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How Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Lenny Bruce Changed Judaism Forever
● Jewhooing the Sixties
by David E. Kaufman
Brandeis University Press, 360 pages, $36
The final week of September 1961 proved to be an auspicious one in American Jewish history — or, at least, in the history of Jewish-American celebrities.
Within a matter of just a few days, Sandy Koufax set his first National League strikeout record; comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges; a then-unknown folksinger named Bob Dylan would play an opening set for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village that would capture the attention of a reviewer for The New York Times; and a 19-year-old cabaret singer named Barbra Streisand made her off-Broadway debut.
The rest, as they say, is history, as well as the launching pad for David E. Kaufman's "Jewhooing the Sixties: American Celebrity and Jewish Identity." An associate professor of religion, and the Florence and Robert Kaufman Chair in Jewish Studies at Hofstra University, Kaufman suggests that the approximately simultaneous rise to fame of these four third-generation American Jews was "a turning point in the history of both American celebrity and Jewish identity."
He likens them to postwar American Jewish culture's "Mount Rushmore of fame," whose achievements would go on to "reshape the image of the American Jew" for both Jew and non-Jew alike.
These four were by no means the first of their kind. One could easily rattle off several lists of Jewish forebears who blazed trails beforehand, including baseball star Hank Greenberg; comedians including Groucho Marx, Jack Benny and George Burns, to name just a few; musical theater stars Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice; and in music, Benny Goodman and Irving Berlin.
But as Kaufman goes to great lengths to argue, this quartet was more transformational than those who came before, both in their personal identity as Jews and in what they represented to Jews and society at large as Jews.
Koufax, the aloof sports hero, was a new kind of Jewish man, "embodying the cool masculinity of the Hollywood antihero." Bruce was the apotheosis of Jewish rebellion against the status quo. Streisand overturned prevailing notions of female beauty, sexuality and stardom. Dylan refused to abide by any preconceived notions of identity, whether Jewish, musical or otherwise. In sum, "these four created their own rules, and helped usher in a new era for all American Jews."
Kaufman's study in large part examines the contemporaneous, and by now, historical notions of who these celebrities were and what their fame represented vis-à-vis their Jewishness.
This is the "Jewhooing" aspect of the book's unfortunate title, the origin of which is never completely explained. I, for one, grew up in an extended family that greatly enjoyed playing "name that Jew," but never heard the term "Jewhooing" until I read this book.
While it's clear how this group represented a new way of being both Jewish in public as well as famous — Koufax in his very public refusal to play ball on the High Holy Days, even when it meant sitting out a World Series game; Bruce in his in-your-face use of Yiddish obscenities; Streisand in her embrace of Jewish roles from Fanny Brice to "Yentl"; and Dylan in his caginess about his background and belief system — it's not always clear just how this translates into the lives of the American-Jewish everyman who is not famous (beyond instilling the same sort of pride that came out of the "Jewhooing" game of decades past), nor is it clear what any of this has to do with the '60s. other than that it all took place in that decade.
After all, when talking about the "celebrity culture" of the '60s, one must take into account the role of such non-Jewish figures as John F. Kennedy, The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., and Raquel Welch.
Kaufman digs deep into media coverage of the time to explore just how the Jewish background of this mosaic quartet was treated, and he is on solid ground here, especially regarding Koufax, Bruce and Streisand. His analysis of Bob Dylan as an uber-assimilationist, however, is less convincing, and here is where full disclosure requires me to note that the author interviewed me for his book and spends a few paragraphs detailing how my own book on Dylan is an example "of the kind of Dylan Jewhooing in which identification is taken to an extreme." Where Kaufman finds Dylan's name change and his inventive stories about his background representative of his mutable identity, he finds the very same tendencies in Streisand's early career — changing her name from Barbara to Barbra, claiming to have been "born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon" — as merely playful "tomfoolery." Perhaps another case of "extreme identification"?
Kaufman writes, "Both Jews and celebrities are in a sense 'chosen people' — seemingly 'chosen' by some higher power, but at the same time 'people' like everyone else." It could be argued that both Jews and celebrities are in fact not viewed as "people like everyone else," and that, more than anything, might go far to explain the odd phenomenon of "Jewhooing."
Seth Rogovoy is the author of 'Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet' (Scribner, 2009).


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"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Mitt Romney told a room full of donors.
"All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
All this can be written off as just a bit of self-flattery. Imagine you're Romney, the Republican presidential nominee: For the past year you've been unable to grab a clear lead in the polls against an incompetent who has been unable to get unemployment below 8 percent or reach a reasonable debt-reduction deal with Congress. Which would you prefer to believe? That you're not good enough, not smart enough and doggone it, people just don't like you? Or that the incumbent Democrat has effectively bought off half the country with food stamps and free health care?
What Romney said next is harder to explain.
"These are people who pay no income tax," he continued, "47 percent of Americans pay no income tax."
Let's do away with the ridiculous myth that 47 percent of Americans are tax-evading moochers. Of the 46 percent of Americans who were expected to pay no federal income tax in 2011, more than 60 percent of them were working and contributing payroll taxes — which means they paid a higher effective tax rate on their income than Romney does — and an additional 20 percent were elderly. So more than 80 percent were either working or past retirement age.
Even worse
Still, for my money, the worst of Romney's comments were these: "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
When he said this, Romney didn't just write off half the country behind closed doors. He also confirmed the worst suspicions about who he is: an entitled rich guy with no understanding of how people who aren't rich actually live.
The thing about not having much money is you have to take much more responsibility for your life. You can't pay people to watch your kids or clean your house or fix your meals. You can't necessarily afford a car or a washing machine or a home in a good school district. That's what money buys you: goods and services that make your life easier.
That's what money has bought Romney, too. He's a guy who sold his dad's stock to pay for college, who built an elevator to ensure easier access to his multiple cars and who was able to support his wife's decision to be a stay-at-home mom. That's great! That's the dream.
The problem is that he doesn't seem to realize how difficult it is to focus on college when you're also working full time, how much planning it takes to reliably commute to work without a car, or the agonizing choices faced by families in which both parents work and a child falls ill. The working poor haven't abdicated responsibility for their lives. They're drowning in it.
In their book "Poor Economics," the poverty researchers Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo try to explain why the poor around the world so often make decisions that befuddle the rich.
Getting by
Their answer, in part, is this: The poor use up an enormous amount of their mental energy just getting by. They're not dumber or lazier or more interested in being dependent on the government. They're just cognitively exhausted:
"Our real advantage comes from the many things that we take as given. We live in houses where clean water gets piped in — we do not need to remember to add Chlorin to the water supply every morning. The sewage goes away on its own — we do not actually know how. We can (mostly) trust our doctors to do the best they can and can trust the public health system to figure out what we should and should not do. … And perhaps most important, most of us do not have to worry where our next meal will come from. In other words, we rarely need to draw upon our limited endowment of self-control and decisiveness, while the poor are constantly being required to do so."
Banerjee and Duflo's argument has been increasingly confirmed by the nascent science of "decision fatigue." Study after study shows that the more we need to worry about in a day, the harder we have to work to make good decisions.
As economist Jed Friedman wrote in an online post for the World Bank, "The repeated trade-offs confronting the poor in daily decision making — i.e. 'should I purchase a bit more food or a bit more fertilizer?' — occupy cognitive resources that would instead lay fallow for the wealthy when confronted with the same decision. The rich can afford both a bit more food and a bit more fertilizer, no decision is necessary."
The point here isn't that Romney is unfamiliar with cutting-edge work in cognitive psychology. It's that he misses even the intuitive message of this work, the part most of us know without reading any studies: It's really, really hard to be poor. That's because the poorer you are, the more personal responsibility you have to take.
Romney, apparently, thinks it's folks like him who've really had it hard. "I have inherited nothing," the son of a former auto executive and governor told the room of donors. "Everything Ann and I have, we earned the old-fashioned way." This is a man blind to his own privilege.
Which is his right. But that sentiment informs his policy platform — which calls for sharply cutting social services for the poor to pay for huge tax cuts for the rich — and it suggests he's trying to make policy with a worldview that's completely backward.
Ezra Klein is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
To contact the writer of this article: Ezra Klein in Washington at [email protected].


text: Large-scale motion and gesture-controlled computing is no longer confined to science fiction movies, as Los Angeles-based Oblong Industries again demonstrates its exciting software that gives users a fresh new way to interact with computers. Dubbed "g-speak," Oblong calls its software a spatial operating environment — and just as Tom Cruise and Collin Farrell did with the computer in Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," users can control g-speak by wearing a special glove and performing gestures in the air. "We think the future of computing is multiuser, multiscreen, multidevice," Oblong CEO Kwin Kramer told AFP. "This system helps with big workflow problems." Kramer says law enforcement and intelligence are among the key industries it targets with the software, but there are numerous other potential applications as well. A video of Oblong demonstrating an early version of its g-speak software follows below.


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Brass Bonanza, also known as the "Hartford Whalers Victory March" was adopted by the Hartford Whalers as their theme song during their tenure in the World Hockey Association, and remained so through their years in the National Hockey League. It was originally written by Jack Say.
Jack Say (b. 12-Aug-1922, d. 04-Jul-2017), an aspiring musician whose real name is Jacques Ysaye, sold a piece of music to a record library and moved to Austria. Former Whalers official George Ducharme came across the piece. According to Ducharme: "It was one of those lucky things," he recalls. "The song was handed to us – arranged and orchestrated – in 1975–1976 and we didn't have to do a thing… "During the second season the team was in Hartford (1975–1976), I began to notice that there was something missing in the atmosphere in the building. We needed something, like a theme song, to add to the excitement when a goal was scored. But coming up with the right song was a different matter," he said. "I had the record at home for a couple of weeks," Ducharme said, "but never played it. Then, one Sunday, we had company over and one of the guests played the record for fun. When I heard the song I knew immediately it was perfect for us." He used it as a "bridge" on a 1976 Whalers highlights LP – the song became a hit, and stuck with the team from then on.
According to Jeff Jacobs of the Hartford Courant, "Gordie Howe once began humming Brass Bonanza in my ear. He said he loved to hear it as a visiting player for the Houston Aeros, but hearing it every night with the Whalers "began to drive me nuts.""
The following is an excerpt from an article by Jeff Jacobs which appeared in the Hartford Courant:
Jack Say, an aspiring musician, sold a piece of music to a record library and moved to Austria. Former Whalers official George Ducharme came across the piece, used as a "bridge" on a 1976 Whalers highlights LP. Ducharme liked the beat. The song became a hit. The song is "Brass Bonanza.""Brass Bonanza" is our mantra. Nobody's going to Cleveland, Nashville, Atlanta or Portland as long as "Brass Bonanza" lives. We're all going to the playoff promised land in 1997. This is the word of the Archangel Guido…
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Airline: Flight delayed after unauthorized access to plane
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a flight from Philadelphia to Boston was delayed and ultimately a different aircraft was used after a couple gained unauthorized access to the plane.
Officials said American Airlines Flight 1655 was slated to depart 8 a.m. Sunday, but two hours earlier, a man and woman walked on board through the doorway to the jet bridge and took their seats. The door should have been locked prior to the formal boarding process.
American Airlines officials said the couple was discovered during boarding. They determined the pair was on the correct flight, but the plane was de-boarded, searched and another aircraft was used "out of caution."
WCVB-TV reports the couple didn't speak English.
American Airlines said it didn't consider their boarding a security breach because they had gone through security.


text: I play tennis the only place with indoor courts. Its very rainy so you have to play indoors most of the year. This is my 3rd year. We all get along really good except for 2 brothers who are a litle older. 12. They are really high ranked and the club lets them do anything. They ruin every dril and every practice by yelling and screaming and kicking and spitting like they are 5. They cheat and argue and lie about line calls and anything. They ruin other peoples stuff. Poured paint into this one girls bag & ruined everything init. They cut strings on another kids rackett. They hid some kids rackett and he never got it back. they say nasty things about kids and tease them cause of the way they look or their clothes or if they need glasses or talk with an accent or any stuff. Parent complain but they are sick sweet to the adults so they do nothing. They cut one kids shorts in half in the locker room and mushed flattened some other kids lunch and say they are only having fun. when they are confronted they say its all just a joke and we have no sesne of humor. Kids who get upset by it are teased worse. Funny thing is I used to race and they did too. They had temper tantrums like they were 5 when they were 10. I was even younger but it got so bad we didnt go anymore. It was really embarrassing and ruined the fun so we found another place to go. Same with baseball. We waited to make sure they were not going to be on the team before signing up because they ruined it last year. The coach let them sign up after the deadline but parents complained so they were out and we had a great season. I do not want to stop tennis but its gotten to me. I tried to ignore it and that did not work at all. Other kids have stoped coming to play because of them. Have you ever had something like this happening? What did you do?


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Following a successful 2010 season where Monster Energy became the 'Official Energy Drink Supplier' for the Yamaha World Superbike Team, the relationship has been extended for the new season. The 2011 team sees new rider pairing Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty both sporting strong Monster Energy branding on their helmets and as the team's relationship strengthens the YZF-R1 race bikes of Melandri and Laverty will also now carry subtle M-claw logos on their fairings. Monster Energy will continue to have a strong presence in the Yamaha World Superbike Team hospitality.
Monster Energy continues to drive a global fanbase by supporting action sports, motorsports and music. Its commitment to 2 wheel motorsports includes Motocross, Supercross, Superbikes and MotoGP plus relationships with some of its greatest athletes. Its action sports roots are unmistakable and the brand continues to work with awesome talent across skate, bmx, surf, FMX and many more sports besides. Having arrived on European shores in 2008, Monster Energy is continuing to grow at speed outside of its US base and brings an unmistakably fresh and fun loving approach to the scenes it supports.
The hugely successful relationship between Yamaha Motor Europe and Monster Energy is now entering its fourth year in World Motocross, in 2011 no less than six Monster Energy Yamaha riders will be challenging for world titles in both the MX1 and MX2 world championships.
Yamaha World Superbike team supported by Monster Energy –
– Marco Melandri (Italy, YZF-R1)
– Eugene Laverty (Northern Ireland, YZF-R1)
Yamaha Monster Energy team in World Motocross –
– David Philippaerts (Italy, MX1 class, YZ450FM)
– Steven Frossard (France, MX1 class, YZ450FM)
– Anthony Boissière (France, MX1 class, YZ450FM)
– Gautier Paulin (France, MX2 class, YZ250FM)
– Harri Kullas (Finland, MX2 class, YZ250FM)
– Christophe Charlier (France, MX2 class, YZ250FM)
In the MotoGP World Championship the Yamaha Tech3 Team continues its partnership with Monster Energy this season and alongside Colin Edwards takes on MotoGP rookie Cal Crutchlow who was also supported by Monster Energy last year when riding the Yamaha YZF-R1 in World Superbike.


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Government Surveillance Hot Topic In Colorado
DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are pushing several bills this year that seek to limit government surveillance — proposals that have gained momentum in the wake of revelations about federal collection of phone and email records.
Some of the bills have been in the works for a couple of years, but lawmakers say disclosures about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and the long-standing debate over the adoption of the Patriot Act following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has helped spur a conversation.
"This ... made everyday people at their kitchen table say, 'Why are we being surveilled? What are we doing that's so suspicious?'" said Rep. Polly Lawrence, R-Littleton.
Lawrence sponsored a bill this session limiting how long agencies keep "passive surveillance" records like video images of traffic conditions or activity in parking garages. The legislation has been signed into law.
Other measures are pending, and have good chances of passing because they have bipartisan support.
One proposal would refer a question to voters in November asking whether law enforcement should get warrants to search electronic data, such as phone and email records, or personal data stored in a cloud. If approved by lawmakers and voters, the requirement would be added to the state constitution.
Democratic Senate President Morgan Carroll, one of the sponsors of that bill, said the intent is to make it explicitly clear that electronic data is covered by the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.
"I think a lot of people weren't necessarily aware of how much their information may actually be not private, not protected," Carroll said. "I think we all used to assume that all searches and seizures required a warrant of probable cause."
Matthew Durkin, a Colorado deputy attorney general, testified against Carroll's bill, saying the U.S. and Colorado constitutions already cover electronic data such as password-protected emails or encrypted data.
"You would have to get a search warrant for those things right now," he said. But he told lawmakers that amending the state constitution by including the broad term of electronic data could mean law enforcement will be required to get search warrants for Twitter or Instagram postings.
Another measure, also sponsored by Carroll and Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, would put into state law a U.S. Supreme Court decision that barred police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without getting a judge's approval.
The bill, along with the proposal to amend the state constitution, cleared their first committees recently.
Another pending proposal that would ban speeding and red-light cameras is also driven in part by privacy concerns. Lawmakers have also argued the cameras are used primarily as revenue generators. But law enforcement and local governments are urging lawmakers to reject the ban, saying they've used the cameras to improve road safety.
Lawmakers say the bills introduced this session underline what's likely to be an ongoing debate.
"I think what we know about government surveillance is probably just the tip of the tip of the iceberg," said Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont.
By Ivan Moreno, AP Writer (© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Stock futures experienced a sudden uplift Friday, after a representative of the Cyprus government said a bailout deal could be reached in the next few hours.
The announcement helped alleviate a cloud of uncertainty that's been looming over Wall Street.
"People like to have a definitive answer, rather than something lurking in the darkness," said Anthony Conroy, head trader at ConvergEx Group.
All eyes are on Cyprus, where lawmakers are discussing new proposals to raise the money the country needs to qualify for its European Union bailout.
"In a few hours, we will be called upon to take the big decisions and reply to the hard dilemmas," said Christos Stylianides, spokesman for the Cypriot government.
U.S. stock futures made gains after Stylianides' comments. Before that, they were flat.
Talks between Russian officials and the Cyprus government broke up early Friday, with no agreement on a cash infusion that could help the island nation secure a €10 billion bailout. Nearly a third of the money in Cyprus' outsized banking sector is from Russian depositors.
"After several days of meeting with Russian officials, Cypriots have come back empty handed," said Marc Chandler, strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, in an early note to investors, though he added, "One must be impressed with how well the markets have absorbed the still unresolved Cyprus situation."
The clock is ticking and the pressure is on. The European Central Bank told the troubled nation Thursday that it had until Monday to find a solution.
Related: Russia bails on Cyprus
Cyprus's exit from the euro, while potentially disastrous for the island nation, wouldn't likely destabilize the European economy on its own. But investors are watching to see how the situation is resolved and if it could set a precedent for larger economies that may face similarly dire straits in the future.
U.S. stocks fell Thursday, with technology stocks weighing on the broader market following lackluster earnings from Oracle (ORCL).
Early Friday, shares of Micron Technology (MU) spiked higher after the company's earnings blew past estimates, sparking a slew of analyst upgrades.
Shares of BP (BP) rose nearly 3% in premarket trading after the firm said it was moving ahead with plans to buy back up to $8 billion of stock after completing the sale of its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Nike (NKE) shares surged 8% in premarket trading Friday after the apparel giant reported quarterly earnings on Thursday that beat expectations.
Tiffany's (TIF) stock jumped 5% in premarket trading after the jewelry retailer reported a jump in quarterly profit.
Related: Fear & Greed Index slips back to greed
European markets were mostly higher in midday trading, reversing some of their losses as investors reacted to developments in Cyprus. Asian markets ended mixed. The Shanghai Composite added 0.2%, while the Hang Seng lost 0.5% and the Nikkei declined 2.4%.
The Ifo Business Climate Index for German manufacturing and trade slipped in March, as companies lost enthusiasm about their business outlook compared to February. But the index also showed that Germany -- Europe's strongest economy -- continues to prevail, buoyed by domestic spending. Construction is at its strongest point since reunification of East and West Germany, more than 20 years ago.


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Today's Wonder of the Day was inspired by Eugene. Eugene Wonders, "Which flowers are annual and which flowers are seasonal" Thanks for WONDERing with us, Eugene!
Have you ever noticed that some flowers need to be planted each spring, while others pop up all by themselves year after year? That's because some of them are annual plants and some are perennial plants.
Annual plants are plants with a life cycle that lasts only one year. They grow from seed, bloom, produce seeds, and die in one growing season. They then need to be replanted each spring.
Most annuals bloom for a long time. They provide beautiful colors from spring through fall and are popular with flower gardeners. Some favorite annuals are petunias, marigolds, and zinnias.
Perennial plants live for more than two years. They return year after year and continue growing until they reach maturity, which varies by plant but averages three to five years.
The term "perennial" refers to herbaceous ("green") plants since woody plants, such as trees, are perennial by definition.
Unlike annuals, perennials tend to bloom for just a short time — one to three weeks — each year. Examples of popular perennial flowers include tulips, asters, black-eyed susans, and lilies.
Perennials generally do not have to be replanted each year. However, some gardeners choose to replace certain perennials, such as the perennial flowers mentioned above, every three to five years if they start to decline.
Hardier perennials might return year after year for 20 years or more. Perennials have structures, such as bulbs and rhizomes, that allow them to survive for many years.
Perennials can be divided into two categories. Deciduous perennials, such as the perennial flowers mentioned above, grow part of the year and fall dormant the rest of the year. Evergreen perennials, such as pine trees, grow year round.
Some people have a hard time remembering the proper term for each type of plant. Because annual means "yearly," some people think annual plants keep coming back each year on their own. Annual plants actually get their name because they only have a one-year life span.
Perennials, on the other hand, come back year after year. Since they don't have to be planted each year, they're more permanent. Some people remember perennials by remembering that they're more permanent!
Just when you think you understand the difference between annuals and perennials, though, you should know that there's yet another classification! Biennial plants have a two-year life cycle.
They grow as green plants their first year, survive the winter, and then bloom the following year. After they bloom and produce seeds, biennial plants then die. Examples of biennial plants include foxgloves and hollyhocks.
Some plants that are perennials in their native region may be considered annuals in other regions. For example, snapdragon is a plant that may be a perennial in a warm climate where it can survive the winter but may be an annual in colder climates where it dies in the winter.
These types of plants are sometimes called "half-hardy annuals" or "frost-tender perennials."


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Low-relief silver 3-cent design wins Mint director approval
By Michele Orzano
COIN WORLD Staff
"The three-cent piece ordered to be struck at the last session of Congress was ready for issue in June last. The number of s...READ MORE
Low-relief silver 3-cent design wins Mint director approval
By Michele Orzano
COIN WORLD Staff
"The three-cent piece ordered to be struck at the last session of Congress was ready for issue in June last. The number of such pieces coined by us during the remainder of the year was 5,447,400; at New Orleans the number was 720,000. This new coin is believed to find public favor; and I anticipate a considerable issue during the present year."
(From George N. Eckert's 1851 Mint Director's Report dated Feb. 12, 1852.)
Eckert's prediction was on the money, so to speak, as the mintage of 18,663,500 silver 3-cent coins in 1852 was the largest of any of the 23 years of the series. Mintage was to decline steadily, dropping below the 1 million mark and then below 20,000 for most of the last nine years of issue.
As with other coins introduced after the death of Mint Engraver Christian Gobrecht in 1840, the designs ultimately selected for the silver 3-cent coin came from the imagination of Mint Engraver James B. Longacre. But before those designs could become reality, there was a brief artistic showdown with Chief Coiner Franklin Peale.
Longacre reportedly had shown his trial pieces to Mint Director Robert M. Patterson and other Mint officials, who generally accepted the proposed design. But Peale wanted Longacre's designs abandoned. Peale wanted to use devices used by Christian Gobrecht when Gobrecht made pattern gold dollars in 1836.
Peale took it upon himself to do just that and produced a Liberty Cap design featuring a cap and rays with the date below on the obverse and the Roman numeral III on the reverse circled by a palm wreath, with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA inscribed around the border.
Longacre, apparently mindful of the artistic tug-of-war, wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Corwin to explain the devices he'd chosen for the coin.
"For the obverse I have therefore chosen a star (one of the heraldic elements of the National crest) bearing on its center the shield of the Union, surrounded by the legal inscription and date. For the reverse I have devised an ornamental C embracing in its center the Roman numeral III, the whole encircled by the thirteen stars – I think I have obtained the object of the law – but it would be very gratifying to me to have your candid opinion, provided your health should be such as to allow of your making a response to my communication in a private way – with very high respect and deep solicitude for your health – I remain etc.
"P.S. I should observe that the low relief of the coin is not to my taste if it could be avoided, but it is made necessary by the thinness of the piece, and the necessity of adapting the depth of the engraving to the powers of the press in striking it -."
Ultimately, that lower relief was to win Longacre the nod of approval from Patterson because it would be easier to strike.
The design for the silver 3-cent coin was modified over the years. There are three obverse and two reverse design varieties.
Coins dated 1851 to 1853 were struck at the Philadelphia and New Orleans Mints in 75 percent silver and 25 percent copper. The design is Longacre's original.
A new design was mandated for coins dated 1854 to 1858 to correspond with the Act of March 3, 1853, which fixed the standard weight of silver at 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper. The coins, struck only at the Philadelphia Mint, also feature two extra outlines around the star on the obverse.
The third design has two outlines around the star for coins dated 1859 through 1873.
The silver 3-cent coins were sometimes called "fish scales" because they were easily lost and became discolored and dirty.
Silver 3-cent
Date of authorization:
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14.00 mm/0.55 inch
(1851-1853): 0.80 grams/0.03 ounce(1854-1873): 0.75 grams/0.02 ounce
Metallic content:
(1851-1853): 75% silver, 25% copper(1854-1873): 90% silver, 10% copper
Weight of pure silver:
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Skicrazer asked the Web Browsing and Email forum what to change so that clicking a mailto link would bring up a Web-based mail account.
I find it amazing that this isn't simply part of Windows by now. The operating system has had a default mail client setting for a very long time, and Web-based email isn't exactly a new idea, either. Yet Microsoft has never added a way to make that mail client a URL rather than a program.
So we have to use third-party software to work around Windows' limitations.
In this post, I'm going to concentrate on browser-based fixes. These work for the mailto links on web pages (such as firstname.lastname@example.com), but don't help if you want to send mail from Windows Explorer, Word, or other applications. I'll continue with those in Monday's post.
Firefox has one such tool built in–at least if you're using Gmail or Yahoo Mail. Select Tools, then Options. Click the Applications tab. Select mailto, pull down the menu, and select Use Gmail or Use Yahoo! Mail.
Chrome users should go to the Chrome web store and search for mailto. You'll find plenty of Mail plug-ins for specific services. You'll also find the generic Mailto, which supports AOL, Fastmail, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Zoho, or, with a bit of work, other services.
I know of no such add-ins for Internet Explorer. However, the two Gmail-specific solutions I discuss below, plus the one on Monday, will work with Microsoft's browser.
If you use Gmail, Google offers two free programs, either of which will handle mailto links appropriately: Gmail Notifier and the Google Toolbar. Both of these have other features and come with other baggage, so you may or may not want them.
If you decide to install the Notifier, make sure to leave the Use for outgoing mail option checked. If you go with the Toolbar, click the Tool icon, and in the General tab, check Use Gmail for "Mail To" links.
Stay tuned for next week's exciting conclusion. You might also want to read the original forum discussion.
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In my non-Visit Bend life, I'm an author. An author with a three-book contract, a scary deadline, and an editor who might turn murderous if I broke both wrists ice skating and missed the aforementioned deadline.
You can see why I was nervous when someone suggested blogging about ice skating in Central Oregon. I haven't skated since I was 12, and I wasn't sure my 37-year-old bones could handle it.
As it turned out, I had nothing to fear. Though I stumbled once or twice, I'm incapable of going fast enough to damage much. Not only that, I discovered ice skating makes the perfect winter outing for fun-seekers of all ages and fitness levels.
My first stop was the ice rink at Seventh Mountain Resort. It's an outdoor rink right on resort property, which makes it a convenient stop after sipping a fortifying glass of wine in the adjacent Rim Rock Bar. Since I was there with two Visit Bend colleagues, the experience seemed more like a girls' night out than work.
We rented our skates on site for $6 a pair, paid the $8 per person admission, and headed onto the ice. Though my colleagues are skiers familiar with the sensation of sliding around on a frozen surface, my winter activities are more subdued. On a good day, I like snowshoeing. Most days, I'm partial to sipping a glass of wine by the fire while someone else shovels my driveway. I feared neither made me well-equipped for ice skating, but was pleased to discover otherwise.
I made my first lap clinging desperately to the rail around the edge, but by my second lap, I was all hands-free. Before I knew it, I was gliding around like a pro. OK, maybe not like a pro, but at least not like a person with two broken legs.
(Incidentally, I learned U.S. Figure Skating Champion Tonya Harding was at the resort the same time we were, though we didn't cross paths on the ice. Bummer).
The rink at Seventh Mountain Resort is large, the ice well-tended, and the overall experience was a fantastically good time. That's probably why I decided to try again.
I wanted to offer a more family-friendly perspective on the ice skating experience, so I summoned my significant other and his two children (ages 6 and 10). On New Year's Eve, we made the short 15 minute trek to Redmond, where they recently installed a brand new ice rink in the middle of downtown.
The rink is operated by the city's Parks & Rec department, which makes it an extremely budget-friendly option for families. Our foursome paid a whopping $12 family rate for skates and admission for all of us. Individuals pay $4 for skate rental and admission, or $1 if you bring your own skates.
The rink isn't as large as at Seventh Mountain Resort, but it's still plenty big. Though it was the first time either kid had been ice skating, the 10-year-old had roller bladed before and took off like he was born wearing skates. The 6-year-old required a little more hand-holding at first, but within an hour, she was maneuvering herself from wall to wall and gliding for long stretches without any assistance.
I'd like to brag that these are highly skilled children with superior physical capabilities, which may be true. Still, it was clear from watching other young skaters that this is something young'uns take to naturally. It's a perfect family outing even for those who've never tried it before. Be prepared — public restrooms are across the street, and there's no snack-bar on site, so take care of the little ones' needs before arriving.
Another ice skating option is the ice rink at Sunriver Resort, which is a recently-remodeled outdoor facility with a nice roof over the top. Where weather might be a prohibitive factor in Redmond or Seventh Mountain, skaters in Sunriver can dodge rain and snow. For rates and hours of operation, visit them online.
As you might imagine, ice skating is subject to temperatures being low enough to actually keep the ice frozen. Be sure to check the links for each venue for hours and weather-related closures.
On that note, I'll leave you with a short video from our evening at the Redmond rink. Looks like fun, doesn't it?


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Assistant Attorney General Harr for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an action to recover the value of timber cut from the public domain in Idaho. The defendant justifies under the act of June 3, 1878, chap. 150, 20 Stat. at L. 88, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1528. That act authorizes citizens of the United States and other persons, bona fide residents of certain states and territories, including Idaho, 'and all other mineral districts of the United States,' to cut 'for building, agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, any timber or other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry' in the state, territory, or district of their residence. This authority is given subject to regulation by the Secretary of the Interior for the protection of the timber [216 U.S. 372, 373] and undergrowth, and is not given to railroads. The only question before us is how far the authority extends with reference to the specific land upon which the wood is cut.
There was a trial by jury and the issue is exhibited sufficiently by a passage or two from the charge, and the instructions asked on behalf of the government, but refused. The passages from the charge are as follows: 'The law cannot be construed to limit the cutting of timber simply to ground that is known to contain mineral, or ground which is or which might be legally located as a mining claim. . . . The law includes as mineral lands not only those tracts in which mineral has actually been discovered, and which have been or could be legally located as mining locations, but also all other lands lying in reasonably close proximity to or in the general neighborhood of such known mineral tracts. . . . Take, for instance, a large section of country. . . . There in the lower part of the map, as you will see, is a section of country about 6 miles square; the upper part indicates another section 6 miles square. We will suppose now there are found here and there in that section of country mineral locations. They may not be contiguous; they may even be some distance apart; but you will be justified, under the law as I have given it to you, in holding all that particular section of country to be mineral ground . . . . The question for you to decide is not whether those little tracts on that map there-the ground cut over by the defendant-contain mineral, but whether that whole section of country surrounding that for miles around is what may be denominated a mineral country. If you find it is a mineral country within the meaning of the law as I have defined it to you, then your verdict must be for the defendant.' The government asked for instructions that it was not sufficient to show that the land in question was adjacent to lands valuable for mineral purposes, but that the authority given by the act extended only to lands valuable for minerals. It is needless to set them forth at length. There was a verdict and judg- [216 U.S. 372, 374] ment for the defendant. The ruling and refusals were excepted to, but the exceptions were overruled, and the judgment affirmed by the circuit court of appeals, 81 C. C. A. 682, 151 Fed. 1022, on the authority of United States v. Basic Co. 57 C. C. A. 624, 121 Fed. 504, and United States v. Rossi, 66 C. C. A. 442, 133 Fed. 380. The case then was brought to this court.
The instructions appear to us to have paid too little regard to the words of the act, defining the land on which it permits timber to be cut as 'mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry.' As was said in Northern P. R. Co. v. Lewis, 162 U.S. 366, 376 , 40 S. L. ed. 1002, 1006, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 831, 'the right to cut is exceptional and quite narrow,' and the party claiming the right must prove it. The only lands excluded in 1878 or now from any but mineral entry are lands 'valuable for minerals' or containing 'valuable mineral deposits.' Rev. Stat. 2302, 2318, 2319, U. S. Comp. Stat. pp. 1410, 1423, 1424. See 2320. The matter was much discussed in Davis v. Wiebbold, 139 U.S. 507 , 35 L. ed. 238, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 628, and there it was said that the exceptions of mineral land from pre-emption and settlement, etc., 'are not held to exclude all lands in which minerals may be found, but only those where the mineral is in sufficient quantity to add to their richness and to justify expenditure for its extraction, and known to be so at the date of the grant.' P. 519. A Land Department rule is quoted, with seeming approval, that 'if the land is worth more for agriculture than mining, it is not mineral land, although it may contain some measure of gold or silver,' pp. 521, 522, citing United States v. Reed, 12 Sawy. 99, 104, 28 Fed. 482. Again it was said: 'The exception of mineral lands from grant in the acts of Congress should be considered to apply only to such lands as were, at the time of the grant, known to be so valuable for their minerals as to justify expenditure for their extraction.' P. 524. These are the tests to which the act of 1878 must be taken to refer, since it refers to and rests upon the statutes construed to adopt these tests.
It is said that such a construction empties the statute of all its use, because if the land is known to be valuable for [216 U.S. 372, 375] minerals, a mining claim to it will be located, only the owners of which can cut the timber, whereas the statute gives the right to all residents. If that were true, courts still would be bound by the explicit and unmistakable words. It is not unknown, when opinion is divided, that qualifications sometimes are inserted into an act that are hoped to make it ineffective. But the objection is stated too strongly. As pointed out at the argument, in 1878 probably there was a great deal of mineral land still unexplored on which claims had not been located, not to speak of mere exceptional cases in which the act would apply. The regulations of the Secretary of the Interior for a long time, and it would seem always, have been in accord with our opinion and the language of the act.
Judgment reversed.
Mr. Justice McKenna dissents.
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hi, im thinking about setting up my bobcat 250 to do some gouging.was wondering what i needed. how much air pressure and what kind of electrode holder. and what brand electrodes. the only portable air compresser i have right now is a craftsman 5hp dont know the cfm off the top of my head.
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Is that a 5HP engine-driven compressor, or a 5 "max developed HP" electric compressor? That will make a huge difference. What thicknesses do you plan on gouging?
You're probably looking at 3/16" carbons with that machine. 1/4" might be doable, but at maximum and maybe stressing the machine. The Trailblazer series seems to be able to do up to 5/16" even though they aren't rated that high. Yours is "rated" for up to 3/16", so eventually, you might try some 1/4" and let us know how they do in that machine.
Go over to one of the older, more complete message boards like the Weld Talk forum at www.hobartwelders.com or the Ask Andy forum at www.millermotorsports.com and do a search for "air arc" or similar. You will get tons of good info, from guys with lots of experience.
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With Arcair 1/4 rods you would turn your welder to max, pay attention to the duty cycle, and use 90 psi minimun. You might want to clear the area for quite a ways in the direction the air will be blowing as all the sparks go that way. I have set a trash can on fire at 30 feet.
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Originally posted by dredgewelder View Posthi, im thinking about setting up my bobcat 250 to do some gouging.was wondering what i needed. how much air pressure and what kind of electrode holder. and what brand electrodes. the only portable air compresser i have right now is a craftsman 5hp dont know the cfm off the top of my head.
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I have a Bobcat 225 and have tried arc gouging with it, terrible results due to the low voltage of the machine. The 250 probably has the same lower voltage problem. You need over 30 volts or more for gouging. The Reps I have talked to only knew that my 225 was not recommended for gouging, but not why, I found out after investing for the Arcair and doing lots of obscure reading. Anyway, I hope your 250 has the volts, but don't be surprised if it does not. Hope this helps, PaulMore Spark Today Pleasesigpic
You can buy all the fancy gear you want arcair is one of the more popular, all you will succeed in doing though is burning out your machine the 250 bobcat does not have the power it takes to run the process without over heating. I know many that have tried and regreted it. turns an other wise good piece of gear into junk.


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ABERDEEN, Md. – The curious circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and then release of Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother are all the talk of her community outside Baltimore, where such crime doesn't happen and where her neighbors know the matriarch of the famous baseball family as "just Vi."
Vi Ripken was found bound but unharmed in her car Wednesday morning, a day after being abducted at gunpoint at her house, blindfolded and driven around by her kidnapper, police said. He left her in her silver Lincoln Continental near her house in Aberdeen. She was tied up, but unharmed.
She described him as a tall, thin white man with glasses wearing camouflage clothing, but police had few other details and didn't give a motive Thursday, though they did release photos of the suspect.
Ripken told a neighbor that her kidnapper didn't seem to know her son is the Hall of Fame infielder with the nickname "Iron Man" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games during his 21-year career with the Baltimore Orioles.
Investigators said the kidnapping was peculiar, especially since there was no ransom demand. It was also unclear whether the abductor, who has not been found, has any ties to the Ripken family.
"What makes this more unusual is that we're not sure whether this was a (classic) kidnapping, per se, or what it was -- which is part of what the investigation is," said Rich Wolf, an FBI spokesman.
He said he expected authorities to check the car for forensic evidence, seek out video surveillance, interview neighbors and determine whether any of Ripken's money was taken.
"It's just an unusual situation that we're running into with this," Wolf said.
Police released photos of the suspect but refused to say where they were taken. They appear to be frames from surveillance video at a store.
Police describe the suspect as a white man about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds, with short brown hair and glasses. A reward of up to $2,000 is available for tips that lead to a conviction.
"It's a very quiet neighborhood and we all thought we were safe here. I walk every day with my dog and I don't feel the least bit threatened but now it makes you wonder," said neighbor Ruth Law.
Law said the case had brought a horde of media to the normally quiet community about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. All are seeking answers to the same questions she and her neighbors have.
"A lot could have happened while he had her," Law said, saying her neighbor, whom she described as a dear friend, was very fortunate to be returned unharmed.
Aberdeen City Manager Douglas Miller said the abduction has everyone wondering what happened.
"It's not an understatement. It has been the talk of the town. It's actually the talk of the whole county," Miller said.
Law said she didn't believe the abduction was random.
"Why would he have picked her out of all the houses around here why would he have picked that house?" Law said.
On Wednesday, neighbor Gus Kowalewski said he spoke with Vi Ripken and she told him the gunman said he wouldn't hurt her. He also lit her cigarettes for her and they stopped for food, he said.
The man was going to put tape over her eyes, but when Ripken told him she was claustrophobic, he chose a blindfold and she could see out of the sides, Kowalewski said.
Ripken Jr. retired from baseball in 2001 and is the chairman and founder of Ripken Baseball Inc., which he runs along with his brother, Bill, who also played in the majors. The two were managed for a time on the Orioles by their father and Vi's husband, Cal Ripken Sr., who died in 1999.
Vi Ripken is founding chairwoman of the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, which, according to its website, helps to build character for disadvantaged young people. Besides Cal and Bill, she has another son and a daughter.
The Ripken family has not commented on the investigation, except to say that it had been a "trying time" for the family and that they were relieved their mother was home safely.
Law said Vi Ripken is loved in the small town of about 15,000 where she has remained despite her son's fame.
"She's just Vi and she wants to be treated that way," Law said.


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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency's director said Thursday.
Quick law enforcement access to the contents of smartphones could save lives in some kidnapping and terrorism cases, FBI Director James Comey said in a briefing with some reporters. Comey said he's concerned that smartphone companies are marketing "something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law," according to news reports.
An FBI spokesman confirmed the general direction of Comey's remarks. The FBI has contacted Apple and Google about their encryption plans, Comey told a group of reporters who regularly cover his agency.
Just last week, Google announced it would be turning on data encryption by default in the next version of Android. Apple, with the release of iOS 8 earlier this month, allowed iPhone and iPad users to encrypt most personal data with a password.
Comey's remarks, prompted by a reporter's question, came just days after Ronald Hosko, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund and former assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, decried mobile phone encryption in a column in the Washington Post.
Smartphone companies shouldn't give criminals "one more tool," he wrote. "Apple's and Android's new protections will protect many thousands of criminals who seek to do us great harm, physically or financially. They will protect those who desperately need to be stopped from lawful, authorized, and entirely necessary safety and security efforts. And they will make it impossible for police to access crucial information, even with a warrant."
Representatives of Apple and Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comments on Comey's concerns.
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text: "Fail fast." It's a mantra you hear in the tech-startup world – a reminder to chase your dreams even if you need to pick up the pieces and start from scratch every now and then. Of course, some failures work out better than others. This year saw its share of technology-driven missteps. Some were rare slip-ups by usually reliable tech titans. Others were folks who crashed the world stage via the Internet's powerful echo chamber, got lambasted for their efforts, then disappeared to presumably never be heard from again. Among them all, it wasn't hard to fill the top spot on this year's list of "tech fails." There are lots of arguments for and against the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law that has opened access to insurance for millions of Americans. But there's no debating that the rollout of its website, where millions of people would presumably sign up for care under the act, was a disaster. Some painted it as a stark contrast between the nimble, flexible world of Silicon Valley startups and the unwieldy snarl of Washington bureacracy. Regardless, the glitch-filled launch gave critics of the plan plenty of ammunition at a time when supporters would have preferred to be extolling the virtues of the health care plan. Of course, the full-time techies weren't perfect this year, either. After unveiling its successful video app, Vine, Twitter launched an uncharacteristic clunker in Twitter Music, a streaming tool that nobody seemed to notice. Once-mighty BlackBerry watched its dwindling relevance erode to almost zero in 2013, while Microsoft learned that taking on the iPad isn't easy as its Surface tablet struggled to find an audience. Yahoo's tinkering with its e-mail service frustrated users – although not as much as a handful of major outages. And Facebook learned that being the world's most popular social network doesn't mean people want a smartphone that's been reskinned with Facebook features. Smartwatches were part of one of the year's top tech stories, the emergence of wearable technology. But by the end of 2013, none of the devices had lived up to all the hype. Perhaps spoiled by the capabilities of their smartphones and tablets, many users felt the connected watches just don't do very much … yet. And it wouldn't be a year in the digital age without people using their Web access in regrettable, embarrassing and sometimes just plain stupid ways. Be it overzealous crime-fighters on Reddit, restaurant owners ranting on Facebook or the rest of us leaping at the chance to believe, and share, phony stories, there were plenty instances of people posting first and thinking later. Take a look at our Top 10 Tech Fails of 2013 and let us know in the comments if there are any you think we missed.


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Steven Horwitz
An important post from Lars Christensen at The Market Monetarist this morning. Lars argues that many folks have misunderstood the argument for monetary easing in order to target NGDP growth by framing it in terms of discretionary policy. The market monetarists, he argues, are not imagining a world in which the central bank is constantly fiddling with the money supply, nor does their view reject the idea that sometimes monetary policy can be too expansionary. They are neither "doves" nor "hawks," because both of those are, again, couched within a framework of discretion.
Instead, he argues that what they want is what Buchanan wanted: a monetary constitution.
Buchanan was a constitutionalist. He was concerned about one thing and one thing only and that was how to define the rules the game – also in monetary matters. This to me is what Market Monetarism to a large extent is about (or at least should be about).
We want central banks to stop the ad hoc'ism. In fact we don't even like independent central banks – as we don't want to give them the opportunity to mess up things. Instead we basically want as Milton Friedman suggested to replace the central bank with a "computer". The computer being a clear monetary policy rule. A monetary constitution if you like.
The problem with today's monetary policy debate is that it is not a Buchanan inspired debate, but a debate about easier or tighter monetary policy. The debate should instead be about rules versus discretions and about what rules we should have.
Obviously Market Monetarists have been arguing in favour of monetary easing in both the US and the euro zone, but the argument is made within the framework of NGDP level targeting. We not always "dovish". In fact most of us would probably have argued that monetary policy in the US and in most Europe have been overly easy for the last 40 years. But that is besides the point. The point is that we really should not have a discussion about easier versus tighter monetary policy. We should debate the rules of the game – James Buchanan would have told us that.
Free banking types might wonder whether NGDP targeting really does operate "like a computer" give the complexities of ensuring that a given change in the monetary base will have the desired effect. However, Lars does make an important point in arguing that NGDP targeting is a rule and that debates over the desireabilty of further monetary expansion (which Lars, I believe, does not favor at this time) should be framed in terms of what we would want a good "monetary constitution" to generate, rather than our preference over what sort of discretionary path the Fed should take.
I have written on free banking, Buchanan, and the monetary constitution in "Do We Need a Distinct Monetary Constitution?" which is part of the Buchanan symposium in JEBO. The ungated SSRN version is here.
Cross-posted at Free Banking.


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Title: Hail No
Series: Hail Raisers #1
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release: September 27, 2017
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Evander Lennox doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. At least, that is, until he's sent to prison. The four years he's incarcerated, he's had no choice but to do the things that he's asked to do, when he's asked to do them. And now, if he doesn't, it will mean a one-way ticket straight back to hell.
Once he's free, it takes him twenty-four hours to get his old job back, his dog at home where he belongs, and an understanding that people aren't as forgiving as he once thought them to be. He's just about given up hope of ever integrating back into society when a woman slams into his heart, literally and figuratively.
Kennedy Swallow just wants to belong somewhere.
When she was younger, her parents divorced, and chose to separate her from her twin. Fast forward fifteen years, and she's finally getting to meet the family she's always wanted to be a part of. To make that happen, she uproots her life and moves to the tiny town of Hostel, Texas—giving her almost everything she's ever wanted.
Just when she thinks she's making progress in winning her family over, she finds out that her twin is ill, and the only reason her family tolerates her is due to the convenience of having a free caretaker whenever they might be in need of one.
After a few eye-opening experiences, she quickly realizes that she's being used. Vowing to herself that she'll make the best of the situation, she begins to steel her heart. What she doesn't prepare for is a man named Evander who sees that barrier as a challenge.
It takes Evander all of ten seconds while watching the woman on the floor, bleeding from her jaw, to realize that maybe life isn't as bad as it could be.
This woman with her thrill for life, a crazy obsession with chickens, and a desire to be wanted, changes everything he thinks he knows.
But it doesn't take long for him to realize that just by being around her, the people of the town have judged her guilty by association.
Her business suffers, and soon after, she realizes what it will mean to have him by her side—the loss of everything she's worked so hard for.
Kennedy knows that Evander is worth it. Evander, however, decides that he's not letting another person get hurt because he was stupid enough to care.
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In sharp remarks directed against his Democratic successor and his wife's former boss, President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama risks looking like a "wuss," a "fool," and "lame" for not doing more to influence events in Syria.
Clinton, speaking with Sen. John McCain Tuesday night in a closed press event sponsored by the McCain Institute, contrasted Obama's inaction in Syria to his own action in the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, which included the bombing of the forces of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Clinton said a president must look beyond public and congressional reluctance to military intervention for the sake of national security and to save lives.
"You just think how lame you'd be … suppose I had let a million people, two million people be refugees out of Kosovo, a couple hundred thousand people die, and they say, 'You could have stopped this by dropping a few bombs. Why didn't you do it?' And I say, 'because the House of Representatives voted 75 percent against it?'" Clinton said. "You look like a total wuss, and you would be."
Responding to a question from McCain about how he views Obama's Syria policy, Clinton said that any president who avoids a military intervention in order to satisfy short-term political objectives would come to regret it in the end.
"If you refuse to act and you cause a calamity, the one thing you cannot say when all the eggs have been broken is, 'Oh my god, two years ago there was a poll that said 80 percent of you were against it.' You look like a total fool," Clinton said.
The event was closed to the press, but a recording of portions of Clinton's remarks were obtained by The Daily Beast. Clinton's remarks were first reported by Politico.
Clinton, who rarely speaks on foreign policy in opposition to the current president, now joins a growing chorus of current and former officials who have broken with Obama's policy on Syria, which until now has amounted to providing humanitarian and limited amounts of nonlethal military aid while pushing for a political solution to be negotiated with the assistance of Russia, which is providing arms to the Syrian regime.
Last summer, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CIA Director David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey all supported arming vetted, moderate elements of the Syrian opposition but were rebuffed by the White House. Hillary Clinton told The New York Times in February she had been an advocate for more forceful action in Syria, a move seen by many as an attempt to distance herself from Obama's Syria policy just before she left office and in advance of her 2016 presidential run.
Senior administration officials met Wednesday at the White House to discuss several possible options for a policy adjustment in Syria, in what has become an increased pace of high-level internal meetings that have not yet yielded any decisions about arming the rebels, imposing a no-fly zone, or switching formal U.S. recognition to the rebel leadership and away from the Assad regime. Meanwhile, the regime is making gains against the rebels on the ground, with the help of Hezbollah. A conference between all the parties in Geneva previously planned for this month is now indefinitely postponed.
President Clinton noted the regime's gains and the heavy involvement of Russia and Iran in the conflict as another reason that the U.S. cannot afford to sit on the sidelines.
"Some people say, 'See what a mess it is. Stay out.' I think that's a bad mistake. I agree with you about this," he told McCain. "Sometimes it's just best to get caught trying, as long as you don't overcommit."
"The only question is, now that the Russians and the Iranians and Hezbollah are in there head over heels, 90 miles to nothing, should we try to do something to slow their gains and rebalance the power so these rebel groups have a decent chance, if they are supported by the American people, to prevail," he said.
Americans are war weary and feel bitter about the Bush administration's interventions abroad, Clinton said. But the Obama administration must do more to make sure that people in countries going through the tumult of the Arab Spring are giving "the strongest incentives possible" to steer their countries toward democratic principles and systems governed by majority rule and minority rights.
"That could all be thrown away if this thing in Syria goes wrong. So my view is that we shouldn't overlearn the lessons of the past. I don't think Syria is necessarily Iraq or Afghanistan. No one has asked us to send any soldiers in there," he said.
He compared Syria with Afghanistan when that country was fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s. American help to the Afghans at that time yielded great benefits for the U.S. in the eyes of the Afghan people. Unfortunately, the U.S. didn't follow up by supporting Afghanistan and Americans shouldn't think interventions are quick or easy, he said.
"So if we do something in Syria and it works, it still won't be done."
Overall, Obama can't govern by opinion polls and in fact must set them aside and take a longer view when it comes to deciding what to do in Syria, said Clinton.
"What the American people are saying when they tell you not to do these things, they're not really telling you not to do these things. They're saying, 'You know, we've had a lot of bad experiences with improper involvements. We're skeptical of this. We're not sure it's our fight. We don't have all the money in the world. For God's sakes, be careful. That's really what they're telling you,'" he said. "They hire you to win. The president and the Congress are hired to win for America and for our values and our interests, to look around the corner and see down the road."
"When people are telling you 'no' in these situations, very often what they are doing is flashing a giant yellow light and saying, 'For god's sakes be careful, tell us what you are doing, think thinks through … But they still hire the president to look around the corner and down the street," he said. "In the end, trust the American people, tell them what you're doing, hope to god you can sell it, and hope you turn out to be alright."


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use VM::EC2;
my $ec2 = VM::EC2->new(...);
my $vpc = $ec2->create_vpc('10.0.0.0/16');
my $subnet = $vpc->create_subnet('10.0.0.0/24') or die $vpc->error_str;
@subnets = $ec2->describe_subnets;
for my $sn (@subnets) {
print $sn->subnetId,"\n",
DESCRIPTIONThis object supports the EC2 Virtual Private Cloud subnet interface. Please see VM::EC2::Generic for methods shared by all VM::EC2 objects.
METHODSThese object methods are supported:
subnetId -- the ID of the subnet state -- The current state of the subnet, either "pending" or "available" vpcId -- The ID of the VPC the subnet is in. cidrBlock -- The CIDR block assigned to the subnet. availableIpAddressCount -- The number of unused IP addresses in the subnet. availableZone -- This subnet's availability zone. defaultForAz -- Indicates if this is the default subnet for the Availability Zone mapPublicIpOnLaunch -- Indicates if instances launched in this subnet automatically receive a public IP address
This class supports the VM::EC2 tagging interface. See VM::EC2::Generic for information.
In addition, this object supports the following convenience methods:
vpc() -- Return the associated VM::EC2::VPC object. zone() -- Return the associated VM::EC2::AvailabilityZone object. refresh() -- Refreshes the object from its current state in EC2. current_state() -- Refreshes the object and returns its current state. create_route_table() -- Create a new route table, associates it with this subnet, and returns the corresponding VM::EC2::VPC::RouteTable object. associate_route_table($table) -- Associates a route table with this subnet, returning true if sucessful. disassociate_route_table($table) -- Removes the association of a route table with this subnet. Produces a fatal error if $table is not associated with the subnet. Returns true on success. associate_network_acl($network_acl_id) -- Associates a network ACL with this subnet, returning the new association ID on success. disassociate_network_acl() -- Removes the association of a network ACL with this subnet. The subnet will then be associated with the default network ACL. Returns the the association ID.
STRING OVERLOADINGWhen used in a string context, this object will be interpolated as the subnet ID.
AUTHORLincoln Stein <[email protected]>.
Copyright (c) 2012 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version) or the Artistic License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for the full license text. In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.


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Joseph Beuys was born in 1921 in Krefeld, a city in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. He grew up in the nearby towns of Kleve and Rindern, the only child in a middle class, strongly Catholic family. During his youth he pursued dual interests in the natural sciences and art, and he chose a career in medicine. In 1940 he joined the military, volunteering in order to avoid the draft. He was trained as an aircraft radio operator and combat pilot, and during his years of active duty he was seriously wounded numerous times. At the end of the war he was held in a British prisoner-of-war camp for several months, and returned to Kleve in 1945.
Coming to terms with his involvement in the war was a long process and figures, at least obliquely, in much of his artwork. Beuys often said that his interest in fat and felt as sculptural materials grew out of a wartime experience--a plane crash in the Crimea, after which he was rescued by nomadic Tartars who rubbed him with fat and wrapped him in felt to heal and warm his body. While the story appears to have little grounding in real events (Beuys himself downplayed its importance in a 1980 interview), its poetics are strong enough to have made the story one of the most enduring aspects of his mythic biography.
On his return from the war Beuys abandoned his plans for a career in medicine and enrolled in the Düsseldorf Academy of Art to study sculpture. He graduated in 1952, and during the next years focused on drawing--he produced thousands during the 1950s alone--and reading, ranging freely through philosophy, science, poetry, literature, and the occult. He married in 1959 and two years later, at the age of 40, was appointed to a professorship at his alma mater.
During the early 1960s, Düsseldorf developed into an important center for contemporary art and Beuys became acquainted with the experimental work of artists such as Nam June Paik and the Fluxus group, whose public "concerts" brought a new fluidity to the boundaries between literature, music, visual art, performance, and everyday life. Their ideas were a catalyst for Beuys' own performances, which he called "actions," and his evolving ideas about how art could play a wider role in society. He began to publicly exhibit his large-scale sculptures, small objects, drawings, and room installations. He also created numerous actions and began making editioned objects and prints called multiples.
As the decades advanced, his commitment to political reform increased and he was involved in the founding of several activist groups: in 1967, the German Student Party, whose platform included worldwide disarmament and educational reform; in 1970, the Organization for Direct Democracy by Referendum, which proposed increased political power for individuals; and in 1972, the Free International University, which emphasized the creative potential in all human beings and advocated cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines. In 1979 he was one of 500 founding members of the Green Party.
His charismatic presence, his urgent and public calls for reform of all kinds, and his unconventional artistic style (incorporating ritualized movement and sound, and materials such as fat, felt, earth, honey, blood, and even dead animals) gained him international notoriety during these decades, but it also cost him his job. Beuys was dismissed in 1972 from his teaching position over his insistence that admission to the art school be open to anyone who wished to study there.
While he counted debate, discussion, and teaching as part of his expanded definition of art, Beuys also continued to make objects, installations, multiples, and performances. His reputation in the international art world solidified after a 1979 retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum, and he lived the last years of his life at a hectic pace, participating in dozens of exhibitions and traveling widely on behalf of his organizations. Beuys died in 1986 in Düsseldorf. In the subsequent decade his students have carried on his campaign for change, and his ideas and artwork have continued to spark lively debate.