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The man who cuts Rahman's hair

At 35, he's one of Bollywood's best known hairstylists. Among other things, Ryan D'Rozario was responsible for A R Rahman's straight hair at the Grammy Awards.

Which is why it comes as a shock when you learn Ryan was a resident DJ and graphic designer at Spin Visuals before he switched to hair styling.

One of his clients casting director Shanu Sharma got him his first Bollywood break. Ryan was chosen by the Yash Raj banner to style Saif Ali Khan and Rani van cleef engagement ring copy Mukherji for Hum Tum.

His graphic designing background came handy when he showed his stars how their hair would look in the film.

Ryan's celebrity clientele has only grown since 2004.

Saif Ali Khan

My first Bollywood star client was Saif Ali Khan. After I clicked his pictures, I used them to create the seven different hairstyles Hum Tum demanded.

Saif was very finicky about his hair. It was a little difficult at the start but, luckily, Yash Raj had interviewed me and I had met Saif several times before the shooting actually started.

Saif has a combination of wavy and straight hair; it has great texture. We coloured his hair to beach blonde for Hum Tum. It was my favourite hairstyle on him and it appears towards the end of the film. In this style, his hair in front is a little straighter. It's a Chinese kind of look which he has maintained till date.

In one section of the film, Saif had to have long hair. We used a wig and cut the hair on the wig itself. Everybody, from the director to Saif, loved it; they felt it resembled Tom Cruise's look from Mission Impossible. They even use the the dialogue, 'Yeh mera Tom Cruise look hai,' in the film.

After everyone left, though, Saif felt the hair was coming on his face. He asked me to redo it. I was not happy because the director had okayed the look; but he insisted and forced me to cut it.

Saif is a great person to work with; he's a real prankster. For Hum Tum, we shot in Amsterdam for a month and van cleef arpels engagement ring copy had so much fun. Photographer Joy Dutta. Saif and I would occasionally go out partying.

On the sets, we would keep our distance but otherwise Saif is very friendly person. It is just that you should know your work and know where to draw the line.

I was also called for Saif's next Yash Raj movie, Salaam Namaste. I gave my ideas for Saif's and Arshad Warsi's looks in the film on a CD as they had demanded. I even cut Saif's hair. Later, though, I came to know I was not going to do the film since its budget has been slashed.

When the movie released, however, I realised they had used all my ideas. I was very upset because they did not pay me or give me credit. They apologised later, but I felt bad.

People had warned me about Aamir and how he wanted everything perfect. I met him a couple of times before we started shooting for Fanaa and discussed I wanted to do with him and what he wanted from me.

Aamir was not comfortable working with a new hair stylist; he was used to Avan Contractor. But, after a few meetings, things worked out really well.

What is superb about Aamir is that, once the look is set and just before the shoot starts, he calls the hair stylist and make up artiste home. He will time you to find out how long you take to do his hair and make up. He will then tell the production people the exact time he will be ready on the sets.

This makes it easier and faster for everyone because we are ready with everything we need and the work finishes on time.

In Fanaa, Aamir van cleef butterfly ring copy had two looks.

In one, he had to look like a street smart Kashmiri boy so we decided on longer hair. Also, Fanaa was right after Rang De Basanti where he had slightly long hair. We just added extensions and fillers to create the volume and length required. As a result, when we showed the second character with short hair, it gave a very distinct, separate look.

Aamir has dark brown, curly hair you must have seen it in Mangal Pandey where he had grown his hair really long that's easy to play around with.

He is very professional and has a dry sense of humour.

Aamir is very good with the Rubik's cube. One day, he told Kajol and make up artiste Mallika Bhat he would solve it in one minute. When they didn't believe him, he said, 'If I don't finish it, I will bow to you and say you are the king. But if I win, you will have to bow to me and say I am the king.'

Of course, he solved it within one minute and Kajol and Mallika had to bow to him.

When we were shooting in Poland, there was snow everywhere. Aamir would bang into people so hard that they would slip and fall into the snow. No one realised he was doing it deliberately. One day, he pushed Kajol and she decided to get back at him.

She hid behind his make up van, waiting to push Aamir. It so happened that I saw her and warned Aamir. He told me to get down from the van first and asked me to jump out instead of walking. Kajol thought it was Aamir and came to push me, but she missed because I had jumped out of the van.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Speaking to the man who made the PGA Tour great

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PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem says the prospect of retirement is dauntingTim Finchem is in his final days as the commissioner of the PGA Tour having held the role for 22 years. And the 69 year old told BBC Sport that his desire to bring together the leading tours did not materialise as much as he would have wanted.

He is the man responsible for creating the FedEx Cup with its $10m van cleef and arpels lotus ring replica first prize and the inception of the Presidents Cup that pits the US against the Rest of the World.

Finchem was also prominent in helping golf return to the Olympics.

Finchem explained why the PGA Tour is so attractive to overseas players, why despite the influence of Tiger Woods there are so few black faces on his circuit and admitted that the prospect of retirement is "daunting".

Back in June 1994, when he took over from Deane Beman, Finchem inherited a Tour that boasted $56.4m in prize money. As he departs, total purses are in excess of $300m.

"I have a lot of pride in what's been built and the progress we have made," said Finchem when we met close to the tour's Ponte Vedra Beach Headquarters in Florida.

The PGA Tour boasts assets in excess of $2bn and on 1 January 2017, Finchem's 46 year old successor Jay Monahan will take control of an organisation that routinely attracts the best golfers.

Deputy commissioner Jay Monahan will take over from Finchem on 1 JanuaryThroughout Finchem's tenure, Europe's leading players have enthusiastically headed stateside, attracted by vast prize funds and a lucrative pension fund that offers lifelong financial comfort.

The out going commissioner also points out that his tour's time zone offers a very significant marketing platform for European golfers.

"If Sergio Garcia plays in the United States he gets probably better television penetration in Europe than if he played in Spain because we are on prime time there," Finchem said.

"Unfortunately, in the process of all that it has put pressure on the European Tour which is not a good thing in the long term and for other tours like Australia and South Africa.

"The opportunities here are so much better and that's why we feel strongly over time we have to do things that will help balance the strength of tours.

"It's not necessarily healthy for the next 25 years for everybody to wake up and want to come to the United States to play their golf."

Finchem's vision was to bring together the leading tours under one umbrella and believes it will still happen.

But the European Tour seems up for a fight. It is bullishly looking to compete to keep its players on their side of the Atlantic. Only last week their brash and energetic chief executive Keith Pelley said his Tour's attitude is "ambitious and aggressive."

European Tour chief executive Keith PelleyFinchem's undemonstrative, drawn out style is the complete opposite of the fast talking showman from Canada, now in charge at Wentworth. "I think Keith is a solid guy and comes from a good solid business background that should serve him well," Finchem observed.

"I think the challenges though are difficult. It is no secret, I think the best answer is that a new organisation be formed that represents professional golf on a global basis."

Finchem claims this vision would benefit all stakeholders, although given the scandals engulfing world football, the van cleef emerald ring replica illustrative analogy he chooses might have been better.

"Like Fifa does with soccer," he said. "That can best take advantage of golf being in the Olympic Games and can offer consistent delivery of value, which is missing now.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Sanchez and Ozil strike to keep Arsenal

Arsene Wenger's side slumped to a 3 0 defeat to Crystal Palace last time out, prompting the manager to experiment with a 3 5 2 system at the Riverside Stadium with Rob Holding in a back three in an effort to encourage a more resolute display.

Chances were scarce in a poor first half, but Sanchez swept in a fine free kick to break the deadlock just before the break, only for Negredo to equalisefiveminutes into the second half.

Boro had produced a spirited performance,but Ozil finished a clever team move in the 71st minute to put the visitors back in front, and they held firm in the closing stages to claim a win that moves them back to within seven points of the top four.

The defeat leaves Boro six points from safety, with only six matches left to play, while Arsenal snapped a four match losing streak on the road in the top flight.

Boro started in lively fashion, but their momentum was rather sapped when Fabio was forced off following lengthy treatment to what appeared to be a calf injury.

Marten de Roon headed past Petr Cech and into the net from an offside position, but the home side certainly looked the van cleef ring fake most likely to break the deadlock, with the Gunners looking uncertain in their new system

The visitors at last began to put Brad Guzan's goal under pressure, with Aaron Ramsey seeing a volley blocked inside the area, but Boro's defence was doing well to keep Sanchez and Olivier Giroud quiet.

However, the Chile star added van cleef ring price fake a much needed touch of quality to the match with three minutes left of the half, flighting a sublime free kick over the wall and into the back of Guzan's net from 20 yards out.

Boro heads were down after an encouraging half ended in disappointment, but they responded quickly after the restart.

Stewart Downing was released down the right on the break and allowed time to cut inside and clip a fine cross towards the six yard box, where Negredo rose to prod the ball past Cech and into the net.

Cech reacted well to parry a header from Daniel Ayala as Boro sensed a second, although Guzan had to charge off his line to prevent Ozil from rounding him following Sanchez's throughball.

The Gunners were looking anxious, but they took full advantage when Boro'sbacklineparted to allow them to regain the lead.

Sanchez's cross was chested down by Ramsey and Ozil drilled right footed past Guzan at the near post, the home defence having allowed them acres of space.

Boro pushed for a second equaliser, van cleef and arpels alhambra ring replica but Arsenal withstood the late pressure to claim an important result in their pursuit of the Champions League places, alleviatingsome pressure on Wenger ahead of Monday morning's (AEST) FA Cup semi final date with Manchester City at Wembley.

Arsenal picked up only their second win in their last nine away league games (D1 L6), though both wins came against teams currently in the relegation zone (also Swansea City).
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Senator's defence of residential schools akin to excusing Holocaust

SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My ProfileAn attempt by Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak to paint the residential school system as "well intentioned" is akin to defending actions taken by Adolf Hitler against the Jewish people in the Second World War, NDP MP and residential schools survivor Romo Saganash said Thursday."It equals saying what Hitler van cleef necklace fake wholesale did to the Jewish [people] was good, that he wasn't ill intentioned in doing what he did. So, that's why it's unacceptable," Saganash said in an interview with CBC News outside the House of Commons."I think she should resign, because we don't need those kinds of people either in Parliament or the Senate," Saganash said."If one reads the definition of genocide under the UN convention, it's pretty clear to that effect that forcibly removing children constitutes genocide, OK? That's the gravity of the comment in my view."He implored Beyak to read the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which document the atrocities that tens of thousands of children faced. (The United Nations considers abduction and disappearances as one of the "elements" of the crime of genocide.)Beyak has declined requests for an interview or comment.As reported Wednesday by CBC News, Beyak told colleagues in the Red Chamber Tuesday that she wished the commission's report, which conducted an exhaustive six year study of the system, had focused "on the good" aspects of the schools rather than the atrocities children faced.She said "good deeds" and the "remarkable works" of teachers and administrators have largely gone unacknowledged, noting many Indigenous peoples still retain copy van cleef alhambra mother of pearl necklace the Christian faith they learned while attending these institutions. While some abuse took place, those who ran the schools "didn't mean to hurt anybody.""Mistakes were made at residential schools in many instances, horrible mistakes that overshadowed some good things that also happened at those schools," she said.Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says he's disappointed a Conservative senator is peddling this view."Along with rampant physical, sexual and mental abuse, about 6,000 children died while in care," he said."The residential schools were profoundly damaging to First Nations. Children were forcibly taken from their families and homes for the express purpose of trying to eradicate our languages and our identities. This was an attempt at genocide," Bellegarde said.Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Beyak's comments "underscore the need for better education so van cleef necklace butterfly knock off that all Canadians can work together to advance the shared journey to reconciliation."Tory senator wants focus on 'good' done by residential schools94 ways to redress the legacy of residential schoolsAt least 6,000 kids died in residential schools, TRC chair saysCathy McLeod, the Tory Indigenous affairs critic, said Beyak's remarks are not reflective of the larger Conservative Party, as it was former prime minister Stephen Harper who formally apologized for the role the federal government played in administering the system.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Ruud van Nistelrooy deserves more than being a footnote to Jamie Vardy's achievements

History has not been kind to Ruud van Nistelrooy, although he is not the only victim of a Sir Alex Ferguson purge to suffer that fate.

The fact it has taken the feats of a striker who was scoring goals in the Conference three years ago to thrust Van Nistelrooy back into the spotlight is a fairly sad indictment of how the former Manchester United forward has been allowed to slip off the radar van cleef necklace fake alhambra in the landscape of greats who have distinguished the Premier League stage.

Yet thanks to Jamie Vardy, the Leicester City forward who at the weekend equalled Van Nistelrooy record of scoring in 10 consecutive Premier League games, the Dutch striker is once again in the consciousness of the football world.

Jamie Vardy has managed to equal Ruud van Nistelrooy?s Premier League record Photo: PA

To suggest that Van Nistelrooy has become a forgotten man would be over stating his position on the fringes of the debate surrounding the best this, that and the other of the Premier League era.

After all, the former PSV Eindhoven striker left Old Trafford for Real Madrid and enjoyed a successful four year spell at the van cleef gold clover necklace knock off Bernabeu before continuing his goalscoring with Hamburg and Malaga.

But as English football prepares to fete Vardy for his achievement in matching Van Nistelrooy before he potentially eclipses him by making it 11 games in a row against United, ironically this weekend, van cleef and arpels heart necklace knock off there is no doubt that Van Nistelrooy has not been afforded the same elite status as many of his contemporaries, both at Old Trafford and within the Premier League itself.

During his five years at United, Van Nistelrooy scored 150 goals in 219 games at a rate of 0.68 goals per game.

Only Tommy Taylor, who lost his life in the Munich disaster, outstrips Van Nistelrooy at Old Trafford, with a strike rate of 0.69 after scoring 131 times in 191 appearances.

Denis Law (0.59), Wayne Rooney (0.48) and Sir Bobby Charlton (0.33) all trail in Van Nistelrooy wake when it comes to goals per game in a United shirt.

In each of his first three seasons at United, Van Nistelrooy broke the 30 goal barrier in all competitions, scoring 44 in 52 games in 2002 03, yet take a stroll around Old Trafford and you will struggle to see any image or mention of him.

And throughout the Premier League, he also remains something of a peripheral figure.

Ask most supporters or observers to come up with their top five Premier League strikers and it is likely that number would be made up by Alan Shearer, Sergio Aguero, Thierry Henry, Rooney and Luis Suarez.

Didier Drogba, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen, Andy Cole and Robin van Persie will also get a mention, but Van Nistelrooy perhaps shone brightly at the wrong time and is overlooked as a consequence.

At United, it was his misfortune to arrive in 2001, just as the 1999 Treble winning team was being broken up by Ferguson.

He also preceded the years when Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo took United to another level in Europe.

During his four years at United, he won just three major honours, but he did not even get off the bench for the last of those the 2006 League Cup final victory against Wigan after being dropped by Ferguson in favour of Louis Saha.

That decision blew open the simmering tensions between Ferguson and Van Nistelrooy, with the manager regarding the striker as a malevolent presence in that final year and one whose over bearing presence was affecting the development of Ronaldo, in particular.

Martin Keown: not a huge fan

When Van Nistelrooy was ordered to stay away from Old Trafford for the final game of the season against Charlton, it was because of one clash too many with the Portuguese winger.

Ferguson had chosen to back the future with Ronaldo and do away with Van Nistelrooy and his acrimonious sale to Real undoubtedly damaged his standing at United and perhaps explains why he has been somewhat airbrushed from their history.

But Van Nistelrooy goalscoring ability was second to none. He had pace, power, two good feet and an unrivalled instinct when close to goal.

United surge to the title in 2002 03, when they overhauled Arsenal in the final straight, was largely due to Van Nistelrooy scoring 13 goals in the final eight games of the season, including hat tricks against Charlton and Fulham.

Perhaps United relied too heavily on Van Nistelrooy goals and became too predictable and therefore less able to sustain the dominance of the Treble winners.

Arsenal had Henry and Dennis Bergkamp, and Chelsea became a force thanks to millions of Roman Abramovich, so United were overtaken by their rivals, even with Van Nistelrooy scoring so prolifically.

Van Nistelrooy was good, he was sensational a times, but he scored goals in the era of Arsenal Invincibles and Jose Mourinho back to back champions at Chelsea.

United had fallen from the summit, so Van Nistelrooy ultimately missed out on the acclaim reserved for the likes of Henry and Bergkamp, Drogba and Frank Lampard.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
the boy from Co Kerry who made his fortune in the building trade

FOR LONGER than seems credible, dark green vans and lorries bearing the word 'Murphy' have been as familiar to Londoners as traffic lights. They have spread, with the persistence of giant algae, to towns and villages. Their crews, speeding from site to site, often address one another in the accents of south west Ireland. But the Murphy profile, high on the highway, is lower elsewhere.

J Murphy Sons Ltd is a secretive outfit, employing about 2,000 and with an annual turnover some say is now approaching pounds 200m. It is headed by a publicity shy Irish septuagenarian, John Murphy, whose personal fortune is said to be well in excess of pounds 100m. Hard facts are as elusive as Mr Murphy, who recently fake van cleef bracelet green boasted to an acquaintance: 'No one has ever managed to take a snap of me.'

To be fabulously rich and mysterious is a formidable achievement. The late Howard Hughes mastered it by locking himself away in a Las Vegas hotel suite. At 71, however, Mr Murphy eschews such extremes. 'On a Saturday morning he'll turn up at one of the Murphy sites and have brekkie with the workers, and show the slower ones the best way to handle a shovel,' says another acquaintance. He frequently appears at the Irish Club in Eaton Square. He mixes easily with London's Irish community which sees him as a benefactor. Yet, to the wider community, he is the Great Murphy Mystery.

Highview House Murphy's London headquarters is in an unglamorous part of Kentish Town, between a railway bridge and a popular music venue, the Forum club (landlord, John Murphy). At a gatehouse, barriers rise and fall with dizzying frequency, as the dark green fleet races in for supplies and races out again.

The second checkpoint is across a courtyard with young trees and plants along its walls, a rus in urbe that contrasts with the dust, fumes and sweat of Murphy's adjoining area. Highview House is a modern business citadel: one way windows, and a marble reception desk resembling a bunker. In the courtyard are two white beehives apparently a Murphy metaphor; worker bees swarming as urgently as the green vans at van cleef and arpels sweet alhambra bracelet knock off the gatehouse. The hives, it seems, are a gift from a Murphy friend in Ireland who preferred 'Hive view' to 'Highview'.

Most of Mr Murphy's friends in Ireland and Britain insist on anonymity. They describe the millionaire variously as 'a great man', 'a humble man', and (in the words of an Irish priest in Camden) 'one of nature's gentlemen'. But in the gush of praise, no one seems to have got the measure of John Murphy. 'I'd say he was between 5ft 9in and 5ft 10in,' says a London based Irish journalist. 'He's not a whisker short of 6ft 2in,' declares a businessman in Port Laoise, Ireland. 'I wouldn't put him above 5ft 8in,' says George Henderson, an official of the TGWU who has had dealings with Mr Murphy over the years.

The company has a press officer who does not talk to the press, other than to forbid inquiries. Fulfilling this odd role is a Mr O'Connor, who refuses to reveal even his first name, saying brusquely on the phone: 'We don't want people turning up on our doorstep. This is absolute bullshit. It's got to stop.'

Why does John Murphy keep them guessing? The answer may lie in the past.

As a youth, it is said, he set out on foot from his father's small Kerry farm at Cahirciveen to seek work in London. Hitch hiking much of the way across Ireland, he caught the Dublin boat and rode the wave's crest for most of the ensuing years.

He and his brother Joe eventually formed separate building and engineering companies, the latter painting his vehicles grey (they are known in the trade as 'the green Murphy' and 'the grey Murphy'). They flourished on post war reconstruction, tendering for large scale contracts particularly in pipe laying, fulfilling them quickly and proving adept at tapping into Ireland's large labour pool.

By the building boom of the early Seventies, J Murphy Sons Ltd was handling major business for British Rail, doing round the clock repair work for the Greater London Council, laying land pipelines for North Sea oil and gas, and being referred to as a 'big league company'. 'John used to say that if you don't work hard you don't survive,' says a Murphy friend in Ireland. 'He's a simple man whose hobby is work. And when he gets tired he works again.'

He saved hard, too. 'He didn't go in for luxuries, even when he could afford them,' the friend says. 'When I asked him why he didn't buy a racehorse or two, he said: 'Horses have to eat, whether they win or lose.' '

But the Seventies also brought trouble. In 1972, Murphy sold 75 per cent of the company's equity to the London and Northern Securities Group for pounds 6.75m. Most of the remaining 25 per cent remained in the hands of the Murphy family and trusts. Two years later, the Inland Revenue mounted a major campaign against tax evasion through the system of employment in the building industry known as 'the lump'.

About 400,000 workers were said to be in the system, under which self employed labourers, magic alhambra bracelet copy often operating in gangs, hired themselves out to the highest bidder. Not all evaded tax, but those who did were reported to be costing the Exchequer up to pounds 100m a year.

Among those targeted by the Fraud Squad, the Flying Squad and the Regional Crime Squad was J Murphy Sons Ltd though not John Murphy himself. In 1976, after a prolonged legal battle, the company was fined pounds 750,000. Two directors and the company secretary were jailed for three years and fined pounds 10,000. Another employee was jailed and fined, and four more were given suspended sentences and fined. The judge said: 'I find it difficult to speak with moderation when a large, well known, highly efficient and hitherto respectable company engages in a gigantic swindle of this kind.'

It was a severe blow. But John Murphy was uncrushed. In 1977 he bought back his 75 per cent share for pounds 5.03m through Drilton, a subsidiary of an Isle of Man investment company wholly owned by Murphy family interests. Since then, Murphy's has spread into different ventures, including property, via another Murphy firm, Folgate Estates, a demolition company in Scotland, a readymix concrete firm in London's Park Royal, a shipping company in Greece, hotels in Ireland, and an airport in Kerry. Four years ago, it completed the mile long Stansted airport tunnel, using a giant boring machine brought in from Singapore. Murphy's has also won contracts in the Middle East. John Murphy owns 18 companies in Britain under different names.

To keep track of his empire, he maintains a punishing pace. 'I'll tell you a typical day for him,' says a friend. 'He could drive to Heathrow, fly to Glasgow, then to Dublin, then drive to Limerick and back to Dublin, and return to London in the same night. He never stops. If there was a ladder up to the fourth floor of a building, he would be up it in seconds.' For all this, he is paid (according to information filed in Companies House) a salary of pounds 350,000, compared with pounds 90,000 earned by his next highest paid executive.

Eight years ago, Mr Murphy ended a period of widowhood by remarrying. London acquaintances say he now takes some time off for golf and dancing with his 'young and attractive Irish wife', a former nurse.

Murphy employees can be fiercely loyal. A business rival says of the elder Murphy: 'When you look at the people running his company, it's remarkable how many are the sons and daughters of those who started with him.' Another rival, Bernard McNicholas, of McNicholas Engineering Ltd, a family firm with origins in Co Mayo, says: 'I rate him very highly a brilliant businessman, but quiet socially.'

A third admirer says many Murphy men, having learnt from him the virtue of hard work, later went on to establish their own businesses. According to Irish sources in London, among those who benefited is Dick Spring, Ireland's foreign minister. As a student, Mr Spring (also a Kerryman) was offered work in London by Mr Murphy, who told him: 'It's pounds 20 at street level, pounds 25 a bit lower down, and pounds 50 if you work in the sewers.' Mr Spring chose the sewers, and has never looked back.

Nor has the company. In 1992, when similar firms were reeling from the recession, J Murphy Sons made a pounds 13.2m profit on a turnover of pounds 140m.

Accidents do happen, however. Last year the company was fined a total of pounds 160,000, plus pounds 28,000 costs, for safety breaches that caused the electrocution of a worker. Despite such setbacks, the Murphy fleet, though battered, remains unbowed.

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Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Stiffer Fines Proposed for Repeat Hit

Repeat hit and run drivers could be facing tougher penalties if a Queens Councilman gets van cleef black bracelet imitation his way.

Jimmy Van Bramer is pushing a new bill that would raise the fines for people who leave the scene of an accident more than once.

Repeat offenders would fake magic alhambra bracelet be fined up to a thousand dollars for accidents that cause property damage, $2,000 to $5,000 if a person is injured, $5,000 to $10,000 if there is a serious injury and $10,000 if someone is killed.

The amounts would be in addition to any criminal action.

NYPD numbers show there have van cleef perlee clover bracelet copy been 38,000 hit and run crashes in the city so far this year.

Four thousand resulted in injuries and 38 people died, but only 28 people were arrested.

Van Bramer says more needs to be done to improve traffic safety.

"I think we all agree that it is perhaps the most heinous of acts to actually strike another human being, to know that you struck another human being and then to leave that human being to die in the street when you could stop the car and call 911 and possibly save a life," he added.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
Solve Kentucky's Great Bourbon Mystery

Saturday marks the 140th Run for the Roses: the Kentucky Derby. Great horses, great hats but where's the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon for the mint juleps?

Last October, more than 200 bottles of the prized spirit were stolen right out of the distillery in Frankfort, Ky. The county sheriff believes it was an inside job, and a $10,000 reward remains on offer.

Pat Melton, the sheriff of Franklin County, Ky., has these facts: In the small city of Frankfort, 222 bottles disappeared from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. The bourbon had been aging in oak barrels, some since the mid '90s, and the bottles were in a locked, secured area, ready to be shipped.

Melton says this had to be an inside job. "It had to be internal. It was behind a second lock and key inside a warehouse," he says. "That was a good clue and a good start."

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In the sheriff's office, they're following the phone tips and the email trail. "Detectives have interviewed more than 100 employees at Buffalo Trace throughout the course of this investigation so far," Melton says.

As for Buffalo Trace? The company isn't saying anything while the investigation continues.

Melton says he has two promising leads. The $10,000 reward, much of that from someone the sheriff calls an "undisclosed source," helps keep all this alive.

"They didn't want to be identified," Melton says. "It's somebody that cares about bourbon very much and wanted to help with the investigation."

The bourbon was already scarce before the theft; a bottle of 23 year old Pappy Van Winkle could change hands privately for as much as $1,000. At the Party Mart liquor store in suburban Louisville, asking for a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle elicits a laugh from manager Garret Brown.

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The last time the store did it, Brown says 640 people showed up. "There [were] people inside and outside, looking in the store."

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The Louisville restaurant and bar Bourbons Bistro has 125 regular bourbons, and 25 very fake van cleef arpel alhambra necklace special ones, on the shelf. For 2 ounces, the restaurant's customary pour, the 23 year old Pappy Van Winkle will set you back $100, says bartender Katie Haddix. imitation van cleef arpels butterfly necklace A shot of 20 year costs $75.

"A lot of people are surprised, you know, shocked . that's how much it is for one pour" of the Pappy Van Winkle, she says. Then came the craze.

"There was an article in, I believe it was Wine Enthusiast they gave Pappy Van Winkle a 99 or 100 rating," she says. "And after that, you couldn't get it anywhere, you couldn't find it anywhere."

Back at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort the scene of the crime PR manager Amy Preske shows off "Warehouse C," a cavernous old brick building full of whiskey.

"This is one of our oldest aging warehouses on property," Preske says. "It was built in 1881. It has six floors in this warehouse and about 25,000 barrels," aging from three years up to 23 years.

Preske and the company have no comment about the October theft. For the moment, it seems like all that Pappy Van Winkle bourbon has somehow evaporated.
Oct 10 '17 · 0 comments
term housing a challenge for Syrian refugees

When Ruth and Richard MacKellar decided to sponsor a refugee family from Syria with some friends, they quickly realized there were three things needed right away: money, a settlement plan and housing.

"The biggest hurdle was going to be accommodation," said Richard, who lives in Squamish.

Despite the community's relatively small size and distance from Vancouver about an hour's drive Squamish is not immune to the region's housing affordability crisis. The rental vacancy rate is less than one per cent and housing prices are rising rapidly, Richard said.

"It was actually one of our neighbours who sort of pushed us and said, hey, 'your kids have left home, replica van cleef pearl necklace you have a very large basement. It's got plenty of room for people to stay. Have you thought about that?' And so we did a bit of chatting with them and a bit of soul clover fake necklace van cleef searching ourselves and said, we could do that."

The MacKellars are renovating their 1,200 square foot basement to accommodate a family of between four and six. This means putting in a kitchen and moving Ruth's office, where she has tutored children for the past 20 years, into an empty bedroom upstairs.

They do not yet have the details of who this family will be or when they will arrive, but hope to establish that soon.

Staff at the Immigrant Services Society, which receives the housing leads through its website, are analyzing and mapping the types and locations of accommodation offers they receive, said Chris Friesen, the society's settlement services director. Two local developers have also offered free or below market rental apartments to Syrian families for their first few months.

Short term, transitional housing is not likely to be as much of a challenge, as places like church basements, hotels with kitchenettes or even school gymnasiums could be pressed into service.

The real challenge across Canada, but particularly acute in Vancouver, will be for refugees who live on an income equivalent to provincial welfare rates to find long term housing they can afford.

For example, one Syrian refugee family with five children spends $1,050 of the $1,460 a month they receive from the government to pay the rent on a two bedroom apartment in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb that is home to some of the least expensive housing in the region. This leaves them $400 a month, plus child tax benefits, to cover all other expenses. The shelter allowance for a family that size, under both federal and provincial income support programs, is $785 a month, Friesen said.

This is by no means a problem limited to refugees, as Canadian families on social assistance and living in Vancouver face the same pressures, Friesen said.

"We want to be clear we're not looking for preferential treatment for refugees. They're going to get the exact same shelter allowance. But what has been clear in this crisis as we try and find upwards of 1,500 housing units is . that in the most expensive city in Canada and one of the most expensive in the world, the fact that our shelter allowance rates haven't been reviewed since 2007 strikes us as being really, really unfortunate."

Affordable long term housing for refugees is also a challenge in Toronto, a city expected to receive more than 2,000 privately sponsored refugees before the end of the year and an unknown number of the 15,000 government assisted refugees Ottawa has pledged to bring to Canada in January and February.

"The vacancy rate in Toronto might be more advantageous than Vancouver, (but) the costs of housing are as significant," said Chris Billinger, executive director of social development, finance and administration at the City of Toronto.

While private sponsors typically provide a place for refugees to stay until they find long term housing, government assisted refugees who come to Toronto are usually housed in a reception centre run by COSTI Immigrant Services for an average of two weeks. But the centre can only house 100 people, so COSTI is planning to work with downtown Toronto hotels that have agreed to make their rooms available for short term housing of refugees, said executive director Mario Calla.

"The challenge is ensuring people won't be at the hotels too long and moving people out into the community so they can start establishing their life," Calla explained.

COSTI is working with Toronto and suburban Peel Region to develop a housing registry of agreeable landlords that can be used by government assisted or privately sponsored to find affordable housing.

As in Vancouver, Torontonians are also stepping up to the plate.

"We've been getting calls from people who say: 'I have a flat, I have a room,'" said Calla. Those offers will be added to the registry.

As Quebecers await news on just where some 5,000 Syrian refugees will live once they get here, one group of "futurepreneurs" has come up with a novel idea: We Host would match those with spare bedrooms or basements and big hearts to refugees in need of a temporary home.

Modelled on Airbnb, a website for people to list, find and rent lodging, the idea is to match hosts and refugees following certain criteria, such as length of stay, number of guests, gender and family makeup.

Jenviev Azzolin, the co founder of WeHost based in Montreal, says accommodating refugees in private homes holds a lot of advantages over putting them on army bases or unused hospitals. For one, it would be a lot cheaper.

"Sometimes it's hard to find the van cleef and arpels flower necklace knock off financial capacity to donate, but it's easier to contribute a spare bedroom or basement," Azzolin said. "Overwhelmingly, people want to help and people are ashamed Canada hasn't helped more.

When government assisted refugees arrive at the airport in Montreal, they are picked up by the YMCA, and housed temporarily at the YMCA residence downtown. The government also has agreements with several hotels, which will provide rooms for refugees. There are also other options, such as closed schools and hospitals.

In Edmonton's tight housing market, finding places for people to stay will be of one of the biggest hurdles during the resettlement process. The hunt for affordable apartments that will serve as a more long term solution has already begun by the various groups working on the problem.

Edmonton Catholic Social Services is asking landlords to register units they are willing to rent to incoming refugees and one Edmonton home builder is donating four newly built homes to lodge Syrian families for their first year in Canada. Don Neufeld's company, Connect Homes, also plans to provide furnishings, pay the utilities and provide a year's free rent.

Several Alberta property management companies are also answering the call for units. One of Alberta's largest landlords, Boardwalk, has offered discount to refugees in Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and Fort McMurray, while Calgary based Mainstreet Equity will be offering "at least" 200 units across Western Canada at discounted rates.
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Sniper Contacts Police Video

Like the unabomber son of sand and other infamous killers. The Washington area sniper appears engaged in some kind of deadly dance with investigators. In the last few days police have been blatantly using the media to transmit cryptic messages. This after the shooter apparently tried to contact them by phone. And left a note at the scene of Saturday's attack outside a ponderosa steakhouse in Ashland Virginia. The victim a 37 year old man remains in critical but stable condition after several surgeries. Today ballistics tests linked this shooting to the other sniper attacks the same caliber bullet. Two to three round fired from the same gun. Also today funeral services were held for the FBI employee a 47 year old woman killed by the sniper. Exactly one week ago tonight. In the nineteen days since the shooting started the casualty count is now grown to 129. Shot dead three seriously wounded. Tonight after a roller coaster ride of raised expectations and dashed hopes. Police are clearly trying to communicate to the killer who has so far confounded them. Nightline correspondent John Donvan reports on what has proved another frustrating day. For a region that remains very much on edge. It was tumultuous and confusing the morning begins with what looks like a major break. Police in Richmond Virginia get somebody put on the bulletproof vests. There's a white one one in Atlanta. What about on the ground. Witnesses a suspect. Woods and wife was alive but these It seems like the real thing the mood alone sends the message that this might soon be over. Obviously just common sense says it is connected with these are probably the two suspects now it seems it is not not over yet. It was a long day that only makes sense and even then total sense if you go back to Saturday night. That was the night of van cleef arpels bracelet replica the snipers twelfth attack outside a ponderosa steakhouse in Ashland Virginia by the side of a heavily traveled road. ABC news has learned that even as police were combing the crime scene they got a tip by telephone to look for a note on a tree. We don't know exactly what the said but sources tell ABC news the police traced the phone that the tip was called in on to a number in the Richmond Virginia area. Meanwhile police at the ponderosa crime scene went and found the note on the tree. We understand it told police to wait by yet another telephone we don't know where that one was. By the time they found the note however the deadline set had passed. And police wanted him to understand that. This was last night chief Charles Moose a person who left us a message at the ponderosa last night. You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided. Then back to roughly 8:30 this morning police converged on this phone Booth near Richmond Virginia at the side of a gas station. When a driver and a white van pulled up and proceeded to make a phone call. 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But the Virginia operation was barely over when in Rockville Maryland's scene of some of the earlier shootings chief moose appears again. Bruce is still apparently communicating with the sniper who is still apparently out. We are van cleef & arpels bracelet replica going to respond. To a van cleef clover bracelet replica message that we have received. We were respond later we are preparing our response at this time. Which immediately raised the question if police in Maryland are still trying to communicate with the shooter and who those men the Virginia police Late morning it was a question Virginia police were not touching people that are suspects life. Refuting the few people who live in custody at this time being questioned. And that's all it did when I suspect in the sniper shootings people we in custody being questioned in regards to the start was his. The one piece of solid information at this point. But the ponderosa shooting is part of the We game and confirm those. That the ballistics evidence recovered during their investigation. There's been met with the other shooting case. The day wore on and the flow of information slowed they postponed the daily briefing. I hope that everyone will appreciate we are at a very sensitive stage. Of this investigation. And therefore. It is critical. That we determine when it is appropriate to speak. Who speaks and what The cable channels ran out of news to report. And we heard a lot of speculation well we're left with this question are we at a critical stage in this DC investigation DC sniper investigation and is that why. They have just abruptly cancel this news conference. Moments before they were supposed all the then late afternoon it was chief moose again with another message to send to the shooter the person. You call. Could not hear everything that you sick. The audio was unclear. And we want to get it right. Call us back so we can clearly understand. Asked repeatedly why He was doing this moose was steadfast it was the wrong time He said to explain how not being discussed the issue are asked any questions regarding attempts to communicate. It's would be inappropriate. Any questions about. Any communication would be inappropriate it would be inappropriate. thing about the investigation and it would be inappropriate for me to. So who were those men arrested in Virginia apparently they were two men in the wrong place at the wrong time won a Mexican one of Guatemalan. We'll have papers to be in the US and they've been handed over for deportations received. With or without accomplices and that in some fashion the murderer wanted to communicate. At least He did earlier today. I'm John Donvan for Nightline in Washington.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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