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 Defense lawyers in the Martha Stewart trial aimed Thursday to show star witness Douglas Faneuil routinely joked with Stewart s stockbroker mdash; even as he claims the broker intimidated him into covering up the facts of Stewart s stock sale.But the judge blocked the lawyers from putting e-mails into evidence showing that Faneuil, then a Merrill Lynch  Co. assistant, had an easygoing relationship with broker Peter Bacanovic.Faneuil claims Bacanovic ordered him to tip Stewart on Dec. 27, 2001, that ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal was dumping shares of stock, leading Stewart to do the same. H stanley cup e also claims  stanley website that Bacanovic pressured him to support a false cover story for the sale.On the witness stand Thursday, Faneuil admitted he joked with Bacanovic at stanley water bottle  work even as the broker was pressuring him. Faneuil described their relationship as  schizophrenic.  Everything having to do with the events of Dec. 27 was extremely compartmentalized,  Faneuil said.        Bacanovic attorney David Apfel asked Faneuil whether Bacanovic had specifically asked him to lie to investigators. Bacanovic had not, Faneuil said mdash; but  I understood what he was telling me. The defense began cross-examining Faneuil on Wednesday after he delivered damaging testimony against the homemaking maven and her stockbroker. The pair are accused of lying to investigators by saying they had a pre-existing arrangement to sell Stewart s ImClone shares when the price fell to $60. He did some damage yesterday,   Xikg Introducing the Paleofuture Book Club
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 New Orleans officials on Wednesday announced a scaled-down plan for next year s Mardi Gras celebration that will still cover both of its traditional weekends but be four days shorter than usual.The hurricane-battered city s plan is to allow eight days of festivities for the annual pre-Lenten party, and to consider corporate sponsorships to help defray the city s cost, said Ernest Collins with city s Office of Economic Development.One of the concerns with throwing a big Mardi Gras bash, CBS News correspondent Dave Cohen reports, is the cost of police overtime when New Orleans has very little revenue after Hurricane Katrina. The city initially pit stanley cup ched a six-day schedule because of all the overtime pay for police, emergency responders and sanitation crews. But parade krewes complained it wasn t enough. It s common sense,  said Ed Muniz, captain of Endymion, one of the city s biggest parades.  This is a city people love to visit, and this is one of the events that makes New Orleans what it is.         The compromise, which still requires the mayor s approval, calls for parades during the weekend of Feb. 18-19, and the following Thursday, Feb. 23, through Mardi Gras, Feb. 28 stanley cupe , Collins said.Overtime for police may be possible on Mardi Gras and the weekend when some of the biggest parades roll through the city, Collins said. Only eight hours of parades would be allowed the other days.The plan would save money for police by confining all clubs to the same parade route a stanley termos long St. Charle Tylc Anti-Terror Funds: Some Win, Some Lose
 Recently, we brought you the first pictures of Game of Bones, the X-rated spoof of Game of Thrones from Lee Roy Myers and Woodrocket. Now the first five episodes of Bones are online, and we ;re bringing you the exclusive work-safe trailer. Including Female Joffrey! https://gizmodo stanley thermos /first-look-at-game-of-bones-the-x-rated-version-of-wes-1443984812 Warning: Video contains no nudity, except for a tiny bit of blurred out White Walker skin 鈥?but there i stanley termoska s some naughty language vaso stanley  that may not be SFW. Among other things, in this trailer you will glimpse: Podrick being a sex demon The super-cheap version of Daenerys ; dragons A sexy White Walker Tyrion and Varys The aforementioned Joffrey And a truly terrible joke about the Red Wedding Watch the first five episodes over at WoodRocket. If you dare!                                                        FantasyGame of ThronesPorn