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Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Joseph Wagner, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 102 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit an armed robbery and using a gun during the robbery.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Theresa R. Stoop of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Baltimore Field Division; and Colonel Terrence Sheridan, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police.
"Today's sentencing demonstrates ATF's conviction in keeping our communities safe," says ATF Special Agent in Charge Theresa Stoop, "because our law abiding citizens deserve to live and work without the fear of violence."
According to Wagner's plea agreement, on September 30, 2009, Wagner and a co-conspirator entered the Finksburg Pharmacy in Carroll County, Maryland wearing grey hooded sweatshirts with the hoods covering their heads. Three employees were working in the pharmacy at the time. Wagner pointed a handgun in the face of one of the employees and threatened to kill her if she moved. The co-conspirator demanded specific medications, including Oxycontin, Xanax and Percocet. After the employee showed the co-defendant where the medications were stored, Wagner bound the two employees' hands and feet with zip ties. The third employee was hiding in a back room and called 911, stating that the robbers were still in the pharmacy.
Maryland State Police troopers responded within minutes and as they drove by the pharmacy, which was on the other side of the highway, the troopers saw two individuals wearing grey hooded sweatshirts with the hoods up, walking across the parking lot away from the pharmacy. As the troopers pulled into the pharmacy's parking lot, witnesses indicated that the two individuals got into a black car and drove away. One of the state troopers spotted the car on the next street and stopped the vehicle. Wagner and the co-conspirator were ordered out of the car. Troopers recovered a loaded pistol in the vehicle. Wagner and the co-conspirator were arrested.
Search warrants for the vehicle were obtained and among the items seized were 75 pill bottles containing hundreds of pills of Percocet, Oxyontin and other medicines; zip ties; duct tape and $1,577.
Charges against the co-conspirator are pending.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Maryland State Police for their work on this investigation and commended Assistant United States Attorney John W. Sippel, who is prosecuting the case.


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Despite Clemmons' record, Huckabee showed mercy
Man who would murder four police officers in Pierce County showed violence and cunning while an inmate in notorious Arkansas prisons.
Seattle Times staff reporters
When Maurice Clemmons was 17 years old, he entered the Arkansas Department of Correction, one of the country's most fearsome prison systems.
That system assigned him to one of its most infamous units, the Tucker prison farm. The farm gave birth to the Tucker telephone, a torture device in which guards attached electrodes from an old-fashioned telephone to a prisoner's big toe and genitals, and commenced to crank.
If Clemmons was up to this, he didn't look the part. For starters, there was his age. If he wasn't in prison, he'd still be in high school. Then there was his size — 5 feet 7, 156 pounds — followed by his rap sheet. Clemmons had received five years for grabbing a seventh-grader's necklace, then punching the kid in the face. In prison, a crime like that doesn't score any intimidation points.
Prison officials charted Clemmons' scars — a half-inch scar above his left eye, another below his right eye — and recorded his family history, listing three half brothers who had done prison time. They performed psychological tests, having Clemmons draw human figures and answer hundreds of true-or-false questions. Some results indicated he was well-adjusted. Others suggested a personality disorder.
They assigned Clemmons a number, 92616, and took his picture, front and side. In the photos, Clemmons' eyes are hard, his jaw, firm.
Clemmons received his bed assignment on Sept. 7, 1989. Six days later came the test.
During a card game, another inmate began stuffing Clemmons' deodorant, comb and mirror into a pillowcase. "I had to confirm to him about giving back my property," Clemmons said later.
The other inmate grabbed a broken razor and slashed Clemmons across the face. Clemmons answered with his fists, the fight so ferocious that guards struggled to separate the two.
Clemmons received a trip to the infirmary and disciplinary charges. But his point had been made. And in case anyone missed it, he reinforced the message one week later, joining four other inmates in beating and kicking another prisoner.
Maurice Clemmons was born in Marianna, Ark., an impoverished and racially divided town near the Mississippi border.
At the time — Feb. 6, 1972 — the smell of smoke hung in the air, the vestige of seven storefronts that had gone up in flames, including the offices of young black leaders who had organized a boycott of white-owned businesses. "Firemen do not rule out arson," the newspaper said.
Three weeks before Clemmons' birth, authorities turned fire hoses on several hundred black students demanding an assembly to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Later that night, the home of a white sheriff's deputy was firebombed. Threats flew back and forth, punctuated by sniper fire and explosives.
Clemmons' mother worked two jobs, one as a nursing aide. Clemmons' father worked in a factory that made frames for car seats, but the factory closed amid Marianna's racial violence, and he moved away.
To escape Marianna's poverty, Clemmons' mom moved her kids to Little Rock in the mid-1980s.
Maurice started finding trouble at 16. He grabbed that necklace from the seventh-grader in November 1988 — and from there, his crimes escalated. Two months later Clemmons and two friends broke into the house of a Little Rock police officer and stole two pistols and ammunition. Caught the same day with the officer's service revolver, the three confessed.
For snatching the necklace and the break-in, Clemmons picked up three felony charges. But he was released from custody pending trial, and kept going. In April 1989, Clemmons, now 17, broke into a state trooper's home and lifted electronics, jewelry and guns. Making Clemmons for the crime proved easy. He left behind a fingerprint and held on to some of the stolen goods. Now he had five felony charges.
In May, he was caught bringing a .25-caliber pistol to his high school, drawing felony charge No. 6.
Two weeks later, on a late night in June, he approached a woman in a nightclub parking lot and, pretending to be armed, demanded her money. When she called his bluff — "Why don't you just shoot?" — he punched her in the head and grabbed her purse, netting $16 and a credit card. He was arrested soon after, holding the exact amount of money reported stolen.
In all, Clemmons racked up eight felony charges in seven months. When he received that five-year sentence for the necklace and was shipped off to Tucker, his trip through the courts was just beginning.
In prison, just about anything can become the object of commerce, from shampoo to legal advice to drugs.
In Clemmons' first year at Tucker, he was approached by another inmate, named Glover, who wanted some Little Debbie snack cakes. Clemmons agreed to supply one box for two in return. But when Glover returned, two boxes in hand, he learned the terms had changed. Clemmons now demanded six boxes, delivered to his "pickup man," or else there would be a beating.
When Glover could scrounge up only four boxes, Clemmons threatened to raise the price to 12. With nowhere else to turn, Glover reported the threats — and prison officials punished Clemmons with 30 days in isolation.
Clemmons was only a teenager, but in prison he proved no patsy. Instead, he was an enterprising thug, shaking down some inmates while dealing drugs to others.
At Tucker, he got into at least a half-dozen fights. He removed a lock from his locker box, put the lock in a sock, and used this makeshift weapon like a medieval mace, lacing into another inmate. He hid a shank — a piece of glass, 8 inches long, cut into a V — in his envelope for legal mail. He taunted guards and threatened to hire a "hit man" to kill inmates suspected of snitching.
He was disciplined for having "sexual relations" with another inmate — and for being a lookout while other prisoners took a turn with the same man.
In prison, Clemmons displayed cunning and menace. But in court, he crippled himself through stubbornness and stupidity.
Clemmons kept getting escorted to Pulaski County Circuit Court, for resolution of all his other felony charges. For the break-in at the first cop's house, Clemmons was convicted of burglary and theft. His sentence stretched from five years to 13.
He still had five charges pending. Prosecutors offered a deal — 25 years for the bundle, if he pleaded guilty. That would have pushed Clemmons' sentence to 38 years, which sounds like more than it is. In Arkansas, inmates typically serve one-sixth of their time before becoming eligible for parole. Those 38 years could have been more like seven.
Judge Floyd Lofton urged a plea bargain, saying of Clemmons: "He's got a hard row to hoe. ... This is just going to get worse." But Clemmons refused the deal. He insisted he was innocent, no matter the prosecution's evidence.
In the purse case, a jury convicted Clemmons of aggravated robbery and theft, and gave him 25 years for the former, 10 for the latter. Lofton ordered the sentences to run back-to-back. Clemmons now had 48 years.
Still, Clemmons didn't cut his losses. On trial for the break-in at the trooper's house, Clemmons became a terror. He reached for one guard's pistol; threw a lock at another guard; made a weapon from a doorstop and hid it in his sock; and threatened to punch the judge in the mouth. Jurors took 16 minutes to convict Clemmons of burglary and theft, and gave him 30 years for each. Lofton, again, ordered the terms back-to-back.
The numbers, put together, were stunning. Clemmons wound up being sentenced to a total of 108 years — all for a string of crimes in which the worst injury inflicted was a punch to the face. Afterward, he pleaded guilty to the one felony left, his eighth — and received no additional time. But he had learned his lesson too late.
In the summer of 1992, prison officials transferred Clemmons, now 20, to the Cummins prison farm, a unit even more notorious than Tucker.
In 1970 a federal judge called the Arkansas prison system "a dark and evil world," and he was talking mostly of Cummins, a farm that helped inspire the Robert Redford movie "Brubaker."
As an Arkansas inmate, Clemmons worked on hoe squads 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 21, planting and cultivating everything from cotton to cantaloupe while long-line riders, armed guards on horseback, kept watch. Other times he worked as a barracks porter. Or on the fence crew. Or in the vinyl bindery, the garment factory, the furniture plant, the laundry.
His disciplinary file grew thicker, reaching hundreds of pages. During a strip-search, guards found money in a pouch attached to Clemmons' testicles. Told to hand the bills over, Clemmons jammed them in his mouth and swallowed.
Clemmons preyed on weaker inmates, looting their locker boxes. He plotted to break in to the penitentiary store. He enrolled in a GED program — one small move in the right direction — but got kicked out by the principal, for reasons unexplained in the prison file.
In the chow hall, one inmate stabbed Clemmons in the side. In a fight over what to watch on TV, another inmate doused Clemmons with scalding water. Clemmons bloodied mouths, broke an inmate's arm, and dueled with weapons, wielding a pipe to another prisoner's ice pick. "I've seen a lot of people die because they took things lightly," he wrote to prison officials. "I will not."
"I did my time like a champ, brother," he said years later.
Under the formula in which inmates served a sixth of their sentence, Clemmons' 108-year sentence would have become 18. But Clemmons' status as a habitual offender pushed back his parole eligibility. So did the fact he was bleeding good-time credits by getting into so much trouble in prison.
By the spring of 1995, he had forfeited six times more good-day credits than he'd earned. How old he would be when he became eligible for parole was anyone's guess. Prosecutors figured 49. The Department of Correction came up with 55.
Prison officials kept track of inmates' enemies, in order to keep them separate. As Clemmons' enemy list grew longer, he was shuttled among barracks and units. Officials worried that his predatory ways would make him the target of an organized assault, and their fears seemed justified when a group of inmates chased Clemmons across the yard, carrying broken broom handles.
Clemmons contested the disciplinary charges against him, either on the facts or procedural grounds. "An inmate must be served written notice of charges within 72 hours!" His letters became a storm of exclamation points: "I'm not taking no more! ... The whole thing was a conspiracy against me! ... I'm tired of being held down!"
He accused guards of telling lies or nursing vendettas, and while he almost always claimed to be innocent — even when he wasn't — the Arkansas prison system didn't inspire confidence. Six Cummins guards were indicted in 1998 on charges of beating inmates and falsifying reports; the ringleader admitted the guards used a "shock stick," resembling a cattle prod, to deliver high-voltage current to inmates' genitals.
Clemmons also accused the prison system of treating black inmates worse than white ones. "If I were white would this here took place Hell No!" He referred to Arkansas as "this Great White State," and, in a letter to one warden, delivered this plea:
"Must I get on my Hands and Knees and Beg or say yes sir Boss every time I see you! ... The only person I expect not to have feelings for me is the white man! They have proven to me that they are some cold hearted people when they gave me all this time! Sir! Help! Me! Please!"
Clemmons hoped to cut into those 108 years by finding relief in the courts. Public defenders handled his early appeals; later petitions were handled mostly by a fellow inmate, who was paid by Clemmons.
The appeals courts rejected one claim after another. Clemmons argued that in grabbing the woman's purse, he should have been convicted of robbery, not aggravated robbery, since he didn't really have a gun. The Arkansas Supreme Court said pretending was enough.
Clemmons' second round of appeals went before Marion Humphrey, a Pulaski County circuit judge with a distinguished résumé. Bachelor's degree from Princeton. Divinity degree from Harvard. Law degree from the University of Arkansas. Humphrey was both a judge and a minister — and would play a role in Clemmons' life for years to come.
In the fall of 1997, Clemmons wrote to Humphrey and offered his "sincerest prayer" for Humphrey's health and spirit. "As for myself, I am thankful to our Lord for another day of living and for the will and desire to seek forgiveness and understanding from both our Lord and the people of this great state."
The anger rooted in Clemmons' prison correspondence was gone. "This Great White State" had become "this great state." Clemmons told Humphrey that he'd outgrown his youthful mistakes, developed new values, and learned to respect others. "I declare under the watchful eyes of our Lord that I will do all in my power as a man to live a drug-free, crime-free life to the end of my existence."
The month before he wrote this letter, Clemmons assaulted another inmate. Two months after the letter, he was disciplined for yet another assault and ordered into isolation.
Humphrey vacated two of Clemmons' convictions, ruling that Clemmons' trial lawyer should have asked the trial judge to recuse himself, since Clemmons had threatened him. But in 1998 the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed Humphrey, reinstating the convictions and Clemmons' 108-year sentence.
Clemmons had one option left: Appeal to the governor for mercy.
In January 2000, Clemmons' application for executive clemency made its way to Little Rock, landing on the desk of Gov. Mike Huckabee.
His plea would have occasioned little notice. Clemmons' crimes were not notorious, and Huckabee received about 1,200 applications a year, some from death row. In this case, as in all cases, Huckabee had 120 days to decide: grant or deny?
For inmates, clemency is typically a long shot. With roots that run from the British Crown to the Roman Empire to ancient Babylon, clemency falls outside the constraints of the judicial system. It is an act of mercy that an executive — emperor, king, president, governor — can grant for "a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all," as one law professor says.
In the United States, by 20th Century's end, many legal experts fretted about clemency's decline. Pardons and commutations represent the legal system's safety valve — a way to account for changing times, values, circumstances — but many governors wanted little to do with them.
These governors saw all risk, no reward. They pictured Willie Horton, the Massachusetts inmate who received a weekend furlough, raped a woman, and whose story crippled presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988. A furlough isn't clemency, but it is mercy, and mercy in all its forms suffered a devastating setback. Governors in Massachusetts went more than 10 years without granting a single commutation.
But Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister from the small town of Hope, wasn't like most governors.
"He saw that everyone makes mistakes, everyone can be rehabilitated," says Cory Cox, Huckabee's clemency adviser for two years. "He believed racism is real, especially for people sentenced in the 1960s and 1970s who got disproportionate sentences based on the color of their skin."
Huckabee, a Republican, displayed a willingness to brave voter backlash. "If one acts by pure raw political instinct and a pure Machiavellian approach to public office, you'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever grant clemency," he once told a Little Rock audience. But Huckabee said he didn't take his cues from Machiavelli.
In 1999, the year before he received Clemmons' plea for mercy, Huckabee became the first Arkansas governor in nearly 30 years to stop an execution, sparing the life of a man who had murdered an 81-year-old farmer and stolen his truck. "I had rather face the anger of the people than the wrath of God," Huckabee said.
Huckabee called himself a "grace" Christian, not a "law" Christian, and what was clemency but an act of grace?
In his 10 ½ years as governor, starting in 1996, Mike Huckabee emerged as a political force, an ordained minister who could draw votes from across the political spectrum.
He spoke in support of "restorative justice," and backed up his words. In 17 years his three predecessors approved 507 clemency requests. Huckabee granted twice that many: 1,033.
He inspired legal scholars who bemoaned clemency's retreat. But in Arkansas, opposition mounted. That was predictable, to an extent. But unfortunately for Huckabee — and for the cause he championed, clemency robust and true — much of the criticism had ample support.
Clemency can be granted in two ways. A commutation reduces a sentence while preserving the conviction; a pardon strikes the conviction altogether.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette analyzed Huckabee's first 111 commutations and found that inmates stood a better chance if they fit one of four categories. The first upheld clemency's historic role: "The justice system has treated them more harshly than most." It was the other three that raised concerns: "They know a person who has known the governor. They worked at the Governor's Mansion. A minister interceded for them."
Huckabee gave critics plenty to work with. He granted clemency to Eugene Fields, a wealthy developer and major GOP donor who had four DUI convictions; to Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, for a reckless-driving conviction; and to two murderers who worked as trusties in Huckabee's home.
He eschewed transparency, refusing to say why he did what he did. The gubernatorial appointees who made clemency recommendations often did a lousy job of screening cases. And his office repeatedly failed to notify victims and prosecutors of pending requests, as required by law.
Confronted on any of this, Huckabee became churlish. One prosecutor who complained to the governor received this reply from Huckabee's chief aide: "The governor read your letter and laughed out loud. He wanted me to respond to you. I wish you success as you cut down on your caffeine consumption."
In 2004 this prosecutor took his concerns to court — and prevailed, voiding Huckabee's grant of clemency to a murderer who took another man's prosthetic leg and beat him to death with it. Afterward, Huckabee pledged to change his ways. "As I review the whole hullabaloo over this thing the past few months, the truth is I could have handled it better," he told reporters.
Huckabee said he would start explaining himself. He also released criteria he would consider while screening clemency requests, including "remarkable signs of rehabilitation" and the chances that an inmate would commit another crime.
When Huckabee received Clemmons' application in early 2000, those changes were not yet in place.
The parole board had supported Clemmons' plea, 5-0. One of those votes belonged to August Pieroni, a retired sheriff who died last year. Pieroni had interviewed Clemmons in prison. "Pieroni was tough," former board member Deborah Suttlar says. "Whatever he saw in the interview, it convinced him."
The board's paperwork to the governor provided little explanation for its vote. A work sheet offered these handwritten words: "cousin — brother — present — said he was 16 years at the time — been in 11 years — would have a job — judge recommends." The file was also thin in other respects, with no record of notification to the prosecutor or Clemmons' victims.
Floyd Lofton presided as judge at Clemmons' trials, but Lofton's input wasn't sought because he had retired. "In this case I would have objected strenuously," Lofton says. He would have cited Clemmons' status as a habitual offender, among other factors.
The request for input instead went to Lofton's successor, Marion Humphrey.
Humphrey backed Clemmons' plea, lending the support of both a judge and minister. What's more, the parole board's chairman was an elder in Humphrey's church. Humphrey says he "very well could have" talked to the chairman about the case.
Clemmons wrote a letter to Huckabee, saying he was seeking compassion and mercy: "God Bless You ... It is so prayed!" Asked the grounds for his request, Clemmons checked a box for "excessive sentence." He also checked this box: "My institutional adjustment has been exemplary."
But Clemmons' adjustment had been just the opposite. The same year he filled out this clemency application, the Arkansas Department of Correction reduced Clemmons' time in prison to this damning score sheet:
"Disciplinaries: 29 Times.
Achievements: None."
In May 2000, Huckabee granted Clemmons' plea for clemency, citing Clemmons' youth when sentenced. The governor commuted the sentences for four of Clemmons' eight felony convictions, making him immediately eligible for parole.
But the parole board still had to follow through.
In July, the prison system completed a parole risk-assessment form for Clemmons. His score registered in the scale's highest category of risk, placing him among those most likely to return to violence.
That same month, the parole board voted to give Clemmons his early release. Within weeks, he was free.
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Honorable Charles O. CarrollProsecuting AttorneyKing CountyCounty City BuildingSeattle, Washington Cite as: AGO 53-55 No. 181
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By letter dated November 27, 1953, you have requested the opinion of this office on the following question: May a coroner hold an inquest under RCW 36.24.020 upon a traffic death where there is reason to suspect that negligent homicide has been committed?
In our opinion the answer to this question is "Yes."
RCW 36.24.020, as amended by section 3, chapter 188, Laws of 1953, provides in relevant part:
"Any coroner, in his discretion, may hold an inquest if he suspects that the death of a person was unnatural, or violent, or resulted from unlawful means, or from suspicious circumstances, or was of such a nature as to indicate the possibility of death by the hand of the deceased or through the instrumentality of some other person: Provided, That, except under suspicious circumstances, no inquest shall be held following a traffic death."
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"When information is given to any coroner concerning the body of any person, the cause of whose death is unknown, and there is reasonable ground to believe that death was caused by unlawful means at the hands of another, * * *"
The basic purpose of an inquest is to determine whether or not death was the result of a criminal act, so that punishment may follow if necessary. Thus the editor of the annotation in 48 A.L.R. 1209 says:
"The general purpose of an inquest or autopsy is to determine, when there has been a death from an unknown cause, by what means the person met his death. The conditions under which such inquest or autopsy should be held are prescribed by statute in most jurisdictions. Since the purpose of such a statute is to provide a method of discovering the guilty person, if the death was caused by a criminal act, it usually directs that an inquest shall be held when there is reason to suppose that a death has been caused by unlawful or violent means."
In the case of a traffic death, the proviso appended to RCW 36.24.020 states that there shall be no inquest unless "suspicious circumstances" exist. Although under the present law an inquest is discretionary with the coroner, violent or unnatural death is a subject for inquest; presumably the coroner will ordinarily investigate such deaths. A traffic accident is a violent and unnatural cause of death, but because of the frequency of this kind of occurrence the coroner has been relieved by the proviso of his discretionary duty in such cases, except where suspicious circumstances appear. The question then is: What is meant by the quoted phrase in the proviso?
We do not think that "suspicious circumstances" in the proviso has the same meaning as that phrase in the body of the statute. The latter is apparently intended to permit an inquest where the case may not fall within the specific terms of the grounds enumerated. While the enumerated grounds are virtually all-inclusive so that the use of the quoted phrase might be said to indicate an excess of precaution, it seems to describe an additional (if not cumulative) ground.
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In the case of negligent homicide involving an automobile there is little question as to the physical means effecting death. But this in itself does not preclude an inquest. Death by gunshot is self-evident as to the physical means; but it may have been either suicide, accident, or murder.
As stated, the underlying purpose of an inquest is to determine whether or not death resulted from acriminal act. The statute authorizes inquest where unlawful means is suspected, or death through the instrumentality of some person other than the deceased. Negligent homicide by automobile is a criminal act, State v. Hull, 182 Wash. 681, 48 P. (2d) 225, producing death by unlawful means. We cannot believe that the legislature intended to forbid an inquest where a criminal act may have caused death merely because the act was done in a traffic situation.
From what has been said, it follows that the phrase "suspicious circumstances" in the proviso of RCW 36.24.020 means simply that an inquest may be held upon a traffic death where there is reason to suspect that it resulted from a criminal act, even though it may have been partly accidental as in negligent homicide. An inquest would also be permissible where it appeared that a traffic death was not accidental.
We conclude that a coroner may hold an inquest upon a traffic death where negligent homicide is suspected.
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My approach to this is totally lazy. Let the plants die back by frost or whatever and a little later go out and collect the seeds off the ground. Some I also push a bit into the ground to self sow. I am not sure if there are losses to critters or whatever but I grow so many I can find enough seeds. Next year these are my suprise nasturtiums because by the time I get the seeds I usually cannot remember what plant they came from. |
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Elaine Paige used to bill herself as the first lady of British musicals, but she also used to be first in a relatively small field. Julia McKenzie also made a significant mark, but that was partly thanks to a parallel career as a TV actress and in straight plays, while Diane Langton and the late Stephanie Lawrence were other leading players. As the mid-80s arrived, however, and shows from Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera to Me and My Girl, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon emerged, there was a lot more competition and opportunity.
And the pool of British leading lady talent expanded exponentially. Sarah Brightman and the wonderful Frances Ruffelle would both recreate their West End performances in Phantom and Les Miserables respectively - an opportunity thrice denied to Paige, who saw her roles in Evita, Cats and Chess all go to American performers Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley and Judy Kuhn respectively.
Nowadays, of course, as musicals have come to totally dominate the West End, the talent pool — and the training that nurtures it — is much wider than ever. In the last week alone, I've been thrillingly struck by the arrival of not one but two people to mark down as serious contenders for leading lady status, from the tiny Union Theatre — where Madalena Alberto is stunning as Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde — to the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, where Rosalie Craig proved her serious vocal and dramatic mettle as Mother in Ragtime.
Craig was last seen in the original National Theatre cast of London Road; she's had to bow out of that show's summer return owing to Ragtime, but she's being replaced by the superb Linzi Hateley, who has managed the rare trick of sustaining a career from ingenue (in one of the musical theare's most notorious flops, playing the title role in Carrie) to mature leading lady.
I'm currently hosting the return season of my These Are A Few of My Favourite Songs season at Soho Theatre, where leading British theatre personalities choose some of their favourite songs, some of which are performed live and others heard on CD. Last Sunday Jeremy Sams's choices were sung by the glorious Emma Williams, another of my absolutely favourite leading ladies in shows from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to a production of Promises, Promises in Leeds and Howard Goodall's Love Story in the West End last year. (Goodall is, incidentally, my next guest on June 17, with Emma once again on hand to sing his choices). It struck me watching her sing on Sunday why I admire her so unstintingly: she is utterly natural and real; there's no 'front' to her, she doesn't impose herself on the song but provides a completely effortless conduit of it.
One of the songs that Jeremy chose that was heard on CD was Move On, performed by Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell from the Menier's production of Sunday in the Park with George, and Jenna - who will star in Stiles and Drewe's Soho Cinders at Soho Theatre in August — has the same transparent yet heartfelt qualities that Emma has. Jeremy also chose Maria Friedman's haunting recording of Michel Legrand's "Now and Then", who is another performer that brings her heart and soul to a fine, versatile voice.
There's a similar purity of tone and intention that Caroline Sheen, who was last year's singer for the series, also brought out; she's now playing Fantine in Les Miserables in the West End. The week before Sams, we had Simon Russell Beale choosing his favourite songs, some of which were sung by the effortlessly natural Leanne Jones, an Olivier winner for Hairspray, who won that role straight out of drama school. The current series of These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs culminates with a singer herself choosing the songs — Kerry Ellis, who brings a different kind of pop passion to her voice that has stood her in good stead for shows from We Will Rock You to Wicked.
Louise Dearman, another Wicked alumna, has just issued a new solo CD, Here Comes the Sun, that reveals another of the new generation of leading ladies at the height of her powers, showing off the full staggering, swaggering range and breadth of her talent, from pop classics like 'Here Comes the Sun' (that gives the album its title) to the beautiful Cyndi Lauper song 'Time After Time', on which she is joined by the brilliant Steve Balsamo. The choices are not from the world of theatre music that her career has been associated with but show a soulful, powerful pop alternative side to her musical personality.
There are plenty more. Jessie Buckley and Samantha Barks— both of them finalists in the reality TV casting show I'd Do Anything to play Nancy in Oliver!, coming in second and third respectively — are part of the wave of new talent being brought to public attention via that medium, but who have since more than proved themselves as career professionals.
But sometimes old-fashioned graft is the way forward, and nothing beats the progress through the ranks of performers like Sally Ann Triplett, Anna-Jane Casey and Ruthie Henshall, each of them also on my list of favourite West End leading ladies. Dancers becoming leading ladies are sometimes underrated as they make the transition, but Caroline O'Connor and Josefina Gabrielle has proved that being able to dance up a storm can stand you in good stead to do so.
Ditto the Strallen sisters, who had a headstart in the business through family connections, but have earned their dues via understudying and supporting roles to reach the leads, as Scarlett and Summer are now in Singin' in the Rain and Top Hat, while Zizi is still progressing through the ranks and is now in Rock of Ages. The Strallen's aunt is the brilliant Bonnie Langford, who started out at the age of seven and more than 40 years later is still one of the best troupers (and hoofers) in the business.
Likewise for my final two of West End leading ladies, who are near the top of my personal pantheon: Imelda Staunton, now giving one of the fiercest, funniest and saddest performances in town as Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and Sheridan Smith, last seen in a musical in the West End in Legally Blonde where she transformed a fluffy bubblegum musical into something worth chewing. Both Staunton and Smith are, of course, serious actresses as well as serious talents, equally adept in plays as they are in musicals.
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No, but it sounds like a great idea. It would really make the page extra-special! |
Heather, I have never done that either. Sounds good, but when I cross stitch anything, I usually give it away. Are you going to put a x-stitch in your album? |
- Posted by Heather_ON (My Page) on Fri, Feb 6, 04 at 22:02
I have a couple that I am thinking of trying. |
I did see some cross stitching in a scrapbook in one of my scrapbook magazines. It was simple stitching around a picture and then some daisy chains in the corners. Looked great. Someday, I am going to try that as well. I have been scrapbooking since October. I didn't think I would like it at all. I bought a bunch of stuff at a friends CM party, but didn't use it for 6 months. Another friend has been trying to get me to scrapbook for a couple of years, but I kept resisting since I am not artistic or creative. I finally relented and went on to weekend cropfest in Indiana. I knew that this would tell me if I would like it or not. Well, I LOVED IT!!! I completed 11 pages that weekend. It took me quite awhile to organize my pictures and stuff, but once I was done with that, I went to town. I had so much fun. The other ladies were so nice to share their ideas and their supplies. I got a few more days between the holidays while my boys were visiting their father. Completed 6 more pages. I am working on soccer albums for both my boys. 1 is 15 and the other is 10. I have so many pictures, newpaper articles and such. The school colors are black and red, so I have been doing everything in that color scheme with some other colors mixed in. I have teased my friend that she created a monster when she got me into this. I have purchased a ton of additional supplies off websites and scrapbook stores. Whenever I travel now, I look for a scrapbook store!! : ) My husband has been great about it. His career field is graphics, so some of this stuff is right up his alley. I have also gotten into card making. I belong to a Close to my H**rt monthly stamp club so I am collecting alot of great stamps and stuff. CM and Close to my H**rt are 2 great suppliers for any who is not familiar with these companies. They both compliment each other. It is too bad that Close to my H**rt will not allow their consultants to also sell CM. This would be a great business to be in. One stop shopping basically. Thanks for letting me ramble on and on. I hope to get great ideas from this post as well. |
- Posted by Heather_ON (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 04 at 23:27
I did put a cross stitch picture in my album. It was a Precious Moments girl with boxing gloves on. What I did was ravel the aida cloth all of the way around for about 6 squares. Then I stitched it in a running stitch and embroidery floss all around the edge about 2 squares in. I stitched it directly to the cardstock paper. Then I added a tag that said "Life is worth fighting for". I didn't like the way that they had done these words in the pattern. It turned out to be a great edition to my scrapbook. |
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Heather that sounds like a great idea.I've always wanted to take up scrapbooking,but somehow have never found the time.(So many ideas, So little time)!If you have it finished,can we all see it in June? |
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Sure! You can see all my books. Scrapbooking is addictive. I'm taking some classes now and thought I knew all the techniques but I'm finding so much more. |
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1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
ProsFun, cheap, and amazing. ConsTransmission synchros? Not a big deal.
Great Car To Have As A Project, Yet Use As A Daily Driver. — I love this car, it has great handling, acceleration and braking for a car of that year and the price, it is a very sturdy car and I haven't had to replace anything on it, the only thing you got to watch out for is the synchros in the 5 speed transmissions start to wear out when you get 165,000 km or more on the tranny and may need to be replaces. The interior is subtle yet comfy, the back seat isn't very comfortable though, good if you have children. From the outside I get many looks, It depends on the owner though, if they don't take car of there car no matter what car it is, it is going to look like crap, if you take car of this car and make it shine it will really stand out! It is very good on gas and easy to maintain, it may be a bit hard to find parts in the junk yard since there are many enthusiasts but you can find parts. If you have one in well working condition they are awesome to drive, do some suspension, breaks, tires and turbo it, and you will be laughing. Have your own sports car that runs 13's at the track for 10 grand. What a deal. Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr STD Hatchback
ProsFun, cheap, reliable, cool ConsFactory speaker locations are very small so it's difficult to upgrade speakers. E-brake hits you in the leg when used during drifting.
S13 Hatch — This car has beautiful weight distribution and I love the fact that the power goes to the rear. Drifting is a dream in this thing. I've got a lightweight Flywheel, 4 puck clutch (no springs) and a couple other bolt ons. It's nutty quick considering the lack of power. I can't really say too much about stock versions as mine isn't very stock. I've modded just about every aspect of the car a little. Gas mileage is great and it's very reliable if you take care of it properly. This car isn't really meant for tall people but it can work. I'm 6'3" so I find it a little awkward while drifting. Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Coupe
ProsSomething to have fun in. ConsPretty tight quarters inside.
Looking For A Small Import Sports Car That Is Easy To Find Mods For This Is It. — I've had a lot of fun in this car. Accelerates well, brakes well, and needs some upgrades on the suspension. I've had to repair the clutch, heater core, replace struts, and few minor other things. The build quality is good for an abused 18 year old car. Gets great gas mileage. Primary Use: Commuting to work |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
Prosit's an s13! Consget ready to turn ugly duckling into a swan! :)
It's A Dirty Little Devil, Waiting To Shine.. (if That Makes Any Sense? :) — Performance: considered quick 0-60, handling braking pretty awesome for small car Build: safe but could use better materials, consider that it's a compact car Appearance: cool, but with major improvements will be a supercar!! Cost of Ownership: quite good I guess.. everything is simple to fix and tweak.. it was built for it!! Fun factor: you can say that again!!! Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
ProsAftermarket support, Good handling, Lots of upgrade options ConsLacks power
240sx... — This car is alright... but it tries too hard to be the sports car its not. I mean come on now, a KA24 is a torquey truck engine. It does have superb handling though, and great gearing, but it lacks power. The best thing about this car is aftermarket support. JDM Silvia/180sx parts are EVERYWHERE. Engine swaps are also a common upgrade. Popular swaps include the JDM SR20DET from the S13,and an RB20/25DET from a skyline. For a begginer drift car, the USDM 240sx is perfect, but don't expect a highway demon or touge monster. |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr STD Hatchback
ProsRWD, handling, good looks Consslightly underpowered
The 240- Affordable Rwd Fun — Not the fastest car on the block, but it handles great. I have only had minimal problems with the car, very reliable. It looks great- the original 16 year old paint is still in good shape. I get around 21mpg city, and I don't know exact highway mileage but mixed highway/city is like 28mpg. This car is super fun to drive. It is affordable RWD fun. |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
Prosthe rear wheel tracktion Consthe cracked dashbpard
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
ProsRear wheel drive, reliable, runs good. ConsRotted frame rails and floor, slow, stock,
Good Reliable Car — I had just got this car and the previous owner said sadly he barely took care of it so its in ruff shape I'm planing to restore it to awsomness!!!!!!!!!!!!! The main prob is the rotted frame rails and floor but like I said it is a really good car so I can't complain Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr STD Hatchback
Prospracticality, function Consnothing
Awesome — Love 240's. always have always will. hoping to make more of it one day. possibly make it into a drift machine or street monster. slight modification have been done to the engine and will make more mods down the road. Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
1993 Nissan 240SX 2 Dr SE Hatchback
ProsHandling ConsNothing not to like, some point out the fact there are no cupholders, suck it up.
Get One If You Can — Awesome Car, they don't make them like this anymore 300K still runs like new, everything still works, comfy seats, great looks fun fun car. Change the oil and go, put in the ultra 94 for even more fun. Long trip short trip handles amazing. Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.) |
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1998 Nissan 240SX Reviews
Quick And Nimble Little Fun Car! By nakemiso
I bought this car new. The buying experience was not a fun one. But the car has proven itself trustworthy, and has been a fun car to drive. Even more today than before, the car turns heads thanks t... Read More
My Nissan By Amine
slow acceleration until 60 mph. fast at corners but it slides which is good for drifting and i added some brembo brakes for better handling. the parts i added are cheap but effective. nice paint; It... Read More
1997 Nissan 240SX Reviews
Great Car To Have And Own. By Nicolas
I give this car a overall 4 out of 5 stars based on it's aftermarket support, Exceptional handling platform. Easy to enjoy and well rounded, Only true downside is the car is severely underpowered, Whi... Read More
Kouki 240sx By Steve
Nissan should have never stopped making these cars. They have amazing suspensions that are suitable for several different styles of racing. The aftermarket support for these cars is incredible. In ... Read More
1996 Nissan 240SX Reviews
Drifter By MrRocket12
This car was built with one purpose: Drifting So sorry I can't really review in views of practicallity; but it is an excellent car for competitive drifting. Parts are very scares though in this part ... Read More
not much i can say its my dream car i plan om having it forever i mean right side drive turbo sr20 with a silvia body kit. im sure ne one who like nissan would want this car just because. Read More
1995 Nissan 240SX Reviews
Love It.. Last Longer Than Most Relationships By Kenneth
GREAAT everyday car will get you whereever you wanna go quickly. Hate getting out can handle heavy foot drivers ,always looking for smooth roads....Dislikes not many car born to be upgraded once done ... Read More
You Want A Good Rwd Car To Have Fun With. Get An S13 Or An S14 (or If You're Loaded An S15) By Cyril
I cant accurately describe what a stock 240sx s14 is...I have never had one. mine was at 436whp when I got it and we are aiming at over 600whp...thus it has always been a high end car that costs tons ... Read More
1994 Nissan 240SX Reviews
2fast4u By Collin
This car was built for speed on the strip. With its turbo-charged V6 engine, its built on MOROSO oil pans, 4'' SPEED PRO pistons, Edelbrock intake system, and NOS, it makes one sweet ride under the ho... Read More
Nissan 240sx By Tyler
the torque is great, but would be better after a SR20DET swap! It runs great, especially when i enter novice drift competitions, but due to the stock engine, im not pushing nearly as much horsepower ... Read More
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Leapfrog Lighting News & Insights—a blog designed to challenge and inspire the LED lamp industry—announces three feature stories focused on LED lamp quality:
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The limitations of CRI as a measurement system are well known. It is a method based on color saturation and has the ability to create reduced—and even negative—values when the test source could be considered as superior in it's color rendition to the standard in which it's being compared. This is particularly true with solid state lighting and for those of you unfamiliar with CQS, it's a proposal for rating LED light quality that more accurately represents the color rendering qualities of the source and is intended to be an improved predictor for colors that have a high red content, such as skin color.
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As with several recent quarters, customer traffic at U.S. stores was down compared to the previous year. For 2014, U.S. stores saw 1.4% fewer customers compared to the first quarter of 2013. Wal-Mart officials blamed a long, hard winter and a late spring for part of the decline.
Also cited as a key factor for the performance of U.S. stores is the status of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, from which Congress cut $8.7 billion over 10 years. Despite that, Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said he is confident U.S. numbers will improve, especially with the opening of 13 new Neighborhood Market stores in the first quarter.
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