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I would like to know the comparison between Ultimate M1 and M2 ...what is the difference between them ?
The M2 will have M2-L , M2-S ??
I would like to know the comparison between Ultimate M1 and M2 ...what is the difference between them ?
The M2 will have M2-L , M2-S ??
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M2 will not have M2S. The target is heavy telephoto lens. So no "S" version.
the difference is at the upper rotator. M2 is free rotating with optional upgrade to supports up to 1.5 deg stops. M1 is fixed at 7.5 deg stops and no intermediate angle is possible. M2 can also act as gimbal arm too.
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Hi Nick,
Does 1.5 degree stops upgrade needs to change the whole upper rotator? I have not seen the pricing for upgrade. If I get upgrade for 1.5, can it be use for both 2.5 and 1.5 deg with changing parts?
"M2 is free rotating.."
Does this mean you have finally separated the rotation axis from the clamping mechanism? Pictures, please (if possible).
Hi ..
I have the NN5 ...with Fuji S5 Pro ( based on Nikon D200) + battery grip + sigma 8mm ... nowadays i am taking 4 photos + 1 ( zenith ) ...at 0 degree ... the nadir i use photoshop..
I am thinking to upgrade to Nikon D800 + Nikon 10,5 or Nikon 16mm or even use the Sigma 8mm ... and i want to upgrade to Ultimate Modular Series ... which one do you recommend M1 or M2 ?
Hi Nick,
Will there be deg stop add-on coming for M2 or do you scrap the plan? I have been waiting for it over a year now and do not hear about it. I am not sure I miss it.

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As noted in our editorial "The Wrong Kind," this year a dozen or so Republican-controlled state governments have discovered a reason to favor the expansion of government regulation: new laws requiring voters to present certain kinds of ID at the polls. The stated reason for these laws is to combat voter fraud -- a virtually nonexistent problem. That the regulations will suppress turnout among likely Democratic voters is the unstated reason. (Well, the usually unstated reason -- a few conservative supporters have been very upfront about their motives.)A popular response to complaints about these laws is the claim that they won't disenfranchise significant numbers of legitimate voters. After all, who doesn't have photo ID? "I challange anyone to find me one person who is legal and unable to vote," wrote one commenter on our editorial. "Where ARE these people? I read a lot and listen to a lot of talk radio, and I have yet to encounter anyone who is legal and can't vote. These people simply do not exist."A story by Sarah Hofius Hall in the Scranton Times-Tribune (my hometown paper) identifies one group of legal and (newly) unable to vote real people: retired Catholic sisters. A new law in Pennsylvania "requires anyone voting this November to produce a photo ID with an expiration date." And yes, people do lead fulfilling lives without such ID on hand, whether or not they come up much on talk radio. One IHM sister had to wait two hours at the DMV because "her non-driver's license photo ID, which she used for air travel, had long-expired" -- and therefore, suddenly, it wasn't enough to get her in to the polls in the lobby of the building where she lives. Other sisters, like many elderly people, are lacking the documentation they would need to get an ID.The sisters know that in some ways they are fortunate: unlike many elderly people, they live in a community that can advocate for them, drive them to the DMV, help them track down the necessary paperwork. So they're speaking up for others affected by the new law:
The congregation's peace and justice committee has sent a letter to Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson and the state's Supreme Court justices, asking them to overturn the law.The sisters represent "thousands and thousands of elder Pennsylvanians facing a similar exclusion from their lifelong participation in the democratic process. If the Voting Act of 2012 is maintained in the courts, the seniors will have a serious violation of their rights visited upon them. It must not be allowed to stand," the sisters wrote.
These sisters are just a few of the non-hypothetical people whose votes were valid in the last election and, unless the law is overturned, won't be valid this year. If there's a valid reason for turning them away from the polls -- aside from helping Gov. Romney win the state of Pennsylvania -- I haven't heard it yet.
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I grew up in South Dakota and worked many years there, before moving to sunny California. In order to vote in SD, one was required to stop by your country courthouse, and fill out the form to register to vote. And if you moved out of the county, in order to vote in your new county, you again had to stop by your new county courthouse and re-register, or drive back on election day and vote in your former county. No voter registration at the DMV or in the Walmart parking lot. And in order to acquire an absentee ballot, you had to demonstrate some actual reason why you could not vote on election day.I asked someone about this once and the answer was enlightening and quite reasonable. First, it is worth remembering that for about the first 100 year of this republic, if you did not own land, you could not vote. I guess they figured owning land meant you actually had a stake in the health of the nation.In any case, making it easier for people to vote mainly encourages people who have disorganized lives to participate in voting. People who have lives so disorganized that they cannot make it to their local county courthouse to register, and if they move to another county, cannot find time to change their registration to the new county, these people generally want or need someone to help them along in life. They consequently tend to vote for more and larger government programs and think that all sorts of government assistance is not only justifiable, but necessary. Consequently, these folks folks with disorganized live who need help - tend to vote Democrat; tend to vote for government handouts.Many soldiers fought and died to safeguard our way of life, among other things, our right to vote. While I am not a absolutist on this (I understand there are exceptions to the rule), I tend to think that if someone cannot handle registering at their local county courthouse, if they cannot find time to acquire a state-approved ID card, to meet the minimum requirements set out by their fellow citizens in order to conduct a reasonable/clean election, then they really are not paying close enough attention to the world around them and they should probably not be voting.
Ken, what about those that don't have a readily available support system and CAN'T get into town, except MAYBE to vote? If we strictly interpret your vision, then absolutely ZERO members of our military who are deployed should be allowed to vote. It usually doesn't have ANYTHING to with not having or finding the time to get into town to register. It's almost ALWAYS not being able to afford to.Also, what about those people that can't afford to buy a state-issued ID? Should we also call them lazy and worthless and not allow them to vote as well?By the way, these "minimum requirements" you speak about? They weren't put in place by "their fellow citizens". They were put in place by Republican legislators. There's a HUGE difference.Also, just so you know, back in 1988, I was on welfare with my then wife and kids. We both voted for the Sainted Ronnie of the Ray-Gun. Just to refresh your memory: He was a Republican. I voted for him in 84, also. My first election where I was able to vote.
So let me get this straight, Ken. You think that people who need government programs or think programs should be available to help others should be discouraged or even prevented from voting? You think that, for some reason, people who think like that should not be represented by government? Do you think that Lincoln, if he had more time, would have said "government of the people who don't need much from government, by the people who don't need much from government, for the people who don't need much from government, shall not perish from the earth"?
In response to a previous comment; my late friend's mother never had an ID and found it close to impossible to get one. Her husband was born in America, and she was brought here by her parents at age 6 months. She was a traditional, some would say old fashioned housewife. Everything was in her husband's name:bank accounts, property etc. She never drove as she never needed to and they never traveled so she had no passport. When he died, she was basically told that she did not exist! She raised 3, college educated children, two of whom served in Vietnam. Even with the help of these children, it took almost 2 years to get her an ID and to get her access to her late husband's bank accounts. Neither she nor any of her children were ever on welfare and she always took a serious interest in politics and always voted. (I can't say for whom as we never discussed it.) Things are rarely black and white.
Bob F. Fantastic comment. Well put!
Ken:"In any case, making it easier for people to vote mainly encourages people who have disorganized lives to participate in voting."I think that you are discriminating against me.
Ken, which article or amendment of the Constitution says that "disorganized" people are not allowed to vote?I've heard some highly organized people express such stupid and uninformed opinions that it makes me wish for an amendment requiring voters to have a minimum I.Q. score.
Whoa I figured there would be an outcry. I did not say anyone should not be allowed to vote. It is a simple fact that in order to have an organized and honest election, there needs to be a rational, methodical and reasonable process in place, and people if they want to participate in voting should be willing to participate in the entire process, which includes following the rules and meeting the requirements of their local government, requirements set out by their peers, their friends and neighbors, and the people in their state. Stopping by the local county courthouse is not an unreasonable burden; neither is obtaining proper identification.Gosh, if I want to buy something with plastic, the clerk routinely asks to see my identification. People also routinely are required to show ID when boarding a plane, even when buying tobacco or booze. If a kid tries to sneak into an R-rate movie, they will be asked for ID. If you want to have a bank account, to withdraw money, you need to show ID. I do not see the bill deal (the hardship) about showing ID to vote or simply complying with the local election processes.
@Ken (9/27, 11:12 am) Sorry to pile on, but I am curious: how did a post about elderly Catholic sisters---one of the subsets of Americans who have lived the most highly organized lives in our contemporary society---suddenly not being eligible to vote under Pennsylvania's new law lead you into a discourse about the failings of those who have disorganized lives?
@Ken (9/27, 12:49 pm) Just for the record, the story is about retired nuns who have voted all their lives suddenly being ineligible to vote *in the polling place in their retirement home*, not because they don't have ID, but because they don't have the (newly) proper ID.Also for the record, the Commonwealth stipulated in court that they had no evidence of any in-person voter fraud in any election held in the past decade. (In-person voter fraud being the specific type of voter fraud this new law ostensibly exists to prevent.)
Ken, the point of my post was to point out that it is not always a simple thing to get ID. It's not just about being bothered, finding the time etc. Red tape can prevent people from having ID too.
Hey Ken... It's Nuns On the Bus... not Nuns In the Caddies.. [see Ann Romney]
Ken, here's the real scandal about voter ID: http://www.politicolnews.com/gop-hired-fraud-company-destroy-voter-regis...
Ken..."Consequently, these folks folks with disorganized lives who need help tend to vote Democrat; tend to vote for government handouts."Very unfortunate generalization and stereotyping, Ken.
Ken --How can a man live so long and not understand that being very poor means having NO money even for some necessities. Not even bus fare to go to City Hall. Or if cab fare is necessary because your knees are literally too stiff to allow you to get into a bus.
Enough about "Ken'... no photo ID, no last name. , no vote for him... come back in 4 years.
Does anyone else here see the irony in arguing that we are required to show our ID to travel on an airplane which has nothing to do with the administration of our government, but we should not require any ID to vote, which is the basic building block of our government? Btw, I dont think we should have an ID requirement for either.One observationWith no ID requirements, its impossible to say whether voter fraud is an issue: there is no way to determine or measure the fraud or lack of it.
Re: SD voting...For whatever it's worth, South Dakota's absentee voting laws changed prior to the 2004 election. In the wake of Sen. Johnson's (D) narrow 2002 win over Thune thanks to late votes from Indian Country, SD got in early on the "vote fraud" panic and began requiring photo ID at the polls. (It was around this same time that our rabid partisans in Pierre made it law that should ever a Senator--perhaps...oh...Daschle?--run for POTUS he must forfeit his Senate seat, but I digress.) The silver lining of this cloud, however, is that at this same time, in exchange, SD loosened up on absentee voting. Now, for any reason, a voter can request an absentee ballot by mail (as long as he encloses a photocopy of his ID with the written request, or has his form impressed with the seal of a notary who has seen his ID) or may vote early in person at the County Auditor's office, on an absentee ballot which will be counted on election day. Absentee voting begins six weeks out from the election. I already voted at the courthouse a week ago, for no reason other than I like to vote. The only time a voter still needs an infirmity/immobility reason to receive an absentee ballot is if he wants it brought and returned personally by a courier. It's all very easy and well-publicized. Whatever lofty reasons Ken may have been given for the difficulty in absentee voting, have been moot for a decade now. But now we use them instead to buttress case for a photo ID requirement. I say this because no better reason was ever offered. One of the early arguments for why we needed photo ID was so the terrorists couldn't throw our SD elections. (They're all around us, you know, suicide bombing the grain elevators!) Then the reason was because there were a few cases of fraudulent voter *registrations*. Funny thing is, the last known case of systematic voter registration fraud was carried out by Thune's own nephew. Since no cases of fraudulent voting could be produced, before or since the change, I've got to believe the most logical explanation for our change in ID requirement--which was early on, recall, before this became a national GOP issue--was to prevent another 2002, i.e. minimize the voting power of Indian Country.
Bruce wrote, "With no ID requirements, its impossible to say whether voter fraud is an issue: there is no way to determine or measure the fraud or lack of it."What about the election board people who hand out ballots and cross names off the list at the polling place on election day? They live in the same precinct as the voter. If any one could smell a rat, wouldn't it be those old ladies?
Bruce and Ken [no last names] [ last names are required to vote and on plane rides]. Now they tell us why The GOP hired the group that has JUST been charged with voter regisration fraud. OK.. the GOP just fired them but they were known frauds when the GOP hired them.
I don't know if anyone is still reading this topic, but I assume dotCom readers have heard that the Pennsylvania law has been blocked by a judge. I believe the suspension is expected to stand through election day.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Officials say both inmates who walked away from Blackburn Correctional Complex in Fayette County are back in custody.
Garrard County Sheriff Ronnie Wardrop told the "Lexington Herald-Leader" 21-year-old Tyler Roberts was apprehended Monday morning walking along a road south of Lancaster. The other man, 23-year-old Christopher W. Melton, was arrested Sunday night in Garrard County, after deputies received a call about a car parked in a church parking lot.
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Melton was serving six years for theft and fleeing police, and Roberts was serving 10 years for burglary, theft, arson, and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.


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Preview from GamesTM (UK) Issue 59 || New gameplay details and lots of new images!
7-page preview with huge details and lots of new images!
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Thanks asif, lets have a read.
Shite, this one is packed
- internet used in game, integral part of gameplay.
- stars for any crimes with witnesses near by
- new police evasion system
- clothes shopping in
also mentioned "As bellic carries his now battered frame"
- getaway like change in motion depending on health status?
- highly improved combat, reminiscent of GoW
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Wow, I'll read later, but there are some awesome pictures in there (Maybe some interesting things for the 'things to notice' thread)
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Just looking through it. I'll thoroughly read it later after my doctor's appointment.
But wow, they're gonna include the internet. That is absolutely awesome. Niko uploads his CV to get a job.
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Great article, just finished reading it. I really like how they've changed the police system. The ability to use internet and the new combat system sound great as well
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Here are some I could dig for now.
- The demo began in Liberty City's equivalent of Time Square: Star Junction, that is in Algonquin, the real-life equivalent of Manhattan.
- The population on the street wasn't that dense, possibly due to the "early nature of the code".
- The preview talks about two missions, but their names are still unknown.
- Internet is about to play as a 'usable' feature! It can be accessed from any PC in the game. It's still unknown how breadth the Interweb of GTA World is going to take.
- The in-game manipulation of the Wanted level system has now been elevated to a new and further more insteresting level.
- The gunfight is now far more intense. According to the magazine, it's closest resemblance is Gears Of War. It also states, "The gun battle in Michael Mann's film Heat is often referenced as the Holy Grail for videogame combat, and Grand Theft Auto IV may have cracked it"
- In a screenshot in the magazine, Niko was seen doing drive-by with a Glock. It may suggests that drive-by is no more dependant only on the SMGs.
- Tw@ Cafe from Grand Theft Auto III returns.
- Niko is going to have an 'Associate' for all his firearms needs. Little Jacob, a Caribbean arms dealer.
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here is a more advanced analysis of the magazine done by me.
Below is a summary of new information from the 7 page preview article.
* Our time with Niko Bellic began in Liberty City's equivalent of Times Square called Star Junction
* The way Niko moved with muscularity and purpose. his sense of balance and weight, even his face expressions - none of it seems forced.
* Niko uses his mobile phone (cellphone) and calls up his associate 'Little Jacob' a Caribbean arms dealer.
* After your chat with 'Little Jacob' he tells you to meet him in an alleyway in Rotterdam Hill.
* You can skip taxi rides for convenience, or enjoy it in full from a first person viewpoint, allowing you to soak in the sights of Liberty City.
* You can slip Little Jacob some money.
* Niko recieves another phone call from a shady laywer Goldberg, of Goldberg , Ligner & Shyster.
* Niko can enter an internet cafe and upload his CV to their website, he's going to get himself an interview and then kill Goldberg.
* The Internet Cafe is called Tw@ Cafe.
* Niko can hop onto PC's and start surfing away.
* GTA IV's web is accessible from any computer i nthe game.
* Once Niko has uploaded his CV, he will receive a Phone Call to confim his interview time.
* Unlike past GTA's, this mission can interrupted, your interview isn't till the next day, so you're free to carry out your business till then.
* Any carry out your business you will, as it's time to pay the nefarious McReary a visit at Castle Gardens, the coast-side hangout overlooking The Statue of Happiness (Statue of LIberty).
* McReary has had a Memory Stick stolen from him which contains sensitive data, and he wants you to get it back for him.
* Niko gets in a cab and heads to the meeting point that McReary has arranged.
* When Niko gets to the river, he sees people, but he doesn't know who is who, so he pulls that trusty mobile phone and gives him a call, so he can see who pulls out a phone, Clever hey.
* Niko draws his weapon, casually walks upto the guy who answered the phone and puts three bullets in the back of his head, he grabs the memory stick and starts running, with a three star wanted level in tow.
* Any crime you commit will give you a wanted level.
* Jack a car anywhere and you'll get a star because there are witnesses.
* Instead of cops just screaming to your position though, the star rating your given translates to a visible search area on the radar, if you manage to escape the search circular search area, then your wanted level will flash and disappear.
* If you're spotted though, the centre of the circle changes to your position, and you'll have to start again.
* This opens up numerous options, as the police only operate on their own line of sight, if they can't see you, they can't stop you.
* In GTA IV, every street is named, and the police use this information to hunt you down.
* If you're spotted on Star Junction in a Comet, for example, you'll hear it on the police radio.
* During our time with Niko, he escapes the clutches of the law with a clever vehicle switch.
* After outfoxing a pursuing police car with a hard right turn, Bellic speeds into a nearby car park, neatly obscured by a bridge. Quickly, he jumps out of his vehicle breaks into another and calmly cruises out of the search zone. Of course had he been spotted committing this further felony, the search would have changed, and most likely widened.
* Before the interview Niko goes to Perseus, a menswear store and spends $2,000 on a suit and shoes.
* Bellic's phone alarm sounds - it's time for the interview and he heads off to carry out his duty.
* After a brief chat with the receptionist from outisde the building via the intercom, Bellic wanders casually into the offices.
* Niko enters Goldberg's office, where the unsuspecting lawyer seems more than happy to see him, that is until Niko pulls a gun and points it at Goldberg's head.
* Goldberg then rears back in fear, but before he can plead for his life, he has a bullet in his skull.
* He slumps to the floor, and his secretary, alerted by the noise, runs into the room and ounds the alarm.
* Unsurprisingly the office security and police aren't just going to let Niko walk out onto the streets, he's going to have to fight.
* Immediately Niko is confronted by an overweight pistol-wielding security guard, Niko takes cover and fires blind shots in order to pin his opponent down, he then pops out, takes aim and puts two bullets in the security guards heart.
* As Niko continues his firefight to escape the offices, he speeds toward the front desk as bullets rain down from the newly arrived police, slamming into cover and blindly sprayin Uzi fire into the distance.
* So in a hail of blood and bullets, Niko takes down the first wave of police onslaught, his three star wanted level providing a far greater obstacle than ever before.
* As Niko carries his now battered frame outside, the noise of a police chopper rattles overhead.
* The sound is incredibly loud, overbearing and overpowering.
* Sadly Bellic didn't last much longer, his lifeless corpse lies prone on the Tarmac.
* The mechanics of the firefights are now rock hard.
* As Niko sprints past pedestrians, they reel in shock, if he bumps into them, they move.
* You can even push people out of the way by simply walking into them.
* Your mobile phone acts as a calendar, a vessel for text messages, an alarm and even a camera.
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Wow, Thanks for that, Matt. I am taking time to read and combine.
Also, Thanks to Ash for posting the news.
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Perhaps this Little Jacob is the same Jacob shown here:
And maybe he'll be the person for smaller guns, and Ammunation will be selling bigger stuff. I don't see Ammunation disappearing tbh.
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not a problem Asif, it took me a while but I got there in the end.
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Wow, I'm excited. The whole wanted level thing, and the fact that the police have a line of vision sort of make it feel like a more intense version of Metal Gear Solid's search system. I'm amazed.
Thanks for the news. Seriously!
+rep if I can.
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the missions are going to be amazing!
and the whole internet thing and realism and, and...
i want it now.
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The recently acquired humvees from the military as surplus material have proven helpful this week as they have been used to access stranded people and help police continue their patrols in the blizzard that dumped nearly a foot of snow on the county overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
The Carmi Police Department was forced to press its humvee into service early on in the storm due to the rapidly rising level of snow. Chief Randy Hamblin said the usual frontline patrol car, an all-wheel drive Ford purpose-built for police use, was nearly useless earl on in the storm.
"It does just fine on plowed streets," Hamblin streets. "But areas that have not yet been plowed have proven problematic for the car."
The night shift supervisor, Sgt. Tim Whitaker, quickly pressed the humvee into service during the early morning hours Wednesday before city crews had time to get to the side streets in town. Some early risers noticed only one set of tire tracks down their streets. Odds are, it was the police humvee on patrol.
The city police, along with White County Ambulance Service personnel, responded to an incident at Eighth and Maple streets Wednesday afternoon and the on-duty officer driving the humvee, Officer Brad Spence, could be heard on the radio providing the ambulance with its best possible avenue to safely arrive at the scene.
Authorities indicated a man was trying to use one vehicle to pull another vehicle from some deep snow and was pinched between the two vehicles while trying to tie them together.
He was not identified but suffered possible leg and hip injuries and was taken to an area hospital following the incident.
The White County Sheriff's Office has also found the vehicles to be invaluable in the blizzard as they responded to numerous reports of slide-offs and vehicles in ditches.
White County Sheriff Doug Maier also used one of the former military vehicles to rescue an out-of-state family that took a wrong turn off Interstate 64 and ended up stranded on a county road for a few hours before Maier could get to them.
Included in the family were two young children.
City crews are continuing to work Thursday (today) to clear the roads of ice and snow. Temperatures are expected to remain at or near the freezing level throughout the day. Main roads and highways are largely clear. Some side streets and many county roadways remain snow covered in patches and are still hazardous for travel.
The best advice offered by authorities is to stay home unless it is absolutely necessary to get out.
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Stocks Hit New Highs
Investors pushed U.S. stocks to new highs as investors piled into health-care stocks and Cyprus' government got an extra year's reprieve on its debts—though investors found plenty of reasons for caution on the horizon.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 89.16 points, or 0.61%, to 14662.01. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 8.08 points, or 0.52%, to 1570.25, while the Nasdaq Composite climbed 15.69 points, or 0.48%, to 3254.86.
Leading the gains were health-care stocks, already the best-performing sector of the year. UnitedHealth Group UNH 0.31 % topped the Dow gainers, rising after the announcement of new government rates indicated companies running Medicare Advantage plans will get significantly more money than originally expected.
The government move, which analysts said reflected a "best-case scenario" for health insurers following their lobbying effort in Washington, also pushed up shares of Humana, HUM 0.20 % Aetna AET -0.50 % and DaVita HealthCare Partners. DVA 1.02 %
The U.S. gains came on the back of strong advances in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend. Investors cheered a move giving Cyprus an extra year, or until 2017, to meet its budget targets. Separately, a measure of euro zone manufacturing activity was better than expected.
The Stoxx Europe 600 rallied 1.3%, while Germany's DAX rose 1.9% and France's CAC-40 rallied 2%. Cyprus' CSE General Index, which opened for trading for the first time in two weeks, slumped 2.6%.
Despite Tuesday's gains, there were plenty of warning lights for skeptical investors to point to.
"The best sectors are the ones that aren't supposed to be doing well in a rally like this," said Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds. "People are trying to invest and not be left behind by the rally, but they're also taking a very cautious approach."
Three of the most economically-sensitive sectors—materials, energy and industrial stocks—finished in the red. The Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks also declined, while the Dow Jones Transportation Average—an index of 20 shipping, railroad and airline stocks that is considered a bellwether of economic activity—dropped 1.2%.
Meantime, Hewlett-Packard, HPQ 0.50 % the biggest Dow gainer this year, tumbled after Goldman Sachs GS -1.07 % downgraded the company.
In addition to the gains among health-care stocks, consumer-staples and telecommunications stocks outpaced the broader benchmark, a reminder to market watchers that the year's gains have been driven mostly by less economically sensitive stocks.
"When you also look at market leadership, the best performing groups being health care, consumer staples and utilities, it's a little bit suspect that the market is trying to move higher with these sectors leading. It's fairly uncommon and it's unsustainable," says Brian Rauscher, chief portfolio strategist for equity research at Robert W. Baird.
"The market is not really being driven by growth, and that's why the defensive areas have been outperforming," Mr. Rauscher said. "We're still in a world where we can wake up, and either Cyprus or the Italian election can rattle the financial markets."
Investors also may be limiting their enthusiasm ahead of a slate of closely watched economic indicators due later this week, including meetings of central banks in Europe and Japan and the monthly U.S. jobs report on Friday.
Asian markets were mostly lower, led by a second day of selling in Japan. After falling 2.1% on Monday, the Nikkei Stock Average shed another 1.1% Tuesday to a nearly one-month low, as yen strength during Asian trading hours weighed on exporters' shares. The yen has since erased its gains to trade slightly lower against the dollar.
Orders for U.S. manufactured goods increased 3% in February, in line with expectations.
Crude-oil futures overcame morning losses to edge up 0.1% to $97.19 a barrel, while gold futures eased 1.6% to $1,575.10 an ounce. Silver, meantime, fell 2.5% to its lowest level in eight months. The dollar rose against the euro and the yen, while demand for Treasurys slipped, edging the yield on the benchmark 10-year note up to 1.861%.
In major stock movers, Ford Motor F -0.39 % and General Motors GM 1.77 % rose after releasing monthly auto sales figures. Ford saw a 5.7% gain in new vehicle sales, with its Fusion and Escape models setting all-time monthly sales records, while GM's U.S. auto sales rose 6.4%.
BGC Partners BGCP -1.77 % soared after the company agreed to sell its eSpeed platform to Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ -0.16 % in a cash-and-stock deal worth as much as $1.23 billion, as Nasdaq looks to gain entry into the electronic fixed-income trading business.
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The Ghana Project is a ministry of Living Word. After feeling a call from God to dive into relationship with the people of northern Ghana, Pastor Michael McIntyre organized Living Word's first exploratory team to go find out exactly what was God's call in Ghana in October of 2010. After an eye-opening first visit, the Living Word congregation jumped right into action in the very first Ghana Christmas Miracle Offering where $190,000 was given to change lives in Ghana. Immediately, borehole water wells were being drilled, chapels built, and schools constructed.
Poverty rates in the north are two to three times the national average, and chronic food shortages and lack of water remains a critical challenge there. Although Ghana is a very small country, over 55,000 children five years old and younger die every year because they don't have enough water to drink or because the water they have is contaminated with deadly parasites. In addition, short fallow seasons has led to soil erosion and land degradation, which pose a long-term threat to subsistence farmers' livelihoods. With very limited employment options available, many rural young men and women leave their villages for urban centers of the south depriving the north of many of the most gifted young people.
The Ghana Project is dedicated to establishing and maintaining long-lasting relationships with the people of northern Ghana to bring clean and safe water, medical supplies, education, agricultural needs, and spiritual needs while working together to spread the love of Jesus Christ.
Each year, the people of Living Word and friends of Living Word show their support of what God is doing in Ghana by taking what they would normally spend on their families for Christmas, and set aside half of that amount to give to Ghana. At our Christmas Eve services, we take up a special collection so that people can collectively come forward and give their gift to Jesus. In the five years that we've done this, Living Word and its friends have given more than $1,000,000, and 100% of that amount goes to projects and resources for the people of Ghana.
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