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Legendary Montreal delis
Smoked meat the food that made Montreal deli famous. Made from a special recipe for aging, spicing and smoking meat that Eastern European immigrants brought with them at the turn of the 20th century, the Montreal delicatessens that have been serving this tasty treat, as well as other specialties, are legendary. Benita BakerWhy it's worth the drive: Opened in 1928, Schwartz's bills itself as "the oldest deli in Canada." Its famous smoked meat, made from the original recipe of herbs and spices brought over from Romania by founder Reuben Schwartz, is smoked daily and contains no preservatives. It's so good that there is a perpetual lineup on the sidewalk outside the entrance waiting to get in, regardless of the weather or the time of day. Once inside the jam packed restaurant, expect to be seated next to a stranger at one of the several long, narrow tables. It is just too small and too busy in this Montreal landmark to have a table to yourself. There are other items on the menu steak, chicken, liver, smoked turkey but if you don't have the smoked meat, you are not taking a bite of history.Where: 3895 Saint Laurent Blvd.How to get there: Exit Highway 40 at Boul. St Laurent. Head south on Boul. St Laurent. Turn left on Rue de Castelnau West., left onto Rue Clark, left on Rue Cuthbert and left again on Boul. St Laurent.Cost: A smoked meat sandwich is $6.15. Mustard is a must, as the hand lettered sign on the wall declares. Top it off with a cherry coke, made the old fashioned way with syrup added to seltzer water. The only place to sit is at the lunch counter on the nine wooden stools that are warped from the thousands of bodies that have sat on them. There are no tables, no dishes,replica van cleef turquoise alhambra necklace, no cutlery. Sandwiches are served on a napkin.Founder Moe's widow, 92 year old Ruth, continues to preside over the restaurant. A favourite haunt of Montrealer Mordecai Richler, who immortalized Wilensky's in his novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Scenes from the film version of the book were shot inside the restaurant.Where: 34 Fairmount Ave. West (corner of Clark)How to get there: Follow Highway 15 (Autoroute Dcarie) south. Exit at Rue Jean Talon/Ave. Van Horne (Exit 69). Follow Jean Talon until Ave. du Park. Turn right. Turn left on Fairmount.Cost: A Wilensky Special is $3.90. Seventy years later, Hyman is still there to greet you at the door. Breakfast is king here. Besides eggs, pancakes and French toast made from challah bread, there are 12 different kinds of omelets, including the famous hot dog, salami, green pepper and onion Mish Mash. Smoothies,van cleef and arpel imitation necklace, available in flavours like blueberry and apple pie, are delicious and big enough to share.With its padded booths, stainless steel back wall and lunch counter overlooking the short order cooks, there is a distinctly 1950s diner feel to the restaurant. The Beauty's logo, the posters on the wall and the black and white postcards at the cash of a very young Hymie and Freda, add to the nostalgia.Where: 93 Ave. du Mont Royal West (corner St. Urbain)How to get there: Exit Highway 40 at Boul. St Laurent. Follow Boul. St Laurent until Boul. Jean Talon. Turn right,replica van cleef arpel necklace, then left on Rue Clark and left again on Ave. du Mont Royal.Cost: Omelets are $12; French toast is $7; Smoothies are $6Why it's worth the drive: The smoked meat at this family owned deli, which has been around since 1951, is made from a distinctly different secret old country recipe. There is an ongoing debate among Montreal's stanch smoked meat aficionados as to whose is better Lester's or Schwartz's. Try it yourself and weigh in on the question. Because this delicacy is best served warm, Lester's takeout smoked meat is available in reheatable vacuum sealed packages.The deli counter, stacked with mustards,van cleef & arpels imitation necklace, spices, pickle jars, rye breads and plates waiting to be served, runs the full length of the cluttered and homey restaurant, with a giant menu taking up the entire back wall. If you don't bump into someone you know when you walk in here, you will certainly leave having made friends with the genial staff or the people sitting beside you.
Smoked meat the food that made Montreal deli famous. Made from a special recipe for aging, spicing and smoking meat that Eastern European immigrants brought with them at the turn of the 20th century, the Montreal delicatessens that have been serving this tasty treat, as well as other specialties, are legendary. Benita BakerWhy it's worth the drive: Opened in 1928, Schwartz's bills itself as "the oldest deli in Canada." Its famous smoked meat, made from the original recipe of herbs and spices brought over from Romania by founder Reuben Schwartz, is smoked daily and contains no preservatives. It's so good that there is a perpetual lineup on the sidewalk outside the entrance waiting to get in, regardless of the weather or the time of day. Once inside the jam packed restaurant, expect to be seated next to a stranger at one of the several long, narrow tables. It is just too small and too busy in this Montreal landmark to have a table to yourself. There are other items on the menu steak, chicken, liver, smoked turkey but if you don't have the smoked meat, you are not taking a bite of history.Where: 3895 Saint Laurent Blvd.How to get there: Exit Highway 40 at Boul. St Laurent. Head south on Boul. St Laurent. Turn left on Rue de Castelnau West., left onto Rue Clark, left on Rue Cuthbert and left again on Boul. St Laurent.Cost: A smoked meat sandwich is $6.15. Mustard is a must, as the hand lettered sign on the wall declares. Top it off with a cherry coke, made the old fashioned way with syrup added to seltzer water. The only place to sit is at the lunch counter on the nine wooden stools that are warped from the thousands of bodies that have sat on them. There are no tables, no dishes,replica van cleef turquoise alhambra necklace, no cutlery. Sandwiches are served on a napkin.Founder Moe's widow, 92 year old Ruth, continues to preside over the restaurant. A favourite haunt of Montrealer Mordecai Richler, who immortalized Wilensky's in his novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Scenes from the film version of the book were shot inside the restaurant.Where: 34 Fairmount Ave. West (corner of Clark)How to get there: Follow Highway 15 (Autoroute Dcarie) south. Exit at Rue Jean Talon/Ave. Van Horne (Exit 69). Follow Jean Talon until Ave. du Park. Turn right. Turn left on Fairmount.Cost: A Wilensky Special is $3.90. Seventy years later, Hyman is still there to greet you at the door. Breakfast is king here. Besides eggs, pancakes and French toast made from challah bread, there are 12 different kinds of omelets, including the famous hot dog, salami, green pepper and onion Mish Mash. Smoothies,van cleef and arpel imitation necklace, available in flavours like blueberry and apple pie, are delicious and big enough to share.With its padded booths, stainless steel back wall and lunch counter overlooking the short order cooks, there is a distinctly 1950s diner feel to the restaurant. The Beauty's logo, the posters on the wall and the black and white postcards at the cash of a very young Hymie and Freda, add to the nostalgia.Where: 93 Ave. du Mont Royal West (corner St. Urbain)How to get there: Exit Highway 40 at Boul. St Laurent. Follow Boul. St Laurent until Boul. Jean Talon. Turn right,replica van cleef arpel necklace, then left on Rue Clark and left again on Ave. du Mont Royal.Cost: Omelets are $12; French toast is $7; Smoothies are $6Why it's worth the drive: The smoked meat at this family owned deli, which has been around since 1951, is made from a distinctly different secret old country recipe. There is an ongoing debate among Montreal's stanch smoked meat aficionados as to whose is better Lester's or Schwartz's. Try it yourself and weigh in on the question. Because this delicacy is best served warm, Lester's takeout smoked meat is available in reheatable vacuum sealed packages.The deli counter, stacked with mustards,van cleef & arpels imitation necklace, spices, pickle jars, rye breads and plates waiting to be served, runs the full length of the cluttered and homey restaurant, with a giant menu taking up the entire back wall. If you don't bump into someone you know when you walk in here, you will certainly leave having made friends with the genial staff or the people sitting beside you.
l'ouverture de la 58e session de la Commission de la condition de la femme
Cette session, qui se poursuit jusqu'au 21 mars, devrait examiner les rsultats obtenus et les difficults rencontres dans la ralisation des Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement (OMD) en faveur des femmes et des filles.Le Secrtaire gnral, M. Ban Ki moon, a encourag les gouvernements adopter des mesures plus fortes en faveur de l'galit entre les hommes et les femmes. Comme il l'explique dans sonLes Nations Unies se sont aussi engages avec les gouvernements donner une ducation sexuelle de qualit et offrir des services de sant reproductive aux femmes et aux jeunes filles, a soulign M. Ban. Comme l'a fait observer la Directrice excutive d'ONU Femmes, Mme Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, il reste encore de grands progrs faire dans ce domaine.Mme Mlambo Ngcuka a galement interpel les garons et les hommes pour qu'ils fassent entendre leurs voix en faveur des femmes, en rappelant cet gard la campagne HeforShe, lance il y a trois jours et qui a dj touch 18millions de personnes par le biais des mdias sociaux.En prsence du Secrtaire gnral adjoint charg du Dpartement de l' et de la gestion des confrences, M. Tegegnework Gettu, les dlgations ont entam, ce matin, le dbat gnral. Tout en reconnaissant les progrs raliss en faveur des femmes et des filles au cours des 20 dernires annes, depuis l'adoption de la Dclaration et du Programme d'action de Beijing,van cleef and arpel imitation necklace, elles ont dbattu des efforts poursuivre et des priorits tablir pour atteindre les Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement pertinents.L'galit entre les sexes et l'autonomisation des femmes sont non seulement un objectif de dveloppement en tant que tel, mais aussi un aspect crucial de la ralisation de tous les autres objectifs de dveloppement, a fait remarquer le reprsentant de la Guine Bissau, qui s'exprimait au nom du Groupe des tats d'Afrique. Quel sens aurait le dveloppement s'il ne servait pas l'galit des chances? s'est d'ailleurs interroge la Prsidente du Comit pour l'limination de la discrimination l'gard des femmes, Mme Nicole Ameline.Dans la rgion des Carabes, les dfis majeurs auxquels sont confrontes les femmes sont notamment la violence sexiste et les grossesses prcoces, a indiqu la reprsentante du Guyana, qui s'exprimait au nom de la Communaut des Carabes (CARICOM). Son homologue du Costa Rica, qui intervenait au nom de la Communaut des tats d'Amrique latine et des Carabes (CELAC), a recens plusieurs sujets de proccupations comme la fminisation de la pauvret, le fardeau ingal du travail non rmunr, les ingalits que subissent les femmes ges, la violence contre les femmes et la traite des femmes et des filles.La reprsentante de l'Union europenne a, quant elle, dplor le fait que prs de 140 millions de femmes travers le monde subissent des mutilations gnitales et qu'une fille sur 9 ge de moins de 15 ans soit marie. Le Secrtaire gnral s'est dit mu, la semaine dernire Londres, par le fort plaidoyer d'une jeune femme, Fahma Mohammad, qui fait campagne contre cette pratique et a assur qu'il continuera, pour sa part, la dnoncer.La reprsentante de la Bolivie, qui s'exprimait au nom du Groupe des 77 et de la Chine (G77),van cleef and arpels imitation clover necklace, s'est plainte des violences infliges aux travailleuses domestiques immigres, ainsi qu'aux femmes en milieu rural. Elle a plaid notamment en faveur de la promotion des capacits des femmes gnrer des revenus, y compris pour celles qui vivent dans les zones rurales.Dans l'aprs midi, deux tables rondes de haut niveau ont eu lieu en parallle pour dbattre des enseignements tirs et des expriences et pratiques ayant fait leurs preuves dans la ralisation des OMD en faveur des femmes et des filles. Les dlgations se sont montres unanimes pour donner la priorit aux questions d'galit entre les sexes et d'autonomisation des femmes dans le futur programme de dveloppement pour l'aprs 2015.La Commission a galement adopt, ce matin, son . L'accs et la participation des femmes et des filles l'ducation,replica van cleef flower necklace, aux formations,van cleef imitation necklace, la science et la technologie y compris la promotion de l'gal accs des femmes au plein emploi et un travail dcent sera, cette anne, le thme de l'valuation des progrs raliss.Outre son Prsident, elle a aussi lu MM. Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Elbahi, du Soudan, et Carlos Enrique Garca Gonzlez, d'El Salvador, aux postes de vice prsidents pour ses cinquante huitime et cinquante neuvime sessions. M. Elbahi assumera en outre le rle de Rapporteur pour la mme priode. Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh). cette session, l'engagement de la communaut internationale en faveur de rsultats pour les femmes et les filles est plus urgent que jamais, a t il indiqu. Il a aussi appel dfinir les principaux problmes de parit qui doivent tre rgls par la communaut internationale et concevoir le cadre commun pour l'aprs 2015. Il a mis l'accent sur les prparatifs importants engags en vue de la prsente session et rappel notamment la tenue, en dcembre dernier, d'un forum qui avait permis de forger des alliances pour obtenir des rsultats positifs. Cette anne, nous passerons en revue les progrs raliss en matire d'accs des filles et des femmes aux sciences et aux technologies, a t il indiqu, avant d'ajouter que l'accs des femmes aux ressources productives sera galement l'ordre du jour de la prsente session. Le Prsident a en outre encourag les dlgations participer aux vnements parallles la session. La Commission est un lieu qui permet d'changer des ides, a t il dclar, avant de demander aux dlgations de faire preuve d'engagement politique.M. BAN KI MOON, Secrtaire gnral des Nations Unies, a dclar que la nouvelle Directrice excutive d'ONU Femmes, Mme Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka jouait un rle essentiel dans la promotion de la parit hommes femmes et l'autonomisation des femmes et des filles au sein du systme des Nations Unies et dans le monde. Ces domaines figurent parmi mes priorits, a ajout le Secrtaire gnral, en prcisant qu'ils taient importants dans la ralisation des Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement et le succs du programme de dveloppement pour l'aprs 2015. De plus en plus de filles vont l'cole mais la disparit entre les sexes tous les niveaux de l'ducation est encore loin d'tre limine. L'cart des rmunrations est particulirement lev surtout en milieu rural et pour les personnes handicapes, les peuples autochtones et autres groupes marginaliss. Nous devons nous focaliser sur une ducation de qualit, a suggr le Secrtaire gnral et prparer les filles et les femmes au march du travail du XXIe sicle.Tout en reconnaissant que des progrs avaient permis de rduire l'cart dans l'emploi entre les femmes et les hommes, le Secrtaire gnral a fait remarquer que les femmes continuaient d'tre trs vulnrables. Elles reoivent souvent un salaire plus faible, ne bnficient pas de conditions de travail appropries, d'une protection en matire de sant et de pension de retraite. Les femmes sont aussi sous reprsentes aux postes de direction en dpit des recherches qui ont montr que les socits diriges par des femmes sont plus performantes. De mme, les pays qui assurent la parit ont une meilleure croissance conomique. C'est pourquoi, a soulign le Secrtaire gnral, nous devons prendre des actions qui encouragent et tiennent compte des talents et des comptences des femmes, tant dans les ateliers des usines qu'au sein des conseils d'administration. Nous avons aussi besoin de plus de femmes dans les gouvernements, a t il estim.
Cette session, qui se poursuit jusqu'au 21 mars, devrait examiner les rsultats obtenus et les difficults rencontres dans la ralisation des Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement (OMD) en faveur des femmes et des filles.Le Secrtaire gnral, M. Ban Ki moon, a encourag les gouvernements adopter des mesures plus fortes en faveur de l'galit entre les hommes et les femmes. Comme il l'explique dans sonLes Nations Unies se sont aussi engages avec les gouvernements donner une ducation sexuelle de qualit et offrir des services de sant reproductive aux femmes et aux jeunes filles, a soulign M. Ban. Comme l'a fait observer la Directrice excutive d'ONU Femmes, Mme Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, il reste encore de grands progrs faire dans ce domaine.Mme Mlambo Ngcuka a galement interpel les garons et les hommes pour qu'ils fassent entendre leurs voix en faveur des femmes, en rappelant cet gard la campagne HeforShe, lance il y a trois jours et qui a dj touch 18millions de personnes par le biais des mdias sociaux.En prsence du Secrtaire gnral adjoint charg du Dpartement de l' et de la gestion des confrences, M. Tegegnework Gettu, les dlgations ont entam, ce matin, le dbat gnral. Tout en reconnaissant les progrs raliss en faveur des femmes et des filles au cours des 20 dernires annes, depuis l'adoption de la Dclaration et du Programme d'action de Beijing,van cleef and arpel imitation necklace, elles ont dbattu des efforts poursuivre et des priorits tablir pour atteindre les Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement pertinents.L'galit entre les sexes et l'autonomisation des femmes sont non seulement un objectif de dveloppement en tant que tel, mais aussi un aspect crucial de la ralisation de tous les autres objectifs de dveloppement, a fait remarquer le reprsentant de la Guine Bissau, qui s'exprimait au nom du Groupe des tats d'Afrique. Quel sens aurait le dveloppement s'il ne servait pas l'galit des chances? s'est d'ailleurs interroge la Prsidente du Comit pour l'limination de la discrimination l'gard des femmes, Mme Nicole Ameline.Dans la rgion des Carabes, les dfis majeurs auxquels sont confrontes les femmes sont notamment la violence sexiste et les grossesses prcoces, a indiqu la reprsentante du Guyana, qui s'exprimait au nom de la Communaut des Carabes (CARICOM). Son homologue du Costa Rica, qui intervenait au nom de la Communaut des tats d'Amrique latine et des Carabes (CELAC), a recens plusieurs sujets de proccupations comme la fminisation de la pauvret, le fardeau ingal du travail non rmunr, les ingalits que subissent les femmes ges, la violence contre les femmes et la traite des femmes et des filles.La reprsentante de l'Union europenne a, quant elle, dplor le fait que prs de 140 millions de femmes travers le monde subissent des mutilations gnitales et qu'une fille sur 9 ge de moins de 15 ans soit marie. Le Secrtaire gnral s'est dit mu, la semaine dernire Londres, par le fort plaidoyer d'une jeune femme, Fahma Mohammad, qui fait campagne contre cette pratique et a assur qu'il continuera, pour sa part, la dnoncer.La reprsentante de la Bolivie, qui s'exprimait au nom du Groupe des 77 et de la Chine (G77),van cleef and arpels imitation clover necklace, s'est plainte des violences infliges aux travailleuses domestiques immigres, ainsi qu'aux femmes en milieu rural. Elle a plaid notamment en faveur de la promotion des capacits des femmes gnrer des revenus, y compris pour celles qui vivent dans les zones rurales.Dans l'aprs midi, deux tables rondes de haut niveau ont eu lieu en parallle pour dbattre des enseignements tirs et des expriences et pratiques ayant fait leurs preuves dans la ralisation des OMD en faveur des femmes et des filles. Les dlgations se sont montres unanimes pour donner la priorit aux questions d'galit entre les sexes et d'autonomisation des femmes dans le futur programme de dveloppement pour l'aprs 2015.La Commission a galement adopt, ce matin, son . L'accs et la participation des femmes et des filles l'ducation,replica van cleef flower necklace, aux formations,van cleef imitation necklace, la science et la technologie y compris la promotion de l'gal accs des femmes au plein emploi et un travail dcent sera, cette anne, le thme de l'valuation des progrs raliss.Outre son Prsident, elle a aussi lu MM. Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Elbahi, du Soudan, et Carlos Enrique Garca Gonzlez, d'El Salvador, aux postes de vice prsidents pour ses cinquante huitime et cinquante neuvime sessions. M. Elbahi assumera en outre le rle de Rapporteur pour la mme priode. Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh). cette session, l'engagement de la communaut internationale en faveur de rsultats pour les femmes et les filles est plus urgent que jamais, a t il indiqu. Il a aussi appel dfinir les principaux problmes de parit qui doivent tre rgls par la communaut internationale et concevoir le cadre commun pour l'aprs 2015. Il a mis l'accent sur les prparatifs importants engags en vue de la prsente session et rappel notamment la tenue, en dcembre dernier, d'un forum qui avait permis de forger des alliances pour obtenir des rsultats positifs. Cette anne, nous passerons en revue les progrs raliss en matire d'accs des filles et des femmes aux sciences et aux technologies, a t il indiqu, avant d'ajouter que l'accs des femmes aux ressources productives sera galement l'ordre du jour de la prsente session. Le Prsident a en outre encourag les dlgations participer aux vnements parallles la session. La Commission est un lieu qui permet d'changer des ides, a t il dclar, avant de demander aux dlgations de faire preuve d'engagement politique.M. BAN KI MOON, Secrtaire gnral des Nations Unies, a dclar que la nouvelle Directrice excutive d'ONU Femmes, Mme Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka jouait un rle essentiel dans la promotion de la parit hommes femmes et l'autonomisation des femmes et des filles au sein du systme des Nations Unies et dans le monde. Ces domaines figurent parmi mes priorits, a ajout le Secrtaire gnral, en prcisant qu'ils taient importants dans la ralisation des Objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement et le succs du programme de dveloppement pour l'aprs 2015. De plus en plus de filles vont l'cole mais la disparit entre les sexes tous les niveaux de l'ducation est encore loin d'tre limine. L'cart des rmunrations est particulirement lev surtout en milieu rural et pour les personnes handicapes, les peuples autochtones et autres groupes marginaliss. Nous devons nous focaliser sur une ducation de qualit, a suggr le Secrtaire gnral et prparer les filles et les femmes au march du travail du XXIe sicle.Tout en reconnaissant que des progrs avaient permis de rduire l'cart dans l'emploi entre les femmes et les hommes, le Secrtaire gnral a fait remarquer que les femmes continuaient d'tre trs vulnrables. Elles reoivent souvent un salaire plus faible, ne bnficient pas de conditions de travail appropries, d'une protection en matire de sant et de pension de retraite. Les femmes sont aussi sous reprsentes aux postes de direction en dpit des recherches qui ont montr que les socits diriges par des femmes sont plus performantes. De mme, les pays qui assurent la parit ont une meilleure croissance conomique. C'est pourquoi, a soulign le Secrtaire gnral, nous devons prendre des actions qui encouragent et tiennent compte des talents et des comptences des femmes, tant dans les ateliers des usines qu'au sein des conseils d'administration. Nous avons aussi besoin de plus de femmes dans les gouvernements, a t il estim.
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Yeah,vca imitation necklace. Illegal immigrant what do you think I see it do rise to back to Mexico. But not without a fight,replica van cleef clover necklace. Dozens of protesters rallied in Phoenix Wednesday night several rested as they tried to block the van transporting the mother of two minimum back Benson. And people. Her children both US citizens Blaine president trump for her deportation. It's unjust suspension of classes Hendry sadly he says because he stereotypes. As Mexicans went as Mexicans haven't done anything not all of us thank criminals. But according to court records the 36 year old who came to the US when she was fourteen is a convicted criminals. Procedure right dose was charged with felony impersonation. Rested in the 2009 workplace race for attorney says was later deemed unconstitutional,van cleef and arpels imitation butterfly necklace. I tells ABC news who. Ordered to leave the US and 2013. C appealed and lost and in the country. Her attorney says the court mandated that she checking in at this immigration and customs enforcement office once a year. She did that would no problems under the Obama administration check in at least three times,van cleef clover imitation necklace. And when she went and checked in yesterday gets normal check in the centuries taken into custody. Including the undocumented immigrants considered nonviolent criminals like Garcia deride him. And no comment on her case yet from the White House but I says in a statement that Garcia a riot that didn't have a legal basis to stay in the US and that they'll continue to remove other felons who've been ordered to leave. RC Gonzales ABC news Los Angeles.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Police, Fire Service and St John Ambulance attended a two vehicle collision on Omahu Rd on Saturday, from which seven children were taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital. Photo / SuppliedTen people were involved in a crash when a car and a van collided head on near the Omahu Rd Caltex service station,van cleef arpels alhambra copy bracelet, several hundred metres west of Omahu Rd's intersection with Wilson Rd.Hastings Fire Service senior station officer Bryan Dunphy said that on arrival all those involved in the crash were out of the vehicles except for a woman who needed assistance to exit the van."Until we got more vehicles there we assisted the medics with first aid and made sure the scene was safe," he said.A Hawke's Bay Hospital spokesperson said all taken to hospital were discharged apart from a woman in her 30s who was in a stable condition.The seven children in the crash were four girls and three boys.A man in his 40s was also discharged.Police said they still had several witnesses to interview and asked any witnesses who had not spoken to police to contact them.Two hours later another head on collision occurred in Hastings on Railway Rd in Longlands.Police said one person received minor injuries and a 66 year old man is due to appear in Hastings District Court today charged with careless driving causing injury.No deaths occurred in the Eastern District during the Christmas holiday period.For more articles from this region,sweet imitation alhambra bracelet, go to Hawkes Bay TodayThank you for sharing your views. Your comment has been received, you need to verify your registration before the comment can be moderatedPlease check your inbox and click the verification link to complete the registration. Once you login, you can post further comments and view comments made in your profile.There may be a delay before it appears on the site due to high volumes and comment moderation on some articles; however we endeavour to post all your views, within reason,van cleef and arpels alhambra imitation bracelet, so please check back laterOur Regional News StoriesThe Northern AdvocateBig haul at Special Olympics Swim CarnivalFar North based swimmers performed well at the Special Olympics Swim Carnival.
Police, Fire Service and St John Ambulance attended a two vehicle collision on Omahu Rd on Saturday, from which seven children were taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital. Photo / SuppliedTen people were involved in a crash when a car and a van collided head on near the Omahu Rd Caltex service station,van cleef arpels alhambra copy bracelet, several hundred metres west of Omahu Rd's intersection with Wilson Rd.Hastings Fire Service senior station officer Bryan Dunphy said that on arrival all those involved in the crash were out of the vehicles except for a woman who needed assistance to exit the van."Until we got more vehicles there we assisted the medics with first aid and made sure the scene was safe," he said.A Hawke's Bay Hospital spokesperson said all taken to hospital were discharged apart from a woman in her 30s who was in a stable condition.The seven children in the crash were four girls and three boys.A man in his 40s was also discharged.Police said they still had several witnesses to interview and asked any witnesses who had not spoken to police to contact them.Two hours later another head on collision occurred in Hastings on Railway Rd in Longlands.Police said one person received minor injuries and a 66 year old man is due to appear in Hastings District Court today charged with careless driving causing injury.No deaths occurred in the Eastern District during the Christmas holiday period.For more articles from this region,sweet imitation alhambra bracelet, go to Hawkes Bay TodayThank you for sharing your views. Your comment has been received, you need to verify your registration before the comment can be moderatedPlease check your inbox and click the verification link to complete the registration. Once you login, you can post further comments and view comments made in your profile.There may be a delay before it appears on the site due to high volumes and comment moderation on some articles; however we endeavour to post all your views, within reason,van cleef and arpels alhambra imitation bracelet, so please check back laterOur Regional News StoriesThe Northern AdvocateBig haul at Special Olympics Swim CarnivalFar North based swimmers performed well at the Special Olympics Swim Carnival.
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En esta poblacin fronteriza se enter que el presidente estadounidense orden construir un muro para frenar la migracin irregular.
Donald Trump quiere implantar un arancel de hasta un 20% a las importaciones de Mxico para costear el muro en la fronteraLa noticia no le cay nada bien. "Ese seor est mal. Acabo de estar en la lnea y hay una bardota, un canal, montones de policas".
Guillermo tiene 25 aos de edad y nunca haba antes viajado a la frontera norte. Al llegar Ciudad Jurez se sorprendi.
"Yo saba que hay un muro pero no lo imagin as. Qu nadie le dijo a Trump que ya hay muchas barreras?".
La frontera entre Mxico y Estados Unidos ya cuenta con 1.050 kilmetros de muros y vallas construidas con postes metlicos o de concreto, de hasta 8 metros de altura.
"Quin sabe de su destino"Linares es una de las aproximadamente 400.000 personas sin documentos migratorios que anualmente intentan cruzar a Estados Unidos.
Es un dato del Departamento de Seguridad Interior (DHS por sus siglas en ingls), y se refiere a quienes son detenidos en la frontera con Mxico. tras la cancelacin de la reunin entre Pea Nieto y TrumpLa mayora son centroamericanos, pero tambin existen haitianos, cubanos y africanos.
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En algunos lugares el cerco incluye sensores de movimiento y aviones no tripulados Predator, los mismos utilizados en la Guerra del Golfo y las batallas en Irak.
Pero en los ltimos das a estas barreras se suma la incertidumbre por las rdenes ejecutivas de Trump, y no slo para construir el muro.
En los albergues para migrantes o deportados, y entre organizaciones civiles algunos creen que cancelar la poltica de "capturar y liberar" (catch and release, en ingls), cancelada por el presidente estadounidense, provocar muchos problemas.
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Algo que poda tardar varios aos por la sobrecarga de trabajo en estos tribunales.
Las cifras del muro que Donald Trump quiere construir en la frontera de Estados Unidos con Mxico"Era la esperanza de los chavos (jvenes) centroamericanos, que si atrapaba la migra los dejaban libres o con su familia", le dice a BBC Mundo Mario Castillo, voluntario en un comedor para migrantes en Ciudad Jurez.
"Pero ahora seguro que los regresan, y quien sabe su destino porque muchos se vinieron por la violencia".
"Con Trump ser un gran relajo"se es el miedo de muchos centroamericanos que cruzan Mxico hacia Estados Unidos: volver a sus pases. Y no es slo a la pobreza.
Es tambin a las pandillas, que en los ltimos aos se convirtieron en uno de las principales causas de la migracin de Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala.
Elmer Neyra es un ejemplo. En la pasada Navidad la pandilla en su barrio de San Pedro Sula asesin a dos de sus amigos.
"Yo corr como diablo y gracias a Dios que no me alcanzaron", le cuenta por telfono a BBC Mundo desde Tapachula,van cleef alhambra imitation bracelet, Chiapas, donde se encuentra.
"Por eso estoy aqu, y ahora con eso del muro no s qu hacer, de verdad. All en el norte no se ponen a pensar que no vamos por gusto, que es para salvar el pellejo".
La misma sensacin en el Centro de Proteccin Internacional para Adolescentes en el Camino, un albergue para adolescentes y jvenes que huyen de amenazas de muerte en sus pases en Ciudad de Mxico.
Donald Trump firm una orden ejecutiva para construir el muro y luego dijo que estableceran un impuesto del 20% a las importaciones de productos mexicanos para financiarlo.
BBC Mundo convers con algunos de ellos. Sus nombres fueron cambiados por seguridad.
Elas, un joven de Honduras, dice que el muro y los decretos de Trump van a perjudicar a los migrantes "de muchos pases".
"No slo los que vamos para all sino los que ya llegaron. La economa de Mxico y Honduras se basa mucho en las remesas, si se ponen a deportar a mucha gente la economa se viene abajo".
Hace dos semanas que lleg a Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua, con la esperanza de cruzar a El Paso, Texas,bracelet imitation alhambra van cleef, y luego reunirse con sus hermanos en Carolina del Sur.
En esta poblacin fronteriza se enter que el presidente estadounidense orden construir un muro para frenar la migracin irregular.
Donald Trump quiere implantar un arancel de hasta un 20% a las importaciones de Mxico para costear el muro en la fronteraLa noticia no le cay nada bien. "Ese seor est mal. Acabo de estar en la lnea y hay una bardota, un canal, montones de policas".
Guillermo tiene 25 aos de edad y nunca haba antes viajado a la frontera norte. Al llegar Ciudad Jurez se sorprendi.
"Yo saba que hay un muro pero no lo imagin as. Qu nadie le dijo a Trump que ya hay muchas barreras?".
La frontera entre Mxico y Estados Unidos ya cuenta con 1.050 kilmetros de muros y vallas construidas con postes metlicos o de concreto, de hasta 8 metros de altura.
"Quin sabe de su destino"Linares es una de las aproximadamente 400.000 personas sin documentos migratorios que anualmente intentan cruzar a Estados Unidos.
Es un dato del Departamento de Seguridad Interior (DHS por sus siglas en ingls), y se refiere a quienes son detenidos en la frontera con Mxico. tras la cancelacin de la reunin entre Pea Nieto y TrumpLa mayora son centroamericanos, pero tambin existen haitianos, cubanos y africanos.
Los provenientes de Mxico son cada vez menos,van cleef arpels copy bracelet.
Pero quienes deciden emprender el viaje encuentran el mismo escenario que el resto: muros, vallas construidas con postes metlicos o de concreto de hasta 8 metros de altura y la vigilancia permanente de la Patrulla Fronteriza.
En algunos lugares el cerco incluye sensores de movimiento y aviones no tripulados Predator, los mismos utilizados en la Guerra del Golfo y las batallas en Irak.
Pero en los ltimos das a estas barreras se suma la incertidumbre por las rdenes ejecutivas de Trump, y no slo para construir el muro.
En los albergues para migrantes o deportados, y entre organizaciones civiles algunos creen que cancelar la poltica de "capturar y liberar" (catch and release, en ingls), cancelada por el presidente estadounidense, provocar muchos problemas.
Con este programa los indocumentados detenidos, especialmente menores de edad,van cleef arpels copy alhambra bracelet, podan ser liberados para esperar una audiencia con jueces migratorios.
Algo que poda tardar varios aos por la sobrecarga de trabajo en estos tribunales.
Las cifras del muro que Donald Trump quiere construir en la frontera de Estados Unidos con Mxico"Era la esperanza de los chavos (jvenes) centroamericanos, que si atrapaba la migra los dejaban libres o con su familia", le dice a BBC Mundo Mario Castillo, voluntario en un comedor para migrantes en Ciudad Jurez.
"Pero ahora seguro que los regresan, y quien sabe su destino porque muchos se vinieron por la violencia".
"Con Trump ser un gran relajo"se es el miedo de muchos centroamericanos que cruzan Mxico hacia Estados Unidos: volver a sus pases. Y no es slo a la pobreza.
Es tambin a las pandillas, que en los ltimos aos se convirtieron en uno de las principales causas de la migracin de Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala.
Elmer Neyra es un ejemplo. En la pasada Navidad la pandilla en su barrio de San Pedro Sula asesin a dos de sus amigos.
"Yo corr como diablo y gracias a Dios que no me alcanzaron", le cuenta por telfono a BBC Mundo desde Tapachula,van cleef alhambra imitation bracelet, Chiapas, donde se encuentra.
"Por eso estoy aqu, y ahora con eso del muro no s qu hacer, de verdad. All en el norte no se ponen a pensar que no vamos por gusto, que es para salvar el pellejo".
La misma sensacin en el Centro de Proteccin Internacional para Adolescentes en el Camino, un albergue para adolescentes y jvenes que huyen de amenazas de muerte en sus pases en Ciudad de Mxico.
Donald Trump firm una orden ejecutiva para construir el muro y luego dijo que estableceran un impuesto del 20% a las importaciones de productos mexicanos para financiarlo.
BBC Mundo convers con algunos de ellos. Sus nombres fueron cambiados por seguridad.
Elas, un joven de Honduras, dice que el muro y los decretos de Trump van a perjudicar a los migrantes "de muchos pases".
"No slo los que vamos para all sino los que ya llegaron. La economa de Mxico y Honduras se basa mucho en las remesas, si se ponen a deportar a mucha gente la economa se viene abajo".
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The Government is coming under increasing pressure to reverse draconian new taxes applying to buy to let investors, announced in the July 8 Summer Budget.
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Torquay landlord Graham Chilvers owns 75 properties. None of them, he says, could have been bought by first time buyers because in every case he either built or restored them himself.
Under the Government proposed tax changes, the financing of such projects would no longer stack up, he said.
Potential properties would remain derelict or would have to be developed by large commercial companies who are not impacted by the proposed new tax, which only targets private individuals.
Government justifies its attack on buy to let by saying landlords have an unfair advantage over people wanting to buy their own homes, Mr Chilvers said. no homebuyer was competing with me on any of these properties.
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That gives a taxable annual profit of between 130,000 and 150,000.
His tax bill today is around 50,000. When the new taxes are fully applied he will pay an extra 32pc in tax, with his bill rising to almost 70,000.
He would then be paying a tax rate of 44pc.
That calculation is based on all other factors rent, expenses, interest rates, and so on remaining the same.
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my gross income goes down, my tax bill goes up
One of Mr Chilvers biggest anxieties is the way the proposed tax will bite when interest rates rise. Because of the perverse way in which the tax operates, landlords will actually pay more tax when their mortgage costs go up even though this will result in their having less gross profit.
only will this tax prevent me from undertaking further development, but it poses real risks to my business just at a time that interest rates could rise, said Mr Chilvers.
His mortgages currently charge an average rate of 3.3pc. He calculates that if this figure lifts by two percentage points to 5.3pc, his mortgage interest bill will be 128,000. At that point the total tax payable will rise to 75,000.
His effective tax rate, expressed as a percentage of his gross profits, will then be 53pc.
An online calculator which other landlords can use to see how the tax change would affect their own circumstances is available here.
Other full time landlords share Mr Chilvers view that mainstream homeowners are not competing for the same properties as landlords.
Cathy Colston, a retired Boots executive who became a full time landlord in 2010, owns around 20 properties in the western centres of Bath, Cardiff and Bristol.
The Government is coming under increasing pressure to reverse draconian new taxes applying to buy to let investors, announced in the July 8 Summer Budget.
Landlords argue that not only will the change force them to evict tenants and sell properties en masse, but that it will also prevent the building and development of new homes hindering the Government objective to increase housing supply.
The proposed tax change,van cleef clover copy bracelet, applying in full from 2020, will only hit those landlords with mortgages. Many landlords have calculated that they will have to pay more than 100pc of their profits in tax when the change is fully implemented.
Scroll down for a worked example of the new tax.
Torquay landlord Graham Chilvers owns 75 properties. None of them, he says, could have been bought by first time buyers because in every case he either built or restored them himself.
Under the Government proposed tax changes, the financing of such projects would no longer stack up, he said.
Potential properties would remain derelict or would have to be developed by large commercial companies who are not impacted by the proposed new tax, which only targets private individuals.
Government justifies its attack on buy to let by saying landlords have an unfair advantage over people wanting to buy their own homes, Mr Chilvers said. no homebuyer was competing with me on any of these properties.
Mr Chilvers is pictured in front of a former Victorian hotel which in 2004, when he bought it,van cleef copy rose gold bracelet, was in disrepair and occupied by squatters. He converted the main building into nine two bedroom apartments, and built two three bed homes in the space formerly occupied by a swimming pool.
Many of his other properties were also once hotels or care homes, while some he built from scratch.
'I own most of my street buy to let investor, 26
Nine ways to increase your buy to let profits
Watch:'Here's how I get 35pc yields on buy to let'
He reckons his portfolio is worth 6.4m, against which there is a modest 2.4m borrowing.
Rental income totals 330,000 per year. The cost of mortgage interest is 80,000 with maintenance, insurance and other expenses coming in at 100,000 to 120,sweet alhambra imitation bracelet,000.
That gives a taxable annual profit of between 130,000 and 150,000.
His tax bill today is around 50,000. When the new taxes are fully applied he will pay an extra 32pc in tax, with his bill rising to almost 70,000.
He would then be paying a tax rate of 44pc.
That calculation is based on all other factors rent, expenses, interest rates, and so on remaining the same.
Telegraph Investor: ISA ideas sent once a week
my gross income goes down, my tax bill goes up
One of Mr Chilvers biggest anxieties is the way the proposed tax will bite when interest rates rise. Because of the perverse way in which the tax operates, landlords will actually pay more tax when their mortgage costs go up even though this will result in their having less gross profit.
only will this tax prevent me from undertaking further development, but it poses real risks to my business just at a time that interest rates could rise, said Mr Chilvers.
His mortgages currently charge an average rate of 3.3pc. He calculates that if this figure lifts by two percentage points to 5.3pc, his mortgage interest bill will be 128,000. At that point the total tax payable will rise to 75,000.
His effective tax rate, expressed as a percentage of his gross profits, will then be 53pc.
An online calculator which other landlords can use to see how the tax change would affect their own circumstances is available here.
Other full time landlords share Mr Chilvers view that mainstream homeowners are not competing for the same properties as landlords.
Cathy Colston, a retired Boots executive who became a full time landlord in 2010, owns around 20 properties in the western centres of Bath, Cardiff and Bristol.
Inside story of how Melbourne became marvellous all over again
It may be nearing midnight on a Saturday in Swanston Street, but is teeming not with rain, but people and tomorrow at midday, it will be teeming again. The CBD is full of people nearly all the time tourists from abroad,van cleef and arpels fake clover necklace, tourists from the burbs, and a startling number of people who haven't come from anywhere. They live here, upstairs, part of the city's beating heart. How did the city that for decades seemed in a coma become a city that never sleeps?
For starters, it was no Manhattan project is not a wannabe. Rather, a key plank of the strategy for city renewal has been not to mimic others, but to make the most of what makes different (and market the hell out of it). The numbers show it's working, beyond the hopes of even the most optimistic urban planner. As City Council's director of city design Rob Adams reels off facts and figures, the words "game changer" come up. They describe the 116,431 people now living in the CBD, and the 28,099 city residences; the 100,000 pedestrians using Swanston Street on a Saturday night; the average 840,000 people thronging the city every weekday a number that sometimes tops 1 million.
In 1994, City Council embarked on a groundbreaking study of its citizens and their city. Places for People was carried out again in 2004, and is now nearing completion for a third time giving a contemporary record and 20 year archive that only a handful of cities can boast. "Almost unique, especially in that part of the world," says Danish architect and urban design guru Jan Gehl, who pioneered Places for People in Copenhagen. was one of his first foreign experiments. Under Gehl's guidance, started watching its people closely where did they come from, how did they get here, where did they go, how did they go there, where did they linger, where did they sit and where did they stroll?
Out of this attention to the smallest details even the colour of the pavement and the awnings on the buildings the MCC now has 20 years of hard numbers data credited with underpinning all that global praise about Melboume's "liveablity".
Gehl has an oft quoted line that recasts the blandness of that ugly word. A liveable city is not a static place. It's a permanent social gathering, of shifting moods and energy, guests flowing in and out, the buzz changing but never dying. It's Gehl's mantra: "A good city is like a good party. People stay for much longer than is really necessary because they are enjoying themselves."
By this measure, Gehl considers in 2014 close to the global gold standard and that's as much a surprise to him as anybody, given what the CBD was like when he first saw it in 1976.
was a shadow of the grand dame of the 19th century on the back of a mining boom that was, literally, the city's golden age. A brief spurt of 1956 Olympic pride didn't deliver long term transformation. "We had this extraordinary city that had won the Olympic Games and then gone to sleep," McCaughey says.
There was no shortage of emerging leaders, planners and activist residents keen to wake the place up. Cain ended Labor's wilderness years in 1982, and had hopes for a city very different from the one he'd grown up next to in Northcote, at a time when anyone who didn't work in the CBD had very little to do with it. "A visit to town was a big day out." Cain's familiarity with the centre grew when he took an after school job at Myer. No one had any other reason to be there.
The notion that people might live in the CBD was thought batty. "A few that we thought were odd people lived in the lofts in hotels or some exotic accommodation like that."
McCaughey was elected as an independent to a reconstituted city council in late 1982 after years of chaos that had seen the previous MCC sacked. McCaughey had just returned from living in New York, aware of what a vital residential metropolis could be. She had two broad missions: save the heritage buildings, and bring a moribund CBD to life.
"There were only about 100 residents in the CBD. There was nobody there . what we did was say, 'We've got to enable the buildings to house people and we've got to bring the street life back."
Geoff Lawler,replica van cleef and arpels butterfly necklace, a state government expert for 17 years before joining the council in 1996, says benefited from a broadly united approach from Spring Street and town hall. "It's been a mix of state and local government." Gehl agrees this is crucial pointing to Sydney's state versus city conflict as a case study of how not to get things done. "They've been very, very slow. didn't have that."
McCaughey's praise for planning ministers she worked with, Evan Walker in particular, suggests this is true. While she didn't like Cain's "count the cranes" style, they shared a belief that antiquated licensing laws had to go and the streets opened for al fresco dining. Cain calls liquor law reform "the biggest single step in the transformation of the CBD". With pavement dining permitted and booze restrictions loosened, the city had something to build on and it did. There were 604 food and beverage outlets in the CBD in 1982; today, 1978. Even harder to imagine, there were two outdoor cafes in the CBD in the 1980s; today, 534.
But the most significant impact was the arrival in 1983 of a migrant whose planning smarts were snapped up by the MCC. Urban designer RobAdams, of Zimbabwe, found a city whose workday population seemed to be sucked out to the suburbs at 5pm as if by a giant vacuum. "It was deserted. The biggest change was realising that city's didn't have to be like that."
Adams was a believer, and he had high level support. Gehl's Places for People research delivered that element when the MCC brought him out in 1993.
Adams says such detail has enabled change in an age of tight budgets small scale and incremental. Things like building frontages and lighting influence the way people perceive streetsas places to stop,van cleef arpels alhambra imitation necklace, sit or shop and also perceptions of safety. Doyle calls it "the palette of the city" and underfoot, the city is getting durable, attractive bluestone footpaths as a result.
Gehl's research delivered "the human dimension",Lawler says. "You can look at Places for People and look at the importance of detail. And you look at the macro scale and look at the importance of urban design, economic and sustainable use of land, and transport, which is critical."
This is where critics of planning policy take issue with both the MCC and the government, whose vision of a CBD dominated by ever taller towers horrifies many. Cain calls it "very woolly". McCaughey fears we're "building an asylum", driven by greed.
Michael Buxton, RMIT's professor of environment and planning, says the reach for the sky policy violates the essence of Gehl's "human scale" philosophy of urban design. Buxton says Places for People has been invaluable. "But what tends to happen is that public bodies such as the City Council think they've done their job when they come out with a report examining the better use of public space. That's only part of the equation, as [Gehl] himself notes.
If the tower fetish continues unchecked, Buxton warns, the city we now celebrate will be ruined. "It will kill the goose."
Jeff Kennett also has mixed feelings about the dramatic changes to the CBD. "It's now becoming very quickly a city of the world with all the problems and the challenges of the cities of the world." It's less friendly, he says, and traffic congestion is fast becoming a crippling issue".
He wouldn't turn back time, but warns the city should proceed with caution as residential numbers boom. "I don't think the number of people matters so much as whether you can properly provide the infrastructure to accommodate that number or whether you can change the way the city operates."
At town hall, the drivers of CBD policy don't disagree. Lawler says rapid population growth has been "a good problem to have" but has to be carefully managed. "Now as the city grows, it's moving into areas where [infrastructure] doesn't exist. Because of the tightness of space you can't let that get out of whack."
The lord mayor, who will receive the latest People for Places report early next year, looks ahead to a city that builds on the kind of changes the research has already inspired: expanding the "tree canopy" to cover 40 per cent of the CBD,replica van cleef flower necklace, cooling the city by 5 degrees; pedestrian friendly initiatives that build on findings showing 66 per cent of journeys are made on foot; an improved bicycle network. And much else besides but Doyle says that in 10 and 20 years time, "I hope you'd still look at it and say 'Yep, that's . The essential character hasn't changed."
Adams says cities everywhere are facing major challenges over the next half century, with urban populations doubling, "You can't do that by building cities the way we built them in the past. We're going to have to do it by repurposing them, and has gone through one of the biggest repurposing exercises in the last 30 years.
"If that continues on it will set us as an example of what other cities can do."
IN HISTORY'S PAGE
TO SOME ears, modern 's much trumpeted honour "the world's most liveable city" is a bouquet so bland it doubles as a brickbat. But a backhanded compliment is no big deal. The city's heard worse things.
It may be nearing midnight on a Saturday in Swanston Street, but is teeming not with rain, but people and tomorrow at midday, it will be teeming again. The CBD is full of people nearly all the time tourists from abroad,van cleef and arpels fake clover necklace, tourists from the burbs, and a startling number of people who haven't come from anywhere. They live here, upstairs, part of the city's beating heart. How did the city that for decades seemed in a coma become a city that never sleeps?
For starters, it was no Manhattan project is not a wannabe. Rather, a key plank of the strategy for city renewal has been not to mimic others, but to make the most of what makes different (and market the hell out of it). The numbers show it's working, beyond the hopes of even the most optimistic urban planner. As City Council's director of city design Rob Adams reels off facts and figures, the words "game changer" come up. They describe the 116,431 people now living in the CBD, and the 28,099 city residences; the 100,000 pedestrians using Swanston Street on a Saturday night; the average 840,000 people thronging the city every weekday a number that sometimes tops 1 million.
In 1994, City Council embarked on a groundbreaking study of its citizens and their city. Places for People was carried out again in 2004, and is now nearing completion for a third time giving a contemporary record and 20 year archive that only a handful of cities can boast. "Almost unique, especially in that part of the world," says Danish architect and urban design guru Jan Gehl, who pioneered Places for People in Copenhagen. was one of his first foreign experiments. Under Gehl's guidance, started watching its people closely where did they come from, how did they get here, where did they go, how did they go there, where did they linger, where did they sit and where did they stroll?
Out of this attention to the smallest details even the colour of the pavement and the awnings on the buildings the MCC now has 20 years of hard numbers data credited with underpinning all that global praise about Melboume's "liveablity".
Gehl has an oft quoted line that recasts the blandness of that ugly word. A liveable city is not a static place. It's a permanent social gathering, of shifting moods and energy, guests flowing in and out, the buzz changing but never dying. It's Gehl's mantra: "A good city is like a good party. People stay for much longer than is really necessary because they are enjoying themselves."
By this measure, Gehl considers in 2014 close to the global gold standard and that's as much a surprise to him as anybody, given what the CBD was like when he first saw it in 1976.
was a shadow of the grand dame of the 19th century on the back of a mining boom that was, literally, the city's golden age. A brief spurt of 1956 Olympic pride didn't deliver long term transformation. "We had this extraordinary city that had won the Olympic Games and then gone to sleep," McCaughey says.
There was no shortage of emerging leaders, planners and activist residents keen to wake the place up. Cain ended Labor's wilderness years in 1982, and had hopes for a city very different from the one he'd grown up next to in Northcote, at a time when anyone who didn't work in the CBD had very little to do with it. "A visit to town was a big day out." Cain's familiarity with the centre grew when he took an after school job at Myer. No one had any other reason to be there.
The notion that people might live in the CBD was thought batty. "A few that we thought were odd people lived in the lofts in hotels or some exotic accommodation like that."
McCaughey was elected as an independent to a reconstituted city council in late 1982 after years of chaos that had seen the previous MCC sacked. McCaughey had just returned from living in New York, aware of what a vital residential metropolis could be. She had two broad missions: save the heritage buildings, and bring a moribund CBD to life.
"There were only about 100 residents in the CBD. There was nobody there . what we did was say, 'We've got to enable the buildings to house people and we've got to bring the street life back."
Geoff Lawler,replica van cleef and arpels butterfly necklace, a state government expert for 17 years before joining the council in 1996, says benefited from a broadly united approach from Spring Street and town hall. "It's been a mix of state and local government." Gehl agrees this is crucial pointing to Sydney's state versus city conflict as a case study of how not to get things done. "They've been very, very slow. didn't have that."
McCaughey's praise for planning ministers she worked with, Evan Walker in particular, suggests this is true. While she didn't like Cain's "count the cranes" style, they shared a belief that antiquated licensing laws had to go and the streets opened for al fresco dining. Cain calls liquor law reform "the biggest single step in the transformation of the CBD". With pavement dining permitted and booze restrictions loosened, the city had something to build on and it did. There were 604 food and beverage outlets in the CBD in 1982; today, 1978. Even harder to imagine, there were two outdoor cafes in the CBD in the 1980s; today, 534.
But the most significant impact was the arrival in 1983 of a migrant whose planning smarts were snapped up by the MCC. Urban designer RobAdams, of Zimbabwe, found a city whose workday population seemed to be sucked out to the suburbs at 5pm as if by a giant vacuum. "It was deserted. The biggest change was realising that city's didn't have to be like that."
Adams was a believer, and he had high level support. Gehl's Places for People research delivered that element when the MCC brought him out in 1993.
Adams says such detail has enabled change in an age of tight budgets small scale and incremental. Things like building frontages and lighting influence the way people perceive streetsas places to stop,van cleef arpels alhambra imitation necklace, sit or shop and also perceptions of safety. Doyle calls it "the palette of the city" and underfoot, the city is getting durable, attractive bluestone footpaths as a result.
Gehl's research delivered "the human dimension",Lawler says. "You can look at Places for People and look at the importance of detail. And you look at the macro scale and look at the importance of urban design, economic and sustainable use of land, and transport, which is critical."
This is where critics of planning policy take issue with both the MCC and the government, whose vision of a CBD dominated by ever taller towers horrifies many. Cain calls it "very woolly". McCaughey fears we're "building an asylum", driven by greed.
Michael Buxton, RMIT's professor of environment and planning, says the reach for the sky policy violates the essence of Gehl's "human scale" philosophy of urban design. Buxton says Places for People has been invaluable. "But what tends to happen is that public bodies such as the City Council think they've done their job when they come out with a report examining the better use of public space. That's only part of the equation, as [Gehl] himself notes.
If the tower fetish continues unchecked, Buxton warns, the city we now celebrate will be ruined. "It will kill the goose."
Jeff Kennett also has mixed feelings about the dramatic changes to the CBD. "It's now becoming very quickly a city of the world with all the problems and the challenges of the cities of the world." It's less friendly, he says, and traffic congestion is fast becoming a crippling issue".
He wouldn't turn back time, but warns the city should proceed with caution as residential numbers boom. "I don't think the number of people matters so much as whether you can properly provide the infrastructure to accommodate that number or whether you can change the way the city operates."
At town hall, the drivers of CBD policy don't disagree. Lawler says rapid population growth has been "a good problem to have" but has to be carefully managed. "Now as the city grows, it's moving into areas where [infrastructure] doesn't exist. Because of the tightness of space you can't let that get out of whack."
The lord mayor, who will receive the latest People for Places report early next year, looks ahead to a city that builds on the kind of changes the research has already inspired: expanding the "tree canopy" to cover 40 per cent of the CBD,replica van cleef flower necklace, cooling the city by 5 degrees; pedestrian friendly initiatives that build on findings showing 66 per cent of journeys are made on foot; an improved bicycle network. And much else besides but Doyle says that in 10 and 20 years time, "I hope you'd still look at it and say 'Yep, that's . The essential character hasn't changed."
Adams says cities everywhere are facing major challenges over the next half century, with urban populations doubling, "You can't do that by building cities the way we built them in the past. We're going to have to do it by repurposing them, and has gone through one of the biggest repurposing exercises in the last 30 years.
"If that continues on it will set us as an example of what other cities can do."
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TO SOME ears, modern 's much trumpeted honour "the world's most liveable city" is a bouquet so bland it doubles as a brickbat. But a backhanded compliment is no big deal. The city's heard worse things.
'I Am Where I Want To Be'
Mourinho journalists he felt "very well prepared" for the new role but admitted his frustration that the club will not be competing in the Champions League this season.
He said he wanted to "forget" the club's largely unsuccessful last three years under David Moyes and Louis Van Gaal.
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"I don't want the players to think we need to do better. What is to do better? Finish fourth. Finishing fourth is not the aim. We want to win," he said. 53 year old former Chelsea boss was speaking to media for the first time since his appointment in May.
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The self proclaimed 'Special One' also strongly hinted that the club has a deal lined up for Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mkhitaryan, and said he was pursuing a fourth target.
Mourinho journalists he felt "very well prepared" for the new role but admitted his frustration that the club will not be competing in the Champions League this season.
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"I don't want the players to think we need to do better. What is to do better? Finish fourth. Finishing fourth is not the aim. We want to win," he said. 53 year old former Chelsea boss was speaking to media for the first time since his appointment in May.
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Mourinho, who has also enjoyed spells at Real Madrid and Inter Milan,van cleef & arpels imitation necklace, said he was hoping to surpass Sir Alex Ferguson's haul of two Champions League trophies at the club.
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The self proclaimed 'Special One' also strongly hinted that the club has a deal lined up for Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mkhitaryan, and said he was pursuing a fourth target.
Kodak sacks 600 workers
About 600 Victorian workers have fallen victim to the digital age and will lose their jobs when photographic giant Kodak closes its Coburg film manufacturing plant at the end of November.
The company blamed the rise of digital photography for the closure and said all employees would receive full entitlements.
But the union movement said it had urged Kodak to investigate ways of keeping the plant open in recent years and staff would be left with poor job prospects.
"It's a devastating blow for the workers at Kodak. and a really bad blow for the Victorian manufacturing economy," said Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron.
"John Howard and Peter Costello should come down here and explain to these workers what this Government will do to support them and why they have not intervened and demanded accountability from this company."
About 400 administrative staff will continue working at the plant's office, but Kodak Australia chairman John Allen said it was too early to say whether there would be more job losses.
"These closures have been caused by the fundamental change in consumer behaviour driven by the increasing popularity of digital photography in Australia and worldwide," he said. "It's a very sad day but I think on site here it's understood that this is a technology driven change."
Workers were told the news at a staff meeting at the factory at 3.30pm yesterday. They were shocked at the company's sudden decision to close the plant.
"It feels like my guts have been wrenched," said Spiros Vasilakis, 40, a father of three, who has worked at Kodak as a machine operator for 20 years. "We knew this would happen, but everybody thought it would be a gradual shutdown, not like this."
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John Van Duijneveldt, who worked for 26 years with the company, said he felt "numb" at hearing the news. "There's a lot of emotion for a lot of people at the moment. You get attached to the job and the people,van cleef necklace copy alhambra," he said.
Storeman Pat Reid, 52, said it would be difficult for many older employees to find work again.
"At my age, it would be hard for me to walk into another job. Shock is the only word. Everybody will be going home and sitting in their chair tonight and saying, 'what happened?' "
Earlier this year US parent company Eastman Kodak said it would cut up to 15,000 jobs worldwide by 2006. The cuts are meant to save up to $1.3 billion in costs every year by 2007.
Mr Allen said only on Tuesday did he received final confirmation that the plant would be closed.
The first staff to finish work will be those at the site's wholesale photo processing lab, which will close on October 22. The rest of the plant will stop operating on November 26 and most employees will leave a week later.
Mr Allen said the employees' redundancy package would compare "extremely favourably" with others offered in Australia.
He said the decision was not influenced by the performance of the plant, nor by Australian economic, industrial or political factors. He said one in three Australian households would have a digital camera by the end of this year and 3.5 million mobile phone cameras would be sold this year.
The company would offer counselling and career advice to help employees find new jobs and the state and federal governments had offered to assist with training, he said.
The average employee was male, aged 45, and had worked at Kodak for 15 years.
Mr Cameron said the fight to keep the plant open was not over. The union has asked Kodak for the plant's business plan.
"Our first position is to sit down and talk to this company about whether these jobs can be saved. It's about maximising jobs in Australia and Victoria."
Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union state secretary Brian Daley said many Kodak employees worked in specialised areas. "Their job prospects in the special industries that they work in, often for 20 or 30 years, is effectively nil," he said.
While unions said Kodak had opened a plant in China, Mr Allen said it was not a case of jobs going overseas. He said demand for film and paper had declined by 15 per cent annually in Australia in the past two years.
Victorian Manufacturing and Export Minister Tim Holding said employees would have access to State Government programs to retrain. "In 1999 the Victorian Government provided some financial assistance to Kodak," he said. "The grant agreement required Kodak to establish a regional training centre. We expect the company will keep that centre open for its 1250 remaining Australian employees."
Federal Labor's industry spokesman Kim Carr said the closure was a devastating blow for workers,van cleef copy necklace alhambra, their families and the Victorian economy.
Federal Employment Services Minister Fran Bailey expressed disappointment at the job losses and said Centrelink and Job Network representatives were organising meetings with the workers,clover copy necklace van cleef.
About 600 Victorian workers have fallen victim to the digital age and will lose their jobs when photographic giant Kodak closes its Coburg film manufacturing plant at the end of November.
The company blamed the rise of digital photography for the closure and said all employees would receive full entitlements.
But the union movement said it had urged Kodak to investigate ways of keeping the plant open in recent years and staff would be left with poor job prospects.
"It's a devastating blow for the workers at Kodak. and a really bad blow for the Victorian manufacturing economy," said Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron.
"John Howard and Peter Costello should come down here and explain to these workers what this Government will do to support them and why they have not intervened and demanded accountability from this company."
About 400 administrative staff will continue working at the plant's office, but Kodak Australia chairman John Allen said it was too early to say whether there would be more job losses.
"These closures have been caused by the fundamental change in consumer behaviour driven by the increasing popularity of digital photography in Australia and worldwide," he said. "It's a very sad day but I think on site here it's understood that this is a technology driven change."
Workers were told the news at a staff meeting at the factory at 3.30pm yesterday. They were shocked at the company's sudden decision to close the plant.
"It feels like my guts have been wrenched," said Spiros Vasilakis, 40, a father of three, who has worked at Kodak as a machine operator for 20 years. "We knew this would happen, but everybody thought it would be a gradual shutdown, not like this."
He said Kodak had been "great to work for",replica van cleef and arpels diamond necklace. "They've given us skills and training."
John Van Duijneveldt, who worked for 26 years with the company, said he felt "numb" at hearing the news. "There's a lot of emotion for a lot of people at the moment. You get attached to the job and the people,van cleef necklace copy alhambra," he said.
Storeman Pat Reid, 52, said it would be difficult for many older employees to find work again.
"At my age, it would be hard for me to walk into another job. Shock is the only word. Everybody will be going home and sitting in their chair tonight and saying, 'what happened?' "
Earlier this year US parent company Eastman Kodak said it would cut up to 15,000 jobs worldwide by 2006. The cuts are meant to save up to $1.3 billion in costs every year by 2007.
Mr Allen said only on Tuesday did he received final confirmation that the plant would be closed.
The first staff to finish work will be those at the site's wholesale photo processing lab, which will close on October 22. The rest of the plant will stop operating on November 26 and most employees will leave a week later.
Mr Allen said the employees' redundancy package would compare "extremely favourably" with others offered in Australia.
He said the decision was not influenced by the performance of the plant, nor by Australian economic, industrial or political factors. He said one in three Australian households would have a digital camera by the end of this year and 3.5 million mobile phone cameras would be sold this year.
The company would offer counselling and career advice to help employees find new jobs and the state and federal governments had offered to assist with training, he said.
The average employee was male, aged 45, and had worked at Kodak for 15 years.
Mr Cameron said the fight to keep the plant open was not over. The union has asked Kodak for the plant's business plan.
"Our first position is to sit down and talk to this company about whether these jobs can be saved. It's about maximising jobs in Australia and Victoria."
Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union state secretary Brian Daley said many Kodak employees worked in specialised areas. "Their job prospects in the special industries that they work in, often for 20 or 30 years, is effectively nil," he said.
While unions said Kodak had opened a plant in China, Mr Allen said it was not a case of jobs going overseas. He said demand for film and paper had declined by 15 per cent annually in Australia in the past two years.
Victorian Manufacturing and Export Minister Tim Holding said employees would have access to State Government programs to retrain. "In 1999 the Victorian Government provided some financial assistance to Kodak," he said. "The grant agreement required Kodak to establish a regional training centre. We expect the company will keep that centre open for its 1250 remaining Australian employees."
Federal Labor's industry spokesman Kim Carr said the closure was a devastating blow for workers,van cleef copy necklace alhambra, their families and the Victorian economy.
Federal Employment Services Minister Fran Bailey expressed disappointment at the job losses and said Centrelink and Job Network representatives were organising meetings with the workers,clover copy necklace van cleef.
Manson Family Member Should Be Free
Nearly 40 years ago, in August 1969, Charles Manson and his commune of followers, known as "the family," embarked on a gruesome killing spree in California.
The crimes were followed by a sensational trial in which Manson's followers several of whom were young women from middle class families were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. (The sentences were later commuted to life in prison.)
The trial was one of the first big media trials of its kind. Filmmaker John Waters remembers attending it in an effort to find out how Manson's followers could have acted the way they did.
"I wanted to figure out what happened and how these kids, who were very much like my friends from my neighborhoods . ended up doing something [like this]," he tells Madeleine Brand. "It always fascinated me how these people under the control of one real madman could do this."
Waters, who later went on to direct Hairspray and Pink Flamingos,van cleef imitation gold bracelet, admits that he saw certain similarities between himself and Manson's followers. Like the cult members, Waters describes himself as a 1960s radical who took LSD and thought the end of the world was coming. But he adds that unlike the Manson family, filmmaking provided him with "an outlet for all the anti social, angry thoughts I had all the time."
Over the years, Waters returned to the Manson story,van cleef and arpels copy clover bracelet, at one point contacting "family" member Leslie Van Houten in prison in an attempt to interview her for Rolling Stone magazine.
Van Houten, who was 19 at the time of the murders,van cleef imitation bracelet alhambra, refused to comment for Waters' article. She said she had no interest in being in a magazine for what she had done, and that she was greatly ashamed by it. Nonetheless, she and the director struck up a friendship.
"[Van Houten is] well read. She's smart. She cares about people," Waters says of the woman who has spent the past 40 years in prison for the murders of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
I do believe in rehabilitation. . Leslie has taken responsibility,van cleef and arpels imitation clover bracelet, and she has followed the rules.
Waters says he was so inspired by Van Houten's patience she has been denied parole 16 times and her intelligence and remorse that he devoted a chapter to her in his upcoming book, Role Models. He recently posted an excerpt of the book in which he argues for Van Houten's release on the Huffington Post.
Waters admits that his position isn't popular and acknowledges the gruesome nature of the murders, but he adds: "Leslie has taken responsibility, and she has followed the rules the rules that they have told her to follow to get parole. . She's the poster girl for the California prison system.
Nearly 40 years ago, in August 1969, Charles Manson and his commune of followers, known as "the family," embarked on a gruesome killing spree in California.
The crimes were followed by a sensational trial in which Manson's followers several of whom were young women from middle class families were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. (The sentences were later commuted to life in prison.)
The trial was one of the first big media trials of its kind. Filmmaker John Waters remembers attending it in an effort to find out how Manson's followers could have acted the way they did.
"I wanted to figure out what happened and how these kids, who were very much like my friends from my neighborhoods . ended up doing something [like this]," he tells Madeleine Brand. "It always fascinated me how these people under the control of one real madman could do this."
Waters, who later went on to direct Hairspray and Pink Flamingos,van cleef imitation gold bracelet, admits that he saw certain similarities between himself and Manson's followers. Like the cult members, Waters describes himself as a 1960s radical who took LSD and thought the end of the world was coming. But he adds that unlike the Manson family, filmmaking provided him with "an outlet for all the anti social, angry thoughts I had all the time."
Over the years, Waters returned to the Manson story,van cleef and arpels copy clover bracelet, at one point contacting "family" member Leslie Van Houten in prison in an attempt to interview her for Rolling Stone magazine.
Van Houten, who was 19 at the time of the murders,van cleef imitation bracelet alhambra, refused to comment for Waters' article. She said she had no interest in being in a magazine for what she had done, and that she was greatly ashamed by it. Nonetheless, she and the director struck up a friendship.
"[Van Houten is] well read. She's smart. She cares about people," Waters says of the woman who has spent the past 40 years in prison for the murders of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
I do believe in rehabilitation. . Leslie has taken responsibility,van cleef and arpels imitation clover bracelet, and she has followed the rules.
Waters says he was so inspired by Van Houten's patience she has been denied parole 16 times and her intelligence and remorse that he devoted a chapter to her in his upcoming book, Role Models. He recently posted an excerpt of the book in which he argues for Van Houten's release on the Huffington Post.
Waters admits that his position isn't popular and acknowledges the gruesome nature of the murders, but he adds: "Leslie has taken responsibility, and she has followed the rules the rules that they have told her to follow to get parole. . She's the poster girl for the California prison system.