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A number of nutrition professionals bristle at the term junk food. After all, it is the overall eating plan that counts, not the stray high-sugar, high-fat, low-nutrient item that gets indulged in here or there. However, there are nutritional consequences to choosing items like soda and chips over healthier foods.
Health Effects of Junk Foods
Not surprisingly, the more junk foods that make up one's diet, the more calories consumed; also, the more fat and saturated fat eaten, and the less fiber. Moreover, as junk food in the diet goes up, the consumption of vitamins A, B6, B12, C, folate, calcium, and iron go down. The lower the blood levels of many of those nutrients, too. Furthermore, people who eat more junk food have lower levels of the good HDL-cholesterol that works to clear plaque from the arteries. And they have higher levels of homocysteine, a blood chemical that may be associated with increased heart disease risk.
Fats and Sweets Get All the Attention
Advertising may also be fueling the desire for less nutritionally desirable choices by placing more attention on these products. While we do not see advertisements for carrots, we often see advertisements for chips, soda, and fast food restaurants. And, with children spending more and more time in front of screens, they have impressionable audience.
Studies have shown that children are heavily influenced by food advertising. For example, researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University found that children who view more advertisements for junk food end up eating more of this type of food.
Everything in Moderation
The whole debate about the term junk food may prompt us to take a closer look at what we are eating and what our children are eating. Americans eating double cheeseburgers, sugar frosted flakes, soft drinks, candy bars, and other high-fat, low-nutrient foods on a daily basis should rethink their diet.
These foods give us a lot of pleasure, but they should not be eaten every day. We should eat less of these foods and choose healthier options whenever possible. Choosing to include more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can help to improve our overall health.
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Is this why Paul and Ringo look so good?
Could it be that vegetarianism, which studies show helps people maintain a healthy weight, is the secret behind Paul and Ringo's vigor?
Watching them at the Grammy tribute honoring the Beatles 50 years after their American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show, it was obvious that both Paul McCartney, 71, and Ringo Starr, 73, have taken good care of themselves. (Though we're not privy to their triglyceride counts, they are both still performing and appear lean and light on their feet, especially compared with some of their peers.)
We weren't the only ones noticing.
When Variety editor Steve Chagollan recently asked Ringo about his septuagenarian spunkiness, the world's best-known drummer credited vegetarianism and daily workouts.
Ringo's been vegetarian for awhile apparently, but his diet is not as well-documented as that of Paul, who's been a vegetarian and outspoken animal rights activist for decades, and has supported groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), ever on the look out for ways to showcase plant-based diets, is another group that was gently weeping with gratitude this week for being able to link vegetarianism with the beloved Beatles.
PCRM honored the musicians' 50th anniversary — the show "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles" aired Sunday — by highlighting Beatley recipes.
Actually, PCRM mostly renamed some standbys, like Sergeant Pepper Red Pepper Hummus , "Yellow Submarine" Split Pea and Potato Soup (thanks Whole Foods Markets) and Strawberry Fields Forever Strawberry Sauce.
Hokey, yes. But not a bad thing. The list makes the point that there are plenty of yummy veggie foods. And studies show that a plant-based diet is helpful in countless ways, increasing our intake of fiber and a host of vitamins and minerals.
They also show that vegetarians and vegans have an edge when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight, which de facto reduces one's risk of diabetes and other chronic ailments.
The research is less clear when it comes to blaming meat consumption for raising the risk of heart disease, strokes and cancers. Many studies have found exactly that.
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by MotownPride, Sep 26, 2013.
Would someone just go ahead and trade for Asik please? Soon.
Been out of the country and out of internet range for 6 weeks or so (I set my lineups all the way in advance - thank you 'start active players' button) and come back to find the thinnest waiver wire of all time. A couple of injured guys to replace too. At least I'm somehow not way down the bottom of the standings. If you've sent me a trade request in the past, sorry, I wasn't ignoring you on purpose. This is gonna be a challenge to make the playoffs (or at least beat Laims record of waiver adds) - whichever comes first.
PS - I DID have my lineups set in that 0-9 week - I just got my butt kicked fair and square. It was actually closer than the score suggested if you look at the box score (had injuries to a couple of players). Seems I am unbeaten since then despite missing all the FA opportunities... @Roscoe - I didn't mind you retweeting my FB status. It was a great trip.
everytime I am mad at myself for having dropped John Henson in favour of Vitor Faverani, for not having picked up Varejao due to the time difference in Europe and the US, or for not having taken Kevin Love at #10 in the draft, I think of the guy that dropped Aron Afflalo.
Yep...I drafted Afflalo in the 10th round and dropped him after a week as he struggled out of the gate
I benefited from 2 out of 4 of these scenarios. lol. Umm....thank you?
you're welcome
wow. Went to bed last night up 5-4 with only Meeks still playing. Checked the score this morning and I won 7-2. Somehow Meeks went 8-15 and won me FG% by .001. Even more incredible is he went 7-7 and won FT% by .000128. He usually shoots a decent percentage but rarely gets to the line that often.
I hate it when percentages get that terribly close. Luckily, with all the chuckers on my team, FG% is usually lost by a fair margin. Btw, I finally dropped out of the playoff picture (after losing yet another weekly matchup), which means I am desperate and longing for trades.
Make me an offer.....not of your usual lopsided-variety, though....
I still don't know why I am the lone trade shyster here. n the last weeks, I have received offers that go far beyond what I would ever have dared to propose.
You aren't the lone... you're the original!
I am looking forward to get my [self-censored] kicked by your team. They look amazing on paper.
If I do all of this hard work just to flame out in the playoffs, I will not be a happy camper....
The waiver wire is absolutely brutal this season. Hardly any good finds.....
Yep it's a real slog ... Thankfully I'm fairly happy with my team for now !
can't say how often it happened to me that I thought "humm, that guy sounds promising" and gone already he was.
it would be a pleasure to kick you out of the first round and pull a New York Knicks anno 1999 with an even better end. Didn't that happen to you last year or 2 years ago? Rocking the regular season and getting kicked out of the first round?
I've been watching the waiver wire religiously since losing Rose to injury. Hardly anyone I picked up has been productive for more than 2-3 games. So far my favorite FA pickups have been: Greivis Vasquez Kris Humphries
most of my favourite pickups either play for other teams now or never happened in reality :D
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- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon or 1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon
- 2-1/2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1 cup seedless red grapes, halved
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- In a large bowl, stir the mayonnaise, milk, salt, pepper and tarragon until smooth. Add chicken and toss to coat. Stir in grapes, peas, peaches and pecans. Serve in a lettuce-lined bowl if desired. Yield: 4-6 servings.
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Sunsets may be beautiful in real-life, but catching that image can be difficult. Here's how to give mother nature a little help. This tutorial will explain how to turn a plain, dull sunset into a bright, color-rich sunset with dramatic pink and orange hues, using the following effects:
- Adjustment layers
- Colour adjustments
- Brush Tool
- Curves
Here is a copy of the original photo we will be working with:
Here is a copy of what it will look like when we have finished:
1. Open the original image in Photoshop and click on "Create new fill or adjustment layer" icon in the Layers pallet.
2. Now click on Solid Color.
3. Apply a Solid Color with Hex Value #f30a88.
4. Change the Blend Mode to Multiply.
5. Now change the Opacity to 40% to avoid excessive saturation.
Note: you'll see now that the skyline acquires a nice pink/purple color blend. It should look something like this:
6. We now need to remove the pink from below the shoreline. To do this, we are going to use the Gradient Tool so as to avoid creating a harsh contrast between the end of the pink skyline and the beginning of the shoreline.
Select the Gradient tool:
And choose the following settings for the Gradient Tool:
Left Color = Black Right Color = Black
Left Opacity = 100% Right Opacity = 0%
7. Now select the Layer Mask for your Color Fill layer and draw gradient line starting FROM the shoreline TO just above the building.
Note: the line should start from the bottom of the yellow line and end on the tip of the yellow arrow.
8. Now we need to remove the pink that has covered the restaurant to the left of the picture. To do this, we'll use the Brush Tool (the hardness of the Brush Tool should be set to 0%) over the restaurant to remove the pink Color Fill.
Note: see the Brush size in the example below.
9. Next, add a new Adjustment Layer and select Curves.
10. Blend the curve line down to make the image darker and the skyline will light up.
11. Now use the same Gradient Tool that was used in steps 6 + 7 and draw the same line. This will take the Curve effect OFF the water and restaurant. This time draw the line from the bottom of the lighthouse to the top of the lighthouse.
12. After that, use the Brush Tool again to remove the Curve from the restaurant (see step 8).
13. Now we're going to add some blue back into the skyline. We will do this by removing some of the color from the original blue areas of the photo using a Layer Mask. Select the Brush Tool and change the Opacity to 15% and set Width Size so that the Brush can fit inside the blue streaks in the sky (see below).
14. Select the layer mask of the pink Color Fill layer and begin drawing over the blue streaks in the sky.
Note: run over the areas closer to the border a few times with the Brush Tool to give the streaks a richer blue hue, creating a gradient effect.
15. Now let's add some orange to the bottom of the skyline to make it look like a real sunset. Create a new Color Fill adjustment layer: set the color to #fcff00 and decrease the layer Opacity to 50%.
16. Using the Gradient Tool on the Layer Mask of the new Color Fill layer, draw a line from just below the horizon, to about 1/4 up. Then draw another Gradient line from about half-way down from the top of the picture, to the horizon (as shown below). This will leave the yellow Color Fill only on the bottom part of the sky.
17. Now use the paint Brush tool again, and with an Opacity of 100% draw over the restaurant to the left again (as in steps 6+7). Enjoy your stunning sunset.
TIP: Play with the Curve layer you created in step 9 (bending the line up and down) and adjust the color of your sunset to reach the desired effect.
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toxicwombat wrote:This is really awesome -- great job!
i agree. I love sketching and have been far too long out of practice since I find it hard to find time lately.
How do you get it to look so nicely sketched digitally without gradients?
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Sooo cute!!! <3
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Thanks amreli and aswati, and for the help!
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Amazing! +1
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I love the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar reference! There are sooooo many things going on in this shirt and sadly I don't get all of them but it doesn't stop me from really really wanting one.
So cute!
Re: Literary fail
No offense intended, but how does this get around the "Obviously, celebrity author likenesses are off limits" rule?
I need this shirt...
Re: Epic Battle
If anyone else looked at the the shirt referenced earlier, I now know what the book was that I couldn't identify; Twilight. I have to say, I'm kind of glad I couldn't tell...
tazfreeatlast wrote:No offense intended, but how does this get around the "Obviously, celebrity author likenesses are off limits" rule?
Yeah... I'm not sure Wifred Brimley would approve of you using him to sell shirts.
PixelPants wrote:KFC will have you for copyright infringement if you insist on using Colonal Sanders likeness.
ApeLad wrote:I actually called them about it. They said "have it your way."
Mmmm... I love Pizza Hut.
AdderXYU wrote:Though to be fair, there's really only one way to feel about it.
drinkingthesea wrote:Shakespeare wrote plays, not books. They are not the same thing. The script of a play is just the blueprint for the performance. It is not intended to be read like a book. This shirt, IMO, is off-topic.
I normally think posts that start with "Well I'm so educated I disagree with you" sound pretentious and Jatravartid. But as a playwright, with a MFA in playwrighting... you're wrong. You're overly generalizing, and you're being diminutive about a form of literature because it also functions in a performance art role?! That's just ridiculous.
ccazabon wrote:Point being, this still is NOT copyright violation. Not even close.
consider this: woot included the "no star wars" rule, which would be redundant if "no copyright" was the same as no parody, which it's not. If they didn't want parody, they would either say "no parody" or "no pop culture references" which they've done before.
To try to say this design falls under the copyright rule alone, is just ignorance or stupidity.
Actually, I don't really give a flying warp about whether there's a copyright violation (guess I never should have mentioned copyright in my response). All I was trying to do was help with the misunderstanding about 'celebrity likeness'. Copyright law, anyway, is so extensively litigated and complex, that I doubt that anyone who misunderstands some arcane portion of it is either ignorant or Jatravartid. To make such an ad hominem comment is just rude and trollish.
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I wish this could have been printed.
sashimichan wrote:Aw man, I'm really bummed this ended up being rejected. I need a good hitchhiker shirt.
Ya me too. I saw this and was like "No WAY!"
ochopika wrote:I just made this for funnies. If you remember English class you might think its kinda funny too. Thank you for looking!
I do think it's kinda funny!
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A last minute inspiration. I was actually working on a completely different entry since Friday but it just isn't coming together. I wish I had more time for this derby. I love the topic!
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Too Wonderful!
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Darn, I really liked this shirt, Its the only one I voted for in this derby... Oh well another weekend with no new shirts
Great color selection!
Josephus wrote:Actually, I don't really give a flying warp about whether there's a copyright violation (guess I never should have mentioned copyright in my response). All I was trying to do was help with the misunderstanding about 'celebrity likeness'. Copyright law, anyway, is so extensively litigated and complex, that I doubt that anyone who misunderstands some arcane portion of it is either ignorant or Jatravartid. To make such an ad hominem comment is just rude and trollish.
True, you didn't say this design was, I was mostly directing my argument against adder who insists that it is definitely against the rules. Yes copyright can be very complex, which on my part I poorly implied when saying that someone stating that this definitely violates it is ignorant to the fact that parody is allowed, even if the process for determining if it is goes into the "grey area"
I guess I would also appear to fall into the same category of simply saying that it's definitely not a violation on my original comment, so I'd rather correct that to say its not a definite copyright violation, or (in my opinion, based on what I know) even close.
HarryBalzakk wrote:Exactly.
really? I want to know what the only way to feel about a topic is.
I like this design, it definitely makes a statement...even if we aren't allowed to know it ;)
Must... Have... Precious shirt... We wants it. We needs it!!! In my opinion the battle between the books: HP would win. In my opinion!!! I love LOTR too, just HP more. The battle between these wizards: Gandalf would destroy. The real battle would be between Gandalf and Dumbledore... Yea!
WANT +3! I would buy one for every member of my family! So clever!
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I really like the idea, very original
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Love this one! Wish it was in earlier!
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I definitely want to have this shirt
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very good, fishbiscuit.
I love, love, love, love it. I don't wear t-shirts but if this one prints, I plan on buying one for myself, one for my daughter, one for every teacher and librarian and book lover I know.
I'm wondering, though...if it prints, will you tell us all the references? Please???
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This is my favorite. I would wear this. I will if it prints.
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Cool idea...
tintan wrote:wow. so much detail.... still trying to find all the references.
but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out the strawberry or the lion :D
I'm just guessing but I think the red lion is also part of The Oz series. A red lion is a symbol of courage.
So, am I right?
You could title this RTFM and put a wildebeest on the cover to make it a Linux joke.
Doubt it'll be an issue. Let's be honest, it looks nothing like Emily Brontë.
Spiritgreen wrote:@limonmix & j5, thanks! I appreciate it. ^_^
@marzipan', I'm impressed you've seen the show! It is very good, isn't it? Was that via BBC America?
(new episodes coming this Autumn)
Someone had it on Netflix and I decided to give it a watch. So good. :9
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I love those clunky feet of his. I really like that he's a go-getter, rather than a sitter-arounder. I'm rooting for him to catch that fairy.
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j5 wrote:My company blocks the service where this is stored, maybe yours does also?
You were right, J5, when I got home it opened just fine on mine. Hmm, curious?
Oh my, did you see the dog's nose? Aww! I just lost my Big dog, I miss him so much, but we got a new puppy just 3 weeks ago. The dog makes me love it 100x's MORE!
I want,want,want this!
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- Won in 2V4+ against Minnesota in bow seat
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- Finished in third place at Princeton in 2V4+
- Stroked gold-medal-winning boat at C-USA regionals in Open 4+
- Finished ninth in Collegiate 4+ at Chattanooga Head Race
High School
- Graduated from Maryville High School
- Was a member of the East Tennessee Rowing Organization from 2006-10
- Served in Habitat for Humanity
- Was a peer mentor to younger students
- Received her school's Citizenship Award
- Majoring in Psychology at Tennessee
- Aspires to become a leader, a better athlete and develop skills to take into the business world
- Has been a Tennessee fan since birth
- What she loves most about rowing at Tennessee is the team, and the beautiful, smooth water of the Tennessee River
- She loves Tennessee because of the colors orange and white, football, mountains, and the fall leaves
- Liza rows on the starboard side
- Her 2K erg time is 7:27.9
- Has one sister, Tori
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Completely forgot about this thread!
Just as an end of season recap, no video this time!
Huge thanks for the advice! Mainly the results we felt were:
We both found that we were lasting much longer , generally on previous occasions, our back legs/quads would be burning and starting to cramp towards the end of the day. But we did find that we were not feeling that pain anymore - nowhere near as intense as before. It has been a conscious struggle to try to end the ruddering and seems we have decreased it to an extent.
I have been using alpine replay and measuring my speed - it jumped 10kph+ without trying to push it.
I did feel that I was squatting a bit too much getting into toeside turns and looked as if I was taking a dump - turns did feel better and will probably work this out as I get to ride more.
Looking forward to next season to pick this back up and to get my riding smoother!
I'll let you guys get into your season in the northern hemisphere and watch from the sidelines
Editing is pretty easy and it will make your videos presentable, right now half of it is like being on a roller coaster so its pretty hard to watch.
Snowolf is the man for instruction.
I just wanted to say that everybody sees themselves as better than they are in any sport, thats why video footage is priceless as well as objective impartial analysis.
Anyway, if you are able to put up a video and listen to peoples objective advice you are well ahead of most people.
That humility and ability to put yourself out there will help you improve in leaps and bounds.
I put up a few videos on here and I really feel it helped me take a big step forward and I will continue to post up once it snows.
It always amuses me that most people who like to talk shit, criticize others and act like a badass never post vids of themselves riding.
Yea, it was kind of an impromptu video taking. I was trying to edit it but gave up after going nowhere with it
I'm not going to lie but I actually thought I was a better rider that that but seeing it first hand really put it into perspective.
The video are not the best, can do a bit of editing taken out the pov on the snow bit. But still show the ridings.
As always, great feedback on the ridings Snowolf. My riding is very similar to the OP and will definitely try to correct my ridings this weekend. Might need to find a buddy to film me while riding and post it here for any criticism...
By the way, I did the cat tracks over the weekend and it was alot of fun doing skidded turns to slow down.
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Thanks for the feedback Snowolf!
Its really different when you watch yourself on video, you tend to notice things you dont think you are doing
Funny thing is, we were talking about ruddering right before we took these but decided it was a hard habit to break as it felt more "comfortable"
With #1, I always thought I was using the sidecut to some extent but by watching the vid it looks like im just sliding down on the edges heh. Kinda sucks but I know where im going wrong!
I guess 2 and 4 are related? with the open upper body, it leads the back hand to come out?
I dont really have an issue initiating toeside turns but sometimes I feel I have to push that little extra or force my hips through it - I guess this is from the open body going the other way?
With the stance, I think there is a little bit of laziness there from the slope but man I honestly thought I was doing more there! More bending here I come!
We will definitely take this on board especially for the next time we are out!
Thanks again!
Another critique and feedback thread!
Hey Guys,
Have a vid of me and my bro boarding. There is quite a bit of filming nothing as we are pretty novice at it!
Any feedback would help with what we are doing right/wrong; this is only my second season (started last spring) at it and its his 4th.
Im the first one in the black jacket and blue pants.
Hes in the grey and plaid.
I know I was going a bit slower than usual as I was really conscious about the video for some reason. I also manage to catch my edge at the very end
If that doesnt work - heres the link DSCF2017 - YouTube
DSCF2011 - YouTube
Not quite sure how to embed the videos if anyone can help me out on that too!
Thanks in advance guys!
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Feathers wrote:Location location location! You only need 1-2 dozen if you are where they want to be or in their flight pattern and you definitely don't need more than what you have. I have set up plenty of times next to the guys with the big water triple digit spreads and had limits before they had a couple ducks because I was were the ducks wanted to be and had the right species set up in a good coy layout. Don't let people tell you that you need a lot of decoys to shoot divers. We usually set 3-5 dozen and we stack em up fine when the birds are in. Good luck!
HighBrassDivers wrote:The first time my friends and I killed canvasbacks we had out 1 dozen bluebills as well as a puddler spread. This was a number of years ago and we had very little knowledge about diver hunting. The reason we were successful that day is because there were very few divers on that lake and we were the only ones that had out diver decoys. Basically we got lucky. Now we typically run between 80-175 diver decoys. The 80 decoy spread works well on lakes that hold fewer divers and the 175 spread is what we use on lakes with large numbers of birds (rafts in the thousands). Why use only 175 on those lakes? Thats all the decoys I can carry and sometimes it definitely isn't enough. Several folks on that lake will set spreads of 500+ and it makes a world of difference. So in my opinion the key to determining a diver spread size hinges on a couple factors. First how many birds are on that body of water (which must be determined through scouting). Second, how many decoys you have and can safely transport. By taking these two factors into consideration you can adjust your spread accordingly to give yourself the best opportunity to kill birds.
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There is a sign shop in my area that says they can get 1/8" sintra for around$20.00 per 4' x 8' sheet. Is that a good deal?
There is a sign shop in my area that says they can get 1/8" sintra for around$20.00 per 4' x 8' sheet. Is that a good deal?
I think it's usually $28-30 for me, so yeah, I'd say that's a good deal.
Really good deal. Although I do know that some suppliers sell it for about $10 a sheet. The most I've spent was $35 though.
Cool. I know where I'm gonna go then. Thanks.
Where do u find sintra?? (What stores...)
sign making stores. Like Sign-A-Rama, Signs Depot, AdColor, SignsNow, FastSigns
Some of those may be local to me only so YMMV, but just call around to all the sign shops local to you and go with whoever is going to give you the best price. I usually have to pay $30 for a sheet, and they charge me $5 per cut, just to make a simple cut and cut it in half!
Curious to the OP, where did you find you could get a sheet for $20? Whats the store name?
And some places are total a-holes, one place quoted me $130 for a blank sheet, no doubt trying to toss a $100 profit margin on top for them, bah!
*ahem* what is a sintra? i am a long time sw fan and not familiar with this term/item...please dont hit me
Sintra is a type of plastic we use to make our mando/TK armor
oh, ok....i will have to read the other topics to see how it is you mandos and st's make your awesome armor...i tried reading about it once...it hurt my head...
I ended up going to another place in Hamilton, Ohio, (I can't think of the name right now) and got a sheet for 40.00 and they cut it for free. They were really cool about it too. They said they didn't usually carry it and special ordered it for me. They even carried it out to my car for me.
I still have about three quarters of the sheet left this stuff seems to go a long way. I love working with it. I've already got ideas flying around my head about what to make with it. One thing I'm gonna try is to make a Slave Leia bikini top for my wife with it. I used super flex sculpey and I dont like how it turned out.
I have a shop in nj that you can buy a 4x8 3mm sheet of white sintra for $19.98 so the price you were quoted was a good one. Has anyone used polystyrene I didnt know if it is easy to work with?
I,m currently getting started with a couple of scratchbuild projects and the cheapest sintra I can find at any sign shop near me is $52 per 4x8 sheet. I've checked all the shops and that seems to be the standard rate. I live in a decent size city in the southeast U.S. ,so supply shouldn't be a problem. Why am I paying double for this stuff!


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This website is a digital archive project from the European Commission. I understand that when first launched it crashed within hours, but it is now back and able to withstand the onslaught of millions of hits per hour!
I gather the idea is that archives across the European Union contribute images to be included on the website therefore making them more easily accessible to the general public. Personally I found the website confusing I put in a search for London and came across some interesting old photographs, but when I clicked on them the images, which were quite small, couldn't be enlarged so it was hard to view them properly.
I then organised my search by provider and chose British Library and the first few pages were sound recordings of interviews. I click on one at random and it told me that should I wish to I could hear Sophie born 1989 tell me what she and her friends did in their spare time. This seems rather a waste of an opportunity to display some of the best images from leading UK archives. I'm not saying that oral interviews such as that of Sophie aren't important, but just that they aren't likely to be as popular and useful as other documents and recordings that the British Library holds. Perhaps it's just me and I have not been using the site in the best way, I'm be interested to heard what others think. Take a look and see what you think.


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Memorial service scheduled Saturday for Wayne Law Professor Michael J. McIntyre
A memorial service for Michael J. McIntyre, professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, in St. Mary's Student Parish, 331 Thompson St., Ann Arbor.
McIntyre, 71, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, in his Ann Arbor home after an extended illness.
An internationally recognized authority on taxation, he joined Wayne Law as a visiting associate professor in 1975 and became a full professor in 1977. In 2012, he was elected to the Academy of Scholars in recognition of his academic achievements and received the WSU Presidential Award for Excellence in Service for his outstanding contributions to the university.
"Mike was a class act and a giant in his field. He was a truly brave, ethical and devoted member of our faculty," Law School Dean Jocelyn Benson said. "This is a significant loss to academia and to our Wayne Law family, and a sad moment for all of us."
McIntyre was born in Attleboro, Mass., in 1942. He graduated from Providence College in 1964 and then served in the Peace Corps in Bhopal, India, where he taught mathematics and English and helped build windmills. He then studied at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1969, and later returned to become director of training for Harvard Law's International Tax Program. Prior to joining the Wayne Law faculty, McIntyre practiced with a tax firm in Washington, D.C. He also taught at the University of Virginia Law School (1976-77), University of Michigan Law School (1995) and Utrecht University (2005).
He was the founding editor of Tax Notes International, publishing many books and articles on a wide variety of tax topics. He was a frequent consultant to the United Nations, as well as to national governments on six continents, including Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, New Zealand, Peru, Romania, Spain, United States and Vietnam, and to a variety of U.S. state governments.
At WSU, he played a key role in the Law School academic senate, with union negotiations, and on the university governing body. In 1982-83, he was the inaugural holder of a WSU Career Development Chair, and in 1990 he received the Board of Governors' Faculty Recognition Award for his book, The International Income Tax Rules of the United States.
McIntyre wrote widely on a variety of tax topics, including the taxation of the family and the international aspects of taxation. He participated regularly on interdisciplinary projects with economists and served as chairman of the Federal Taxation and Finance Committee of the National Tax Association from 1994 to 1996.
He is survived by his wife, May Ping Soo Hoo; two sons, Devin and Colin McIntyre; and seven siblings and their families.
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While up at a pheasant lodge guiding on Monday & Tuesday I had a chance to read an article on the Federal Black Cloud loads - and on their construction & differences - has anyone read up on them an/or used them??
They claim a huge gain in pattern density due to the wad construction - thereby increasing effective range ~10yards.
I've got a bunch of rounds to 'get through' but then I'm going to give them a shot - just wondering if anyone's tried them..


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In this seventh novel from Lippman's acclaimed series, Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan has her hands full with five murder cases that have gone cold. Each has a domestic violence angle, and the cases also share a disturbing connection - one that points to Tess herself.
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"Favors for friends don't always turn out as expected, Tess Monagham learns in this harrowing encounter with obsession involving her own past. At the urging of best friend Whitney Talbot, Tess agrees to research how police inexperienced with murder cases handle domestic-violence-related investigations. Delving into the specifics of the five deaths she's been assigned, Tess begins to sense that a simple review of the facts won't suffice and that these aren't isolated incidents. [Lippman] contrasts the methods of the privileged with the ways ordinary folk must cope and how disastrous the results can be when the monstrous invades their lives." (Booklist)
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"Very enjoyable"
My only problem with this book is that, unlike the others, you need to have read/heard the first one for it to make sence. That said, I think the narrator is top-notch and the book is suspensful, full of vivid characters and it takes Tess away from Baltimore which is different and interesting.
Tiger Rose
"Maybe on the re-listen"
The pace was odd. Sometimes it would drag. Maybe if it was a shorter story!!! Odd fill in dialogue. Maybe it's me but!!! When I listen to it again it might click better.
The story sometimes dragged along. A little disconnected. Little disappointed.
"Silly factor"
I thought the plot was worthy of a more serious treatment by both the author and the reader. Considering that the detective is supposed to be operating her own successful agency, some of her behaviors are extremely unprofessional, and even the former police officer with whom she partnered seemed unrealistically careless in his concluding actions. The treatment was just too frivolous to amount to a really satisfying crime novel. I just hate to see a good plot go to waste.
"well-written and suspenseful"
I really enjoyed this audiobook. Barbara Rosenblat did a fantastic job reading it. Although there was a great deal of suspense, I have to say it was one of those books that you don't actually want to finish because the journey was so enjoyable. I have since listened to two more Laura Lippman books, which I have also enjoyed. This one is well worth the time and cost.
I bought this because I had heard Lippman was a good writer and it was on sale here for $4.25 so I couldn't resist trying her out. I will surely avoid Barbara Rosenblat as a narrator again. She turned all the cast, especially Tess, into very flippant, shallow characters.
I really couldn't say if the book was any good or not; either it wasn't very good, or Rosenblat's narration was bad enough to bring the book down with it. If you are interested in this book my recommendation is to go buy it and read it yourself--otherwise I can't recommend it at all.
"Love Lippman, But not in love with this book"
I wouldn't "re-read" this Lippman book. I have enjoyed the stories of other books that I've listened to from this series, but this one leaves me wanting. The story line is convoluted and the multiple characters are so similar that it makes it hard to keep the threads of the story straight.
I wouldn't recommend it for the above reasons.
Rosenblat's performance is flat and doesn't endear the reader to Tess' exuberant personality. She seems confused about the character's nature. I almost stopped getting the series because of the narrator. I hope the next one is more convincing.
"Best Yet!"
Love Laura Lippman Tess Monaghan series. This one is the best yet! Storyline is grippin
"Not my favorite Tess Monaghan novel..."
I've read almost all of Laura Lippman's books and have thoroughly enjoyed them. I particularly like the Tess Monaghan books and would definitely recommend the series as a whole, but I'd skip this one. In my opinion, it doesn't add that much to the overall world.
Big fan of Barbara Rosenblat - I think she's makes a great voice for Tess.
"Still loving Tess..."
Tess is on the trail of a serial killer but doesn't know it. She thinks she is investigating police incompetence in domestic violence murders. The more I get into this series, the better I like it. I now feel like Tess is an old friend. 5 stars.
Give me a good mystery and I am happy!
"Enjoyed this book a lot!"
I am thoroughly enjoying this series. The characters are likable, and the plots are unusual. The books definitely entertain me. I save my four and five star reviews for the can't put them down, page turners. So, the three stars is good in my opinion. The narrator does an outstanding job.
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Maxine Waters is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the 35th District of California. She was born in 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri, the fifth of thirteen children raised by a single mother in a home that was visited regularly by welfare and social workers.
Waters moved to Southern California in 1961, worked in a garment factory, raised two children and was employed for a year as a Head Start social worker following the 1965 Watts riots. In 1970 she earned a degree in sociology from California State University in Los Angeles.
Waters entered politics in 1973 as deputy to Los Angeles City Councilman David Cunningham. Three years later she ran successfully for a seat in the California Assembly, the lower house of the state legislature. She became a member of the Democratic National Committee in 1980 and helped design California's gerrymandered redistricting in 1982. In 1984 she was co-chair of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign. When longtime Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins retired in 1990, Waters was anointed as his successor by Democratic Party bosses and easily won election. She has served in the U.S. House of Representatives ever since.
As a Member of Congress, Waters belongs to the Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, the latter of which she formerly headed. In June 2005 she co-founded and chaired the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus (OICC), an entity dedicated to agitating for a swift withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Iraqi theater of war -- alleging that the American invasion in 2003 had been launched on a pretext of lies and deliberately manipulated intelligence. Waters' fellow OICC co-founders included John Conyers, William Delahunt, Barbara Lee, John R. Lewis, Charles Rangel, Jan Schakowsky, and Lynn Woolsey.
Prior to every primary and final election, Waters publishes her own Progressive Connection mailer for her constituents; Democrat politicians eager for votes from her district pay Waters anywhere from $10,000 to $35,000 to be included in the slates of candidates her mailer endorses.
Waters' political rhetoric is often demagogic. In 2001 she depicted the retiring moderate Republican Mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan, as a "plantation owner." On another occasion, while addressing the allegedly pervasive problem of police brutality against African Americans, Waters said that she had never seen Los Angeles police officers abuse "little white boys."
During the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the infamous 1992 Rodney King trial, Waters described the violence (in which 58 people were killed) as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice." She held "economic, social, cultural and political" factors responsible for the disorder.[1] She dismissed the mass black looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: "There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes…. They are not crooks." Chanting the radical slogan "No justice, no peace," she attributed the rioters' underlying rage to the federal government's allegedly longstanding "neglect" of America's inner cities.[2]
Waters further asserted that racial injustice was rampant in America. She claimed that the L.A. tumult could rightly be called a "rebellion" or "insurrection," but not a riot. "Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions," she explained, "and I'm not so sure that's quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles."[3] It was "unfortunate," she said, "that "it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up."[4]
One of the individuals who was gravely injured in the riots was a white man named Reginald Denny, whom a group of rioters pulled out of his truck and bashed in the head with a cinder block -- simply because of the color of his skin. The entire incident was videotaped from a helicoper above the scene. When Damian Williams, the ringleader of the mob that attacked Denny, was sent to prison on a felony charge, Waters visited Williams's mother to offer her support. And when Williams's accomplices escaped prosecution, Waters celebrated. (Notably, Damian Williams was released from prison a few years later and subsequently committed murder in 2000, a crime for which he was sentenced to 51 years in prison.)
Waters co-sponsored Rep. John Conyers' bill calling for reparations for slavery to be paid to African Americans.
Waters blames illicit drugs for the rampant crime that plagues her congressional district, and she has blamed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the presence of those drugs. In the 1980s she accused the CIA of selling crack in black neighborhoods. However, the San Jose Mercury-News eventually retracted the story on which Waters had based her allegations for lack of evidence. Undeterred, Waters told the Los Angeles Times in 1997: "It doesn't matter whether the CIA delivered the kilo of cocaine themselves or turned their back on it to let somebody else do it. They're guilty just the same."
Waters has traveled several times to Cuba, where she praised dictator Fidel Castro and called for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against the Castro government. In a letter to Castro (quoted during an October 2, 1998 newscast on Radio Havana), she wrote that Castro had a perfect right to grant "political asylum" to U.S. citizens fleeing "political persecution."
In 1999, when six-year-old Elian Gonzalez requested asylum in the U.S. after his mother had drowned during their escape from Cuba, Waters pressured President Bill Clinton to return the boy immediately to his homeland. During the controversy over the matter, Waters flew to Cuba and met with the boy's father and grandmothers, thereby giving political and propaganda support to Castro.
In 1998 Waters voted in favor of a measure calling on Castro to turn over (to U.S. authorities) a female fugitive named Assata Olugbala Shakur, who had received refugee status in Havana after escaping in November 1979 from a U.S. prison -- where she had been serving a life sentence for her 1973 execution-style murder of a New Jersey state trooper. After having cast the aforementioned vote, Waters learned that Shakur was actually the former Black Panther Joanne Chesimard, who had taken a new name in the early 1970s. Once Waters was aware of the fugitive's actual identity, the congresswoman penned a letter of apology to Castro and urged the Cuban dictator to continue safeguarding the convicted killer -- because the latter been "persecuted for her civil-rights work" in the United States. Wrote Waters on September 29, 1998:
""Dear President Castro, I am writing to clarify my position on a resolution recently passed by the United States House of Representatives on September 14, 1998. I, and some of the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, mistakenly voted for House Concurrent Resolution 254 which called on the Government of Cuba to extradite to the United States Joanne Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States from political persecution and received political asylum in Cuba. Joanne Chesimard was the birth name of a political activist known to most Members of the Congressional Black Caucus as Assata Shakur. For the record, I am opposed to the resolution. I unequivocally stated that a mistake was made and I would have voted against the legislation."
On September 9, 2000, Waters was among the many people who greeted and honored Castro during his visit to Harlem's Riverside Church. At the event, Castro said: "I came to Harlem because I knew it was here that I would find my best friends."
Organized labor is by far Waters' biggest campaign contributor and has supplied more than two-thirds of her Political Action Committee (PAC) donations. Her largest labor support comes from the Laborers' International Union of North America and the Service Employees International Union. Other Waters campaign donors include the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and Viacom, which owns CBS and many cable networks.
In August 2005 Waters threw her support behind Cindy Sheehan's campaign to discredit President Bush and the Iraq War effort.
Also in 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) named Waters as one of the 13 "most corrupt" members of the U.S. Congress. The CREW report cited a December 2004 Los Angeles Times investigation disclosing how a number of Waters' relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. Waters declined to be interviewed about this matter, saying only that her family members "do their business, and I do mine."
In a May 2008 congressional hearing on gasoline prices, Shell Oil President John Hofmeister stated: "I can guarantee to the American people because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever-increasing prices, unless the demand comes down, and that $5 [per gallon] will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new [oil] reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies." Waters replied: "And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be about socializing – would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies."
During the national financial crisis that struck in the autumn of 2008, Waters was lobbied by representatives of OneUnited Bank, a black-owned depository institution that was seeking a federal government bailout after having squandered almost $52 million of its bank capital on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock. These lobbyists were longtime friends, donors, and fundraisers of Rep. Waters.
Meanwhile, Waters' husband had a long history as an investor in one of the banks that had previously merged into OneUnited; he had once served on OneUnited's board of directors; and he owned large amounts of stock in OneUnited. In fact, both he and Rep. Waters had owned six-figure sums of OneUnited stock at various times during the preceding six years.
In response to OneUnited's lobbying, Rep. Waters intervened to arrange a meeting where representatives of the bank could plead their case to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and 20 of his subordinates. As a result of that meeting, Paulson et al secretly engineered a special federal rescue of the floundering bank. This bailout cost American taxpayers $12 million in TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) cash.
On August 2, 2010, the House Ethics Committee filed three charges against Waters, alleging that she had used her influence to gain special favors (from the federal government) for OneUnited.
In August 2011, Waters had some harsh words for the ascendant conservative movement known as the Tea Party:
""I'm not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned — the Tea Party can go straight to hell."
In September 2011, Waters called for the implementation of a federal "jobs program of a trillion dollars or more." "We've got to put Americans to work," she said. "That's the only way to revitalize this economy. When people work they earn money, they spend that money, and that's what gets the economy up and going."
In February 2012, Waters delivered an incendiary speech to delegates at the California Democratic State Convention, in which she said:
"I saw pictures of [House Speaker John] Boehner and [House Majority Leader Eric] Cantor on our screens. Don't ever let me see again in life those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons. These are legislators who are ... destroying this country because again they'd rather do whatever they can to destroy this president rather than for the good of this country."
At a February 19, 2012 public town hall meeting at the Islamic Society of Orange County, California, Waters said:
"Over the last year, and due to the focus of House Republicans on so-called Muslim radicalization, we have seen politicians and pundits attacking the Islamic faith as a security threat to the United States. Across the country, these people are spreading fear and trying to convince state legislatures that the city adoption of Sharia tenets is a strategy extremists are using to transform the United States into an Islamic country. The scare tactics are working. In at least thirteen states where lawmakers are now considering the adoption of legislation forbidding Sharia. A bill in the Tennessee state senate, for example, would make adherence to Sharia punishable by fifteen years in jail and one of the nation's Republican Presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich, has called for a federal law that says Sharia law cannot be recognized by any court in the United States....
"In addition to the state attacks, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Peter King, has vowed to continue his controversial radicalization hearings, specifically focusing on Muslim Americans. While it is a challenge for lawmakers to strike the right balance, and protect the most liberties and security, Chairman King and other Republicans' disrespectful approach to broadening extremism is contrary to American values and actually threatens national security. Effective national security policy must not unfairly target or single out any one community and place [incomprehensible] techniques that focus on racial profiling....
"And that is why I have supported H.R. – that is, House Resolution 3618 entitled, 'End The Racial Profiling Act.' If enacted, this bill will prohibit any law enforcement official from engaging in racial profiling. The legislation would further require law enforcement agencies to maintain adequate policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling. It is irresponsible to target Muslim community[sic] and hold them accountable for the violent acts of a few. As we all know, individuals from many different communities of faith have used religion and political ideology to justify violence. When we consider the Klu[sic] Klux Klan, the Oklahoma City bombings, James Von Bruin's[sic] violent shootings at the Holocaust Museum, bombings at Planned Parenthood clinics, and domestic military militias, we know that violence can emerge from many different types of communities....
"According to [the Muslim Public Affairs Council], evidence clearly indicates a general rise in violent extremism across all ideologies. Considering these [facts], it doesn't make sense for Federal and local law enforcement officials to racially profile or treat Muslim Americans unfairly. We must foster and strengthen relationships with Muslim American community[sic], that like many other community,[sic] care about the safety and security of our country....
"The idea of any legislation that sets out a particular religious group for discrimination in [incomprehensible] violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution of the United States, and it is also a dangerous, if not familiar piece of American history, and we're not going back.
"In closing, I wanna quote Daniel Mach, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. This is what he said. He said it was important to recognize what's really going on, on these anti-Sharia laws. They're motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry, plain and simple. Sharia equals Islam and Muslims, and a vote against one is a vote against another, Mach said."
In a February 2017 appearance on MSNBC, Waters read a list of people connected to the Trump administration -- Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Wilbur Ross, and Rex Tillerson -- who also allegedly had ties to Russia and the oil and gas industries. She then said: "Can't people see what's going on? Why do you think they [the Russians] hacked into our election? They hacked into the election because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected. So this that he could help them with what I think [is] a huge deal. Not only to lift these sanctions [against Russia] but to take over all of these Soviet countries and pull them back into the Soviet Union so they can have access to all of these resources. It's clear to me and I just think the American people have to have a better understand what's going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what they are."
In a March 9, 2017 interview with MSNBC, Waters voiced her determination to examine the explosive allegations about President Trump that were contained in a dossier which had been published in January by the website Buzzfeed. Specifically, the dossier claimed that the Russian government was using a video recording of Trump with Russian prostitutes as a tool for blackmailing the president, and that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, had met with Russian agents in 2016 to discuss ways of undermining Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. "I think it should be taken a look at," said Waters. "I think they should really read it, understand it, analyze it, and determine what's fact, what may not be fact. We already know the part about the coverage they have on him with sex actions is supposed to be true. They have said that's absolutely true. Some other things they kind of allude to. Yes, I think he should go into that dossier and see what's there.... I think that if we do the investigations, that we will find the connections and I do think that impeachment will be necessary."
On June 11, 2017, Waters spoke at the annual L.A. Pride Parade and Resist March, where she called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump:
"He is not my president. He is not your president. He lies. He cheats. He's a bully. He disrespects us all. If he thinks he can mess with the LGBT community, he better look at what happened right here in West Hollywood. You deny, you disrespect, and you will find that there are people who have the courage to organize and to take back whatever needs to be taken back. We resist this president because he stands for the worst of everything. And guess what, I know that people may not quite be ready. I know some are a little hesitant. I know some are saying I'm not so sure, Maxine, that what you are saying is the right thing, but I'm saying, impeach 45 [Trump was the 45th U.S. President]. Impeach 45."
Waters owns a $4.8 million mansion in the upscale Hancock Park district of Los Angeles.
Since 2006, Waters' daughter Karen has been in charge of a "slate mailer" operation for Waters' federal campaign committee, Citizens for Waters (CfW), whereby other candidates pay CfW to send out mailers in which Waters endorses them. From 2006 through April 2017, Karen Waters was paid approximately $640,000 for her slate mailer services. A May 2017 report in the Washington Free Beacon stated: "Waters' most recent filings to the Federal Election Commission show that an outstanding balance of $108,952.15 is owed to Karen Waters. When Karen is paid the money that she is owed, she will have pocketed around $750,000 for running the mailers for the campaign since 2006."
Following is an overview of Waters' congressional voting record on a number of key issues over the course of her political career:
Criminal Justice
In October 1991 Waters voted in favor of a proposal to replace the death penalty with a life imprisonment sentence in certain federal cases. In April 1994 she voted in favor of substituting life imprisonment for the death penalty in all cases.
Also in April 1994, she voted against a bill requiring a mandatory life sentence in prison for anyone convicted of three violent or drug-related felonies; reducing the age at which juveniles could be tried as adults for violent crimes; allocating $13.5 billion for the development and operation of prisons; and earmarking $3.45 billion to hire and train more police officers nationwide. In August 1994 she voted against another very similar bill.
Waters believes that the American justice system is thoroughly infested with racism and discrimination against nonwhite minorities. She has stated that "the color of your skin dictates whether you will be arrested or not, prosecuted harshly or less harshly, or receive a stiff sentence or gain probation or entry into treatment."[5] Further, she warns that by imprisoning a disproportionate number of black males, "we are risking an entire generation of African American young men because of an unjust justice system."[6]
In February 1995 and December 1995, Waters voted against a welfare-reform bill designed to move people off the welfare rolls and into paying jobs. This bill replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with block grants to states; it increased those grants after two years for states wherein the number of out-of-wedlock pregnancies had declined; it barred states from giving cash assistance to children of unmarried teenagers; it prohibited states from providing additional cash assistance to families that gave birth to additional children while on public assistance; it required states to limit their aid to five years per family; it denied assistance for ten years to any person who had fraudulently sought to obtain assistance in more than one state; it denied assistance to fugitive felons and parole and probation violators; and it denied assistance to alcoholics and drug addicts.
Military Commissions
In September 2006 Waters voted against a bill authorizing the President to establish military commissions to try enemy combatants captured in the war on terror. In Waters' view, such tribunals trample on the civil rights and liberties of defendants who, she contends, should be entitled to all the rights and protections afforded by the American criminal court system—where the standards that govern the admissibility of evidence are considerably stricter than the counterpart standards in military tribunals.
Counter-Terrorism & Homeland Security
In May 1991 Waters voted in favor of a proposal to terminate the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, which called for the development of a missile defense system.
In June 1991 she voted to cut $260 million in funding related to the development of the MX missile rail garrison.
In June 1992 she voted to decrease defense spending by 10 percent in the ensuing fiscal year. That same month, she voted to prohibit the production of any new B-2 aircraft by cutting $2.7 billion. In yet another June 1992 vote, she supported a $937.5 million funding cut for the SDI program (a 22 percent reduction).
In April 1996 she voted against a bill to increase the number of explosive-detection agents; to expand the deportation of criminal illegal aliens and suspected terrorists; to make it easier for the U.S. to deny asylum to suspected terrorists; and to bar terrorist organizations from fundraising in the United States.
In March 1999 she voted against a bill "to declare it to be the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile defense."
In September 2001 she voted in favor of a joint resolution "to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent [9/11] attacks launched against the United States."
In October 2001 she voted against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, which proposed to ease restrictions on government wiretap and surveillance operations; to permit government officials to share with one another the information they obtain from such surveillance operations; to strengthen security along the U.S./Canadian border; and to deny U.S. visas to suspected money-launderers.
Also in October 2001, she voted against the post-9/11 anti-terrorism measure known as the Patriot Act.
In July 2002 she voted against a bill permitting airline pilots to carry firearms for the purpose of defending the aircraft against acts of violence or terrorism.
In July 2005 she voted against reauthorizing the Patriot Act.
In September 2006 she voted against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978; this amendment called for allowing the government to use electronic surveillance to investigate suspected terrorist operatives.
In August 2007 she voted against a bill permitting the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to monitor foreign electronic communications which are routed through the United States—provided that the purpose of such monitoring was to obtain "foreign intelligence information" about suspected terrorists. In June 2008 she voted in favor of a bill specifically prohibiting this type of surveillance.
From 1998 to 2005, the Center for Security Policy, which is committed to "promoting international peace through American strength," gave Waters ratings that ranged from 8 percent to 12 percent.
In 2003-2004, the American Security Council, which "serves as educational secretariat of the Congressional Caucus on National Security," gave Waters a 10 percent rating.
Iraq War / War on Terror
In October 2002 Waters voted against a joint resolution to authorize the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
In June 2006 she voted against a resolution which stated that it was not in America's national security interest to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, and that a better course of action would be to withdraw the troops only upon the "completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure and united Iraq."
In February 2007 she voted to disapprove of President Bush's decision to move ahead with the so-called troop "surge"—the deployment of some 21,500 additional U.S. soldiers in an effort to quell the violent insurgents in Iraq.
In July 2007 she voted to begin dramatically reducing the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq by April 1, 2008.
Immigration/Nationality Issues
In July 1994 Waters voted against barring illegal aliens from receiving benefits and aid under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) emergency food and shelter programs.
In March 1996 she cast no vote on a bill to prohibit illegal aliens from receiving public assistance.
In August 1996 she voted against a proposal "to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States."
In September 1996 she voted against a bill to increase border patrol personnel and to adopt other measures designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S.
In May 2004 she voted "No" on requiring hospitals to report (to the federal government) illegal aliens who receive emergency medical treatment. That same month, she cast no vote on a separate proposal to deny public education to illegal aliens.
In February 2005 she voted against the Real ID Act, which proposed to: set minimal security requirements for state driver licenses and identification cards; require asylum applicants suspected of affiliating with terrorist groups to prove that they are indeed seeking to escape persecution in their homeland; and ensure that physical barriers to prevent illegal immigration would be expeditiously constructed where needed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In December 2005 she voted against a bill calling for: the construction of some 700 miles of fencing along America's southern border; the establishment of a system requiring business owners to verify the legal status of all their employees; the detention of any person attempting to enter the U.S. illegally after October 1, 2006; an increase in the penalties on anyone attempting to smuggle illegal aliens into the U.S.; the annual provision of $250 million to pay state and local police agencies for their assistance in enforcing federal immigration laws; and funding for a program to deport "removable criminal aliens" in prison following the completion of their sentences, rather than releasing them into American communities.
In September 2006 she again voted against a bill authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S. and Mexico. That same month, she voted against a proposal to grant state and local officials the authority to investigate, identify, and arrest illegal immigrants.
The U.S. Border Control, which "is dedicated to ending illegal immigration by securing our nation's borders and reforming our immigration policies," gave Waters a rating of 0 percent in 2005-2006.
Abortion and the Rights of the Unborn
In November 1995, September 1996, March 1997, July 1998, April 2000, June 2003, and October 2003, Waters voted against legislation to ban the late-term abortion procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion (a.k.a. "intact dilation and extraction"). According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, in the year 2000 this procedure was performed approximately 2,200 times in the United States.
In July 2000, she voted in favor of an amendment to permit federal funding (with taxpayer dollars) for abortion procedures.
In September 1999, April 2001, and February 2004, she voted against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which proposed to make it an added criminal offense for someone to injure or kill a fetus while carrying out a crime against a pregnant woman.
In April 2005 and September 2006, she voted against the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, whose purpose was to prohibit the transportation of a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without a parent's (or a legal guardian's) consent.
In December 2006 she voted against the Abortion Pain Bill, which mandated that abortion providers, prior to performing an abortion on a fetus older than 20 weeks, inform the mother that: (a) the fetus might feel pain during the procedure, and (b) the use of some pain-reducing drugs may have health risks associated with them.
As a result of her unwavering support for the unrestricted right to abortion-on-demand under any and all circumstances, Waters has consistently received ratings of 100 percent from NARAL and Planned Parenthood.
Gay Marriage
In July 1996 Waters voted in favor of "an amendment to suspend the federal definition of marriage contained in the bill when a state, through normal democratic procedures, establishes a different definition." That same month, she voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which specifically defined marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
In July 2006 she voted against a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage in America, again, exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.
[1] Minoo Southgate, "Black Power, Nineties Style," National Rebview (December 13, 1993), p. 47.
[2] Aldore Collier, "Maxine Waters: Telling It Like It Is in L.A.," Ebony (October 1992), p. 38.
[3] "Maxine Waters: Straight Talk from South Central," Ladies' Home Journal (August 1992), p. 112.
[4] Aldore Collier, "Maxine Waters: Telling It Like It Is in L.A.," Ebony (October 1992), p. 38.
[5] William Wilbanks, The Myth of a Racist Criminal justice System (Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1987), p. 33. John DiIulio, "My Black Crime Problem, and Ours," City Journal (Spring 1996), p. 23.
[6] "Race and Crime," Investor's Business Daily (February 21, 1996).


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Yeah, it's marked 400 where you describe. The engine code marked on the right front of the block is "YS". The quadrajet has number showing that the carb is from a 70 pontiac. I'm told the engine is from a 71 with 96 heads.
Are there any more places to help ID things? I don't see any numbers on the distributor pad, but maybe the distributor is covering that up.
|Are you sure it's not a 455 already? I think '71 GTO's came with a choice of 400 or 455 engines. Look on the driver's side of the block just behind the fuel pump & see if there's a displacement number cast into the block.
But spending other people's money is one of those things I do really well
One of my favorite Bulletin Boards for Ponchos: http://forums.performanceyears.com/6...m&s=7286011111
And I like this place for engine hardware just because Ken is good about talking with you about what you want to do with your motor. Of course the same can be said for most of the widely known poncho shops- it's a rather welcoming community they seem to like newcomers as it's one more poncho on the road.
As for the new GM big cube motors- while I haven't personally tried to drop one into a poncho's engine compartment, I highly doubt it'd line up. It was a really big deal when a non-GM affiliiated company started turning out aftermarket blocks patterned after the Pontiacs- admitedly it was an aluminum block but it was still the first new "Pontiac" blocks since 1980- I think.
Don't underestimate your 400 it can be a very solid motor and would theoretically be cheaper since you already have it, since finding a 455 would require putting down $$ for the block and crank, if nothing else. The machine work would be mostly the same so if you fork over cash for a new block it certainly is that much you can't spend on something else. A Poncho 455 is simply more cubes and would drop right in. I can't honestly say when they stopped making the 455 but I don't think they stopped in '74 I think they made 455s up to/through '79.
If you have the cash to stroke your 400 it can be done for a "reasonable" cost- you've already noticed that reasonable in Pontiac terms isn't quite the same as small block chevy terms. There are also new aluminum heads being produced for the Poncho- and not just Edelbrock there are a couple companies in it now, that you might look into.
Keep in mind also that the stock iron heads for the 350s 400s and 455s readily interchange. You could get some huge chambered heads that would easily let you run 87 octane in a 400 stroked to 455 and still get yourself a decent compression ratio.
Claymore, thanks very much! That is what I wanted to know.. fitment. I had thought GM used the same engines across chevy, buick, pontiac etc so I figured getting a fresh engine might be the way to go. I figured that the Firebirds evil twin the Camaro was offered with a 350 and assumed it was the same as the Firebird 350 engine.
Rifraf, thanks for the advice on the 455 and the story about the one you built. It's that front end lifting power that sent me searching for the used bird. It is my wife's car so it must be street friendly with no drivablity quirks. A radical cam would not please her at all. It will never see the track but it surely will see plenty of WOT.
What would be the benefit of looking for a used 455 compared with building what I have? Wouldn't they both be in need of rebuilding? Any 455 I found in a yard will have been around in 1974 or earlier, wouldn't it?
Are the GM 455 crate engines also different from the Pontiac block, and therefore have the same fitment issues.
My priority is to have an engine that runs well on premium pump gas with some oomph and this engine should fit that bill if it were running right. My engine is out of a GTO, with the YS head. I think that was a lower power/lower compression version but I have more research to do.
Perhaps the solution would be to rebuild what I now have with the stroker kit.
I would appreciate some suggestions on reading material, parts suppliers etc. I talked with the owner of a 67 Firebird that was for sale and he showed me the receipts for all his engine work, saying how much extra it cost to build up a Pontiac. I'm starting to understand why.
Just so folks know, I don't have the tools, ability etc to do this work myself so I will be paying for others to attend to things. Price comes into major consideration for the project. Keep this in mind while you're vicariously spending my money... ;0)
uhmm, a zz4 or big block will NOT drop right in. It would work if you went through the hassle of swapping engine mounts and if you didn't place your motor mounts right, possibly trans mount and therefore the driveshaft.
The PONTIAC blocks are externally the same from the 326 up to the 455, don't confuse these with GM corporate blocks which are really just a small block Chevy. Buik, Olds, & Pontiac stopped using their own blocks around 1979ish give or take a couple/few years and some odd exceptions.
I do agree with rifraf in finding a 455 if you can, they would drop right in and give you more go. However there are readily available stroker kits to turn your 400 into a 455 and such engines are arguably stronger since they have less friction loss through the mains (smaller crank).
|Yea,a big block or a small block chev will go in,with a chev trans and mounts and such,its basically a camaro. For me,I would hunt for a early-mid 70s 4 bolt main pont 455,they're getting a little hard to find,look for wagons or big boats,they have both early and late mounts cast in and with a decent set of heads,cam,and headers and they are brutal. I threw one together with forged flat tops,70 stage 3 400 heads,a 280-.480 cam,headers,hei,and a stock intake for a friend in his 70 4spd formula and it jerked the front wheels of the ground with ease,and it looked stock,except the headers,and it ran smooth! ,well,a little lope,but not bad. We had some fun with it,ate up some guys,had em chase us down after watching there eyes bug out,then told em we we-rent sure what it was,said we got the motor from the wrecking yard for $325 and painted it! Thats always good for some parking lot conversation once ya leave,hee hee.
I bought a 68 firebird 400 that has a 71 gto engine in it that seems to have serious problems. The car was fetched out of a field after being parked for years.
The engine idles okay while belching lots of exhaust. When it's rev'd up in park, it vibrates really badly. I'm thinking that it may have a bent connecting rod or similar issue. I guess I have to get the engine out and apart to see; something to discuss with my mechanic friend.
Since the engine is not the "matching numbers" item for the car anyway, I'm thinking it really doesn't matter what engine goes back in.
Someone mentioned earlier that the 350/400 etc are all the same basic block. Would it make sense to just buy a new GM crate engine for the car or would it be better or cheaper to find a machine shop that can rebuild what is there already? Would the various GM crate engines such as the ZZ4 HO drop right in?
My goal is to restore the car to similar to stock appearance and performance. The rear won't be tubbed or anything like that, so there is a limit to how much HP this car can plant anyway.
|Well,what makes a 350 and a 400 different is the bore size,stroke is the same,also,about switching heads,know what you have first,by putting heads off a bigger motor you may end up loosing power by dropping the compression due to a larger chamber size. As mentioned,6x heads are good,rectangle port 400 ram air heads are real good,but you need the matching intake,and they are hard to find,edelbrock makes a set that are aluminum that are similar,like the super duty ports. The biggest things Ive seen for the ponts is the cam and headers,next would be intake and heads for me,oh yea,and a 4 bolt 455 would be on my hunt list also.
the motor mounts are different however they make adapter plates for them that work very very well
Make sure the 400 block has the same holes for the motor mounts that the 350 does. Pontiac used two different bolt patterns, and not all will interchange without adapters. Some have both patterns, so you might get lucky.
400's & 350's have the same stroke, 3.75". Pontiac crankshaft flanges changed a couple of times in the '60s & '70s, so be sure you have a flywheel/flexplate with a center hole that matches the crank on the 400.
its not just a matter of switching heads...the stroke is different in a 400 vs a 350. your right externally they are the same. its more then heads and cam...In a 455 the crank shaft is way bigger as well as the bearings....forged crank in a 455.....a lot beefier
|There are a lot better intakes than the Torker 2. Look at a few of the others on the edelbrock line and just do some general research online.
Pontiac engines aren't large or small block. Externally a 326 is the same as a 455.
Put the 400 heads on the 350 and change the cam you should be good to go and save a lot of effort. Then take your time and build the 400 into a monster.
|400 will be quite a bit better...you will have to go through it...i would put a cam in it....port the heads put on a torker 2 intake port that to match the heads........if you have money buy aluminum heads and port them......better fuel pump......700-750 double pumper carb.......rockers of your choice......just a few things that are not alot of money to produce some good horsepower......if you have time its the way to go...the aluminum heads are expensive but thats about it....if you have 6x heads thay are real good i would just port them and you should be at about 375-400 hp at the crank
|More cubes = more potential power. Considering both were built to the max the 400 would dominate.
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