You can send that info and pic to paypal for kmore nfo on identity.
do you mean # on plates from evo ?
Just Providing an update for those who have been ripped off by CLARKE SPEED LLC. This is a link pertaining to Karlos Clarke, so-called manager of the company. Admins I hope you will allow this information to be available to members of the publc. These guys have used this website as a means of robbing innocent victims. At least help us to share information so they can be caught and braught to justice.
Last edited by JDM-Evo9MR; Jul 18, 2011 at 11:23 PM.
Made some progress, this might actually get resolved.
Talked to his cousin on the phone today.
I've been chasing his broke *** cousin around for over a year now trying to get my ****ing $75.
I got scam by Mzderrick04, i send her a evo 8 turbo with a 10.5 hot side, she claim that the turbo said 9.8, i try to explain her that i change the hot side to a 10.5. She put on hold the payment on paypal. Anyhow pep be aware of this person. I contacted a mod but still dont get any reply back. Im gonna post all the msg that i have from her.
I Also refund that ***** $25 so she is keeping my turbo + $25.
35k miles and yes, I can do that price shipped.
Does it have to 10.5 exhaust? What is your paypal and how soon can you ship?
[email protected]. I can ship it 2morro.
And we are agreed on $150 shipped for the Evo 8 turbo with 10.5 and no shaft play that you will ship tomorrow?
Yes, ill ship it 2morro.
I finally received the turbo today and it is NOT the 10.5. I have filed a complaint with Paypal requesting a full refund. After this is settled I will be posting a review on here for your seller status.
This is my reply to this msg.
how is that is not a 10.5, i send you the only 10.5 hot side that i have, this is bs. This is what happen when you deal with cheap *** dsm people. Send me a pic of the hot side saying is not a 10.5!!!
I will start by saying that I don't appreciate you calling me a cheap *** DSm person. You don't know me and you sent me a different Turbo than what we agreed upon. I have a picture of the turbo its not great but you can still make out that it says 9.8t. I will toady take a better pic and even take it off the car to so comparison if need be. What is an email address for ne to send this pic too?
It may be a 10.5 hot side but I was suppose to get a 10.5 turbo and this is not what I wanted.
did you check the hot side! are you gonna remove the claim from paypal.
The intake side says 9.8. This is not a 10.5 turbo. Can I email you the pics?
Can u ****ing check the hot side! The goddam hot side is a 10.5. I'm gonna contact a mod and go from there. I know what type of people u are, the type that wanna get free ****s and scam people. U ask me for a 10.5 hot side and that's what I ship, u can find out in the hot side itself a big number 10.5.
U need to do research, u will find out that the turbo doesn't change at all from a 9.8 to a 10.5 ( meaning no bigger or smaller, the same) is the hot side that is bigger or smaller (change).
I wanna know what can i do with paypal in order to get my money back!
Last edited by javicracer; Aug 27, 2011 at 12:57 PM.
Posted something about a user. Wrong username. nvm.
evokid03 also almost scammed me when I was about to purchase an evo he was selling. It was a pain getting my cash deposit returned, and he didn't even attempt to return my paypal deposit. Luckily I put that on a credit card and just disputed the charge and got it all back.
Long story short, kmxxbadboy (Michael Kentaro Ko) of Tri State Evo and Maywood Mitsubishi screwed me by sending me a heat stressed turbine housing a year and a half ago that I didn't catch until last week when CBRD inspected it. CBRD won't take it as a core for a BBK-Full, so I'm out the $300 I paid.
Last edited by golgo13; Aug 30, 2011 at 12:52 AM.
Same exact thing happened to me from a fitbikedominick. I did get offered $100 from fitbikedominick, but he kept giving me the runaround, "when it's in my bank account". He started ignoring my pms. This has been over a year and a half ago, so I don't think I'll see it.
Please start a new thread for each active and all new incomplete sale issues. Thanks.


Celebrate making colorful papel picado for the holiday Dia de Los Muertos with this fun tutorial by etsy artist Yreina with Aymujer!.
I especially enjoy celebrating the Latin holiday Dia de los Muertos- Day of the Dead- both as an personal day and as a community celebration. Bay wide, our museums offer special community alter exhibits. There are concerts everywhere and parades through most cities.
To me, Dia de Los Muertos is a time to honor change- what we see and what we don't. It is also the time of year to honor our connection to loved ones who have blessed our lives with theirs. I love the heightened colors and festivities of this holiday: bright abundant alters are built in homes and in galleries; marigolds bloom from stoops & gardens; people prepare special food & drink enjoyed by loved ones; and there are lots of parades and concerts.
One ritual I enjoy almost every year is going to any one of the special Mexican stores or markets to buy fresh sugar skulls, papel picado, and usually one new calaveras figurine (skeleton figure) for my alter. These figures humorously depict a smiling skeleton hard at work or play, reminding me not to take things so seriously. Underlying all the impermanence is the message to celebrate life at every turn.
This is also the time of year to make sugar skulls, masks, breads, and crafts.
For crafts, check out this wonderful tutorial from fellow Etsy artisan Yreina on how to make papel picado- colorful tissue banners that typically decorate alters and storefronts for nearly all festivities including this day. I love how Yreina has designed a particular papel inspired by something her Grandpa used to say.
This is just the black and white template (useable for your own project). Check out her wonderful story and technique for making papel picado here.
As well as her Etsy store Aymujer- here.
I'll be posting pics of my alter this week, and jewelry inspired by the playful sugar skulls and treats featured all week long. So check back!


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If We Lose then Everybody Loses
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Tags: Civil War, Demonstrations, Donald Trump, Electoral College, Harry S Truman, James K Polk, Led Way in Palm Beach, Not My President, Popular Vote, President Elect, Protests, Rioting, Sour Grapes, The Buck Stops Here, Trump Resort Opened to Blacks and Jews, United States, Wyoming
The demonstrations (riots) occurring across the United States largely in the major cities, especially Democrat Party strongholds claiming that Trump is not, can not and never will be their President refuse to abate. Apart from this being a definite example of delusional denial, it is also much ado about nothing as the rules on how the office of President is chosen has been known for well over two-hundred years and all contenders understood the rules going in. It is not like Hillary Clinton has even shown the slightest designs or desires to challenge the results. There has been a number of disgusting results turn from these examples of bad behavior with one of the most egregious was the beating of a fifteen year old Rockville, Maryland High School student by numerous classmates for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. This was far from the only casualty from the protests where stores have been breached with their windows smashed and merchandise stolen. In one case a Starbucks Coffee store was broken into and coffee mugs were stolen and used as projectiles thrown at the police. Numerous other reports have surfaced of Trump supporters or just some refusing to join the protests being pummeled and beaten simply for not agreeing with the mob. For those who agree with these activities I have a simple question, what would your reaction have been if Hillary Clinton had won the Electoral College vote but lost narrowly in the popular vote and Trump supporters took to the streets rioting and beating Hillary supporters? If that would have struck you as indefensible, as I would hope it would, why are the current malcontents then tolerated. If Hillary supporters and all who voted for any of the candidates other than Trump, especially respected members of those groups, would come out and denounce these rioters then perhaps the United States could start working towards healing.
Civility is the basis for civilization and what allows disparate groups to coexist despite differing opinions. Elections are presumably the peaceful means for choosing leaders which has presumably been accepted as a replacement for generals or others leading their band of armed insurrectionists and taking the seat of power by force. That is the alternative which these demonstrators, especially those causing damage and beating anyone thought to be from the opposition, and the reason elections were initiated. Changing government by revolution every time a sizeable and well-armed group decided they should lead coming in and murdering the current leaders and destroying much of the capital city and sometimes leading to a major civil war destroying much of the kingdom all just to make a transition in power might be considered paying too high a price when compared to simply voting. Is this the system which is now being proposed by those rioting in the streets? Do any of them really believe they are going to get their way and Hillary Clinton will suddenly become the next President because they are rioting and destroying property? Lastly, what gives with the governors and mayors who are permitting such lawlessness? And lastly, enough with the ridiculous Trump supports the KKK or the Nazis or white supremacists of any stripe. That is no more true than Hillary Clinton being called a Communist or an Anarchist simply because some well-know Communist sympathizers or Anarchists came out supporting her, as I am sure there were at least a few. Just because some malcontent from any extreme on the political spectrum comes out in support does not make the candidate a supporter of the extremists represented by the particular claim of support. We do not control which crazies support a candidate and often cannot fathom even why there might be any reason for such support. Donald Trump has little to no actions in his past which infer in the slightest that he has a bigoted bone in his body. He is not a racist, anti-Semite, homophobe, sexist or even misogynist, though some might try to argue the last due to his action in decades past when male-female relations were quite different than today.
Anti-Trump Demonstration
Then there is the claim that the Electoral College is unfair as it grants a resident of Wyoming as carrying greater weight than a resident of California or Texas or New York or even Alaska. Oddly enough, that was the whole idea of the Electoral College. When the Constitution was drawn up the founding Fathers realized quite quickly that any candidate for President if they could win New York and Virginia by wide margins could lose nine of the remaining eleven states and still win the election. This, in their thoughtful minds, seemed to give Virginia and New York far too much power and they needed all the states to sign onto the new Constitution. Remember the Federated States of America was the dysfunctional governance where the Federal government was too weak to run the nation and the country was disintegrating. The Constitution was the grand compromise which gave the smaller states significant additional representation in choosing a President simply by adding two Electoral Votes, one for each Senator, to the number of Representatives and thus making it so all the states would be represented in the White House. As the United States grew and Wyoming became the least settled state per square mile, Wyoming receives the greatest benefit of the Electoral College system and California is likely harmed the most followed by Texas, but it all works in the end as Wyoming still has but three Electoral Votes and is seldom the deciding state. We need remember that without the Electoral College system the United States would never have come into being and the Federated States of America would have dissolved into individual states and more resembled Europe economically, militarily and in all too many other ways, Alaska would still be a part of Russia, Hawaii would still be a Spanish colony or an independent nation, Texas would either be its own nation or still part of Mexico after Santa Anna beat the Texas militias. And Wyoming would still be Wyoming all alone and pretty much ignored as nobody would want to take the time or energy to conquer her. Wyoming would be pretty much unchanged as any invading army would need to defeat a number of states before reaching Wyoming and then would stand little chance against the mountain men who know their woodlands and highlands very well and live as they please even now. Lastly, Wyoming has some of the most breathtaking views that can be found anywhere within the United States, and that comes from having lived there.
In closing, can we do something which has gotten the United States through tougher and more distressing times than anything a President Trump can cause. The country is nowhere near as divided as many seem to wish to have it appear. You might have heard of this other time when brother took up arms against brother and the nation was divided into the blue and the grey and we fought a Civil War, a real Civil War and not just civil unrest. We realize you believe you are fighting a civil war, but trust that you are not and should you actually become that violent, well, let us just warn that you would not like how that would end. The United States survived President Grant, it survived President James K. Polk who did not even campaign but was elected due to two things, the party he represented had the election in the bag and his opponent ran on the slogan of, "Who the h3ll is James K. Polk?" Perhaps if his opponent, who is just as nameless today as then, had campaigned with his name in a slogan instead of his opposition, perhaps he might have won but instead all anyone knew was both sides were preoccupied with James K. Polk. He ran against Henry Clay who was one of the founding members of the Whig Party. We even survived a President who pretended to have a middle name, well, middle initial because all the great Presidents had a middle name. Thus we had President Harry S (for nothing) Truman sometimes stated by his contemporaries as Harry ask for nothing Truman because persuading Harry Truman was wasted effort as he drew his own course and never deviated from a decision and was the reason for a sign on his desk which faced the door reading, "The Buck Stops Here." We survived a President who was an avid big game hunter, went hunting with the Czar of Russia and spent as little time in Washington as possible, a man who despite great wealth gathered a group of roughnecks and went to war because it would be jolly fun, yep, President Theodore Roosevelt. The United States has survived virtually every kind of President imaginable, Harvard educated, Yale educated and self-taught, raised in luxury and poverty, military men and pacifists and somehow the United States has developed a life of its own which manages to always return to a central pillar based on equal freedoms being granted to ever wider portions of the nation's peoples. One example was due to President elect Donald Trump who opened his Palm Beach resort called Mar-a-Lago; he insisted that it be opened to everybody including specifically Jews and Blacks, something never permitted in "exclusive" resorts, clubs and other venues breaking this barrier which held into the 1990s. The outrageous fact here is not that it was Donald Trump who broke the barrier and fought a running battle with the city officials for over a decade because of his inclusive policies but that Palm Beach had such rules in place into the 1990s and was still regarded as an all American resort town, now that is unbelievable and a truth that needs more emphasis. Still, if we all calm down we will survive the coming four years and then we can review whether Donald Trump was more President or clown and if clown, replace him and get on with life. Thank you.
Liberal and Conservative Redefined
Filed under: 2016 Elections,Amalekites,American People Voice Opinion,Civilization,Covert Surveillance,Donald Trump,Education,Elections,Equal Responsibility,Equal Rights,Equal Treatment,Equality,Extreme Leftist,Extreme Right,Facial Recognition Software,Hillary Clinton,History,Individual Right to Privacy,Israel,Meaning of Peace,Media,Political Identity,Politically Correct,Politically Incorrect,Politics,President,Record Vote,Religion,United States,Warrantless Searches — qwertster @ 3:47 AM
Tags: Big Brother, Brave New World, Classic Definition, Conservatives, Degenerates, Eastasia, Eloi, Eurasia, Human Pets, Liberals, Living Naturally, Morlock, New Realities, New World Definition, Oceania, Reeducation, Reservation, Robots
The demonstrations, some claim rioting, over the election these last couple of days has pointed to the need to redefine the "New Age" definitions of a Liberal and a Conservative. For those residing in Europe during World War II, they got a taste of these definitions though then they were referred to by the more accurate titles of Fascists and those fighting for Freedom. Let us first understand that the modern use of these two terms have literally nothing to do with their original meanings and those who continue to use the classical definition of Liberal as open to change and Conservative as against the new and the changes it brings may feel cheated and offended. We apologize, but the evidence is out there on the streets calling for horrific responses to the result of the election, responses that traditional Liberals and Conservatives would and are appalled by and rightly so. The one thing that is constant in politics more than almost anywhere else is change, particularly in definitions.
The new definitions are as follows:
Liberal = liberation of the stuffy limitations of classical Judeo-Christian ethos of right and wrong. The new right and wrong is 'Me right and You wrong, period, end of discussion.'
Conservative = protect and apply the Judeo-Christian ethics to society as any other societal model is heathen and immorally dangerous.
The definition for Conservative probably needs some deeper and more specific terminology but the Conservatives today include many of the former Liberals who believed in "fair play" and that when your opponents won the election you sought a more pleasing candidate and did some soul-searching to see where your side may have had deficiencies. Not under the new instant gratification crowd who probably have difficulty in figuring out why death means dead and not simply make a new character or use a resurrection scroll or start the game over with full life and ammo. We are being a tad facetious but this is the definitions the new left was raised with and were never denied being a winner as everybody gets the same size trophy which says "participant" or other empty descriptor on the base and all were cheered equally. These are the people who never kept score and the sides changed after everybody batted once. Some have never run the bases and stealing a base today would be tantamount to cheating, after all it is called stealing. These were people who saw no problem with there being no gender allotted to the class prom King and Queen as it all depended on how you defined yourself and there is no actual reality and being made in the image of the Creator is simply so "then" as to be ludicrous. The definitions have all changed and the only definitions which matter are the ones held by each individual and as long as you defined yourself with the proper "needs" specialty, then you were welcome but if you chose to be what used to be called normal or sane, then you had a problem and were the outcast.
There was a definition of evil and it was White, Straight and Male. Well, perhaps the White, Straight and Male should describe themselves in terminology these new Liberals could possibly accept, they are just Lesbian Women trapped in a Man's body. I can hear the gasps and the anger already as obviously this is going too far as one is not permitted to mock these new liberators of peoplehood; mankind or humanity are no longer permitted as they have that evil "man" syllable within. OK, it's to the reeducation camp for me as I am truly a troglodyte, a Morlock in an Eloi world. The new Liberals see themselves as the Eloi and see the previous generations and those with traditional values as the Morlock with one major difference, when the sirens blare today it is the Morlocks who are to march to their deaths at the hands of the Eloi. Their definitions are so in need of being shown the errors that it is bordering on sad.
Eloi and the Morlock
There are going to be problems defining and understanding what is the reality from moment to moment as visions of past, present and future change as "newthink" will demand with redefined terms and the rewritten history changing all as it is fluid and easily diverted in any direction as the needs arise and where nothing is true which cannot be altered to fit the next trend. We were always had been and were at war with Eurasia until it became we were always having been at war with Eastasia but we were always right because we were citizens of Oceania and were ruled by Big Brother who was infallible. War was a constant and those who desired change would eventually be driven into the resistance which, oddly enough, was also run by the government so as to give people a perceived way out when all it did was find those needing reeducation. In the end one could only end up with one outlook, to love Big Brother and hate the leader of the Revolution who was jeered during the daily exercise of the Two Minutes Hate, Emmanuel Goldstein.
The 1984 World
Just to keep this confusing we may as well jump to the next novel which is likely also not taught in today's school as thinking is not encouraged, only obedience to the new truths and morals of special compensations. Soon enough society will produce exactly the distribution of workers genetically modified for their specific tasks in the society with mental abilities and training (programming) such that their assigned work will be found eminently satisfying and after work they will mingle within their caste and use the legally proscribed drugs and engage in the only thing which matters other than work, pleasure. Everybody will be sterilized and natural birth made illegal as it introduces variables and society must be ordered thus variables are unacceptable. The population must be kept in balance and all want eliminated as each type or caste of individuals will only find others of their caste attractive and only the elite will be permitted free thought as they are the scientists and the directors of the bureaucracy which controls society. There will be those for whom these ways are too restrictive and who might seek to have children of their own and thus sneak to find ways around the contraceptives demanded to be taken daily. These people are dangerous and excommunicated to an island or sent to the reservations where people live in horrific standards where there are variables and people are born naturally. Such is unacceptable in proper society though the savages do present an amusement for those who reside in the perfect world.
How much longer before all these horrors become true? How far into the future will society continue before we live in a 1984 style Brave New World? After that, how long before we split into two separate offshoots of humanity, the Eloi and the Morlock? These are the eventual results of the current path. Love of Big Brother, big, all-controlling, all-consuming, all-powerful governance which births different castes of peoples as needed and dictates every inch of life with universal surveillance using computers to monitor your every mood detecting the slightest deviations which will get one placed in reeducation or deported into the wilds of the Reservation unless the deviant is an Alpha who are sent to a special island where they live, reproduce and varieties of offspring are tolerated, even loved and treasured. A society where deviance is not permitted just as electing the wrong candidate apparently is not to be permitted by the programed youth today. No, all the youth are not infected and resisted the reeducation camps which pass for schools in most major leftist run cities and their suburbs. These will hopefully be the leaders who take mankind, yes; we used the "man" syllable, into a more promising future where everyone is not their own special basket case requiring special treatment by the government in order to survive.
Big Brother is Always Watching
Perhaps instead the future will have individuals as members of "peoplekind" and all real thinking and productive actions will need be automated and people will need to be "special" and entertaining so that their keepers, the AI robots will have them as their pets. Perhaps that will be the novel we will all live, a world where the robotic lifeforms control the "peoplekind" in much the same way as we keep cats, dogs and other pets. Start working on that adorable puppy eye thing you do when you want a treat, it might become necessary to survive. Whatever you do, never let on you are capable of independent thought as that is to be squelched as who knows where such might lead. Any variance from groupthink will be punished and if persisted will be dealt with in a severe manner resulting in sitting all day drinking sweet tea or coffee at the corner coffee and tea shop watching the television broadcast and every time his image appears you will be heard if one listens closely to murmur, "I love Big Brother," then returning to your coffee or tea and maybe even taking a small bite of your buttered croissant.
Vitriol Explodes Across America
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Tags: Assassination Threat, Conservatives, Donald Trump, Excuse Leftist Threats, Hillary Clinton, Leftists, Liberals, media, President, President Elect Trump, Presidential Election, Threats, Violence
The reaction to the "total surprise" win by Donald Trump in the United States Presidential election came hard and swift across many of the major cities as well as many college and university campuses. None of this should come as a surprise as whenever there is an expressing of views counter to the leftist progressive agenda turning their perceived perfect world upside-down, the leftist scream foul and some even demanding a redo as if they just know those who voted against their issue, referendum or choice for elected office, especially for President, will realize the error of their ways and vote correctly just given the opportunity. What would happen if there were a do-over and they lost again? Demands for more do-overs until they get their desired result is what one would see. We will not attempt to claim that there are people just as misguided and ignorant on the right, there just appear to be more sour grapes protesters on the left. When major universities cancel classes after the left losses an election so the students can mourn simply proves where their sympathies lie. We honestly cannot recall any universities cancelling classes so students could mourn the losses by John McCain or Mitt Romney but would love for evidence proving such did occur. What is truly frightening is hearing from some leftists demonstrating against the election of Donald Trump calling for violence and claiming there will need to be deaths on both sides to set thing right and produce change (see video below). Produce change? Wasn't that exactly what the election did was produce change? We understand, the only need for change is when the leftists lose and as long as they are in power and making all the decisions then all is correct in the world but as soon as they lose an election the demands for change start. Of course many of those demanding violence to remove Trump and place their chosen candidate where they belong in place of the elected President, that would be proper and is the only fair thing that can be done. With such views being violently backed or at least calling for violence to impose their views and placing solely leftist candidates in office begs why we even bother with elections. We are fairly sure they would gladly agree to simply appointing left leaning candidates in office and ignoring the electorate choosing otherwise because obviously the electorate is too dumb and ignorant to be trusted to elect the better candidate, just look at the results. So the electorate which elected President Obama twice are erudite and wise but became unhinged and ignorant all of a sudden and had some kind of mental breakdown electing Trump; brilliant, simply brilliant analysis.
The vote is what it was and the results will be acted upon and Donald Trump will be the next President. These people walking around with "Kill Trump" placards and screaming similar hopes into bullhorns need remember that threatening the life of elected officials, especially Presidents, is a felony with a very steep penalty. Thus far the authorities have been overly understanding. We are fairly sure that such might have been tolerated after the last two elections for a measurable amount of time but measured strictly in milliseconds. Actually, had as many people been advocating assassination of President Obama after he won in 2008, and especially in 2012 as he was then the sitting President, they would have been scooped up for questioning at the very minimum. Perhaps that is why we saw almost none if not exactly none of such actions as we are witnessing after this election. We are unable to recall firearms being discharged at any protests after President Obama was elected. Do we remember tears after the two Republican challengers lost? Well, yes, but we do not remember ten and fifteen minutes of each newscast picturing people wallowing in their broken hopes and dashed dreams; we remember the time spent on the joyous celebrations and declarations of the great milestone of electing and then reelecting the first black President. Why are we not celebrating the first non-politician other than a military officer elected to the Presidency and instead centering upon the trail of tears at the loss of the first woman on the ballot. Perhaps because the media was so sure Hillary Clinton was going to prevail that all their reporters and camera units were at her headquarters and at the Donald Trump headquarters all his troglodytic luddites do not even own cellphones so there is no video record of the celebrations. OK; maybe that was going too far but there are probably leftists who would give such credence.
The number of demonstrations and the volume of the threats against the President elect and those who voted for Donald Trump are sickening and disgusting. That is actually rather un-American and distressing. When the left wins, the mantra is heal and accept you losers lost but now when the left lost the mantra is this has to be wrong and must be corrected as we cannot lose and those losers must not be permitted to win. Really, then why bother with elections after the primaries and simply declare the leftist the winner and the conservative or more moderate the loser. Of course by such logic the Green Party should automatically win. Oh, wait, we understand, not the most left, just the right left, the Democrat. So the United States must always choose the right leftist and never be left with the rightist. Almost has symmetry except it disowns half of the American people.
Actually this election fit the same mold of a previous election, the 1948 election. In that election the Republican was winning handily when the Chicago Tribune set their front page assured that voting on Tuesday, November 2, 1948, has selected Thomas E. Dewey as the next President but in the early morning the farm and rural votes came in solidly for the eventual winner, Harry S. Truman. Thus was the famous picture of Harry S. Truman holding up the Chicago Tribune with the headline of "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" (see below). We kind of wish there would have been a similar picture for this election. Perhaps we can fix that.
Dewey Defeats Truman and
Clinton Defeats Trump
Headlines Then and Now

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I just had to throw this in as well. This is the first one that I saw with live actors. I know, I know, I am not a hamster, I'm sure that eventually "Badger Mania" will fade away but I'm guessing it's gonna take a while..


This film tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, while cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer. On the eve of World War II, more than 6,000 Jews lived in Sokal, a small town in Eastern Poland, now part of Ukraine. By the end of the war, only about 30 had survived, most of them rescued by Halamajowa. For close to two years, she hid her Jewish neighbors in her tiny home and cooked and cared for them, right under the noses of German troops camped on her property as well as hostile neighbors. Two families were hidden in the hayloft of her pigsty, and one family in a hole dug under her kitchen floor. In the final months of the war, she also provided shelter to a German soldier who had defected - an act that almost led to her execution. Even among the small minority of Poles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.


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After four years, none of this should be a surprise
Trump's refusal to condemn the neo-Nazis among his supporters, his calls to 'liberate' states during lockdowns and his silence on a foiled plan to kidnap Wisconsin state governor Gretchen Whitmer and put her on trial for treason all led to the events in Washington last week
Marion McKeone
Some of the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday: looking at the events of the past four years, the only surprise is that it didn't happen sooner. Picture: Bryan Dozier/Shutterstock
The cataclysmic events of last week were clearly signposted, every step of the way. It was inevitable that Trump's four years of tumult, chaos and gleeful stoking of the cold civil war that festered under his administration would end in violence and a ham-fisted insurrection.
Red lights have been flashing for years, not months. Back in August 2017, neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville, tiki torches in hand, bedecked with Confederate flags and neo-Nazi regalia...
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Twitter kicking Donald Trump off its platform may have been viscerally satisfying, but the decision is objectively wrong
World Lucinda Creighton 3 days ago
Comment: 'Both sides' haven't eroded democratic values in the US
Protest at injustice is necessary in any democracy. But equating the actions of Black Lives Matter protesters in the US and those of the Capitol insurrectionists in order to present a balanced view is misguided
World Seána Glennon 3 days ago
Cathal Mac Coille: How Trump and social media fuelled a mass-delusion event
The attack on the Capitol Building in Washington DC didn't happen in a vacuum but, instead, was the product of years of poisonous disinformation being spread online
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NEWPORT, R.I., June 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SecZetta, today announced that SecZetta NE Profile, a comprehensive solution delivering third party identity risk and lifecycle management capabilities, has been certified as part of the SailPoint Identity+ Alliance program to seamlessly integrate with SailPoint IdentityIQ. When combined via this certified integration, the joint offering delivers a robust third party identity and access lifecycle solution to the enterprise. SecZetta products extend IGA programs to include an authoritative source for managing third party identity risk and identity lifecycle.
Increased use of partners and vendors and evolving regulations is forcing companies to reconsider how they address the complex process of bringing third party, non-employees into the enterprise. While identities can be created and stored within the identity management system, the arduous task of collecting information about, building relationships and managing the people for whom the identity was created can only be done with a system purpose built.
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Man Utd were beaten 1-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg by Barcelona at Old Trafford and Victor Lindelof has reflected on the game.
United conceded an early against against Barcelona.
Victor Lindelof was left cursing the ease with which Manchester United handed Barcelona the initiative in their Champions League quarter-final.
Ernesto Valverde's side take a 1-0 lead back to the Nou Camp after a first leg at Old Trafford that never caught fire after Luke Shaw's early own goal.
While United made a contest of the game against the La Liga leaders, they didn't have a shot on target and now it have it all to do in Barcelona next week.
Barcelona's goal, which came from Luis Suarez's downward header deflecting in off Shaw, was initially ruled out for offside against the Uruguayan but was given after a VAR check.
But rather than curse the technology, Lindelof was disappointed at the manner with which United conceded.
"When you play against teams like this, you can't concede goals like that. It is too easy," he said.
"It happened, we just have to learn from it and move on.
United have already overturned a first leg setback at Old Trafford in the Champions League this season, thanks to that 3-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain in the French capital.
That will give Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side hope this tie is still alive heading to the Nou Camp, although Lindelof admits it will be a very different game.
"It is different. It will be a different game," he said.


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Louisiana attorney general: Governor's COVID mask mandate, bar closures likely illegal
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is quarantined with the COVID-19 infection, issued an opinion Wednesday saying Gov. John Bel Edwards' order to wear masks, close bars and limit crowd sizes is likely illegal.
"The three provisions of the executive order — the mask mandate, the 50-person gathering limit and the bar closure — are likely unconstitutional and unenforceable," Landry said in a summary of his opinion.
Edwards dismissed the opinion as politically motivated. Edwards, a Democrat, and Landry, a Republican, have often sparred since both won their current offices in 2015.
"There's no doubt in my mind what we did is not just warranted by circumstances, but required and clearly within the legal authority I have," Edwards said on his monthly radio show on WRKF.
Landry's opinion, which doesn't carry the weight of law, was requested by a group of Republican House members and a Republican state senator who have been critical of the measures taken by the Democratic governor during the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the lawmakers is Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, who is seeking to overturn Edwards' public health emergency declaration through a petition that would need a majority of House members (53) to take effect.
Landry's opinion comes a day after vice President Mike Pence visited Louisiana and asked people to heed the governor's order on masks, something the governor noted.
"I wish he had been there when the vice president expressed complete support for actions we've taken here," Edwards said.
Edwards' order took effect Monday.
Landry also warns businesses and law enforcement agencies against enforcing any of the aspects of Edwards' order.
"Although the mask mandate and the 50-person limit may be good recommendations for personal safety, they may not be enforced with financial or criminal penalties," he said. "Both businesses acting under color of law as mask police and actual police acting as mask police could face liability if individual civil rights are violated due to the proclamation."
The attorney general said the mask mandate doesn't follow due process.
He said the 50-person limit on gatherings is "too vague to be constitutional."
As for ordering the bar closings, Landry wrote: "The governor has no authority to discriminate against a single business type statewide in the absence of far more data to support such a draconian and arbitrary exercise of power."
Edwards also noted Landry's opinion seems to conflict with an earlier assessment from the attorney general during a March 18 press conference where he joined the governor to discuss stemming the spread of the COVID.
Landry has also produced public service announcements advising people to take mitigation measures, though he has said they should be recommendations rather than requirements.
"I hope he would rescind the opinion and get back to where he was with me three months ago," Edwards said.
Lawmakers who joined Seabaugh in requesting the opinion include: Rep. Larry Bagley, R-Stonewall; Rep. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge; Rep. Blake Miguez, R-Erath, who is chair of the House GOP Caucus; Rep. Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia; Rep. Chuck Owen, R-Rosepine; Sen. Robert Mills, R-Minden; and Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Hauighton.


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A lifesize cast of T. rex in the atrium of UC Berkeley's Valley Life Sciences Building shows how peculiarly short the forearms were, given that the creature was the most ferocious predator of its day. (Photo by Peg Skorpinski)
Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short?
He would usually list a range of paleontologists' proposed hypotheses - for mating, for holding or stabbing prey, for tipping over a Triceratops - but his students, usually staring a lifesize replica in the face, remained dubious. Padian's usual answer was, "No one knows." But he also suspected that scholars who had proposed a solution to the conundrum came at it from the wrong perspective.
Rather than asking what the T. rex's short arms evolved to do, Padian said, the question should be what benefit those arms were for the whole animal.
I n'a new paper appearing in the current issue of the journal Acta Palaeontologia Polonica, Padian floats a new hypothesis: The T. rex's arms shrank in length to prevent accidental or intentional amputation when a pack of T. rexes descended on a carcass with their massive heads and bone-crushing teeth. A 45-foot-long T. rex, for example, might have had a 5-foot-long skull, but arms only 3 feet long - the equivalent of a 6-foot human with 5-inch arms.
"What if several adult tyrannosaurs converged on a carcass? You have a bunch of massive skulls, with incredibly powerful jaws and teeth, ripping and chomping down flesh and bone right next to you. What if your friend there thinks you're getting a little too close? They might warn you away by severing your arm," said Padian, distinguished emeritus professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator at the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP). "So, it could be a benefit to reduce the forelimbs, since you're not using them in predation anyway."
Severe bite wounds can cause infection, hemorrhaging, shock and eventual death, he said.
Padian noted that the predecessors of tyrannosaurids had longer arms, so there must have been a reason that they became reduced in both size and joint mobility. This would have affected not only T. rex, which lived in North America at the end of the Cretaceous period, he said, but the African and South American abelisaurids from the mid-Cretaceous and the carcharodontosaurids, which ranged across Europe and Asia in the Early and Mid-Cretaceous periods and were even bigger than T. rex.
"All of the ideas that have been put forward about this are either untested or impossible because they can't work," Padian said. "And none of the hypotheses explain why the arms would get smaller - the best they could do is explain why they would maintain the small size. And in every case, all of the proposed functions would have been much more effective if the arms had not been reduced."
He admitted that any hypothesis, including his, will be hard to substantiate 66 million years after the last T. rex became extinct.
Arms and the T. rex
When the great dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown discovered the first T. rex fossils in 1900, he thought the arms were too small to be part of the skeleton. His colleague, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who described and named T. rex, hypothesized that the short arms might have been "pectoral claspers" - limbs that hold the female in place during copulation. This is analogous to some sharks and rays' pelvic claspers, which are modified fins. But Osborn provided no evidence, and Padian noted that the T. rex's arms are too short to go around another T. rex and certainly too weak to exert any control over a mate.
An artist's depiction of a young Tyrannosaurus rex, about 13 years old, chewing on the tail of an Edmontosaurus, a plant-eating, duckbill dinosaur of the late Cretaceous Period. Note the puny forelimbs. (Sketch by Brian Engh)
Over more than a century, other proposed explanations for the short arms included waving for mate attraction or social signaling, serving as an anchor to allow T. rex to get up from the ground, holding down prey, stabbing enemies, and even pushing over a sleeping Triceratops at night. Think cow-tipping, Padian said. And some paleontologists propose that the arms had no function at all, so we shouldn't be concerned with them.
Padian approached the question from a different perspective, asking what benefit shorter arms might have for the animal's survival. The answer came to him after other paleontologists unearthed evidence that some tyrannosaurids hunted in packs, not singly, as depicted in many paintings and dioramas.
"Several important quarry sites unearthed in the past 20 years preserve adult and juvenile tyrannosaurs together," he said. "We can't really assume that they lived together or even died together. We only know that they were buried together. But when you find several sites with the same animals, that's a stronger signal. And the possibility, which other researchers have already raised, is that they were hunting in groups."
Perhaps, he thought, the arms shrank to get out of the way during pack feeding. T. rex youngsters, in particular, would have been wise to wait until the larger adults were finished.
In his new paper, Padian examines speculations by other paleontologists, none of which appear to have been fully tested. The first thing he determined, by measuring the lifesize T. rex cast that dominates the atrium outside the doors of the UCMP, is that none of the hypotheses would actually work.
"The arms are simply too short," he said. "They can't touch each other, they can't reach the mouth, and their mobility is so limited that they can't stretch very far, either forward or upward. The enormous head and neck are way out in front of them and pretty much form the kind of death machine you saw in 'Jurassic Park.'"
Twenty years ago, two paleontologists analyzed the arms and hypothesized that T. rex could have bench pressed about 400 pounds with its arms. "But the thing is, it can't get close enough to anything to pick it up," Padian said.
Beware of Komodo dragons Padian's hypothesis has analogies in some fearsome animals today. The giant Komodo Dragon lizard (Varanus komodoensis) of Indonesia hunts in groups, and when it kills prey, the larger dragons converge on the carcass and leave the remains for the smaller ones. Maulings can occur, as they do among crocodiles during feeding. The same could be true of T. rex and other tyrannosaurids, which first appeared in the Late Jurassic and reached their peak in the Late Cretaceous before becoming extinct.
Evidence from fossil sites suggest that tyrannosaurids lived in groups, and likely hunted in packs. (Photo by Julius Csotonyi, courtesy of Science magazine)
Firmly establishing the hypothesis may never be possible, Padian said, but a correlation could be found if museum specimens around the world were checked for bite marks. That would be quite a feat of fossil crowdsourcing, he admitted.
"Bite wounds on the skull and other parts of the skeleton are well known in tyrannosaurs and other carnivorous dinosaurs," he said. "If fewer bite marks were found on the reduced limbs, it could be a sign that reduction worked."
But Padian has no illusion that his idea will be the end of the story.
"What I first wanted to do was to establish that the prevailing functional ideas simply don't work," he said. "That gets us back to square one. Then, we can take an integrative approach, thinking about social organization, feeding behavior and ecological factors apart from purely mechanical considerations."
One problem in establishing the hypothesis is that there were several groups of large carnivorous dinosaurs that independently reduced their forelimbs, although in different ways.
"The sizes and proportions of the limb bones in these groups are different, but so are other aspects of their skeletons," Padian said. "We shouldn't expect them to be reduced in the same way. This is also true for the reduced wings of our large, living, flightless ratite birds, like the ostrich, the emu and the rhea. They evidently took different evolutionary paths for their own reasons."
Padian sees a common thread in the history of explanations of short arms and other characteristics of T. rex.
"To me, this study of what the arms did is interesting because of how we tell stories in science and what qualifies as an explanation," he said. "We tell a lot of stories like this about possible functions of T. rex because it's an interesting problem. But are we really looking at the problem the right way?"
Padian's paper is part of a Festschift honoring mammalian paleontologist Richard Cifelli , long-time head of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Presidential Professor of Biology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
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