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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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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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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.
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.
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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."
A Pricey Pour
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.
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."
A Reward From 'Somebody van cleef heart necklace knock off That Cares About Bourbon'
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.
The Salt
For A Faster Aged Bourbon, You Need The Motion Of The Ocean
The last time the store did it, Brown says 640 people showed up. "There [were] people inside and outside, looking in the store."
A Pricey Pour
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.
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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.
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.
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. Witnesses saw the police getting ready to move in. Three officers got out of a vehicle Dressed gone either navy or black. But I'm bulletproof vest loaded rifles. rifles and moved across from the dealership offered into the parking lot and came to the right rear of the vehicle. Why the police targeted this particular phone Booth. ABC's John Miller has been covering the investigation today. the sniper had instructed police to by a certain telephone number. And when the call came into that telephone number they traced it to the vicinity of that gas station. they already have surveillance unit staked out around that area of Richmond so when they moved into the gas station and they reported back. We see a man his by the telephone there's another individual there they have a white van which of course is a description that's come up in this case. And the command post told them okay move and take And that's what they did. 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.
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. Witnesses saw the police getting ready to move in. Three officers got out of a vehicle Dressed gone either navy or black. But I'm bulletproof vest loaded rifles. rifles and moved across from the dealership offered into the parking lot and came to the right rear of the vehicle. Why the police targeted this particular phone Booth. ABC's John Miller has been covering the investigation today. the sniper had instructed police to by a certain telephone number. And when the call came into that telephone number they traced it to the vicinity of that gas station. they already have surveillance unit staked out around that area of Richmond so when they moved into the gas station and they reported back. We see a man his by the telephone there's another individual there they have a white van which of course is a description that's come up in this case. And the command post told them okay move and take And that's what they did. 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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"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Millions of US citzens feel
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I personally doubt that 90% of USA gun owners
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If we look to the statistics, the guns are not mentioned by the CDC not even in the first TEN causes of death.
If we look homicide statistic, baseball bats looks like the preferred means to end the life of your dears in USA.
If we look to the stats of gun crimes by gun type, AR15s are used in a tiny fraction of the homicides in the USA.
People, including famous ones, when it comes to guns just disconnects their brains and embrace popularity.
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Those laws good in itself will never prevent Massacres and Massmurders.
Even only with a Pistol with only a 7 shot Magazine,
one could carry several 7 shot Magazines with oneself and extra ammo and still conduct a Massacre and Massmurder.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Millions of US citzens feel
insecure without their own modern military weapons to be ready to repel.
I personally doubt that 90% of USA gun owners
have the training , the skill or the GUTS needed to defend themselves.
TRAINED, armed school guards are the only insurance for schools in the USA.
I my mind untrained citizenry; which includes braggarts, phoney heroes, tough guys, etc.
should NOT be allowed access to high capacity, automatic and high calibre weapons.
want to scrap the 2nd amendment because the framers used muzzle loading guns, or those that consider the costs vs the good. Are you also in favor of scrapping the 13th amendment because a majority of the prison population in the US is black? What is wrong with people being checked before the enter a school, mall or building? Not only does it increase employment, it makes people feel safer because they are safer. Cost? Is that the issue or saving lives? Would you ban tire irons if a murderer uses one? Knife? pen? fire? but guns are ok to ban? liberal really must try to get their understanding straight.
Ban assault rifles, ban hi caps mags, ban this ban that.
If we look to the statistics, the guns are not mentioned by the CDC not even in the first TEN causes of death.
If we look homicide statistic, baseball bats looks like the preferred means to end the life of your dears in USA.
If we look to the stats of gun crimes by gun type, AR15s are used in a tiny fraction of the homicides in the USA.
People, including famous ones, when it comes to guns just disconnects their brains and embrace popularity.
Because burning Jews, in the past, even a recent one, was a very popular practice.
Use FACTS, not EMOTIONS, use BRAINS, not your BELLY.
You are on the right track, but need to go several steps further. Repealing the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution is a worthy idea, but what really is needed is for the US President to declare a state of emergency and suspend all Constitutional guarantees pending the drafting and ratification of a new Constitution by a Constitutional Convention, more relevant to the 21st century. We also must recognize that times have changed much since 1789 and that individual liberty must be subordinated to the van cleef clover bracelet knock off well being of the whole.
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Paul Muldoon is Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. He also lectures at Princeton University. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 1994. He bought Alanis Morissette's latest album, Under Rug Swept, just the other week.
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Muldoon's poetry has provoked divided opinion from "a kind of acrobat, piling up strange rhymes, references and conceits" (Adam Kirsh, The New Republic) or a poet who was "an unholy amalgam of Ezra Pound and Dr Seuss" (Ben Downing, The Wall Street Journal).
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Paul Muldoon is Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. He also lectures at Princeton University. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 1994. He bought Alanis Morissette's latest album, Under Rug Swept, just the other week.
The line between one van cleef and arpels 10 motif necklace fake of the world's acclaimed poets and a young, pop music performer who has sold enough CDs to reach the moon is not as tenuous as at first glance. For Muldoon Oxford professor, Princeton lecturer is a fan of popular music. In his collection Hay the musicality of his muse meets the music he admires in a series of poems based on a sort of personal Top 20 albums.
He writes of Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced?), Cream (Disraeli Gears), The Beatles (The Beatles), The Rolling Stones (Beggar's Banquet), Van Morrison (Astral Weeks), Eric Clapton (i>461 Ocean
Boulevard), Elvis Costello and the Attractions (My Aim is True), Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy), Dire Straits (Dire Straits), Blondie (Parallel Lines), Bruce Springsteen (The River), Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (Easy Pieces), Talking Heads (True Stories), U2 (The Joshua Tree), Pink Floyd (A Momentary Lapse of Reason), Paul Simon (Negotiations and Love Songs), Leonard Cohen (I'm Your Man), Nirvana (Bleach), Bob Dylan (Oh Mercy) and REM (Automatic for the People).
Muldoon's poetry has provoked divided opinion from "a kind of acrobat, piling up strange rhymes, references and conceits" (Adam Kirsh, The New Republic) or a poet who was "an unholy amalgam of Ezra Pound and Dr Seuss" (Ben Downing, The Wall Street Journal).
What is not in dispute is his voice, his great gift, the
glissade over the surface of the English language that creates markings both
strange and yet van cleef onyx necklace replica strangely familiar. Muldoon and his wordplay are often spoken of
in the same breath as James Joyce, the ultimate fantastic confabulator. But in
matters musical, the closest Joyce came to harmony and melody was his collection
Chamber Music ("Who may this singer be whose song about my heart is
falling?"). Muldoon lives far closer to the clef and chine of its body and soul.
The cadences quaver and quake, slide and stop start. He is not afraid to mingle
the two worlds of music and literature together, nor their inhabitants. knock off van cleef red clover necklace His
poetry uses musicians and their works, such as from Quoof :
Or she would turn up The Songs of Leonard Cohen
on the rickety oldand you knew by the way she unbound her tresses
and stepped
from her William Morris dresses
you might just as well beFrom Kissing and Telling
But in recent months Muldoon has come even closer to the real thing. So close, in fact, that he can now claim co songwriting credit among his achievements. The American initiated the endeavour after receiving a fan letter from a most unlikely source.
huge fan. I've been following his career since Excitable Boy (1978). About 18 months ago I wrote a fan letter. I heard nothing for close to a year then I had a phone call from him one day. We got together and he asked me if I would consider writing something for him, which, of course, was a great thrill for me, as it would be for interested in popular songwriting.
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Returning WWI soldiers' hatred for the leaders who sent them to die
It is one of the most profound and moving books about the Great War based on previously unpublished accounts from the men who lived and died in the trenches.
In yesterday's extract from Richard van Emden's The Soldier's War, troops recalled the horror of battle. Today, we reveal how delight at the Armistice turned to resentment as survivors returned home.
It was a brutal secret no one wanted to face. But despite the flag waving that greeted Britain's returning troops 90 years ago today, many felt nothing but hatred for the leaders who'd sent them to die. and now seemed happy to forget them.
Wearing a distinctive Burberry trench coat, the young English captain was an obvious target for a German sniper. His smart uniform, plus the fact that he was openly poring over a map, marked him out as an officer. As dawn lit up the night sky, his sergeant major warned him to take cover. 'Oh, I'll be all right,' the captain said jauntily.
But he wasn't. Minutes later, he was shot in the stomach. 'He was in great pain,' recalled the sergeant major, Arthur Cook. 'I asked him if there was anything I could do and he said: "No, Sergeant Major. I'm finished."
What made this death so poignant out of all the millions on the Western Front during World War I was that it came so near the end. 'He and I had fought and suffered together so long,' Cook recorded in his diary. 'He never knew what fear was, he was the bravest officer I ever saw, and here he was lying crushed and bleeding at my feet.'
Celebrations in London on November 11, 1918: But many battle scarred soldiers found the concept of peace bewildering
It was November 1, 1918 and the fighting was as fierce as ever with Allied troops pushing the retreating German forces out of France and back towards their own border.
As Cook's battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry moved in to mop up resistance in a French village, snipers began to pick them off, starting with the captain. Then a shell burst on the hard cobbles and Cook was hit by debris and shrapnel.
'I could scarcely believe I was wounded. I had been dodging bullets for four years and I'd begun to feel I was immune. I had been with the battalion from the beginning of the war and had the misfortune to be injured in its very last action.'
Along the Front, the next few days were full of rumours that the Germans were suing for peace. It didn't seem possible. The Kaiser's armies had been fighting a tenacious rearguard action and, though many prisoners had fallen into Allied hands, the expectation was that the war would drag on into 1919.
This sudden talk of an armistice made everyone nervous. Sergeant Walter Sweet recalled how the sound of a shell sent men scurrying for shelter, while before they would have taken little notice. 'If the end was near, we were taking no chances of being pipped at the last minute.'
The morning of November 11 was extremely cold and a white frost covered the Front. Sweet marched his platoon from the Monmouthshire Regiment to the next village and was billeting them in a barn when the colonel walked in.
'He wished us good day and looked at his watch. "It is 10am. Men, I am pleased to tell you that in one hour the Armistice comes into force and you will all be able to return to your homes." '
Armistice Day 1918: Crowds in London's Tralfalgar Square celebrating the end of the first world war
But the news of the imminent German surrender was greeted with silence. 'We did not cheer,' Sweet recalled. 'But just stood, stunned and bewildered.'
He continued: 'Then, on the stroke of 11am the CO raised his hand and told us that the war was over. That time we cheered, with our tin hats on and our rifles held aloft. For old hands like me, it was funny realising that this day we had waited so long for had come at last.'
The celebrations began. Lieutenant John Godfrey was lucky: he toasted the victory with fine wines. The owner of the house in which he was billeted had retrieved vintage bottles from the garden where he had hidden them from the German occupiers.
'The bally war is over, which is the great thing and a joy,' the lieutenant noted. But the concept of peace was baffling after so many years of bloody conflict. 'To think that I shall not have to toddle among machine guns again and never hear another shell burst. It is simply unimaginable.'
Another soldier admitted that he too was apprehensive. 'What's to become of us?' he asked. 'We have lived this life for so long. Now we shall have to start all over again.'
The Royal Family, seen on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, celebrating with servicemen and civilians after the announcement of the Armistice
The actual return home was a joy. Private John McCauley of the 2nd Border Regiment remembered cheering crowds, waving flags and bands playing music everywhere. In London, he went onto the streets 'to be swallowed up in the swirling multitude'.
But being demobbed meant sad farewells 'handshakes with old comrades fine fellows with whom I had shared experiences that will live in the memory as long as life shall last.'
And many were haunted by painful memories. Pte Charles Heare, his discharge papers in his pocket, was on a train returning from the Front when he passed the Ypres battlefield, where he had fought. He saw how 'smashed up' it was and wondered to his mates how they had managed sweet alhambra necklace fake to live through it.
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The vintage alhambra necklace 10 motifs fake crowd gathered outside the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England in London after the announcement of the Armistice
As he neared his home in Wales, his friend Pte Black, who had been with him in France since the start in 1914, was sentimental about leaving his comrades.
'We have had to protect one another from danger, share our sleep and food. We have seen thousands of dead and dying. We have had romping good times and horrid bad ones together. But now we must part and start a new life. Let's hope we have lived through it all for a good purpose.'
Many men now found themselves reflecting on what had happened and asking themselves and each other the same question: Was it all worth it?
It is one of the most profound and moving books about the Great War based on previously unpublished accounts from the men who lived and died in the trenches.
In yesterday's extract from Richard van Emden's The Soldier's War, troops recalled the horror of battle. Today, we reveal how delight at the Armistice turned to resentment as survivors returned home.
It was a brutal secret no one wanted to face. But despite the flag waving that greeted Britain's returning troops 90 years ago today, many felt nothing but hatred for the leaders who'd sent them to die. and now seemed happy to forget them.
Wearing a distinctive Burberry trench coat, the young English captain was an obvious target for a German sniper. His smart uniform, plus the fact that he was openly poring over a map, marked him out as an officer. As dawn lit up the night sky, his sergeant major warned him to take cover. 'Oh, I'll be all right,' the captain said jauntily.
But he wasn't. Minutes later, he was shot in the stomach. 'He was in great pain,' recalled the sergeant major, Arthur Cook. 'I asked him if there was anything I could do and he said: "No, Sergeant Major. I'm finished."
What made this death so poignant out of all the millions on the Western Front during World War I was that it came so near the end. 'He and I had fought and suffered together so long,' Cook recorded in his diary. 'He never knew what fear was, he was the bravest officer I ever saw, and here he was lying crushed and bleeding at my feet.'
Celebrations in London on November 11, 1918: But many battle scarred soldiers found the concept of peace bewildering
It was November 1, 1918 and the fighting was as fierce as ever with Allied troops pushing the retreating German forces out of France and back towards their own border.
As Cook's battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry moved in to mop up resistance in a French village, snipers began to pick them off, starting with the captain. Then a shell burst on the hard cobbles and Cook was hit by debris and shrapnel.
'I could scarcely believe I was wounded. I had been dodging bullets for four years and I'd begun to feel I was immune. I had been with the battalion from the beginning of the war and had the misfortune to be injured in its very last action.'
Along the Front, the next few days were full of rumours that the Germans were suing for peace. It didn't seem possible. The Kaiser's armies had been fighting a tenacious rearguard action and, though many prisoners had fallen into Allied hands, the expectation was that the war would drag on into 1919.
This sudden talk of an armistice made everyone nervous. Sergeant Walter Sweet recalled how the sound of a shell sent men scurrying for shelter, while before they would have taken little notice. 'If the end was near, we were taking no chances of being pipped at the last minute.'
The morning of November 11 was extremely cold and a white frost covered the Front. Sweet marched his platoon from the Monmouthshire Regiment to the next village and was billeting them in a barn when the colonel walked in.
'He wished us good day and looked at his watch. "It is 10am. Men, I am pleased to tell you that in one hour the Armistice comes into force and you will all be able to return to your homes." '
Armistice Day 1918: Crowds in London's Tralfalgar Square celebrating the end of the first world war
But the news of the imminent German surrender was greeted with silence. 'We did not cheer,' Sweet recalled. 'But just stood, stunned and bewildered.'
He continued: 'Then, on the stroke of 11am the CO raised his hand and told us that the war was over. That time we cheered, with our tin hats on and our rifles held aloft. For old hands like me, it was funny realising that this day we had waited so long for had come at last.'
The celebrations began. Lieutenant John Godfrey was lucky: he toasted the victory with fine wines. The owner of the house in which he was billeted had retrieved vintage bottles from the garden where he had hidden them from the German occupiers.
'The bally war is over, which is the great thing and a joy,' the lieutenant noted. But the concept of peace was baffling after so many years of bloody conflict. 'To think that I shall not have to toddle among machine guns again and never hear another shell burst. It is simply unimaginable.'
Another soldier admitted that he too was apprehensive. 'What's to become of us?' he asked. 'We have lived this life for so long. Now we shall have to start all over again.'
The Royal Family, seen on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, celebrating with servicemen and civilians after the announcement of the Armistice
The actual return home was a joy. Private John McCauley of the 2nd Border Regiment remembered cheering crowds, waving flags and bands playing music everywhere. In London, he went onto the streets 'to be swallowed up in the swirling multitude'.
But being demobbed meant sad farewells 'handshakes with old comrades fine fellows with whom I had shared experiences that will live in the memory as long as life shall last.'
And many were haunted by painful memories. Pte Charles Heare, his discharge papers in his pocket, was on a train returning from the Front when he passed the Ypres battlefield, where he had fought. He saw how 'smashed up' it was and wondered to his mates how they had managed sweet alhambra necklace fake to live through it.
'A lot of luck, good hearing and a sense of danger,' one alhambra pendant necklace fake replied. Then someone asked: 'What was it for? What have we got for it, or anyone else for that matter?' No one had an answer.
The vintage alhambra necklace 10 motifs fake crowd gathered outside the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England in London after the announcement of the Armistice
As he neared his home in Wales, his friend Pte Black, who had been with him in France since the start in 1914, was sentimental about leaving his comrades.
'We have had to protect one another from danger, share our sleep and food. We have seen thousands of dead and dying. We have had romping good times and horrid bad ones together. But now we must part and start a new life. Let's hope we have lived through it all for a good purpose.'
Many men now found themselves reflecting on what had happened and asking themselves and each other the same question: Was it all worth it?