Dakook.......... BABY........... thanks for sticking up for me on here. I guess I have learned today just to keep my feelings to myself and let it go when someone is not being respectful. ( EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT DIRECTED RIGHT AT ANYONE TO ME IT WAS NOT NICE) I guess I was just brought up different. ANYWAYS..........ty once again Hun ............... LOVE U FOREVER!!!

HUN dont forget to PRACTICE , and PRACTICE some more!!!

Bahduh: My contacts with Steven are infrequent now..........we used to speak quite frequently but things have changed for him. I Don't Know Why......I wish I had the answer, I think the drug is a major part of it. I sent Steven a copy of your last post to him and me......he read it but I've gotten no reply yet. Be patient, I know it's hard Mark. Send him your email directly and in the subject: say IMPORTANT! Don't send him too many emails otherwise he will get overwhelmed. I didn't get to call him this weekend but I will do so during the week, I promise. I will ask him about your message when I talk to him. OK? If that doesn't work then I will have you send it to me and I will forward it.....I'd rather have it go directly to him, his email is working....he's just NOT answering. That's the difference....it's his choice not to talk on this site anymore, in my opinion......there's nothing stopping him but himself. I miss him very much. I thought we were very close, we still are but the drugs are creating a black hole between us. Only Steven Wilde can change that.......... God Bless You both! Let me know when you've sent your message. I will follow up for you. Promise. ; ) He has nothing to lose buy talking to us, only hope to gain....it's good to know that people care about you even if you think you are alone in the world. No one ever is alone.........

Stevee T: Yes, 17 days and counting till my Whirlwind Tour....I like that name. hmm. ; ) Very cool sound. So much to do pulling it all together, I'm getting a Laptop / Notebook computer. Since I have a Digital Camera now I need that to go along with the setup. I'm going to take photos of Eric Sardinas's Drummer Patrick during the sound checks, I am so looking forward to this........It's going to be a most excellent adventure indeed! lmao!! It just keeps getting better and better. I'll but Clarky a beer for you after the show since we don't know when he'll make it to the states....you just owe me one, OK? ; D

Alexandre: Hey Baby! I'm glad to hear you are feeling better!! Are you going to see VAi when he comes to Portugal?! I hope so! Take it easy sweetie, OK?! Don't work so hard Alex.... How is the family and friends, well I hope? Take care and God Bless my friend! Kisses to you!!!!

~~Sea Eyes~~~

Joe: hey man how is life for you these days man? Hope all is well. I cant wait to see you again. You just blow my mind. You know the thing i find most amazing about you? Is that you have been playing for so long and have so many cd's and yet you still create the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Now that is a true artist. You will always win the worlds greatest guitarist in my heart. It has been a little over 4 months that my best friend past away and there is not one day that goes by that I dont think about your music and how it has helped me with such a horribal expierence to go through. I'm just saying I love your music and I hope that you never stop. You are what gets me up every morning. You beautiful music. You have got such magnifasint ways with the guitar and I hope to be like you someday!

So how is every one doing?

marimari...thank u for the info...i guess yu are right...it is for steven to decide who he wants to talk to .....frankly i simply cannot understand why he is not answering my emails and my phone calls,,,,,,earlier i tried calling him at least twice a week but nowadays that has stopped coz i am running at a low budget and top it all he is never in the receiving end but just the answering machine..as for the being alone part,,i guess steven will never be alone coz we are all rallying behind him to get out of this rut and come back a stronger and better man..i wonder what made him become what he is today,,,,he was into all that stuff earlier but had given it all up to accept jesus christ..he was a born again.....his being a born again is very instrumental in shaping up our friendship...he always had encouraging and loving words for me when i was goin thru rough times......the change in locality cannot be the sole factor for his getting into drugs again.........i will be mailing him again as soon as i finish this post...please let me know when yu talk to him...i have also left several messages in his website.....may god be with him and yu too ...always.....

lucysorets...yu have mail dear....thanks for the offer......god bless yu ...

tracie...hi...

steven...helo bro.....god be with yu......

marimariSRV if u hear from Steven let him know his missed here

cuthbert, fair point, but you gotta appreciate that dakook was just suggesting that some words are perhaps a little too extreme.

kd6aaj's post (or the first line of it anyway) is, I think, enough justification the dakook was right to flag it up!

Cuth the ranter (or is it Rath the .unter)

While I do agree with many of the points you raise, perhaps I can be devil's advocate and suggest that by actually posting your comments (about the objections to the use of the 'C' word) rather than just thinking them, you were not actually practising what you preach. :-)

Zincmaster

Well done regarding the Nano news, I was seriously considering getting one.

To All

Defense wants client's nickname barred

Attorney says 'Scuz' moniker could negatively influence jurors

WEST CHESTER, Pa. - A defense attorney has asked a judge to bar any references to his client's nickname — "Scuz" — in his upcoming murder trial, saying the moniker could negatively influence jurors.

Demetrius "Scuz" Fiorentino, 31, of Coatesville, is charged with the April 2004 robbery and shooting death of Joel "Wellz" Taylor, 19, of Queens, N.Y., during a botched drug deal in a Coatesville crack house in Coatesville.

Defense attorney Laurence Harmelin cited the dictionary definition of scuzzball as "an unpleasant, dirty or dangerous person; creep" and scuzzy as "dirty, shabby or foul in condition or nature."

Harmelin told Common Pleas Judge Phyllis Streitel on Friday that connotations of Fiorentino's nickname would prejudice jurors against the defendant.

Assistant District Attorney Lorraine Finnegan said it would be nearly impossible for witnesses to identify the defendant without using his nickname.

"All of these witnesses are going to have to call him by the name they know," she said. "We're not calling him a scuzzball or scuzzy ... it's 'Scuz' because that is his nickname."

Harmelin also asked to have the trial moved out of Chester County, citing publicity surrounding the case. Finnegan wants the trial to stay in the county.

cuthbert1776

cool - 111, 111

i guess i am 111,113

but not as cool as yours

cuthbert1776

As always - watch out for the New World Order.

A Class-A Scumbag . . .

N.Y. Ex-Schools Chief: I Stole Millions

MINEOLA, N.Y. - For years, ex-Roslyn schools chief Frank Tassone admitted, he stole millions of dollars in taxpayer money to finance everything from his breakfast bagel to European jaunts on the Concorde. His next big journey on the taxpayers' dime will be to prison.

Tassone, 58, of Manhattan pleaded guilty Monday to first- and second-degree grand larceny before Nassau County Judge Alan Honorof in a scandal that state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has called "the largest, most remarkable, most extraordinary theft" from a school system in American history.

As part of a plea bargain, Tassone will spend four to 12 years in prison and pay back an estimated $2 million. If convicted at trial, he could have faced 25 years.

Four other people have been charged. Prosecutors have said they anticipate further arrests, and Tassone will cooperate in the continuing investigation as part of his plea deal, District Attorney Denis Dillon said.

About 50 district residents booed as Tassone entered the courtroom. Many, including former school board president William Costigan, said afterward they were dissatisfied with the penalty Tassone was promised.

"I think he should serve the maximum sentence," Costigan said, although he conceded he was glad to see Tassone "admit in open court that his actions had caused pain and suffering. ... We have become the poster boys for school scandals."

Speaking barely above a whisper, Tassone read an apology in court.

"I will make restitution to the Roslyn schools and I am sorry for my poor judgment," he said. "I only hope and pray that someday, the Roslyn community will remember the good I did for the district."

An audit by Hevesi earlier this year found that $11.2 million had been pilfered between 1996 and 2004, although prosecutors have been able to link slightly less than $7 million to the current defendants.

Sentencing was set for Nov. 29.

The fifth person accused is the district's former independent auditor, Andrew Miller, who prosecutors say helped cover up some of the pilfering. Dillon said Tassone provided information that led to the charges against Miller and suggested the probe "may lead to information on the 50 or more school districts that he audited across Long Island."

The $2 million taken by Tassone paid for flights aboard the Concorde for vacations in England, cruises, hotel and resort accommodations, dermatology treatments, furniture, jewelry and meals. More than $1 million allegedly was stolen via ATM cash advances, and prosecutors said the defendants even had their dry cleaning and cable TV bills picked up by taxpayers.

Records show that Tassone and a former school official withdrew the district's money from ATMs almost every day between February 2001 and October 2002, with Tassone taking out a monthly average of $21,747.

Tassone is the first of the defendants to settle criminal charges.