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Cast receiver, some GI parts. Typical SA Inc. M1A... is there something in particular you wanted to know?
Havent been on here in a while.
Familiar with all kinds of firearms, but expert on NONE! Owned M1s currently & before. Have a chance to pick up my 1st M1A, but am trying to i.d. it first. Have a small window of opportunity to do so.
The receiver states "US RIFLE M1A- SPRINGFIELD-ARMORY 'with a t in a circle'- ser #118454.
The barrel has a "P" then following "SAK-7790190-9-68-8037229". Also has a capital letter "M" up near the barrel shankone inch ahead of the receiver & under the handgaurd grooves.
When I took the bolt out, the underside of the receiver has a protruding number of "1346" then a recessed "1-04".
Im beleiving the receiver to be a casting, but I have had a couple of "experts" say it is an original m14 receiver, which I dont believe. Looks too good & new with no ware marks to speak of. Has a trw bolt "7790186 TRW ZJ".
Op Rod states "7267064 SAK P" & trig group "7267030-HR-N".
Aside from having a surplus looking proof marked stock with the selector cutout dug in the stock & fiberglass handgaurd, I would put it at an NRA 90-95%.
What is it?!?!?
Pre-Thanks for all the help!
Cast receiver, some GI parts. Typical SA Inc. M1A... is there something in particular you wanted to know?
Looks like you have a fairly early Springfield M-1A. I don't know what number they are up to now, but mine was bought new in 1979 or 80 and is 22,xxx SN range. Springfield bought tons of surplus M-14 parts and had their own receivers cast. Investment cast steel which is very good. (Ruger uses nothing else) They assembled the military parts onto their receivers until they ran out of a specific part, at which time they tooled up and made it. I think current rifles are 100% new parts, the surplus ones gone. From the markings you gave, that rifle has surplus parts so is early in the production. Some shooters prefer the military parts, I have no opinion one way or the other. Have heard very few problems with any of the M-1A rifles. All surplus stocks will have the cut-out for the selector and the fiberglass handguard is standard. I considered putting a wood handguard on mine but was advised not too, the fiberglass supposedly lets the barrel run cooler.
SAK barrel with the "M" in between the HG and the flash hider should really be marked "NM" National Match. It's a standard contour, non-chromelined, USGI National Match barrel....I know because one of my rifles has one too.
Remaining GI Parts, TRW, SAK, HRN, they're all good to go.
I'd guess the SN would put the gun as late 90's production.
Barrel markings should look like this...
"Nothing says "Obey me" like a bloody head on a fence post." -Stewie Griffin
Wait...you said the M was under the HG's?
Not National Match....still a good barrel though.
"Nothing says "Obey me" like a bloody head on a fence post." -Stewie Griffin
Thanks guys. Sounds like what I was looking for.
Im sure it wasnt an orig GI rec or anything, but the GI parts with the GI stock had me confused. I can take it for $900-1000 from the owner. Ill think it through for a couple of days as its not going anywhere.
standared springfield armory reciver gun with USGI parts my earlyest gun is 29,000 NM made in 1984 i would put yours in the 1979/80 gun is desirable also known as a green lable/box gun,,green box numbers go to around the 65,000/70,000 before going to the blue box,,my last one i got was a new in box gun store trade in 150,000 range had TRW barrel,forged commercial bolt and SA trigger and op rod made about 2003 bought for 1000.00 out the door,,you will not find USGI parts much after 2004
With a S/N of 118,454 it is a Post '94 ban receiver... so it can't be a green label.
If you can get it for $900 and it looks as good as you say, it is a good deal.
sorry i read the numbers wrong.dang eyes.the numbers put it in the 2000 year made buy it ..it has USGI parts
Last edited by mr44; 11-26-2009 at 07:15 AM. Reason: update
I agree 100%. A New M1A will have very few GI parts... SA Inc replica parts used in manufacture include (the receiver obviously) bolt, barrel, op rod, trigger group, flash hider... non GI parts may be perfectly servicable, but my preference is for an M14 clone to have as many original parts as permissable. Original M14 parts were manufactured under rigid specifications under scrutiny of Quality Control Inspectors from DOD, and one can be reasonable assured of long service. Replica parts manufactured by SA Inc for their M1A seem to work, but I don't believe that SA Inc's quality control is up to milspec standards... At least they have a warranty to repair any problems.
Glad I built up a stash on new M14 parts before they started getting expensive!
When the Clinton Administration was sending the M14s to Captain Crunch, there were loads of new and near new rifles being destroyed. I grabbed a load of like new parts from SARCO and new in wrap parts from Tony Pucci when they really didn't have much demand for parts. I also bought a few cartouched WW2 M1 stocks that were extremely nice (SA GHS, EMcF and NFR). Damn shame, all those components came off perfectly servicable rifles.
Grab a few extra extractors... they always fail when you don't have a spare
A Norman F. Ramsey stock should be walnut... perhaps it is a very light colored walnut. Birch was used as a replacement stock material, and I would expect to find a DAS on it, or unmarked except for proof p. Is the rifle a rebuild? It may be cheaper and easier to replace the upper and lower handguard with Birch units... a fine condition set of birch furniture looks quite nice on the M1. Since it locks up tight, I would think about keeping that stock.
I would make sure the Lower handguard wasn't original before I started pulling things apart, especially if it is a WW2 rifle with a correct barrel receiver combination.
Almost all of my WW2 M1s are original (via Scott Duff), and the solid lower band retaining pin is held in place by a single stake mark on wither side of the band... there are no other tool marks to indicate that it was fooled with. Also, the pinion stake mark on the rear sights has no evidence of disturbance of the original stake. A post war rifle's lower handguard is retained by a roll pin, which did away with having to stake the solid retaining pin.
There are nice oiginal post war walnut M1 stocks floating around for not a huge amount of $$$. As far as mixed wood rifles, many of the Navy Mk II Secretary of the Navy Trophy rifle variations exhibit mixed types of wood.
Hearing about all the milspec stuff, sounds like Id be dumb not to get it. Im borrowing it this afternoon to get a closer look at it & will post pics.
$900 is a VERY good price.
Your stock is American Black Walnut. Doesn't look in bad shape either.
A birch stock with an SA NFR final inspection stamp would be a forgery. The rifle below is stocked in birch furniture. If you look at the grain pattern on the handguards, you can see that it is different from your rifle's stock.
Norman F Ramsey was Commandant of Springfield Armory from Oct 44 through Nov 45. There was some overlap in stock markings due to the sudden illness of the previous commandant, George A Woody, who subsequently died. Some stocks were stamped SA GAW during the early Ramsey period, and the accepted reason is that new stamps had to be procured, and that took a few months.
By your serial number, your rifle was produced in October '43 and would have originally have an SA GAW stock. NFR stocks start to be observed in Jan '45 and continue through end of WW2 production in early '46. Again, there is a the in changing over the correct stamps when the commandant changes.
I agree in the assessment that the lower M1a in your photo has a birch stock... regardless of what SA Inc says, it is a birch stock.
Finally pics.
I hate computers..........
Looks good... so, I take it that you purchased it?
If you did, you did well!
Great price for a M1A with all those GI parts. Grab it ASAP. :D
Great price for the M1A with all those GI parts. Grab it ASAP. :D
I told him unless he came down to 500, he can shove it.
ok .bad joke. Im going to give him the greenbacks when he gets back in town this comming week. Yall helped talk me into it with your direction & insight.
Thanks a lot!
"for helping me get deeper in debt!" but worth it!


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During Tuesday night's game between the Chicago Bulls and the New York Knicks, I wrote that while I'd prefer a Knicks victory as a fan, I'd be interested to see Derrick Rose join the other NBA luminaries who have used the World's Most Famous Arena as a grand stage for offensive performances ranking at or near the best of their careers, if only to see how people would react to it.
To be sure, Rose's growth this year into an unquestioned superstar, the league's presumptive NBA Most Valuable Player and the All-Everything engine behind the East's best team has included some watershed moments. Recall the pre-All-Star 42-8-5 he put up against the San Antonio Spurs, with whom Rose's Bulls are now tied for the league's best record after Chicago's 103-90 victory over the Knicks and the Spurs' 102-93 defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers, or this past Sunday's 39-point outburst in a showcase game against the (admittedly Dwight Howard-less) Orlando Magic. He certainly hasn't lacked for fine performances in big spots.
But the prospect of seeing Rose explode before a star-loving crowd at the Garden and in front of an enrapt national TV audience — just as Jordan did with the double-nickel, Kobe Bryant with his 61 and LeBron did with his 52-point triple-double that wasn't — was too enticing.
Sure, maybe the resulting narrative (there's that word again) would have just focused on the difference between Rose-as-unassuming-assassin/killer-choirboy and the higher-volume personae of those other stars, sort of a remix to the "Kevin Durant is not LeBron James, which is why he's our superstar" story that became the dominant non-Miami NBA meme of last summer. That would have been interesting, but not revelatory; if nothing else, though, it certainly could have led to the kind of hacky column premises that are always fun to joke about.
As it happened, Rose didn't blow up quite like that — it was Chicago's swarming third-quarter defense that turned this game around, and 26 points, three assists and two steals isn't exactly rarefied air. He did manage to catch some of that air, though, on a trio of plays — including that dynamite double-pump reverse up top — that took both the wind out of the Knicks' sails and the breath away from the Garden crowd.
Want to see more? Of course you do. Who wouldn't?
First up, Rose's filthy first-quarter alley-oop from Ronnie Brewer, which he caught with two hands below the rim as he was soaring beneath it but still managed to get back up to finish with the right hand:
Next, the signature two-hander that Trey Kerby at The Basketball Jones has taken to calling "The Sprewell":
(Expertly defended by New York, there.)
Explosive, uncontrollable, transcendent in moments and yet still somehow subdued — maybe that's just the way Derrick Rose puts on a show. I doubt many Chicago fans, or many of the Knicks partisans who cheered him last night, are complaining much this morning.
International readers ("Int'l read'rs"): If the clips above aren't rocking for you, please feel free to peruse the double-pump, the Brewer alley-oop and the vicious two-hander elsewhere, thanks to our friends at the National Basketball Association, Get Banged On and YIMzBrky, respectively.


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Testimony of
Bradley Katsuyama
President and CEO, IEX Group, Inc.
Before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Good morning Chairman Levin, Ranking Member McCain, Senators, Staff, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this hearing and share our thoughts on issues affecting the US equity markets. My name is Brad Katsuyama and I am the President and Chief Executive Officer of IEX Group.
IEX would like to commend the Subcommittee for taking the time and interest to examine such a critical aspect of the U.S. equity markets given its importance to the overall economy. Forums such as this are a critical element in addressing the difficulty that many people, both inside and outside of our industry, have had in obtaining relevant information on how our markets operate. IEX hopes that we can assist in changing that dynamic and we appreciate the invitation to participate today.
IEX currently operates a non-displayed Alternative Trading System ("ATS"), or dark pool, for U.S. equities, and intends to pursue registration as a national securities exchange with the SEC later this year.
IEX is dedicated to institutionalizing fairness in the market by offering a balanced, simplified and transparent market model, and also through the use of cutting edge technology. IEX believes strongly in a marketplace's responsibility to ensure its rules and product offerings are designed to promote just and equitable principles of trade, as required by Section 6 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 as amended ("the Act").
This principled approach began with IEX seeking to eliminate conflicts of interest in the operation and participation of our marketplace through our ownership and subscriber structure. Different from the other non-public markets in the US, IEX chose not to take investment from broker-dealers, and instead took investment from buy-side firms, family offices, individuals and employees as owners. To further neutralize conflict and create balance, we chose to allow only broker-dealer firms to become subscribers to our ATS.
In addition to our ownership and subscriber model, IEX has sought to further eliminate conflicts and promote fairness through the pricing structure, market design, and technology architecture of the IEX ATS. IEX has a fee/fee pricing model where we charge both sides the same fee for transactions, there are no rebates paid to the maker or taker of liquidity; we institute a time buffer to neutralize certain negative effects of structural inefficiencies in the national market system, and have a limited number of order types.
IEX believes that the U.S. equity markets have improved dramatically over the past twenty years as participants can now trade less expensively and faster than they did in the past. We believe this is in large part due to the inevitable improvements that technology has delivered across many industries - with financial markets being no exception.
We also believe that the current regulatory framework provides a viable balance between regulation and free market forces, designed to promote competition between markets and orders, and protection of the investor. We want to emphasize the point that IEX was created within the current regulatory framework, which shows that the spirit of the rules governing our market allow for different types of solutions to emerge if participants are properly incentivized to create them.
But despite all of the benefits that we can discuss, it has become apparent to our team and our supporters that the U.S. equity markets are also far from perfect.
We believe perfection is an impossible goal; however, consistent with the 1975 Amendments to the Act, we believe that the industry should constantly be striving towards improving the mechanisms of the National Market System for the betterment of all investors and society as a whole.
We believe in the current legislative and regulatory framework of the market and fully support the regulation and controls intended to support the public interest, protection of investors, and promotion of competition. We believe that all interests - commercial, regulatory, legal, and political - should be dedicated to serving the true purpose of the market, capital formation, and its fundamental role in the domestic and global economy.
IEX believes strongly in Congress' findings in the 1975 Amendments to the Act that:
- 1. "The securities markets are an important national asset which must be preserved and strengthened
- 2. New data processing and communications techniques create the opportunity for more efficient and effective market operations.
- 3. It is in the public interest and appropriate for the protection of investors and the maintenance of fair and orderly markets to assure
- a. economically efficient execution of securities transactions;
- b. fair competition among brokers and dealers, among exchange markets, and between exchange markets and markets other than exchange markets;
- c. the availability to brokers, dealers, and investors of information with respect to quotations for and transactions in securities;
- d. the practicability of brokers executing investors orders in the best market; and
- e. an opportunity, consistent with the provisions of clauses (i) and (iv) of this subparagraph, for investors' orders to be executed without the participation of a dealer.
- 4. The linking of all markets for qualified securities through communication and data processing facilities will foster efficiency, enhance competition, increase the information available to brokers, dealers, and investors, facilitate the offsetting of investors' orders, and contribute to best execution of such orders."
The rapid technological advancement of the markets over the last two decades has undoubtedly resulted in many benefits to participants. Faster electronic communication between, and information processing by, market systems have decreased uncertainty regarding the state of orders and trades in the market, improving the ability of investors and traders to manage market and opportunity risk.
These advancements have also presented the industry with the greatest potential for democratization of market access, fairness and objectivity in order handling, and the ability to supervise and surveil markets.
But we use the word potential very specifically - as we believe that this potential has not been fully realized.
Committee Ask: Address conflicts of interest affecting brokers charged with seeking best execution of customer orders, including conflicts posed by market rebates, access fees, and payments to retail brokers for customer order flow.
The potential conflicts of interest we see affecting brokers handling of customer orders primarily have to do with economics of trade execution and attribution of business handled, in particular the desire to increase or maintain market share in a broker-dealer's own dark pool.
Rebates and fees
The so called "maker/taker" (and the inverse "taker/maker") model, where providers of liquidity are paid a rebate per share traded and takers of liquidity are charged a fee (or vice versa), with the market venue (i.e. exchange) keeping the difference, has increased venue competition since its emergence in the late 1990's. The practice became nearly universal among U.S. equity exchanges by the time Regulation NMS was effected in 2007. The introduction of the rebate and the increased certainty of execution brought on by Regulation NMS has been a benefit to electronic market makers and created a competitive niche of trading strategies specifically focused on capturing the rebate. Intense competition for rebates among professional traders has reduced the likelihood of investor orders adding liquidity in maker/taker markets, either relegating those orders to the back of the exchange queue or requiring them to disproportionately take liquidity and therefore pay the access fee.
Today there are pricing models set at various price points for rebates and fees. The largest exchanges by market share pay high rebates and charge high take fees. These markets tend to have more competition to add liquidity, and therefore more interest at the inside price. These markets are also the most expensive markets on which to take liquidity (because they charge the highest fees), and at times may be avoided by a broker sensitive to its own economics, despite the market having the most liquidity at the inside price.
Broker challenges
The landscape of execution costs presents brokers handling customer orders with a number of interesting challenges. When seeking to earn itself the rebate by posting an investor's order passively, the broker risks the order joining the back of a long queue of older orders (exchanges generally execute orders at the same price in time priority, with the oldest orders receiving the highest priority), potentially missing a trading opportunity before the price moves away from it. Further, if the order does execute, since it is near the back of the queue it will likely do so immediately before the price moves into it, an undesirable outcome. A broker who posts an investor's order on a taker/maker exchange places their client in a higher probability position to get passively filled at the inside price, a desirable outcome, but to do so the broker must be willing to incur the higher execution cost associated with paying the fee to add liquidity.
The impediments to executing orders as a provider of liquidity increase the probability of those orders needing to become takers of liquidity. Prices along a continuum from high fee to high rebate present a risk that economically sensitive order routing may lead to more predictable and recognizable broker-dealer behavior, leaking information and creating unintended adverse market impact.
Economic considerations have also led to the proliferation of broker dark pools. By internalizing customer flow, an agency broker can avoid incurring a sizable take-fee on the public exchanges. As a consequence, the evolution of market economics has created a clear incentive for an agency broker to isolate its customer orders in its own dark pool and given that each broker-dealer only represents a portion of total customer order flow, the likelihood of investor orders isolated in this manner interacting without intermediation decreases significantly.
The brokers' dark pool dilemma
In order to increase the chance of an execution in their dark pools, broker-dealers looked to provide access to other broker-dealers, especially those handling customer orders. With nearly all of the major broker-dealers operating dark pools, the willingness of a given broker to route orders to another broker's pool is diminished by the disincentive to improve the performance of a competitor. Orders executed in a dark pool contribute to that pools percentage of market share. Market share is an important metric by which trading venues, and those brokers who operate them, compete for customer business. This places in conflict the service of seeking liquidity for the customer orders on the best terms available across venues and the broker's incentive to maintain dark pool market share relative to its competitors.
To further increase the chance of an execution, many pools grant access to electronic market making and other proprietary trading strategies. The service of these strategies is in large part to bring together interest widely dispersed across venues by intermediating between the buyer in one market and the seller in another. While in some cases strategies may have their own liquidity needs, in cases of cross-venue intermediation the motivation for the intermediary is economic, either a price inefficiency between markets, or the fees/rebates offered by the market center. Price inefficiency means that one or both of the orders being intermediated is paying for the service of intermediation, even though both orders were in the composite market at the same time with intersecting price limits.
Orders isolated on a dark pool are insulated from meaningful interaction with interest in the larger market. These orders may be subject to a disproportionately high level of interaction with principal interest, either from the broker-dealer operating the pool or proprietary high frequency trading strategies. While one of the stated objectives of dark pool trading is to minimize information leakage and market impact, it may also result in execution at unimproved prices, while permitting an intermediary to immediately capture a profit with an offsetting transaction in another venue.
The risk of transmitting an actionable signal may be low for single, large executions, and this is a proposed value of dark pools. Without quotes, information about a trade is communicated to the market only after the trade is complete as a report to the Consolidated Tape. Signal risk may be high, however, for portions of an order executed across multiple dark pools as an antecedent to accessing the displayed quotation in the public market. Signal risk would also likely be high in cases where a liquidity seeker accessed a single pool, such as the pool it operates, with an effort or frequency disproportionately high relative to other markets. In such an event the over-accessing could create a series of signals indicative to certain strategies that significant directional interest exists.
Committee Ask: Describe the role of high frequency trading in today's marketplace and the relationship between benefits attributed to high frequency trading, such as increased liquidity and narrowing spreads, and the above conflicts of interest.
The market benefits from a diversity of participants, and a diversity of trading strategies. In addition to natural investors, market making, arbitrage and speculative trading strategies contribute to the information available in the market, as well as providing and taking liquidity, improving efficiency and bridging geographic and temporal fragmentation. However, strategies that exist solely to exploit structural inefficiencies impose unnecessary cost and potential risk to the system.
It should be recognized that the most significant improvements in spread tightening in U.S. equities followed the Order Handling Rules, implemented in the latter half of the 1990's, and then by the conversion of the industry from fraction-based pricing to decimals. Both of these changes surround the adoption of Regulation ATS which greatly promoted competition among market centers by allowing an exemption from the requirement to register as a national securities exchange for alternative trading systems, which would compete directly and indirectly with exchanges. Order handling rules mandating that customer interest be represented in the market whenever not prohibited by customer instruction, decimalization, competition and continuous improvement in technological performance allowed the industry to more precisely and efficiently present demand and supply to the market. High frequency trading strategies both rely upon and contribute to these conditions, but to claim they are the reason for this improvement is debatable at best.
High frequency trading strategies were generally categorized by the SEC 2010 Concept Release on Equity Market Structure as: passive market making, arbitrage, directional, and structural. The first two of these provide the greatest social value to the market; liquidity provision, elimination of natural inefficiencies, promotion of price discovery and the intermediation of interest that would otherwise not interact.
Directional strategies may receive a more mixed review. These strategies compete with customer orders, in particular, when a trade occurs as a result of order detection. Setting manipulative strategies aside as prohibited; it is an expected characteristic of a free and transparent market that some participants will react to pressures in the market. Competition among orders is an objective of the Act.
The last category, structural strategies, are strategies that exist solely to exploit a structural inefficiency, or to the extent that any strategy of the prior categories are materially benefitting from structural inefficiencies, must be considered with the most discriminating examination. The Act requires the "removal of impediments to and perfection of the mechanism of a national market system". Inefficiencies in the structure of the market; communication networks, trading and information systems, and market data dissemination, pose a particular risk to the integrity of the composite market place because the exploitation of such inefficiencies does not eliminate the inefficiency, and therefore the opportunity to extract value from the system is perpetual, as is not the case with other types of more natural inefficiency.
High frequency trading strategies operating in compliance with market rules are valid competitors for trading interest, provide liquidity, intermediation, and contribution to price discovery. The questions of value and fairness relating to high frequency trading must be answered by understanding the opportunities and advantages, as well as the disadvantages, imposed upon the national market system by the system itself.
Committee Ask: Describe other matters associated with high frequency trading, including order protection rules; market centers' use of proprietary and public data feeds in determining national best bid and offer; market latency and its impact on investors; the role of Regulation National Market System; and market participants' use of high speed, proprietary data feeds and co-location.
To best appreciate the potential impacts of structural inefficiencies in the market the Industry is still evolving its collective understanding of the relative utility of exceedingly small increments in time. In this highly automated, computerized market environment actionable windows of time are counted in micro-seconds, millionths of a second. The concepts of instantaneous, immediate and simultaneous must be reconsidered to include granularities to the millionth of a second or finer. The issue at hand is that of structural inefficiencies in the market creating asymmetries of information among participants which to some are of actionable duration while to others, previously, not considered to be relevant.
Regulation NMS established the requirement that each market participant and market center determine the best-priced protected quotations based on the market data feed or feeds of their choice. The most often discussed structural inefficiency related to this requirement is the difference in dissemination speeds between the two consolidated Securities Information Processors (SIP) and proprietary market data feeds offered commercially by market centers, including each of the national securities exchanges which comprise the governing committees of each of the SIPs.
The common criticism that the SIP feeds are significantly slower than proprietary data feeds is often met with a response citing the necessity for the SIP to process information from each of the exchanges and calculate the National Best Bid and Offer to be included in the disseminated consolidated quote feed. Consumers of proprietary data feeds have similar needs; they must process the messages to arrive at an understanding of the market. That private and commercial processors of proprietary feeds are significantly faster than the SIPs, and tend to have less variance in performance under stress raises questions of conflicted interests of those exchanges governing the SIPs.
Some exchanges offer multiple proprietary market data products, including differences solely based on the speed or content of a feed. Further adding to the potential for information asymmetry is the difference in dissemination between the various market centers due to varying levels of technological capabilities and order book composition, with more advanced exchanges disseminating information faster than less advanced markets. This results in differences between their system processing performances, especially during times of high message rate related stress in the market.
Some markets have different means of accessing the market whereby participants can enter orders and cancels, and receive information from the exchange about those orders. The two main elements of speed of market access are order entry application program interfaces (API) protocols and co-location services. These two services present a number of benefits to the market, with co-location, in particular, solving the classic issue of the physical room around the specialists' post on the floor of an exchange.
Proximity to the market is now less restrained by physical space (for all intents and purposes), and the uniformity and fairness of that access is greatly enhanced when co-location services are part of an exchange's rulebook and subject to SEC approval and oversight. Discussions about co-location as advantaging one party over another, namely, the non-co-located party, are understandable, but practically off the mark. Proximity will always be a factor. To some it will be important and to others it will not. There is no solution for the relative difference in market access speed between a trader in California vs. a trader in New York. Similarly, where co-location is about the race to the front door of the market center, it is now available to any participant who wants it and can afford to pay for it.
It is our belief that concerns around co-location should focus on whether it enables a market's participants to be able to process and act on information more timely than the market center itself. Co-location should also be considered in light of how it may magnify latency and structural related trading opportunities.
Where these differences are material, noting that materiality may mean tens or hundreds of microseconds, the following negative/questionable effects may be found.
Concerns regarding negative effects of structural inefficiencies
Order Anticipation/Detection - The negative effect in this case is the enabling of certain trading strategies to perceive and react to a change in the market, such as an investor order attempting to access all the currently displayed liquidity at once. "At once" is not a single instant in time; it is a series of moments over a very short time horizon. The issue is magnified when one party thinks its action occurs instantaneously, while others, who have the technological resources and skill, see the event as a series of sequential actions, thus creating a trading opportunity for the latter.
The question of fairness here centers on the market system providing information and allowing market access in such fine increments of time as to increase both the confidence of order detection and the window of time in which a participant may act on the received information. Considering the fact that the construct of the market system enables action being taken on an order as it seemingly enters the marketplace instantaneously is suggestive of an unnecessary and unproductive practice worth eliminating.
Fading Liquidity – The same principles apply to the issue of fading liquidity as certain high speed strategies respond to pressure in the market, including just their own orders being filled, and cancel their orders on other markets. In this case, technology revives the issue previously resolved by rule of non-firm quotations, or of orders "backing away".
In a single market's limit order book, an incoming order is processed against orders resting on the book according to that market's priority schema. In no case would a strategy with an order resting on the book be able to effect a cancellation prior to the time the order that is currently processing against that book has finished. All orders in the displayed market today are expected to be firm orders, and they are by rule and by computer code. Again due to the construct of the market system certain strategies are able to get out of the way of buy or sell interest as they are accessing the market in aggregate, which calls into question the fairness of the inefficiencies which allow or enable such behavior, and the potential distortion of price discovery and of supply and demand.
Price Dislocation – There are several ways in which structural inefficiencies contribute to price dislocation. One of the most commonly talked about ways is arbitrage based upon the relative speed of market data feeds from the SIPs vs. proprietary feeds from the exchanges. A market center using SIP feeds to determine the NBBO, which is being accessed by a strategy using proprietary market data feeds, will be at a disadvantage if that strategy can enter order instructions into the market center in a timeframe within the difference in delivery time between the feeds. Even in the event that a market center is using proprietary feeds it is reasonable to expect that a market center system will take more time to process and propagate changes in market data than a participant system optimized to run a trading strategy.
As a result, a slower market center pricing orders resting on its book, for example to the midpoint of the NBBO, may provide a structural arbitrage opportunity when one of its trading participants possesses trading information that the market itself doesn't have. This is a structural inefficiency where any participant who has entrusted a market center with their resting order may be placed at a disadvantage to a high speed participant due to the slowness of the particular market where its order is resting.
Committee Ask: Provide any recommendations for policies that could reduce or eliminate conflicts of interest while maintaining liquidity and low investor costs, and enhancing public confidence in U.S. equity markets.
At IEX we believe that if a market and its participants are provided with adequate information and given the leeway to self-correct, the market as a whole will come to the best possible decision, and produce the solutions that it needs.
IEX suggests that the best policies to reduce or eliminate conflicts of interest are those that promote transparency and disclosure, with a particular emphasis towards standards that promote comparability. With better information each participant can make better choices. Disclosure of relationships, practices, and performance with a uniform reference enables comparison, and compels those with agency and fiduciary obligations, and other high standards of care to factor any such information into their decision making process.
The SEC and FINRA have taken positive recent steps towards making the markets more transparent - through the SEC Midas website and FINRA's ATS reporting rule- and we would encourage further pursuit of greater transparency in our markets through any regulatory means necessary.
IEX recommends that the following areas be considered for policies to improve transparency:
Standardization of Data:
- 1. When data is requested of participants, ensure that a standard for how the data should be derived and presented is clear and concise.
- 2. Require market systems, broker-dealers, exchanges, ATSs and SIPs, to time stamp messages sent, received and used internally to a standard granularity of at least microseconds with specificity on where in the system it was recorded.
- 3. Improve atomic clock synchronization from a one second tolerance to one millisecond or finer.
Data requirement examples:
- 1. Public disclosure of an anonymous breakdown of subscribers by volume on any registered trading venue (ATS and Exchange).
- 2. Public disclosure of an anonymous breakdown of message traffic and message to trade ratio by subscriber on any registered trading venue (ATS and Exchange).
- 3. A complete audit trail of how client orders are handled, including both routing and trading information, available to the client upon request.
Market Operation Disclosures:
- 1. Plain language rules and common use examples for proposed rules for products and services offered by exchanges.
- 2. Require public disclosure of alternative trading systems' Form ATS and subsequent products, services, and pricing.
- 3. Ensure an adequate amount of reporting between exchanges and brokers, as well as between brokers and clients - whereby execution data and routing data is standardized and available upon request.
- 4. Define acceptable tolerances for trading, market center and inter-market communication system performance to ensure there are no meaningful risks to the integrity of the system in the context of structural inefficiencies which could allow unfair advantages and disadvantages to certain market participants.
The most important aspect of transparency is that it brings accountability to all participants in our market. A better understanding of how our market works (this includes venue behavior, subscriber behavior, and inter-market behavior) will undoubtedly help us uncover problematic issues and ask critical questions, which ultimately reduces complexity and helps the industry to self-regulate and stabilize the market. With greater transparency, it will be much easier to evaluate new participants, products and services against the key principles of serving investors, companies, and the public interest. In many ways, increased transparency directly helps to mitigate the very real concern that IEX and many of our partners share - the overall health and stability of our market.
In conclusion, IEX has created a market based solution that addresses numerous market conflicts while also reducing the potential for predatory high frequency trading opportunities. We are currently implementing additional commercial solutions to make further advancements to our market model. Everything that we have implemented at IEX is within the current regulatory structure which we believe reflects the spirit of the rules as intended and we respectfully ask that when evaluating the extent by which Congress or the Commission seek to further modify the structure of the equity markets, a cost-benefit analysis should contrast potential regulation against commercially available solutions.
To the extent market participants choose to route orders through IEX, this confirms IEX's contribution to market quality. The optional nature of routing orders to IEX is inherent as part of a market-based solution. With regard to regulation, such optionality is not the case, and any new regulation that is embedded in market structure brings the potential for uncertainty and implementation risk.
For this reason we support the Commission's thoughtful data driven approach and would suggest that the primary goal would be to collect greater amounts of information in a standardized form and to make that data publicly available.
In closing, IEX would like to echo SEC Chair White's recent statement in a speech given in New York on June 5, 2014. "The secondary markets exist for investors and public companies, and their interests must be paramount."
As we as an industry work through this period of change, we should never forget why the market exists in the first place.
Thank you.


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Progress for America
Progress for America (PFA) (a 501(c)(4)) and its affiliate Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) (a 527 committee) are national tax-exempt organizations in the United States. PFA was established in 2001 to support George W. Bush's "agenda for America". The PFA Voter Fund, which was set up in 2004, raised US$38 million in support of Bush's 2004 election bid.
PFA was registered as a 501(c)(4) group in February 2001 by Tony Feather, a political director of the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign and partner at DCI Group as well as at the affiliated telemarketing and fundraising firm of Feather Larson Synhorst-DCI (FLS-DCI). Feather set up PFA as a "grassroots organization that mobilizes the public to contact their members of Congress about pending legislation and to write local newspapers to publicize the White House's agenda," the Center for Public Integrity wrote in 2002. During the first part of the Bush Administration, it led campaigns to support tax cuts, conservative judicial appointments and energy legislation.
Feather told the Washington Post in August 2002 that PFA was simply a vehicle for building grassroots support for Bush Administration policies. However others said it was intended to accept soft money donations which political parties were barred from accepting starting in 2002.[1] Feather left PFA in 2003 after receiving a legal opinion that his involvement with it and the Bush-Cheney campaign could violate regulations barring coordination between the entities.[2]
PFA spin-offs and projects[edit]
Progress for America Voter Fund[edit]
On July 21, 2004, complaints were filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by Democracy 21, the Campaign Legal Center, and the Center for Responsive Politics. The Complaints charged that Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) was illegally raising and spending soft money to influence the 2004 presidential elections.
On February 28, 2007 the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reached a settlement with Progress for America related to its activities in 2004.[3] In the 2004 election cycle, the Fund had raised US$45 million. Under the terms of the settlement, PFA-VF did not admit to any wrongdoing, and agreed to pay US$750,000 and to register as a political committee if it undertakes any activities similar to those in 2004. The FEC stated: "Over US$41 million of those funds consisted of excessive contributions from individuals, while over US$2 million came from sources prohibited from making contributions . . . ."[4]
Ashley and friends[edit]
PFA-VF spent US$14.2 million on ad time for "Ashley's Story", which ran on cable stations and in nine key states. According to USA Today, the ad was supported by ashleysstory.com, as well as "e-mails, automated phone calls and 2.3 million brochures" mailed to voters.[5]
Push for privatized Social Security[edit]
After winning re-election in 2004, Bush emphasized changes in Social Security as a major domestic goal of his second term. He called for partial privatization of the system. PFA "has estimated it will spend US$20 million promoting private accounts. It has run a series of ads on cable television, including a spot that invokes the legacy of Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt, who signed the legislation creating the retirement system", the Houston Chronicle reported in February 2005.[6]
In late February 2005, the Houston Chronicle reported that Texas A&M University economics professor Thomas R. Saving had joined up with Progress for America as an advisor and spokesman. Saving, however, is serving as one of seven trustees for the Social Security Administration, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest between his advocacy work at PFA and his role as a Social Security "trustee". Saving is also a fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. According to the Chronicle, former US Treasurer Rosario Marin joined PFA as an advisor as well.[7]
"I'm interested in the issues and I'm working on them and I'll continue to work on them", Saving told the Chronicle. "I already do an awful lot of speeches about Social Security and Medicare."
Federal judicial battles[edit]
In May 2005, PFA began running ads targeted at pressuring Republicans Senators into supporting a ban on Senate filibusters for judicial nominations. Associated Press reported that PFA would spend US$350,000 on "radio ads on Christian stations" and US$1.5 million on television ads to be run in Alaska, Arkansas, Maine, North Dakota, Nebraska and Rhode Island as well as nationally.[8]
In June 2005, The Hill reported that PFA intended to "spend at least US$18 million on the expected fight to replace William Rehnquist, chief justice of the US Supreme Court". PFA's campaign would include "national cable-news and broadcast-television ads in targeted states. The group will also coordinate grassroots organizers and public-relations specialists in eighteen states, including states represented by centrist Republican senators such as Arizona, Maine and Oregon" The Hill wrote. The groups will also use phone-bank and direct-mail in its campaign. "Before Senate confirmation of Owen and Brown, PFA claims to have helped generate nearly 80,000 telephone calls supporting their nominations", The Hill reported. PFA will work closely with the Judicial Confirmation Network and the Committee for Justice on the campaign.[9]
On June 22, 2005, PFA issued a press release announcing a US$700,000 campaign in anticipation of a Supreme Court Justice vacancy during the Court's summer break. The campaign included buys on big newspapers' internet websites, and a roll-out of a new website: upordownvote.com.
Iraq War advertising campaign[edit]
Starting in 2006, Progress for America began an ad campaign in support of the Iraq War, with a US$1 million ad campaign in Minnesota.[10] Progress for America spokesman Stuart Roy said the group purchased "a saturation buy" in Minnesota and said that bolstering support for the war now "will be a major focus, if not the major focus of Progress for America".[10] These ads often feature war veterans speaking in support for the war and for then President Bush.
- ^ Edsall, Thomas B. (August 25, 2002). "New Ways To Harness Soft Money In Works; Political Groups Poised To Take Huge Donations". The Washington Post. p. A.01.
- ^ Edsall, Thomas B. (May 25, 2004). "GOP Creating Own '527' Groups; Unregulated Funds Can Be Raised". The Washington Post. p. A.15.
- ^ "Progress For America voter fund statement on the announced settlement with the Federal election commission" (PDF). Progress For America. February 28, 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/02/28/fec.pdf
- ^ Keen, Judy; Mark Memmott (2004-10-18). "Most expensive TV campaign ad goes for emotions". USA Today. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Bennett Roth (February 14, 2005). "Social Security lobbying war is on". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Don Jordan (February 24, 2005). "A&M professor to advise Social Security reformers". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Joel Roberts (May 2, 2005). "Judge Wars Hit Airwaves". CBS News. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ Alexander Bolton (June 16, 2005). "Conservative groups to spend over $20M on Supreme Court". The Hill. Archived from the original on 15 February 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ^ a b Mike Dorning (28 February 2006). "TV Ads Push Iraq War Support". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- "Progress for America", OpenSecrets.org.
- Nicholas Confessore, "Bush's Secret Stash," Washington Monthly, May 1, 2004.
- Glen Justice and Jim Rutenberg, "Advocacy Groups Step Up Costly Battle of Political Ads", The New York Times, September 25, 2004, A10.
- Glen Justice, "New Pet Cause for the Very Rich: Swaying the Election", The New York Times, September 25, 2004, A10.
- Thomas Edsall, "After Late Start, Republican Groups Jump Into the Lead", Washington Post, October 17, 2004, page A17.
- Laura Miller, "The Fix Behind Fixing Social Security," PR Watch, 2005 (Vol. 12, No. 1).
- Glen Justice, "Social Security Fight Begins, Over a Bill Still Nonexistent," New York Times, February 17, 2005.


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"Dancing With the Stars"...Season 18 of "DWTS" will look different than any other season.
"Dancing With the Stars"...Season 18 of "DWTS" will look different than any other season.
•Erin Andrews will be co-hosting.
•Ray Chew is the musical hot musical director.
We already know that Season 18 is going to look different from previous seasons, with Erin Andrews in the co-hosting role and Ray Chew in the musical hot seat. But Derek Hough told Us Weekly that there would be a new twist – couple switching. He explained, "This season, America will be given the power to vote and change celebrities and professional dance pairings. This new rule will affect all couples as they will be required to switch partners at a point in the season."
Now, without further ado, here are the competitors for Season 18 of "Dancing With the Stars:"
•"Real Housewives of Atlanta" star NeNe Leakes – dancing with Tony Dovolani
•Olympic figure skater Meryl Davis – dancing with Maksim Chmerkovskiy
•Olympic figure skater Charlie White – dancing with Sharna Burgess
•"Price Is Right" host Drew Carey – dancing with Cheryl Burke
•"Full House" star Candace Cameron Bure -- dancing with Mark Ballas
•Former hockey player Sean Avery – dancing with Karina Smirnoff
•Big Time Rush singer James Maslow – dancing with Peta Murgatroyd
•World record long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad – dancing with Henry Byalikov
•"The Wonder Years" star Danica McKellar – dancing with Val Chmerkovskiy
•Actor Billy Dee Williams – dancing with Emma Slater
•Australian pop singer Cody Simpson – dancing with Witney Carson
•Double-amputee snowboarding champ Amy Purdy – dancing with Derek Hough


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Expanding on CPI's best-selling poster, this pamphlet provides staff with a quick reminder of some strategies and skills that can help prevent a crisis situation from escalating. Following these key tips from the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training program will give staff members the best possible chance to provide for the Care, Welfare, Safety, and SecuritySM of everyone involved in a crisis situation. Great for trainings and refreshers!
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FHP Trooper Struck, Injured on I-75
A late-morning crash left a state trooper seriously injured and traffic bumper-to-bumper for hours on I-75.
The trooper was trying to help the victims of another accident.
Investigators say they are not quite sure if the rain played a part in the crash earlier today, but they're not ruling it out.
Around 11:20 a.m., investigators say troopers were heading to another crash on I-75 at mile marker 387.
A trooper requested backup to help direct traffic. The additional trooper, Richard J. Ornowski, who responded to that assistance call, was involved in a crash.
Investigators say while Ornowski was heading to the other crash, he hit the center guard rail, veered back into traffic and hit a semi, going underneath.
The impact sent Ornowski to Shands at UF with serious injuries.
Traffic was stop and go for hours, but DOT and other agencies worked quickly to clean up the mess.
Ornowski is still in serious condition at Shands, and the crash is under investigation. There is no word if anyone will be cited.
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Piezoelectric Actuators Information
Piezoelectric actuators are devices that produce a small displacement with a high force capability when voltage is applied. There are many applications where a piezoelectric actuator may be used, such as ultra-precise positioning and in the generation and handling of high forces or pressures in static or in dynamic situations.
Actuator configuration can vary greatly depending on application. Piezoelectric stack actuators are manufactured by stacking up piezoelectric disks or plates, the axis of the stack being the axis of linear motion when a voltage is applied. Tube actuators are monolithic devices that contract laterally and longitudinally when a voltage is applied between the inner and outer electrodes. A disk actuator is a device in the shape of a planar disk. Ring actuators are disk actuators with a center bore, making the actuator axis accessible for optical, mechanical, or electrical purposes. Other less common configurations include block, disk, bender, and bimorph styles.
These devices can also be ultrasonic. Ultrasonic actuators are specifically designed to produce strokes of several micrometers at ultrasonic (>20kHz) frequencies. They are especially useful for controlling vibration, positioning applications and quick switching. In addition, piezoelectric actuators can be either direct or amplified. The effect of amplification is a larger displacement, but it can also result in slower response times.
The critical specifications for piezoelectric actuators are the displacement, force and operating voltage of the actuator. Other factors to consider are stiffness, resonant frequency and capacitance. Stiffness is a term used to describe the force needed to achieve a certain deformation of a structure. For piezoelectric actuators, it is the force needed to elongate the device by certain amount. It is normally specified in terms of Newton per micrometer. Resonance is the frequency at which the actuators respond with maximum output amplitude. The capacitance is a function of the excitation voltage frequency.
The size of the actuator, of course, is important, as are the electrical connectors. Some of the most common connectors are DB-9, BNC, two wires of either AWG 26 or AWG 30, or else a LEMO(r) connector, which is a precision push-pull locking connector for demanding applications.


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Jobless Grads Bet on Custom-Made ChocolatesBy
Will chocolate weather the recession better than the finance industry? Eric Heinbockel is betting it will. With a year as an unpaid intern at a small New York brokerage under his belt and no decent offers after applying for dozens of jobs, the 24-year-old gave up on his dream of a career in finance. Instead, last year he and two friends he met while getting his political science degree at Columbia University started Chocomize, an online shop that lets chocolate lovers customize their candy bars with ingredients ranging from graham crackers to gold flakes. "We looked into chocolate and saw it was relatively recession-proof," Heinbockel says.
Just as Dell (DELL) found success by letting customers tailor-make their PCs online, Chocomize offers customized candy. The company allows buyers to choose their chocolate—milk, dark, or white—and up to five of more than 100 add-ins. Beef jerky will set you back $1.85 on top of about $4 for the bar; cayenne pepper is 75 cents, dried raspberries are $1.20, and gold flakes are $3.25. One couple ordered 125 dark chocolate bars with bacon, Brazil nuts, and raisins for their wedding. "It's their day, so I guess they get to do what they want," Heinbockel says.
The Chocomize trio got turned on to chocolate after a happy accident. On a warm day in June 2009, Chocomize partner Nick LaCava, 23, left a bag of chocolate and other candy in the back seat of his car. When it all melted into a gloppy mess, LaCava's friends suggested it might be edible if he were to toss it in the freezer. He did—and loved the result. "To me, eating chocolate and gummy bears seems like the coolest thing in the entire world," says LaCava. "That's sort of when the lightbulb went off in our heads," he recalls. "All these different ingredients in chocolate. What if you could choose your own ingredients?"
LaCava, Heinbockel, and Fabian Kaempfer, 24, spent the summer learning how to make chocolate and figuring out how to start a business. When banks were unwilling to lend to three kids fresh out of college, Heinbockel's grandparents offered to help with the funding. The families of the other founders followed suit, and Kaempfer sold his car. The three eventually raised about $100,000.
By last November the Chocomize site was up and running, and it isn't just a facade for three guys making chocolate bars in the kitchen. Chocomize leases 2,000 square feet in Cherry Hill, N.J., where the company has some $40,000 worth of equipment such as tempering machines and a big refrigerator. In addition to the founders, Chocomize has three full-time chocolate makers and two who come in when needed. The company has sold some 50,000 bars in the past nine months and can produce about 4,000 bars a week (Chocomize usually makes half that, but expects orders to jump during the holidays). Heinbockel says the company became profitable in March, and he hopes to top $1 million in sales this year.
Chocomize has at least one entrenched rival. Berlin-based Chocrí has been offering a nearly identical product in Europe since 2008. It expanded in January into the U.S., where it's already profitable, says its U.S. boss, 25-year-old Carmen Magar, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Chocrí, with 25 employees, makes 50,000 bars a month. "I think our extensive experience does give us a competitive advantage" over Chocomize, Magar says. Plus, she notes, Chocrí offers unique add-ins such as "candied rose petals from a tiny little farm in Austria in the middle of nowhere."
Joe Pine, author of Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition and co-founder of the consultancy Strategic Horizons, says custom chocolate is a good way for a small player like Chocomize to differentiate itself in the market, because it's a niche that mass chocolate makers like Hershey (HSY) will likely ignore. While the Chocomize founders have big dreams, their made-to-order strategy may ultimately limit the company's potential. "It's a customized product, so by definition it can't go into" supermarkets or stores where consumers might pick up a bar while they're waiting in the checkout line, says James Targett, senior analyst for global food manufacturing at London-based Consumer Equity Research. "The whole business model is to be individual."
The bottom line: After failing to land decent jobs in finance, a trio of recent grads decided to launch a company that makes customized chocolate bars.


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I think one reason movies appeal to us is that they allow us to step into a fantasy version of someone else's life. Reality is of course different, but perhaps just as interesting.
I shot this over a period of a week using my iPhone. Perhaps I'll do another post on what a day is actually like time-wise. For now, I'd like to issue a call to all my readers: post your own day-in-the-life video.
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If you have a set of vintage salt and pepper shakers, you can use this DIY to turn them into some fantastic retro candle holders!
Hi guys! It's Ashlee from My So Called Crafty Life, and today I am back to share a fun kitschy little upcycled diy with you all!
Out of all the vintage things I collect, salt and pepper shakers seem to be the one thing that I tend to hoard more than anything else.
I love them and have them all over my house!
I have used them in projects before, but I have been wanting to try to make some candlestick holders for a while now. As it turns out, it is really pretty easy to do, and is also a lot of fun!
Check it out:
Here's What You Need:
- Vintage Salt and Pepper Shakers ( ones with a nice flat space on top are the best)
- Wooden Candle Cups ( I bought mine at AC Moore)
- Craft Paints and Brushes
- Quick Grab Ceramic Glue
- Candlesticks
- Varnish (optional)
The first thing you need to do is clean your salt and pepper shakers and set them aside. Smooth out any bad spots on your candle cups with a little sandpaper if needed.
Paint your candle cups as you like them and set them aside to dry. Once dry you can seal them with some varnish or leave them as they are.
Once your candle cups are dry, you are ready to glue.
Dab a nice bit of glue onto the bottom of your candle cup.
Then carefully set the cup glue side down onto the top of your shaker.
Hold in place for a few minutes until the glue is sufficiently holding the cup.
Carefully straighten the cup if needed and set aside to dry. Do the same with your other shaker and candle cup and that's it!
Easy peasy!
I absolutely love these candlesticks!
They actually make me want to eat at the table instead of the tv trays.
They are so simple to make and really quite easy. The only hard part is holding the cup in place while the glue sets, and that is really not bad at all.
I hope you all will give it a try sometime because I know you'll love it too!
I'll be back next week with more craftiness!
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Your batteries are rechargeable, and it's always a good idea to carry jumper cables in your vehicle in case of emergencies. You never know when you may need to jump start your vehicle, or even help out another driver in need.
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Brakes are one of the most important components on your vehicle. You need the confidence of knowing that when you press your foot to the brake, your vehicle is going to stop. That's why it's important to keep these tips in mind to help keep your brakes functioning properly.
Every vehicle needs several automotive fluids in order to run properly. Some of the most important fluids include engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze and power steering fluid.
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Your vehicle relies on oil, lubrication and an oil filter to keep it running smoothly. Every three months or 3,000 miles, your vehicle should be ready for an oil change. Check owner's manual for specific recommendations for your vehicle.
Steering and Suspension
The steering and suspension systems bear the weight of your vehicle, keep the tires on the road and help you experience a smooth, controlled ride.
Tire Balancing
Balancing your tires is important. If overlooked, unbalanced tires can lead to uneven wear, vibration and potentially unsafe driving conditions.
Tire Installation
Tires should be selected by the correct size for the vehicle, and should be purchased in sets of four, or at least matching sets of two on each axle.
Flat Tire Repair
Flat tires are very inconvenient. While there is little you can do to prevent a flat tire, you can help minimize the hassle and damage to your tire by being prepared.
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Rotating your tires is essential for keeping your tires lasting longer. Rotating your tires means moving them from one side of the vehicle to the other, moving them from front to back or a combination of both.
Wheel Alignment
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Why the new study on high-fructose corn syrup and weight gain is flawed
By Nicci Micco, March 26, 2010 - 12:04pm
This week I noticed many news media outlets were reporting that high-fructose corn syrup causes more weight gain than sugar does. The study everyone is referring to is out of Princeton and reported that rats given access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those exposed to table sugar, even when they consumed the same number of calories overall. My first reaction was, "Oh no! Had we gotten it all wrong?" In May 2009, EatingWell did a comprehensive report on high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), found in many processed foods, particularly in sweetened beverages. Then, after talking with top-notch nutrition researchers about everything from whether HFCS makes you hungrier to whether it makes kids hyper, we concluded the following:
To date, the research suggests that high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar aren't that different: they're both processed sweeteners that add "empty" calories to our diets. Our bodies seem to treat them the same way. At EatingWell, we try to limit sweeteners of any kind in recipes. Whenever possible, we use ingredients that don't contain HFCS.
All of the published research available—and hours of interviews with experts who studied HFCS—led us to this conclusion. But perhaps this Princeton report was turning all that previous research on its head? If it did turn out that HFCS does, indeed, affect metabolism in ways that causes us to gain weight, I wanted to let our readers know as soon as possible. To help us interpret the research, I contacted Karen Teff, Ph.D., a physiologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia who has studied the issue extensively. She told us, "This study is poorly designed and poorly controlled and does not prove or even suggest that HFCS is more likely to lead to obesity than sucrose [table sugar]."
Teff offers the following: 1) this study does not provide evidence that HFCS is more likely to lead to obesity than sucrose, and 2) has no applicability to humans. She also emphasizes that one thing we can all take away from this is that "sweetened, caloric beverages should not be part of the daily diet." (Need another reason to quit soda? Find out what it's doing to your body here.) Teff went on to say, "Water or milk, which is nutritive and contains vitamins, are the beverages of choice." (How much water do you really need? Find out here.)
Here's why she came to her conclusions:
• The solutions of HFCS and sucrose used in all the studies—there were a few—in the Princeton report provided different levels of calories. (The HFCS, in fact, was lower in calories.)
• In one of the studies, the authors reported that male rats had a higher body weight after being exposed to 12 hours of access to the HFCS plus their typical rat chow compared to 1) standard chow alone, 2) 12 hours of access to sucrose with chow, and 3) 24 hours of access to sucrose with chow. However, they did not report or do the statistics on the change in weight. Thus, this is meaningless and poorly controlled.
• In a second experiment, they compared chow to chow-plus-HFCS for 24 hours and chow-plus-HFCS for 12 hours and found that access to the HFCS increased body weight. So what? Again, meaningless. This is like taking two groups of people, giving them the same diet but allowing one group to drink sweetened soda whenever they liked. Of course, they will gain weight because they are ingesting more calories. These findings have nothing to do with the controversy between sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup.
• Finally, in a third study, they show body weight as a percent of baseline (this is appropriate) and show that rats who had free access to both chow and HFCS gained a tiny bit more weight than chow alone, 12 hours of HFCS or 12 hours of sucrose. They did not compare it to the control of 24 hours of access to sucrose.
Editor's note: Study author Bart Hoebel, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Princeton University, responded to our blog on 4/1/10 in the comments section.
Do you avoid high-fructose corn syrup? Tell us what you think below.
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Nicci Micco is co-author of EatingWell 500-Calorie Dinners. She has a master's degree in nutrition and food sciences, with a focus in weight management.
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Cranberry-Poached Pears
Pears take on an eye-catching crimson cast when poached with vibrant cranberries. Their pleasing tartness can be countered by a sliver of rich goat cheese or a dollop of creme fraiche or yogurt.
- Servings: 8
Source: Martha Stewart Living, November 2007
- 8 small pears, such as Seckel or Forelle, peeled, stems intact
- 2 tablespoons superfine sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 large strip (4 to 5 inches) orange peel
- 1 large strip (4 to 5 inches) lemon peel
- 5 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 2 3/4 cups (10 ounces) fresh cranberries
- 1 tea bag, such as green tea or fruit tea
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries (optional)
- Greek yogurt, creme fraiche, or soft goat cheese, for serving
Place pears in a saucepan large enough to hold them snugly. Add enough water to barely cover them (about 4 cups). Add sugar, cinnamon, citrus peels, honey, and lemon juice. Using the tip of a paring knife, scrape vanilla seeds into pan, and toss in pod. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Reduce heat, and simmer gently until pears are tender, about 10 minutes.
Add fresh cranberries, and simmer until cranberries are soft but not mushy, about 3 minutes more.
Use a spoon to transfer pears to a dish. Spoon cranberries and syrup around pears. Add tea bag and dried cranberries if using. Let cool for 15 minutes. Cover, and refrigerate overnight.
Before serving, remove vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, citrus peels, and tea bag. Transfer pears to plates with some of the cranberries, syrup, and a dollop of yogurt, creme fraiche, or cheese.


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Brunswick County Mock Trial competition team placed second in the state during the recent North Carolina Teen Court Summit.
Team coaches were Fred Ammann and John Kelso. Adult volunteers and team members included Perry Smith and Josh Theroux, prosecutors; Ashley Williams and Tabitha Causby, defense attorneys; Dakota Evans, bailiff; and Keith Hughes, clerk of court.
Daniel Bielopetrovich and David Blankenship, seniors at West Brunswick High School, have advanced to the North Carolina state finals of the 2008 Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition, according to organizers for the event.
The two students will compete as a team against nine other teams at the state competition, sponsored by AAA Carolinas, April 24-25 at Pit Instruction & Training in Mooresville.
The students were selected to take part in the state competition and represent WBHS after passing a qualifying test in which they had to answer general automotive questions.
The Continuing Education and Workforce Development Department offers short-term programs and classes for self-improvement cultural enrichment, and academic achievement geared towards adults seeking intellectual stimulation, community involvement and social interaction, according to Karen Ladley, public information officer at Brunswick Community College.
Many business courses are free due to funding from a Small Business Center grant.
Seniors, 65 and older, can also take many classes free of charge.
Prices of milk, bread, produce and other grocery items continue to escalate and cause financial worry for Brunswick County Schools' child nutrition services.
Tina Ward, director of child nutrition services, said last month the department was operating with a deficit of $107.919.49 as of Jan. 1.
To try and balance the budget and retain a three-month operating balance, Ward suggested the board raise student meal prices 20 cents for elementary and high schools and 30 cents for middle schools beginning with the 2008-2009 school year.
Bolivia Elementary School has announced its honor roll and student awards for the third nine weeks. They are as follows:
A Honor Roll
Since March 11, South Brunswick Middle School teacher Michele Rau's class has been awaiting the arrival of chicks to hatch from eggs.
Rau, her assistant, Mrs. Jenkins, and students, Morgan Morgan, Travis Christman, Kelly Ulloa, Theresa Dagostino and Amber Mintz, have carefully turned the eggs three times a day in the incubator and studied about chickens during their class project.
After hatching, they took care of the chicks for a few days before they were picked up by Blair Green, Extension agent, 4-H Youth Development and Livestock.
Nine area high school seniors are among the 2008 recipients of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows scholarships, according to a news release.
Brunswick County high school seniors receiving the scholarships are: Brittney Renee Knotts, Michael Sebastian Ruitto and Emily Suzanne Watson of North Brunswick High School; Jenna Leander Baldiga and Jessica Kristine Cartrette of South Brunswick High School; and Laura Gennette Carter, Erin Chelsea Dingess, Brittany Michelle Greene and Heather Marie Nelson of West Brunswick High School.
A new building will soon take its place on Brunswick Community College's campus in Supply.
College officials broke ground Tuesday on the new Early Childhood Education Center. The 11,000 square-foot building will provide four classrooms for instruction—five for childcare, a core area for administration and an outdoor learning environment.
The Continuing Education and Workforce Development Department at Brunswick Community College offers short-term programs and classes for self-improvement, cultural enrichment, and academic achievement geared towards adults seeking intellectual stimulation, community involvement and social interaction, according to Karen Ladley, public information officer at the school.
Many business courses are free due to funding from a Small Business Center grant. Seniors, 65 and older, can also take many classes free of charge.
ROCAME had its annual Brunswick County jamboree on March 29 at South Brunswick High School, the second consecutive year South Brunswick served as host.
Four middle schools and three high schools (more than 150 students, teachers and parents) participated in the math and science events.
The winners of middle school events were:
Write It Do It: first place, Hailey Winstead and Maranda Hansley (SB Middle School); second place, Cynthia Bolanos and Ebony Daniels (Waccamaw Elementary School); third place, Kdijah Hewett and Angelica Baltazar (Shallotte Middle School)
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10 Foods That Should've Been Placed In Museums
As enjoyable as eating the following foods must've been, the right move would've been placing them safely behind museum glass to inspire future generations. Read on to see proof that cooking really can be an art form, and to see culinary magic that's on a more digestible scale, check out the baked goods from Panera Bread.
1. This cherry and plum tart measures 1,066 feet long:
That's the length of about 3.5 football fields. And of course, this was baked in France.
2. This tower of bread is 25 feet tall:
French architect Jean Bocabeille and chef Gilles Stassart combined forces in July of 2010 to build "La tour sans faim," which translates to "tower without hunger." It was made with almonds and sponge cake, and teetered dangerously.
3. 19,800 pounds of flour and 8,800 pounds of tomato sauce were needed to make this margherita pizza:
In December of 2012, five Italian chefs got together and baked the largest pizza in the world. In addition to using the aforementioned ingredients, they used 19,800 pounds of mozzarella, 1,500 pounds of margarine, 550 pounds of rock salt, 420 pounds of vegetable oil, and 50 pounds of balsamic vinegar. There was also so much dough involved that the chefs had to bake it in 5,234 separate batches.
4. This taco is 164 feet long:
Your 3 a.m. taco it is not.
5. This big doughnut is comprised of 90,000 little doughnuts:
In December of 2007, it took nine hours, 40 people, and 1,000 pounds of doughnuts to build this swimming pool you can eat your way in and out of.
6. This dumpling weighs 786 pounds:
And it's made out of whole wheat! And look how PUFFY it is! Don't you want to know what it's filled with?!?!? 945 small dumplings.
7. This pagota is made of 18,888 Chinese buns to celebrate the Chinese New Year:
They all look so spongy and warm. I wonder if being inside it feels like you're inside a radiator.
8. This cheesecake weighs two tons:
In 2009, this cake was eight feet in diameter and 55 centimeters tall. And you know one ton is 2,000 pounds, right? ONE.
9. But this ice cream cake takes… um… the cake… because it weighs eight tons:
In January of 2006, this cake was 15.7 feet long, 9.8 feet wide, and 3.3 feet high. And literally weighed 16,000 pounds.
10. And don't even think about cutting into this cheese:
In September of 2006, this cheese made in the Netherlands weighed 1,322 pounds. If those guys ate any of it, you can bet they paid for it in one way or another.


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George E. Johnson, 82, of Burnside, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at the Punxsutawney Area Hospital.
Family and friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Rairigh Funeral Home, Ltd. in Hillsdale, where an 11 a.m. funeral service will be held on Saturday. Pastor Doug Brink will officiate.
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Does anyone use a sheepherding whistle?
I just got one, and it's pretty comical how I can't seem to use it properly, lol. I watched a few youtube tutorials on mouth placement, but I can only make a squeak so far. What's the learning curve like on these things? I know practice makes perfect, but I didn't know I'd have this much of a struggle with a whistle!
Arlene/Archer mentions using one in this thread,
She may have some insight on getting started, her input starts around page three I think.
Thanks Nigel :) She's sure doing great with a whistle, from what she's describing in that thread. I wonder if it's a regular whistle (which I have no problems operating) or this specific sheepherding whistle - which is baffling me, lol.
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The Salem County Board of Elections is seeking Salem County citizens to assist by serving as poll workers. Training is required and will be provided. The Poll Worker certification class takes about 2 hours and the certification lasts 2 years.
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