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General Discussion / Re: THE OFFICIAL BABES THREAD

« on: May 07, 2013, 03:01:06 PM »

that reminds me anyone can give me a link where i can download full episodes of game of thrones season 3 so far? i only caught episode one on HBO..fraid to go in the G.O.T. thread...too much spoilers

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General Discussion / Re: Will Jack create history?

« on: May 04, 2013, 07:29:43 AM »

jack is in for a rude awakening when he runs as an independent

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General Discussion / Re: Prices of stuff in T&T.

« on: April 30, 2013, 07:37:09 PM »

hmm an jus today i stand up in the grocery performing a cost benefit analysis of d big blueberry Kiss muffin...

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General Discussion / Re: Official..NO MORE JACK!

« on: April 23, 2013, 07:20:39 PM »

Sad day for the nation
T&T Express Letter

I am very saddened by the resignation of Jack Warner as minister of national security.

For the past few years he worked very hard for the people of this country and I am most certain that many can testify to that. In this Cabinet, he was seen as “the results man” and won the hearts of all.

Of course it is no secret that there were stones thrown at him from various directions due to controversies surrounding his tenure in FIFA and Concacaf.

What strikes me the most is Mr Warner’s ability to work under pressure and still produce results. Murder rates have begun to drop once again and people’s voices are being heard. This is what politics is all about, results and people-centred movement.

I want to say to the PNM, COP and MSJ forces that if they choose to take Mr Warner’s resignation as a victory for them, then they are terribly fooled. This man’s resignation is a statement to the country that even our leaders understand that the country is to be put first, contrary to what the PNM has displayed time and time again.

Mr Warner, I salute you for your great work as minister and your great service to the country and its people. I salute our Prime Minister for her grace under pressure and the tactful way she handled the entire situation, making sure not to bow to the bullying forces.

Ralph Camacho
Maraval

i have no words.

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Football / Re: Luis Suárez deserve a thread.

« on: April 22, 2013, 04:14:45 PM »

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Football / Re: Luis Suárez deserve a thread.

« on: April 21, 2013, 03:12:37 PM »

all strikers need to be fed.

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Football / Australia demand answers over 'misappropriated' Warner cash

« on: April 20, 2013, 08:27:18 PM »

Australia wants to know where money gone
By Andre Bagoo Sunday, April 21 2013
T&T Newsday

A FEW MONTHS after Jack Warner, 70, was made a Government minister in 2010 he “obtained through fraud and then misappropriated” about $3 million donated to Concacaf by the Football Federation of Australia (FFA), according to the findings of a Concacaf report prepared by former Barbados Chief Justice Sir David Simmons.

The September 2010 donation was supposed to be for an upgrade of the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya. Instead, according to Sir David, it is unclear how the money was spent. The money was placed in a local bank account in which Warner “comingled his personal funds”. There was, however, never any trace of the donation in Concacaf’s 2010 financial statements.

The report was released on Friday after being presented to the Concacaf congress at Panama. In response to Sir David’s findings in relation to the Australia donation, the FFA yesterday called for answers stating it has asked for a formal brief from Concacaf.

“FFA looks forward to hearing formally from Concacaf on its findings and taking the matter from there,” the Australian governing football body said in a statement, reported Reuters. The FFA said the funding related to mandatory components of its failed 2022 World Cup bid and was intended to demonstrate their credentials in the area of international development.

“This was one of a range of international development projects FFA undertook, which were fully reported to the Australian government as part of its bid reporting processes,” FFA stated.

Warner, the UNC Chaguanas West MP, was appointed Minister of Works and Transport in May 2010. At that time, questions were raised over whether Warner should be allowed to retain his football affairs while sitting as a Government Minister, in light of Parliament’s code of ethics which calls for ministers to give up private business.

The Cabinet obtained legal opinions which found that Warner could continue to wear both hats since FIFA and Concacaf were not, technically, businesses but rather associations.

According to the time-line provided by Sir David’s report, it was four months after his appointment, and three months after Cabinet allowed Warner to remain in football, that the Australia football transaction occurred.

Sir David says, “On or around September 23, 2010, Football Federation Australia (FFA) provided (US) $462,200 to Concacaf to support an upgrade of the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Centre of Excellence. These funds were provided through Australia’s International Football Development program in connection with its 2022 FIFA World Cup bid.” He notes there had been a site visit, involving Warner, the month before.

“During FFA’s initial assessment of the upgrade project in August 2010, representatives of the FFA met with a number of Centre of Excellence employees, as well as Warner, and conducted a site visit at that the COE to assess the scope of the project,” Sir David states. The Australians seemed to have been of the view that the facility was Concacaf-owned.

“In communications with Centre of Excellence employees after the trip, a member of the FFA delegation referred to the stadium upgrade project as the ‘Concacaf Centre of Excellence Upgrade’,” he states. “An FFA memorandum documenting the trip also refers to the Centre of Excellence as the ‘Concacaf Centre of Excellence’ and to Warner as the ‘President of Concacaf’”. A cheque was sent.

“One month after the visit, FFA sent the funds to Concacaf. The funds from the FFA were provided by cheque made out to ‘Concacaf’ and deposited into a bank account

maintained at Republic National Bank in Trinidad and Tobago,” the jurist says. However, there was no trace of the funds in the Concacaf accounts.

“The funds, however, were not accounted for in the Concacaf general ledger or reported as income in its financial statements for 2010,” Sir David, chairman of the Concacaf integrity committee says. “Although the committee was unable to locate records evidencing how this money was spent, bank records show that Warner comingled his personal funds in the same account to which the FFA payment was deposited.” Sir David finds that Warner and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer presented financial statements to Concacaf officials which contained key gaps and misrepresentations. One omission was the Australia donation.

“The most significant misrepresentations and material omissions in the financial

Statements … include (the fact that) the financial statements in 2010 did not account for funds provided to Concacaf by FFA and therefore falsely reported income,” Sir David states. He says Warner, the minister, received the payment.

“Warner also received the payment from FFA so he would have known that it was not reflected as income in the 2010 financial statements.” Thus, Sir David concludes, Warner should have realised the 2010 accounts were wrong.

“As a result, it is clear that Warner knew that the financial statements did not fairly and accurately depict Concacaf’s financial condition and the disposition of its assets; nonetheless, he participated in presenting them year after year to the Executive Committee and the Congress,” Sir David says.

Sir David finds that, “Warner obtained through fraud and then misappropriated (US)$462,200 provided to Concacaf by Football Federation Australia in 2010.” He continues, “Although the Committee did not interview representatives from FFA, FFA provided documents related to the payment. The documents clearly show that FFA provided the funds to support an upgrade of the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Centre of Excellence and that FFA representatives were led to believe that the Centre of Excellence was owned by Concacaf.”

Sir David, the current chairman of the Cabinet-convened Commission of Inquiry into the events of 1990 further says, “documents show that the FFA provided the funds under the misimpression that they would be used to support a Concacaf project.”

Sir David’s report also finds that statements made by Warner – while he has been a Government Minister – on the question of the ownership of the Centre of Excellence were not credible.

“Warner declined to meet or provide information to the Committee,” Sir David notes. “Warner did, however, explain his position on ownership of the Centre of Excellence in a 2012 meeting with the current Concacaf General Secretary. Warner claimed that former FIFA President João Havelange gifted the Centre of Excellence to Warner’s family and to the Caribbean Football Union.” The credibility of the claim was rejected.

“In conducting its investigation, the committee considered the merits of this claim and ultimately concluded that it could not be credited because the Committee found no evidence to support it,” Sir David says. “In fact, no witness interviewed had even heard Warner raise such a claim until after the Centre of Excellence ownership became a public controversy and the media sought an explanation. Furthermore, the claim that Havelange gave the Centre of Excellence as a gift in part to Warner’s family simply does not make sense because the development of the sport of football would in no way be served by giving the Centre of Excellence – a football and sports complex that was built with the obvious intention of serving as a regional facility – to a private family.”

Sir David, an eminent jurist, continues, “Moreover, Havelange would not have had authority to provide such a gift to a private family using FIFA funds...Thus, the Committee concludes, based on its review of available evidence, that Warner’s claim is not credible.”

The Barbados jurist also finds that to date, $6 million is still owed by Warner for a Concacaf mortgage loan relating to the Centre of Excellence. About US$26 million in payments were made by Concacaf and Fifa in the relation to the Centre of Excellence under the assumption that it was owned by the football body. The land was owned by Warner through companies and the money went to Warner companies.

Sir David, in his report, makes a series of damning findings about Warner’s Concacaf football affairs in the years leading up to his appointment as minister. He concludes that Warner, the former Concacaf president and Chuck Blazer, the former Concacaf general secretary, committed fraud and breached fiduciary duties. Under Warner, Blazer violated US tax laws. There is no finding that Warner was involved in Blazer’s breaches of US laws.

While Warner did not appear before Sir David and the Concacaf committee, Sir David, in his report, states, that the lack of Warner’s evidence, “was counterbalanced by credible documentary evidence that spoke clearly and cogently.”

Warner has dismissed jurist Sir David’s report as “baseless” and has asked for evidence of wrongdoing. On Friday Warner said he saw no reason to resign.

Nonetheless, the findings have raised questions on Warner’s political future.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who was due to return from an official trip to the United States last night, was on Friday quoted as saying she has to take action in relation to the report. The Prime Minister did not respond to calls yesterday.

SIR DAVID’S MAIN FINDINGS

A. In connection with the Centre of Excellence and CONCACAF operations in Trinidad and Tobago:

*Warner Committed Fraud Against CONCACAF and FIFA
* Warner Committed Fraud and Misappropriated Funds from FFA
* Warner and Blazer Breached Their Fiduciary Duties to CONCACAF
* Warner and Blazer Violated the CONCACAF Statutes
* Warner Violated the FIFA Ethics Code

B. In connection with the compensation of, and use of CONCACAF assets by, the former General Secretary:
 
* Blazer Misappropriated CONCACAF Funds
* Warner and Blazer Breached Their Fiduciary Duties to CONCACAF
* Blazer Violated the CONCACAF Statutes
* Blazer Violated the FIFA Ethics Code

C. In connection with the failure of CONCACAF and its subsidiary, CMTV, to file U.S. federal income tax returns and pay taxes:

* Blazer Violated U.S. Federal Tax Laws
* Blazer Breached His Fiduciary Duties to CONCACAF and CMTV
* Blazer Violated the CONCACAF Statutes

D. In connection with CONCACAF’s financial statements and audits:

* Warner and Blazer Committed Fraud Against CONCACAF
* Warner and Blazer Breached Their Fiduciary Duties to CONCACAF
* Warner and Blazer Violated the CONCACAF Statutes

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Football / Re: Concacaf Integrity Report

« on: April 19, 2013, 09:46:52 PM »

Kamla cant even drink she way outta dis one...yea we want Kamla to do somthin BUTT...something Warner holdin over she head probably soo dred...she gettin jam either way...

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General Discussion / Re: Bombing at the Boston Marathon

« on: April 18, 2013, 03:43:55 PM »

are you guys good at where waldo ?
http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-culprits-found/

wow...lots of ppl with alo of time on their hands...and it wasnt even any of them

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Football / Re: $100m & MORE MISSING (Sunday Express)

« on: April 14, 2013, 07:24:32 AM »

FBI/IRS trace Fifa funds to Africa

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-04-14/fbiirs-trace-fifa-funds-africa

Ongoing investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have so far uncovered evidence showing the diversion of funds from one of Fifa’s main sponsors into the offshore accounts of a former senior Fifa official.


One of the accounts has been traced to an African country. Investigations, sources say, have also unearthed the inappropriate use of a credit card by a relative of the former official. The relative was held, questioned and subsequently released by US law enforcement in April last year, about to board a flight from Miami to Trinidad. Sources say the individual was questioned at length over several suspicious credit card transactions.


Explaining that large sums of money were placed on the cards, which bypassed the cards’ limits, the sources said several items were then purchased and, in some cases, cheques were made out to withdraw money from the credit card accounts and dispersed elsewhere. This sort of activity raised alarm bells from US officials, as the money placed on the cards could not be accounted for.

Sunday Guardian also learnt that another aspect of the case being investigated involved the handing-over of close to US$5 million to two Trinidadians by the representative of a contractor at a casino/hotel in Las Vegas. Both parties, sources say, met at the popular hotel and casino, where the money was handed over in return for favourable consideration in a major construction project here in Trinidad.

Sources said the manner in which the transaction was made drew the FBI/IRS’ attention to it. Both parties reportedly met at a game table and the representative of the construction firm reportedly purchased some gambling chits, placed a few bets at the table, then left the remaining chits with the Trinidadians and left the casino. The Trinidadians then cashed in the chits, which amounted to close to US$5 million, and deposited the money at a bank on the casino compound. The money was then wired to another account.

Since the transaction took place on US soil, FBI/IRS investigators have deemed it as a form of money-laundering. Both the FBI and IRS are investigating money-laundering, tax evasion and fraud matters. Earlier this month, international news agency Reuters reported that Daryan Warner, son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, was assisting the FBI and the IRS with an ongoing probe in the United States.

The article was written by Mark Hosenball and noted that “while the exact scope of the investigation is not clear, among the matters under scrutiny are two previously reported allegations involving Jack Warner. The deepening of the probe indicates that a succession of corruption scandals involving Fifa and other international soccer bodies in the past few years may continue to cast a cloud over the sport for some time.

Warner formerly headed Concacaf and was previously one of the vice-presidents of Fifa, soccer’s global governing body.” Following the report by Reuters, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar instructed Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran to enquire from the US authorities about the report. Ramlogan has indicated that he has written to US Attorney General Eric Holder but is yet to receive a response.

There have been calls for Warner’s removal in the wake of the report. However, Persad-Bissessar, in a media release, has indicated that she will not act until such time as she can verify the authenticity of the Reuters report.


US remains mum
Contacted on the matter, the US Department of Justice, which has responsibility for entertaining queries regarding the Office of the Attorney General Eric Holder, asked that the questions be e-mailed. Sunday Guardian complied but was subsequently informed there was no comment to be made.

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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?

« on: March 31, 2013, 08:28:36 AM »

Is this a family business 

I was wondering the same thing, it kinda remind me of the fire department here in NYC, is only ah set ah irish and italian, very little to no diversity.

Study electrical engineering.

I was only making light of it bc of elan's response, but if yuh want me to get serious i'll tell you this without reservation. i or the next man could study all they want, where ever or what ever profession indians dominate it is very hard to integrate, bc they look out for each other and shut other ethnics out.

forninstance road construction, when i lived in trinidad there was a lot of road work going on, the main contractors being mutilal moonan, amar and wimpey, wimpey was moreso building drainage systems and road ramps, while the other two was actually building roads.

wimpey hired anyone who was qualified (all ethnic groups) while moonan and amar had a 100% indian staff, couple of times i went seeking employment with both amar and moonan and was quickly put in my place that this was an indian only employment opportunity employer (even though they didn't say it to my face), and what's funny is that they were under govt contract.

so doh matter who else is qualified for this job, the ppl who runnin this job is indians, and when come time to hire or replace an engineer, bet yuh bottom dollar that it will be an indian coming in to replace another one, bc these jobs don't advertize in the papers, just like union jobs don't advertize in the papers, and only ppl on the inside would know that these jobs are available , and guess who would be applying for it, yes ah frien or a relative of one of these workers, nepotism in yuh coddasmont!!

lemme ask yuh this, yuh think anyone ah dem young indian boy found out about this job in the gaurdian?? yuh think they went through the rigors of applying for this job? i would bet anything that they were recommended by a relative or the friend of a relative.

there's no such thing as equality in this world, that's just ah civil word that ppl love to use to look good but seldom practice it.

wake up my yute and smell the juan valdez.

on the estate you hear alot of "i aint working with no nigga"...and all the young and older negro heads will always let you know how hard they try to undermine you once you from the other race...you have to hold your nerve and your head as an african on the estate because its your bread and butter...it is real...sad, but real.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Trinidad James - Thread

« on: March 29, 2013, 06:40:36 PM »

steups this is something?

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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?

« on: March 29, 2013, 06:04:59 PM »

Is this a family business 

I was wondering the same thing, it kinda remind me of the fire department here in NYC, is only ah set ah irish and italian, very little to no diversity.

thats the estate for you

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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?

« on: March 29, 2013, 02:11:43 PM »

Post-cabinet press conference cancelled. 

So last week anil roerts get he time to bray bout who he going and sue and this week it eh have nuttin to talk bout?

Sampson Nanton on Twitter (‏@samnanton)
Office of the PM: "The Prime Minister has the common cold and her doctors have recommended bed rest for the Prime Minister." 

Puncheon might help I hear.

Apparently she recover fast enough to tour Powergen during the power outage this morning.....when ah tell all yuh this is worst firetrucking bunch I have ever come across......

make me better..


im back bitches

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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?

« on: March 27, 2013, 03:16:02 PM »

Your move Kamla.

right now kamla lock sheself in d toilet shittin bricks..

I was telling my father last night something coming. I hearing too much random almost trivial snippets of comess...like is a diversionary tactic. The "rogue media elements" ting just come outta no where....and now we see why.

she would say it hav rogue elements in Reuteurs

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Football / Re: Jack Warner sons arrested?

« on: March 27, 2013, 02:10:59 PM »

Your move Kamla.

right now kamla lock sheself in d toilet shittin bricks..

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General Discussion / Re: The Prime Minister Knew of the 'Flying Squad'

« on: March 02, 2013, 01:13:04 AM »

this country in a bad bad bad state of affairs..

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General Discussion / Re: Minister Of National Security Performance Update: 81 MURDERS IN 60 DAYS!!

« on: March 02, 2013, 01:11:34 AM »

police said this has all the makings of a hit..and by the sheer gruesomeness and apparent randomness, i tend to agree...

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Football / Re: Milan v Barcelona, 2013

« on: February 21, 2013, 04:17:10 AM »

think the ref got it right



vybz

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General Discussion / Re: "no African-American nurse"

« on: February 16, 2013, 09:06:33 PM »

Must be bad experience, but is the Congo eh. So anything possible. I only went there once, you feel like you in a western where a stranger ride into town

congo normal..not livin to far from there..fellas is just pest

i remember eatin by an indian sistren for indian arrival day...pose off in livin room chowin down on some curry..pops come home pass tru hail meh out and went he way..after i leave she told me he trew out d plate n spoon and give she a good cuss out for bringin a n***a in d house...it sad but it gave us a good laugh

also in pt lisas estate, alot of indians openly state the aint workin wit no n***a...

unfortunately racism is par for the course in some parts of trinidad...

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Football / Re: UEFA Champions League 2012/2013

« on: February 15, 2013, 11:23:16 AM »

any of you saw the celtic-juve game? regarding the jostling in the box on corner/free-kicks...how did any of you see it? celtic kicking up an embarrassing fuss about it imho...there were no fouls and no valid claims for a penalty...we studied them and saw that their main tactic is to obstruct the keeper so our players basically went out on instruction to eliminate this...

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Football / Re: Footballer/Celebrity look-alikes

« on: February 14, 2013, 08:37:21 PM »

yall aint find arsene wegner is an aged version of sheldon cooper??

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Football / Re: Footballer/Celebrity look-alikes

« on: February 14, 2013, 06:14:11 PM »

or

osvaldo and khal drogo (momoa)

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Football / Re: Footballer/Celebrity look-alikes

« on: February 14, 2013, 10:58:06 AM »

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 08, 2013, 03:10:11 PM »

Not to go off subject, but it seemed to me that Peru's national anthem must be the worlds longest. The DJ actually cut it short. I wasn't sure if he was playing a complete album or perhaps the remixed 12" version.
Reminded me of this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggb1kRwNbW0

All dem SAmerican anthem but Peru really have d longest 4 shrrr

Yep, all them anthems long. Mexico, Argentina and Italy are the worse. When you think it ending, it start up again.

  Doh let Buffon hear you say dat nah my boy does serenade de stadium

my boy love he anthem

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xS7eWtUJ2-A" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/xS7eWtUJ2-A</a>

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 06, 2013, 08:08:12 PM »

Can't recall seeing KJ taking any free kicks.

took one and scored v peru the last time..am i right?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 06, 2013, 08:07:36 PM »

andre, ken and edgar...easy with the crosstalk nah.

i have no words for that commentary..no words..

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 06, 2013, 06:24:42 PM »

I don't even know how to get to Ato Bolden.

dais because it is the Ato Boldon.

LOL. I still pass it on the highway and wonder how to get there. Granted I have never had the need to go in Couva for any reason.

take d preysal  interchange or whatever they call it...ten left and head straight...in a 30 seconds ull meet the turn off to d stadium on d right

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 06, 2013, 06:14:16 PM »

Game pushed back to 8:30pm (T&T time).

nutsman aint come yet?

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Peru Game (06-Feb-2013).

« on: February 06, 2013, 06:02:29 PM »

ahhh thought so..they blocked it...