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Editor's note: The following is an edited compilation of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reporter Robert McClendon's live-blogged account of former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin's testimony at his corruption trial in federal court, as reported in real time Thursday and Friday on NOLA.com. Although not an official transcript - some testimony is paraphrased rather than quoted verbatim - it offers a comprehensive, blow-by-blow summary of Nagin's initial questioning by defense lawyer Robert Jenkins, and his grueling cross-examination by federal prosecutor Matt Coman. Check back Monday as McClendon, Juliet Linderman and Mark Waller cover the closing arguments live and in real time on NOLA.com.
11:26 a.m.: Nagin takes the stand. He discusses his business background at Cox Communications, where he held various positions, including president and CEO. Nagin, describing his family, gets his daughter's age wrong.
11:29 a.m.: Nagin: When we came in, the city was broke, had two days of cash in the bank. "It was an absolute mess." One of the things that community groups wanted to see was reforms to the professional services contracts. We put together an executive order that outlined the process.
11:30 a.m.: Nagin describes his second run at the mayor's office. His sons got into the granite business with a cousin during his first term. The business continued to expand, grew more formal, got a shop. "I was basically the financier, as a passive investor."
11:32 a.m.: Nagin describes the fishing trip that Rodney Williams took him and members of his staff on. During the fishing trip, Williams described the work his firm did. He did not solicit any business that day.
On a business trip to Brazil, Williams somehow found out that Nagin's sons were there. They hit it off. He took them out to restaurants. "My sons were very young," Nagin says, "and Rodney took them to party." That relationship continued to develop back in the states. "They kind of saw him as a big brother, if you will."
11:35 a.m.: Nagin is very calm and confident on the stand. Looking frequently to address the jury directly.
11:36 a.m.: Nagin describes how Williams hired his sons to install granite in his house. The work was featured in a national trade magazine. After that, Williams said he wanted to invest to "take them to the next level." Williams didn't tell them that he was angling for work with the city. He said he was working mostly for the Corps of Engineers or other government entities.
11:38 a.m.: Nagin paints a picture of New Orleans post-Katrina: The city was three-fourths empty and nearly completely destroyed; the state and federal government were dragging their feet on the recovery.
Normally the city did $25 million of capital projects per year. Post-K, it was more than $1 billion. To expedite, they started pooling the projects for professional services. Nagin: "Three Fold was one of the lowest ranked" firms.
11:40 a.m.: Nagin rehashes the public bid process. Bids are opened in public, etc. "There is no leeway," he says. Professional services have more leeway, but by state law they still have to be competitively bid.
Nagin describes the city's selection committee process for professional services. His staff would go over the rankings with him. "Post-Katrina we had more work than any of these guys could possibly ever do."
11:43 a.m.: Jenkins asks about the scoring system for companies in the professional services pool. Committee members included executive staff from Capital Projects, the Museum of Art, the CAO office, Public Works and the minority/women hiring compliance office.
Nagin: We wanted to make sure that everything was done fairly, not like the previous administration where you got projects based on who you knew.
11:47 a.m.: Nagin's name appeared on contracts only because he was the only one authorized to sign them. "I spent a significant portion of my day every day and on the weekends signing contracts."
Jenkins asks about the pool of engineering firms that featured Three Fold Consultants. Nagin says he had no input.
Jenkins shows a photo from the mayor's Mardi Gras ball in which Nagin and Williams hugged and shook hands.
Nagin: I would not discuss city business in a public setting like that, in a situation like that that was casual.
At some point Nagin's sons approached him and told him they wanted to get investors. Coman objects on hearsay grounds. Nagin says, "What?" Jenkins shushes him. Judge Berrigan sustains.
Nagin says Three Fold's principals invested $60,000.
11:51 a.m.: Nagin discussing Three Fold again. Jenkins: Did you ever discuss with them privately about doing city business? Nagin: "Not that I recall."
11:52 a.m.: Nagin now describing his son's enthusiasm for their company and how they asked for money so they could expand, hopefully to take advantage of reconstruction work available at the time. "Like any father, I wanted to help my sons." Nagin said he tried to limit the investment to $10,000 per month.
11:54 a.m.: Back to the Three Fold contracts. Nagin reiterates that the selection committee was set up to ensure that the firms hired were the best qualified. He says the City Attorney oversaw the process.
11:56 a.m.: Nagin says he told his sons: "There are two things you need to be successful, a good attorney and a good accountant." The Three Fold investment in Stone Age was documented by accountants and lawyers, Nagin says.
Nagin says Stone Age turned its books over to the tax accountant, and discussed how the investment would affect the ownership percentages. Jenkins: At any point did you try to hide funnel or conceal that? Nagin: No.
11:59 a.m.: The city had about two dozen contractors certified as DBEs (Disadvantaged Business Enterprises), minority- or women-owned businesses. Three Fold was one of those.
Noon: Nagin describes how he met Greg Meffert, who joined the 2002 transition team. "He ended up heading up the technology team for us." Meffert then joined the administration as the director of technology, which gave him authority to recruit technology contractors.
Nagin jokes about how backward the technology situation was at City Hall. "When I got to City Hall, I was pretty shocked. They were still using 8-track type cartridges to store data."
Transition to Mark St. Pierre, who was hired by Meffert, and has since been convicted of corruption. Nagin says that he doesn't know specifically how St. Pierre was hired as a contractor. St. Pierre was developing a software system for tasks like allowing citizens to pay bills online. Nagin said he only briefly met St. Pierre at a party. No city business was discussed.
Nagin: Greg over time proved to be a very accomplished person on my staff. "He was a person who got things done. ... He was one of my general problem solvers."
12:06 p.m.: Nagin discusses the trip to Hawaii, which the prosecution has demonstrated was paid for by St. Pierre. Nagin: Meffert said he was the one who paid for the trip. "He said that he had done very will in the dot com" business.
Nagin says he had no idea that Meffert was actually on the take, and St. Pierre was really financing everything. Nagin: At no point did I have contact with St. Pierre regarding any city business. Nor did Meffert discuss St. Pierre as a contractor with Nagin.
12:10 p.m.: Nagin: Meffert was the one who approached me about creating a process for allowing a streamlined process for certain projects that "had been bid on the federal or state level." Nagin does not explain how that would work, given that work done for the city would not be the same as work for the federal government.
Bottom line: Nagin signed an executive order that allowed Meffert to give St. Pierre considerable city business with little oversight.
12:12 p.m.: Nagin denies that his habit of using the BlackBerry pin system was intended to hide communications from the public. He says it was to ensure that private information regarding vendors or personal conversations remained private.
Nagin said that he also used the Blackberry to communicate with every living president, and even Prince Charles, after Katrina.
12:14 p.m.: Nagin is presented with a list of campaign contributions. But without his glasses, he can't read it.
Jenkins moves on to Frank Fradella and Home Solutions of America. Nagin says he met him as the Saints were preparing to play in the NFC Championship Game after the 2006 season. Nagin says he couldn't find a way to get to the game so Meffert said, "Hey, I know some guys who have a plane and can get us some seats."
Nagin: I said, OK. I really didn't think about it. ... I met Mr. Fradella on the way back.
Also on the flight was Fradella's associate Aaron Bennett. Nagin says that no city business was discussed on the flight to Chicago. They talked about the Saints. "It was a fun trip."
12:18 p.m.: Nagin says he went suite-hopping at the game. He name-drops all the famous people he met in the luxury boxes, including politicians. "On the way back, I had to stop in Las Vegas to accept some national award for the city, or whatever." Nagin said he just met people but there was no city business discussed.
12:20 p.m.: Lunch Break. Chew on this as we wait for the testimony to resume. Nagin just testified that there was no city business transacted or even discussed on the trip to Chicago. However, after the trip, paid for by Fradella, was exposed, his associate, Aaron Bennet, billed the city for the travel, and the city paid for it.
12:29 p.m.: Now that there is a bit of a break in the testimony, I'll describe some of the color I've observed over the last hour or so.
The jury appears to be riveted. I haven't seen anyone scoff at Nagin's testimony, but they haven't nodded in agreement either, that I've seen. (Granted, I've been looking at my computer screen most of the time to keep the inevitable typos to a minimum.)
Nagin has been very cool and calm throughout. Making eye contact with members of the jury as he talks.
He did seem a bit indignant at one point when Jenkins asked if the government had mischaracterized the use of BlackBerry's pin communication system as a means of concealing information that should otherwise have been public. Nagin responded with something along the line of: There's been a lot of things said during this trial that I don't know where they are coming from.
1:40 p.m.: As we wait for the jury to come back in, the gallery is now packed. Apparently, as word spread that Nagin was testifying, people have flocked to U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan's courtroom. Very few seats remain.
1:44 p.m.: Nagin back in the box. Berrigan says that due to inclement weather, she'll let the jury out early today. 2:30 p.m.
1:46 p.m.: Nagin now testifying about Frank Fradella, whom he met after Katrina when Fradella said he was thinking about moving his company to New Orleans. Nagin says he met periodically with Fradella to discuss projects he wanted to do in the city.
Jenkins flashes an email from Fradella to Nagin, saying that Home Solutions was trying to raise between $250 million to $500 million that could be invested in infrastructure projects in the city. This was 2007, Nagin says, and federal and state money hadn't started flowing yet.
Nagin: There is not enough time in the day to describe all the bureaucratic hoops the city was required to jump through to access the money. FEMA especially was combative on allocating money to repair damage.
Nagin discusses his "Bring Back New Orleans" initiative, which was set up for community members to tour the country trying to raise capital. Private money, he says, was a great way to cut through the bureaucracy.
Fradella, in an email, told Nagin that he could even raise $1 billion. Nagin would come out smelling like a rose for showing he could cut through the "red tape process."
1:52 p.m.: Jenkins flashes an email from Bennett to Scott Sewell regarding projects Home Solutions already had going, but that they didn't want Nagin to know about, lest he "think we are asking for too much."
The point here is to paint Fradella and Home Solutions as the bad guys.
1:54 p.m.: Nagin goes over an email from Bennett to Nagin on his city account, asking about the structure of the Home Solutions "investment" in Stone Age. Nagin's email reply was no, "Not interested. My sons will not be able to do business with you guys as long as you go after city business."
Nagin: I wanted to make it clear that whatever Home Solutions had going with my sons had to be separate from city business.
1:56 p.m.: In 2007, Nagin sent an email to Fradella saying that he wouldn't be able to award no-bid projects to Home Solutions. Nagin: "I prefer a competitive bid process." Fradella replied that he understood he wouldn't be able to get any no-bid projects.
Nagin discusses the 2007 French Market restoration process. He's really almost hamming it up, as he reiterates the public bid process, staring directly at the jury.
2:00 p.m.: Nagin discusses the $1,800 invoice that Aaron Bennett had made up for the trip he made to Chicago/Las Vegas. "There was a lot of hoopla about the flight for some reason," Nagin says, a likely reference to articles in The Times-Picayune. Privately, Nagin told others that the reporter of those stories was "up my a-- and in my s---."
Nagin does not explain why the city paid the invoice, if he conducted no city business on the trip.
2:04 p.m.: Nagin now onto the Entergy Market Street project in 2007. The government accuses Nagin of taking gifts from the project's backers in exchange for favorable treatment.
Nagin: Michael Samuel was in charge of the development process. Samuel specifically wanted the city not to move forward with a separate development it planned that would block views from the condos. In an email reply to Samuel: "We will do our best, (the city planner) has to decide. We never promised panoramic views."
Fradella was also involved in the Market Street development, supposedly as a matchmaker between Nagin and the other developers.
2:09 p.m.: Nagin discusses the shipments of granite directed to Stone Age by Fradella. He says his sons were going to sell the granite on consignment. Nagin says there was never any discussion about what Fradella was doing with Stone Age would influence the company's ability to get work.
Nagin: "I was very careful about that." Specifically told Fradella that anything he had going with Stone Age was between him and his sons.
2:12 p.m.: Regarding the NASCAR development at the Six Flags amusement park site in eastern New Orleans, Nagin said he met with investors on Fradella's behalf simply because successful redevelopment of the property would also help the city. Anyway, the deal never got done.
Nagin says that while he was trying to help Fradella's development projects, Nagin had no idea that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating Fradella. When it finally came up, Nagin says, Fradella dismissed it as a nuisance "whistle blower complaint."
2:15 p.m.: Moving on to Michael McGrath, the former Home Solutions board member and a "co-conspirator."
Jenkins: Do you recall Mr. McGrath?
Nagin: "You mean the guy in the orange jumpsuit."
2:17 p.m.: Nagin reiterates that he was only dealing with Frank Fradella because he had some ideas about how to help New Orleans get back on its feet. Home Solutions had a track record of success elsewhere, Nagin said.
Nagin: Fradella "checked out fine."
2:19 p.m.: Nagin is discussing the broken granite shipped to Stone Age. Nagin: My sons informed me that the granite shipments were defective. (Nagin refers to Stone Age as "us." At other times he has said he had no involvement in the company.)
Like Rodney Williams, Frank Fradella had granite in his home installed by the Nagin sons. Afterword, they asked him to invest. Fradella vowed to connect them with investors.
Nagin: "There is no payoff."
2:24 p.m.: Nagin now discussing CRN Initiatives, a consulting company he said he formed as a vehicle for a book he planned to write. Nagin casually mentions that he was involved in the Clinton Global Initiative, in which he became interested in environmental issues. That's why he was excited to work as a contractor for a green energy company that Fradella was involved with, he says. To make sure the whole thing was above board, he had a lawyer set up the paperwork for the consulting gig.
Nagin says he was a "little nervous" because Fradella was a former city contractor, but decided to go forward after speaking with his attorney.
All of this alludes to the $112,500 he was paid by the company for consulting. He was supposed to help the company get business, but that never happened, according to Fradella's testimony.
2:29 p.m.: Nagin now discussing his executive orders regarding how professional contracts were to be managed: "We wanted to take politics out of the process."
As for the 2009 executive order that suspended review panels for professional service contracts, Nagin says that that was a response to a push from the City Council to make the review panel meetings open. Nagin says the city attorney was nervous about the "proprietary information" presented during such meetings, so she recommended abolishing the review panels.
2:32 p.m.: Nagin now discussing Home Depot's move into the Central City location. To move in, the company needed to buy some public streets so they would have enough property to build the store. There is a provision in the charter that covers how to sell public assets. It says you can't just sell property for any price, you need to get it appraised. Councilwoman Stacy Head, who was talking to the company directly, wanted to sell the streets for less than market rates. She also supported efforts to push a "community benefits agreement" that would have required high minimum wages and benefits that Home Depot did not want to provide.
Nagin says he never lobbied for or against the community benefits agreement. Furthermore, he says, Stacy Head was able to get seven votes for the sale of the city streets at below-market rates. That was veto-proof. Nagin: "At that point, there was nothing I could do."
2:40 p.m.: Jenkins tenders the witness to the prosecution for cross-examination. Prosecutor Matt Coman is shuffling huge stacks of paper. The cross should be entertaining.
2:41 p.m.: Coman shows Nagin his oath of office. Asks if he was responsible for hiring city contractors. Nagin says he was responsible for putting together the process and signing the contracts.
Coman: You were the ultimate decision maker.
Nagin: You were the ultimate decision maker? I think the City Council has their own contracts. I think some of the boards have their own contracts.
Coman: The contracts we've been discussing.
Nagin: I had the ultimate responsibility, yes.
2:44 p.m.: Nagin says he didn't have sole control of the professional services contracts. "That is not the process we had in place, sir."
Coman shows Nagin a letter in which he wrote that he would use his "sole discretion" to select a contractor for the French Market contract. Nagin insists that his sole discretion in that case was only after the selection process had run its course.
2:47 p.m.: Nagin now going over the executive order in which he modified the professional services contract, vastly expanding the control of the process. Coman is pounding him on the order, repeatedly pointing out that Nagin signed it. Nagin keeps harping on the fact that it was drafted by the city attorney.
Coman instructs Nagin to read aloud the section of the executive order that gives him "sole discretion" over the ultimate decision.
2:50 p.m.: Coman hands Nagin another executive order from 2009. This is the order that suspended the selection review panels for professional services contracts. Nagin says it didn't do away with the panels. Then Coman instructs him to read the section that says it does away with the panels.
Coman then instructs Nagin to read the section of the order that gave the mayor even more power over the bids. Nagin points out that the executive order in evidence has no signature page. Coman asks if it's an accurate copy nonetheless.
Nagin: "I don't know what you guys are presenting."
2:53 p.m.: On to contracts obtained through the bid process. Coman demands Nagin admit that he had final authority over bidded contracts. Nagin says that he only signed them, because that's what the city charter demanded.
Coman: Did you consider yourself to be the key contact for contractors hoping to get city work?
Nagin: I was the chief executive of the city, charged with signing city contracts.
2:58 p.m.: Coman trying to undercut Nagin's assertion that he had no influence over the contract bid process.
In an email to his CAO, Brenda Hatfield, Nagin demanded that street contracts not be sent out without his knowledge. The email states: Get me the phone numbers of the winning bidders as I will call them personally so the key contact is not a department head but the mayor. Nagin says he wants to read the background emails so he knows in what context that statement was made.
Jenkins objects to Coman's aggressive tone and close stance to the witness.
Nagin says: "No, no, that's OK. Stay close. We're friends." Everyone laughs.
3:00 p.m.: Onto Three Fold Consultants. Nagin is insisting that Three Fold's business exploded after Katrina because of the huge influx of recovery money.
Coman: So it was not the $60,000?
Nagin: "You are trying to tie in that $60,000, and God bless you." He insists that Coman is trying to connect dots that aren't there.
Coman raises his voice and demands that Nagin answer questions rather than comment on them.
3:03 p.m.: Coman asks Nagin about a pair of 2007 requests for proposals that would determine a pool of engineering firms that would get contracts from the city. The evaluation committee that looked at those proposals did not recommend Three Fold get any projects. Nagin: That was just for one particular pool of projects. There were many such requests for proposals.
Coman accuses Nagin of soliciting the bribe from Williams after the committee failed to recommend Three Fold get any work from that particular pool.
Nagin admits that he once saw Williams at Stone Age, but says they only made small talk.
3:12 p.m.: Coman shows Nagin his calendar, which shows a meeting at Stone Age in 2008. He shows a list of phone numbers. Nagin says he doesn't recognize the number as being for Charlene Williams. "I don't know who Charlene Williams is."
Coman: It's Rodney Williams' ex-wife.
Nagin: Oh, it is.
Jenkins calls for a sidebar.
Looks like Coman is going to try to show that Nagin didn't just "run into" Williams at Stone Age that day.
3:15 p.m.: Judge Berrigan, after seeing that the weather won't be so bad after all, says that proceedings will close at the normal time, sometime after 5 p.m. Jury sent on a short break.
3:18 p.m.: Coman's style is not at all Matthew McConaughey in "A Time to Kill." No Southern lawyer drawl, slowly setting a trap for the hostile witness. Coman is more like Tom Cruise questioning Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men." He is unleashing a torrent of emails and other documents on Nagin to keep him on his heels. The questions come just as fast. Berrigan has admonished him several times to let Nagin answer instead of cutting him off.
Nagin has turned the charm on several times as Coman launches these assaults. It seems designed to make Coman come off as a jerk, but it's not clear whether the jury is buying it.
3:38 p.m.: Testimony resumes. Coman goes over a Jan. 16, 2008, phone record that shows he called Williams' wife at the time, Charlene Williams. That's the same day that Nagin's calendar shows a meeting at Stone Age. The government is trying to show that the meeting there was with Williams. Less than two weeks later, checks from Bassam Mekari, another Three Fold principal, and others were issued to Stone Age.
3:44 p.m.: Showing photos from the Mardi Gras party, Coman keeps asking if it's Williams in one of the pictures showing Nagin from the front and a person from the back. Nagin in the photo is shaking his hand and whispering into his ear.
Nagin insists he doesn't know who it is, and asks Coman: "Do you have X-ray vision?"
Other pictures show Williams posing at the party with Nagin and his wife. In those, Williams is clearly visible. Nagin doesn't have much to say about them, other than he posed for pictures with "thousands of his closest friends."
3:49 p.m.: Coman shows a Stone Age operating agreement from 2006. Coman asks Nagin to show where his wife is listed. She's not. She wasn't listed as an owner until much later. Nagin insists he was the financier behind it, but not an active participant. Coman, standing next to Nagin, continues to ask him to find her name. Jenkins, again, objects to Coman standing so close.
Nagin: I don't mind, I like this guy.
Jenkins: I don't.
Courtroom laughs. Coman dose not. He looks furious.
3:52 p.m.: The government is trying to show that Nagin took an active role in the management of Stone Age and that any "investments" made to the company were to his benefit. Coman is also trying to demonstrate that Nagin's wife was not an owner. The more they can show he was the man behind the company, that he "was Stone Age," as other witnesses have said, the more those investments start to smell sour.
3:59 p.m.: Coman continues to hit Nagin with the inconsistent Stone Age documentation. Now he's presenting the evidence that shows that, although Stone Age produced sales papers after the Three Fold principals, via a shell company, "invested" in Stone Age, subsequent operating documents do not sow them as part owners. This goes to the government's position that the investments were not investments at all.
4:03 p.m.: Berrigan dismisses the jury for the day.
9:04 a.m.: Coman resumes his line of questioning to Nagin related to the contracts awarded to Three Fold Consultants, accused of bribing him in exchange for the work. Nagin confirms that he did play a role in deciding which contractors got into the pool of those that would get work, but he denies that he played a role in assigning those contractors specific work.
Coman shows him a page full of projects, matched with contractors, with his initials right next to them. Some of those projects went to Three Fold. Nagin says those projects were assigned to the contractors and he simply signed off as a pro forma step in the process.
9:08 a.m.: Coman shows a contract awarded to Three Fold. Then a check to Nagin's granite company, Stone Age, two weeks later. Nagin says the two are unrelated. He describes himself as a "financier" with no direct influence into the company.
Coman alludes to the other $60,000 in checks Three Fold gave to Stone Age, along with some contracts awarded at around the same time. Nagin: "We've been over this process before, sir." A selection committee is in charge of awarding professional services contracts, he says. He had no direct influence.
Coman: You signed all of those contracts to Three Fold, though.
Nagin: I signed thousands of contracts.
9:13 a.m.: Nagin is much more taciturn today, almost morose, sullen.
Coman is going over the $1 million contract awarded to Three Fold. The day after it was awarded, the sons approached Three Fold's principal and asked Williams for $10,000. Bassam Mekari, another Three Fold principal, wrote a check for cash. The memo says "Stone Age."
Nagin says he spoke with his sons. They told him that they were going to leave the city and needed some money. "They considered Rodney to be a good friend, so they asked for a loan of $7,500."
Coman: You mean $10,000?
Nagin: They told me it was for $7,500
9:18 a.m.: Coman has slowed it down today. Thursday, he was in full attack mode, firing questions off before Nagin could get a chance to answer. Today, he's letting the evidence do the talking.
Coman: Do you recall the FBI agent who interviewed you?
Nagin: The one who said he didn't have any direct evidence or anything?
Coman: The one who said you lied to him. That one.
(FBI Agent Daniel Evans earlier testified that Nagin lied or couldn't remember when asked about taking trips and money from contractors. Nagin's testimony before a grand jury was similarly inconsistent.)
9:23 a.m.: Coman has moved on to Frank Fradella, who testified that Nagin asked him for $100,000, money he didn't have, so he arranged for $50,000 and two shipments of granite.
Nagin says it wasn't a bribe, it was an investment "in my sons' company."
Coman: Aren't you an owner?
Nagin: I owned a small part of the company, about 20 percent.
Coman shows a tax form where Nagin declares he owned 60 percent.
Nagin: My accountants made some adjustments based on investment. I was a major financier of this company.
9:26 a.m.: Nagin says he never asked for a bribe. Coman shows a 2007 appointment and phone records that show he and Fradella spoke. Coman then shows an email sent the same day in which Fradella tells associates that Nagin set up a private meeting to discuss several construction projects.
Coman shows an event where someone snapped a picture of Nagin and Fradella together. Nagin, huge grin, is hamming it up for the camera.
9:30 a.m.: Onto the granite shipped to Stone Age but never paid for. Nagin says he never asked for it. He says it was to be consignment deal his sons set up with Fradella's company, Home Solutions.
Coman shows an email that Nagin forwards, from his city email address, the request for granite directly to Fradella from Nagin's son Jeremy.
9:32 a.m.: Around the same time, Nagin was advocating on behalf of Fradella and his associate, Michael Samuel, regarding the Entergy Market Street property on the river. He went with the project's developers to Baltimore to view a similar development and meet with financiers. The government says that was special treatment. Nagin says he was just trying to bring investment to the city.
Coman shows a phone record that Nagin called Fradella in June 2008. Coman says that's when he asked again for the bribe. Nagin says no. Coman shows an email, sent the same day, from Fradella to his associate, Michael McGrath, asking about "the wire," and when he can get it sent. Fradella mentions that he's about to take a trip with Nagin and he needs McGrath to make the transfer ASAP.
Nagin: "I was not a party to those emails."
9:40 a.m.: Nagin met with Fradella and another player in the Market Streeet project in June 2008. Then Nagin met with Fradella and McGrath again; it was at that meeting, according to their testimony, they handed him the $50,000 check made out to Stone Age.
Nagin: That would be very unusual for me to accept any money on behalf of the company. That would have gone directly to the company.
9:46 a.m.: Nagin continues to say he was the primary financier for Stone Age, and then assert that the company was "owned by his sons." (The government has shown evidence that Nagin sunk more than a half-million dollars into Stone Age, much of which was financed with a mortgage on his house.)
9:50 a.m.: Coman reviews Nagin's grand jury testimony.
Government: Did you ever do anything for Frank Fradella.
Nagin: No.
Government: Did you ever award contracts to him? Ever award or sign contracts to him or any of his related entities?
Nagin: Nope.
Coman had just showed contracts for Fradella's company Home Solutions. Nagin admits he signed those contracts. Nagin says he thought the grand jury question was specifically about Frank Fradella. "Obviously I overlooked the part about related entities."
9:57 a.m.: Coman keeps saying things like, "After you took that $50,000 bribe, didn't you ..." Or, "When you asked them to give you money, wasn't that just after ..."
Nagin keeps protesting that he can't answer the question if it starts with the premise that he accepted a bribe.
Nagin: "This is tough for me to sit here and listen to all these false accusations."
Coman: "That's why I'm asking you questions."
Nagin begins to protest again when Coman interrupts. District Judge Ginger Berrigan, visibly angry, orders Coman to let Nagin speak.
Nagin: I want to be honest, I'm trying to be honest. Be a little bit more straightforward with your questions. It would help.
9:58 a.m.: Back to the granite shipments. A previous witness said that the first shipment was worth more than $30,000. Nagin, who just got done saying he had no direct control or knowledge of Stone Age's operations, says that the granite was worthless because the slabs crumbled when put to the saw. "I wouldn't pay $10 for that granite."
10:00 a.m.: Nagin, again, says the granite was supposed to be on consignment. But because the quality was bad, his sons didn't even want to take it. A previous witness said that the second shipment was pristine. "He's not a granite guy," Nagin says.
Jenkins has not offered any documentation from Stone Age or Home Solutions, the Fradella company that provided the granite, that mentions the word consignment. The government, meanwhile, has shown emails and invoices that show the shipment was merely free.
10:04 a.m.: Coman going over a 2008 email exchange between Nagin and Fradella. Fradella wanted help with a bid protest related to work Fradella wanted to get from the School Board. Nagin promised to weigh in, but said, "This is outside my direct influence areas so we'll see."
Nagin says he was just being courteous, that he actually had no control. It was absolutely not a favor for payments he took.
10:07 a.m.: Nagin just made what, to some, would seem like a huge mistake on the stand. After Coman asked if Nagin ever put his financial interests before the needs of the city, Nagin launches into an explanation of how taking office hurt him financially.
Nagin: I took a 300-percent pay cut. I went from having a seven-figure net worth when I took office to not having much left.
Coman: So while you took that pay cut, you turned to city contractors to supplement your income.
Nagin: That's not true. "I was prepared to go the distance to serve the city for eight years." I had my house paid off, I had a 401(k), etc.
10:10 a.m.: Coman going after Nagin's "golden parachute," a contracting job for a company set up by Fradella and his associate, Michael Samuel, a principal in the Market Street project, which Nagin is accused of using his influence to help.
The government says Nagin set up the consulting job while in office. Nagin denies this vehemently. The consulting job paid him $112,500.
10:15 a.m.: Coman going over the ethics investigation, which got underway in 2010. Coman shows the sales documents Stone Age provided to the Three Fold and Home Solutions shell companies. Those documents were never shown to the ethics investigators, although Nagin swore under oath he turned everything over to them.
Nagin throws his attorney at the time, Harry Rosenberg, under the bus. Nagin implies that, if documents didn't get sent, it was the lawyer's fault, or his sons' fault. There was always an understanding that, if any more paperwork turned up, it would be turned over, Nagin says.
Coman: That was 2010. This is 2014. Did it ever turn up?
Nagin: I was focused on the federal case. My understanding was that the ethics investigation was on hold.
10:21 a.m.: Coman is absolutely hammering away, though calmly, at Nagin on the Home Solutions investment/payoff. Jenkins continues to object that the questioning is argumentative, but Berrigan keeps overruling him, instructing Nagin to answer.
10:25 a.m.: Nagin: At no point were we trying to deceive the state ethics commission or anyone else. ... I was told by my attorneys that a 20-percent stake in Stone Age was legal, because the threshold that would have prohibited the company from doing business with city contractors was 25 percent.
Multiple Stone Age documents show him owning more than 25 percent. A tax document he filed shows him owning 60.
10:29 a.m.: Coman now asking Nagin about the documents that reporter Lee Zurik requested. The first batch of documents he received showed that Nagin's calendar had been heavily redacted. A second version, given under court order, showed that the redactions related to meetings Nagin had with Fradella and others. Some meetings had been removed completely from the first batch of documents. Nagin says that such document requests would be handled by the city attorney.
Nagin: My position on records request has always been, if they want it they can have it.
Coman: You're not saying it was the city attorney who redacted those documents?
Nagin: The press was really aggressive at that time. If we did 98 percent of things right, they would highlight the 2 things we did wrong.
The CAO and the city attorney had some concerns about privacy, Nagin says. They were worried that continued scrutiny would jeopardize the city's recovery operation.
Coman: So it was the city attorney who blacked out those documents.
Nagin: I don't know who did what.
10:55 a.m.: After a break, Coman returns to the Zurik documents request.
Nagin rattles off all the media outlets that sued him for records. He can't be expected to know the details of all of them, he says. His position is that he had nothing to do with the redactions/deletions. Coman attempts to refute this by showing small initials next to some of the redactions. Those initials, he says, are related to legally allowable exemptions to open records requests.
The point seems to be this: How could the attorneys know which exemptions applied to the redactions without Nagin explaining the purpose of the calendar entries?
Nagin insists that he didn't have any role whatsoever in the redaction. Nagin insists that, in 2007 and 2008, the years featured in the records request, it was "post-Katrina." The calendar was a "guide" not "the end-all, be-all."
11:04 a.m.: Coman shows a June 1, 2008 entry in the records request. The redacted version shows no appointments. The true version shows that was the day Nagin flew to Baltimore with the Market Street developers to meet potential investors and see a similar project that had been completed there.
11:07 a.m.: Coman shows June 24, 2008. Redacted meetings are shown to be meetings with Fradella. That's the day Nagin is accused of accepting the $50,000 bribe.
11:10 a.m.: Coman asks Nagin about the free private jet travel to New York that he is alleged to have accepted. Allegedly provided by George Solomon, a developer. Nagin is accused of helping get forgiven part of a debt that Solomon's development, The Grand of the East movie theater, owed to the city.
There is a long pause. Nagin says he doesn't recall how that private jet travel was paid for.
Coman shows a text from Solomon in which he tells Nagin, "I need to speak with you." Nagin replies only with his BlackBerry pin number. Pins, you will recall, are a way of keeping communications off the city's servers and therefore not subject to public records requests. Nagin says that he used pins if it was personal communication.
Coman: You're not a friend of Solomon's, are you?
Nagin: I guess you could call him a friend. I know him. I've seen him at functions.
11:15 a.m.: Coman going over the alleged favor that Nagin did for Solomon in exchange for the private jet travel.
The Grand of the East theater was wiped out by post-Katrina flooding. The developers stood to get some $5 million in insurance money, but they couldn't get access to funds because both a private bank and the city, which had lent money for the project, had liens on the property. Nagin allowed the lien to be released on the first checks so the developers could get paid.
The city didn't get any of the money from the insurance. Nagin says he released the liens so the city would become first in line for subsequent insurance checks. However, the city only got paid back, and even then only in part, after a legal battle, according to Coman.
Asked why he also waived penalties and fees for Solomon's development, Nagin says that "the city was in a weak position. ... I was just trying to find a win-win."
Coman shows an email from Solomon arranging the 2006 private jet trip to New York. In it, he says, "The mayor of New Orleans wants to get to New York." Nagin says he has no knowledge of that. He says that, in the wake of Katrina, executives called him all the time asking if he needed to get anywhere, all he had to do was ask. Many of them said they had accounts with NetJets, a private jet rental service, that required them to pay in advance. At the end of the year, they would lose the miles if it they didn't use it.
Coman shows Nagin the $23,000 check Solomon paid for the private jet trip. "This doesn't say anything about frequent flier miles does it?"
11:26 a.m.: Nagin says that post-Katrina, he was flying all over to try and get New Orleans' port back open. Coman shows a passenger manifest of Nagin's family and bodyguard: "But this was a vacation, wasn't it."
Nagin: "One that I desperately needed."
11:28 a.m.: Coman asks Nagin about the 2006 Home Depot project. Home Depot, you will recall, wanted to build a new store in Central City, but it needed to buy some public city streets to do so. Nagin says he won't sell them for anything less than market value. Meanwhile, internal emails from Home Depot show that Nagin was pushing for Stone Age to get contracts with the company for granite installation. He called several people, including the company's CEO.
11:31 a.m.: Nagin says he eventually relented on the price and opposed the community benefits agreement, which would have forced Home Depot to pay its employees a lot more than it wanted to, because the city needed the development, which was in a blighted area. "It was a big deal for the city."
Coman: But it was also a big deal for your sons to get those contacts wasn't it?
Defense attorney Robert Jenkins objects. Berrigan overrules.
11:34 a.m.: Coman hits Nagin with his previous testimony that Nagin was merely the financier for Stone Age: If you were just the money guy, why were you calling to help your sons get contracts?
Nagin replies that he also testified that he "probably made a few calls" on their behalf. Home Depot employees testified that Stone Age was not qualified to do the work and that they felt pressured by Nagin to hire his sons anyway.
11:37 a.m.: Back to the grand jury testimony where Nagin was asked if he ever pitched Home Depot on hiring his granite company and Nagin responded: "Not that I recall."
By way of explanation, Nagin says: "I never pitched them. I only asked them what was the process."
11:40 a.m.: Coman moves on to the other alleged benefits that Nagin gave Home Depot in exchange for the contracts awarded to Stone Age. The government alleges that Nagin offered to intervene on Home Depot's behalf as it tried to fend off an effort from community groups to get the community benefits agreement. An email from a Home Depot executive shows that he thought Nagin was waiting for his sons to get hired before he would help them with the community benefits agreement.
An internal email between Home Depot employees showed that eventually Nagin called and offered to "help" with the issue. A week after that call was made, Stone Age was on-boarded as an official Home Depot contractor. Nagin says he merely offered his help because the community agreement was an overreach and jeopardized the project.
Coman shows a picture of Nagin at the groundbreaking.
Nagin: That was a good day for the city of New Orleans.
Coman: And a good day for you, wasn't it?
11:51 a.m.: Coman now showing a July 15, 2007 email from Nagin to a Home Depot employee expressing his disappointment at the status of the partnership between "our two companies." In the email, he says that Stone Age is not getting enough work, and alludes to "a pattern of broken promises." Coman asks why he would send the email, if he told his employees they could not accept anything from a company that was seeking to do business with the city.
Nagin: I considered this to be something that was OK ... It was an arm's length transaction.
Coman: An arm's length transaction? You asked them for jobs.
Nagin: No, sir.
Coman: You didn't talk to (a Home Depot emloyee) about getting jobs?
Nagin: No, sir.
During that exchange, the email is projected onto a courtroom screen. It shows Nagin telling Patricia Stoddard that Stone Age would need at least 10 jobs. It opens with: "Hi, this is Mayor Ray Nagin."
12:01 p.m.: Coman now asking about Nagin's interaction with another company, this one in Metairie, on behalf of Stone Age. Nagin sent the company an email from his city email address. The email discusses, in detail, various pricing plans that Stone Age could offer on granite fabrication and installation. Nagin says he doesn't recognize the email.
Nagin is starting to look haggard. He's hanging his head periodically. He's been on the stand now for three hours today.
12:06 p.m.: Coman now going over a 2004 executive order that Nagin signed that allowed him to hire Internet Technology contractors without a public bid. According to Nagin, his attorney assured him that, if a contractor had been approved as a bidded contractor through the federal General Services Administration, the city could "piggyback" on that bid process. Bottom line, Nagin was able to hire Mark St. Pierre's company to do major work for the city without having to bid the projects out.
Nagin's tech chief at the time, Greg Meffert, according to his own testimony, accepted bribes from St. Pierre and funneled bribes to Nagin on St. Pierre's behalf. Nagin says Meffert never told him St. Pierre was paying for the free cell phones, lawn care and extravagant vacations to Hawaii and Jamaica. Nagin says he only met St. Pierre once, that he can remember, at a Christmas party.
Coman shows a text message from St. Pierre to Meffert that carbon-copied Nagin. Before Coman can expound on its significance, Berrigan calls a break for lunch.
1:39 p.m.: Back in action. Coman asking about the 7-0 vote of the City Council to sell Home Depot the city streets at below market rate. Coman asks Nagin repeatedly why he didn't veto the issue if he wanted Home Depot to pay the full price. Nagin says it was a veto-proof majority.
1:42 p.m.: Coman shows an ordinance from 2010 that Nagin vetoed after a 7-0 vote. The ordinance would have forbid city contracts going to felons or people who owe the city money. Nagin: I vetoed this "because I didn't want my signature involved in this" because the contractor the ordinance targeted had paid his debt to society. "I thought this was wrong."
1:49 p.m.: Coman drills Nagin on the use of the city credit card. Shows an entry in his calendar for an April 2005 vacation to a ritzy hotel in Atlanta. The vacation was paid for with the city's card. Nagin says he doesn't remember booking the flight, which would have been arranged by his assistant. Coman presses him on it.
At first Nagin invokes "post-Katrina" confusion for his lack of specific knowledge, but then he looks up at the exhibit, which shows the date, months before Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Nagin proceeds to say that his assistant might have used the wrong credit card.
1:52 p.m.: Coman now drilling Nagin on some expenses that he made in 2008 in which Nagin charged $6,800 on his personal card. More than $3,000 of that was refunded to him later, but Nagin got the city to reimburse him for the full amount. On the statement submitted to the finance department, the refunded credits were blacked out.
Nagin says that his assistant Pat Smith handled the reimbursements. She frequently booked flights using his personal card, he says, because he was traveling so much at the time that the city couldn't process its credit card bills in a timely fashion. So, to avoid late charges, she sometimes used his cards and then "reconciled" things later.
The city had laid off 4,000 people, Nagin says. The demands on Pat Smith were unbelievable and staffing reductions had made processing slow.
Coman uses this statement to make a little hay: "They were out on the street." Left unsaid: While you were living high on the hog.
2:01 p.m.: Coman going for broke on the use of the city credit card. Showing callendar items for seemingly personal dinners or meetings in bars followed by charges to the city of New Orleans. Example: Shows an entry for a "birthday dinner" with one of Nagin's sons at Sweet Fire and Ice. A credit card bill shows they spent $275.
Coman: That's not a personal expense?
Nagin: Not necessarily. After hurricane Katrina I was working 20 hours a day ... Any time we were out in public, unless it was in a private place that was cordoned off, people would come up to us and ask us different things. People would literally sit down at the table with us and ask us about city business or tell us about a problem.
The date of the event in question? July 2005. Two months before Katrina made landfall.
2:11 p.m.: On June 11, 2006, there were three separate restaurant bills for several hundred dollars. Nagin: The calendar was a guide, like I said. Through the course of the day, things would happen and I would react accordingly.
Coman: This was your birthday.
2:15 p.m.: A previous government witness detailed more than $100,000 in charges on the city credit card that were for personal use. Coman may be going through them one by one at this point. There are so many that it's becoming liturgical.
Coman notes one Sunday brunch that Nagin charged to the city. He asks what the city purpose was.
Nagin's reply: "Just another day as the mayor of the city of New Orleans."
2:20 p.m.: Coman questions a November 2008 a Ruth's Chris Steak House bill.
Nagin: You do know that that's where a lot of political meetings that take place, at Ruth's Chris.
Coman: Let's see if this is political.
The meeting was with Stone Age's landlord.
Nagin notices that one of the documents flashed on the board says that the guy was a contractor. He says the only reason that he would have met with him is because the guy wanted to know how to get contracts with the city.
Coman: I challenge you to show me or the jury one contract that he got with the city.
Nagin: Why don't you call him up here as a witness.
Coman: I don't have to call anybody. This is your testimony.
There is an audible gasp in the audience.
2:27 p.m.: Coman is wrapping it up. Restating all the allegations. The tax evasion. The money laundering. The bribes. All of it.
Nagin denies each in turn.
Last question.
Coman: "You sold your office, didn't you?"
Nagin. "No. I did not."
2:29 p.m.: On redirect, Jenkins rehashes the professional services contract process. He is again trying to downplay the influence he had in the process. In a nutshell: The vendors sent in their qualifications, were scored by a selection committee, then added to a list that was submitted to the mayor. If he signed off, they were added to a pool. Once in the pool, a separate committee would assign each of them projects.
Three Fold was scored at an 80 out of 100 for one particular pool. Jenkins: "They were qualified."
Jenkins finishes the redirect without touching the taxes, Frank Fradella, Meffert, the credit card, or the travel. The entire redirect lasts five minutes, tops.
2:38 p.m.: The defense rests. Nagin as he leaves the stand: "Thank you, Jesus."
Berrigan sends the jury home for the day. All that's left are closing arguments and instructions to the jury for how to deliberate the charges. Both are scheduled for Monday.
Coman declines to call rebuttal witnesses. He mumbles something that sounds like: "There's nothing to rebut."


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"two extreme diets?"
I honestly don't know what you are comparing. What is "extreme" about paleo, when it's a broad spectrum of diets which eschew processed foods and grains (it may or may not include dairy depending upon the individual)?
I don't see anything particularly extreme about it, and I don't see anything in it that says it's going to be or has to be low carb either. It just ends up that way for some/many people.


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The Saints on Saturday announced that they are freezing ticket and parking prices for the 2009 season. The team has sold out all of its games since 2006.
"I believe we have the most loyal fans in the NFL, and the support we've had from our season ticket holders since 2006 especially has been unprecedented in our club's history," owner Tom Benson said in a release issued by the team. "It's a streak I wanted to acknowledge and see continue, and freezing season ticket prices is one way to recognize the atmosphere and enthusiasm that they bring to the Superdome."
After renewals are received from the initial invoice, the team's policy is to make the season ticket accounts that are not renewed available to those on the waiting list, which has now grown to over 43,000.


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GAINES TWP., MI -- A resurfacing job on Grand Blanc Road is scheduled to start Wednesday and is expected to slow traffic for the next two months.
The Genesee County Road Commission said the construction will start between Elms and Beers roads in the township.
The $350,000 resurfacing is a continuation of work done on the Mundy Township segment of Grand Blanc Road last year.
Gaines Township Supervisor Paul Fortino has said the section that will get asphalt resurfacing this summer is "pretty bad -- pretty rough," featuring one seam that can launch vehicles in the air when they hit it.
Traffic will be maintained via flagging operations, according to the Road Commission, which said the anticipated completion date is of the project is Nov. 2.


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European integrated waveform data archive / EIDA (NA3)
Creating a distributed European archive of continuous digital waveform data from high quality seismometer stations in and around Europe. The current core archive consists of the Orfeus Data Center at the KNMI, the GFZ Geofon data center, the INGV national data center and the IPGP Geoscope data center. The data exchange protocol used is ArcLink, developed by GFZ. EIDA data access is currently realized through the NERIES Seismic Data portal and incorporates ODC and GEOFON data. In Figure 1 (below) the EIDA concept is depicted. Coordinator: Winfried Hanka (GFZ).
Figure 1. The EIDA concept with four nodes (ODC, GFZ, INGV and IPGP). The ArcLink protocoll also enables connection to the FDSN library at IRIS in the US.
Additional links:
NERIES Seismic Data Portal


text: Oldboy [Blu-ray] (2004) Flag this deal What's the matter? Choose a reason Dead deal Duplicate Bad link Spam Inaccurate No value Alive again Edit deal quickly Mar 17, 2010 i wanna wanna see! Reply mAmphetamine Mar 17, 2010 This is a sick but awesome movie that influenced the VA Tech shooting. Do old movies look any better in Blu-ray? Reply briin79 Mar 17, 2010 this movie is insanely good. i googled "most thought provoking movies" and this was on the list. I watched it and thought wow this is awesome. Great movie and def not for kids Reply holyseung Mar 17, 2010 WOW!!! old boy on sale. now i've seen it all... Reply Acidbaby Mar 16, 2010 Great movie but Visitor Q is so much better. Reply 1 like hoabruce Mar 16, 2010 definitely a sick twisted movie Reply ap210 Mar 16, 2010 It is not for children. I've seen it and it has some suggestive situations and is a bit violent. Reply 2 likes ricci4pres Mar 16, 2010 a bit violent?! the ending is gruesome! its a classic horror-mystery movie in my opinion though Reply 1 like dlkmadness Mar 16, 2010 really?? anyone know? i have never heard of the movie. Reply shaezi Mar 16, 2010 Its a part of Park Chan-wook's Vengence Trilogy: 1) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, 2) Oldboy, 3) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Reply 3 likes Acarone Mar 17, 2010 @shaezi thanks, im gunna check those out now too Reply 2 likes texaschaos Mar 16, 2010 such an awesome movie Reply Load More Comments


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- New Mexico State University continues to test potential alternate fruit crops for Northern New Mexico.
- Late freezes put fruit crops in jeopardy.
- Strawberry variety trials seek to identify best options.
Shengrui Yao, New Mexico State University Extension fruit specialist and researcher at NMSU's Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde, check strawberry plants for signs of freeze damage. She is studying strawberries as a potential alternative crop for Northern New Mexico.
Tolerant cultivars
The six most tolerant cultivars to date are Wendy, Brunswick, Jewel, Cavendish and Honeoye. The most sensitive cultivars are Allstar, Chandler and Darselect.
A common problem for high pH soil is iron deficiency in plants even when the soil iron level is not low.
"We are managing the leaf chlorosis caused by the iron deficiency with a chelated iron supplement applied through the drip irrigation system," Yao said. "We we are using a product called FerriPlus which is effective in correcting leaf chlorosis."
Two other issues Yao faced during the first two years of the study were tarnished plant bugs and anthracnose disease.
"In general, disease is not a big issue in strawberry production in New Mexico. However, we did have anthracnose, a fungal disease, in the plot in 2012," she said.
"What we did learn in 2012 is that Earliglow, Allstar, Jewel, Darselect and Honeoye were sensitive cultivars to the disease, while Brunswick, Cavendish and Mesabi were more tolerant to anthracnose."
The impact of tarnished plant bug is that the fruit does not form to an ideal shape. The eggs are deposited on the fruit, and when the larvae hatch, they suck on the fruit causing it to be malformed.
"Because the strawberry field was near an alfalfa plot, which is another host for tarnished plant bugs, we had an issue with these bugs," Yao said. "A little bug, a fourth-of-an-inch in size, can do huge damage to the crop."
Yao wants to conduct the study for several years to obtain yield information from the various seasonal conditions and observe possible problems associated with each planting system.
After two years, the three most productive cultivars were Mesabi, Cavendish and Kent, while the three least productive were Earliglow, Wendy and Chandler.
"Cultivar recommendation should not be based on one characteristic, but all in general," she said. "I would prefer to have another good harvest and then make cultivar recommendations."
With that said, the Mesabi cultivar is leading the study after the first two years.
"Mesabi has its special genetic June yellow leaves, but has a good winter hardiness, yield and disease resistance," she said. "It might not be a bad one to be raised in this region."
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When life hands you Boxed Cake Mix(or when they are buy one get one free at the store and you can't pass up a sale) what do you do with it? Well, I don't usually make cakes with them as I prefer homemade. Well silly, you make cookies!
These were pretty amazing if I do say so myself. What puts them over the top? The crispy coconut on top. AMAZING I tell you! I adore coconut. I could eat it with everything. Roll a piece of cow crap in coconut, yep I'll take it! Ok so that's just plain nasty. No thanks, I will pass on the coconut covered cow terds. A hint for the wise, if you store these in an airtight container, the coconut will loose a bit of that heavenly light crispness. So eat them all in one sitting and you will be better off!!!!


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All eyes on Sheffield Mills' eagles
Kings County Register
Keep an eagle eye out over the next few weeks for Sheffield Mill's winter residents.
The eagles are here, just in time for what's now the 19th Sheffield Mills Eagle Watch. The two big weekend are January 23 and 24 and January 30 and 31 and, "eagle light," as organizers call it, is February 6 and 7. "There are lots of eagles already," says Richard Hennigar. "They're around."
The eagles spend winter time here in the Valley, and they like Sheffield Mills for the number of chicken barns. Growers regularly clean out their barns, and the dead chickens attract the eagles - and spectators. "The best viewing is the morning time - the eagles are not on contract to fly around for people," Hennigar says. Early in the day, they fly and watch from their trees for food. "Once they're full for the day, it's more quiet."
Farmers have had to change their husbandry practices in recent years to meet on-farm disease and poultry health standards and, working with the Eagle Watch organizers, have developed a central site in the community to both dispose of barn waste and attract the eagles. "The site at the end of Middle Dyke Road is the best place to gravitate to," Hennigar says: there is parking, a marked viewing area and, generally, a congregation of eagles.
Taking advantage of several thousand visitors, Sheffield Mills and its neighbours are offering food, music and related displays over the Eagle Watch weekends.
January 23 and 24 at the Sheffield Mills hall, there is a pancake and sausage breakfast between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Music, beginning at 9 a.m., includes The Beatons and Gilbert McInnis Saturday; and Johanne Jobin and Laura Roy Sunday. A variety supper will be hosted between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. by Trinity United Church in Canning.
Breakfast is on again January 30 and 31, with music Saturday by Blue Print and Caleb Miles and, Sunday, from Adam, Chris and John and T@b. Saturday's main meal is baked beans and ham at the Lloyd Memorial Centre in Kingsport, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, the Medford Women's Institute hosts a soup luncheon at the Lloyd Memorial Centre, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
February 6, there is a soup and chili luncheon at the Lloyd Memorial Centre, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. February 7, the Sheffield Mills hall offers light refreshments, including hot coffee and cinnamon buns.
At the Sheffield Mills hall all weekends, there are information displays, videos and crafts. A photography show by the Kings County Photography Club will also be staged. Admission is $1, with a ballot for the people's choice award and a $100 door prize.


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School Arts Spectacular April 29, 2014 | By Admin
It's School Arts Spectacular time!
Join us this Thursday, May 1, from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m for a celebration of young artists. The event is the opening both for the museum's annual School Arts Spectacular exhibition and a Young Illustrators exhibit, featuring books written and illustrated by local children.
The winner of the museum's annual Bull-Bransom Award for excellence in wildlife illustration in a children's book will be announced during the kid-centric evening, with the winning illustrator invited to attend. Also announced at the celebration will be the winner of the Betty Nelson Artistic Promise Award, given for the best Wyoming entry in the youngest K-3 age group of the Wyoming Federal Jr. Duck Stamp Competition.
The Celebration of Young Artists event is free and open to the public.
The School Arts Spectacular exhibition, now in its 11th year, includes works of art by Teton County School District #1 and Journeys School students. The theme for this year's Spectacular is "Species Parade" with work primarily consisting of puppets and masks.


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Rumorsville: Starbucks to take over former Uncle Moe's space
We here at FiPS have been pretty invested in what business might go into the space on 7th Avenue formerly known as Uncle Moe's. We even wrote an article demanding begging suggesting that if a salad bar took over the space, it would make a million dollars. When the "For Rent" signs disappeared from the windows a few weeks ago, we were a bit nervous. Did Just Salads listen to our excessive tweeting and snag the space? Or would we be subjected to another burrito place, bagel joint or yogurt shop? What was it going to be?
Well, we got our answer. And lo and behold, it's not what we wanted.


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Williams sparks Flash women
LORETTO – The last time the Sacred Heart and St. Francis women's basketball teams met, the Red Flash held a second-half lead but could not finish off the victory Saturday as Alli Williams was determined not to let that happen again.
The Red Flash held a 10-point lead with 6 minutes to play. However, Sacred Heart made a late run to cut the lead to two points with 3 minutes left in the game. That is when Williams showed her senior leadership. She scored six of the Red Flash's final seven points, all from the free-throw line, had a diving save that kept a possession alive, grabbed a late rebound and stole the ball on the Pioneers' final possession to secure the 89-80 victory.
"It's just part of being a senior," Williams said. "You've been in that situation so many times, and when it is a two or a four-point game it can go either way. They can hit a shot and we can miss and they can take the lead, so you just have to step up and make a play and keep yourself composed. It's just do or die at that time when there's about a minute left, and nothing else matters but taking care of the ball and scoring."
Williams definitely kept herself composed, scoring a game high 28 points. She made 7 of 11 shots from the field and 13 of 14 from the free-throw line. Williams also grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds on a day in which she was honored in a pregame ceremony for reaching the 1,000-rebound mark for her career.
The story early on was Aisha Brock. The sophomore guard scored all 17 of her points in the first half to help the Red Flash build a 48-41 halftime lead. Two of those three treys came on back-to-back possessions midway through the half when Sacred Heart had taken a two-point lead. She also added four points late in the half as part of a 6-2 St. Francis run that allowed the Red Flash to a take a 48-41 halftime lead.
"It's the difference in us winning and losing games," SFU coach Joe Haigh said of Brock's performance. "To win tough games like this, that are basically playoff games, you have to have more than two players scoring for you. Alexa [Hayward] and Alli have done a great job all year. They are one of the highest scoring tandems in the country, but we always need contributions from another person or two. When Aisha comes in and scores 17 that is huge, because Sacred Heart has to guard her and it takes the focus off of these guys [Hayward and Wiliams] for a little bit.We need somebody like that every game. We just need one other person to come in and make shots."
The Red Flash extended their lead early in the second half, only to see the Pioneers use a run to get back into the game. Sacred Heart cut it to two points at 82-80, thanks to an 11-3 run on a layup by Katie Shepard.
However, that's when Williams took over and secured the victory from the free throw line.
"I'm really excited about the way we played today and getting the win," Haigh said. "Sacred Heart is a great team. We know it's like a playoff game, and it's a battle for second place in the conference right now. What I'm really the most excited about is that we won a game that we didn't play our best basketball. We can get better, but we played well enough to win today."
The win, their sixth in a row, moved the Red Flash (10-12, 8-3) into second place in the NEC, one game behind first-place Robert Morris (13-9, 9-2).
The Colonials won a double-overtime battle Saturday over St. Francis Brooklyn, 101-95.
The Terriers (15-7, 6-5) will be at DeGol Arena Monday night to take on the Red Flash. A victory over the Terriers would move the Red Flash one step closer to winning the NEC regular-season title.
SACRED HEART (10-12, 7-4): Kimmel 4-10 1-2 12, Bland 1-3 2-2 4, Williams 5-12 2-3 13, Shepard 5-18 2-2 14, Washington 6-17 9-9 23, Hickey 0-1 0-0 0, Ettienne 5-6 0-0 10, Lopez 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 28-71 16-18 80.
ST. FRANCIS (10-12, 8-3): Archer 3-4 2-4 8, Williams 7-11 13-14 28, Keegan 1-3 3-4 6, Brock 6-16 2-3 17, Hayward 6-13 1-2 14, Blaine 2-5 2-2 6, Taylor 0-2 0-0 0, Stokes 2-3 1-4 5, Murphy 1-5 2-2 4, Phillips 1-1 0-0 2, Bethel 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-63 26-35 89.
Halftime-St. Francis 48-41. 3-Point Goals-Sacred Heart 8-26 (Kimmel 3-7, Washington 2-7, Shepard 2-9, Williams 1-2, Hickey 0-1), St. Francis 5-18 (Brock 3-7, Williams 1-2, Hayward 1-4, Blaine 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Murphy 0-3). Fouled Out-Kimmel. Rebounds-Sacred Heart 36 (Kimmel 7), St. Francis 45 (Williams 10). Assists-Sacred Heart 12 (Shepard 6), St. Francis 8 (Williams 3). Total Fouls-Sacred Heart 23, St. Francis 17. A-858.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In making "Australia," filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has said, he wanted to mimic the style and scope of the great cinematic epics like "Lawrence of Arabia." This is where the problems begin.
Ideally, someone sits down to tell a story because they have a story to tell. Leave it to the audience to decide what it reminds them of; ideally, it won't remind them of anything that came before.
If all Luhrmann wanted to do was pay homage to a tradition of moviemaking that he admires he would've been better off just making a music video. Oh wait, that's what he did, only this one happens to be 165 minutes long.
The sad irony, of course, is that "Australia" isn't even an adequate homage to "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago," "Ben-Hur," all the rest of them. And how could it be, with all the high-tech crutches that modern filmmakers like Luhrmann have at their disposal?
When Lean wanted to shoot a Siberian estate in the dead of winter, and found the Soviet Union off-limits, he built the structure in Spain during the dead of summer and sprayed cornflakes on everything for as far as the camera could see.
When Luhrmann wanted to see a spreading boab tree in front of a Down Under cattle ranch, he just created one in the computer.
"Australia" is filled to overflowing with special-effects moments like this, including virtually (pun intended) every expansive vista seen in the movie. Filmmakers are given to saying how, with today's superior technology, you can't tell the difference between the real and the fake, but of course you can.
And while fakery of this sort may be acceptable, even necessary, in a superhero movie, it's just a big, fat cheat when used for a reality-based story such as this one.
We don't mean to rag on Baz Luhrmann for the entirety of this review. He's an assured director with a singular vision; when we first experienced the heightened emotion of his 2001 musical "Moulin Rouge" we thought, "Two hours of this?," but eventually bought into it, and upon repeated viewings have found the movie absolutely delightful.
"Australia" is similarly heightened, but it feels all wrong here. When the veddy proper Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the rough-and-tumble outpost of Darwin to check on her husband (only to find him dead), her reaction to the frontier is comically ridiculous.
When she's taken under the wing of a rugged, rough-hewn cattleman named Drover (Hugh Jackman), the interpersonal dynamic is "The African Queen" all over again. Kidman and Jackman are both fine actors (in addition to being native Aussies, along with their director), but they can't compare with Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
The story takes off on a predictable arc. Sarah takes over her dead hubby's cattle ranch, goes on a big drive with the help of the Drover, Jackman takes off his shirt and pours a bucket of water over his head as his rippling pecs reflect the light from the campfire, and then World War II breaks out.
The Japanese bomb Darwin to smithereens, but not before Sarah and the Drover are reunited with the sweet aboriginal orphan boy (Brandon Walters, actually quite fine) they bonded with during the course of their adventures.
And always, somewhere in the background, usually high on a cliff face with a smoky fire burning, is the aborginal magic man King George (David Gulpilil), who watches over our heroes by mystically waving his limbs around and seeing faraway in his eyes. What an insulting stereotype.
We were never so glad to see a movie end.


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Manville did not get to play a second half last fall in its season opener against Bound Brook.
On Monday night, not only did the Mustangs get to play the final two quarters against the Crusaders, they almost used them to pull off what would have been one of the more remarkable triumphs in the history of the storied series between the two Somerset County rivals.
After blowing a 15-point halftime lead and twice allowing Manville to pull ahead in the fourth quarter, Bound Brook found a way and made two big plays at the end to escape with a heart-stopping 34-33 triumph in front of a raucous crowd at Ned Panfile Stadium in Manville.
After Sean Glasgow broke a 79-yard kickoff return for a touchdown with 3:22 left to put Bound Brook up for good, Jarrett Gardner pulled down a game-sealing interception with 52 seconds left to thwart Manville's bid for a game-winning drive send the Crusaders back down the road home a winner for the fourth straight year over Manville, extending Bound Brook's lead in the all-time series to 35-19-2.
"I don't even know what I was thinking (after the pick)," Gardner said. "It was just a bunch of chaos."
As was the entire second half. Bound Brook entered the break up 15-0 – a far cry from last year's weather-shortened two quarter victory that saw the Crusaders build a 40-0 lead at the half, but enough of a margin that it appeared Bound Brook was in firm control of the game.
But, as it turned out, the Crusaders were anything but in control. Manville quickly pulled to within 15-13 with 3:53 left in the third quarter on two 1-yard touchdown runs by Kyle Puza. The first was set up by a botched Bound Brook snap Manville recovered at the Bound Brook 1-yard line, the other by a 62-yard pass to the Bound Brook 1 from Anthony Zuhone to Max Miller.
Bound Brook responded, with Glasgow taking a toss 53 yards around the corner for a 22-13 advantage with 2:26 left in the third, but Manville did not wilt. Zuhone and Miller connected on pass plays of 40 and 39 yards for a two-play scoring drive, the latter making it 22-20 with 1:45 in the third. Zuhone then scored on a 29-yard run off a Bound Brook turnover with 10:22 left in the game to give Manville its first lead of the game, 27-22.
Bound Brook regained the lead on a 61-yard scoring pass from Gardner to Justin Foster with 9:23 left, making it 28-27 when the two-point conversion run failed.
But Zuhone led Manville right down the field, his 1-yard touchdown run making it 33-28 with 3:37 left -- a conversion run again failed -- only to see Glasgow run the ensuing kickoff back to finally give Bound Brook a lead it would not relinquish, much to the relief of third-year coach Dom Longo.
"I'd rather watch an exciting game like this on TV then be a part of it," Longo said. "I was hoping that our kids would not at any point quit. And they didn't. They kept coming back."
Gardner finished the game 5-of-13 passing for 150 yards and two touchdowns, both of which went to Foster. Garry Roach had a 4-yard touchdown run in the first quarter for the game's first score. Donovan Simmons and Foster also had interceptions, while Paul Konysz had a sack. Zuhone was 11-of-23 for 255 yards, a touchdown and three picks. Seven of his 11 completions went to Miller for 212 yards and a touchdown. Zuhone also ran for 104 yards and two scores on 17 carries.
Manville, which had been outscored 110-7 in its last three games against Bound Brook, outgained the Crusaders, 413-322, and won time of possession (25:24-22:36) as well as the penalty battle (seven penalties for 32 yards as opposed to Bound Brook's 14 for 107).
But on the scoreboard, Bound Brook was a hair better – the difference between a euphoric 1-0 start and a devastating 0-1 start for the Mustangs, who have a short week to regroup before playing at Mid-State 38 Conference-Hills Division favorite Roselle Park on Friday.
"I knew we had to be perfect in the second half, and we were," Manville coach Pat Gorbatuk said. "I'm speechless. My heart goes out to the kids. I know in my heart we're as good as anyone out there. We've got to play 48 minutes."


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RUSTON - We're only minutes away from the Class 2A girls basketball state championship, pitting top-seeded Iota against third-seeded Curtis here at Louisiana Tech's Thomas Center.
Iota (34-3) relies heavily on the 3-point shot. The Bulldogs average more than 35 per game. Curtis (28-1) has quickness and good guard play as its allies along with center Derreyal Youngblood, a 6-4 LSU signee.
This will be the second championship game of the day for Curtis. The boys met Riverside in the previous game for the 2A boys crown.
Come back for updates.
The Curtis girls are dominating on both ends of the court and lead 14-3.
A 3-pointer by Curtis' Kaylynn Walker just before the end of the period puished the lead into double digits for the Pattriots, who are trying to follow the lead of their male counterparts from earlier today.
Iota is getitng the worst of it phsically, especially against 6-foot-4 LSU signee Derreyal Youngblood. There have been plenty of elbows thrown, but few calls.
The Bulldogs made only 1 of 13 shots in the quarter, that one not coming until 51 seconds remained.
Walker's five points leads Curtis.
The pace of the game has slowed but Curtis is still in control, 22-14.
Youngblood leads the Patiots with six points. Allison Baggett scored nine of her team's 11 points in the second quarter and had 10 overall.
Iota is a team that relies on its 3-point shooting but the Bulldogs are 0-5 from beyond the arc.
Just when it looked like Curtis was pulling away, Iota hit a trio of 3-pointers at the end of the third quarter to close the gap to 34-27 entering the final period.
Baggett hit back-to-back shots, giving her 20 points for the4 game, and Anna Lege followed with a they with 28 seconds leff.
Youngblood had 11 points and eight rebounds for Curtis.
Iota scored the first basket of the final period to cut its deficit to five, but that was as close as it got as the Patriots' dominance on the boards proved decisive in a 55-42 victory in which the outcome was never really in doubt over the final five minutes.
It's the third state title in five years for Curtis.
Youngblood was named the game MVP. She finished with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
Baggett had 30 points for Iota.


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MOBILE, Alabama – The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast was on his way this morning to survey the Christmas storm damage to Trinity Episcopal Church, said the Rev. Bailey Norman, rector at Trinity.
Once the Rt. Rev. Philip Duncan is here, and the building is secured, a decision can be made about what to do next about the church, which suffered a direct hit, losing part of a wall and roof, he said.
"The building will have to be secured this afternoon. Then we'll look at what repairs are needed," said Rev. Norman, who has been rector for about a year. "It will be significant, whatever it is."
He said several congregations, including Episcopals, Lutherans and Catholics, had offered to help or house services.
A small group of church members and neighborhood residents gathered Wednesday morning outside the church on Dauphin Street to see for themselves what they had only heard about last night. Some hugged and shed tears. Others snapped pictures.
The Salvation Army was on site offering coffee and biscuits.
"Two huge parts of our lives – Murphy and Trinity -- have been affected," said Jill Creel, a member of the church's vestry. She was referring to Murphy High School, where her daughter attends. Another daughter is a member of the choir.
"I've been a member almost my whole life," said Creel.
The front wall of Irving Hall, which had housed the congregation during renovations about a year and a half ago, was ripped away, exposing Christian flags hanging.
Since the storm hit, a couple of women were able to move prayer books and hymnals away from the damaged areas and remove linens used in the services before they were shooed away by emergency officials. An oak altar, installed during the $1.2 million renovation, was reported to be in good shape.
Allison Castle, a vestry member, said the altar was a donation by her mother, Lucy Sturges, in honor of Castle's children.
"We're a very strong membership and tight membership – like family," said Castle. "We'll get through this; we always do."
The east side of the sanctuary had lost part of its roof and had a bulge in the wall. Member Ann Daves said she donated the money to have a "lady's chapel" on that side restored, which is a small room for prayer.
A sanctuary candle on the wall was still burning after the storm took its toll, one member said. The advent wreath was still intact.


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Hello Forum,
It's been about a week since I read the book and started changing my diet. I did not do it to lose fat but to get away from the high and low rollercoaster associated with my body running on carb digestion and for general health. I'm really feeling great re. this.
I do two things for fitness: twice a week I do barbell free-weight training (I am not bulky at all but I like the muscle it has put on my body). Performance on this doesn't seem to suffer from the diet.
The other thing I do is short runs (4 km = 2.5 miles) with 4 to 6 sprint intervals at 30/30 seconds on/off with my SO whenever we feel like it. This would normally get me reeaaallly winded on the last interval but I always could manage to stabilize my heart rate on the remaining run towards my home. On the diet though I have to stop running completely after the third interval as I get this black-around-the-ednges-of-my-view tunnelvision and my heart rate is through the roof - and stays there for quite some time even after I slow down to a slow walk.
Does anyone have some experience on how to manage sprint-intensive sports or similar on this diet?
Help would really be appreciated!
edit: Dropping these runs is not an option.


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David Santos, Jr.
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"I felt like my home was my campus."
David Santos, Jr. of San Antonio, TX is a sports marketing director and volleyball coach who earned his Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management at age 39 followed by his Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing specialization, at age 41 from Ashford University.
He plans to use his Ashford degrees to start his own college recruiting business to help kids in the San Antonio area receive athletic scholarships.
"I left school many, many years ago with 96 college credit hours [and] was pre-med at the time. Life happened, but [I] stayed the course, had a family, and ultimately decided I needed to get back and finish what I started many, many years ago."
David appreciated the technology behind Ashford's programs that allowed him to complete coursework when and where it was convenient for him. "I felt like my home was my campus. I'd get up, do what I needed to do, and stayed very disciplined. Everyone was very helpful, and I would have probably still been in my undergraduate studies back at home had it not been for Ashford and the technology."
He thanks his wife, Alison, for providing the support he needed to stay motivated, adding, "The other family support was here at Ashford."


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Is Brideshead Revisited Ben Whishaw Intentionally Confusing the Press About His Sexuality?
Whether actors like Glee's Chris Colfer or Ugly Betty's Michael Urie want to play coy about their sexuality is one thing. But what about an actor that, depending on which magazine you read, is sometimes straight and sometimes gay? Meet Brideshead Revisited's Ben Whishaw.
In a New York magazine piece titled "Dancy and Whishaw, Heterosexual British Actors, Sometimes Hug," interviewer Mike Vilensky's first question reads, "You're both straight. Did you have any hesitations about taking explicit gay roles?" Whishaw doesn't correct him, notes Michael Musto. (In the online version, the article is titled "Role Play: Dancy and Whishaw, stars of gay play The Pride, sometimes hug." And the first question has been changed to "Did you have any hesitations about taking explicit gay roles?")
But in Out magazine, editor Aaron Hicklin tells Musto the actor "essentially outs himself." Well, that might be a stretch, but in that piece, Whishaw says, about taking gay roles, "It's intriguing to me that these parts come along. Of course the choices you make express something about you to the world, and of course the work I do is all about me, but rather than me standing up and making statements about myself and things, I'd prefer to let the work do the speaking."
Then again, Out's own online version of the article is subtitled, "The British actor may swing both ways in his latest show, The Pride, but he reveals that when it comes to his personal life, he is not a man of labels."
Including the label "gay," right?
BELOW: Whishaw in an interview about Brideshead:
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I just read the article in OUT yesterday and found it all confusing. Some of that was due to unclear writing. But they also seemed to make a big deal about this issue of his identity without really exploring it in any depth. I am still not sure what the fuck is going on, and why the article was written at all.Jan 26, 2010 at 10:36 am · @Reply ·
Ben should eat something! People will gossip…
Ugh, that old line of "I don't want to be labeled" should be retired along with glitter jumpsuits and bell bottoms.
Ben: You need to put SOMETHING in your mouth!! : P
@No. 3: Those who prefer not to be labeled might say the same thing about your attitude.
I watched the entire 11 Episodes of Brideshead Revisited aired on PBS and I think Ben Wishaw (and Alouicious) are cute. ;P
There is, incidentally, a new British production (2008) of Brideshead Revisited which I have not yet seen.
Well gay or not..he did an oscar worthy job of queening out with this role on Brideshead.
You left out the key quote from OUT:
"Asked if he thinks it's important for young gay people to have positive role models, his ambivalence vanishes. "I really agree with that, and I feel in my heart that it's important, but I don't quite know yet the way to go about that. Maybe that's the transitional thing I feel I'm in the middle of at the moment. It's something I think about, but it's important for me to do it at the time that's right for me. And I'm not there yet."
Child, what's wrong with his hair?
Maybe the problem is Michael Musto. I don't like the way he writes on gay issues.
He sounds really confused and probably a bit of a people pleaser in this case lets please the Gay people!…
There is of course the pressure on a young actor to conform it would be rather odd to have two straight actors playing Gay/Bi roles in a play such as this (particularly in Greenwich Village) hence that's probable why they retracted the original statement on the other article about both actors being straight not going to sell many tickets to New York Queens with that info….
My guess is he is still young and confused he needs time he is probably Bi-sexual…
What he needs is a real women probably older to get hold of of him and show him what good sex is…
I bet if Madonna wanted him he'd suddenly be straight like most Gay men I know!!!…
Of course he's not "gay, he has a movie career to think about….
Michael does think everybody should be gay…
is he gay?
cut or uncut?
@schlukitz: You mean Anthony Andrews. Ben Whishaw is in the 2008 film.
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Oops. You're absolutely right. I got them reversed.
Thanks for correcting me.
@MissGluteusMaximus: There's nothing wrong with his hair!
@schlukitz: Ben Whishaw was not in the original miniseries aired on PBS; Sebastian was played by Anthony Andrews. Whishaw was in the 2008 remake movie.


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POULSBO — A report of a man with a rifle spurred Poulsbo police officers to go to the area around North Kitsap High and Poulsbo Middle schools May 13 at approximately 2:20 p.m.
Police received one call about a man in his early 20s, wearing dark clothes, carrying a rifle, according to Poulsbo Police Chief Al Townsend.
Several officers responded to the call and searched the area. Nobody was apprehended, according to Townsend.
It's possible that whatever the caller saw in the person's hands could have been something other than a gun, Townsend said. Someone with a gun near a school would typically generate more than one call, he said.
The call followed a power outage at the school, according to an email from district public relations director Jenn Markaryan.
"9-1-1 was called immediately and police responded within moments," the email states. "Upon investigation, police stated the report was unsubstantiated and determined that the area was clear before the scheduled end of day for NKHS at 2:30 p.m."
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The Golden Ganesh Status
In case you haven't been around lately, The X-Spot was off the air temporarily, due to a mistaken characterization of it as spam.
We've only got one major role left: Dee. Gee, a smart Aussie student. Where can we find one of those? Well, if we can't find anyone to play the part of Dee, I have several contingency plans in mind.
Also, if you have friends (cyber or meatspace) and family who might want in on the action, we still have a few bit roles.
Performance Issues
Those of you who've sent in recordings have raised some issues. So to clarify:
1. The name 'Smythe' rhymes with 'writhe' (long 'i')
2. Bob's last name, Toricello, is pronounced Tor-a-SELL-o
3. Ignore the directions V.O., O.S. and b.g. Those are for me, not you. Record the lines marked as such just like all the others.
4. I know how to simulate a telephone call from a land line. Does anyone know how to simulate one from a cell phone?
5. I'm currently gathering special effects. Some of the hardest to find are cell phone cackle, and a decent city park. If you come across them, send them my way at email@example.com.
6. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me.
7. The statue's name is pronounced ga-NESH.
This is the last organizational post for The Golden Ganesh on The X-Spot. I'm going to continue this over at my test site.
Keep up the good work. I have high hopes for the project, and it's been fun working on it. I hope you guys have fun with it too.
Labels: cyberculture, personal stuff, The Golden Ganesh