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Romney supports HHS mandate? UPDATED
Contraception coverage came up at the debate last night as part of President Barack Obama's answer to the question about pay equity for women. (There were a lot of surprising turns in response to that question.) Mitt Romney seemed unprepared to talk contraception -- Or maybe this was another planned (and unexplained) pivot to the middle? Regardless, here's what he said:
I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.
To put it in context, here's how Obama characterized his own position in contrast to Romney's:
Now, there are some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace: for example, their health care. (Inaudible) a major difference in this campaign is that Governor Romney feels comfortable having politicians in Washington decide the health care choices that women are making. I think that's a mistake. In my health care bill, I said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured, because this is not just a a health issue; it's an economic issue for women. It makes a difference. This is money out of that family's pocket.
Governor Romney not only opposed it; he suggested that, in fact, employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.
What Obama is referring to there is Romney's stated opposition to the HHS mandate and support for the Blunt-Rubio amendment that would allow any employer to refuse to provide contraception coverage. Here's how Romney responded -- and note that he took time out of his answer to the next question, the one about how he's different from George W. Bush, to get this on the record:
I'd just note that I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not, and I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives. And—and the—and the president's statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong.
As Sarah Posner has explained over at Religion Dispatches, Romney is defending himself against claims that no one has ever made. And this isn't the first time he's sent mixed messages on the subject of insurance coverage of contraception vs. conscience claims of employers. But he is now on the record in opposition to the bishops and others who protest the HHS contraception mandate on religious-freedom grounds. Will we hear from any bishops about this?
By the way, LifeNews quotes that same paragraph of Romney's response in an article with the headline "Obama promotes HHS mandate during debate, Romney opposes it." I think they better check that transcript again.
UPDATE 10/18: As David Gibson writes at Religion News Service, Romney's supporters in the prolife movement have been showing unusual flexibility in giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not persuaded, as I note in comments below. But in evaluating the significance of what Romney said or didn't say on Tuesday, it seems valuable to consider how his own campaign is handling the question: they're changing the subject. Here's Kerry Healey (Romney's lieutenant governor) on MSNBC yesterday, resisting Andrea Mitchell's attempts to pin down the candidate's position:
The question of whether or not we should force someone to give up their religious freedom to provide insurance coverage in some hypothetical situation, is not really the point most, and women out there there are 5.5 million unemployed women in the country.... [Romney] made it clear that he believes in enforcing religious freedom in this regard but he also strongly supports women's access to contraception and any effort to say he doesn't ... The problem here is that we are talking about these peripheral issues. We need to really be talking about employment, jobs, that's what women care about.
It may even be true that most women don't care about the ins and outs of the contraceptive-coverage mandate. But what I take away from all of this is that Romney doesn't care much about those details either.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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Will we hear from any Catholic bishops regarding what Mitt Romney said during the debate last night about contraception coverage? Your guess is as good as mine.But here's my question: After the Catholic bishops and other Republicans take note of what Romney said about contraception coverage, will Romney back track and take back what he said last night on television and say something different in the near future -- perhaps in the third televised debate? Your guess is as good as mine.
This is why the bishops are so partisan. They have made an issue out of a non issue. What many do not realize is that many Catholics believe that the the health care program mandates that everyone MUST USE their insurance to cover contraceptives rather than have it available. It seems unreal but it is true. If everyone should have access to contraceptives then it should be made available to everyone. So the bishops, who support Romney along with the former Holy See ambassadors, should know that Romney agrees with Obamacare even tho Romney says he does not. Romney will not take back what he said. He will just continue the absurd spin.
Rusty Reno tries to cover Mitt's flank:http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/17/did-romney-jus... his colleague at First Things, Anna Williams, remains unsettled:http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/17/more-on-mitt-r... seem nonplused as well.
"Tell me what you want me to say, and I'll tell you what you want to hear."
Apparently, Obama is not interested in any compromise on the HHS mandate, despite many assurances to the contrary from writers here. Obama also managed to praise Planned Parenthood last night.
I thought Mr. Obamas shallow tossing of bc pills out to woo the ladies was lame. It was like, Hey girls, vote for me because I will make sure you can have free birth control pills. And then for him to claim that Planned Parenthood is somehow a cancer screening center was a real whopper. As the largest abortion mill in the country, the majority of Planned Parenthoods income is from performing abortions. PP does not balance its books with mammograms or other cancer screens. Abortions are their bread and butter.
See the Oct. 25 Rolling Stone for an excellent explanation of why Mitt does not need to get specific about anything. "Mitt Romney & The Ghosts of Mormon History," by Mikal Gilmore, p. 62. From that:"When Romney veers from liberal to conservative to moderate stands, what he makes plain is that the world he is in, but not truly part of, is the political world. The shifting is a sleight of hand, like Joseph Smith;s magic, a means to an end. . . . expecting Romney to be accountable to a secular morality is to misunderstand him. That's part of his Mormon hubris, and it's what grants him the right to withhold specifics about both his political vision and his deeper beliefs."---
And then for him to claim that Planned Parenthood is somehow a cancer screening center was a real whopper. Ken,Check your facts. Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms (they make referrals), but they do clinical breast exams and PAP Tests (for cervical cancer):
Planned Parenthood provides nearly 770,000 Pap tests and nearly 750,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting cancer.
To say that Planned Parenthood doesn't do cancer screening is the whopper.
There is a difference between believing "[e]very woman in America should have access to contraceptives" and supporting the contraception mandate.
Gerelyn --Interesting. The Mormons have publicly reversed their teaching on membership of African-Americans in the Church of Latter Day Saints and on polygamy. Would that Mitt would be an even better Mormon and tell us when he has actually changed his political beliefs. IF he has changed them, that is.Maybe he isn't a liar, but if he isn't, then he has the most confused mind of any political candidate in my lifetime. I have even wondered at times if the man is prematurely senile. He would be a disaster as President.
"There is a difference between believing '[e]very woman in America should have access to contraceptives' and supporting the contraception mandate."Yes, this was also my assumption about Romney's statement: Your employer doesn't have a right to tell you you can't use birth control ... but he doesn't have to pay for it, either. If you weren't so busy being a victim and a taker, you'd save up to buy it yourself. Maybe on your way home to make dinner.I'm not sure birth control pills are beyond the means of most women; prices range from $20 to $160 per month. I'm not sure this is a whole lot more expensive than condoms and spermicides offered OTC (and I know of no insurance carrier who covers those).But I realize price isn't the issue here.
Yes, as you say, "There is a difference between believing '[e]very woman in America should have access to contraceptives' and supporting the contraceptive mandate."But the Catholic bishops claim that using contraceptives is intrinsically evil. As a result, they are probably not going to pleased with what Mitt Romney said regarding every woman in America having access to contraceptives.
I dont believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.That was a carefully crafted statement. However, since some who opposed the HHS mandate claim that some contraceptives act as abortifacients, it may come back to haunt Rommey. (Now that it is the Halloween season.)
Hi, Mollie, I took Romney's response to amount to, "I'm really not interested in this topic, and there is no upside to my talking about it - make it go away!" But I don't see that it amounts to, "I support the HHS mandate." Can you please connect the dots?FWIW, I thought President Obama's statements as quoted here were also confused - at least, it confuses me. Neither of them seem to line up exactly in defense of nor in opposition to the HHS mandate. And of course, neither of them even come close to touching on the religious liberty question, which is the neuralgic issue.
David: Thanks for the links. That first one is not from Reno but from Matthew Schmitz, and I can see why it's not quite convincing the readers. It's not clear to me that Romney even understood what Obama was referring to in that moment. Perhaps he forgot all about the HHS thing after it got added to his issues-for-Catholics check list (PDF). I'm especially unconvinced by this part of Schmitz's analysis:
The fact that Romney didn't change his position is further reinforced by his last sentence ("And—and the—and the president's statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong."). He rejects Obama's description of his policy—opposition to the mandate—while sticking to the policy itself.
First of all, every time Romney found himself against the wall he blurted that the president had completely mischaracterized his position. The more reluctant he was to actually articulate his position on a given question, the more likely he was to just insist that whatever Obama said was untrue. So I'd be cautious about leaning on that as the reassuring part of the answer. Especially since Obama's description of his policy -- which Schmitz doesn't quote -- was this:
In my health care bill, I said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured... Governor Romney not only opposed it; he suggested that, in fact, employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.
If Romney does oppose the HHS mandate and support the Blunt-Rubio amendment, isn't that an entirely accurate description of his position? You can play games with the wording of what Romney said, as Schmitz does, to make it seem like he what he really meant was that employers shouldn't be able to tell you what to do with the contraception you get elsewhere. (Who would disagree with that?) But Obama's wording is precise--his hypothetical employee is getting contraception "through her insurance coverage." Which, Schmitz wants to argue, is something Romney does still think an employer should be able to decide. So, if, as Romney says, Obama's description of his position is "completely and totally wrong," doesn't saying so underline Romney's abandonment of the religious-freedom cause, not his steadfast support?
Maybe Romney was thinking: "It's not my problem, it's Obama's. He's the one being sued."By the way, Romney's tax returns says that he contributes to the Beckett Fund, the group that is leading the lawsuits against the HHS mandate. In fact, he and his wife received their annual Canterbury Award, a few years ago.
Birth control pills are not expensive and neither are condoms. When used electively, they are a lifetyle choice; a woman chooses to use them, or maybe she and her partnet decide she should use them. It is usually best when people pay for their lifestyle choices themselves.I do not see why the pro-bc pill and pro-abortion gangs endlessly want to drag everyone else into their grubby practices by making us pay for it. Is it not enough that we tolerate them doing all that, must all of us be forced to finance it as well?Geez!
Romney: I dont believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.I take this as a clear reference to Obama's reference to the HHS mandate. Romney said last night exactly what he first said when asked about the Republican-backed Blount amendment that would have allowed employers to opt out of providing insurance that covers contraceptives for female employees, i.e., that he thinks it would be wrong for employers to refuse to cover contraceptives. Only later (that day!) did he change his position -- AFTER his campaign explained to him, as it so often has had to do, that what he said was out of sync with Republican thinking this year.Romney has obviously found that he can't say voters want to hear and still follow the party line. All he's ever really wanted is to win the Presidency, and that's what he plans to do, damn the crazy cons who'd been screwing his chances up til now.Simple as that.
I wrote: "Romney has obviously found that he cant say voters want to hear and still follow the party line."That should have read: Romney has obviously found that he can't say WHAT voters want to hear and still follow the party line.(Don't you hate it when you do that?;->)
Ken, birth control pills may or may not be expensive nowadays; I'm well past the age when it matters to me personally. But you don't get them without a prescription, and you don't get a prescription without a visit to a doctor, which does cost money--as do the required periodic follow-up visits.This is of a piece with the voter-fraud-obsessed wiseacres who say, "Hey, ANYONE can get a free photo ID from the state," without acknowledging that you first have to obtain a supporting document (like a birth certificate) that DOESN'T come free. Or, for that matter, that it's not cheap to take off work, find transportation, and sit for hours in a clerk's office to obtain that "free" ID.What I find amusing, and exasperating, is that the bishops and Rush Limbaugh never objected when certain states mandated contraceptive coverage. And no ordinary John and Jane Q. Public seemed to object until the bishops and Rush told them they should. Then all of a sudden, the bishops were saying, "Jump, my son," and tolerating only one response: "How high?"
"...Is it not enough that we tolerate them doing all that,Ken @7:10,You are not tolerating "all that." Why would you, given your beliefs? You are, for now at least, simply powerless to prevent it.
Ken: Birth control pills run over $100 a month without insurance, and they are NOT always elective; a close relative of mine takes them for a serious medical condition. Without them, she would be in excruciating pain several days a month and lose work. That's just one of the facts about hormonal contraceptive medications so many men who've been speaking out on this issue don't get; they're not just for contraception anymore. Physicians use them to treat scores of "female problems," from relatively benign conditions to endometriosis and ovarian cancer. In virtually all cases they are definitely preventive medicine, nothing less. For women, birth control itself isn't the fun topic it apparently is for men...unless you think pregnancy is a walk in the park. There can be very serious health issues involved. As with politicians like Todd Akin spouting ideological positions based on false notions of female physiology, the bishops' stubborn reaction against insurance coverage of bc treatments as preventive medical care for women only serves to discredit them, which is too bad.
Beverly, the cost of birth control pills and HT is all over the board (I looked at costs on on-line prescription places before I posted above to check on prices). But you are right: If you go to the doc specifically to get the scrip, it's going to cost you money.There are surgical options for endometriosis and polycystic ovarian disease besides HT, but these are often invasive and, in some cases require removing the offending organs rendering one unable to bear children. The Church, I believe, does not say that women can't use HT to treat symptoms of these conditions, if the intent isn't to prevent pregnancy. You and I are on the same page in seeing that the problem is that the across-the-board refusal to pay for "contraceptives" indicates that the Church makes no distinction between birth control and legitimate therapy for an illness or disorder. And shows an ignorance about and insensitivity to women's health.
Ken (10/17 7:10 pm) -- "Birth control pills are not expensive" is a meaningless assertion. Whether some material or service is "not expensive" or "too expensive" is a judgment an individual makes based on usable income and expenses of those the income supports. What spendable $ assumptions lead to the "not expensive" above? (As one point of reference, Planned Parenthood (PPFA) says 76% of clients in 2010 had income at or below 150% of the federal poverty level.) http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PP_Services.pdf Planned Parenthood says that 60% of women clients choosing reversible contraceptive methods in 2010 picked alternatives to Oral ("bc pills"). Does your assertion apply to them equally well? Costs vary, especially when obtaining a contraceptive physically and functionally suitable for an individual is not as simple as having a prescription written. Services provided by PPFA, including cancer screening, are summarized at the link above.
Beverly You are talking about medical use of bc pills as a hormonal medication; I am talking about non-medical use of bc-pills.And a pregnancy/baby is not a disease to be avoided.
Fine Jack if you want to pay for someones bc pills, that is your business, but dont try to pawn the cost of what you want to do off onto me. If you want to go down to your local pharmacy each month and lay some dinero on the pharmacist letting him know you want the money to pay for bc pills, that is you business, but please dont ask/force me to do the same.I am not denying anyone access to bc pills. I simply do not want to pay for them. My wife does not use contraception. If she ever decided she would use bc pills, we would pay for them ourself; we would not bother the world with our choice. If I would not expect my neighbor to pay for them, why in the world should I be forced pay for someone else's wife's bc pills? And why would anyone expect the bishops or any boss to pay for them? Next thing someone will want the boss to pay for viagra :-)If a woman has a real medical need to use bc pills, like Beverly mentioned above, as a hormonal medication to address some female problem, of course it should be covered as any medication is. If however, a woman is simply trying to plan her family or trying to avoid pregnancy altogether, that is her business and she or she and her husband or boyfriend should pay for the pills. Why are women and their men such cheapskates anyway? Why do they want me to pay for their lifestyle choices?
Oops - menat to type ". . . Why are [these] women and their men such cheapskates anyway?"
If Romney's committed to universal access, but doesn't think employers should have to pay, maybe he's proposing a new federal entitlement for contraceptives? I could support that.
It's not that I'm not grateful for your colorful contributions, Ken, but the merits of the HHS mandate have been litigated many times already at dotCommonweal, and the topic here is not whether you oppose it, but whether Romney does. You're on the record.Once again, it seems to me the least you can say about Romney's statement in the debate is that, given the opportunity, he declined to voice any kind of opposition to the HHS mandate on religious-freedom grounds. And a totally accurate accounting of his statements would also have to admit that what he said sounds very much like, if not support for, than acquiesence to the contraceptive mandate -- and if it is wrong to interpret it as a change from Romney's most-recently stated position, then I would like to know in what way President Obama's characterization of Romney's position was "completely and totally wrong."P.S. I updated the post to take note of how the Romney campaign is handling questions.
If the topic were something highly dynamic and hard to predict as Syria/Turkey/etc., Iran/Israel/etc., European economics, or the like, it would be understandable to find flexibility and some indeterminacy in a wise candidate's position in mid-October. The contraception insurance mandate issue has been well defined for quite a while. The most significant fact about Romney in this area is not what he said but that Mollie, Andrea Mitchell, and others are still able to ask such basic questions about a matter of evident national importance which remain unanswered 3 weeks before the election.
Romney has shown two definite characteristics throughout the campaign: when an embarasing question is asked, he changes the subject. When people catch on that in effect he's stonewalling, he just changes his policy without admitting it's changed. Sort of like "as the Church (Romney) has always said . . ."
"Once again, it seems to me the least you can say about Romneys statement in the debate is that, given the opportunity, he declined to voice any kind of opposition to the HHS mandate on religious-freedom grounds."I agree. And it's not the first time he's missed the opportunity. In the interview with Raymond Arroyo a couple of months back that was the subject of a post here, he fouled off, perhaps intentionally, a batting-practice-pitch question whose purpose seemed to be to cue him to say, "If elected, I will overturn the HHS mandate on Day 1".
My take on Romney's position on bc pills was that he supports access to contraceptives, but does not believe that the Government has the right to force employers to cover or pay for them. I viewed his remarks as supporting religious freedom. What is unclear is if this exemption applies to all employers or just religious-based ones (another problem is definitions, read on). The RCC may not have an serious issue with Romney because he is against a mandate while Obama's is clearly for it. Before ObamaCare many states required employers to cover contraceptives. Some provided for an religious exemption but also defined what type of religious organizations were exempt. The RCC disliked the fact that Obama "re-defined" what organizations were considered religious and had a right to such an exemption. This went far beyond many state laws. The issues are:1. Is the HHS mandate and the government's definition of a religious exempt organization constitutional? 2. How do third party payers of self-funded employer plans get paid for paying contraception claims? To date, there is no mechanism that can work and it is replete with legal issues. 3. If religious organizations can be exempt from covering products or services that are against their religious beliefs, then can organizations such as the Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to cover blood transfusions because it is against their teachings?


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STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County has been chosen to receive $32,869 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs.
The selection was made by a national board that is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red Cross; Catholic Charities, USA; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; the Jewish Federations of North America; the Salvation Army; and United Way Worldwide.
A local board is made up of representatives from the local agencies, as well as a representative from Southeastern Ohio Legal Services, Jefferson County commissioners and a homeless representative, to determine how the funds awarded to Jefferson County are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service agencies in the area.
The board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds made available under through the program.
Under the terms of the grant from the national board, local agencies chosen to receive funds must be private voluntary nonprofits or units of government, be eligible to receive federal funds, have an accounting system, practice nondiscrimination, have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs; and if they are a private voluntary organization, have a voluntary board.
Qualifying agencies are urged to apply, officials said.
Jefferson County has distributed emergency food and shelter funds previously with the Salvation Army, Jefferson County CAC, Wintersville St. Vincent de Paul, God's Outreach, Northeast Jefferson County Food Pantry, Catholic Charities, Smithfield Food Pantry and Mingo Social Services participating.
These agencies were responsible for providing 4,000 meals and 200 nights of lodging.
Public or private voluntary agencies interested in applying for emergency food and shelter program funds must contact the Jefferson County CAC, 114 N. Fourth St., Steubenville for an application. The phone number is (740) 282-0971.
The deadline for applications to be received is 3 p.m. on Dec. 11.

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Tennant addressed a gathering of the state's top female high school students attending the 2013 Rhododendron Girls State at Wheeling Jesuit University.
After her speech, Tennant, a Democrat, said she hadn't yet decided about a run for U.S. Senate. She also acknowledged any potential candidate would have to hit the campaign trail soon if they were to make a serious run for the office next year.
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UNDECIDED TENNANT — Irene Weber, left, director of Rhododendron Girls State, presents West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant with a certificate naming her an official citizen of Girls State during Tennant's visit there Monday. Tennant has spoken each year at Girls State since taking office in 2009. -- Joselyn King
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is not seeking re-election in 2014, but no Democratic candidate has announced they will enter the race to succeed him. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, and former Delegate Pat McGeehan, R-Hancock, have announced they will be Republican candidates for the office.
Girls State began Monday on the Wheeling Jesuit campus and concludes Friday morning.
Tennant has spoken to the young women each year since taking office in 2009, often telling them how she had wanted to attend Girls State as a high school senior in the summer of 1985 but was not selected. On Monday, Girls State organizers presented her with a certificate naming her an honorary citizen of Girls State.
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During Girls State, the young females establish their own government, file for office, organize a campaign and hold elections.
Also on Monday, Tennant and her daughter, Delaney Wells, 11, visited West Virginia Independence Hall. Tennant viewed the spaces utilized by the state's first executive officers, including Jacob Boyers, West Virginia's first secretary of state.


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'Rush not into fight, long is the war - Only by surviving it will you prevail'
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For an additional $2 you can upgrade to "Collector's Grade" and preserve your Yoda forever for display. But where's the fun in that? I wanna plug him in so he can guard my desk from the dark side (my supervisor).
Not really animated... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mL0GIq-ywI
@el_jefe: LOL! I like this little guy! (And, yes, my boss creates a disturbance in the Force!) Never saw the video before, and after watching it I watched a few others. Next purchase might have to be a USB stress ball. Thanks for the link!
How is this a deal? This is the normal price and shipping is not free.
@zippy the pinhead: Well, I spent the better part of the morning assisting my sister in finding the best deal on this item, and after doing the research and finding that this was the best deal we could find for her, I thought it would be appropriate to save others the effort and post this. Do you see this post as a violation of deals.woot protocol?


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I see that some YouTube users have quite lengthy videos. But if I ever try to upload a video of length more than 15 min, YouTube stops me. How can I get more privileges in YouTube?
You can't without becoming a partner.
If you want to upload videos longer than 15 minutes, try another site such as Vimeo, Blip.tv or Viddler. You could also host it yourself using JWPlayer and a CDN such as CloudFront. As Even Mien said in the comments, you could also see if you can become a partner.
You can upload videos longer than 15 minutes, but you would need to verify yourself using either a voice call from Google or an SMS from them with a verification code.
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What would you do if you found a magical object that could instantly create anything you asked for? Or a clock that could stop time?
This is the type of thing that comes up in movies all the time. And for the most part, what the characters choose to do makes no freaking sense. Just look at how they used...
#6. Tesla's Anything Copier (The Prestige)
The Item:
In the surprisingly awesome non-Batman Nolan movie, The Prestige, David Bowie invents a teleportation machine for Wolverine because he thinks Batman killed his wife. In a shocking twist, it turns out the Teslaporter works sort of like a fax machine: It doesn't send the user from one place to another, but rather makes copies of him. The bonus here is that you have no way of telling who the original is.
Gollum, Bowie and Wolverine demonstrate what a good idea looks like visually.
The Usage:
Jackman's idea was quite simple. Use the machine to perform a magic trick, and sell tickets to make a nice living. Of course the Jackman copies had to be killed by rigging a water tank under the receiving end of the machine so that a clone would appear into the world, presumably with all of the original's memories, and immediately die a horrifying, drowning death.
His plan was to repeat this existential nightmare a couple dozen times in hopes of luring Christian Bale backstage, frame him for murder and possibly molest his daughter in the future.
"Hocus pocus? More like Hocus poke-her! And by her I mean Christian Bale's daughter. And by poke, I mean euphemist-"
"Just shut up."
What It Should Have Been Used For:
Hey, how about putting a slab of gold in that machine and becoming an instant billionaire? Yes, it can clone inanimate objects--the first thing we see it copy is hats. Then he could bribe the right people and wham, Bale will be having his bat-anus stretched in prison before dinner.
Good lord, this is the early 1900s we're talking about. In those days, magicians were below dung collecting pedophiles in the social hierarchy. There just had to be better uses for the teleporter besides (possibly) committing clone homo/suicide on stage every night and leaving huge vats of floating evidence behind.
Due to that, Jackman actually plans to destroy the "ungodly" teleporter. No, Hugh, it's a machine that can instantly manufacture anything, using nothing but electricity. It's only "ungodly" when you use it in the most retarded and sadistic way possible, you psychopath.
Use it to multiply food supplies, end the social disparity of 20th century England, fuel the industrial revolution and save the lives of millions of children. If you're not the altruistic type, create a 10-million man army to take over the world. Create your own harem made up of a single woman who loves you thiiiiiiiis much and is very open about 12-somes.
Come on, man, just exhibit SOME thought process beyond that of a boiled carrot.
#5. The Tablet of Akmenrah (Night at the Museum)
The Item:
Used by Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, the Tablet of Akmenrah is an ancient Egyptian artifact at the Museum of Natural History which grants life to all of the exhibits during the night, with the added bonus of turning them into dust if they venture outside when the Sun comes up. So, basically it's an artifact that turns statues into vampires. Awesome.
The Usage:
With the power of resurrection in his hands, Stiller harnesses the magic of the Vampire Tablet to... hang around and talk to the exhibits? Granted, Teddy Roosevelt was among them and we would all sacrifice our left ball to be in farting distance of the man but... why did they have Robin Williams play him?
You ruined the best president ever, you monster!
What It Should Have Been Used For:
Well, seeing as the Tablet also endows the resurrected exhibits with the personality and memories of the person depicted, it could solve pretty much all of the mysteries of history. Oh, and there's the minor point of being able to resurrect all of the planet's greatest geniuses and putting them to work on today's problems ("Global warming?" asked Roosevelt. "Have you tried ripping its heart out with your bare hands?")
One is left to wonder, what are the limitations here? What about a statue of Jesus? Would it be able to tell us if there's a God? Could we make a new statue, like a hot chick and label it "Hot skank for Internet comedy writers"? Maybe if Stiller stopped playing fetch with the skeleton of a T-Rex we could find out.
We are all about bringing this statue to life.
Stiller's misuse shines even brighter when you consider that the Tablet apparently lets you "walk into" any painting you want, also making it a Time Machine/Teleporter. The possibilities with such a set up are literally endless...
#4. Hypertime Watch (Clockstoppers)
The Item:
Making an appearance in the Nickelodeon movie, Clockstoppers, the hypertime watch is a device which speeds up the molecules of your body to the point where the world around you seems to be standing still. We're pretty sure that would cause you to burst into flames, but, it's a Nickelodeon movie.
The Usage:
Terminator's Kyle Reese plans to use it to usurp the U.S. government. For some reason, Jesse Bradford and that chick from Harold & Kumar think that's a bad thing and try to stop him. Not by using the watch. No, that's reserved for important things, like helping a friend win a DJ competition:
What It Should Have Been Used For:
If you want to take over the U.S., you don't need the hypertime watch to barge into the Oval Office and repaint it with the president's brain matter. Simply pimp it out for commercial gain.
Do anything that isn't this.
How about strapping the watch to the fastest rocket we can come up with and achieve faster than light travel? It'd work, right? The molecules of the ship and astronauts are accelerated while people back home feel time pass normally. You make a 10-year round trip and they think you've only been gone five minutes. Wait, do you age faster under the influence of the watch? Fine, apply it to crops, grow them to harvest in seconds, end world hunger.
The hypertime watch would be to scientists what a fully functioning Batsuit would be to us: Our wildest wet dream dipped in chocolate cocaine. And they use it at the end of the movie to lose a patrol car...


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Bruce Edward Walker
Bruce Edward Walker was managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News from 2010 to 2012. Prior to joining Heartland in 2010, Bruce worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as science editor of the quarterly magazine MichiganScience and communications manager for the center's Property Rights Network. In the latter position, Bruce won a Communicators Award of Distinction from the International Academy of the Visual Arts for a video he wrote, narrated, and produced, Boardman River Dams, Episode 1: Drawdown and Devastation in Grand Traverse County.
Bruce has written speeches and produced videos for General Motors executives and has edited publications for Buick Motor Division, for which he won a Silver Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators; Ford Motor Company; the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Detroit Athletic Club; and Gale Research. He continues to write articles, essays, and cultural reviews for the Mackinac Center, Acton Institute, Russell Kirk Center's University Bookman, Michigan View, and The American Culture.
He has written more than 100 essays for the reference book series Contemporary Musicians; as many essays on novelists, poets, philosophers, and filmmakers for the Gale Research Literary Criticism series; and he has interviewed filmmakers, authors, playwrights, performance artists, and musicians as entertainment editor-at-large for The Royal Oak Daily Tribune. He authored four titles in the CliffsNotes literary series, including books covering Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. He also co-authored What to Do With a Major in Education for CliffsNotes.
A Michigan native and ardent fly fisherman, Bruce resides on a river near Hemingway country with his dog, two cats, and several fully stocked humidors. He graduated from Michigan State University and is the proud father of two adult daughters, Emmeline and Jessalyn, who promise they'll list him as a lifeline should they ever appear on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
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Baseball Visits Nationally-Ranked Lander on WednesdayApril 15, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After taking two-of-three away from then-league leading Lincoln Memorial last week, Anderson University baseball jumps back into nonconference action on Wednesday when it looks to avenge an earlier season setback to nationally-ranked Lander. First pitch from Dolny Stadium is scheduled for 6 p.m.
The Trojans
With its two victories over LMU last weekend, AU improved to 18-26 overall, but moved up to sixth place in the South Atlantic Conference standings, which would secure a spot into next week's Food Lion SAC Tournament. With three games remaining on the conference slate and being two games ahead of seventh-place Carson-Newman, the Trojans would need a win and an Eagle loss to earn their first berth into the SAC Tournament in program history.
On a conference level, the Black and Gold leads the SAC in doubles (83), hits (442) and home runs (41). Nationally, the Trojans are one of four teams in the country with 40 or more home runs for the year, ranking fourth and joining three other teams from the Southeast Region to lead the nation. The Trojans are averaging just under a home run a game at 0.93, which is the sixth highest percentage nationally.
A major contribution to AU's success with the long ball is senior outfielder Nathan Galliford who is tied for the nation's lead with 15 home runs of the year. Galliford blasted three home runs for the three-game set at Lincoln Memorial last weekend, highlighted by a two-home run game on Friday, leading AU to a 13-5 rout to open the SAC series. The senior needs one more home run to break the program's highest total since Casey Fouts hit 15 home runs in 2000.
Ranking 26th nationally in home runs is sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper with eight for the year. Cooper is tied with Galliford for the conference's lead in RBI with 46, while also leading the league in hits (63) and total bases (108). This season, Cooper has 20 multi-hit games with a .614 slugging percentage and a .429 on-base percentage. The sophomore is currently hitting .358 with a league-high 17 doubles and 39 runs scored (fourth in SAC).
Defensively, junior right-hander Landon Beck ranks second in the SAC and 10th nationally with 75 strikeouts for the year. With his 61.2 innings pitched this season, Beck's 10.95 strikeouts per nine innings average leads the SAC and ranks 20th nationally. The right-hander earned his fifth win of the season in the final game of the series with the Railsplitters, tossing five innings and striking out seven hitters.
The Bearcats
Wednesday's matchup will feature two of the top-five most powerful teams in Division II this season, as Lander (35-6) is the only team in the country with more than 50 home runs on the year, leading the country with 55. To go along with their power, the Bearcats take advantage of pitching miscues, leading the country in walks (229) and hit batsmen (88).
The Bearcats have been nationally-ranked as high as No. 2, as it entered last week as No. 3 in the latest Collegiate Baseball's national poll. Lander enters Wednesday on a five-game winning streak, headlined by a three-game sweep over Peach Belt Conference opponent Georgia College last weekend. With the wins, the Bearcats are 21-6 in the PBC and sit in second place in the league standings.
Joining Galliford at the top of the nation's home run list is senior first baseman Connor Lewis, who has matched Galliford's home run total of 15 for the season. Lewis is the only player in the PBC with double figure homers as he holds the highest home run per game average in the country at 0.37. In the first game against GC on Friday, Lewis went 5-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI. Currently, the senior has tallied a hit in 13 of his last 14 contests.
Senior Patrick Grady has also gained national attention as he leads the nation in runs scored with 68 for the year. His .447 average leads the Peach Belt as he has recorded 24 multi-hit games on the campaign.
Reliever Brandon White is ninth nationally in saves with nine, while starters Mason McCullough and Dylan Wolchik rank ninth and 10th, respectively, in the PBC in strikeouts with 58 and 57. As a staff, Lander holds a 4.05 team ERA while holding hitters to a .255 batting average.
The Series
Lander took the first game between the teams this season on April 8 at Anderson Memorial Stadium. Despite out-hitting the Bearcats 8-6, the Trojans left seven runners on base in the game, dropping the nonconference contest. Last season, AU defeated Lander at Minor League Baseball's Fluor Field, home of the Greenville Drive, 4-1, giving Anderson its last win over a nationally-ranked opponent.


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My SQL Server 2008 R2 doesn't work after changing the
MAXDOP parameter on instances.
I have 6 instances located on the same physical server and I changed
MAXDOP from 1 to 2 on 5 instances. After that all these 5 instances don't work. After restart of the server any services don't start and I just see the error
The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other application error logs for details
In Event Viewer I didn't find anything useful, also error log wasn't updated when I tried to run instance.
Also I noticed a strange thing. When I open the Configuration Manager and open properties of instance, I don't see the fonts of parameter's name in Advanced tab. In another tabs everything is fine. The screen is attached. Does anybody faced the same problem?
I don't have any idea how repair this...
upd: By the way, i tried start sql server manually from command line with -f or -m parameter but nothing.. I just see empty error window


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We have moved some sub-sites from a Content DB of 140GB to a new SC in sharepoint 2010. Now, both the sites are up and running and we want to redirect the old URL to new URL so that we delete the old site. We want if someone enters http://servername/sites/SC/sitename so it should redirect to http://servername/sites/SC1/sitename
The way I have done this before was to create a database table with the mappings of the urls. The first column holds the old url and the second column holds the new url. Then I wrote a httpmodule that checks each request on beginrequest to see if the url matches a value in column 1, if so redirect to the url in column 2. I installed it to the old farm. It works pretty well but I would recommend plenty of testing and some caching to not reduce performance. An improperly coded httpmodule can really screw up your environment's performance and functionality.
Another way I've done this was just to create a redirect webpart. Then I put the webpart on the homepage of the old site. This doesn't handle as many cases as httpmodule but it is a safer solution.
Try using your web server or load balancer to perform the redirections. If you are running IIS7 or higher, take a look at the URL Rewrite module.


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I am developing a Windows game engine that will let you create Ace Attorney games (Phoenix Wright style, not Investigations).
I have finished developing the data entry parts (Evidence, Profiles, Animations...), and now I am going to create the Scene Editor.
With this editor, you can create Courtroom scenes.
I am having a particular game-flow design problem here: "choice branches". Basically, the player can select an option from many, and something will happen depending on the choice.
How would you design such thing? I have no problems creating a linear flow (action,action,action...), but things like cross-examination or chatting involve branching from your choices (action, IF did something, do this, IF did something else, do that...)
What would be the most efficient mechanism to organize such branches for my design in the simplest way for the user to understand - I don't want to make it too complex for the user to make a game with the engine.


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Friday Spotlight - October 25, 2013
By Chris Kawalek-Oracle on Oct 25, 2013
Happy Friday, everyone!
Our spotlight this week is on a really cool technical tip on the Oracle Technology Network from Yuli Vasiliev called "How to Launch Linux Utilities from Oracle Database". From Yuli's introduction:
"By wrapping a Linux utility in a script and using an external database table's preprocessor directive, you can launch the utility from within Oracle Database and have the utility's output be inserted into the external table. This allows you to do things such as query operating system data and then join it with data in Oracle Database."
Head on over to OTN to read the full article.


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To the editor:
On Aug. 26, Dale Harmon wrote, "Religion needs to be kept out of government and government needs to be kept out of religion." ("Keep government out of religion.") The Constitution says government (law) cannot dictate (form) any one religion. That is to protect all faiths, even Christianity, which our laws were first built upon in forming these United States. Quotations from the Holy Bible were used even in our school book (the "Principles") to build character and teach responsibility for our actions.
You cannot keep religion out of government because all people worship someone or something. You would have to have no government. Faith in whatever or whomever lives within the hearts and minds of the people, and people govern. By the same principle of all to worship in their own way we have freedom (yet) to say and to show (practice) our faith. The cross on the logo can mean whatever you want it to. For example, the Red Cross to illustrate blood drives; hospitals for health help; railroad crossings; and yes, even prejudices in years past. I am sure there are many more but as for me, it represents my savior, Jesus Christ, who loves us all (the world) - even me - so much as to leave Heaven and come to Earth in the form of a little baby, live a sinless life, bear all the shame mankind could put on him and rejection of so many of those he came to save from sin (all have sinned since Adam and Eve) and be hung on a cross and actually become sin for us. Even God the father could not look upon his only begotten son. All the sufferings he bore to finish the work of redemption for all mankind - when he rose again, walked this old Earth for 40 days and nights and took those waiting in paradise back with him to wait for his coming again for all those who would believe and receive his great gift of salvation. They walk (obey him) by the Holy Spirit, his power for us to live according to his word.
The choice is ours - either we will worship him, Satan or ourselves. There are no true atheists, for we are created to worship.
God created the whole universe and gave life to every living thing. He has given Jesus Christ the honor of putting all things under his feet. Why would anyone deny this great love that has been freely given? The choice is yours to accept Jesus Christ as savior and lord, live by him and be received in this great new world he is building, or deny him (accept the anti-Christ) and suffer eternity in the hell God did not create for mankind but for the devil and his followers. Choose wisely and live in peace and joy in the good times and the hard times.
Helen Porter
(Editor's note: Porter is a former lay speaker with the United Methodist Church.)


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41 Places To Go Fast!Written by on January 29, 2014 Contributors: Andrew Schuth Race Cars, Airplanes, Bobsleds, and Even Freefall
This issue is dedicated to speed, and when you're a gearhead, you kind of have tunnel vision in that regard: How can I drive faster?
But there are other things you can do all across the country by land, sea, and air that net you insane mph and g's without the risk of losing your driver's license. We've got 41 places and ways you can go fast, and some are guaranteed to push you to limits you never thought possible. Check it.
Air Combat USA calls itself the first original civilian dogfighting school in the world. What that means for you is that it's an air-combat school that feels very realistic for what took place during an actual air-to-air skirmish. What that also means is you don't need any flight experience to be a "guest pilot." You're flying with a licensed fighter pilot to evade fighter aircraft through various maneuvers.
3815 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, CA - AirCombat.com
Drive an actual NASCAR Sprint Cup car that's been driven by NASCAR racers such as Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, or you can ride as a passenger in a two-seater. The NASCAR Racing Experience makes it possible to do it at your choice of speedway in various parts of the country, from Atlanta to California.
Built for the '02 Winter Games, Utah Olympic Park is where athletes train for the winter Olympics in bobsled, luge, Nordic, skeleton, ski jumping, and speed skating. But when they're not training, you can try the Comet bobsled ride, in which a pro takes three passengers down the length of the Olympic track. Expect 15 turns, speeds of probably 60 mph, and 5 g's of force. While you're at the park, you might also want to check out freestyle jumping -- on skis -- into the Aerials Pool, which is a 750,000-gallon tank of water.
3419 Olympic Parkway, Park City, UT - UtahOlympicLegacy.com
Here's your chance to jump off the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia -- 876 feet. People have been doing this particular jump for 34 years, and you'll be in the company of 450 BASE jumpers. To jump alone, you need 100 previous skydives under your belt, but if you've got no experience, you can do a tandem jump with a pro.
New River Gorge Bridge - OfficialBridgeDay.com
Virginia City International Camel Races take place in Nevada. You read that right: camel racing. In the U.S., why camels? They used to be service animals in that part of town for the gold mines in old-timey days. Riders are event sponsors, media, and members from the International Order of Camel Jockeys. The race is a U-shape course around the arena and lasts about a minute.
Virginia City, Nevada - VisitVirginiaCityNV.com
Deer Valley Resort is where you can take a chairlift ride that will dump you at the top of a mountain. Then, it's up to you to make your way down 70 miles of twisty mountain bike trails, the pucker factor at full-gonzo. They also have a mountain bike school, if you want to work your way up to that. Park City is the world's first and only gold-level ride center, according to International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA.com).
"Speed is being in a groove so that everything around you is a blur, except the trail that you're focused on ahead of you." -- Assistant Bike Patrol/Ski Patrol Manager Chris Erkkila
2250 Deer Valley Dr. S., Park City, UT - DeerValley.com
Coming on Labor Day 2014 is the new NCM Motorsports Park, where you will be able to drive hi-po vehicles and get instruction from pros. It'll have a 2-mile west and a 1.1-mile east circuit, and configurations include a high-speed loop of 1.96 miles to the 3.15-mile technical course. It'll be located across from the National Corvette Museum.
Bowling Green, KY - MotorsportsPark.com
Pro kart racer Michael Valiante (MichaelValiante.com) is among those teaching you how to race at the SIMA Racing Academy -- and he's been a bigwig in this field for more than 20 years.
529 W. Front St., Sumas, WA - SimaRacing.com
The Indy Racing Experience lets you do three laps at the Indy Motor Speedway in a two-seater car -- you sit behind the driver -- that is capable of 180 mph.
2A Gasoline Alley, Indianapolis, IN - IndyRacingExperience.com
Don't let the word "Disney" turn you off. Walt Disney World Resort is its own city -- almost as big as San Francisco -- and within its walls lurks the 120-foot-tall Summit Plummet, in which you freefall down a 350-foot waterslide to the tune of 55 mph.
Lake Buena Vista, FL - DisneyWorld.Disney.Go.com
Meet Sand Master Park, the world's first sandboard park. People in the know will know what this means: You can sandsled and sandboard, jump ramps, and do rail slides. If you don't, the park offers sandboard lessons so that you'll be off and running in no time. If sitting down and letting someone else do the sandwork for you is appealing, there are also dune buggy tours.
"On a sandboard, speed is the sense of weightless motion similar to flying, as you drop down a dune face." -- Lon Beale, Sand Master Park
5351 U.S. Hwy. 101, Florence, OR - SandMasterPark.com
The Silver State Classic Challenge Series was the first-ever legal open-road rally in the U.S. -- and now it's been going on for 25 years. What happens is this: Nevada shuts down 90 miles of Route 318 so that in May and September more than 200 drivers can head to Ely and then go fast. Very fast. And on a road normally reserved for commuters, 318 has even been renamed The Silver State Classic Challenge Highway. It was on that stretch of highway that Guinness was able to award two world records: fastest road rally, and highest speed on the highway.
3650 E. Flamingo Rd., Ste 7-A, Las Vegas, NV - SSCC.us
Step into Zero Gravity Corp.'s modified Boeing 747 and reach an altitude of 24,000 feet. Then the pilot starts messing with the angles, putting the plane through parabolic arcs that create weightlessness for 20-30 seconds 12-15 times (that's when you can do those slow-mo flips). Oh, and there's that 1.8 g's.
"We go so fast, you lose weight." -- Zero-G Captain John H. Benisch II
4601 N. Fairfax Dr., Ste. 1200, Arlington, VA - GoZeroG.com
Fast Talk With…Ken Block
HRM - What's your definition of speed?
KB - For me, the concept of fast is all relative to proximity. Going 90 mph sideways on a dirt road lined with big trees is fast.
HRM - Is there such a thing as going too fast?
KB - Nope, my speed is always perfect -- just sometimes the turn is too tight.
HRM - How do you train to go faster than anyone else—not in terms of mechanicals. As in, what makes you fast? If everything is equal, what makes you the fastest?
KB - The faster a car goes, the faster you have to react, so I do a lot of training that focuses on reactions, like kickboxing. It's also good to get kicked in the head from time to time.
HRM - You drive fast. What's another fast thing you'd like to do?
KB - I used to ride motocross rather seriously. Now on my off days, I enjoy downhill mountain biking.
HRM - If you could switch places with any fast driver in any fast sport, who would it be and why?
KB - James Hunt for his extracurricular activities.
The Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch lets you be the pro race-car driver you always knew you could be before pesky things like speed limits and cops got in the way. The Ranch is where you can find Ron Fellows Corvette Driving School, Radical Racing School, Lotus Performance School, and the SCCA License Recommendation School.
Pahrump, NV - SpringMountainMotorsports.com
Guinness Says You're Too Slow at This
These are current record-holders, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Fastest vehicle drift: 111.59 mph
Fastest land-speed record: 763.035 mph
Fastest crossing of English Channel by amphibious vehicle: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 20 seconds
Fastest train on any national rail system: 357.2 mph (France)
Fastest time to complete Indy 500: 2 hours, 41 minutes, 18.404 seconds
Fastest speed by a diesel-powered vehicle: 350.092 mph (Bonneville)
Fastest speed by an electric vehicle: 303.025 mph (Bonneville)
Fastest speed by a Grand Prix race: 153.842 mph
Fastest time to push a car 1 mile: 11 minutes, 39 seconds (India)
Fastest skateboard speed: 80.74 mph (Canada)
Fastest time to eat a 12-inch pizza: 41.31 seconds (Los Angeles)
Fastest trailer towing: 141.998 mph (sister magazine Diesel Power)
Wide Open Excursions hands you the keys to a race truck and the freedom of the open road in one of its three locations: Reno, Cabo San Lucas, and Ensenada. You can do day trips, half-day trips, or even a Baja 1000 package.
At Beech Bend Raceway, you can drag race or stock car race, because it's open to both spectators and participants. It's actually part of the Beech Bend Amusement Park and aquatic park.
798 Beech Bend Rd., Bowling Green, KY - BeechBend.com
The Stratosphere Tower elevators are known as the fastest double-deckers in the U.S. and can reach 21 mph. There are 108 floors, three floors per second, and it takes about 30 seconds to go from bottom to top.
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Miller Motorsports Park is basically a motorsports amusement park. The 511-acre main area of the park has a 4.5-mile road-race course, as well as a 22-acre high-speed off-road course. The adjacent 900 acres also house a 2.5-mile desert-racing course. There are plenty of other things to do there, as well: a paved karting circuit, a rockcrawling course, and a 1.1-mile motocross course. The park also hosts the Ford-sanctioned Boss Track Attack and Raptor Assault schools. The ST Octane Academy for Focus and Fiesta STs is also here.
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Fast Talk With…Ivan Stewart
HRM - What's your definition of speed?
IS - I think any speed that gets your adrenaline up. If you are a fighter pilot, it would be one speed, and something different if we're drag racing, and much different if you're an off-road racer.
HRM - Is there such a thing as going too fast?
IS - I think so. Off-road racing is relatively slow, although 125 mph across the desert is fast, especially at night. One night, racing the Baja 1000, I almost went off a cliff while passing another car. It really was going very fast under the circumstances, and I was only doing about 40 mph.
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IS - For me, it's the simple fact I just hate to lose even more than I love to win. I mentally put myself on the podium before the race. I can see myself with the trophy. I always thought, someone is going to win today—may as well be me. I always worked out and stayed physically fit, that was a given.
HRM - You drive fast. What's another fast thing you'd like to do?
IS - I think most everything I do, I do efficiently. Not necessarily the fastest, but the most efficient. When I was racing a lot, I always raced with the focus on not making mistakes, although I still get a thrill from driving fast, but getting to the finish line the quickest meant winning.
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IS - I always wanted to race the Dakar Rally; I would really like to drive that event on the Toyota factory team. Long-distance races have always been my strongest form of racing. I'd want to be Carlos Sainz from Spain. He is really fast. And I like his TV interviews. It would be fun to switch with him.
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This is mush speed at the Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge. They've been doing the dogsled thing for 33 years. Sure, 4-8 miles per hour doesn't sound that fast, but that's because you're used to car mph. You pedal-kick for extra speed and to help the dogs on uphills, and you'll learn to shift your balance, too.
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Water Fantaseas offers a 35-foot Motion catamaran for "speed junkies" that can reach up to 135 mph, as you thrash the waters in Florida in custom bucket seats. You can also try the 36-foot Spectre catamaran for speeds as high as 100 mph.
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If you want to go fast on a motorcycle without getting a "coupon," check out the Motoyard track day. There are various groups to choose from, including the one for racers and experienced track riders. It's all about going fast -- riders are expected to be able to lap the 2.5-mile road course in less than 1.35.
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QSR magazine did a drive-thru study in 2012 to determine average service time. It concluded that Wendy's was the quickest, with your visit averaging 129 seconds (compared to Burger King at 201 seconds). On a related note, an official eating website claimed 7.9 pounds of Curley's french fries was eaten in 10 minutes in 2010.
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The Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club is the name behind AMEC ice racing, which races six classes on frozen lakes/road courses in Northeastern New York from about mid January to early March.
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It's one of the gnarliest types of displays of carnage known to mankind -- we're talking demolition derby, and you can enter to smash and ram other vehicles at various events across the U.S. We spotted a new arrival on the scene this year, the West Coast Derby Championship & Hot Rod Expo.
No matter what your level of experience (as in, you've never worn a helmet in the water to you're a weekend warrior), you can partake in the experience of rapids of varying difficulty levels. For example, the White Salmon River trip takes you through a narrow gorge and offers an optional cliff jump, while Wind River has steep ledge drops, and Farmlands has vertical cliff walls. If you're still in the need for speed, check out Husum Falls for a vertical plunge in a raft.
"Paddle hard, get down, hold on tight, and enjoy the ride! Hucking yourself off a waterfall or conquering life, same thing." -- Jaco Klinkenberg, Wet Planet
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Where Pros Drive Fast
34Bonneville: Go here to set a land-speed record.
35Black Rock Desert: Go here to set a land-speed record if your car is powered by thrust.
36Lake Gairdner, South Australia: Go here to set a land-speed record if you're not in the U.S.
37Autobahn: Go here if you're in Germany. There's no speed limit, although there's an advisory speed limit. People ignore it. And when they wreck, they wreck tremendously.
Muscle cars and exotics converge on this racetrack in Michigan, which lures owners of quick vehicles to a standing mile race. An open runway allows for high-performance cars to reach performance-high speeds.
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Five Aftermarket Products That Make Your Car Go Faster
Nitrous: Could be as much as 800 more hp
Supercharger: Maybe close to 120 more hp
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Programmer: Possibly as much as 100 more hp
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Turbocharger: How much power can your engine handle?
Fast Talk With…Travis Pastrana
HRM - What is your definition of speed?
TP - My definition of fast/speed is more closely related to a stopwatch than it is to an actual mph. Taking a turn at 180 mph is really fast if everyone else is taking it at 160 mph, but it's really slow if everyone else is taking it at 200!
HRM - Is there such a thing as going too fast?
TP - Only when you run out of talent.
HRM - How do you train to go faster than anyone else -- not in terms of mechanicals. As in, what makes you fast? If everything is equal, what makes you the fastest?
TP - In motocross, I was fast because I was willing to take more risk than my competitors. In rally, I was fast because I had an amazing co-driver, and we made better notes and had more trust in each other than most of our competitors. In NASCAR, I'm not fast yet -- but I'll let you know when I figure it out!
HRM - You drive fast. What's another fast thing you'd like to do?
TP - I love motors, but gravity works pretty fast, too. I love jumping from high places. Off bridges into water or off buildings with a parachute; I like to fall with style.
HRM - If you could switch places with any fast driver in any fast sport, who would it be and why?
TP - I've competed in most fast sports, but the two I haven't that look like the most fun are drag racing and F1. It would be cool to switch places with John Force or Sebastian Vettel. But only for a day -- I love my life.
Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey, is where you can find the steel-accelerator Kingda Ka, which will take you from zero to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds and to 456 feet high, then down a 270-degree spiral drop. Yes, you will feel weightless and not just because you'll unload your stomach's contents.
Six Flags Blvd., Jackson, NJ - SixFlags.com/GreatAdventure
Everybody spells it differently: "what you," "whatcha," and so on -- so if you're Googling for this type of racing in your area, try various spellings, but the concept is the same: Race what you got, as is. Albany Saratoga Speedway has such a race.
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The 41-mile Texas 130 Extension toll road connecting Interstate 10 in Seguin to South Austin is where you can go 85 mph -- the fastest in the nation.


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The nature of foster care is that children are being removed from a home
where their parents/guardians are unable or unwilling to care for them. This statement drastically minimizes the horrendous situations from which many of these children are emerging. Several respondents spoke of sexual
abuse at the hands of family members (sometimes more than one family member), physical abuse that required hospitalization, abject neglect where toddlers were forced to survive on dog food. For these children, survival took precedence over a focus on obtaining a quality education.
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who first came to them via the foster care system. However, several of the
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Three people died and a fourth remained in critical condition following two separate vehicle crashes in Ohio County within 13 hours Sunday and Monday.
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
Thursday, February 8th Morning Market Comments
10:37 AM - Small profit and I'm out. Back in a bit.
10:18 AM - The trade that I've been pursuing is based on the fact that ES made a low relative to yesterday, but the other averages have held above their lows despite selling in the TICK and the dominant hitting of bids in ES. I'm looking for the averages to put in a low for the day, which then would lead to tests of the AM high and the previous day's high as targets. We got right to the AM high in ER2, but buying wasn't sustained and we traversed back through the range. Now I've reinitiated the trade, once again nibbling and adding as we hold lows on selling, and I'm trying it all over again. More in a bit to wrap up.
10:10 AM - Well, we'll see how the nibbling works out this time. I'd be buying more ER2 on TICK pullbacks that hold above AM lows. The entire trade is predicated on holding above yesterday's highs as part of longer-term strength. Need to see net buying in ES, however, and a positive shift in TICK to be aggressive on the long side.
9:55 AM - Once again we see a low in ES not confirmed by the other indices thus far. I will be nibbling at ER2 as long as we don't get new lows for the AM.
9:47 AM - When I put on an initial position and add to it, I keep in mind my average purchase price. If I have a profit and then the whole position goes to scratch, I'm out. Part of the discipline. We just couldn't take out those AM highs, so the breakout trade I was looking for didn't come. I will likely try the idea again if selling dries up above the AM lows. Nice example of a decent trade idea that just didn't go.
9:43 AM - Scratched out.
9:33 AM - Initial ER2 target is the AM high, then yesterday's high. Targets for ES are the AM high and pivot and VWAP from yesterday.
9:29 AM - I'm adding to ER2 positions on TICK pullbacks at higher price lows. Bail out if TICK drops take us below those lows. Need to see TICK breakout highs.
9:19 AM - The upside TICK couldn't amount to much; need buyers to come in and sustain. Note ES low not yet confirmed in other averages. Holding small initial ER2; no adding to longs until we see evidence of buyers.
9:04 AM - I'm playing with the idea that we made a low for the AM; long some ER2.
9:00 AM - Note difficulty of sellers getting market below the ES range and difficulty sustaining selling in ER2 and negative TICK.
8:49 AM - Selling TICK bounces in ER2 working fine so far, targeting yesterday low.
8:45 AM - Nice tell with ER2 leading ES down on the TICK breakout to the downside. Volume above average and targeting those lows mentioned earlier.
8:38 AM - Volume is pretty healthy; I'm watching to see how buyers come in as we break the previous day's lows in ES (but not the other indices so far). I need to see NQ and ER2 lead the weakness for me to sell lows in ES.
8:15 AM CT - And another good morning to you! Thanks to the many people who have responded so far to the poll. My email inbox reads 935 (not all are poll responses!), so I'm pretty much buried in electronic communications. If I haven't gotten back to you about your comments, that's why. I greatly appreciate the interest. I think this morning's post is one of the more important ones in a while. It certainly is a key to how I read markets. My next post will offer concrete numbers that you can use during the day to gauge market participation. So now let's talk about this AM. We had some weak reports from retailers just a bit ago and we're seeing selling in Europe and in the preopening equities futures markets as a result. Indeed, we're quite close to yesterday's lows in ES as I write. That puts us back into the thick of the trading range of the past four trading sessions. Our first challenge, then, will be to see if pressure from sellers continues during early trading, which would have us testing the lows of this multi-day range (around 1448 on ES). Pivots for the day are on the Weblog; note that S2 is quite close to the low of the multi-day range in ES. The dollar has weakened somewhat vs. the Euro; not much rate movement so far. I'm not sure there's a major fundamental shift at work to justify a repricing of stocks. So the market will have to show me that a breakout is in the works before I assume that we'll jump outside the recent trading range. Back after the open.
10 comments:
- heywally said...
Things certainly seem to be nebulous today with a downside bias as of 8AM PST (ER2 now looks weak) - I put on an NQ trade at 1814.75 earlier when it looked like selling had temporarily dried up, even though I wasn't where I wanted to be on my stochastic. Impatience. I managed to pull a latte out of the trade.
We could be in a range but then again, maybe not - I will now sit back and watch/wait for something extreme or do nothing.
- Mike Roznowski said...
What about the Dow and OEX they are making lows right alongside the SPX?
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi HeyWally,
I have to agree. Patience is key, especially in markets that aren't giving a lot of directional movement.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Mike,
The Dow, OEX, and ES are large cap indices that are highly correlated, so I expect them to move together. I look to sector indices, small caps, etc. for ideas about broad participation or nonconfirmation. Thanx--
- Lord Tedders said...
Yes I totally agree that its important not to get hurt badly on a day like today (especially after a nice easy day like yesterday).
You and I ended up taking the same long play at 7:05 ish and I can see you had superior enty(I was late on my entry) as you were able to scratch this trade and I took a small loss. A few seconds hesitation in this business can be very costly.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Lord Tedders,
Thanks for the note. One thing I need to work on in this low vol market is being more aggressive in taking profits when an initial level is hit or when we stall out before hitting a level. It's all too easy to have those gains reversed!
- yinTrader said...
Hi Brett
Lessons from today's trades, especially on ESH7. Entering late or outside the Primary Sell Zone is best not taken.
Stepping aside and waiting patiently for the market to come to me, would minimize my loss, when the short did not go my way and I exited when I woke up (5.30am Singapore time) on close of market.
Trading in a different time zone geographically can also be a disadvantage.
Nevertheless, patience and waiting for the market to come to us paramount!
- heywally said...
re taking profits in this market, what I've ended up with (for daytrading) is taking profits on half the position with a hard target (currently 4 points on the NQ) and then simultaneously, a break even trailing stop gets set on the remaining position, just in case we get a trend going (if the market really takes off, I'll manually make the trailing stop wider). My original stop is 4 NQ points on the entire position so this obviously requires pretty good entries (but what doesn't?)
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Yin,
Very good point about letting market come to where you have your edge. If I think a market is making a bottom at point X and I enter the position too far above X, I'll have quite a loss before I actually know the position is not in my favor. Execution counts for so much! Thanks--
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi HeyWally,
You raise a great point. It may well be advantageous to have a high probability hard target as a first exit. Thanks--


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What is the relationship between the concept of an equation (a statement) and the concept of a function (and the concept of morphisms in category theory)?
I'm going to use equations as the most important subclasses of statements. To take a seemingly trivial example, the equation
(E1) 2*x = 5. This equation which could be rewritten as
(E2) f(x) => 2*x -5, but E1 and E2 are technically not equivalent. With f(x)=> I mean, the statement is a function of x. For every x f(x) returns true or false, depending on the contents of f(x). The equation E1 can be true for values depending on x. The truth value is dependent on the value of x, i.e. E1 is a function which returns a bool, given a value of x. E2 returns a value. I haven't defined domain and co-domain. Say it is N. E2 is always true. So if I write
(E3) f(x) = 2*x -5 and f(x)=0, E3 and E1 become equivalent. In other words, everything is a function, because equations are simply boolean functions. In (E2), f(x) could be seen as a placeholder for (E1). E2 says: there is an expression, which is an equation, which has the contents 2*x=5. In a programming language this could be all said much clearer. In python E1 would be: 2*x ==5 and E3: def f(x): return 2*x-5==0.
More generally, as I understand it, the approach of Russell/Wittgenstein was to reduce everything to statements. In category everything is reduced to functions (or morphisms in it's own parlance).
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