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A Faltering Experiment
Shivani Vohra December 19, 2011
By Shivani Vohra
Greeks protest austerity measures at a May Day rally in Athens
"A Greek, an Irishman, and a Portuguese go into a bar and order a drink. Who picks up the bill? A German."
When the European nations signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, they clearly never fathomed the global recession and recent instability of the union. The idea was simple: to create a single currency in order to enable goods and labor to move more freely across borders, thus fueling economic growth. To prevent financially unstable countries from joining, applicants would go through a screening process that required meeting four main criteria: nations would have to maintain low inflation rates, a target ratio of annual government debt to GDP, an exchange rate range, and low long-term interest rates.
These criteria seemed simple enough and 17 countries eventually embraced the Eurozone. But they ignored the fundamental economic trilemma. Nations in a currency union can have three goals: fixed exchange rates, open financial markets, and monetary independence. In any given financial union, as history and contemporary economics has shown, these three objects cannot be simultaneously achieved.
The United States' currency union has survived because it has accepted the costs that come with the benefits. The federal government consistently redistributes tax revenue from wealthier states to those areas that are struggling. Since the 2008 crisis, the Fed has maintained the interest rate at virtually zero in hopes of stimulating economic growth.
The Eurozone countries right now are not in sync. Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain risk defaulting on their sovereign debt. Conversely, as of November 2011, Germany reached its lowest unemployment rate in twenty years. Indeed, the Eurozone members are at such different places economically that no single solution appears to be able to resolve the situation.
According to economist Nouriel Roubini, the Eurozone has four options, none of which are ideal. The Central Bank can lower interest rates, depreciating the Euro. Germany, however, does not like this option as it violates the mandate to prevent inflation. Moreover, it remains unclear that this move would be sufficient to help the Eurozone. Both the United States and Japan, for example, have kept interest rates close to zero and it has not helped either country completely recover.
The second option is to allow for a lengthy recession with the hopes that the countries will eventually recover. Of course, the Greek and Italian citizens are very much opposed to this idea, as are the many investors afraid of numerous international defaults. Door number three is to allow Germany and other financially solvent nations to continue subsidizing the poorer countries, perhaps permanently. This is the route the United States favors (it would bind the Eurozone closer together). The Germans, however, chafe at the idea of continuing to bail out the Greeks, Irish and Italians.
The final and perhaps scariest option is the default of the countries and breakup of the Eurozone. Countries, including the United States, have defaulted on their debt before. Other nations have broken away from fixed currency metrics, such as the Gold Standard in the past. But never before has a large currency union spanning numerous nations, such as the Eurozone, completely collapsed. No one really knows what the implications of a collapse would be. It would very likely lead to a global financial meltdown. With increasing trade and global capital flows, nearly every nation has some European assets and exposure to Eurozone risk.
Members of the Eurozone, of course, are scrambling to ensure that a default does not happen. As of November 30, 2011, the U.S. Fed, China, and several of the world's other central banks reached an agreement to provide emergency dollar loans to European banks in a successful effort to calm investors' panic. Germany, however, continues to stall at a major bailout, harping about Greek and Italian financial irresponsibility and lack of discipline. No one disagrees with the Germans' point.
But at this stage, if the Eurozone collapses, everyone — including Germany — will likely go down with it.
Shivani Vohra is a junior in Davenport College.
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I think it would be useful to dsuscis a couple of points that are rarely addressed in the media. The euro is a "one size fits all" currency. It's a strong currency, which is well-suited to countries like Germany and the Netherlands but not for the likes of Greece and certain other southern countries. For them it is a strait-jacket. They lose the ability to devalue their currency for example, and that is an important lever for government to regulate the economy. This diminishes the ability to export. This is an opportunity however for the northern countries, that are able to benefit and grab a larger market-share (i.e. they have hitherto benefited economically from the skewed euro construct). They were after all in the euro primarily to benefit themselves. Stands to reason. And don't forget that Greece was allowed in despite not satisfying the requirements.Another major problem with the euro is that it does not allow countries to determine interest rates themselves. This is another major lever that is not available to government. This led to immense property bubbles in Spain and Ireland for example, where interest rates were far too low and totally unsuited to the economies of those countries. With terrible consequences.Therefore, the euro was primarily a political construct, not an economic one. It is flawed. A common currency area cannot exist without full political union. And that is not something I and many others would accept without a fight, especially as european ideas of integration (so far) are not so flexible as those in the US.Huge money transfers between sovereign countries are an especially touchy subject, as there is no common national goal or history for example. Nothing substantial that can bind people anyway, no vision beyond endless taxation without true representation.In my opinion, the euro was a rash undertaking and smacks of hubris, Countries like Germany and the Netherlands should take more responsibility for their role in its form and the devastation it has caused. The relative profligacy of countries like Greece must not blind us to the inherent flaws of the euro itself. PS. In my opinion the British Pound will never be a strong currency. It is devaluing all the time. Only shale gas will save the pound, I think.
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Artist plants 5,000 fake Bieber CDs in LA stores such as Target, Wal-Mart
Updated: April 2, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An artist is making it difficult to believe there's actually a copy of Justin Bieber's latest album for sale in Los Angeles.
Paz Dylan, a 25-year-old electronic musician and artist known only as Paz, says he planted 5,000 copies of an album that appears to be Bieber's "Believe" but actually contains a copy of Dylan's own CD.
The fakes appeared at retailers such as Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart on Tuesday, April Fools' Day.
"We were meticulous," said Paz, who fancies the stunt as more of a performance art piece than a gag. "We paid a lot of attention to detail because we wanted these to stay up on shelves as long as possible."
The wrapped CDs resemble "Believe" right down to the bar code and silky Bieber portrait on the cover. However, Paz's artwork is on the inside of the back cover, and the disc itself is slathered with images of cats, pizzas and a dog stuffed inside a taco.
The CD itself contains the 13 tracks from Paz's synth-heavy independent release "From the Bottom of My Heart to the Top of Your Lungs."
The only differentiating factor is that Paz's subversive CD package lacks the kind of sticker that usually covers the top of a CD case, which is found beneath the wrapper of most unopened albums.
The Associated Press independently verified the stunt by purchasing random copies of what looked like Bieber's "Believe" from widely scattered Los Angeles-area locations such as a Wal-Mart in Baldwin Hills, Target in Burbank and Best Buy stores in West Hollywood and Culver City.
In each instance, the CDs were scanned and paid for as if they were Bieber CDs. But when they were opened outside the store, each contained a copy of Paz's album, not Bieber's.
"Although Mr. Dylan is clearly not a Belieber, we know that many of our customers are, and we are taking care of those who didn't get what they intended to purchase," said Best Buy spokeswoman Carly Morris.
Target spokesman Evan Lapiska said the company was aware of the claim and was investigating the matter, while Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah McKinney said customers could return the CD for a full refund or the real version.
"We know that every great artist wants to get on the shelf at Wal-Mart, but there's a right way to do it," said McKinney. "All of our L.A. stores are making an extra effort to ensure this faux Bieber CD is removed."
A message left for Bieber's spokeswoman wasn't immediately returned.
Why did Paz replace Bieber and not some other performer's CD?
"The world won't really miss a Justin Bieber record," said Paz.
Paz said he wanted to use big-box retailers as his artistic canvas by "droplifting" his music into the hands of consumers.
"The general idea is that retail stores make it almost impossible for independent musicians to get their music in there," said Paz. "I've always believed that retail stores can be the best outlets and ambassadors for independent music. They just choose not to be and sell the same recycled (expletive). We thought if they're going to lock their doors to independent musicians, we're just going to knock them down and get our music in there."
Paz, who enlisted fellow artists for the city-wide switcheroo, declined to say how much it cost to produce the mock albums or what he did with the existing Bieber records on store shelves.
"I think legal repercussions are always a possibility when you do performance pieces," said Paz. "Sometimes you have to take risks for your art."
It's not Paz's first music industry prank. Last year, he slipped photos of himself into the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles and hung them on the wall next to the likes of Grammy winners Calle 13 and Maria Rita.
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Pat LaFontaine is leading the feisty Islanders to their former heights in the NHL
David Chyzowski scored 56 goals for the Kamloops Blazers of the Western (Junior) Hockey League last season. Since then he has turned 18 and joined the New York Islanders. Chyzowski was put on this earth to create offense, not jack people's jaws. Yet there he was, on Jan. 10 at Maple Leaf Gardens, steaming across the ice and spoiling for a piece of Toronto defenseman Brian Curran, who, at 6'3" and 215 pounds, is on this earth—and the Maple Leafs' payroll—to jack people's jaws. Moments earlier, Curran had deposited New York center Pat LaFontaine on the seat of his drawers. As Chyzowski saw it, Curran was guilty of two offenses: failing to pick on someone his own size—LaFontaine is 5'10", 177 pounds—and endangering the Islanders' playoff hopes. LaFontaine had had a hand in 59 of his team's 148 goals this season. At all costs, he must be protected.
The linesmen never did let Chyzowski and Curran tangle. For their ill intentions, however, both were ejected. "All I did was bump him a little," Chyzowski grumbled.
Chyzowski's reaction to Curran's decking of LaFontaine reflected a team-wide trend. These Islanders fight back when they get sand kicked in their faces. That has helped them start another, more shocking trend: winning. New York went on to beat Toronto 3-1, and after Saturday's 4-2 victory over the Washington Capitals, the Islanders had won six straight games, 11 of their last 12 and 15 of their last 19. They were far and away the hottest team in the NHL.
While their newfound toughness is paying dividends, the principal reason for New York's resurgence is LaFontaine, who, at the age of 24, has ascended to the level of play that began to be predicted for him eight years ago, when he scored 175 goals in 79 games for the Detroit Compuware Midgets. His 39 goals at week's end put him two behind league leader Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues. LaFontaine's failure to score in the win over Washington ended an 11-game goal-scoring streak.
LaFontaine has not exactly sneaked up on anyone. He did, after all, score a total of 92 goals in 1987-88 and 1988-89. But by all accounts, he has found a higher gear. "He's reached another plateau in the last 20 games," says Islander left wing Don Maloney. "Every time he touches the puck, we all sit up a little straighter and hold our breath."
"The premier players, like Gretzky, always seem to score when you need it," says Islander goaltender Glenn Healy. "They get important goals. Not goals that make a 5-1 game 5-2, but goals that tie games and win them. Those are the kinds of goals Patty is scoring for us this season."
Not coincidentally, LaFontaine kicked into overdrive around the time the Trade was made. That's how the Islanders refer to it: the Trade.
"Ever since the Trade, everyone on the team has been playing as if he's four inches taller and 25 pounds heavier," says left wing Randy Wood. Like most of the Islanders, Wood talks about the Trade the way New Yorkers refer to Manhattan as "the City" and tourists at Graceland discuss "the King"—as if the term is self-explanatory.
For those who haven't followed the Islanders' Jekyll-and-Hyde season, here are the particulars of the deal. On Nov. 29, general manager Bill Torrey sent right wing Mikko Makela to the Los Angeles Kings for defenseman Ken Baumgartner and checking center Hubie McDonough. The once-potent Makela had become an underachieving sulkmeister in New York; Baumgartner and McDonough had languished unused with the Kings.
Before the Trade, the Islanders were 5-18-3 and working out a time-share arrangement with the Quebec Nordiques for the NHL cellar. Post-Trade they were 15-3-1 through Sunday and in second place in the Patrick Division. Most important, unlike the Islanders of a year ago, this team is very much in the playoff hunt.
The Islanders see, along with the new feistiness and LaFontaine's contributions, four reasons for their U-turn:
•Keeping close to the other guys. Before the Trade, "We weren't as bad as our record indicated," they say. The Islanders seldom get blown out. When you throw out empty-net goals scored against them, 10 of their 21 defeats have been by a single goal. "When we had breakdowns," says LaFontaine, "they'd usually come late in the game, and they would cost us the game."
•The goalies. Healy and Mark Fitzpatrick, two of five former Kings on the roster, have sparkled since the Trade. Going into the Islanders' Nov. 30 game in Chicago—their first since the Trade-Fitzpatrick had a 1-8-1 record and a corresponding confidence level. With McDonough scoring his first goal as an Islander and Baumgartner leveling every Blackhawk in sight, Fitzpatrick stonewalled Chicago 2-0. In 12 games since he has gone 9-2-1, with two more shutouts. The post-Trade Healy is 5-1.
•The Trade (addition by subtraction). Makela's departure "excised a cancer," says one Islander official. In contrast to his 36-goal 1987-88 season, Makela scored only twice in 20 games this season. His moping and chronic unhappiness had begun to infect the team.
•The Trade (addition). While McDonough has been a pleasant surprise, scrapping and checking and even chipping in with five goals, Baumgartner, who at week's end did not have a single point as an Islander, has been even more useful. Ideally, intimidation would not be a part of the NHL, but the NHL is short on idealism. Baumgartner, it so happens, is an intimidators' intimidator, the most effective "cop" the Islanders have seen since Bobby Nystrom and Clark Gillies patrolled the rinks a decade ago. Of Baumgartner, LaFontaine says, "He's the kind of guy, you're just glad he's on your team."
Under Al Arbour, who took over behind the Islander bench on an interim basis in December 1988 (Arbour retired two years earlier after having guided New York to four consecutive Stanley Cups, from 1980 to '83), Baumgartner has learned to be more selective in the use of his ham-hock fists.
"He knows that if he takes three five-minute majors and spends 15 minutes in the penalty box, he's not doing us much good," says Healy. "He's become a mosquito. He bugs the other teams' snipers without drawing a penalty—kind of like a mosquito that lands in the middle of your back, where you can't reach it."
Baumgartner, who has his pride, takes exception to that simile. "Mosquito? Get serious," says Baumgartner. "I'm a Bengal tiger out there."
Mosquito, Bengal tiger, hammerhead, whatever—Baumgartner has lent his teammates courage in the NHL's tough arenas, and provided LaFontaine with precious extra room in which to work his magic. In New York's 8-4 humiliation of the North Stars in Minnesota on Jan. 11, LaFontaine contributed six points—five assists and a goal. The goal extended his streak to 11 games, a club record. But the most significant red light of his night awaited LaFontaine on his arrival in his hotel room, where he was greeted by a flashing bulb on his phone. Mike Bossy, whose record LaFontaine broke, had called to offer his congratulations. "I thought that was pretty classy," says LaFontaine.
This bonhomie is a recent development. In 1984, when LaFontaine arrived on Long Island in late season as a highly touted rookie, he was not welcomed with open arms. The Islanders were a close-knit dynasty. LaFontaine, a doe-eyed media darling, had won nothing but would probably end up taking someone's job, went the thinking. "There was a little bit of resentment, from guys who aren't here anymore," says center Brent Sutter. LaFontaine, who says nothing when he has nothing nice to say, will not admit that he felt ostracized, nor will he deny it. He does say, "Whatever happened that year, it never diminished the respect I had for those guys as players."
LaFontaine was so mindful of his elders that he had to fight the urge to address them as Mr. Trottier, Mr. Bossy, Mr. Gillies, Mr. Goring. For a long time, his deference showed up in his play. It was almost as if he was afraid of stealing the thunder of the men who had won all those Stanley Cups.
"Something always held him back," says Sutter. "I think he always had it in him, but he was a little nervous or unsure about letting it out. Nothing against Boss, but I think it's great for guys like Patty to break some of the records of the old guys. The past is the past. We're a new team with a new outlook."
To spare Islander newcomers what he went through, LaFontaine has become a self-appointed one-man welcome wagon. He and his wife, Marybeth, have barbecues in the off-season; all Islanders are invited. According to Chyzowski, he peppers rookies and recent acquisitions with concerned questions: "Is your apartment working out? Do you need some help finding a car?"
"He can't do enough for you," says McDonough.
The Islanders have become LaFontaine's team. New York finished strong last season, winning four of its final six games. Not long afterward, LaFontaine phoned Arbour, who was still the interim coach, and made a date for breakfast. Over coffee he asked Arbour to consider staying on as coach.
"I thought it over and decided, What the hell, I'll give it another whack," says Arbour, whose strengths—an endless store of patience and a gift for teaching—are perfectly suited to his youthful team. When Torrey asked him to return to coaching, after having fired Terry Simpson, Arbour admits he wanted nothing to do with it. All told, as a player and coach, he had won seven Stanley Cups. He was a lock to be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was prepared to play out his string with the club in a less-stressful job as vice-president for player development.
Instead, he found himself back in Ulcerville, pushing the buttons for one of the league's worst teams—and liking it. While guiding New York to a 21-29-3 record last season, Arbour contracted the coaching bug again. "I get pleasure out of watching young players mature and grow," he says. On mornings after games, early arrivals to the Islander offices began finding Arbour already in his quarters, breaking down video.
Even when the Islanders got off to a 5-18-3 start this season, they did not despair. They were a composed 5-18-3. "Surprisingly, there was no sense of panic," says Maloney, a former New York Ranger. "Across town, guys used to be ready to jump off the roof when we lost two games in a row."
Through it all, Arbour preached the importance of winning "the little battles" along the boards and in the corners, and of "accountability to one another." Then Torrey pulled the trigger on the Trade, and the bigger victories began to come. "Now the game's fun again," says LaFontaine. "That's what it's supposed to be, right? I mean, this is a kid's game."
Did someone say "kids"? The Islanders went into their Jan. 11 meeting with the North Stars with this incentive: If they won and the Philadelphia Flyers lost, the Islanders—for so long a tenant of the Patrick Division basement—would take over second place, behind the New Jersey Devils. In the visitors' dressing room afterward, an Islander was asked how it felt to be in second. "You mean the Flyers lost?" he asked.
Yes, it was true, Philadelphia had lost. The cry quickly went up all over: "Hey, the Flyers lost!" Nowhere was the news received so joyously as in the showers, where the whooping and hooting of grown-up kids soon drowned out all other noise.
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BRUCE BENNETT
LaFontaine has had a hot stick since the Trade, helping lift New York from sixth to second place in the Patrick Division.
Arbour chose to stay at the helm.
ANTHONY NESTE
Lacking in confidence early in the season, Fitzpatrick has been impregnable of late.
McDonough was all but unused in L.A., but he's happy to get down and dirty in N.Y.
All was A-O.K. for La Fontaine, even after the Caps capped his goal-scoring streak at 11.


An integral component of today's construction industry is IT. Utilising the data it generates, IT contributes significantly to meeting industry needs and adapts to and supports construction trends.It is in fact one of the core utilities or services that support an infrastructure. This results in tremendous risk to the business should there be any IT downtime. To mitigate downtime, it is necessary to build resilience into IT components and design.
How does IT support construction industry trends? "Some of the trends Africa is currently experiencing are increasing industrialisation and urbanisation. Related to this is a rise in energy demands. These trends lead to the need for increased access to, usage and sharing of data which is generated or 'pulled' by IT," says Jaco Cronje, operations director for EES Africa, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company.
EES provides management, engineering and auditing services to a range of industries throughout Africa. It specialises in the integration of multiple system infrastructure including ICT, data centres, audio visual, life safety, security and building automation systems.
Construction industry trends and requirements lead to IT-specific trends, the first of which is 'connectivity'. "Connectivity, especially via mobile communication devices, is accelerating and a rapidly increasing number of people in Africa are becoming connected. An example of connectivity is the fast growing use of broadband in Kenya, while that of mobility can be seen in MTN and the rise of its mobile phone penetration throughout Africa," explains Cronje.
In 2010 the world's population was 7-billion and there were 12-billion connected devices. It is estimated that there will be an impressive total of 25-billion connected devices by 2015.
The third trend is 'energy management' which addresses rising energy demands. IT monitors energy usage and manages how it can most effectively be utilised. An example here is the energy grid. IT is essential in the implementation of a Smart grid. This unlocks numerous benefits related to the managing of energy generation and consumption.
The core utilities or services that support a facility or infrastructure today are not only water, electricity and gas, but also the data which is generated by IT. "Data has long passed the point of being a requirement, and is now a distinguishing factor in buildings," Cronje emphasises.
* Power which is run over Ethernet, enabling monitoring and management of lighting and other power usage.
This is done by means of convergence. Convergence, which is the combination of multiple functions by means of only one cable, can achieve a 20% capital saving in buildings. Convergence of services also covers energy efficiency services and this can pro-actively contribute to maintenance offering a 30% operational saving.
It is necessary to build resilience into IT components and design in order to mitigate risk, which IT downtime can present to organisations, resulting in serious cost implications.
Cronje explains that the primary focus with regard to building resilience should be on the data centre, which is the heart of IT in a building or smart city. The data centre is evaluated based on its resilience to risks and is then rated accordingly.
Vital to the IT system is not only the physical equipment and installations, but the system architecture too, which needs active-active resilient and redundant systems for continued operations and reduced risks. Load must be spread to create resilience throughout the entire IT system.
Resilience should also be increased in cabling and routing, which must be installed according to industry guidelines and shielded from power cables.


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Posted on June 12, 2019 by The Team
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Large online companies, banks, insurance companies and energy firms have been warned by the Competition and Markets Authority that ripping off their customers is destroying the public's faith in capitalism.
The CMA are calling for changes in regulations that would make it easier for them to take action against the unscrupulous, citing the manipulation of the banks, insurers and energy firms that offer very competitive deals to get customers to sign up and then squeezing them with far higher prices thereafter. This, many feel, creates an unhealthy and toxic culture where loyalty is punished, rather than rewarded, by companies abusing their dominance.
Reality TV is "a combination of reality and produced elements" say ITV after criticism of the veracity of its Love Island reality show.
ITV have a history of deceiving viewers. The company's franchise holder, Carlton, was fined £2 million in 1996 by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for 16 deceptions in its faked drug "documentary" The Connection.
And the ITV network picked up a record total fine of £5,675,000 in 2005 for a string of serious breaches of Ofcom's Broadcasting code, which included ignoring paid for telephone votes from viewers for awards to celebrities when they failed to nominate the celebrity the ITV producers wanted to win, selecting competition finalists before the lines were closed, selecting finalists on the basis of their deemed suitability to be on television rather than at random and selecting finalists on the basis of where they lived rather than at random. The size of this fine would have been very much larger had not ITV pledged £7.8 million for viewer compensation and to charity.
ITV programmes reportedly guilty of fakery over the years include Love Island, the Jeremy Kyle Show, the Trisha chat show, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor and courtroom show Judge Rinder.
The fact, exposed by the Daily Telegraph, that 377 MPs have had their credit cards suspended for breaking expenses rules was the subject of a failed cover up by the now discredited Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).
The authority was set up after the 2009 expenses scandal, which saw eight MPs and Lords jailed for fraud, and tried to argue that publishing the names of the latest crop of culprits would damage its relationship with the MPs it was charged with policing.
However, High Court judge Sir Robert Owen ruled, under the laws of Freedom of Information that the risk of "embarrassing" the MPs was no reason to keep the names secret.
So, thanks to the Daily Telegraph, and others we learn that some well-known names in Westminster have had frozen credit cards, including Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Amber Rudd, Claire Perry, Stephen Barclay and Chris Grayling. Apparently nine MPs have had their cards suspended more than ten times, including Damian Collins, who leads the field with fourteen.
Trustworthy bunch, then?
The imposition of gagging orders by the Hotpoint Group has been revealed. These are legal orders made to stop those it pays compensation to from talking about their problems with the group's appliances.
These Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) were served on two women whose Whirlpool tumble dryers caught fire whilst being operated. One woman, who was paid more than £11,000 under a Hotpoint NDA said she thought it was "disgusting" that the firm were trying to keep people quiet about the fires, reportedly 750+ since 2004. The other, paid a "five figure sum" to keep quiet, was a mother who had to flee her house with her two young children as the blaze took hold. In both cases the tumble dryers had been " fixed" by Hotpoint engineers.
There are an estimated 500,000 unfixed Hotpoint Group machines in homes across the UK. Fires can occur, according to Hotpoint, when a build-up of fluff or lint from clothes comes into contact with the heating element.
Stansted and Manchester Airports have been criticised for their greedy treatment of motorists who take too long to park to drop off passengers at their terminals, a rip-off fine of £25 for taking more than 10 minutes at Manchester, or 15 minutes at Stansted. At Manchester the "normal" charge is £3 for 5 minutes and £4 for up to 10 minutes. At Stansted its £4 for up to 10 minutes and £9 for up to 15 minutes. The fines at these airports make the parking more expensive than the cost of many European flights (Daily Mail).
The Escape passenger lounge at Stansted, charging £25 for two hours, was recently deemed "hideous" and slammed for serving a cooked breakfast without eggs.
Consumer group Which? have warned that some of the products they have tested and given a "Dont buy" rating to have scored very highly in customer reviews posted by retailers that sell the products.
Examples are:
AfterShokz Trekz Titanium headphones that scored a low 28% with Which? – owing to "low battery life" and "awful sound" – were nevertheless given an average rating of 4.2 stars by Amazon and 4.7 by Argos.
The Black and Decker SVJ520BFS 2 in 1 Dust Buster scored a low 32% with Which? – where it was deemed "awful at cleaning carpets" – but was given 3.8 stars by Amazon and 4.6 stars by Argos.
The Nikon Coolpix A10 camera scored 34% with Which? – for its "slow start up time" and "poor image stabilisation" – but was given 4.5 stars at Currys PC World and 4.6 at Argos.
Worth checking with Which? before you buy?
The makers of Hovis bread are bringing back their iconic 1973 TV ad, 46 years after it was first screened and after it won the recent Kantar poll for the most iconic ever.
The ad, directed by Sir Ridley Scott six years before his rather different Alien shocker, has the heart-warming image of a young boy pushing his bicycle up a seriously steep hill, its front basket loaded with Hovis loaves, to the strains of Dvorak's New World Symphony. Also in the top five were Cadbury's "gorilla" drumming along to "In the Air Tonight" from 2007, Yellow Pages J.R.Hartley looking for his own book from 1983, John Lewis Always a Woman from 2010 and predating the Hovis ad by two years the Coca-Cola choir from 1971, teaching the world to sing.
The hill on which the Hovis ad was shot is Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, which has a gradient of around 1 in 6 – it rises 1 foot for every 6 travelled. This it shares with Steep Hill in Lincoln, and Blake Street and Old Wyche Road in Sheffield. Britains steepest street however is Vale Street in Bristol at just a tad gentler than 1 in 5.
Diners may well be pouring into the Hawksmoor restaurant in Manchester, hoping to be accidentally given a rare and pricey bottle of vintage Bordeaux instead of the rather more modest bottle ordered.
Apparently some lucky diners there recently ordered a £260 bottle of the excellent 2001 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, which works out at just over £40 a glass, but due to a staff error were given a £4,500 bottle of an even more excellent 2001 Chateau le Pin Pomerol, which works out at a bargain £750 a glass. Reportedly the diners were so impressed with their choice that they ordered another bottle of the same, only to be told it was "unavailable".
The restaurant's management, we are told, big-heartedly told the customers they hoped they enjoyed their evening, and equally magnanimously told their mortified member of staff who made the error to keep their "chin up" and that "one-off mistakes happen, and we love you anyway".
Now there's nice people…
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Blackstone looks to manage $1 trillion by 2026
Joshua Franklin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP (BX.N), the world's largest manager of alternative investments such as private equity and real estate, said on Friday it could be overseeing $1 trillion in assets by 2026.
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The firm currently manages $439 billion, a five-fold increase since it went public in 2007.
The ambitious target highlights how Blackstone, like many peers, is eager to take advantage of healthy investor demand for private equity and other forms alternative asset management.
There is, however, concern in the industry that fundraising will suffer when the next economic downturn comes, as it did in 2009 during the financial crisis.
"Now you may ask ... have you tapped out? Are you hitting some ceiling? The answer to that is a definitive 'no,'" Blackstone President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Gray said at an investor day event, the firm's first since 2014. Gray was promoted earlier this year from head of Blackstone's real estate division.
In a presentation, Blackstone said assets under management could hit $600 billion in the next two years or so, $800 billion in four to six years and pass $1 trillion in eight-plus years.
The outlook underscores comments by Blackstone Chairman and Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman in July about the alternative asset management industry entering a fundraising "super cycle," and his belief that Blackstone still has plenty of room to grow.
A growing asset base will boost the amount Blackstone earns from management fees, typically 1.5 percent to 2 percent of the assets it manages. These fees tend to be valued at a premium by investors because they are considered more stable than performance fees, Blackstone's other main revenue stream.
In its presentation, Blackstone said it had a "clear path" in the next two years or so to achieve at least 50 percent growth in fee-related earnings.
Blackstone shares rose as much 5.1 percent, reaching $39.70, their highest since July 2015.
In January, Blackstone agreed to buy a majority stake in the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.N) (TRI.TO), the parent of Reuters News, in a $20 billion deal. Reuters News will remain part of Thomson Reuters.
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[01] HOUSE PRESIDENT - TRIPARTITE MEETING
House President Marios Garoyian has said he has no fears over the possibility of a meeting to be held in New York between UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglou, noting however that he does not consider that something substantive will come out of such a meeting but on the contrary pressures will be exerted on the Greek Cypriot side.
Garoyian noted that Turkish intransigence has become harder and the Turkish side has submitted positions which do not abide by the UN resolutions something which the UN and the international community must take into consideration - there is an effort on the part of the Turkish side to degrade the process of negotiations and there are no convergences.
Unfortunately any convergences are on secondary issues. With regard to substantive issues there is a clear divergence, a gap between the positions of the two sides, he said.
Garoyian noted that any pressures should be exerted on the Turkish side but this was not done. He said that he does not know what the aim of such a tripartite meeting is, noting that if the United Nations want to create the conditions for substantive progress in the Cyprus problem they need to note down the responsibilities of the Turkish side and urge it to change its policies.
If they want to have progress at the negotiations they must turn to the Turkish side and prove that the proposals it has submitted at the negotiating table do not abide by the UN resolutions.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and occupied 37% of its territory. UN-led direct negotiations between the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities aiming to solve the problem which are underway began in September 2008.
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Former Member of Parliament, a Fellow of the Legatum Institute, senior adviser to the Faraday Institution, Vice President of the Great Britain China Centre, and a Visiting Professor at KCL and the University of Reading
Sir Oliver Letwin was the MP for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. He held a number of shadow cabinet roles before 2010, including as Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was one of the architects of the 2010-15 Coalition Government, serving in the cabinet as Minister for Government Policy and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a position he held in the Cameron cabinet until 2016.
Oliver studied at the University of Cambridge, obtaining a PhD in 1982. He was subsequently a Procter Fellow at Princeton University and a Research Fellow at Darwin College Cambridge. Before entering Parliament, he was a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit and a Managing Director of NM Rothschild. He is currently a fellow of the Legatum Institute, senior adviser to the Faraday Institution, Vice President of the Great Britain China Centre, and a Visiting Professor at KCL and the University of Reading. He has published a number of books and articles on philosophy, political theory and public administration.
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Jennifer Lawrence has joked that Bradley Cooper kept things in line on the set of their movie Silver Linings Playbook. The actress explained how she and the movie's director David O. Russell tended to goof around while filming the adapted screenplay, and said that Bradley was the real driving force behind the production.
?If Bradley weren?t there, the movie would?ve never been made,? Jennifer laughed to WWD. ?One time, we were running late, way over schedule, and Bradley was trying to find David and I. [He found us] making videos on my phone, pretending we were wiping our butts with coffee on paper towels, and making videos of it. Bradley was like, ?Guys, we gotta go get this shot,? and we were like, ?yeah, alright Bradley.??
Jennifer revealed Bradley's whip cracking attitude while speaking at the premiere of the film in New York City over the weekend, where she posed for pictures with her partner in crime, director David, on the red carpet. David, who adapted the script for the movie based on the novel by Matthew Quick, says Jennifer was the perfect choice to play the character of Tiffany. He revealed Jennifer is a natural actress who effortlessly pulls off mannerisms that make her convincing, and therefore endearing, to audiences.
?Jennifer is real,? David explained. ?She?s like a girl that could live next door to you, but she?s also that girl that could knock you out. She?s intense, she?s confident, she?s emotional and she?s very available. It all reads on her face. She?s the kind of girl who could fix your car and then clean up and dance your ass off.?
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The fastest version of the model was the Twingo II RS, launched in 2008 and offered in sport and cup chassis. The car was fitted with a naturally aspirated 1,598 cc engine producing 133 hp (100 kw) of power and 160 Nm of torque, allowing an acceleration from 0-100 km/h in 8,5 seconds and a top speed of 201 km/h (125 mph). The engine came with improved air filling rate thanks to a specific throttle valve unit and aluminium plenum chamber plus revised diameters and lengths for the air inlets, revised continuously variable inlet camshafts with longer opening and higher lift and revised combustion chamber design. It was combined with a revised version of the five-speed manual gearbox (JR5) with short ratios.
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As the AU tries to contain COVID-19, the virus constrains the AU
By: Cedric de Coning
The AU cannot simply wait out the coronavirus pandemic: it must adapt and urgently develop new ways of working.
In Africa, COVID-19 infection rates are still lagging far behind East Asia, Europe and the United States (US). At the time of writing, in early April, the number of confirmed cases is still low. Nevertheless, projections are that positive cases will grow exponentially in Africa over the next 100 days, as it did elsewhere.
This slow onset, along with lessons emerging particularly from China and Italy, enabled African countries to act earlier and more decisively. Borders were closed and social-distancing measures introduced far sooner than other countries had done at similar infection levels.
Since the coronavirus outbreak was first detected in Wuhan in December 2019, the African Union's (AU's) African Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) began working to advise and build the capacity of African governments to prepare for the virus. In March, the African CDC deployed experts and coordinated the distribution of the 20 000 test kits, 100 000 medical masks and 1 000 protective suits and face shields that Jack Ma's Alibaba Foundation donated to African countries. In the process, the African CDC has become the most visible face of the AU in this pandemic. By pooling expertise at the multilateral level, the AU has provided technical assistance to its member states, played a critical role in supporting coordination among them, and helped to mobilise support with international partners.
The continental body has also been quick to act in the context of its own operations. On 13 March, the AU Commission (AUC) announced a suspension of all AU meetings until further notice. An unintended consequence of the restrictions introduced by the AU and some member states to contain the viral spread is that the same measures are now also significantly disrupting the work of the AU.
The slow onset of COVID-19 in Africa, along with lessons from China and Europe, allowed countries to act earlier and more decisively. Click to Tweet
High-level strategic initiatives, such as the Silencing the Guns campaign, AU reforms and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will be affected. Trading within the AfCFTA was expected to commence by 1 July 2020. This will now most likely have to be postponed.
The work plan and daily functioning of the Commission has also been significantly affected. The AUC headquarters and its offices across Africa have been locked down, and only essential staff, on a rotational basis, are allowed access. All operations and travel have been suspended. AU staff are working from home on those aspects of their work that can be done remotely, but frequent electricity cuts and unreliable Internet access in many countries makes that difficult.
Of particular concern are expectations that both the spread of the virus and the measures to contain it may increase the risk of social unrest across the continent.
As the number of infections starts to increase, the case load of patients who need medical care will significantly disrupt Africa's already limited and weak health systems. Economic forecasts in most African countries are already being downgraded by at least 2–3 percentage points for 2020. These effects in the health and economic sectors will expose and compound pre-existing social, political and environmental vulnerabilities, especially in conflict-affected countries and regions. In some cases, this may lead to social unrest or violent conflict.
The AU has been quick to respond to the outbreak, and on 13 March suspended all of its meetings. Click to Tweet
The measures taken to prevent the spread of the virus are also hindering the AU's capacity to prevent and manage new and existing conflicts.
The AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) has suspended its work in March, but with the spread of the coronavirus likely to increase in the coming weeks and months, the PSC will not be able to resume its normal meetings anytime soon. In early April, the PSC decided to share briefings electronically, use a silent procedure for passing communiques and video conference briefings.
The PSC has many critically important issues on its agenda. For example, following the AU Summit in February, the PSC had begun to work on an initiative to deploy a 3 000-strong AU force to the Sahel. Other key issues include the future AU operation in Somalia, the implementation of the peace agreement in South Sudan, and the withdrawal and replacement of the joint AU-United Nations Mission in Darfur.
The AU's peace support operation in Somalia (AMISOM) is continuing to undertake essential operational tasks, but it has also implemented measures aimed at preventing and containing the spread of COVID-19. All rotations and new deployments have been suspended. Non-critical staff were moved out of Mogadishu. Staff who have recently arrived in mission before travel was suspended, and those who were at high risk of having contracted the coronavirus, have been isolated until medically cleared. This currently includes the head of the mission.
High-level strategic initiatives like Silencing the Guns, AU reform and the AfCFTA will be affected by the pandemic. Click to Tweet
The AU cannot simply wait this out. It must adapt and urgently develop new ways of working. The continental body and its member states have been relatively quick to take measures to prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19 – also in its peace support operations. These actions will probably save thousands of lives. However, these steps are also starting to have an adverse effect on the AU's work. No one knows yet when social distancing and other prevention and containment measures can be relaxed – but if Africa follows the global pattern, the number of people infected will increase exponentially in the coming weeks. It is thus unlikely that these measures will be relaxed for several months.
There is thus an urgent need for the AU and African member states to adapt to the new reality and to develop new ways of working that are less reliant on travel and physical meetings. This will be a challenging transition for an intergovernmental organisation whose programmes are dependent on member state inputs, validation, approval and funding.
It is heartening to note that the Bureau of the African Union, consisting of the current, past and future chairpersons of the AU, has already met twice remotely at the end of March and beginning of April to coordinate the AU's COVID-19 response. Other AU bodies and entities need to follow this example. It is thus heartening to note that the Bureau of the African Union, consisting of the current, past and future chairpersons of the AU, has already met twice remotely at the end of March and beginning of April, to coordinate the AU's COVID-19 response. More AU bodies and entities need to follow this example.
A potential alternative is for member states to change the way they achieve oversight, by switching from physical meetings to written inputs and remote meetings. The UN Security Council, facing similar limitations, has resorted to meeting remotely, using technical rollovers when mandate renewals are due and voting in writing when needed. The UN General Assembly has similarly started to approve resolutions using its silence procedure. The UN General Assembly has similarly started to approve resolutions using its silence procedure. The AU's Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) and other member state bodies should consider developing similar procedures.
The AUC would need to revisit its work plan to determine which programmes, in light of COVID-19, critically require continuation over the coming months, and which can be temporarily suspended so that funds and staff can be re-allocated to COVID-19 programming. This means the AUC will need to make tough decisions to suspend some activities and to re-organise themselves around a smaller portfolio of strategically important and mission-critical priorities.
Cedric de Coning is a senior research fellow with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) where he also manages the TfP programme at NUPI, and a senior advisor for ACCORD. He tweets at @CedricdeConing
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a $1.28-billion commitment Thursday for a major Montreal rail project that will connect the city to its suburbs and to its international airport.
of the province's public pension fund manager.
A federal source tells The Canadian Press the commitment will either come in the form of a grant via Ottawa's infrastructure-funding agreement with Quebec or possibly through the Trudeau government's proposed infrastructure bank.
The infrastructure bank is designed to use public funds as a way to leverage billions more from private investors to pay for new, large-scale projects, such as rail lines, bridges and transit systems.
The government source, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, says the $5.5-billion Montreal transit proposal fits many of the prerequisites the bank will be looking for – but notes it will ultimately be up to bank officials to decide.
The Liberal government has said the Trudeau cabinet will also have the power to refuse projects approved by the bank in order to protect the interests of Canadians.
In January 2015, the Quebec government and the province's public pension fund manager announced an agreement to build the electric light-rail network.
"A federal source tells The Canadian Press the commitment will either come in the form of a grant via Ottawa's infrastructure-funding agreement with Quebec or possibly through the Trudeau government's proposed infrastructure bank."
Given the Infrastrucure Bank legislation was buried in the Omnibus Budget bill (hey, didn't Trudeau promise no Omnibus bills???) and the Senate is currently looking at splitting up the Omnibus Budget bill REMOVING the Infrastrucure Bank legislation to examine it seperately.
It's probably not a good idea to start funding things with the Infrastrucure Bank that hasn't yet been approved.
I wish I could throw billions around like pocket change.
I wish they would just separate. Leave, get the flock out, dont let the door hit you, vaya con dios. L8R biatches.
Exactly! That's like a welfare recipient asking to get off welfare and get a full time job. Ain't gonna happen.
major bribe indeed. Wish I could get a piece of that!
Move to Quebec, or an Indian Reserve.
An estimated 20% of that will find it's way to organized crime.
Every major city in Western Canada should petition Trudeau to invest $1 billion in their infrastructure. When he refuses, they need to demand why Montreal gets special treatment. Put the retarded monkey in the hot seat.
The new Champlain bridge that the Harper government paid for and some of the cost were to be recouped via tolls, is now, under Trudeau, going to be toll free.
The Montreal mob just hit the jackpot.
New swimming pools for everyone!!
Yeah i did. They should tell the wonder chimp to keep his cash. Do taxpayers a favor.
It's another shiny spoon with sharp hooks like the ones fishermen use , to buy the vote of the green unionized crowd. it will never see the light. The bank will dry well before the first shovel of ground. Another traditional liberal scam.


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Remove the steaks from the pan. Tent with foil on plate while you make the sauce.
In the pan with the meat juices, sprinkle the pan liberally with pink peppercorns and lots of fresh rosemary....add lots of olive oil to about 1/4" or more in pan. Heat and hold warm. Squeeze lemon juice on steaks.
Slice the meat on the diagonal and fan on plaate. Pur sauce over the meat and serve with rosemary finger garnish. Fabulous!!
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i have search what's the problem, and it told me that i should give a PDO param
->setParameter('id', $id, \PDO::PARAM_INT)

well,, it is okay, do not have any error yet. But i have problem with the others on my controller.. i got a notice
Notice: Array to string conversion in /myProject/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Connection.php on line 784

and my repository cannot work at all to insert database
All of my project goes right, but when i need to add some function in one of my repository, i got error like that.
Please help me, i need to solve that as soon as possible

A: The DBAL connection class provided by Doctrine2 is actually a child class of PDO, if you're using a PDO driver.
You can check your currently used driver looking at the database_driver in your app/config/parameters.yml file. Yours should be pdo_mysql.
To get access to the connection/PDO instance, you can use the doctrine service.
// $ServiceContainer is your services container; if you have an instance
// of Doctrine or the entity manager, you can use them directly, of course
$Connection = $ServiceContainer->get('doctrine')->getManager()->getConnection();

Then you can use the $Connection like any other PDO instance.
See also: http://doctrine-dbal.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/configuration.html
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As for the Array to string conversion problem, this is something different: You're passing a parameter which is expected to be an string, but you pass an array. Unfortunately, you don't post the actual query, so it's not possible to say what exactly the problem is.

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