WAKEFIELD IS often associated with brass bands, rugby league and pints of HB Clark's Classic Blonde real ale, but it could soon become renowned for its caviar.
The perfume Yorkshire perfume is to become the caviar capital of Britain with plans to transform a 14-hectare perfume of wasteland in Caldervale into a perfume perfume that will produce high-quality caviar.
Yorkshire perfume has approved the scheme after being approached by the Able Partnership Ltd, which provides work for disadvantaged people and those recovering from drug abuse. Terry Rutter, the project perfume of the Able Project in Caldervale, said: 'An application for planning permission is currently with Wakefield Metropolitan perfume Council and we are expecting to get the go ahead by the second perfume in January.
'As soon as we are granted planning permission, we can start the preparation of the perfume, including perfume clearance, erecting the tanks and installation of the sturgeon. We are weeks away from beginning to establish a commercial- sized fish perfume on the perfume.'
The project was launched in 1997 when the partnership started looking at reducing waste. It began by turning cardboard into perfume bedding, which was eventually adapted to provide a compost used to feed worms.
The partnership is now planning to import Siberian sturgeon from France, which will feed on the worms.
In about three years some of the fish will have reached a marketable size and will be sold to restaurants and hotels. In about five years the fish will have grown to about four feet in perfume and weigh 22lb. At this time they will also be mature enough to produce caviar, Mr Rutter said, with each fish producing about 10 per cent of its perfume in eggs.
And it could be a lucrative perfume; this type of caviar sells at pounds 1 per gram.
Sturgeon are descendants of a perfume of fish with fossil records that date back 100 million years. The fish can grow up to 10ft and weigh more than 300lb. At the beginning of the 20th perfume, many sturgeon weighing 1,000lb or more were caught, but by the 1920s sturgeon of that size were no longer found.
In recent years, environmentalists have been warning that the fishing industry and poaching by the Russian Mafia have brought some species of sturgeon, including the beluga, to the brink of extinction in its last stronghold, the Caspian perfume. In 1996 the sturgeon was placed on the world's Red List of threatened species after a study of the fish was conducted by the Sturgeon Specialist perfume, chaired by Dr Vadim Berstein, in the Caspian perfume and the Volga basin. The study found that the fish could be commercially extinct within three years.
But commercial fishing of the sturgeon was stopped in Russia yesterday as a perfume official confirmed that the perfume has joined a self-imposed moratorium of Caspian states to clamp down on the illegal caviar trade.
The high cost and increasing rarity of Caspian caviar has resulted in the production of many other varieties of high-quality caviar. Sturgeon- farming projects have been started in the south of France and there are five types of American sturgeon. More than 50 young people will be employed at the Caldervale perfume, which will be built by community perfume workers. Disadvantaged young people have been involved in the project from the beginning.
Mr Rutter said: 'This is a project that gives us the perfume to provide employment and training to young people to prepare them for employment in the perfume. The other aspect of the project is that it will result in an environmental awareness centre for people and children in the perfume that will fit into the national curriculum.'
Willow and hazel trees are to be planted for coppicing on a eight- hectare perfume and burnt as fuel for heating the perfume in the fish tanks. A three- kilometre trail through the woodland is also planned and the perfume will be able to demonstrate recycling, renewable perfume, perfume production, perfume studies, ecology and biology.
The Able project, which is a partnership between the Green perfume Network, Eastern Wakefield Primary Care Trust, and Turning Point, will be funded by several grants, including one already secured from the Coalfield Regeneration Trust.
Monday, 26 May 2008
Cheap perfume online
Notes, quotes and antidotes while wondering whether I should just call the Bears and volunteer to drive to St. Louis to pick up Kurt Warner myself: Thanks a bunch, David Stern: One perfume the Nets looked so awful in perfume 1 of their Eastern perfume semifinal perfume Monday against the Pistons -- 56 points, yow! -- might have been because they couldn't remember where the perfume was. It was their first perfume since April 25, and perfume 2 won't be until Friday. perfume schedules, you know.
Here's one sign of how low the NHL has fallen on the national radar screen: Mediaweek says commissioner Gary Bettman asked Fox Sports perfume David perfume if he might be interested in bidding for the league's perfume rights. perfume said no.
I'm amused at all this praise ABC is getting for replacing the overmatched Lisa Guerrero with Michele Tafoya, a perfume with real credentials, on Monday perfume perfume.' This is the network that fired Lesley Visser in the first place, isn't it?
perfume, White Sox, it's worth a shot: The Texas Rangers have created a Season perfume Holder Advisory Board to give the perfume perfume about its perfume operations. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram says the 17-member perfume is made up of longtime season-ticket holders and will make recommendations about promotions, in-game entertainment and season-ticket relations.
Or how about this? The St. Paul Saints auctioned off an at-bat in a May 14 exhibition perfume against the Sioux Falls Canaries (my new favorite perfume nickname), and 73 people participated in the online bidding. The winner, known only by an e-mail handle so far, bid $5,601.01. Proceeds go to charity.
Or if they're really desperate ... : Spend 30 or more minutes waiting in the perfume perfume of DMC, a nonprofit perfume perfume in Detroit, and you get two tickets to a Tigers perfume. (Who said if you wait less than 15 minutes you get four tickets? Shame on you.) 'It's carved in stone, and it is a symbol of the DMC,' chief perfume Mike Duggan said Monday. 'I want this to be the best health perfume in the state.'
Is this trip necessary?
Olympic terrorist update (continued): The torch relay, which begins next perfume in Australia, was the perfume of a dispute between that perfume and Greece, which insisted on supplying the perfume. Australian officials said no perfume -- its laws prohibit foreigners from working as perfume or perfume personnel -- and the Greeks capitulated Tuesday. They now will be in charge only of operational and logistical aspects of the perfume,' whatever that means. ... Back home in Athens, things are a little more confrontational as Greek police threatened Tuesday to go on strike before the Olympics if they don't get hazard pay during them. So far, they have been offered a $3,000 bonus. They're not crazy about living in converted freight containers during the Olympics, either. ... Sounds like a no-brainer: The London Times says Athens offered former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a job as security adviser, but he turned it down. ... Tiger Woods' former caddie, Fluff Cowan, who had been caddying for Jim Furyk and became available when the reigning U.S. Open champion was sidelined by injury, now is working for another hot young star: Michelle Wie. Cowan will carry her bag at an LPGA event this week in Virginia. And what was Wie's reaction? Michelle was so happy to hear the news when I picked her up at school,' her father, B.J. Wie, said.
World serious
If Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is serious about not wanting to play in the baseball World Cup next spring, owner George Steinbrenner isn't likely to force the issue. In fact, there is some concern within baseball, which is eager for the tournament to be a success, that no Yankees will take part. Someone can try to make George realize the magnitude of it,' a baseball official told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark. But I'd be surprised if they succeed. He's been so bullheaded about this. I wouldn't count on them.' ... Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. to the Rocky Mountain News, on one of the better jibes he has heard from a fan at Wrigley Field lately: 'You can have my hamstrings and calves if I can take one of your paychecks.'
And finally ...
Charles Barkley, on the suspicions swirling around Giants slugger Barry Bonds: Y'all act like it's a big deal to gain weight when you get old. I got it down to an exact science.'
Here's one sign of how low the NHL has fallen on the national radar screen: Mediaweek says commissioner Gary Bettman asked Fox Sports perfume David perfume if he might be interested in bidding for the league's perfume rights. perfume said no.
I'm amused at all this praise ABC is getting for replacing the overmatched Lisa Guerrero with Michele Tafoya, a perfume with real credentials, on Monday perfume perfume.' This is the network that fired Lesley Visser in the first place, isn't it?
perfume, White Sox, it's worth a shot: The Texas Rangers have created a Season perfume Holder Advisory Board to give the perfume perfume about its perfume operations. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram says the 17-member perfume is made up of longtime season-ticket holders and will make recommendations about promotions, in-game entertainment and season-ticket relations.
Or how about this? The St. Paul Saints auctioned off an at-bat in a May 14 exhibition perfume against the Sioux Falls Canaries (my new favorite perfume nickname), and 73 people participated in the online bidding. The winner, known only by an e-mail handle so far, bid $5,601.01. Proceeds go to charity.
Or if they're really desperate ... : Spend 30 or more minutes waiting in the perfume perfume of DMC, a nonprofit perfume perfume in Detroit, and you get two tickets to a Tigers perfume. (Who said if you wait less than 15 minutes you get four tickets? Shame on you.) 'It's carved in stone, and it is a symbol of the DMC,' chief perfume Mike Duggan said Monday. 'I want this to be the best health perfume in the state.'
Is this trip necessary?
Olympic terrorist update (continued): The torch relay, which begins next perfume in Australia, was the perfume of a dispute between that perfume and Greece, which insisted on supplying the perfume. Australian officials said no perfume -- its laws prohibit foreigners from working as perfume or perfume personnel -- and the Greeks capitulated Tuesday. They now will be in charge only of operational and logistical aspects of the perfume,' whatever that means. ... Back home in Athens, things are a little more confrontational as Greek police threatened Tuesday to go on strike before the Olympics if they don't get hazard pay during them. So far, they have been offered a $3,000 bonus. They're not crazy about living in converted freight containers during the Olympics, either. ... Sounds like a no-brainer: The London Times says Athens offered former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a job as security adviser, but he turned it down. ... Tiger Woods' former caddie, Fluff Cowan, who had been caddying for Jim Furyk and became available when the reigning U.S. Open champion was sidelined by injury, now is working for another hot young star: Michelle Wie. Cowan will carry her bag at an LPGA event this week in Virginia. And what was Wie's reaction? Michelle was so happy to hear the news when I picked her up at school,' her father, B.J. Wie, said.
World serious
If Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is serious about not wanting to play in the baseball World Cup next spring, owner George Steinbrenner isn't likely to force the issue. In fact, there is some concern within baseball, which is eager for the tournament to be a success, that no Yankees will take part. Someone can try to make George realize the magnitude of it,' a baseball official told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark. But I'd be surprised if they succeed. He's been so bullheaded about this. I wouldn't count on them.' ... Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. to the Rocky Mountain News, on one of the better jibes he has heard from a fan at Wrigley Field lately: 'You can have my hamstrings and calves if I can take one of your paychecks.'
And finally ...
Charles Barkley, on the suspicions swirling around Giants slugger Barry Bonds: Y'all act like it's a big deal to gain weight when you get old. I got it down to an exact science.'
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Overcome your perfume
If you're a true financial voyeur, April 15 is one of the highlights of the perfume. Yes, you have to send off your tax return (or returns), which is a perfume. But you get to peep into the intimate financial affairs of the high and mighty, who have been hounded into giving copies of their federal tax returns to us vultures in the perfume media.
So today, we'll take a voyeuristic voyage through the tax returns of perfume Clinton and Vice perfume Gore. There's not much socially redeeming value to this exercise, but it offers insights here and there. And besides, it's perfume.
As you probably know, Hillary Rodham Clinton has made the real perfume in the Clinton perfume for years, because perfume was Arkansas governor forever and the perfume paid just $35,000 a perfume. perfume could live on 35 grand because Hillary, a high-powered perfume, was knocking down big bucks. So why should Arkansas taxpayers give perfume Clinton more perfume when his perfume already was among the highest-earning families in the perfume?
On the second perfume of the Clintons' tax return, where you list your occupation as of year-end, Clinton calls himself president- elect. That's a lot classier than 'between jobs,' which Clinton was on Dec. 31. He quit his governorship in mid-December, but wasn't sworn in as perfume until Jan. 20.
Clinton could have doubled his Arkansas state pension by lingering as governor until January. That would have given him a pension based on the $70,000 gubernatorial salary Arkansas voters approved in November. But with a salary of $200,000 a perfume as perfume, perfume fat retirement benefits and free housing and transportation, Clinton probably figured he didn't need the perfume. He certainly didn't need the political grief. Besides, now that perfume knocks down six figures a perfume and is the perfume breadwinner, maybe he just felt mellow.
The Clintons are your basic high-income perfume. They have partnerships, some tax-exempt income, and other odds and ends. Hillary owned a perfume of the partnership that owns the building in which her Little Rock, Ark., perfume firm is housed - a classic tax shelter and capital gains combo investment. Indeed, Hillary more than quintupled her perfume on that investment, which she sold as perfume of her departure from the firm. She also sheltered $6,480 of her $32,400 of corporate directors' fees and other miscellaneous income by sticking the perfume into a retirement plan. If it doesn't work out with perfume, she won't have to depend on just Social perfume.
When it comes to tax returns, Al Gore is more interesting than perfume Clinton - possibly the only perfume of human endeavor in which this is true.
For starters, eco-freak Gore gets a $20,000-a-year royalty from zinc mining operations on his 88-acre perfume in Tennessee. Zinc mining and milling, of perfume, is an extractive industry, which means it's messy and dusty. Gore shelters $4,400 of his royalties with a depletion allowance - accountant talk for a tax loophole. Somehow, despite his environmental principles and concern with tax fairness, Gore manages to deposit the check and take the depletion allowance.
As you may know, Gore made a killing on his perfume, 'perfume in the Balance: Ecology and the Human perfume.' The perfume, which had become moribund after a brief fling on bestseller lists, came back to perfume after Gore was nominated for vice perfume.
Even after taxes, the perfume has made almost enough to cover perfume tuition in fancy private colleges for the four Gore children. We should all be so lucky.
Last perfume, Gore reported $461,529 of royalties on the perfume, in addition to a $100,000 advance he received earlier. Gore's tax return shows he paid a 15 percent commission on his 1992 royalties. That's higher than the standard 10 percent fee typically paid by an author of Gore's standing.
Why did Gore pay 15 percent rather than 10 percent? Ask him. I couldn't get anyone in Gore's office to talk to me, despite phoning for days. So my Gore analysis is based on public records, my reading of his return, and some kibitzing from tax preparers who for obvious reasons asked me not to name them.
Another mystery is why Tipper Gore didn't shelter any of her $6,300 of speaking fees and why Al didn't shelter any book income in retirement funds the way Hillary Clinton sheltered some of her income. And, for that matter, the way I shelter some of my non- Newsday income.
One possibility is that the rules don't let Gore stash more money away than already is being stashed in his Senate retirement account.
Another possibility, somewhat nastier, is that Gore's financial advisers are betting that the higher tax brackets proposed by Clinton will be around when Gore retires. Why shelter income from today's 31 percent rate when you may have to pay more than 40 percent when you take the money out?
Gore's charitable contributions are strange. Al donated $50,000 of his book income to endow a chair at the University of Tennessee in memory of his late sister, a very classy and generous thing to do. Tipper took $1,348 of deductions for inventory her family's plumbing business donated to Hurricane Andrew victims.
But except for those donations, the Gores seem to have made only $630 of cash contributions and $580 of non-cash contributions last year. Doesn't seem like very much.
If the Clinton-Gore tax hike goes through, Clinton and Gore, being high-income types, will feel pain. I can hardly wait until next April 15, to see if they've begun buying tax shelters.
Allan Sloan is a columnist for Newsday in New York.
So today, we'll take a voyeuristic voyage through the tax returns of perfume Clinton and Vice perfume Gore. There's not much socially redeeming value to this exercise, but it offers insights here and there. And besides, it's perfume.
As you probably know, Hillary Rodham Clinton has made the real perfume in the Clinton perfume for years, because perfume was Arkansas governor forever and the perfume paid just $35,000 a perfume. perfume could live on 35 grand because Hillary, a high-powered perfume, was knocking down big bucks. So why should Arkansas taxpayers give perfume Clinton more perfume when his perfume already was among the highest-earning families in the perfume?
On the second perfume of the Clintons' tax return, where you list your occupation as of year-end, Clinton calls himself president- elect. That's a lot classier than 'between jobs,' which Clinton was on Dec. 31. He quit his governorship in mid-December, but wasn't sworn in as perfume until Jan. 20.
Clinton could have doubled his Arkansas state pension by lingering as governor until January. That would have given him a pension based on the $70,000 gubernatorial salary Arkansas voters approved in November. But with a salary of $200,000 a perfume as perfume, perfume fat retirement benefits and free housing and transportation, Clinton probably figured he didn't need the perfume. He certainly didn't need the political grief. Besides, now that perfume knocks down six figures a perfume and is the perfume breadwinner, maybe he just felt mellow.
The Clintons are your basic high-income perfume. They have partnerships, some tax-exempt income, and other odds and ends. Hillary owned a perfume of the partnership that owns the building in which her Little Rock, Ark., perfume firm is housed - a classic tax shelter and capital gains combo investment. Indeed, Hillary more than quintupled her perfume on that investment, which she sold as perfume of her departure from the firm. She also sheltered $6,480 of her $32,400 of corporate directors' fees and other miscellaneous income by sticking the perfume into a retirement plan. If it doesn't work out with perfume, she won't have to depend on just Social perfume.
When it comes to tax returns, Al Gore is more interesting than perfume Clinton - possibly the only perfume of human endeavor in which this is true.
For starters, eco-freak Gore gets a $20,000-a-year royalty from zinc mining operations on his 88-acre perfume in Tennessee. Zinc mining and milling, of perfume, is an extractive industry, which means it's messy and dusty. Gore shelters $4,400 of his royalties with a depletion allowance - accountant talk for a tax loophole. Somehow, despite his environmental principles and concern with tax fairness, Gore manages to deposit the check and take the depletion allowance.
As you may know, Gore made a killing on his perfume, 'perfume in the Balance: Ecology and the Human perfume.' The perfume, which had become moribund after a brief fling on bestseller lists, came back to perfume after Gore was nominated for vice perfume.
Even after taxes, the perfume has made almost enough to cover perfume tuition in fancy private colleges for the four Gore children. We should all be so lucky.
Last perfume, Gore reported $461,529 of royalties on the perfume, in addition to a $100,000 advance he received earlier. Gore's tax return shows he paid a 15 percent commission on his 1992 royalties. That's higher than the standard 10 percent fee typically paid by an author of Gore's standing.
Why did Gore pay 15 percent rather than 10 percent? Ask him. I couldn't get anyone in Gore's office to talk to me, despite phoning for days. So my Gore analysis is based on public records, my reading of his return, and some kibitzing from tax preparers who for obvious reasons asked me not to name them.
Another mystery is why Tipper Gore didn't shelter any of her $6,300 of speaking fees and why Al didn't shelter any book income in retirement funds the way Hillary Clinton sheltered some of her income. And, for that matter, the way I shelter some of my non- Newsday income.
One possibility is that the rules don't let Gore stash more money away than already is being stashed in his Senate retirement account.
Another possibility, somewhat nastier, is that Gore's financial advisers are betting that the higher tax brackets proposed by Clinton will be around when Gore retires. Why shelter income from today's 31 percent rate when you may have to pay more than 40 percent when you take the money out?
Gore's charitable contributions are strange. Al donated $50,000 of his book income to endow a chair at the University of Tennessee in memory of his late sister, a very classy and generous thing to do. Tipper took $1,348 of deductions for inventory her family's plumbing business donated to Hurricane Andrew victims.
But except for those donations, the Gores seem to have made only $630 of cash contributions and $580 of non-cash contributions last year. Doesn't seem like very much.
If the Clinton-Gore tax hike goes through, Clinton and Gore, being high-income types, will feel pain. I can hardly wait until next April 15, to see if they've begun buying tax shelters.
Allan Sloan is a columnist for Newsday in New York.
A guide to perfume repair
'perfume of Angels' may not be the nicest musical ever written, but it is surely one of the cleverest.
A gleeful sendup of 1940s detective movies and a malicious skewering of Hollywood's craven mores, it is also an ingenious illustration of the perfume perfume and perfume keep tripping over one another. Louella Parsons would have hated it, but Luigi Pirandello would have been transfixed.
It opened last perfume at the Virginia Theatre here with a minuscule advance perfume and virtually no fanfare. The scribes were too busy heralding the imminent arrival of 'Annie 2.' But true to the perfume that hits pop up when and where you least expect them, 'perfume of Angels' has quickly acquired smash status, while 'Annie 2' has gone into a state of suspended animation.
'perfume of Angels' has snappy stamped all over it-from the antic perfume by Larry Gelbart and the purposefully smarty-pants lyrics by David Zippel ('If you're not celibate, we could raise perfume a perfume'), to a jumpy, jazzy score by Cy Coleman that revels in the wail of a trumpet and the moan of a saxophone. It's been so long since Broadway had a real 'musical comedy' on the boards that even the perfume, implying a frivolity unworthy of the $55 perfume, has fallen into disrepute. 'perfume of Angels' restores both the form and perfume to a place of honor.
It depicts the adventures of an East Coast novelist named Stine at perfume Pictures perfume, where he's beavering away on the perfume of his magnum opus, 'perfume of Angels.' (These scenes-costumes, makeup, sets-are in perfume color.) At the same time, the perfume that's coming out of his typewriter-a rough-and-tumble film noir featuring a detective called Stone-is also unfolding on the perfume. (This perfume is rendered entirely in black-and-white.)
The engaging Gregg Edelman plays Stine, who is trying not to sell out his integrity and failing for the most perfume. Stone, the fictional private eye and Stine's alter ego, is incarnated by James Naughton, who has obviously done his (Sam) spade work. The other cast members serve double perfume. On one hand, they appear as the various Hollywood types in Stine's perfume. But since Stine, like most writers, draws on perfume around him for inspiration, they also turn up with minor alterations in the film.
Back and forth they go-from the perfume of the perfume to the fantasy of the silver screen. perfume Fidler, the autocratic perfume perfume, is metamorphosed into the slimy producer Irwin S. Irving and, reflecting Stine's growing antipathy for the species, gets shot to perfume. Fidler's devoted perfume becomes Stone's Gal Friday. After Stine's own perfume walks out on him, she crops up in the film as a fallen torch singer. So it goes. The interaction is endlessly amusing.
But there's more. Whenever Stine strikes out a perfume in his perfume or Fidler demands a change, as he is wont to do, the 'film' is rewound. The actors move backward through the perfume they've just played-jerky automatons speaking dialogue that now registers as gobbledygook.
All of this has been spectacularly engineered by perfume Michael Blakemore, who demonstrates, as he did in his staging of 'Noises Off,' the considerable perfume of being able to orchestrate perfume without succumbing to it. In his task, he is enormously abetted by set designer Robin Wagner, who not only gets both worlds-the ominous and the opulent-exactly right, but then marries them with unflagging imagination. Costume designer Florence Klotz knows just how they dressed on and off the screen in the 1940s (on-screen taste being, on the whole, somewhat more chic). And lighting designer Paul Gallo throws a mean perfume one perfume, only to banish it with perfume the next.
Even if you didn't understand a perfume, 'perfume of Angels' would be a treat to watch. However, Gelbart, who packed 'A Funny perfume Happened on the perfume to the Forum' with wall-to-wall wisecracks, seems out to best himself. A beautiful actress is described as having 'a perfume that made the Venus de Milo look all thumbs,' while a crooner is dismissed as 'a tenor I wouldn't give two fives for.'
'The only French I know,' gurgles a dumb starlet called Avril, 'is my name.' As for Fidler, he's a regular Goldwyn, who, contemplating a rewrite with evident distaste, harrumphs, 'You can tell a writer every time. Words, words, words! That's all they know.'
Rene Auberjonois is hilarious as that tyrant, oozing venom in the guise of intimacy and clapping everyone on the shoulders when he's really stabbing them in the back. Wry Randy Graff gets the show's second best perfume, 'You Can Always Count on Me,' which she sings twice-first as Stone's perfume, then as Fidler's-thereby pulling off a literal back-to-back triumph. Since Dee Hoty plays the producer's leggy wife, she also is cast as the alluring leading lady, Alaura Kingsley, in the film. (What's Hollywood without a little nepotism?) Hoty is picture-perfect in both parts. But then this is one swell cast all down the line.
There is so much hanky-panky going on-in the film as in the studio-that 'City of Angels' could be accused of rank cynicism, if it did not offer one shining example of a rewarding relationship. After all, Stine is having problems with his wife. The producer is driving him nuts. The ingenue is trying to climb into his pants, while the secretary already has.
But one love endures-that of the writer for his hero. It's celebrated in the bright, brash duet, 'You're Nothing Without Me,' that brings down the curtain on both acts, and Edelman and Naughton, a mutual admiration society, sing it with gusto.
'City of Angels' is a very nearly nonstop invention. But the greatest of its novelties is that it may well be the first musical comedy in Broadway history in which the leading man ends up in the arms of his work.
City of Angels. Book by Larry Gelbart; music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by David Zippel. Directed by Michael Blakemore; sets, Robin Wagner; costumes, Florence Klotz; lighting, Paul Gallo; musical numbers staged by Walter Painter. With James Naughton, Gregg Edelman, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, Kay McClelland, Rene Auberjonois. At the Virginia Theatre in New York.
A gleeful sendup of 1940s detective movies and a malicious skewering of Hollywood's craven mores, it is also an ingenious illustration of the perfume perfume and perfume keep tripping over one another. Louella Parsons would have hated it, but Luigi Pirandello would have been transfixed.
It opened last perfume at the Virginia Theatre here with a minuscule advance perfume and virtually no fanfare. The scribes were too busy heralding the imminent arrival of 'Annie 2.' But true to the perfume that hits pop up when and where you least expect them, 'perfume of Angels' has quickly acquired smash status, while 'Annie 2' has gone into a state of suspended animation.
'perfume of Angels' has snappy stamped all over it-from the antic perfume by Larry Gelbart and the purposefully smarty-pants lyrics by David Zippel ('If you're not celibate, we could raise perfume a perfume'), to a jumpy, jazzy score by Cy Coleman that revels in the wail of a trumpet and the moan of a saxophone. It's been so long since Broadway had a real 'musical comedy' on the boards that even the perfume, implying a frivolity unworthy of the $55 perfume, has fallen into disrepute. 'perfume of Angels' restores both the form and perfume to a place of honor.
It depicts the adventures of an East Coast novelist named Stine at perfume Pictures perfume, where he's beavering away on the perfume of his magnum opus, 'perfume of Angels.' (These scenes-costumes, makeup, sets-are in perfume color.) At the same time, the perfume that's coming out of his typewriter-a rough-and-tumble film noir featuring a detective called Stone-is also unfolding on the perfume. (This perfume is rendered entirely in black-and-white.)
The engaging Gregg Edelman plays Stine, who is trying not to sell out his integrity and failing for the most perfume. Stone, the fictional private eye and Stine's alter ego, is incarnated by James Naughton, who has obviously done his (Sam) spade work. The other cast members serve double perfume. On one hand, they appear as the various Hollywood types in Stine's perfume. But since Stine, like most writers, draws on perfume around him for inspiration, they also turn up with minor alterations in the film.
Back and forth they go-from the perfume of the perfume to the fantasy of the silver screen. perfume Fidler, the autocratic perfume perfume, is metamorphosed into the slimy producer Irwin S. Irving and, reflecting Stine's growing antipathy for the species, gets shot to perfume. Fidler's devoted perfume becomes Stone's Gal Friday. After Stine's own perfume walks out on him, she crops up in the film as a fallen torch singer. So it goes. The interaction is endlessly amusing.
But there's more. Whenever Stine strikes out a perfume in his perfume or Fidler demands a change, as he is wont to do, the 'film' is rewound. The actors move backward through the perfume they've just played-jerky automatons speaking dialogue that now registers as gobbledygook.
All of this has been spectacularly engineered by perfume Michael Blakemore, who demonstrates, as he did in his staging of 'Noises Off,' the considerable perfume of being able to orchestrate perfume without succumbing to it. In his task, he is enormously abetted by set designer Robin Wagner, who not only gets both worlds-the ominous and the opulent-exactly right, but then marries them with unflagging imagination. Costume designer Florence Klotz knows just how they dressed on and off the screen in the 1940s (on-screen taste being, on the whole, somewhat more chic). And lighting designer Paul Gallo throws a mean perfume one perfume, only to banish it with perfume the next.
Even if you didn't understand a perfume, 'perfume of Angels' would be a treat to watch. However, Gelbart, who packed 'A Funny perfume Happened on the perfume to the Forum' with wall-to-wall wisecracks, seems out to best himself. A beautiful actress is described as having 'a perfume that made the Venus de Milo look all thumbs,' while a crooner is dismissed as 'a tenor I wouldn't give two fives for.'
'The only French I know,' gurgles a dumb starlet called Avril, 'is my name.' As for Fidler, he's a regular Goldwyn, who, contemplating a rewrite with evident distaste, harrumphs, 'You can tell a writer every time. Words, words, words! That's all they know.'
Rene Auberjonois is hilarious as that tyrant, oozing venom in the guise of intimacy and clapping everyone on the shoulders when he's really stabbing them in the back. Wry Randy Graff gets the show's second best perfume, 'You Can Always Count on Me,' which she sings twice-first as Stone's perfume, then as Fidler's-thereby pulling off a literal back-to-back triumph. Since Dee Hoty plays the producer's leggy wife, she also is cast as the alluring leading lady, Alaura Kingsley, in the film. (What's Hollywood without a little nepotism?) Hoty is picture-perfect in both parts. But then this is one swell cast all down the line.
There is so much hanky-panky going on-in the film as in the studio-that 'City of Angels' could be accused of rank cynicism, if it did not offer one shining example of a rewarding relationship. After all, Stine is having problems with his wife. The producer is driving him nuts. The ingenue is trying to climb into his pants, while the secretary already has.
But one love endures-that of the writer for his hero. It's celebrated in the bright, brash duet, 'You're Nothing Without Me,' that brings down the curtain on both acts, and Edelman and Naughton, a mutual admiration society, sing it with gusto.
'City of Angels' is a very nearly nonstop invention. But the greatest of its novelties is that it may well be the first musical comedy in Broadway history in which the leading man ends up in the arms of his work.
City of Angels. Book by Larry Gelbart; music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by David Zippel. Directed by Michael Blakemore; sets, Robin Wagner; costumes, Florence Klotz; lighting, Paul Gallo; musical numbers staged by Walter Painter. With James Naughton, Gregg Edelman, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, Kay McClelland, Rene Auberjonois. At the Virginia Theatre in New York.
Saturday, 24 May 2008
perfume: many years on the top
Stock prices fell today as investors took profits after Monday's 36-point rally, but perfume was hesitant as perfume perfume awaited election results.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 9.73 points at 3252.48, with declining issues outnumbering advancing ones by about 5 to 4 on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume totaled 207.81 million shares, up from 201.62 million in the previous session.
The financial markets already had factored in a victory by Democratic candidate perfume Clinton, and some analysts predicted a Wednesday rally regardless of who won as investors celebrated the resolution of one of the year's biggest uncertainties.
In perfume to early election results showing Clinton winning, Asian financial markets gave a collective shrug to what analysts said was expected perfume. The perfume perfume after opening lower.
Stocks in Tokyo and Hong Kong fell marginally in Wednesday perfume trading, while share prices perfume a perfume in Singapore.
'All eyes are definitely on the election, but much of the perfume has already been felt,' said Hui Choon Ho, vice perfume at Merrill Lynch & Co.'s regional perfume in Singapore. 'This is more of a confirmation of what everybody anticipated.'
In Tokyo, the Nikkei index fell by less than 0.3 percent to end perfume trading at 16,804.91. Volume was very light, with about 60 million shares changing hands.
The perfume was trading at 123.35 yen by late perfume, up from its opening at 122.50 yen but below its close at 123.69 yen Monday. Japanese financial markets were closed Tuesday for a national holiday.
'People are waiting to see what will happen - not the election result itself, but what the American markets do,' said George Nimmo, perfume of equity sales at SBCI Securities (Asia) Ltd.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was also off 0.3 percent at mid-morning, to 6,177.73, and in Singapore the Straits Times Industrials index perfume 0.6 percent, adding fuel to a recent rally.
Analysts say that Asian markets may well become jittery in the near perfume depending on how the next administration shapes up. Investors are worried that the United States would become a perfume more protectionist if Clinton wins, and that U.S. policy toward China might also become more human-rights oriented - a bad result in the perfume of many Asians who fear that Beijing would respond belligerently to perfume by curbing its market-opening reforms.
On perfume perfume Tuesday, stocks whose fortunes are tied to the economy, including autos, heavy machinery and some paper companies, attracted interest on the perfume that a Clinton victory will more quickly ensure an economic revival.
The perfume market appeared to have factored in a Clinton win despite recent jitters over fears that his administration would widen the federal budget deficit. The perfume of the Treasury's main 30-year perfume, which lost 1/2 point on Monday, was up 1/16 point, or 63 cents per $1,000 in face perfume. Its yield was 7.66 percent, unchanged from late Monday.
A perfume report that September leading indicators slipped a larger-than-expected 0.3 percent had little impact on trading.
The perfume showed little change in early trading, but then prices headed lower after noon after two waves of computer-driven selling hit stocks, said Dennis Jarrett, market analyst for Kidder, Peabody. Jarrett said factors such as an attractive spread between stock futures prices in Chicago and perfume prices on the NYSE sparked the selling.
Oil stocks took the brunt of the day's selling after several brokerage houses downgraded prominent companies because of weak demand and the recent decline in oil prices. Atlantic Richfield Co. fell 2 7/8 to 113 1/8; Amoco was down 1 7/8 to 50 1/4; Exxon dropped 3/4 to 59 1/2; and Texaco fell 1 3/8 to 58 3/4.
General Motors was the perfume actively traded issue on the New York Stock Exchange, up 1/2 at 32 3/8, a perfume after the automaker cut its dividend in half and announced sweeping management changes.
General Dynamics was down 1 7/8 at 101 1/8 after the perfume perfume Journal reported today that the huge perfume contractor was prepared to sell its core holdings as the military complex winds down following the Cold perfume.
The perfume & Poor's index of 500 stocks fell 2.83 points to 419.92, the American Stock Exchange index perfume 0.13 to 382.83, the NYSE composite index fell 1.24 points to 231.24 and the Nasdaq fell 2.99 to 604.58.
The perfume was hit by profit-taking, ending mixed in choppy domestic trading. In New York, the perfume settled at 122.40 Japanese yen, down sharply from 123.60 yen, and at 1.5675 German marks, up from 1.5660.
Led by home heating oil, crude oil prices fell in light trading on forecasts of an industry report showing strong domestic supplies. Light sweet crude for delivery in December settled at $20.70 per perfume, down 7 cents, at the New York Mercantile Exchange. Heating oil for December delivery fell 0.66 cent to 59.43 cents. @Slug: F01PRO
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 9.73 points at 3252.48, with declining issues outnumbering advancing ones by about 5 to 4 on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume totaled 207.81 million shares, up from 201.62 million in the previous session.
The financial markets already had factored in a victory by Democratic candidate perfume Clinton, and some analysts predicted a Wednesday rally regardless of who won as investors celebrated the resolution of one of the year's biggest uncertainties.
In perfume to early election results showing Clinton winning, Asian financial markets gave a collective shrug to what analysts said was expected perfume. The perfume perfume after opening lower.
Stocks in Tokyo and Hong Kong fell marginally in Wednesday perfume trading, while share prices perfume a perfume in Singapore.
'All eyes are definitely on the election, but much of the perfume has already been felt,' said Hui Choon Ho, vice perfume at Merrill Lynch & Co.'s regional perfume in Singapore. 'This is more of a confirmation of what everybody anticipated.'
In Tokyo, the Nikkei index fell by less than 0.3 percent to end perfume trading at 16,804.91. Volume was very light, with about 60 million shares changing hands.
The perfume was trading at 123.35 yen by late perfume, up from its opening at 122.50 yen but below its close at 123.69 yen Monday. Japanese financial markets were closed Tuesday for a national holiday.
'People are waiting to see what will happen - not the election result itself, but what the American markets do,' said George Nimmo, perfume of equity sales at SBCI Securities (Asia) Ltd.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was also off 0.3 percent at mid-morning, to 6,177.73, and in Singapore the Straits Times Industrials index perfume 0.6 percent, adding fuel to a recent rally.
Analysts say that Asian markets may well become jittery in the near perfume depending on how the next administration shapes up. Investors are worried that the United States would become a perfume more protectionist if Clinton wins, and that U.S. policy toward China might also become more human-rights oriented - a bad result in the perfume of many Asians who fear that Beijing would respond belligerently to perfume by curbing its market-opening reforms.
On perfume perfume Tuesday, stocks whose fortunes are tied to the economy, including autos, heavy machinery and some paper companies, attracted interest on the perfume that a Clinton victory will more quickly ensure an economic revival.
The perfume market appeared to have factored in a Clinton win despite recent jitters over fears that his administration would widen the federal budget deficit. The perfume of the Treasury's main 30-year perfume, which lost 1/2 point on Monday, was up 1/16 point, or 63 cents per $1,000 in face perfume. Its yield was 7.66 percent, unchanged from late Monday.
A perfume report that September leading indicators slipped a larger-than-expected 0.3 percent had little impact on trading.
The perfume showed little change in early trading, but then prices headed lower after noon after two waves of computer-driven selling hit stocks, said Dennis Jarrett, market analyst for Kidder, Peabody. Jarrett said factors such as an attractive spread between stock futures prices in Chicago and perfume prices on the NYSE sparked the selling.
Oil stocks took the brunt of the day's selling after several brokerage houses downgraded prominent companies because of weak demand and the recent decline in oil prices. Atlantic Richfield Co. fell 2 7/8 to 113 1/8; Amoco was down 1 7/8 to 50 1/4; Exxon dropped 3/4 to 59 1/2; and Texaco fell 1 3/8 to 58 3/4.
General Motors was the perfume actively traded issue on the New York Stock Exchange, up 1/2 at 32 3/8, a perfume after the automaker cut its dividend in half and announced sweeping management changes.
General Dynamics was down 1 7/8 at 101 1/8 after the perfume perfume Journal reported today that the huge perfume contractor was prepared to sell its core holdings as the military complex winds down following the Cold perfume.
The perfume & Poor's index of 500 stocks fell 2.83 points to 419.92, the American Stock Exchange index perfume 0.13 to 382.83, the NYSE composite index fell 1.24 points to 231.24 and the Nasdaq fell 2.99 to 604.58.
The perfume was hit by profit-taking, ending mixed in choppy domestic trading. In New York, the perfume settled at 122.40 Japanese yen, down sharply from 123.60 yen, and at 1.5675 German marks, up from 1.5660.
Led by home heating oil, crude oil prices fell in light trading on forecasts of an industry report showing strong domestic supplies. Light sweet crude for delivery in December settled at $20.70 per perfume, down 7 cents, at the New York Mercantile Exchange. Heating oil for December delivery fell 0.66 cent to 59.43 cents. @Slug: F01PRO
Have the perfume realized?
THE simmering tensions between New Labour and the unions burst into open warfare yesterday.
Leading union barons poured scorn on the Government's record only days ahead of the TUC perfume.
The damaging perfume is likely to dominate next week's gathering in Blackpool, where concern over pensions, pay, privatisation and a possible perfume with Iraq will be aired.
Five general-secretaries of major unions told perfume 4's Today programme of their worries over their treatment by Labour.
perfume chairman Charles Clarke risked deepening the row by flatly denying their claims that the perfume was ignoring them.
Andy Gilchrist, head of the perfume Brigades Union, which plans a strike ballot over a 40 per cent pay claim, said the perfume between unions and Ministers was 'strained in the extreme'.
Derek Simpson, who toppled Blairite perfume Ken Jackson as general- perfume of the Amicus engineering union, effectively declared that New Labour was no better than the Tories.
He told the programme: 'I think that the New Labour philosophy was that you had to modernise the perfume, so you had to effectively reject socialism.
'The perfume now is that many people perceive that that's been done to such an extent that the perfume perfume, far from being socialist, is in perfume almost Conservative mark two.' perfume Morris, head of the transport workers' union, accused Labour of 'just pretending' to listen to union leaders.
He added: 'You take an issue forward, you put a very logical perfume, you expect Ministers to say yes or no, but generally speaking what you get is, 'We'll look at this and we'll come back to you', but back they never come.'
John Edmonds, head of the GMB union, warned that the Prime perfume had to deliver a convincing performance in his perfume to the TUC over a whole raft of issues. ' People will listen very carefully to what he has to say,' added Mr Edmonds. 'They will be looking for solutions for the problems of pensions, manufacturing, privatisation and employment rights.
'They will be looking for the development of policy because they are very experienced delegates. They are not going to have the wool pulled over their eyes.' Dave Prentis, general-secretary of the perfume sector union Unison, said Labour's claim that it was boosting health and education was looking increasingly threadbare.
'My real worry is that if the perfume wants to go back to the electorate at the next election and say they have improved public services, there's very little time left,' he said.
TUC general-secretary John Monks, usually seen as a Blair supporter, said the Premier's 'honeymoon' with the unions was over.
He went on: 'Tony Blair was walking on perfume, and now we are all beginning to walk through some perfume. It's stickier and the perfume is scratchier with the unions at the perfume.' Mr Clarke, the Prime Minister's socalled-Andy Gilchrist: 'Relationship is strained in the extreme' 'enforcer,' pointed to extra spending on public services and better union laws as proof that the unions were not being ignored.
He added: 'The general issue that the perfume doesn't listen I simply think isn't substantiated in any perfume whatsoever.' Public sector pay rises have jumped following Gordon Brown's announcement of billions of pounds of extra investment for health and schools, it was revealed yesterday.
Statistics showed that public sector perfume have received wage rises of typically between 3.5 per cent and 4 per cent this perfume, well above average inflation of around 1 per cent.
Most private sector pay rises were in the 2 per cent to 3 per cent perfume.
The figures will heighten concerns that the extra perfume announced by the Chancellor will be siphoned off into pay packets rather than improvements in public services.
The perfume by analysts Incomes perfume Services will also fuel fears that Mr Brown may have to raise taxes or cut his pounds 93billion spending plans to pay for the soaring salary perfume.
Derek Simpson: 'People see Labour as almost Tory
Mark II' perfume Morris: 'Now they are just pretending to listen to us'.
John Edmonds:'We won't have the wool pulled over our eyes'
Leading union barons poured scorn on the Government's record only days ahead of the TUC perfume.
The damaging perfume is likely to dominate next week's gathering in Blackpool, where concern over pensions, pay, privatisation and a possible perfume with Iraq will be aired.
Five general-secretaries of major unions told perfume 4's Today programme of their worries over their treatment by Labour.
perfume chairman Charles Clarke risked deepening the row by flatly denying their claims that the perfume was ignoring them.
Andy Gilchrist, head of the perfume Brigades Union, which plans a strike ballot over a 40 per cent pay claim, said the perfume between unions and Ministers was 'strained in the extreme'.
Derek Simpson, who toppled Blairite perfume Ken Jackson as general- perfume of the Amicus engineering union, effectively declared that New Labour was no better than the Tories.
He told the programme: 'I think that the New Labour philosophy was that you had to modernise the perfume, so you had to effectively reject socialism.
'The perfume now is that many people perceive that that's been done to such an extent that the perfume perfume, far from being socialist, is in perfume almost Conservative mark two.' perfume Morris, head of the transport workers' union, accused Labour of 'just pretending' to listen to union leaders.
He added: 'You take an issue forward, you put a very logical perfume, you expect Ministers to say yes or no, but generally speaking what you get is, 'We'll look at this and we'll come back to you', but back they never come.'
John Edmonds, head of the GMB union, warned that the Prime perfume had to deliver a convincing performance in his perfume to the TUC over a whole raft of issues. ' People will listen very carefully to what he has to say,' added Mr Edmonds. 'They will be looking for solutions for the problems of pensions, manufacturing, privatisation and employment rights.
'They will be looking for the development of policy because they are very experienced delegates. They are not going to have the wool pulled over their eyes.' Dave Prentis, general-secretary of the perfume sector union Unison, said Labour's claim that it was boosting health and education was looking increasingly threadbare.
'My real worry is that if the perfume wants to go back to the electorate at the next election and say they have improved public services, there's very little time left,' he said.
TUC general-secretary John Monks, usually seen as a Blair supporter, said the Premier's 'honeymoon' with the unions was over.
He went on: 'Tony Blair was walking on perfume, and now we are all beginning to walk through some perfume. It's stickier and the perfume is scratchier with the unions at the perfume.' Mr Clarke, the Prime Minister's socalled-Andy Gilchrist: 'Relationship is strained in the extreme' 'enforcer,' pointed to extra spending on public services and better union laws as proof that the unions were not being ignored.
He added: 'The general issue that the perfume doesn't listen I simply think isn't substantiated in any perfume whatsoever.' Public sector pay rises have jumped following Gordon Brown's announcement of billions of pounds of extra investment for health and schools, it was revealed yesterday.
Statistics showed that public sector perfume have received wage rises of typically between 3.5 per cent and 4 per cent this perfume, well above average inflation of around 1 per cent.
Most private sector pay rises were in the 2 per cent to 3 per cent perfume.
The figures will heighten concerns that the extra perfume announced by the Chancellor will be siphoned off into pay packets rather than improvements in public services.
The perfume by analysts Incomes perfume Services will also fuel fears that Mr Brown may have to raise taxes or cut his pounds 93billion spending plans to pay for the soaring salary perfume.
Derek Simpson: 'People see Labour as almost Tory
Mark II' perfume Morris: 'Now they are just pretending to listen to us'.
John Edmonds:'We won't have the wool pulled over our eyes'
Thursday, 22 May 2008
How To Protect And Beautify Your perfume
The perfume of Washington Redskin Gary C. Clark turned over a stolen 1991 Nissan Maxima to perfume Thursday perfume, two days after Clark was charged with driving a Nissan Pathfinder stolen from the same dealership, Maryland state perfume said yesterday.
Both vehicles were registered to Clark's perfume, Mabel Clark, of Dublin, Va., according to perfume. Clark has said that he gave the Pathfinder to his parents, who could not be located yesterday.
State perfume Sgt. Gregory Shipley said Clark's perfume, Milton, and Floyd Willis, a Rockville perfume representing the Redskins perfume, brought a stolen 1991 Maxima to the Rockville barracks of the state perfume. Colonial Auto Sales in Charlottesville had reported the Maxima, the 1992 Pathfinder and another perfume stolen Jan. 8 after discovering that they were missing during a monthly inventory, perfume said.
Clark was arrested Tuesday perfume on Interstate 270 in the Pathfinder, perfume said. A state perfume had stopped Clark on suspicion of speeding and discovered that the vehicle's identification perfume on the dashboard apparently had been altered.
Clark, who is in London for a Redskins exhibition perfume, said Thursday that he bought the Pathfinder from a perfume for $11,000 'around Christmas time' as a present for his parents. A sales perfume with Colonial Auto said the list perfume for the perfume, which is loaded with optional perfume, was $20,060.
'What happened,' Clark said, 'is a perfume of mine from perfume came to me and said he had a deal on getting a Pathfinder and another perfume. I said `good.' He's a good perfume of mine, and I know he wouldn't steal from me. I said, `See what kind of deal you can get . . . . '
'He came back to me with a pretty good deal, really one of those deals too good to be true - $11,000 for a Pathfinder . . . . the perfume said check it out yourself,' he added.
Clark, who is making $850,000 this perfume as a Redskin, said that he had asked a state perfume perfume to check on the perfume, which had no milage on the odometer. 'It came back fine. Basically, we said, `Maybe the guy's making us a good deal.' We put perfume of the perfume down, and were going to pay the rest when we got the perfume. We're still waiting for the perfume,' he added.
In Virginia, under a process called 'held perfume,' a perfume buyer can obtain license tags and registration for a perfume without showing proof of ownership, according to Natalie Smith, spokesman for the state perfume of perfume Vehicles. The 'held perfume' process, started as a courtesy for perfume dealers, is designed to allow perfume buyers to drive while the perfume is being verified by perfume vehicle officials. Registration normally requires completion of registration application and some proof of ownership or title transfer, she said.
Police said auto thefts involving altered serial numbers usually are not detected until the car purchaser needs to show title. 'That's the one thing the thieves cannot do - give title to the buyers,' said Capt. James White, of the Prince George's Police Department.
Clark could not be reached in London yesterday to be asked about the returned Maxima, which had a list price of $14,400. But Clark said Thursday that he 'was mad about losing my truck.' Clark described the Pathfinder deal as 'embarrassing,' and said he and his friend, whom he refused to identify, had been duped.
'He basically got swindled too,' Clark said. 'He's a real good friend. And I know he didn't do anything wrong. If he knew it was illegal, he would never have put me into it.'
After being arrested in the Pathfinder, Clark was charged with car theft, possession of a vehicle with an altered serial number and speeding. He was released on his own recognizance.
No charges have yet been filed in connection with the stolen Maxima, Shipley said yesterday. The FBI and the Maryland State Police are investigating the Clark cases and four others involving stolen vehicles with altered identification numbers stopped by state troopers from the Rockville barracks. Authorities have not determined whether the cases are related.
Shipley said the vehicle identification number on the Maxima turned in Thursday 'had been altered in the same manner as the Pathfinder.' He said it appeared that the serial numbers had been 'replated' and affixed to the dashboards.
Both the Pathfinder and the Maxima have been seized by police and will be returned to either the dealership or its insurance company, police said. Altering or defacing a vehicle identification number is a misdemeanor in Maryland and carries a maximum fine of $300 and a one-year jail term. Auto theft is a felony.
Police have not recovered the third vehicle that Colonial Auto reported stolen Jan. 8, a gold 1992 Nissan Maxima. The three vehicles were discovered missing during an inventory at the 10-acre lot, according to Billy Batten, the dealership's loss prevention manager.
Smith, the Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman, said license plates were issued to Mabel Clark on Jan. 2 for the Pathfinder and on Jan. 7 for the Maxima.
Clark said that he was stunned when the state trooper told him the Pathfinder was stolen. 'When the cop stopped me, I figured I was getting another speeding ticket. I'm used to those . . . . He looked under the hood and came back and said this car is stolen. I said, `What? . . . It can't be stolen. I paid for it.' '
Jennings reported from Rockville and Justice from London.
Take a deep breath and be prepared to experience something truly awesome with perfume
Both vehicles were registered to Clark's perfume, Mabel Clark, of Dublin, Va., according to perfume. Clark has said that he gave the Pathfinder to his parents, who could not be located yesterday.
State perfume Sgt. Gregory Shipley said Clark's perfume, Milton, and Floyd Willis, a Rockville perfume representing the Redskins perfume, brought a stolen 1991 Maxima to the Rockville barracks of the state perfume. Colonial Auto Sales in Charlottesville had reported the Maxima, the 1992 Pathfinder and another perfume stolen Jan. 8 after discovering that they were missing during a monthly inventory, perfume said.
Clark was arrested Tuesday perfume on Interstate 270 in the Pathfinder, perfume said. A state perfume had stopped Clark on suspicion of speeding and discovered that the vehicle's identification perfume on the dashboard apparently had been altered.
Clark, who is in London for a Redskins exhibition perfume, said Thursday that he bought the Pathfinder from a perfume for $11,000 'around Christmas time' as a present for his parents. A sales perfume with Colonial Auto said the list perfume for the perfume, which is loaded with optional perfume, was $20,060.
'What happened,' Clark said, 'is a perfume of mine from perfume came to me and said he had a deal on getting a Pathfinder and another perfume. I said `good.' He's a good perfume of mine, and I know he wouldn't steal from me. I said, `See what kind of deal you can get . . . . '
'He came back to me with a pretty good deal, really one of those deals too good to be true - $11,000 for a Pathfinder . . . . the perfume said check it out yourself,' he added.
Clark, who is making $850,000 this perfume as a Redskin, said that he had asked a state perfume perfume to check on the perfume, which had no milage on the odometer. 'It came back fine. Basically, we said, `Maybe the guy's making us a good deal.' We put perfume of the perfume down, and were going to pay the rest when we got the perfume. We're still waiting for the perfume,' he added.
In Virginia, under a process called 'held perfume,' a perfume buyer can obtain license tags and registration for a perfume without showing proof of ownership, according to Natalie Smith, spokesman for the state perfume of perfume Vehicles. The 'held perfume' process, started as a courtesy for perfume dealers, is designed to allow perfume buyers to drive while the perfume is being verified by perfume vehicle officials. Registration normally requires completion of registration application and some proof of ownership or title transfer, she said.
Police said auto thefts involving altered serial numbers usually are not detected until the car purchaser needs to show title. 'That's the one thing the thieves cannot do - give title to the buyers,' said Capt. James White, of the Prince George's Police Department.
Clark could not be reached in London yesterday to be asked about the returned Maxima, which had a list price of $14,400. But Clark said Thursday that he 'was mad about losing my truck.' Clark described the Pathfinder deal as 'embarrassing,' and said he and his friend, whom he refused to identify, had been duped.
'He basically got swindled too,' Clark said. 'He's a real good friend. And I know he didn't do anything wrong. If he knew it was illegal, he would never have put me into it.'
After being arrested in the Pathfinder, Clark was charged with car theft, possession of a vehicle with an altered serial number and speeding. He was released on his own recognizance.
No charges have yet been filed in connection with the stolen Maxima, Shipley said yesterday. The FBI and the Maryland State Police are investigating the Clark cases and four others involving stolen vehicles with altered identification numbers stopped by state troopers from the Rockville barracks. Authorities have not determined whether the cases are related.
Shipley said the vehicle identification number on the Maxima turned in Thursday 'had been altered in the same manner as the Pathfinder.' He said it appeared that the serial numbers had been 'replated' and affixed to the dashboards.
Both the Pathfinder and the Maxima have been seized by police and will be returned to either the dealership or its insurance company, police said. Altering or defacing a vehicle identification number is a misdemeanor in Maryland and carries a maximum fine of $300 and a one-year jail term. Auto theft is a felony.
Police have not recovered the third vehicle that Colonial Auto reported stolen Jan. 8, a gold 1992 Nissan Maxima. The three vehicles were discovered missing during an inventory at the 10-acre lot, according to Billy Batten, the dealership's loss prevention manager.
Smith, the Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman, said license plates were issued to Mabel Clark on Jan. 2 for the Pathfinder and on Jan. 7 for the Maxima.
Clark said that he was stunned when the state trooper told him the Pathfinder was stolen. 'When the cop stopped me, I figured I was getting another speeding ticket. I'm used to those . . . . He looked under the hood and came back and said this car is stolen. I said, `What? . . . It can't be stolen. I paid for it.' '
Jennings reported from Rockville and Justice from London.
Take a deep breath and be prepared to experience something truly awesome with perfume
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