of sprawling and parasagittal gait, and this character may have appeared in the hind limb before the fore limb. Early synapsids were moderately large (body length between 50 cm and 3 m) and most were carnivorous or insectivorous, but caseids and Edaphosaurus were herbivorous. Mammals include the largest tetrapods that ever lived (the blue whale is larger than any dinosaur), as well as very small species.
Most mammals are viviparous, but the platypus (a monotreme) is oviparous, and most, if not all, non-mammalian synapsids were probably oviparous. All mammals have mammary glands, but the presence of these structures cannot be determined in extinct taxa. The oldest preserved synapsid hair appears to belong to a Middle Jurassic docodontan mammaliaform (a stem-synapsid) from China (Ji et al., 2006). However, hair is infrequently fossilized and the next oldest record is from a Paleocene multituberculate (Meng and Wyss, 1997). Therefore, its real date of appearance is unknown. The position of this group has been debated, but they are probably mammals (Rowe, 1988), so the presence of hair in multituberculates was predictible.
Figure 1. An extant synapsid (a black-tailed deer). Like most of the
other 3500 extant synapsid species, it is endothermic and has fur, but these
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Nicole Kidman (in Prada) and Hugh Jackman (in Burberry) promote the Australia Japan Premiere at Toho Cinemas Nichigeki on Thursday (February 26) in Tokyo, Japan.
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|"The likenesses will meet and make merry, but they won't know you. They won't know the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin."
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Dr. Arlene Torres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College. She works on several University, College-wide, and community organizations to support the educational advancement of underrepresented communities in higher education. As a faculty mentor, she coordinates and directs the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Hunter College. She also serves as the Director of the Chancellor's Latino Faculty Initiative in Academic Affairs in the Central Administration at CUNY.
Torres is the current President of the Puerto Rican Studies Association and Past-President of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a division of the American Anthropological Association. She received her Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she held positions as an administrator and member of the faculty. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University and believes in the transformative possibilities of an education in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Arlene Torres is cultural anthropologist with expertise in Caribbean, Latina/Latino, and Latin American Studies. She has conducted research in the Anglophone and Hispanic Caribbean and in the U.S. Topical Interests include: African Diaspora; Puerto Rican & Latina/Latino Diaspora; Theories of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Nationalism; Ideology and Praxis; Migration and Transnationalism; Representation; Class and Economic Development.
Her publications include two edited volumes with Norman E. Whitten, Jr. & Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Collecting Puerto Ricans" In Kevin Yelvington (ed.) Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, reflect Torres' recent intellectual concerns. She is focusing on the racialization of ethnic groups in varied cultural and institutional settings. She is currently working on a project with the National Park Service to understand community formation in Paterson, NJ. As a public intellectual, Torres has served as a member of the Advisory Board and consultant to a national project on RACE supported by the American Anthropological Association, National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation.
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Erath Police say 20-year-old Damien Trahan's family reported him missing on September 21st, having not heard from him since that Friday when he was last seen leaving his job at Champagne's Supermarket in Erath.
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After watching the live feed tonight I'm liking Brendon much better. However, his taste in women sucks, and he needs to cut the cord. He is looking awfully "whipped".
Brendon's attitude has changed as well. Rachel's attitude is rubbing off onto Brendon. You can see it over the past few weeks. Rachel just acts too much like a child and it is time for her to go to get this game back on task. Just seems like 90% of all BBAD feeds are the HG's talking about (obsession ?) Brendon and Rachel.
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Camarillo - Firearms and Narcotics Arrest
Nature of Incident:
Firearms and Narcotic Arrest
Report Number:
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400 Block Acacia Road, Santa Paula
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February 1, 2013 at 9:05 a.m.
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(S) Baldomero Alamillo
Santa Paula
On 01/11/2013, Deputies from the Camarillo police station conducted a traffic enforcement stop on an Acura sedan in the city of Camarillo and identified the driver as Baldomero Alamillo. While talking to Alamillo, the deputies smelled an odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, a loaded semi-automatic handgun and additional ammunition was located. A records check on the handgun revealed Alamillo was not the registered owner. The deputies attempted to locate the registered owner of the handgun, with negative results.
During the investigation, Camarillo Special Enforcement Detail detectives located and contacted the registered owner of the handgun. The owner of the handgun told investigators that the handgun that was recovered from Alamillo's vehicle, along with three other firearms and property were stolen sometime in 2008; the other three firearms were not recovered by our investigators.
On 02/01/2013, deputies from the Camarillo Special Enforcement Detail (SED) and the Ventura County Sheriff's Gang Unit (SGU) served a search warrant at Alamillo's residence in the city of Santa Paula. A search of Alamillo's vehicle and residence revealed Alamillo was in possession of marijuana and cocaine, along with corresponding evidence indicating he is involved in narcotic sales. Two additional firearms and ammunition were also located and seized as evidence.
Alamillo was arrested and booked at the Ventura County Main Jail for PC 496(a)-Possession of Stolen Property and H&S 11351-Possession of a Controlled Substance for Sale.
Anyone having information about this case should call Detective Francisco Jauregui at 805-388-5113, or if you wish to remain anonymous, the Ventura County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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