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Commission européenne
Maroš Šefčovič
Vice-president de la Commission européenne
Speech: 'L'avenir de l'UE: entre crises et mutations'
L'Institut d'études politiques /Paris
25 février 2013
Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tout d'abord, je suis ravi de me retrouver parmi vous dans cette enceinte qui contribue à former celles et ceux qui feront l'Europe de demain. Avenir de l'Union européenne: entre crises et mutations". Tel est le titre de ma présentation.
J'imagine que celles et ceux d'entre vous qui sont pétris de la méthode enseignée depuis le 19ème siècle dans cette vénérable institution, ne seront pas surpris, au contraire, si je commence ma présentation en définissant les termes et les enjeux du sujet !
L'étymologie grecque du terme crise – krisis (jugement) – nous renvoie à la nécessité de décider et à un impératif de changement. En cela la crise – malgré son lot d'infortunes - est porteuse d'un avenir, d'un souffle nouveau, d'une transformation radicale. A l'heure où l'Union européenne affronte l'une des plus graves crises de son histoire - crise économique, financière, sociale mais aussi crise de confiance (j'y reviendrai) - nous sommes en droit de nous demander ce que cette crise porte en elle de changements en profondeur, ou de mutations.
Quel lien peut-on faire entre les forces du présent et le temps à venir? Si vous me permettez, j'aimerais faire ici appel à l'une des plus grandes figures françaises du siècle des lumières, Voltaire, qui affirmait – je cite: "Le présent accouche, dit-on, de l'avenir."
Cette expression me semble tout-à-fait pertinente pour expliquer pourquoi le futur est avant tout une promesse, porteuse d'espoir; pourquoi il convient de rester optimiste malgré les difficultés liées à la situation actuelle.
Let me repeat that quotation from Voltaire in English: "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."
Being the cynic that he was, Voltaire no doubt intended to suggest that today's poor political judgements inevitably lead to tomorrow's disasters.
But for me there is another interpretation: if we can learn from today's mistakes, then we have a much greater chance of a better future.
In fact, it seems clear to me that both interpretations are relevant to the current crisis in Europe.
We can certainly say that we made mistakes in the past that later had harmful repercussions: for one thing, allowing countries to run up massive public deficits in breach of EU rules; for another, failing to clamp down sufficiently hard on those countries that broke those rules. The crisis is a clear illustration that EU is primarily ineffective where intergovernmental elements dominate. Let's be frank – that was true not only for the Stability and Growth Pact but also the Lisbon Strategy.
As a result, instead of keeping public finances under control, some Member States accumulated large private and public debts, structural reforms were postponed as a result, leading to loss of competitiveness and macroeconomic imbalances.
And we carried on making those mistakes: we failed to see that the cause of the crisis was one shared by all Member States, and that allowing each country to find its own solution would at best only tackle the symptoms. We had a monetary Union but acted as if monetary interdependence was sustainable without further economic integration and a genuine European budget. As the crisis vividly demonstrated we were wrong.
And we failed to see how our apparent inability to act would have such a detrimental effect on citizens, and on their trust in the EU as a whole.
So, you might say, not much reason to be optimistic! Well, this would indeed be true if we were still in this situation today. However, some progress has been made.
You will recall that not so long ago the doomsayers were all over the place, in the press, in Wall Street, on main street, predicting the demise of the euro, not to mention that of the Union itself.
The Cassandras have been proven wrong. If we are to believe the most recent forecasts, it seems that we are – slowly, but surely – managing to remove this economic trap, thus slowly getting out of the area of turbulence, with a tentative recovery foreseen for the start of next year. It is worth noting that despite the current difficult Europe's average debt-to GDP ratio is around 83%, compared to the US rate of 103% and Japan's nearly 230%.
And this is definitely not by chance. It is rather the result of an entirely different approach, adopted over the last three years, to tackling the crisis forcefully at EU level; an approach based on cooperation and solidarity, that we can now see slowly starting to bear fruit, slowly starting to deliver.
Of course we are not there yet, but there is certainly room for optimism.
I won't bore you with detailed explanations of everything that we have done at the European level to tackle the crisis, but I would like to mention one or two in general terms.
First, by putting into place the European Stability Mechanism, a 500bn euro firewall to break the link between bank and sovereign debts. As a result financial market conditions have improved substantially.
Second, tackling the deficit problem. The austerity measures introduced by many Member States are designed, among other things, to bring down excessive public deficits.
But these are only the symptoms: what needed to be done at the European level was to tackle the root causes.
That is why we agreed a series of measures designed specifically to make it far harder for countries to run up excessive deficits in the future.
For example, the so-called fiscal compact (agreed by 25 of the 27 Member States) sets out tough new rules on public debts, introducing national "debt brakes" .
These new rules are complemented by two others – the so-called "six-pack" and "two-pack" – EU jargon at its best ! - which are binding on all EU Member States.
The six measures in the six-pack also focus mainly on this issue of compliance with the rules (as that was where the principal problem was in the past) to enhance prevention and correction of excessive deficit and macroeconomic imbalances.
Meanwhile, the two-pack – on which I'm happy to say there was an agreement in principle between the European Parliament and Member States just last week, after months of negotiations – gives the European Commission a new right of scrutiny over draft national budget .
In addition over the past three years we have designed a new system of financial regulation in Europe, concerning banks, markets and credit rating agencies.
I think you'll agree that these are quite substantial improvements to the fiscal and economic governance framework in Europe, improvements that should ensure that the causes of the current crisis cannot be repeated in the future.
But perhaps even more importantly, they are improvements that would have been unthinkable just a few years earlier.
Member States have traditionally kept close control over their economic and budgetary affairs – as they had a perfect right to do under the terms of the Treaty.
But with all European economies – not just those in the eurozone – so closely interconnected, it is vital to ensure that decisions taken in one country cannot adversely affect those in others, as for example in the case of Greece.
That is why pooling sovereignty in this area, adding a new European dimension to the budget process, was the only way to proceed.
The European Semester through its orientation tools - the Annual Growth Survey and the Country Specific Recommendations –enable the European Commission to conduct a multilateral steering and surveillance of budgetary, macro-economic and structural policies of each Member State.
Thanks to the six-pack and the two-pack this surveillance mechanism is also given some teeth through the decision on incentives and sanctions. In addition, this annual cycle allows for differentiated approach to Member States who each face specific challenges. If growth deteriorates in an unexpected manner, a country may notably receive extra time, as has been the case recently with the programme countries, to correct its excessive deficit.
It is perhaps this new attitude of cooperation and integration on the part of Member States that gives me the most cause for optimism.
It goes to show that when push comes to shove, Europe is capable of taking tough decisions, for the benefit not just of one country's citizens but for all 500m people living in the EU.
Building upon what has already been achieved the European Commission has proposed a blueprint to deepen further the Economic and Monetary integration through four main pillars:
A European banking Union with a central European bank supervisor, a single rule book and a single resolution mechanism to deal with banks in difficulty. We are moving fast in this area.
A European fiscal Union with not only stricter control over national budget but eventually an EU fiscal capacity proper based first on a new instrument – the convergence and competitive instrument – to help MS implement structural reform and, at a later stage, on the creation of Eurobonds to allow the common issuance of public debt and the creation of a European redemption fund as a means of reducing public debt exceeding the 60% criteria. The Commission has recently committed to set up an expert group (as part of the two pack agreement) to deepen the analysis on redemption fund and eurobills and present its final report no later than March 2014. In these areas too things are moving fast.
European economic union, with a greater degree of joint decision-making on economic, tax and social – yes social - policy
And finally a political union.
I will come back later in my presentation to these last two pillars – the economic and political union.
These objectives for EMU deepening have been endorsed by the Heads of State or Government of the EU countries in the December European Council.
Again, all this would have been unthinkable only two or even one year ago. History is accelerating and with it the prospect of deeper European integration.
Of course, it does not mean that everyone sees eye-to-eye on everything all of the time – far from it.
Nor that all Member States will be able (or as a matter of fact - willing) to participate at the same time in the proposed deepening of EU integration. If we look at the genuine EMU, it is likely that the Eurozone will become more deeply integrated more rapidly, but it should - and will - remain open to all other EU countries. In the end, all but two MS have a legal obligation to join the euro, and will have to commit to deeper integration in the future.
Finally this present and future integration has not reduced in any way the euroscepticism that continues to dominate political debate in several Member States. Quite the contrary.
As I mentioned before, we are – still – in the midst of a crisis of confidence. The opinion polls show that trust in EU and – I should add – national institutions is at an all-time low. This is also clearly reflected in the sheer number of changes in government: no fewer than 17 EU countries have seen a change of head of state or government since 2010, as citizens voice their concerns through their votes.
We need to go back to basics – to forcefully address the fundamental and daily concerns of Europe's citizens and the needs of businesses. To this end, we need to deliver on three fronts: sustainable growth and competitiveness, the social dimension of EMU and the building up of a democratic Union.
Perhaps the single most important measure when it comes to improving Europe's growth and competitiveness is the completion of the Single Market.
Between 1992 and 2008 the Single Market generated 2.77 million extra jobs in the EU and an additional 2.13% in GDP.
And yet barriers remain to the creation of a true Single Market, and in many of the areas with the greatest growth potential, such as services, energy and the digital economy, for example.
Under the leadership of Commissioner Michel Barnier, the Commission has adopted Single Market Act 2 proposals in October last year, focusing on these priority areas where action can be taken relatively quickly and where the potential benefits are substantial.
It is already 20 years since the Single Market was supposed to have been completed, but national vested interests have kept artificial barriers in place preventing us from exploiting the full potential of the Single Market. Once again, we have to make sure we learn from our mistakes.
We must also look beyond our borders, by embracing a forward-looking and pro-active trade policy. In the EU about 30 million jobs, more than 10% of our total workforce, depend on exports to the rest of the world. In that respect, the decision taken last week with a view to launching negotiations for a ground-breaking EU-US agreement – the transatlantic trade and investment partnership – has great potential to deliver.
Of course the US is not the sole focus of our international activities, in the multipolar world that we live in we also need to give priority to the BRICS, other emerging countries and the multilateral system.
Finally, growth and competitiveness will not come solely from structural reforms and removing barriers.
We also need to be able to invest at EU level in the policies and programmes that will create jobs, tackle unemployment and strengthen the economy.
At the European level, the chief investment tool is the EU budget - or the multiannual financial framework as it is formally known.
The heads of state and government have just reached a political agreement on the next seven-year MFF (2014-2020) , as I am sure you are aware, and while it was not the budget the Commission had hoped for, we recognise that it was the best deal that we were going to get, given the political stakes in many Member States. I'm glad to say that most of the key areas for growth and jobs proposed by the Commission were maintained in the budget agreement, even if in some cases with reduced funding.
The MFF forces us to focus on the most urgent priorities, where EU funding can bring real added-value and real benefits to citizens.
In particular, the European Council endorsed our commitment to tackling what has been called the 'crisis within the crisis' – the issue of youth unemployment.
We have proposed creating a new €6 billion Youth Employment Initiative aimed specifically at tackling this problem which is endemic in some Member States.
The youth unemployment rate across the EU is around of 25%, roughly twice as high as the adult rate. Around 5.5 million young people are unemployed. Aside from the obvious social cost of this situation, there is also a very real economic one as well: currently estimated at 1.2% of EU GDP!
That's why the Commission proposed youth guarantees that would ensure that young people receive a quality offer of employment, further education or training within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.
The proposed budget will also maintain investment in research and innovation through the Horizon 2020 programme (€71bn) and in helping small and medium-sized enterprises through a new programme called COSME (€1.9bn), to name but a few instruments.
Of course, some areas could still get an investment boost if the European Parliament decides to substantially alter the European Council's proposal. The Lisbon Treaty gave new powers to the EP in this area. As the Commissioner responsible for relations with the other institutions, I know first-hand just how important it is to build consensus with European representatives of the people, even when it is arduous and challenging.
Another major challenge, drawing on youth unemployment, is the social dimension. The Euro project may irreversibly lose support from EU citizens if it is perceived as a purely economic and fiscal endeavour and does not take into account the challenges faced by the European social model and the structural level of unemployment at EU level, with more than 26 million people unemployed. The lack of opportunities, particularly for the young and long-term unemployed and the rising inequalities undermine the social cohesion and trust. This in turns translate into political instability at national and EU level.
Thus if more financial and economic sovereignty is shared, this will inevitably lead to a more integrated framework for social coordination and convergence. Failing that, we will witness fiercer competition between the Member States, social dumping (lowering of social standards) and ultimately the lowering of the social model.
This greater coordination is currently taking place primarily through the European Semester cycle. To tackle unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis is one of the key priorities of the 2013 Annual Growth Survey.
To this end, fiscal consolidation should allow for growth friendly investment, that is key expenditure covering employment services, active labour market policies, training and what I mentioned before as the youth guarantee schemes.
It is also essential that the resilience and dynamism of labour markets are increased through more effective labour market transitions from one job to another and with decent wages not overburdened by too high taxes.
The Commission has recently proposed a social investment package which sets out a framework for policy reforms to render social protection more efficient and effective and to invest in people's skills and capabilities, including active inclusion strategies at MS level.
Finally, to complete the monetary union with a genuine social agenda, the European Council has mandated both the President of the European Commission and of the European Council to present before the end of this semester important measures to develop the social dimension of the EMU, including social dialogue.
We are thus preparing proposals to reinforce the scope and frame for employment and social coordination, notably based on the instrument of the European Semester. We can already think about possible paths such as the involvement of social partners, the reconciling of fiscal objectives with employment and social ones, the extension of macroeconomic surveillance to social surveillance (on unemployment rates, poverty, social exclusion, access to healthcare etc.), the setting up of basic social standards and benchmarks, a genuine solidarity mechanism that would help address the social consequences of the crisis and much needed labour market reforms.
Another gap that needs to be filled is the political dimension of EMU. The political challenge is just as great – we need to ensure that all these decisions are taken in complete transparency and, vitally, with the requisite level of democratic oversight.
This has been a recurring theme among my many discussions with national parliaments over the last two-and-half years, and I am sure it will be on the agenda tomorrow when I go to visit a number of French ministers as well as the French Parliament in a few weeks.
And of course it is quite right that national parliamentarians are concerned by these issues. They, along with the European Parliament, have a vital role to play not only in representing the people of Europe but also in holding their governments to account for what they do.
"No taxation without representation" – so the saying goes since the American Revolution.
A few centuries later, it is now the turn of the EU to deepen the democratic fabric of its multi-level system by reinforcing the role of parliaments at both national and European level. How to do this – not whether, but how - is currently being debated with governments, national and European Parliaments alike.
And we are moving into rather unchartered territory. On the one hand, we have to respect the Treaties but on the other we are moving into new areas of cooperation and depth of integration that we have never seen before.
The Commission has proposed as a starting point – and I give you this as food for thought - that the ongoing work on enhanced democratic legitimacy be based on two basic principles:
First we need to ensure that accountability for decisions taken fall precisely at the level where the decision is made, whilst also taking due account of the level where the decision has an impact.
Second, in deepening economic and monetary integration, we must ensure that the level of democratic legitimacy remains commensurate with the degree of transfer of powers from Member States to the European level.
For these reasons the Commission has committed to stepping up the dialogue with national and European Parliament on the Annual Growth Survey and the Country Specific Recommendations. While the Commission would remain naturally accountable to the European Parliament, national assemblies would thus play a defining role in the crucial juncture between the European and the national Semester i.e. in the second half of the year during which budget and reform programmes are proposed by governments and adopted by national parliaments.
Thus when the time comes for the big decisions on EMU to be taken, national parliaments will be pivotal in ensuring that those decisions are the right ones, the ones that benefit the citizens of Europe, and I will continue to remind them of this important task at every opportunity.
Because as I said at the beginning, the crisis is not just one of job losses and austerity measures, of economic losses and budget cuts. It's also a crisis of confidence – confidence in the entire European project, confidence in the ability of politicians to take the tough political decisions and to work together towards common goals.
Restoring confidence will only come if we can show ourselves capable of taking those right decisions. But we have to do so in complete transparency and democratically – especially when it involves pooling sovereignty.
This is not an easy proposition to sell to the people of Europe, even in the most Europhile countries, and if it is seen as simply another power grab by Brussels we will have failed in our efforts, regardless of how effective they might be economically.
All this needs to be debated, discussed and citizens must have their say. As you may know, this year has been consecrated as the "European Year of Citizens". In this framework the Commission is coordinating open debates in Member States with the participation of national governments, national parliaments, political parties and citizens about the Europe they would like to have by 2020.
Another landmark occasion will be the 2014 European Parliament elections. With this in view, the President of the European Commission has pressed European Political Parties to come up with a candidate for the post of President of the Commission and propose to their electorate an EU-wide programme and vision for the future of Europe. There could be a real energising effect in a political campaign which would put one leader in the seat of President of the Commission. To that end, European Political parties have a key role to play – as recognised by the Treaty – in helping to reconnect citizens with European politics and institutions. This is why the Commission has also proposed a European Statute for European Political Parties that I am currently negotiating with the co-legislators.
In the meantime, new tools of transnational democracy must also be put into place. Since April last year seven citizens residing in seven MS of the EU can launch a European Citizens' Initiative. By collecting at least one million signatures across at least 7 MS, they can directly propose to the Commission that it submits a legislative proposal. More than 10 initiatives are currently collecting and one is very much advanced.
This, in the evolving technological age, notably with the development of digital signatures and social networks, has great potential to foster direct participatory democracy, contribute to the development of a European public sphere and involve citizens more closely in the policy-making at EU level.
I see that in this field too Sciences Po students are pioneering. Some of you have embarked, as I am told, in making an experimentation on this novel tool – I very much look forward to hearing from your experience. A year ago, other Sciences Po students had already launched the "sign" network – with the genuine ambition to help citizens use and launch ECIs. I very much welcome this.
To conclude: I firmly believe that what we have experienced over the last few years, our present, has made us stronger and more ready to face what will come. The crisis has underpinned the financial, economic and social agenda that the European Commission is pushing today.
Europe's economic recovery may, after all, come as a result of the fact that the crisis acted as a catalyst for change, growth and reform.
In other words, in our present we have the seeds of a far better future.
Of course, I'm not saying that we are out of the woods quite yet, or that there won't still be more troubles ahead. Nor am I naïve enough to believe that the new found commitment to deeper integration won't experience a few hiccups of its own along the way.
The EU must – which does not mean that it necessarily will – become a test-case for transnational democracy. We need to be able to use the relays and tools, including interparliamentary cooperation, political parties and the citizens' initiatives to involve citizens better in the shaping of political action. This will be good for both democracy and policy making. More generally, failure to establish democratic channels will fuel even further the populist and extremist phenomena present today across the continent. This is one of the biggest challenges ahead of us.
But not the only one: the EU – its Member States and supranational institutions – must also respond to the challenge of solidarity and fairness. The EU social model is a strength that underpins our competitiveness. In his State of the Union speech last autumn, President Barroso recalled that "the EU countries with the most effective protection systems are also amongst the most successful and competitive". This is behind the idea of inclusive growth in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the social investment pack that I have mentioned.
This brings me to another point: the EU is first and foremost a Community of values that go beyond the borders of its Nation States. Values like human dignity, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms are enshrined in our treaties and will remain at the core of governmental action. At the end of last year the Nobel Prize reminded us so vividly of the EU's noble, unprecedented and relentless fight for achieving enduring peace, freedom and justice. Now looking at the EU as an international actor: in addition to being a fervent defender of human rights on the international stage, Europe is consolidating its position as the biggest trading bloc in the world - with a share of the world market that, contrary to the US and Japan - has been preserved at nearly 20% (against 13% for the US). The EU share in the global economy (GDP, purchasing power parity) is also stable – around 20% - and bigger than that of the US (18%) and China (16%). The EU is also recognised as the world's largest aid donor. Member States, despite of some rhetoric's to the contrary, are all acutely aware that in the multipolar world, "l'Union fait la force" (as we say in French). The EU "soft power" is undoubtedly its greatest asset. As mentioned above, it covers a wide panoply of policies. We could add the enlargement policy, with the prospect of accession acting as a major catalyst for reform in neighbouring countries.
And for the first time in decades, the enlargement of the EU – to the Western Balkans or beyond - is being conducted in parallel with further economic integration. It seems to me that we have reached a juncture where deepening and widening are effectively being pursued together.
For all this to be pursued, we must put our minds and our combined efforts to it. In an increasingly interconnected world, as we learnt from the crisis, we need to provide transnational solution to cross-border problems like economic shocks, climate change, food security, biodiversity, terrorism, illegal immigration or access to scarce resources.
To the "declinists" – to those entangled in the belief that Europe is bound to decline, I therefore say : there is no fatality, just look at what the economic crisis has taught us. Today's Europe, for all its trials and tribulations, is a shining example of what can be achieved through collective political will. I hope I have made the point that we need more, not less Europe, to tackle the challenges ahead.
So, rather than passively listening to the alarmist predictions, I would say – let's act collectively. Let's act on the democratic front, let's act on the economic front, on the social front, on the environmental front etc. Stemming from a critical analysis to learn from our mistakes, both past and present, and looking optimistically at what can be done to influence the course of future events. "Le pessimisme de l'intelligence allié à l'optimisme de la volonté" – a few 19th and 20th century authors have referred to this adage which, nowadays, would qualify as a recipe for change management.
Bottom line: the future is in our hands, and more importantly in yours, that of the future leaders, opinion shapers, decision-makers, analysts, practitioners of EU affairs and, perhaps even more importantly, active citizens.
With this in mind, I will stop here and listen to your interventions.
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Most people think about skiing only when the winter season approaches, however, the majority of you probably know that it's possible to go skiing all year round on many European glaciers.
A short break/long weekend trip to the Alps in the summer is a good way to keep your skiing activity going so that it's not so long before you put your skis back on in the winter.
Skiing on a glacier doesn't mean "skiing on ice", very often it happens to be skiing on fresh powdered snow even in the summer months.
With a limited amount of ski slopes on a glacier compared to the winter time, it really enables you to concentrate on your technique.
If you are passionate about ski racing, then a glacier is where you get to see World Cup athletes, National Teams and the possibility of training next to them. It's a good opportunity to see how hard they work to prepare for the next ski racing season and it's very motivating particularly for young ski racers who are willing to emulate them.
A summer ski holiday trip is not only about skiing, as all these summer ski resorts have an amazing choice of other activities to do in the afternoon especially if there are bad weather conditions when perhaps the lifts aren't operating.
A typical day begins with an early start to get up to the slopes, skiing all morning until early afternoon, and then back down for lunch to proceed with the afternoon activities.
Here below is a suggestion of some of the best summer ski resorts:
Les Deux Alpes, France
Les Deux Alpes is between Grenoble and Briançon, around two hours from Lyons. Its glacier, Glacier du Mont de Lans, offers skiing up to 3570m. From the top you can access the off-piste playground of La Grave. Les Deux Alpes has a large popular terrain park on its glacier during the summer months.
Zermatt, Switzerland / Cervinia, Italy
Zermatt's glacier is located at Klein
Matterhorn and is where the Zermatt pistes link to nearby Cervinia in Italy. The
pistes on the glacier are graded blue and red and are not particularly steep but
usually have the best snow in Zermatt. There is a year-round half-pipe on the
Hintertux, Austria
Hintertux is a tiny village at the far
end of the Tux valley. The glacier is accessed by lifts which are a 15-minute
walk from the village. The Hintertux glacier has particularly challenging and
interesting runs when compared with most pistes on glaciers and claims to have
the steepest glacier skiing in Austria.
Tignes, France
La Grand Motte glacier offers skiing above
Tignes from 3,030m-3,455m with access by both an underground funicular and fast
but more scenic chair lifts. There is a good variety of terrain with red, blue
and black runs and a mixture of chair lifts and drag lifts. Long descents all
the way back to Tignes are possible during the winter months.
Solden, Austria
Solden has two glaciers, the Tiefenbach and
Rettenbach, and this makes up 39km of pistes. The glaciers are linked by the
Glacier Express gondola. The Rettenbach glacier has a ski test centre with all
the latest skis to try out and a fun terrain park.
Passo Tonale, Italy
Passo Tonale is a purpose-built village
set on a high pass in Trentino. The Presena Glacier is open in the summer and
has a variety of slopes that are graded from blue to black but with just two
drag lifts. Fantastic off-piste runs from the glacier, up to 10 miles long.
Stubai, Austria
The Stubai Glacier is the largest glacier
in Austria, 20 minutes from the resort of Neustift. Lying south of Innsbruck in
the Stubai Valley, the glacier has a huge variety of runs, mostly blues and reds
between 2,300m and 3,200m. There are fabulous off-piste runs.
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Saas-Fee is a traditional car-free
resort with skiing at Mittelallalin at over 3,600m. The glacier at Saas-Fee has
20km of pistes and is easily accessible by the Metro Alpin which is an
underground funicular. There are also stunning off-piste routes down the many
Kaprun, Austria
One hour from Salzburg, above the pretty
village of Kaprun, is the Kitzsteinhorn glacier. It is down the valley from the
popular resort, Zell am See. The glacier has a large ski area with lots of
varied runs, mostly intermediate standard, up to 3,030m. The Gletscher terrain
park is open almost year round.
Engelberg, Switzerland
The world's first rotating cable car
takes you to Titlis at 3,020m above the resort of Engelberg. Huge descents on
and off piste are possible from this high altitude down 2,000m to the resort.
Due to the glaciers shrinking here it is no longer possible to ski in the summer
months as the resort has been protecting its glaciers by covering them during
this period. This area is less well-known than some of the bigger glacier ski
areas despite being close to Lucerne and Zurich.
These are just a small selection of the many other glaciers to go skiing in Europe. Before you make any decisions, just check on their website and webcams to see what the conditions are and the weather forecast for the period you intend on going there.
I hope this has helped. We organise trips with accommodation, and with transfers and ski coaching included. If you're interested please get in touch.

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South Korea drilling plans bring new threats from North Korea
Friday, December 17, 2010; 5:53 PM
SEOUL - Within the next few days, perhaps as early as Saturday, South Korea's military plans to stage a live fire drill on the same island that was shelled by North Korea 31/2 weeks ago.
But North Korea said Friday that, should South Korea carry out the drills, it will retaliate with deadly firepower.
"It will be deadlier than what was made on Nov. 23 in terms of the powerfulness and sphere of the strike," an unnamed North Korean military official said in a statement carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.
Also on Friday, North Korea posted a commentary on its Web site warning that any upcoming war on the peninsula would involve nuclear weapons.
Seoul has promised to hold the one-day drills on Yeonpyeong Island between Saturday and Tuesday, complicating diplomatic efforts to lower temperatures in the region and rein in North Korea's aggressive behavior.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is currently in Pyongyang on a private mission to "lessen tensions." Meantime, a U.S. envoy for denuclearization talks met with his South Korean counterpart Friday in Seoul, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg was in Beijing concluding a trip where he pressed China to exert greater influence on Pyongyang.
Also Friday, Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the South Korean and U.S. ambassadors to express "extreme concern" over plans for the drill and urged Seoul not to proceed, Reuters news service reported.
Yeonpyeong Island, just two miles south of the maritime border that separates North and South Korea, was hit on Nov. 23 by an artillery barrage from the North that killed two marines and two civilians. North Korea has said that it does not recognize the maritime border - the so-called Northern Limit Line - and views the waters around Yeonpyeong as its own.
South Korea was conducting military exercises on Yeonpyeong Island at the time of the Nov. 23 attack, though military officials here have said the shooting was directed toward the south - away from North Korean territory.
In the aftermath of the attack, South Korea's government faced harsh domestic criticism, with claims that the military was ill-equipped to mount a significant counterstrike. South Korea's defense minister resigned days after the attack.
On Friday, the Defense Ministry said it would proceed with the latest round of drills, despite North Korean opposition. The North often denounces South Korean military drills, threatening bold retaliation. When the South Korean military launched a different set of artillery drills earlier this week, North Korea warned that Seoul - in tandem with Washington - was driving the peninsula toward nuclear war.
Officials from Beijing to Washington have been trying to figure out an appropriate diplomatic response to North Korea's provocations. Last month, North Korea also revealed to an American nuclear expert an advanced uranium enrichment plant. Though Beijing has vouched for a return to six-party talks, the process designed to persuade Pyongyang's denuclearization, officials in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo have reiterated their refusal to return to talks unless North Korea first halts its nuclear development.


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The openSuse build service is in official alpha state now, and therefore can be used to prdouce software builds for various distributions.
Background information
The openSuse Build Service is described as:
The openSUSE Build Service provides an infrastructure for the open development of future SUSE Linux-based distributions. It gives software developers a web-interface with which to release and publish their software easily and quickly for a broad user audience. Our service provides a complete distribution development platform to create your own Linux distribution based on SUSE Linux. Packages can be built for SUSE Linux on various architectures. Beyond that, it also features services for compiling and packaging software for other Linux distributions like Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, and many more. Users can easily browse through and download the latest packages. Open interfaces allow external services (e.g. Source Forge) and web pages to interact with the build service and to use its resources.
In an advanced state, our Build Service will be accessible to anybody equipped with user/trust management and will be able to create further build targets (e.g. LSB, Xen images).
From my point of view the most interesting part about the build service at the moment is, besides the interesting software which is already provided, the fact that this software is provided with XML package metadata information. First this means that these software components can be accessed with yum and other XMLpm compatible tools. Second this means that Suse is as well changing over to this type of package description, going away from their yast-only repositories forward to a repository style which can be used by a lot of tools. This gives the user the chance to really choose his or her own favourite tool to completly manage all software on a Suse system. Nice step, Novell, and very sensible also 🙂
Additionally there are
*.repo files given in the directories, making it very easy to add installation sources to a existing yum setup (see also: How to setup yum in Suse 10.1 and Suse 10.0).
How to use it
First you have to install the GPG key:
rpm --import http://software.opensuse.org/openSUSE-Build-Service.asc
And since the repositories also contain
*.repo files, the installation of an additional repository is very, very easy (as long as you do not fear the command-line, of course). I explain it along with an example:
- Go to the directory of your choice, for example the icecream directory.
- Enter the directory of your distribution, I take here the Fedora Core 5 directory for the example, the procedure is the same on all other directories for the other distributions.
- As root, download the
*.repofile to your
/etc/yum.repos.d/*directory, in the example it would be this file.
- Install the software with yum:
yum install icecream.
That's all!
I really have to say: Suse/Novell, it looks like you really try to push Linux to new limits and new possibilities, I really appreciate that.


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Her common sense approach to my troubles, analyses of the gut microflora and treatment have literally changed my life. I am suffering no longer and can now lead a normal life – previously arranging anything in advance was impossible as I never knew how I'd feel. Thank you Eleanor.


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"And there are other drawbacks, too," Novet writes. "The AirPods case, with its satisfying clasp, is an instant Apple design classic, whereas the included BeatsX silicone case doesn't always completely protect your headphones — sometimes parts of the cable end up sticking out. And it gathers lint."
MacDailyNews Take: The Beats X case is crap.
"BeatsX come with a few aesthetic niceties that you won't find on AirPods: magnetic buds and a neck band that's just bendy enough to fit in the case but always bounces back to its default position," Novet writes. "Some people say the BeatsX headphones sound better than the AirPods — I personally disagree. I don't hear much of a difference… AirPods cost $159; BeatsX go for $149.95. We're talking about a $9.05 difference. If you care about not having to constantly recharge, go ahead and shell out the extra bit of money."
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The beauty of AirPods vs. Beats X is that, either way, Apple ends up with the sale.
Mashable reviews Apple's Beats X: 'May be the greatest wireless earbuds yet' – February 25, 2017
The Telegraph reviews Beats X headphones: Highly recommended – February 24, 2017
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text: Designer Amahlia Stevens founded Vitamin A out of a desire to craft the perfect, form-flattering bikini. The Vitamin A swimwear line takes inspiration from the designer's Californian background, blending its laid-back surf style into hip-slimming and curve-hugging bikinis. Using an exclusive new EcoLux matte jersey made with recycled nylon fiber, Vitamin A hits the beach while also conserving natural resources. From solid plunge one-piece swimsuits to the "Rayna" one-piece with a geometric mesh panel at front, Vitamin A creates swimwear that is as essential as wardrobe staples. Neiman Marcus offers a stunning selection of Vitamin A bikinis, coverups, swimsuits, and more.


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What to See
There are endless options for sightseeing, shopping, and activities during your visit to San Antonio. I will highlight some major attractions and day trip suggestions. Many are within walking distance from the Menger Hotel. For a full array of events and visitor information, see visit San Antonio.
Arts, History, & Culture
The Alamo
300 Alamo Plaza
Website: The Alamo
Phone: 210.225.1391
Riverwalk (Paseo Del Rio)
110 Broadway Street
Website: Riverwalk
Phone: 210.227.4262
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
2202 Roosevelt Avenue (short trolley or cab ride)
Website: San Antonio Missions
Phone: 210.227.4262
La Villita Historic Arts Village
418 Villita Street
Website: La Villita
Phone: 210.207.8611
Tower of the Americas
600 Hemisfair Park
Website: Tower of the Americas
Phone: 210.223.3101
San Antonio Museum of Art
200 W. Jones Avenue (accessible via Rio Taxi)
Website: San Antonio Museum of Art
Phone: 210.978.8100
San Antonio | The Saga
at San Fernando Cathedral
115 Main Plaza (accessible via Rio Taxi)
Website: Main Plaza
Directions: San Fernando Cathedral at Main Plaza
San Antonio Spurs vs. New Orleans Pelicans
AT&T Center
One AT&T Center Parkway
Dates: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 07:30 PM
Tickets: San Antonio Spurs vs. New Orleans Pelicans
Jerry Seinfeld Live
Majestic Theater
224 E Houston Street
Dates: Fri, Feb 5, 2016 07:00 PM and 09:30 PM
Tickets: Jerry Seinfeld Live
Day Trips
Fredericksburg, 70 miles
Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country
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Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment Present the American Premiere of "Despicable Me 2"
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The arrivals were held at the Universal Citywalk and Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA.
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's worldwide blockbuster Despicable Me entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In summer 2013, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2.
Chris Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy adventure featuring the return of (former?) super-villain Gru (Steve Carell), his adorable girls, the unpredictably hilarious Minions...and a host of new and outrageously funny characters. http://www.despicable.me


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How did you get into triathlon?
My friend Lindsey had done one in 2007 and I wanted to do one too. I just had knee surgery in April 2008 and this seemed like a great way to get back in shape.
How long have you been doing triathlon?
Since July 2008.
Favorite workout?
I do really enjoy morning runs but the long bike rides are pretty great too.
Do you have training partners?
Whoever shows up :)
Best Race?
DRC Half Marathon 2007/3M Half Marathon/2009 River Cities Sprint Tri
Worst Race?
Cowtown Half Marathon 2008. I do not recommend running in 38 degree rain with a sinus infection. Its gross and you run really slow.
Why you do triathlons?
Because its fun.
What's next for you?
Vineman 70.3 July 2010 and NYC Marathon November 2010 - some other stuff in between.
Most embarrassing moment doing sports?
Cheering half of a football game without realizing I didn't have on my bloomers. Whoopsies.
Running Shoe that you wear?
Adidas Adistar Ride (formerly Cushion 6) - I am on my 12th pair.
What time do you wake up?
On training days, 5:25am. Otherwise 7:00am
Favorite song to train to?
Normally something very upbeat that I can lip sync to as I run. People on the Katy Trail LOVE IT!
Out of all 3 sports- which is your favorite?
Running, but cycling is a close second, basically because I'm just so good at it ;)
What kind of food do you eat during a workout?
Gu. I love Gu. Yum. If I am riding then I can have some Clif Shot Blocks or Sport Beans instead.
Favorite food (regular)?
It's all pretty good.
Spouse/Significant Other?
Other sports interest?
Core Fusion at Exhale Spa.
Something that you like to do that is not sports related?
Favorite TV show/movie?
Favorite TV Show - that is tough. Of all time, that would be Friends. Currently, probably How I Met Your Mother/The Office/30 Rock
Greatest motivator?
The hope and possibility of improvement.
Columbus, Georgia
Interesting fact about yourself?
I was a ballet dancer, cheerleader and piano player growing up. Never even ran more than a mile until 2007.
What do you like to do to get away from triathlon?
I am sort of a joiner - DRC, Junior League, DMA, Lee Park...so I'm always busy.


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Adrenaline auto-injector prescription and patients' administration proficiency
© Amaral et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2015
- Published: 30 March 2015
- Emergency Department
- Adrenaline
- Training Session
- Food Allergy
- Life Situation
Adrenaline is the first-line emergency treatment for anaphylaxis. The only adrenaline auto-injector (AAI) currently available in Portugal is Anapen®. The aim of this study was to evaluate adrenaline prescription in the Emergency Department (ED) and the patients' capacity to correctly simulate adrenaline administration.
Patients with food allergy (FA) and hymenoptera venom allergy (HVA) followed in our department were invited to simulate adrenaline administration with an Anapen® trainer and a medical record review was performed.
A total of 36 individuals (50% male, mean age 34.5 years) were included; 28 with HVA (26 on venom immunotherapy) and 8 with FA. Twenty-seven went to an ED. Adrenaline was administered in only 3 and just5 of them were discharged with an AAI prescription. The remaining 22 had their AAI prescribed and taught how to use it, only after consultation with an Allergist. Twenty-three (64%) had their Anapen® with them and 19 (53%) admitted carrying it on a daily basis. Fourteen (39%) performed the simulation correctly, although 7 of them did not massage the injection site, as instructed by the manufacturer. On average, 2 training sessions were performed per patient but, despite this, 22 (61%) failed at various steps, including 4 who injected with the wrong end. Six reported using their Anapen® in a real life situation, but curiously 4 of them did not simulate the administration effectively.
According to the WAO guidelines, patients with anaphylaxis history should carry an AAI. Adrenaline underuse and a deficient prescription of adrenaline (14%) on discharge from the ED as well in non-specialized centres was evident. Approximately two thirds of our patients failed to demonstrate proper administration, regardless of previous patient education. This is an unacceptably high proportion of at risk patients. This device requires repeated and regular training sessions since this is the only AAI available in Portugal. Adrenaline is potentially lifesaving if the patient is willing to use it and is capable of injecting it correctly. Practice makes perfect.
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Display HTML content through ASP.Net MVC with Razor view engine
Posted by Rajesh Kumar on August 26, 2011
In this post, I will show you how to display HTML text on web page through an ASP.Net MVC application with Razor as the View Engine. The goal is to read file content from a specified location and display on web page.
Visual Studio 2010
ASP.Net MVC3 (http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3)
Let's first create a new MVC3 project. Please follow the below steps to do so:
1. Open Visual Studio 2010.
2. Click on Create Project and select ASP.Net MVC3 template. Give any project name that you prefer and click on Next.
3. Chose the options as Intranet application. View engine as Razor. Select Html5 option.
4. Once you click on Ok, you will see the project structure as shown below:
5. When you run the application without make ANY changes, you will be able to see a home page with the welcome message.
6. Let's wipe out default messages as we don't need them at all. To change the application title, move to Views –> Shared folder, double click on _Layout.cshtml page to open.
7. In body section, change the "My MVC Application" to "Log Viewer application".
8. Let's create the model now that holds the file names list and selected file content. To do this, right click on "Model" folder, select Add –> New class option. Give the name as "LogFileModel" and select Ok button. Add the following code:
public class LogFileModel
public List<SelectListItem> NamesList { get; set; }
public string SelectedFileName { get; set; }
public string SelectedFileContent { get; set; }
The important point to consider here is [AllowHtml]. This attribute allows us to display the HTML content.
9. For this example, let's assume that we want to display the files information on the "Home" page itself. So, let's go to HomeController. Please remember that ASP.Net MVC strictly follows naming conventions. The prefix of "Controller" represents the action that we are trying to perform. Here, "Home" represents, we want to display "Home" page (Index is the alias name).
10. Another important point is, ASP.Net MVC is a stateless application. It does not maintain View state. So, if we want to differentiate between normal page request and post back page request, we need to make use of other attributes such as "HttpGet" and "HttpPost".
11. So, we want to do like this. When the page is requested freshly, we only display the list of files that are available in the specified folder. When the user selects the file and clicks on "View" button, we will get the HTML/text content from server and show on web page.
12. Let's write the code to display list of files from selected folder as:
public class HomeController : Controller
private LogFileModel _logFileModel;
string directoryPath = @"C:\Log";
public ViewResult Index()
_logFileModel = new LogFileModel();
_logFileModel.NamesList = GetLogFileNames();
// return data to View
return View(_logFileModel);
private List<SelectListItem> GetLogFileNames()
// Get the List of files
// Order them by last write time
var fileNamesQuery = fromfile in newDirectoryInfo(directoryPath).GetFiles()
orderby file.LastWriteTime
select newSelectListItem
Text = file.Name,
Value = file.Name,
Here, we are trying to retrieve the list of files available in "C:\Log" folder and return to view as a list by populating it into our model class "LogFileModel" that we created earlier.
Note: Please make sure that there are some files available in Log files and is accessible to IIS users group.
13. Now, it's the time to add dropdownlist and TextArea on web pages to hold the data.
14. Open the Index.cshtml file while is under Views –> Home folder and the following content:
@{ ViewBag.Title = "Home Page"; } @model LogViewer.Models.LogFileModel <p> @using (Html.BeginForm()) { <p>Log files: @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedFileName, Model.NamesList, "Choose the Log file") <input type="submit" value="View" /> </p> } @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.SelectedFileContent, 15, 105, new { @style = "resize: none;" }) </p>
15. Let's try to understand Razor here…
ViewBag is like a Dictionary object that can be accessed and shared between View and Controller. We can pass data between these withit his.
@model LogViewer.Models.LogFileModel can be referred as a string type model binding to the view. With this, View (.cshtml) will be able to know which model it trying to speak to.
As we want to post back the page with the selected file, we need to encapsulate the HTML tags inside "form" tag. In Razor, we use it as Html.BeginForm().
@Html.DropDownListFor is used to display the list of files that are passed to View. When the user selects a file, its file name value will automatically be assigned to "SelectedFileName" property of "LogFileModel" object.
@Html.TextgAreaFor renders a "TextArea" control on web page to actually display the file content.
16. When we run our application now, you may see the UI as:
17. When you select a file and click on "View", you will see no action. So, let's handle that event now. To do this, go back to HomeController and add the following code:
[HttpPost] [ValidateInput(false)] public ViewResult Index(LogFileModel logFileModel) { logFileModel.SelectedFileContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine( directoryPath, logFileModel.SelectedFileName)); logFileModel.NamesList = GetLogFileNames(); return View(logFileModel); }
18. Here, we are writing an overload method of Index that accepts our model class. We are also marking the method as [HttpPost] attribute. Another attribute [ValidateInput(false)] will stop validating the input. This allows us to display the HTML content without any problem. If this is not included, you can an error as "Potentially dangerous…".
19. We are reassigning the FileNames list to the returning model object. We must do it as the ASP.Net MVC do not maintain ViewState.
20. That's all. Our code is ready. Now, run the application, select the file and click on View button. You will be able to see the file content on web page.
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When you are going to go to Joburg then you must definitely see this site I
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It's known as Travelscape and when you see the site you can find a variety of accommodation, bed
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for you and your friends at the exact place you are going to visit.
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This Week in Toronto (March 23 - 29)
~ Joseph So
With spring break over, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is back in business with a very interesting program of pairing Stravinsky's groundbreaking The Rite of Spring with Dvorak's sublime Cello Concerto. This Dvorak piece, together with the Elgar, are for me the two desert island cello concertos - I never get tired of hearing either one. And to have the wonderful Argentinean cellist Sol Gabetta here to play it is an occasion not to be missed. At the helm is the young and dynamic Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbanski. Performances March 27 and 28 7:30 pm at Roy Thomson Hall. http://tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2014-2015-Season/EventDetails/Stravinsky-The-Rite-of-Spring.aspx
Labels: Canadian Art Song Project, Charlotte Burrage, Clarence Frazer, Elliot Madore, Krzysztof Urbanski, Lisa Batialishvili, Mary Lou Fallis, Paul Lewis, Preview, Sol Gabetta, Toronto Symphony Orchestra


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A great bake for St Patrick's Day !
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Rosti, Boxty or Potato Cakes ...love them all!
This pie made with Irish Lamb is a winter staple - warming and healthy and truly delicious!
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Guinness is the perfect Irish Stout for these pies.
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Today, I did my nails very simple, but effective. This reminded me for some reason of something vintage and clean. The best part is that it was super simple, and people could actually guess they were actually flowers in there.
I first painted my nails white. In some occasions some people use a base coat, just t protect their natural nails against strains they get from really strong colors such as red or yellow, but since I was using white there was no need, I think.
Since I was looking for a white with some yellow undertones, like a kind of bone color, and I didn't have any at home I decided to use this sheer color that worked fine. **The color is super sheer (duh), so I applied like a zillion coats of this one, just kidding, but I had to apply easily 3 coats, and It was extremely hot so It was a pain waiting for that one to dry. But the color result is gorgeous.
**Note: If you have a more pigments white color with significant yellow undertones, totally use it, instead.
I then applied some gold nail polish here and there, just to give it a kind of dimension. I used a gold color by Orly, I don't remember the name but this is just for tiny details so I think any golden color with silver undertones will make it well. Applied that with my super duper cool versatile dotting tool! (btw..excuse my really crappy and messy painted nails, it was like 2am, i was tired and wanted to do my nails before going to sleep. That small excess always goes away after washing hands tho)
Last, a sort of important step, apply top coat, this will not only make your design last longer but will make that golden color really shine.
And that´s it! Simple, easy, pretty and versatile! Cute, right?
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7.5t Driver (6505)
- Salary:27500
- Region:Region Five - DXF
- Location:Durham
- Department:DXF
- Position Type:Permanent
- Closing Date:31 May 2019
Why DX?
As the specialist provider of customer-driven solutions for the delivery of time sensitive, mission critical, two-man and high value deliveries, DX routinely handles goods from many etailers, high street retailers including homeware, and a wide range of items from many industry sectors including legal papers, jewellery, optical lenses, pharmacy items and high street fashion.
We think we are more than just a delivery company. We know each consignment tells a story and we know that for someone somewhere, it'll make their day or not if we fail.
It could be a passport for a ski holiday. The watch that'll make the perfect birthday gift, or the commercial contract giving a client's overseas expansion the green light.
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Role Summary:
The role of the 7.5t Driver is to deliver customers products to the required premises ensuring all customers receive exceptional customer service as part of a multi drop delivery route. The 7.5t driver will ensure that all products are transported safely to the customers' premises, treating their freight as if it were our own.
Essential Criteria:
- CPC trained
- Must hold the relevant licence for the class of vehicle
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Hello everybody!! I am back with another post. Well I was checking out some Instagram posts related to food the other day and I came across so many people who made rice recipe in their own way. I was starving after seeing all those photos…so I decided to make my own version of rice…Now this is not something that I have invented and the credits of the recipe doesn't go to me but it's just how I like my rice. So let's get started.
It took me around 30-35 minutes to prepare for this dish and it was cooked in 30 minutes. It served 5-6 people.
INGREDIENTS for rice
The things you will need are :
For preparing rice and cooking the rice :
- 2 cups of basmati rice, 400 grams
- 4 cups of fresh water, 900 ml
For preparing vegetables :
- Cottage cheese/Paneer, 200 grams, cut into cubes
- Capsicum/ Bell pepper, 1 medium size, finely chopped
- Onion, 1 large size, finely chopped
- Tomato, 1 medium size, finely chopped
- Oregano, 0.5 tsp
- Black pepper, 0.5 tsp
- Red pepper. 0.5 tsp
- Kitchen king masala (optional), 0.5 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for cooking the vegetables, 2 tbsp
For cooking the dish :
- Prepared rice
- Prepared vegetables
- Oregano, 0.5 tsp
- Black pepper, 0.5 tsp
- Red pepper. 0.5 tsp
- Salt to taste
Preparing the rice :
Now first I had to make the hero of the dish – rice.
- I took 2 cups of basmati rice in a bowl and began to rinse the rice grains in the running water. Rinse the rice very well with gentle swirling of your fingers in the bowl. Rinse the rice till the water becomes clear, transparent and without starch.
- Then I soaked the rice in 4 cups of fresh drinking water (double the rice) for or about 30 minutes. Soaking is essential so do not skip this step.
Cooking the rice :
- Pour the soaked rice in a medium size saucepan with the same water you soaked in as it was fresh drinking water.
- Cook the rice for about 15 minutes starting with high flame till it reaches a boil and then turn the heat on low flame.
- Note : keep checking the rice time to time until done.
- Take out the rice in a strainer.
Preparing the vegetables:
- First, you need to take the cubes of cottage cheese or paneer in a medium sized bowl.
- Add all the spices to the cubed paneer. Keep it aside.
- After this take a large/medium pan and pour 2 tbsp oil in it and add the chopped vegetables to it. First add capsicum, give it a mix. Then add onion to it, give it a mix and lastly add the tomatoes and give it a mix.
- Keep stirring them for about 2 minutes.
- Add the marinated paneer to the vegetables and cook them for 3-4 minutes.
Cooking the dish :
- Add the rice to the same pan as vegetables. Mix it all together.
- Add the spices and give it a last mix.
Your dish is ready!!!
I used all different types of vegetables to make it colorful. I used the spices according to my taste and I like it a little spicy. You can adjust the vegetables and spices according to your likes and dislikes.
The dish is ready to serve…hope you like this recipe…share the photos of your dish if you try to make it…you can tag me on Instagram or Facebook in your photos…make sure to comment down your favorite dish…
Talk to you later. Bye!!


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Thirteenth Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition
April 6–May 12, 2007
The public was invited to Out of the Underground, the 13th annual juried graduate exhibition presented by Graduate Art Association of the UNM Department of Art and Art History as a two-part exhibition. For the first time, the Graduate Art Association held its annual graduate art exhibition in two venues: at its traditional home in the Jonson Gallery on the UNM campus, as well as in the newly renovated 516 ARTS space in Downtown Albuquerque. Engaged in one of the most the rigorous and highly respected art programs in the United States, UNM's graduate students produce some of the most original and challenging work in New Mexico. The exhibition at both sites was juried by Laura Steward Heon, Director & Curator of SITE Santa Fe.
The three prize recipients in this year's exhibition were: ceramic artist Jennifer Van Horn (the Ana Mendieta Prize), graphic artist and painter Larry Bob Phillips (the Florence Henri Prize), and photographer and videographer Joseph Mougel (the Friends of Art Prize). Jennifer Van Horn and Larry Bob Phillips exhibited and presented their gallery talks at the Jonson Gallery, while Joseph Mougel's work was on view at 516 ARTS, where his talk was also held.
Schedule of Gallery Talks:
Jennifer van Horn, April 10, 5:30pm, Jonson Gallery
Larry Bob Phillips, April 17, 5:30pm, Jonson Gallery
Joseph Mougel, April 24, 5:30pm, 516 ARTS
Out of the Underground in the downstairs gallery of 516 ARTS coincided with Tributaries, an exhibition exploring collaborations between artists and poets presented in collaboration with New Rivers Press, in the upstairs gallery.
Jonson Gallery exhibition
dates: March 23–Apil 27, 2007
opening reception: Friday, April 6, 5–7pm
hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10am–4pm and by appointmentlocation: 1909 Las Lomas NE on the campus of UNM, Albuquerque
info: 505-277-8927
About the Jonson Gallery
The Jonson Gallery was founded in 1950 by UNM Professor of Art and an internationally known painter Raymond Jonson (1891–1982). The building was designed by architect John Gaw Meem in the Pueblo Revival style and is included on both the state and national registers of historic properties. Besides housing UNM's first art gallery, the original building included the artist's studio, workshop, storage and residence for Jonson and his wife Vera. The Jonson Gallery became a program of the University of New Mexico Art Museum in 1982 and has since hosted exhibitions of works by emerging contemporary artists, UNM graduate students, and of course, Jonson. The Gallery's collection includes a broad representation of paintings, drawings and prints by Jonson and the Transcendental Painting Group, which Jonson co-founded in 1938, as well as works by many other artists of historic and contemporary significance. The Jonson Gallery is supported in part by a trust established by Jonson and by the generosity of individual donors.
image above: Hole, still from video by Joseph Mougel


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Barak on Borrowed Time?
(TEL-AVIV, Israel) -- The opening shots in what promises to be a brutal political dog fight were fired Wednesday night, as two senior members of Ehud Barak's ailing Labour Party publicly signaled their intention to oust him as the party's leader. Many see it as a coordinated attack that spells the beginning of the end for Israel's defence minister.
"The only position I haven't held is punching bag" Barak complained on radio Thursday.
On Wednesday, one of the two Labour Party figures, Ofer Eini, the leader of Israel's main labor union, called Barak an "idiot" on television, referring to a scandal involving Barak's wife. The other Labour Party figure, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, called for the election of an outsider to revitalize the party.
Despite his international profile, particularly in the U.S., Barak is deeply unpopular in Israel. He is fabulously rich and has a reputation for arrogance and vindictiveness. The Labour Party he leads is slowly dying, holding only 13 of the 120 Knesset seats. It used to be the driving force of Israelis politics and the party once led by Rabin.
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Modules MA SODA
The MA SODA study course is divided into six modules over four semesters:
Semester 1/ Module 101: Questions of Practice 1: Diagnostics/ Writing & Research for Artists/ Making New Work (20 credits) takes three key approaches to making and thinking practice: diagnostics - the ability to share processes of making work; writing & research for artists - the ability to place practice in relation to language and identify and utilize appropriate research methods with which to develop practice; making new work - the ability to identify and develop new approaches to making and thinking practice. The module takes the student's own practice-led and analytical account of engagement with choreographic/ performance processes and associated discourses as its starting point.
Semester 1/ Module 102: Negotiating Solo/Dance/Authorship - Lecture/ Seminar Series 1 (10 credits) explores the critical, contextual and theoretical understanding of key terms of the course in relation to individual students' development of practice and that of others. The first series of lectures/seminars addresses the contexts, implications and relationships of the key terms of the MA - 'solo', 'dance' and 'authorship' - in relation to contemporary arts practice and theory. The lectures are linked to seminars that involve reading and discussion of key works, performances and texts to establish a base for the critical discussion of individual work and a written paper.
Semester 2/ Module 201: Questions of Practice 2: Compositional Strategies & Tactics (20 credits) examines the work process of composition as research through artistic practice by exploring and testing various compositional strategies, tactics and work processes and analyzing the aesthetic and cultural contexts that make them possible and support them. Students continue to develop documentation and critical reflection in a workbook. At the end of the module, a formal proposal for independent and collaborative research in Semester 3 is submitted.
Semester 2/ Module 202: Compositional Practices & Contexts: Lecture/ Seminar Series 2 (10 credits) addresses questions of thinking and making contemporary practice in relation to the histories and strategies of 20th and 21st century compositional practice and contexts. The seminars involve reading and discussion of key works, performances and texts, and relating to the ongoing development of individual work through a written research paper.
Semester 3/ Module 301: Independent & Collaborative Research (30 credits): following an initial independent research proposal at the end of Semester 2, students embark on a sustained programme of individual research designed and structured in discussion with tutors. Research identifies and works with special areas of concern and with the acquisition of specific skills and knowledge. Students are invited to propose research mentors to accompany their progress and to be involved in collaborative research and curational projects during the semester.
Semester 4/ Module 401: Final SODA Project & Documentation (30 credits) involves the production of a work that engages with solo and/ or collaborative dance authorship, can be performed or presented in the public arena and meets conceptual, aesthetic and production criteria that apply in wider professional arts communities and/ or the cultural context for which the work is designed. Students prepare an initial proposal for their project at the end of Semester 3 that is negotiated and finalized with the core staff tutor and the project mentor toward the beginning of the final Semester 4. The Final Project documentation provides an opportunity for students to engage in detailed documentation and reflection on their work. The documentation takes the form of a substantial critical framing statement that positions the work in relation to the student's own experience and to wider cultural and aesthetic questions and conditions, and a final workbook devoted to the compositional, conceptual and contextual processes of the project.


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1/2 of recipe (1 stuffed chicken breast): 210 calories, 3.5gtotal fat (1.5g sat fat), 450mg sodium, 4.5g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 3g sugars, 36g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5*
SmartPoints® value 4*
This delicious dish is full of comfort-food goodness... Just like something Mom would make, and completely guilt-free!
1 cup chopped mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
2 wedges The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese
Two 5-oz. raw boneless skinless chicken breast cutlets, pounded to 1/2-inch thickness
1/8 tsp. each salt and black pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8" X 8" baking pan with nonstick spray.
Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Cook and stir mushrooms and onion until softened and lightly browned, about 6 minutes.
Transfer cooked veggies to a medium bowl, and blot away excess moisture. Add onion powder, garlic powder, and cheese wedges, breaking the wedges into pieces as you add them. Stir until cheese has melted and coated the veggies.
Season chicken cutlets with salt and pepper. Evenly divide veggie mixture between the centers of the cutlets.
Roll up each cutlet over the mixture. If needed, secure with toothpicks. Place in the baking pan.
Cover pan with foil, and bake for 20 minutes.
Remove foil and bake until chicken is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Eat up!