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We chat with Anthony Hopkins, in town for SIFF award By WILLIAM ARNOLD, P-I MOVIE CRITIC In a movie career that spans 40 years, Sir Anthony Hopkins has created a staggering array of characters and won every conceivable award -- and he's nowhere near retirement. ... SIFF to include gala tribute to Anthony Hopkins But this year's 33rd edition, which begins May 24, will include a gala tribute to Sir Anthony Hopkins. The program will be presented with the local debut of Hopkins' first writer-director effort, "Slipstream." ... Reel Dad: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in 'The Father' Anthony Hopkins - Oscar nominated last year for "The Two Popes" - should be in contention again this year for a portrayal of depth and accessibility. ... Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins star in "The Father." Sir Anthony Hopkins Sells Dramatic Malibu Home for $10.5M Claudine Zap, provided by Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins has sold his trophy house in Malibu, CA. ... Santiago Arana with The Agency represented the seller. --- Watch: Anthony Hopkins' Malibu Estate Makes ... Sir Anthony Hopkins Ready to Make a Royal Exit From Malibu Anthony Hopkins is ready to take a final bow from his Malibu, CA, estate. ... Lisa Johnson Mandell, provided by It appears Sir Anthony Hopkins is ready to take a final bow from his Malibu, CA, estate. ... The ... Thor 3D (L-R) Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Anthony Hopkins as Odin in "Thor." ... Anthony Hopkins as Odin in "Thor." Thor Anthony Hopkins as Odin in "Thor." (L-R) Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Anthony Hopkins as Odin in "Thor." New on Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and Hulu October 2018 The casting of Anthony Hopkins as a New England professor with a secret and Nicole Kidman as a campus cleaning woman was widely criticized at the time, but their performances hold up. How Anthony Hopkins views his relationship with Shakespeare (AP) - A roundup of news Friday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs: ____ HOPKINS BACK AS KING LEAR - ... Week in Photos - 5/29/2007 Actor and director Anthony Hopkins walks the red carpet and waves to fans at the Seattle International Film Festival at McCaw Hall in Seattle. 'Disturbia' repeats as No. 1 "Fracture," starring Anthony Hopkins, who played killer Lecter in three films, debuted at No. 2. 'Beowulf' premiere British actor Anthony Hopkins arrives. ... Actors Warren Beatty (left) and Anthony Hopkins chat during arrivals. Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 Celebrities like Gordon Ramsay, Rebel Wilson, Cardi B and Anthony Hopkins are all featured. Watch This: 'Fracture' In the cat-and-mouse game thriller "Fracture," he and a wily veteran, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins, play an arresting game of acting brinksmanship. ... Hopkins is Ted Crawford, the calculating, complex owner of ... What's Online And that Anthony Hopkins is a whiz with acrylics? Carolyn Hax: Mom pushes her obnoxious boyfriend on the family By CAROLYN HAX, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Dear Carolyn: My mother's boyfriend of seven years, "Steve," is not a horrible person, but he is ... difficult. He is a classic know-it-all, and regularly changes the subject ... DVD Alternatives to This Weekend's Theatrical Offerings INSTEAD OF: The Rite, about a young priest who goes to the Vatican to learn about exorcisms and finds himself taken under the wing of a priest (Anthony Hopkins) who may himself be possessed... ... For more of ... People in the News: Radcliffe is revved about 'Equus' revival "Equus" was a big hit on Broadway in 1974 with Peter Firth in Radcliffe's role and Anthony Hopkins as the psychiatrist who tries to unlock his secret. Anthony Hopkins on 'Tall Dark Stranger' 'Dark Stranger' finally gets Allen, Hopkins together MOVIES Pam Grady, Special to The Chronicle In 1984, Anthony Hopkins was on a train from Los Angeles to New York when he got word that Woody Allen was ... Fired up by the election? Check out these presidential films "Amistad" (1997): As ex-President John Quincy Adams, Anthony Hopkins scored an Oscar nomination and delivered the finest monologue of his career in the summation scene of Steven Spielberg's drama about the legal ...

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Week 5 football: Weekend scoreboard With just a scattering of games Friday and Saturday, this will be your home to find out the scores and the stars from games through Sunday. Like I did Thursday, I'll pick another Player of the Day and Game of the Day after play is concluded Sunday. WATCH:Top 9 plays from football's Week 5 PASSING: Lohud Football Passing Leaders RUSHING: Lohud Football Rushing Leaders RECEIVING: Lohud Football Receiving Leaders I'll have coverage of this weekend's games. That will include live game coverage of Stepinac-Chaminade and Sunday's 88th playing of Rye-Harrison on Sunday. PREDICTIONS: Week 5 game schedule and picks RIVALRY SPOTLIGHT: Rye-Harrison football set for 88th meeting Don't forget to follow us at @lohudsports on Twitter and Instagram. That's where you can find players to watch and video highlights from fields in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess Counties throughout the weekend. Week 5 scores Friday, Sept. 29 Gorton 40, Roosevelt 0 Riverside 32, Palisade Prep 12 Saturday, Sept. 30 Iona Prep 42, Christ the King 0 Stepinac 34, Chaminade 7 Mahopac 21, Spring Valley 7 Sunday, Oct. 1 Harvey 14, Dwight Englewood 6 Suffern 29, Ramapo 6 New Rochelle 35, Mount Vernon 0 Hen Hud 21, Sleepy Hollow 0 Rye 35, Harrison 7 Pearl River 14, Nyack 13 Valhalla 21, Pleasantville 20 Westlake 40, Nanuet 21 Blind Brook 8, Yonkers Montessori 0 Bronxville 34, Irvington 7 Albertus Magnus 33, Dobbs Ferry 23 Game of the Day Valhalla 21, Pleasantville 0. This one had it all. Pleasantville, the defending Section 1 champ, was 4-0 and ranked No. 3 in the state in Class B. The Vikings didn't just win, they did it in dramatic fashion on Ralph Gonzalez's TD pass to Michael Ferrara and two-point pass to Evan Parker with 4 seconds remaining. Player of the Day Declan Lavelle, Rye. The sophomore QB delivered one of the best passing performances in the 88 year history of the Rye-Harrison rivalry. He finished 23 for 32 for 377 yards and three TDs in a 35-7 win. Friday's recaps Gorton 40, Roosevelt 0: At Roosevelt, Alfred Koomson had 10 carries for 181 yards and three touchdowns. Colby Frias went 5 for 6 for 90 yards and two scores, including a 17-yard pass to Koomson and a 28-yarder to Andy Vasquez. Rance Hamilton added 73 yards for the Wolves on just five carries. He also recovered a pair of fumbles on defense. Riverside 32, Palisade Prep 12: At Gorton High School, Calil Dixon had 21 carries for 176 yards and two touchdowns. Evan Moye added eight carries for 58 yards and a score. Travis Reinhardt also caught a 26-yard touchdown from Ernest Rice. Saturday's recaps Stepinac 34, Chaminade 7: At Stepinac, the first-team defense allowed just 108 yards and had four interceptions and four sacks for the Crusaders. Joey Cappiello had two interceptions and Isaiah Walker and Dexter Chance had one apiece. Justin Hairston had two sacks as well. Michael Nicosia threw for 242 yards and three touchdowns. Trill Williams, Tyler Winston and Chance had receiving touchdowns and Shawn Harris Jr. and Williams also rushed for scores. For more, read Josh Thomson's story and see John Meore's photos and video of the game. Iona Prep 42, Christ the King 0: At Iona Prep, Derek Robertson went 25 for 34 for 221 yards and three touchdowns. Ki'Shyne Shipmon caught a 20-yard TD and had 12 carries for 77 yards and a score. Michael DeGasperis and Johnryan Freeman also caught touchdowns. Malkelm Morrison and Gregory Gray also rushed for TDs. On the way to its shutout, the Iona Prep defense had four interceptions. Morrison had two and Freeman and Jacob Hargraves each had one. Mahopac 21, Spring Valley 7: At Torne Valley Field in Hillburn, Ryan Dugan went 12 for 15 for 122 yards and threw touchdowns to Reahl Allen (29 yards) and Chris Dalo (25). Tim Cegielski also had an 11-yard touchdown. Allen, Joe Dalo and Drew Riolo all had interceptions for the Indians' defense. Sunday's recaps Rye 35, Harrison 7: At Harrison, sophomore Declan Lavelle went 23 for 32 for 377 yards and three touchdowns. He engineered an offense that scored four touchdowns in a 5:18 span that bridged the third and fourth quarters and broke open a tie game. Gavin Kenny had five catches for 117 yards, including a 96-yard touchdown. Billy Chabot added 107 yards and two touchdowns rushing. Harrison led 7-0 on an Austin Evans touchdown to open the game. The Huskies recovered an onside kick on the open kickoff of the game to spark the scoring drive. For more, read Josh Thomson's story and view Frank Becerra's photos and video from the game. Pearl River 14, Nyack 13: At Nyack, Jonathan Farley scored on a 25-year touchdown run to take the lead in the fourth quarter. Zach Van Houten converted a fourth-and-7 pass to Luke Catalonotto for 11 yards to sustain the winning drive. Brendan Tarsnane also scored for the Pirates. Pearl River's Matthew Gambert had an interception in the end zone with 20 seconds remaining to end Nyack's final drive. Percy Dowling rushed for 88 yards and had four catches for 55 yards for Nyack. Gee Medorzil added 55 yards and a TD on the ground. Suffern 29, Ramapo 6: At Suffern, Zack Mabry went 11 for 16 for 160 yards and threw for three touchdowns. He also rushed for 60 yards and had two interceptions on defense for the Mounties. Lorenzo Henderson led Ramapo with 18 carries for 133 yards. Youri Guillame added 70 yards on the ground, including a 58-yard score. Jhordyn Innocent and Henderson each had 11 tackles. New Rochelle 35, Mount Vernon 0: At Mount Vernon, Myles Taylor returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown. Romeo Holden had rushing touchdowns of 46 and 18 yards and caught a 20-yard TD from Jonathan Saddler. Jared Baron scored New Rochelle's other touchdown. Bronxville 34, Irvington 7: At Bronxville, Clark Stephens threw four touchdowns, including two to Eddy Connors. Tommy O'Connor and Ryan Alberghine also caught touchdowns. Damian Meehan added 103 yards on the ground and had an interception on defense. Blind Brook 8, Yonkers Montessori 0: At Blind Brook, Michael Bucci rushed for 70 yards and the game's only touchdown. The Trojans also recorded eight sacks as a team. Valhalla 21, Pleasantville 20: At Pleasantville, Ralph Gonzalez threw a 30-yard touchdown to Michael Ferrara with 4 seconds remaining to pull Valhalla within one point. The Vikings went for two and Gonzalez connected with Evan Parker for the winning conversion. Gonzalez went 18 for 27 for 233 yards and two touchdowns. Ferrara had three receptions for 52 yards and rushed 10 times for 61 yards. He also returned a kickoff 90 yards for a score. Luke Ursillo had seven catches for 104 yards and a touchdown and had seven tackles. Charlie McPhee led Pleasantville with 24 carries for 189 yards and two touchdowns, including a 20-yard run with 1:37 remaining that gave his team a 20-13 lead. Jack Howe went 9 for 20 for 128 yards, a touchdown and an interception. The Panthers entered as the No. 3-ranked Class B team in the state. Westlake 40, Nanuet 21: At Nanuet, Rob DiNota had 14 carries for 222 yards and two touchdowns. He also went 2 for 3 for 11 yards and a TD and had an interception on defense. Dan Grossman added 99 yards rushing and a touchdown and Andrew DeBiase had 81 yards and two scores. Hen Hud 21, Sleepy Hollow 0: At Hen Hud, Donte White scored two touchdowns and Manny Carbone threw one to Michael Fasolino. Carbone finished 11 for 18 for 193 yards. He completed three passes for 109 yards to Alan Porter-Jackson and seven for 54 to Jordan Grullon. Grullon also had 16 carries for 76 yards. White scored on a run and returned a fumble recovery 72 yards for a TD. He also had 13 tackles and 1 1/2 sacks. Sleepy Hollow's Sean McCarthy went 23 for 34 for 142 yards and was intercepted twice. Albertus Magnus 33, Dobbs Ferry 23: At Albertus, Mike Kehoe rushed for two touchdowns and Benny Storms threw a pair of touchdowns. Storms connected with Baylen Rodriguez and Aidan Condon to give the Falcons a 14-0 halftime lead. After Dobbs surged in the second half, Kehoe's two TD runs pushed the lead back to 27-14. However, the Eagles came within 27-23 on a touchdown and a safety in the fourth quarter. They fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Albertus recovered. Jack Capuano led Dobbs Ferry with 20 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown. Awvise Khan had nine tackles to lead the defense. Jordan Lyerly had two interceptions. Follow Josh Thomson on Twitter and Instagram at @lohudinsider.

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Well-publicised comments from a former researcher at CERN show the barriers and prejudice women still faceby Philip Ball / April 8, 2019 / Leave a comment The award of last year’s Nobel prize in physics to Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo in Canada for her work on laser science was a reminder that physics, even more than most other sciences, has a gender problem. Strickland was only the third woman to receive a physics Nobel, after Marie Curie in 1903 and nuclear scientist Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963. There is clear evidence that female scientists face all kinds of barriers in science. According to the US National Science Foundation, although women earn about half the doctorates in science and engineering in the United States, only about one in five full science professors, and one in 20 full engineering professors, are female. And on average, they earn just 82 per cent of what their male counterparts make. Half of the women questioned in a survey by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010 said they had encountered gender bias. As for harassment, frankly I don’t need statistics; I have heard enough personal testimonies to know it is still rife. Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell has said that whistles and catcalls were routine for a woman in physics when she was doing the work for which she was notoriously overlooked by the Nobel committee. She discovered the neuron stars called pulsars while working under the supervision of Antony Hewish at Cambridge in 1967, but only Hewish (along with astronomer Martin Ryle) got the 1974 physics prize. (It’s less well known that Marie Curie was included in 1903 only because her husband Pierre, with whom she shared the prize, insisted.) Against this backdrop, the remarks made last year at the particle-physics centre CERN by physicist Alessandro Strumia sounded antediluvian. Speaking at an event on gender issues in physics in September, Strumia claimed that women were under-represented in physics by choice, that they were simply not as good at it as the best of the men, and that they are sometimes promoted or hired over men with better credentials. Physics, said Strumia, was “invented and built by men, not by invitation.” The episode showed that there are still scientists in male-dominated disciplines who actively resent and resist efforts to give women parity—and that they do so not (or not just) with old-fashioned sexism but with Powerpoint graphs presenting allegedly scientific arguments. In response, CERN announced at the end of September that it had “decided not to extend Professor Strumia’s status of guest professor.” (He is based at the University of Pisa, which issued a public sanction on Strumia for his remarks in January.) Naturally, this has given Strumia license to claim victim status and suggest that his views have been suppressed by political correctness. He got another opportunity to air them in a recent Sunday Times profile, in which his claims went largely unchallenged. Strumia’s arguments have been comprehensively debunked already. According to physicist Philip Moriarty of Nottingham University, “Strumia wears the mantle of the ever-so-courageous rational scientist ‘speaking truth to power’ and just ‘telling it like it is,’ when, in fact, and despite his loud claims to the contrary, he’s wedded to a glaringly obvious ideology.” To explain why this is so requires a point-by-point analysis of the claims in Strumia’s talk, which fortunately Moriarty, particle physicist Jon Butterworth and others have had the patience to undertake. Strumia’s assertions are also roundly critiqued in an open letter signed by more than 3,000 international physicists. Of course, there is nevertheless always an audience hungry for this sort of thing. But what partly sustains the attention is that, in the time-honoured manner of contrarians, Strumia taps into some long-standing controversies. One of the central pillars of his argument is the claim of “greater male variability.” The idea here is that, while the IQs of men and women do not differ on average, men are more heavily represented at the extremes—there are more low-intelligence men but also more geniuses. There is some evidence that this is so, although it’s debated what it implies—the authors of a 2008 study showing greater male variability in IQ concluded that “sex differences in variability did not appear to account for sex differences in high-level achievement”—in other words, any innate differences that do exist that can’t account for gender disparities in “success.”As neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell writes in his book Innate, “it is extremely difficult to separate [the] possible influence [of variability] from the many cultural influences at play.” What’s more, there seem to be more important factors to career success than IQ (who knew?), and no reason to believe that physicists are drawn predominantly from the high extreme of the IQ distribution even if a small gender difference exists there. One of the key criticisms of Strumia’s assertions is that he assumes a straightforward correlation between IQ and how well received a researcher’s work is (as measured by citations), which is far from obvious and certainly not proven. Underlying this debate is the broader issue of whether there are any systematic differences in the behaviour and cognitive traits of men and women. This too is still hotly disputed. At one level it is trivially true: there is clearly a massive (although not universal) preference in mating choice for the opposite sex in all other animals, and no conceivable reason why humans should be any different (that is, why the predominance of heterosexuality in humans would not be largely innate, even if cultural conditioning plays some role too). It would be surprising if other differences did not exist too, although the data generally aren’t good enough to say for sure: “many of the historically reported findings in this field have been inconsistent,” says Mitchell. The question is rather whether the anatomical, neurological and biochemical differences seen in male and female brains map in any meaningful way onto social aptitudes and choices. Several recent books, including Gina Rippon’s The Gendered Brain, Cordelia Fine’s Testosterone Rex, and Angela Saini’s Inferior, question whether that is so, and make a compelling case for how in any event the supposed “science” has routinely been used to shore up stereotypes and defend inequalities. The idea that the sexes are all but indistinguishable as far as innate human behaviour goes has some strong critics, and the arguments will rage on. But when scientists assert that, even if the data were abused and distorted by cognitive bias and prejudice in the past, they are beyond that now, one can hardly be surprised when critics raise an eyebrow. In other respects it’s hard to know whether the facts of Strumia’s case are skated over in the Sunday Times article by design or simply because of poor research. It gives the impression that Strumia was sacked by CERN for his comments on women in physics. But CERN’s Director General Fabiola Gianotti has made it very clear that what led to Strumia’s dismissal was that he publicly attacked the professional standing of a colleague in his implication that two female colleagues had not been appointed on merit. He “used his presentation to make unacceptable personal allegations against individuals attending the workshop, which is why we have been obliged to take action,” said Gianotti. That, too, pertains to the most egregious lacuna in the article. Counting up citations to published papers—a commonly used index of how significant the impact of the work is—Strumia “claims that women given academic posts tended to have fewer such mentions than men,” the article said. But why be coy about it? What he actually asserted in his talk was that two women at CERN got top jobs that he didn’t, while having fewer citations than him. Still, he was speaking totally objectively, you understand. (Women do receive fewer citations than men on average, and there are reasons for it that have nothing to do with quality and a fair bit to do with bias.) Other of Strumia’s assertions are sheer facepalm stuff. “It’s not as if they build walls to keep out the women [from physics],” he said, trowel in hand. Women might suspect that the environment will be less than welcoming, for example, if they happen across the musical video made by Strickland’s fellow Nobel laureate Gerard Mourou to promote a new European project in 2013, in which he struts around a lab surrounded by young female students who strip off their semi-transparent lab coats to reveal not much else beneath. Mourou has now expressed embarrassment, but such lack of judgement leaves little doubt about the everyday sexism that lingers in the community. It comes as little surprise that harassment is still a common problem in science. Some of the highest-profile allegations of serious sexual harassment in science have centered on physicists, such as leading astrophysicist Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley and physics populariser Lawrence Krauss, who was placed on “administrative leave” at Arizona State University. The problem is not so much that there are lots of lecherous male physicists but that unacceptable behaviour has been tolerated and excused for so long in the discipline. Even now, plenty of physicists who lionise Richard Feynman dismiss the behaviour described in Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!, in which he recorded how he trained himself to think of women as “bitches,” and called one “worse than a whore” when she didn’t reward his paying for sandwiches in a café with sexual favours. The common excuse is that that’s just the way things were back then, despite there being no shortage of male physicists who didn’t say and do such things in the 1950s. Science has long had difficulty facing up to deplorable actions from scientists, especially if they are eminent. Physicist Athene Donald has recently called out the widespread and “pernicious” culture of bullying and harassment in academia, and the inability or unwillingness of institutions to deal with it. The Sunday Times article makes things worse by suggesting that the problem with the likes of Strumia, as with James Watson, who in 2007 was dismissed as Chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for genetic research after he claimed that black people are less intelligent than whites, is that they have “stray[ed] off discipline.” There’s nothing wrong with straying off discipline (apart from the risk of making a fool of yourself). But talking offensive nonsense is another matter. All the same, it is somewhat heartening that Strumia’s claims have found so little traction among scientists. Of course, some will agree with him that this merely shows how science, like the rest of academia, is irredeemably “woke”—that, as Strumia claims, “it is about excessive political correctness.” He joins the list of columnists and commentators who fulminate regularly to a huge audience about how “there are ideas that are wrong but nobody is allowed to say it.” It’s encouraging too that there are signs of change. In a recent study, two researchers at Cornell University performed “hiring experiments” for science and economics faculty at American universities which showed that women candidates had twice as much chance of getting appointed as men with comparable qualifications and lifestyles. (The exception was economics, for which there was no significant difference between men and women.) Needless to say, some have used this as evidence that everything Strumia says is true—worse, that men in science are now the victims of discrimination. The researchers themselves say only that “our results indicate a surprisingly welcoming atmosphere today for female job candidates in STEM disciplines.” They point out, however, that a lower proportion of women eligible to apply for tenure actually do so (that’s why Strickland was not a full professor when she was awarded the Nobel). To suggest that the study disproves any suggestion that the historically low representation of women in physical science is due to something other than choice is, however, absurd; this is simply another datum in a complex landscape. In one way, Strumia’s latest diatribe confirms the assertion by writer and journalist George Monbiot that “the more disgracefully you behave, the bigger the platform the media will give you.” But Strumia typifies a dilemma to which science is particularly prone. Without the freedom to ask any question, it is reduced. But the choice of questions is not neutral. The possibility that one group of people differs in their abilities or predilections to another can’t be excluded simply because it would be politically inconvenient or embarrassing to find evidence that this is so. But no one has ever found convincing evidence that, say, women have less aptitude for physics than men, or that black people have inherently lower IQs than whites. What they have found, clearly and consistently, is that both of those former groups have suffered systematic discrimination that has held them back. In that circumstance, you can’t but wonder about the motivations of people who say “no, but are you absolutely sure these differences aren’t innate? Shouldn’t we check again before taking any action to address the other injustices?” As Saini shows in her forthcoming book Superior, on the history of science-based race discrimination, there has never yet been a figure in that depressing tale who could plausibly and ingenuously have said “I’m only asking.” “For those with a political ideology to sell,” Saini writes, “the data itself doesn’t matter so much as how it can be spun.”

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Western Alliance Bank to buy part of GE Capital assets General Electric Co has announced that Western Alliance Bank would buy GE Capital assets. General Electric has decided to focus on its core industrial operations. As part of this strategy, GE is offloading GE Capital assets enabling it to confine totally to the industrial segment globally. The sale transactions may be completed by end of this year. The sale proposal on offloading assets of GE Capital by General Electric Co has been on anvil for some time. GE Capital provides real estate financing to US hotel owners. In 2015, it announced that it would offload GE Capital business, making more space for global industry. The Wall Street Journal reports that another franchise-financing business engaged in Canadian hospitality and restaurant sectors would be sold to a different buyer. However, GE Electric didn't provide the details about the transaction and sale price. The size of financial operations is pegged at $1.4 billion for US business and $300 million for Canada operations. GE has signed on sale agreement for $161 billion worth of finance assets as against its target of $200 billion. It will gradually withdraw from financing and other non-core activities totally. US Federal Reserve has approved the purchase proposal of Goldman Sachs Group Inc for a bank owned by GE Capital. Street Insider further adds that US hotel business and Canadian transactions are expected to add about $0.2 billion capital once the sale transaction is completed. It's estimated that $35 billion of dividends would be paid to GE and this is subject to regulatory approval. These two transactions may be completed by second quarter of 2016. The financial advisor on both the deals to GE is Barclays. Keith Sherin, GE Capital Chairman and CEO, said "We're pleased to sell the US hotel portion of our Franchise Finance business to Western Alliance, a fast growing bank that is committed to the business, customers and employees. Combined with the sale of our Canadian Franchise business, this represents a significant portion of Franchise Finance, our last North American business to be sold as part of our plan to significantly reduce the size of GE Capital." Hogn Lovells is providing legal advice for the US hotel transaction, while McCarthy Tetrault LLP will take the legal services on Canadian transaction. GE is focusing on its core industry segment. However, it will retail financing verticals pertaining to industrial business. GE, in April 2015, announced its intention to sell off GE Capital assets. Since then, GE signed agreements worth $161 billion and closed $138 billion of them. GE is also planning to sell $200 billion GE Capital businesses globally. GE is expected to complete the process by 2016. Robert Sarver, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Western Alliance, is optimistic on the acquisition. The deal is expected to strengthen Western Alliance to establish a new presence in risk-adjusted return and select-service hotel industry. Western Alliance will also be benefited from underwriting and credit management capabilities of GE Capital, as reported by Business Wire. Phoenix-based Western Alliance Bancorp, the parent company of Western Alliance Bank, is hoping to close the buying deal in April 2016 and will immediately add to earnings per share (EPS). Western Alliance Bancorporation manages $14 billion assets and is one of the fast growing bank holding companies in the US.

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What does a career with Las Cruces Utilities look like?
Las Cruces Utilities produces 6.5 billion gallons of clean drinking quality water every year. It’s one of those things you never think about, but there’s an ebb and flow to the daily use of water in Las Cruces.
“During the week, you can tell the first group of customers gets ready to go around 4 a.m.; that’s when the water levels dip due to early morning showering, cooking, washing dishes, and maybe clothes washing,” explained Pascual Rodriguez, LCU Water Production supervisor. “Then we hold steady until about 6 a.m. That’s when students, parents and workers get ready to go to work or school at 8. That lasts until about 9, and then water use is pretty steady until the evening.”
For Rodriguez, however, every day is different. He is the LCU associate on call watching and making sure all parts of the city have an adequate water supply, even during disruptions. For example, he explains, if there is a mainline break, one water tank can start to run low and he takes action to direct the flow of water from different pressurized zones across booster stations to make sure water is accessible to everyone.
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Every day starts with Rodriguez examining the computerized supervisory control and data acquisition system on a computer monitor in his office. It shows every LCU water well, tank, booster station, and their real-time activity. If any alarm starts flashing, that’s the first order of business for Rodriguez and his crew to take care of. Then it’s back in the office to answer emails, get project quotes, or even prepare presentations for the public or students.
Rodriguez has a few career tips from his own life he shares with students: After high school, he went straight to work and spent 5 years doing various jobs and feeling like he was going nowhere. Then, he enrolled in Doña Ana Community College and earned an associate degree in Water Technology. He went to work at LCU as a crewman. Today — after a 25-year career at LCU — he has a crew working for him and encourages students to invest in their own lives and grow their careers.
At LCU, Rodriguez has worked his way up, but his early work as a crewman allowed him to do his current job better.
“I want to make sure that the crew has what they need to do their job,” he said. “My job now is knowing the things that allow them to work to the best of their abilities.”
If you are tired of jobs that have no future, think about an internship with LCU. LCU will pay for your tuition, educational expenses, and employ you during the semester at 20 hours per week. During the holidays, it’s 40 hours a week. Then, after you graduate, you commit to stay on with LCU for up to 8 years, developing your skills in your industry.
Decide to build a career; learn more about the internship at http://www.las-cruces.org/1243/Internship-Program.
You can reach Las Cruces Utilities at 528-3500 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Las Cruces Utilities provides GAS – WATER – WASTEWATER – SOLID WASTE services to approximately 100,000 Las Cruces residents and businesses.
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When the Federal Reserve announced it would shave $10 billion off its next round of purchases of asset-backed securities and U.S. Treasurys, the markets cheered. Presumably, that’s because investors interpreted the taper as a sign that Ben Bernanke thinks the economy is finally on the path to decent growth. But if things are looking up, why is inflation so dreadfully low? There are several schools of thought on the matter: Inflation is low because of an ingenious new Fed policy. In 2008, writes Martin Feldstein, the Fed started doing something it hadn’t done before: Paying interest on the excess reserves of commercial banks. Let me explain. Banks are required to hold a certain percentage of customers’ deposits at the Fed. It used to be that if the banks parked money at Fed beyond the required amount, they wouldn’t earn any interest on it, giving them an incentive to lend out anything they could to businesses and households. That, though, changed in 2008. Feldstein and others argue that paying interest on excess reserves gave the banks a reason to pile up money at the central bank rather than let Americans borrow it. This, goes the theory, allowed the Fed to mop up the extra money it has been printing to stimulate the economy. Had that extra money been allowed to circulate through the economy, it would have pushed up prices. This way, it didn’t. Catch: This doesn’t really explain why inflation at one point shot past the Fed’s target of 2% — it averaged 3.2% in 2011 — and then started slowing. Inflation is low because the economy is still struggling. A vast cadre of economists has been arguing that stubbornly low price growth is a predicament of slow-growing economies. America’s GDP is expanding, but still at a moderate rate, they say. Businesses have plenty of spare capacity and high inventories. American workers are facing high unemployment and slow or no wage growth. Neither can afford higher prices. Catch: Things might not be good yet for the U.S. economy, but they’re certainly been looking up, both in terms of GDP growth and labour market conditions. Shouldn’t inflation be inching up as well? Inflation is low because the U.S. is importing inflation from abroad. The price of U.S. services, which is mostly tied to domestic factors, has actually been growing around and even above the Fed’s target of 2% for the past two years (hat-tip to Barry Knapp at Barclays Capital). It’s the price of goods that has been plummeting. There are couple of obvious reasons for that: Lower commodity and energy prices, plus cheaper imports from recession-stricken Europe as well as Japan, where Abenomics has severely weakened the yen. Catch: Inflation looks low even when you take out food and energy, two very big components of the consumer goods’ basket that are heavily influenced by commodity prices. Also, Europe might still be in dire straits, but the Euro has been strengthening throughout 2013, which should have cancelled some of the disinflationary pressures coming in via imports. Conclusion? As St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said: “There is no widely accepted reason why inflation is running as low as it is in the face of extraordinarily accommodative policy from the Fed.” And, I might add, in the face of improving economic conditions as well. Erica Alini is a reporter based in Cambridge, Mass., and a regular contributor to CanadianBusiness.com, where she covers the U.S. economy. Get our daily briefing on innovation, leadership, technology & the economy. Weekdays at 6 AM ET. Learn More »

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When the season began, the New York Mets thought they'd be fighting for first place this time of year. Instead, they could be one of baseball's busiest sellers before the July 31 trade deadline. Surprisingly poor pitching and another string of injuries to top players have put the underperforming Mets (41-48) in an unexpected position: Coming off consecutive playoff appearances, they are 9 1/2 games out of a wild-card spot. Shipping off veterans like Jay Bruce and Addison Reed to legitimate contenders might be the only way they impact the pennant race. "You can't just throw up the white flag and say the season's over. We can catch up, we can get back in the hunt and that's our plan. But we've got to go play well," manager Terry Collins said Sunday before a 13-4 loss to Colorado. "I don't think for any stretch of the imagination that this is over yet." Two days earlier, as the Mets came out of the All-Star break, general manager Sandy Alderson acknowledged "things would have to go exceedingly well" during a 10-game homestand for the club to "change direction." That sounds like a realistic front office resigned to procuring what it can for several pending free agents. So while the rebuilding Chicago White Sox (Jose Quintana) and budget-minded Oakland Athletics (Ryan Madson, Sean Doolittle) have already cashed in assets, the Mets might not be far behind. Need a dangerous bat in the outfield with postseason experience? Bruce and Curtis Granderson fit the bill. A quality reliever who can set up or close? Reed should draw plenty of interest. A first baseman with power and a discerning eye at the plate? Lucas Duda. All of them, in addition to injured second baseman Neil Walker, make sizable salaries and are eligible for free agency following the World Series. Then there's switch-hitting infielder Asdrubal Cabrera, who requested a trade (but then backed off) after getting shifted from shortstop to second base recently. His contract includes an $8.5 million club option next year with a $2 million buyout. None of those players is likely to fetch a huge return by himself, but if the Mets move more than one it could collectively benefit the future of a team that plans to be back in the race next season. To accomplish that, New York will need to rebuild a thin bullpen and fill several slots in the everyday lineup. And if nothing else, this year has showed the Mets are in dire need of depth and live arms at the upper levels of their farm system. New York took two of three over the weekend from the skidding Rockies, who lead the chase for the second NL wild card. On deck, a four-game series against St. Louis - another team ahead of the Mets. If things don't go "exceedingly well" at Citi Field, major changes could be coming soon. A few other developments around baseball: DODGERS DOMINATE Justin Turner is batting .374, Alex Wood is 11-0 and Los Angeles (64-29) has won nine straight and 29 of 33 to build the best record in the big leagues heading into a two-game interleague series at the last-place White Sox beginning Tuesday night. The Dodgers completed a three-game sweep in Miami over the weekend and opened a 10 1/2-game lead in the NL West. They are 35 games above .500 for the first time since 1977 and have the franchise's best record through 93 games since 1955. DAZZLING DEBUT Quintana struck out a season-high 12 over seven sharp innings in his first game for the Chicago Cubs, who finished a three-game sweep at Baltimore with an 8-0 victory Sunday. The defending World Series champions hit 10 homers during the series and climbed over .500 for the first time since June 29. Are they finally poised to make their move? WELCOME BACK Cleveland manager Terry Francona returned to the bench, only to see his team get swept in three games at last-place Oakland. Francona missed six games when he underwent a procedure for an irregular heartbeat. He had also been scheduled to manage the American League in Tuesday night's All-Star Game victory, but had to skip it. The Indians have lost four straight for the first time since 2015, and their AL Central lead was shaved to 1½ games over Minnesota. Next up, the defending AL champs head across the San Francisco Bay for a three-game series against the struggling Giants. RIVALRY RENEWED Stingy pitching was on display as the AL East-leading Red Sox split a compelling and tiring four-game series with the Yankees. Boston outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. went over the bullpen wall in the triangle at Fenway Park to steal a home run from major league leader Aaron Judge. New York was shut out for the first time all season but also won consecutive games for the first time since a six-game spurt from June 7-12. Red Sox batters are 3 for 58 with runners in scoring position against the Yankees this season. Meanwhile, it seems nobody has noticed, but the surprising Rays have moved just ahead of New York into second place in the division, three games behind Boston. OUTSIDE THE PARK Rockies leadoff man Charlie Blackmon hustled around the bases for an inside-the-park home run Sunday - even though replays showed his drive actually cleared the fence before caroming back onto the field. Blackmon became the first player with two inside-the-park homers in one season since Colorado's Brandon Barnes in 2014. LINE OF THE WEEK Cody Bellinger became the first Dodgers rookie to hit for the cycle Saturday in a 7-1 win over the Marlins. Bellinger singled in the first inning, launched a two-run homer in the third, added an RBI double in the fourth and hit his second career triple on the first pitch of the seventh. "In this organization there is so much history," he said. "To see my name on some of that is pretty humbling." ___ More AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball

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When you're guarding other people's gold, it helps to keep a low profile Robyn Sprott started out as a precious metals trader and soon figured out that with all the gold buying going on, there must also be a demand for a place to put the stuff Article content The low-slung, redbrick office building on the outskirts of Toronto looks just like its neighbours, except for the Canadian flag fluttering high above the front lawn — that, and maybe the lack of any sign bearing the company name. Advertisement 2 Article content Look closely and you might also notice the multiple security cameras bristling from every nook and cranny on the walls. tap here to see other videos from our team. When you're guarding other people's gold, it helps to keep a low profile Back to video International Depository Services of Canada (IDS) is one of a handful of non-bank and non-government precious metals storage firms that have popped up over the last few years, with customers ranging from simple retail investors to large corporations. When you’re guarding other people’s gold, it helps to keep a low profile. Robyn Sprott, the managing director, is an ebullient 30-year old who got her start in business a few years back as a precious metals trader, and soon figured out that with all the gold buying going on, there must also be a demand for a place to put the stuff. That’s the big thing buyers fail to consider until it becomes a problem. “The individuals I was trading with were Americans and they were looking for storage options,” says Ms. Sprott. She knew she was on to something. As a cousin to legendary commodities investor Eric Sprott, she was already familiar with the players in the precious metals industry and it didn’t take long to line up Dillon Gage, a U.S.-based gold trading firm, as a partner to help finance and run the venture. “I like gold,” she says in an interview in her office, lit by a few stray beams of sunlight coming through narrow, gun slot window. But she insists she’s not one of those folks who believes that paper money is a government plot and that the only real money is bullion. Her first piece of the yellow metal acquired many years ago was a Maple Leaf coin from the Canadian Mint and her holdings — she declines to say how much she owns — grew from there. Advertisement 3 Article content You have a lot of people who aren’t Obama fans Ms. Sprott may not be a goldbug but she’s seen plenty come through the front door. On the retail front, they’re often affluent and mostly American, attracted by the idea of getting their assets out of the U.S. and out of reach of nosy government authorities. Some are Tea Party types who cleave to far right-wing ideologies, viewing gold as a hedge against political risk. “You have a lot of people who aren’t [U.S. President Barack] Obama fans,” she explains. They’re fearful the country is going down the wrong road and that when “end times” come, only gold will have value. Another key trend that’s driving the industry is soaring gold prices. In the face of a sluggish economy, investors increasingly see owning physical gold as a legitimate way to protect against inflation. According to Ms. Sprott, demand for physical gold traditionally went up when the price went up, but recently that phenomenon has been turned on its head as demand has remained strong even as gold is slumping. Finally, there’s the matter of tax. Hit by rising debt, governments around the world are looking for ways to boost revenues, and the simplest way for many is to clamp down on tax evasion. The U.S. government is in the process of enacting its notorious FATCA legislation, under which foreign banks — including Canadian banks — will be required to report account details for all their American customers. The rules for precious metals are far less strict. Most of Canada’s banks also offer precious metals storage — they’re the biggest players in the business — but Ms. Sprott is betting that potential customers will be a lot more wary of dealing with banks because of the heightened rules and regulatory scrutiny they face. Small, independent players such as IDS aren’t subject to the federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and nor are they affected by FATCA. Advertisement 4 Article content The industry is most visible in countries like Switzerland and Singapore where facilities known as freeports are located close to international airports, offering storage for precious metals, art, vintage cars and other valuable assets. Some also provide trading services for clients who want to swap, say, some silver bars for a few cases of rare wine. IDS will guard whatever gold you have, but reporting is up to the customer. Often the company doesn’t even know who owns the gold in its warehouse as in many cases it’s held under the name of a broker acting on behalf of someone else. The company launched in 2012 after having the building retrofitted (a two-year process) with the latest security. Exterior walls are reinforced concrete and the ones on the inside are covered in Kevlar, the stuff used in bullet-proof vests. Ubiquitous security cameras ensure that virtually every step taken inside the facility is captured on a hard disk. For good measure, there are motion detectors. Doors are metal and controlled by a central locking mechanism, so no two doors can be opened at once. American clients who drop by to check things out can’t help but be impressed by all the hardware, or the numerous oil paintings of canoes — this is Canada, after all — adorning the walls around Ms. Sprott’s office. Still, gaining traction in the business will take time. More than a year after the company opened its doors, there’s a lot more empty space than bullion in the warehouse. But the facility is built and Ms. Sprott is confident that the customers will come.

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When you take a sip of coffee bought from Brown Dining Services, Blue State or the Bookstore, you may notice a unique flavor. The brew itself is unremarkable, mediocre or worse, but it’s fair trade coffee. That pleasant aftertaste is entirely psychosomatic. You have just bought coffee with an injection of what Brown University and Blue State serve best: smug self-righteousness. Fairtrade is a company that certifies certain coffee products as “fair.” Its mission statement proclaims that it seeks to promote “justice and sustainable development” in order to “develop (the) full potential” of coffee producers. Many consumers believe that Fairtrade coffee is organic, promotes stable prices for producers and helps small family farmers thrive in an industry dominated by corporations so soulless they have dared employ economies of scale. Fairtrade’s reputation is dearly bought and more than a little inaccurate. Let me preface this column by saying that I am completely enamored of using economic freedom to achieve social justice. The number of similar ventures — in which consumers pay a premium for a good in exchange for a guarantee that it was produced in a manner they deem virtuous — has burgeoned. Utilizing market forces to effect our values is less onerous than calling for government coercion. If Brown is to vote with our dollar, however, we cannot be content with swallowing the public relations line of Fairtrade without some due diligence. Even a cursory examination of the Fairtrade business practices and guidelines reveals that the certifiers are anything but a politically neutral force for good. For starters, only about 10 percent of the premium we pay to sip Fairtrade coffee actually gets passed along to the producers. Given that Fairtrade sets the price of their coffee at nearly double the market rate for coffee of similar quality, this begs the question: where is the money going? The 2006 annual report of the Fairtrade corporation sets publicity expenditures at around 1/4 of total expenditures. The 2008 Trustees Report saw a marked increase in both PR expenditures and the creativity of the accountants; the single largest expenditure of 2008 was on “Public Education and Awareness.” The second largest expenditure was “Marketing and Product Development.” These two line items — and the fact that they were deemed distinct is itself questionable — constituted over half of the total expenditures of the corporation. Both activities were meant to ensure that Fairtrade has a monopoly on self-righteousness, and both were classified under the heading “charitable activities.” In a very real sense, we are paying a premium for little more than the luxury of being told we are doing the right thing. Are we? The guidelines Fairtrade has set to qualify coffee producers are onerous, illogical and often exclude the very type of growers that many Fairtrade coffee consumers believe they are supporting. Fairtrade coffee growers are barred from practices as simple as hiring a laborer for any period exceeding a year. One might suggest that, though the methods are crude, these guidelines bolster family farms, but Fairtrade will not deal with individual family farms. In order to qualify for the certification, coffee growers must re-organize into large cooperatives consisting of hundreds of land-owners. These cooperatives must dole out between $2,000 and $4,000 to Fairtrade in order to be ordained “fair.” If the cooperative qualifies, then they must pay annual recertification fees on top of a percentage of each pound of coffee sold. Any profits made by Fairtrade growers belong solely to the cooperative, regardless of the needs or the contributions, whether quantitative or qualititative, of individual growers. Fairtrade has deemed that the proper way to divvy out any profit is to give each farmer one vote on its proper usage. Another popular misconception surrounding Fairtrade is that the certification has something to do with being “organic.” This is erroneous. Fairtrade certification has no substantive crossover with organic guidelines. Around 40 percent of Fairtrade certified coffee does not meet U.S. standards for organically produced goods. When Brown University decided to buy coffee exclusively from Fairtrade, we made the decision to boycott small and large family farms who refuse to re-organize into collectives. We made the decision that large-scale coffee plantations — regardless of who is running them, or how workers are treated — are unethical. Perhaps worst of all, we affirmed that twenty-four employees at Fairtrade coffee know how to organize labor in a way that benefits the needy better than any individual coffee grower or an entire market. Consumerism as a moral act is a compelling notion, but one which requires serious research about the actual effect on those we so sanctimoniously purport to help. Will Wray ’10 can be found at Starbucks.

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Whether you’re a fan of crafting, theatre or staying active, there’s lots to do in Saskatoon this weekend. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 1. Theatre Catch the closing performance of Greystone Theatre’s “Frankenstein; or The Man and the Monster” on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $22 each. To ensure your seat at the final showing of this spooky tale, buy your tickets online in advance on the Greystone Theatre website before they sell out. 2. Sledge hockey If you’ve ever wanted to try sledge hockey, now is the time. The Saskatoon Ice Tornadoes are hosting a beginners lesson on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at Merlis Belsher place. All you need to participate is a helmet and a pair of gloves. Register by calling 306-975-0824 or emailing chantal@swsa.ca. 3. Leather crafting Try your hand at a leather crafting at the Creative Art Centre in Warman Sunday starting at 1 p.m. The six-hour workshop is open to everyone ages 12 and up and costs $210, with all supplies and tools included. To register, call or email Lee Walerius at 306-260-9780 or crranch@sasktel.net. 4. Craft fair It’s never too early to start checking names off your Christmas gift list and this weekend’s Christmas Craft Fair at the Western Development Museum is the perfect place to start. Doors open at 4 p.m. on Friday with the event running until Saturday at 4 p.m. The $5 entry fee gives you access to more than 100 booths featuring handmade jewelry, crafts, woodworking and more. 5. Spuds & Splits Enjoy some chili, baked potatoes and a banana split at Dormition Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Sutherland beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Getting in on the tasty treats costs $10 for adults and $5 for children aged eight and under.

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