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A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. (Its gold content of 0.9675 troy oz (30.0926 grams) was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/oz.) The coins are made from a 90% gold (0.900 fine = 21.6 kt) and 10% copper alloy and have a total weight of 1.0750 troy ounces (33.4362 grams).
The "eagle", "half eagle", and "quarter eagle" were specifically given these names in the Act of Congress that originally authorized them ("An act establishing a mint, and regulating coins of the United States", section 9, April 2, 1792). Likewise, the double eagle was specifically created as such by name ("An act to authorize the coinage of gold dollars and double eagles", title and section 1, March 3, 1849).
The first double eagle was minted in 1849, coinciding with the California Gold Rush. In that year, the mint produced two pieces in proof. The first resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The second was presented to Treasury Secretary William M. Meredith and was later sold as part of his estate—the present location of this coin remains unknown.
In 1850 regular production began and continued until 1933 (when the official price of gold was changed to $35/oz by the Gold Reserve Act). Prior to 1850, eagles with a denomination of $10 were the largest denomination of US coin. The $10 eagles were produced beginning in 1795, just two years after the first U.S. mint opened. Since the $20 gold piece had twice the value of the eagle, these coins were designated "double eagles". In 1850, the double eagle had the purchasing power of $1200 today.
Regular issue double eagles come in two major types and six minor varieties as follows:
Due to the less desirable artwork and therefore lower demand, liberty coronet $20 gold pieces are less often encountered, and the common subtype commands less than the St.-Gaudens' type. In 1866, the motto "In God We Trust" was added to the liberty coronet double eagle, creating a second subtype. In 1877, the coin's denomination design on the reverse was changed from "twenty D" to "twenty dollars" creating a third and final subtype for the series. An 1879 pattern coin was made for the quintuple stella using a design combining features of the liberty head double eagle and stella pattern coin and using the same alloy as the stella (90 parts gold, three parts silver, and seven parts copper). However this coin was stolen in July 2008.
The Saint-Gaudens double eagle is named for the designer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the premier sculptors in American history. Theodore Roosevelt imposed upon him in his last few years to redesign the nation's coinage at the beginning of the 20th century. Saint-Gaudens' work on the high-relief $20 gold piece is considered to be one of the most extraordinary pieces of art on any American coin. The mint eventually insisted on a low-relief version, as the high-relief coin took up to eleven strikes to bring up the details and did not stack correctly for banking purposes. Only 12,367 of these coins were struck in 1907. These coins easily top the $10,000 price in circulated grades, but can reach nearly a half million dollars in the best states of preservation.
There were several changes in the early years of this design. The first coins issued in 1907 design featured a date in Roman numerals, but this was changed later that year to the more convenient Arabic numerals. The motto "In God We Trust" was omitted from the initial design, as Roosevelt felt that putting the name of God on money that could be used for immoral purposes was inappropriate. By act of Congress, the motto was added in mid-1908.
The design of the Saint-Gaudens coin was slightly changed once more when New Mexico and Arizona became states in 1912, and the number of stars along the rim was accordingly increased from 46 to 48.
Double eagles were routinely minted through 1933, although few of the very last years' coinages were released before the gold recall legislation of that year. Accordingly, these issues (when the U.S. Treasury permits individuals to own them) bring very high prices.
The Saint-Gaudens obverse design was reused in the American eagle gold bullion coins that were instituted in 1986. The early 1907 double eagles and the 1986-1991 gold American eagles are the only instances of Roman numerals denoting the date on American coinage.
On January 22, 2009 the U.S. Mint released ultra-high relief double eagles using the deep design that Saint-Gaudens envisioned. It is one ounce of .9999 fine gold. Because of their higher gold content, and greater striking pressure, the coins are 27 mm wide and 4 mm deep (the same diameter as a gold eagle), rather than the 34 by 2 usual for double eagles and bullion coins. The initial selling price was $1239. With the rising price of gold by June it had climbed to $1339, and by December to $1489. There was no limit on the coinage of these one time uncirculated issues, which bear the date "MMIX".[1] In September the one coin per person ordering restriction was removed. The final mintage was 115,178.
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped the coinage of gold and made it illegal to own the metal (although coin collectors could retain their pieces). With one exception, no 1933 double eagles were ever legally released, although some were stolen from the government, and over the years several were recovered.
In the summer of 2002, a 1933 double eagle was auctioned off for $7,590,020[2] US, which shattered the old record of $4,140,000 paid at a public auction for an 1804 silver dollar. This piece is unique as the only 1933 double eagle the U.S. government has deemed legal for its citizens to own (having been negotiated as such through terms of a U.S. treaty with a foreign government). Even illegal instances of the 1933 double eagle could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it would be illegal for a U.S. coin dealer to broker a deal with one of these coins. There is no other date of St.-Gaudens double eagle that is worth a significant fraction of this extraordinary coin. A complete uncirculated set of all other St.-Gaudens double eagles could be put together for just over three million dollars (less than half the price paid for the 1933), including the extremely rare, ultra-high relief, proof pattern. Without the rare pattern, the set would be less than $750,000.
In August 2005, the United States Mint recovered ten 1933 double eagle coins from a private collector who had contacted the United States Mint to ascertain their authenticity. Joan S. Langbord has claimed that she inherited the coins from her father, a suspect in the original theft, but is now planning a federal suit to recover the coins after her hopes of receiving monetary compensation from the federal government were not realized. As of August 2005, the Mint has announced that it would consider saving the coins for display, though as of December 2007, no formal statement has since been made.[3] In September 2009 a federal judge finally ruled that the government had until the end of the month to return the confiscated coins to the family, or to prove that they had indeed been stolen.[4] On 20 July 2011, a civil-court jury awarded ownership of the ten coins to the U.S. government on grounds that the coins were stolen from the mint.[5]
On April 17, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia overturned an earlier jury's decision and ruled that ten 1933 double eagles did indeed belong to Joan S. Langbord and that they must be returned to her family by the U.S. Mint. The appeals court returned the coins to the Langbords because U.S. officials had not responded within a 90-day limit to the family's seized-property claim, filed in about 2004.[6]
Copper, Silver, Capped Bust, United States Seated Liberty coinage, Barber coinage
California, Gold, California Trail, San Francisco, Mexico
Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, Virginia, /e Washington, United States
Draped Bust, Philadelphia, Capped Bust, United States Seated Liberty coinage, Coin
Puerto Rico, Zimbabwe, Currency, Euro, American Civil War
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Flying Eagle cent, James Madison, Christian Gobrecht, William Barber (engraver)
Draped Bust, Gold dollar, Platinum, Quarter Eagle, Capped Bust
Copper, Silver, Nickel, Gold, Zinc


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Modus Vivendi
by John Berryman
Public Domain
Science Fiction Story: It's undoubtedly difficult to live with someone who is Different. He must, because he is Different, live by other ways. But what makes it so difficult is that, for some reason he thinks you are Different!
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By the time I got to the office, I was jittery as a new bride. The day started out all wrong. I woke up weak and washed out. I was pathetic when I worked out with the weights--they felt as heavy as the Pyramids. And when I walked from the subway to the building where Mike Renner and I have our offices, an obvious telepath tailed me all the way.
I was ready for a scrap. St. Francis himself would have irritated the hell out of me, and I'd have gone speechless with rage at the mere sight of sweet Alice Ben Bolt. The guy sitting with Mike in our law library didn't have a chance.
"What's this?" I growled, seeing Mike seated silent and staring at our caller across the big table. There wasn't a book or sheet of foolscap resting on the walnut. Work hadn't started. They were lying in wait for me. Well, I was lying in wait for the first guy who opened his mouth.
"The Grievance Committee!" Mike said in a tone of stifled fury. "This is Horace Dunn."
"Carpe Diem," I snarled at Horace, a hammered-down heavyweight. "What's Renner done now?"
"Me?" Renner demanded, letting his fat jowls quivver. He's one of those burly types who looks like he should be playing pro ball and instead thrives on showing clients how to keep two sets of books while staying out of jail.
"Not Renner," Horace said. "You, Maragon. The Bar Association gets upset when reputable attorneys successfully defend one of these Stigma cases."
"Forgive me my hobbies," I sneered, sitting down beside my partner. "But I try to win them all. You know I didn't seek that business--Judge Passarelli appointed me Public Defender when that Psi, Crescas, bleated that he was destitute."
Mike Renner apparently decided one of us had to be reasonable. "Coincidence, Dunn," he said. "Pure coincidence. You can't hold it against--"
"No coincidence," I snapped. It wasn't my day to agree with anybody. Renner's fat little eyes opened wide.
"Judge Passarelli knew I'd be in his courtroom," I said. "His Honor wanted to get my views on a point I'd made in that pleading the previous week."
"Passarelli again!" Horace breathed. "Well, well. What do you know? And two weeks ago he found a Stigma case named Mary Hall 'Not Guilty' of bunco game against the 99th National Bank. You know the case?"
Renner was too upset for speech. He shook his head, looking over at me. I didn't give him the satisfaction. Mike hasn't any patience with my interest in keeping abreast of Psi developments anyway.
"This Mary Hall is a hallucinator," Horace said. He leaned forward and gave it to us in not much more than a whisper. "This witch used her HC to pass five dollar bills off as hundreds, getting change. But they caught her at it." He laughed harshly. "And tried her for it," he added. "Get the picture on that 'Not Guilty' verdict?"
"No," Renner admitted. I slouched down, scowling.
"She used HC on Judge Passarelli, too. Foozled his vision, whatever you want to call it. When the 'cutor handed him the evidence, the five dollar bill she had tried to pass for a hundred, all sealed up in plastic, Passarelli saw a hundred, thanks to her Psi powers."
"Get out of here," I told Horace, getting to my feet.
"Pete! For heaven's sake!" Mike protested. You didn't talk like that to the Grievance Committee. Did you ever see a guy wring his hands? Renner was pathetic.
"Can't you quit pussy-footing around, Renner?" I growled. "This comic isn't from the Grievance Committee!"
Horace Dunn paled on that one. "How do you know that?" he said. He sounded a lot more dangerous.
"Too polite," I sneered. "And it ill becomes you. What's going on?"
"So I level," Horace conceded. "So I'm not from the Grievance Committee, and I'm not all hot that Maragon defended Keys Crescas."
"Much better," I said, sitting down again.
"This guy Passarelli is coming up for re-election shortly," our caller said. A light began to dawn. "We're making sure he doesn't make it--and that our man does."
My laugh was more a bark. "He can't find Mary Hall," I told Renner.
Horace's lower jaw shot out at me. "I don't like guys who know what I'm thinking!" he snapped.
I had to laugh in his face. "Who needs TP? You want to tar Passarelli with the brush of Psi--and this hallucinator would be Exhibit 'A'."
He subsided. "So I can't find her. What then?"
I shook my head. "You say it," I suggested. "Too early to have to wash my mouth with soap."
Dunn made his big pitch to Renner. "Maragon has a connection with these Psis--it's all over town that he got Keys Crescas off. This Crescas can find Mary Hall--you know how Psis stick together." Renner nodded rapt agreement. "And," Dunn added, finally sticking it in us, "it would be good politics for Maragon to do it--would kind of sweeten up the stench of his getting Crescas off, eh?"
Renner thought he had to sell me: "Pete," he insisted, "You've got to! Defending Crescas was sure to hurt our reputation. That girl has it coming for--"
I waved a hand in his face, shutting him up. "Why should I care what happens to the girl?" I said, getting up. "Just make sure Horace pays us a fat fee. After all, it's tax exempt."
"Tax exempt?" he asked, frowning.
"Sure," I said, walking out. "Religious contribution. Thirty pieces of silver."
Keys Crescas is the kind of odd-ball you can't find till after dark. Good looking in a romantic, off-beat sort of way. No visible means of support--a typical Psi. Renner made one white-jowled attempt to read me the riot act for failing to plead him guilty when Passarelli had tapped me as Public Defender. I came close to throwing the meat-ball out of my private office.
What could I have done? Sure, Crescas has the Stigma--he doesn't try to hide it. It's only TK, though, and I don't suppose much of that. Just enough, the cops will tell you, to make him a good man at picking locks and earn his nickname--Keys.
People like Crescas run to a pattern. I left my number in about ten of the spots he might turn up, and around six o'clock one of them hit pay dirt.
I pressed the "Accept" key when the phone rang, and Keys Crescas' olive face and curly black hair filled the screen. His black eyes had that lively watchfulness you associate with Psis. He had the gain way down and the aperture wide, so that he wasn't in focus any farther back than his ears. And that scope setting hid from where he was calling as effectively as a veil. Did you ever know a Psi who didn't seem to be harboring a secret?
"Hi, Mouthpiece," he grinned, showing even white teeth. "How'd you know where to find me?"
"Best place for worms is under a manure pile," I said. "I used parallel logic."
That took that smug, Stigma grin off his puss. "What do you want?" he asked, sullen now.
"A lead to a Psi who's gone into hiding."
You know what he told me to do. "Mary Hall," I added. "She's got Stigma Troubles."
"Not even counting you, eh?" Crescas sneered. He made the same suggestion again. I let it ride. "Go on," he dared me. "Make your pitch. I'll laugh later."
"That 'Not Guilty' verdict doesn't mean a thing, Crescas," I told him. "That was a National Bank she tried to rob. There's a Federal rap still to be settled. She has big Stigma troubles and needs counsel--and not one of those shysters who hang around the Criminal Courts building sniffing for Psi business."
"She's in no trouble till they find her," he said accurately, and I could see his hand come up to cut the image. "For my dough they've given up trying to find her and are using you for a stalking horse," he added with fiendish accuracy.
"So don't trust me," I snarled. "You can send her saw blades baked in a cake." I reached up, too.
"Hold it."
I stopped, trying to keep my glower going.
"Passarelli would have to be in on it, too," he decided. "And I can't figure him for a louse. O.K., Maragon. I'll pick you up at your office at about eight o'clock."
With nearly two hours to kill, I went out to eat. I still felt glum and lousy. Part of it was the knifelike penetration of Crescas' intuition--his knowing that I was just a stalking horse so that the big guns could zero in on Mary Hall. And there was that little tremor of fear that comes from knowing that a Psi may think you've doublecrossed him. They have some powerful abilities when it comes to exacting vengeance. Well, if everything about the deal was as much screwed up as the part I had heard so far, I decided, I might get out with a whole skin at that.
That was my attempt at consolation--that and an order of sweet-breads, Financiere, which is a ridiculous dish for a sawed-off shyster tending toward overweight.
I was back in the law library by ten minutes of eight, trying to occupy my mind with the latest Harvard Law Review, when the 'phone rang. Keys' face, a little tight-lipped and bright-eyed, peered at me from the screen, which it completely filled. He must have darned near swallowed the 'scope.
"Ready?" he asked softly.
"Sure. You picking me up?"
His lip curled in half a smile. "What do I look like?" he sneered. "Grab a cab. You know a bar called the Moldy Fig?" I nodded. "That's where." He cut the image.
Well, this was more like it. You can't deal with Psis without the whole affair acting like something out of E. Phillips Oppenheim. I closed up the office, turned out the ceiling, and rode the elevator down to the street.
The night howled and shrieked with air-borne traffic. A hot-rodding kid gunned his fans up the street a way and ripped what silence might have remained to the night into shreds as he streaked past me. The jerk wasn't forty feet off the ground, and was pouring the coal to his turbine. The whine of his impellers sounded a strong down-Doppler as his ripped past me, nose dropped a good thirty degrees and dragging every knot he could get out of his 'copter.
I waved to a cab standing at the rank up the block a way and watched the skim-copter rise a couple inches off the ground as the hacker skimmed on the ground-cushion toward me. City grit cut at my ankles from the air blast before I could hop into the bubble and give him my destination. He looked the question at me hopefully, over his shoulder, his hand on the arm of his meter.
"Oh, what the hell," I said, still sore at the world, and a little worried about what I was trying to do. "Let's 'copter!" He grinned and swung the arm over to the "fly" position with its four-times-higher rate. His turbine screamed to a keener pitch with wide throttle, and he climbed full-bore into the down-town slow lane.
The swift ride down to the Village was long enough to induce that odd motion-hypnosis so common in night flight over a metropolitan area. The dizzy blur of red and green running lights from air-borne traffic at levels above and below us, the shapes of 'copters silhouetted beneath us against the lambent glow of the city's well-lit streets, all wove into a numbing pattern.
"Here's the Fig, Mac," the hacker said as we grounded. I stuck my credit card in the meter and hopped out, not fast enough to duck the fan-driven pin-pricks of sand as he pulled away.
Crescas appeared as if by magic--Psis act like that--and had me by the arm. "Quick!" he said, pushing me back into the spot he had appeared from. It was a doorway beside the Moldy Fig, opening on a flight of steps running to an apartment above the bar. As we climbed the clean and well-lit stairs, I reminded myself that I was probably entering a den of Psis--and clamped down tight on my thoughts. There was plenty they had better not peep.
Keys didn't have to knock on the door--there's always a telepath hanging around these Stigma hideouts who knows who's coming. A husky young man, quite blond and pink of face, opened the door. A soft rustle of music spilled out around his big shoulders. He wore a T-shirt, and his powerful forearms were bare.
"Hey!" he said to Keys, spotting himself as a Southerner as surely as if he'd had the Stars and Bars tattooed on his forehead. We followed him down a short hall into a room furnished, with a couple of couches, an easy-chair, several small but delightful tables, and a piano. Here was the music. A blond bombshell was drumming box chords on the ivories, and grouped around her on side chairs were four young men, playing with her. It was jazz, if that's what you call the quiet racket that comes out of a wooden recorder, a very large pottery ocharina that hooted like a gallon jug, a steel guitar and a pair of bongo drums played discreetly with the fingertips.
My appearance stopped them right in the middle of a chorus of "Muskrat Ramble." I'd have liked to hear more--it was Dixieland times two--what the Psis call Psixieland. That's jazz played by a gang of telepaths. Each one knows what the others are about to play. The result is extemporaneous counterpoint, but without the clinkers we associate with jazz. Almost too perfect, yet untrammeled.
My eyes ran around the room as the four men who had been playing with the girl got up and prepared to leave. The place was spotless. Oh, the furnishings weren't costly, but they were chosen with that sense of fitness, of refinement of color and decor that is curiously Psi. I suppose that's one of the little things that annoys Normals so much. Stigma powers seem to go beyond telepathy, clairvoyance and telekinesis--they extend in some hard to define way into the aesthetic. A chaste kind of cleanliness is only part of it. Taste, I guess that's the word. Their attire, their homes, everything about Psis, seems tasteful.
In moments only Keys, the blond Southerner and the still blonder bomb on the piano bench were left to face me. Keys poked a finger at the plow-jockey in the T-shirt. "Elmer," he explained.
"Take off yo' hat, Yankee," Elmer grinned. I felt it tipped from my head by his TK.
I glowered at him. "Kid stuff!" I snorted. "So you can lift four ounces from six feet away. But you don't have any idea what incorporeal hereditaments are. Which is better?"
The pink of his face got red. He could have broken me in two.
"Just making a point," I said. "I'm stupid about TK. You're stupid about the law. I figure that makes us even."
He clamped his mouth shut. I turned back to Keys and the girl I was sure was Mary Hall. "What I came here for--"
"What we got you here for," Keys interrupted, "was to set you straight on something." I guess I looked as surprised as I felt. The impossibly blond girl giggled. "Over the phone, Maragon," Keys went on, sitting down on the bench beside the girl, "you said there was a Federal rap hanging over Mary's head on this 99th National Bank fracas."
I nodded.
"The theory being," he went on, "that the law doesn't let anybody with the Stigma get away with a thing, right?"
"Then relax. Mary hasn't got the Stigma. Have you, Mary?"
"No," she said. I looked her over more carefully. She was closer to twenty than thirty, round-faced, with blue eyes that were about as impossibly bright as her hair was impossibly white. It could have been a corneal tattoo, but somehow I doubted it. Impossibly red lips made up the patriotic triad of colors--but that was lipstick, pure and simple.
"No Stigma?" I demanded. "I know Psixieland when I hear it, Miss Hall. Don't tell me that wasn't telepathic jazz."
She tossed her short hair-do around. "My side-men were TP's," she conceded. "Why do you think I was playing box chords? They knew what I was playing--I didn't know what they'd play."
Well, some of it was adding up. Still, I had to be sure. "I see. Tell me, Mary, where were your parents on the 19th of April in '75?"
She sat up straight beside Keys on the bench, and her fair face flushed pinkly. "Drop dead!" she told me.
I stood up. "See you in jail," I said, and started for the door.
Elmer had played tackle for Ol' Miss--he sure stopped me in my tracks. "I reckon we ain't through with you yet, Yankee," he grinned. He hurt me with his hands, big as country hams. My stiffened fingers jabbed his T-shirt where it covered his solar plexus, and he dropped back, gasping.
"You could learn a little about fighting, too, Psi," I growled. "And you're through with me if that bottle blonde won't answer my questions."
"Hey!" Keys protested. "Come on, relax. Everybody!" he snapped, as Elmer got his breath back and came in for another tackle. I signaled for a fair catch, and he eased up.
I peered over my shoulder at the girl at the piano. "Well?" I asked her. "Where were your parents on the 19th of April in '75?"
Her eyes sought out Keys'. He nodded, dropping his gaze to the floor. "About fifty miles from Logan, Iowa," she said.
"And you don't have the Stigma?" I scoffed.
"Not everybody inside the Logan Ring was affected," she reminded me. "Which is my tough luck. But I am being crucified because Mother and Dad were in the Ring the day the N-bomb went off, whether I have the Stigma or not."
I came back to stand in front of her. "I'm an attorney," I said. "I have an idea what can happen to you if the Courts get hold of you. Right now they can't find you--which must mean you've been hiding." She confirmed that with a nod, biting her red, red lips. "They are after you, and a Federal rap is just the start," I said. "You have only one chance, Mary, and I'm glad you claimed it. The only way you can keep them from putting you over a barrel is to prove you don't have the Stigma. I think I know a way to do it. Are you ready to let me help you?"
"Not that fast," she said, looking worried. "Oh, I trust Keys' judgment about you. Yes, I do," she said earnestly, turning to Crescas. "Yes, I know he got you off, Keys. But it doesn't sound right. Why should he take a chance helping a Psi--even if I really don't have the Stigma? What's his angle?"
"Fair enough," Keys said. "How about it, Maragon?"
"I knew it was a bum rap they were trying to pin on Mary as soon as I heard about it," I explained. "This business about Mary having HC. There just isn't any such Psi power as hallucination, and every one of you knows it--it's an old wives' tale. I wouldn't touch this little lady with a ten-foot pole if I really thought she had the Stigma. I have a living to make around this town--and you can't handle Stigma business and get any decent trade, too."
I looked back at Mary. "How did you work your swindle at the bank?" I asked quietly.
She sighed. "Sleight of hand," she said. "A damned fool stunt. I figured to put the money back in a day or so. If somebody else hadn't been working the same racket, they'd never have caught me. But they had set a trap--"
"I thought it was some light-finger stuff," I grinned. "Well, it will take me a while to set up a real test of your Psi Powers. Where can I reach you--or are you spending the night here?"
"Certainly not!" she said, casting an annoyed glance at Elmer. She looked at her watch. "Would it be much longer than an hour? I might still be here, if Elmer--"
"Jes' fine," T-shirt said. "Unless yo' mine watching Keys and me practice." He grinned at me. "Keys is he'ping me build up mah TK," he explained.
"That'll make you popular," I sneered, as I wrote down Elmer's phone number. They let me out. It had been a pretty room, and in a way I hated to leave it. Still, by the time a cruising 'copter had taken me halfway back to my office up-town, I could relax the shield over my thoughts--and that was worth getting out of that Stigma hideaway.
It was a little after nine when I walked into the lobby and rang for the elevator. A man lounging against the wall over near the building directory raised a wrist-phone to his mouth and spoke quietly into it as I waited for the car to come. He didn't seem to be interested in me--but then, he wouldn't want to show it if he were. Fool around with the Stigma, would I?
The building was mostly dark--in our circle we make too much dough to be interested in overtime. I keyed myself into our waiting room, turned on the ceiling, and went into my private office. There was enough light leaking in from our foyer, so I added none.
I found Lindstrom at home--after all, he should have been by nine o'clock. "Maragon!" he said. "Kill your focus. I have guests!"
I reached up to twist the 'scope so that my image would be a blur on his screen. Nice beginning. I was as welcome as a thriving case of leprosy.
"I want you to make a test for me, Professor," I said. "Tonight."
He shook his head. "I told you I had guests. We're entertaining. No thanks, Maragon."
"A Normal is being crucified," I said quietly. "They've got her pegged as a Psi. I've got to get her off the hook."
"How could this happen?" he demanded.
"She hangs with a bunch of Stigma cases, for one thing," I said.
"Nobody forced her to associate with a gang of Psis," he said. "Serves her right."
"Nobody forced you to, either, Prof," I snarled. "But you have a steady stream of Stigma cases going through your laboratory."
"That's different!" he protested.
"Nuts. Now name a time when I can see you there."
"I don't want any part of it. If you're along, it will just mean trouble, Maragon. You got too much publicity on defending that TK locksmith. I've got a professional standing to maintain."
"You'd sure look silly if all the Psis in town blackballed you," I snarled at him. "Let me pass the word around--and you darned well know I've got the contacts to do it--and you've tested your last Stigma case. Then let's see what kind of a professional standing you've got."
He knew some pretty dirty words. "What time?" I pressed him, knowing the profanity was a confession of defeat.
"Not before eleven," he said glumly. "I won't forget this, Maragon."
"What the hell," I said. "I'm on every S-list in town already. You hardly count beside the other enemies I'm making." I cut the image.
As if at a signal, there was a tapping on the door to the corridor. I got out of my swivel, walked into the waiting room and opened up. The man who stood there was faintly familiar--but it was the gun in his fist that got most of my attention.
"Maragon?" he asked softly.
I spread my feet a little. "I knew I was making enemies pretty fast," I said to him. "But I didn't know how strongly. Listen," I snapped, "I'll bet one thing never occurred to you."
He was taken back. You're not supposed to snarl at a guy who pokes a gun at you. In theory it gives him the edge of any conversation. "Huh?" he said.
"The only thing that lousy pop-gun of yours is good for is shooting people. I don't think you came here to shoot me. Now what can you do?"
"Clown," he growled. "Where's Renner?"
"In bed, if he has any sense," I decided. "Make up your mind. Whom do you want?"
"For Pete's sake," he said. "Grammar at a time like this!" He looked down at his gun, decided I was right, and stuck it in a shoulder holster. Then his wrist came up in front of his mouth and I recognized him. It was the man who had lounged near the building directory when I had come in. "Come ahead," he said into the mike.
I turned my back on him and stomped into my office. Let them follow me.
But only one man came in, a minute or so later. "Does it have to be so dark?" he asked politely.
"Rheostat's by your elbow," I said. He reached for it and turned on the ceiling, closing the door that cut us off from the waiting room.
"Good evening, Counselor," he said, taking the seat across my desk from me. He looked different without his judicial robes, not quite as much my senior as I had thought. He wasn't any taller than I was, perhaps five feet nine, and thirty pounds lighter. Between us we had about an average forehead--his went up to the top of his head--my hairline starts about where my eyebrows leave off. Robes or no robes, there was something judicial about him, as though he'd been born with a gavel in his hand.
"Good evening, Your Honor," I said to Judge Passarelli. "You have a pretty active pipeline into Stigma circles, don't you?"
It didn't bother him. "As long as judgeships are elective offices, Maragon," he said. "Judges will play politics. Fill me in on this Mary Hall thing."
"Without violating professional ethics?" I asked.
"You'll try cases again, in front of judges," he snapped not very judicial. "Don't get me angry with you, Maragon."
I countered: "The shoe is on the other foot--I'm darned sore at you." He tried to find his receding hairline with his thin eyebrows. "Don't look so amazed--do you think I haven't figured out my defending that TK Crescas was no accident? You set me up for it."
"Set you up for a resoundingly successful defense," he observed.
"And a resoundingly bad press!" I said. "I have a living to make in this town--"
"Psis are still citizens," he said. "I'm tired of seeing them thrown to the wolves by the jackals who practice law from a phone booth. Psis deserve a decent defense. Without you, Crescas would be in prison."
"And without you," I growled at him, "I might still have a law practice."
"So you're helping them find Mary Hall--to embarrass me?"
"I've already found her," I said. "Feel embarrassed?"
"Not yet," he conceded. "What are you planning to do?"
"We've accepted a fee to turn her over to a client," I revealed. "I guess that's not unethical to tell you."
"And you'll do that?"
"After one more step."
"And that is?"
"Prove that she hasn't got the Stigma."
"Hasn't got it!" He hopped out of his chair and pressed his knuckles on my desk.
"You'd better do a little more research, if you're going to let your black heart bleed over these Stigma cases, Judge," I grinned at him. "All this talk about Mary Hall using HC on your vision. That will never embarrass you. There isn't such a thing as HC--hallucination is an old wives' tale. It was sleight of hand, in the bank and in your courtroom. Don't stand still for that noise about HC."
"I'll be switched," he said. "You're serious?"
He frowned at me. "She's still in trouble," he reminded me. "The Federal Grand Jury--"
"Restitution ought to cure that," I said. "Especially if we threaten a lawsuit for slander--I think it's libelous to claim a Normal has the Stigma. Mutual release all around."
"You'll represent her?" he asked.
"Would you consider it ethical? I don't see how my assignment to turn Mary Hall over to your political opponents will stop me from representing her in a lawsuit, do you?"
He shook his head, straightening up. "I don't see how," he agreed. "I hope you do defend her, Maragon. The Courts have had to be pretty tough on these pathetic people. If they had reputable representatives, I for one would be a lot more ready to suspend sentences and find other ways to help them out of the jams their weird powers get them into."
"I'll think about it," I said. "In the meantime--stay away from me."
"We're both poison right now," he agreed. "And thanks."
Mary Hall was still at T-shirted Elmer's when I dialed his phone, and she agreed to meet me on the street in front of the Moldy Fig. My 'copter had barely settled to the pavement when she came running from the doorway to the stairs and hopped into the bubble with me.
"Columbia University," I told the hacker. "Rhine Building."
Professor Lindstrom was waiting for us in his laboratory, in carpet slippers and without his tie. "Laboratory" is a perfectly silly term. The "apparatus" in any Psi lab is no more complicated than a folding screen, some playing cards, perhaps a deck of Rhine ESP cards and a slide rule. This place went so far as to sport a laboratory bench and a number of lab stools, on which Lindstrom, Mary Hall and I perched. My egghead Psi expert was barely able to restrain himself--he had some bitter things to tell me.
I beat him to it. "Take that injured glower off your puss," I snapped. "Your business is testing people for their Psi powers. Why shouldn't I call on you for help? What are friends for?"
"For a friend I might," Lindstrom said. "You don't rate that well with me any more."
"I'll try to bear up under it," I told him. "In the meantime, this is Mary Hall, a reputed Psi. Her power is HC."
He was interested in spite of himself. "Hallucination?" he said. "We don't see much of that, Miss Hall. And you claim you can demonstrate this power under controlled conditions?" These eggheads all talk alike.
Mary shook her head. "No, I certainly do not. I'm as Normal as you are, Professor." He sagged slightly in disappointment.
"Well," Lindstrom said. "This is going to be difficult to prove, Miss Hall. Merely by withholding your HC ability, you can act Normal--but what would that prove?"
She turned to me. "I thought you said you had a way to get me off the hook," she protested. "How are we--?"
"Quiet," I told her. "I didn't come up here for a lecture in logic. Especially from a dumb blonde." She started to bristle, but thought better of it.
"It goes like this, Prof," I said. "This innocent looking piece of fluff was caught slipping a five-dollar bill to a teller at a bank down town, and asking for change for a hundred dollar bill. She says it was nothing more than sleight of hand. You are an experienced observer. I want you to watch her work her little trick. If she can fool us, and not use Psi, the legal position is that she didn't need Psi to fool the teller." I turned to her. "And the logical principle, Miss Aristotle," I told her, "is equally simple: Occam's Razor. Prefer the simpler explanation. Can you show us how you palmed the hundred and slipped the teller a five?"
"You'll be watching for it," Mary protested, letting those ripe lips pout.
"I suppose the teller wasn't? It's his business to watch the bills when he's making change." I took out my wallet and handed her a one and a five. "Hand me the one and make me think it's the five," I said.
Lindstrom leaned his elbows on the black composition top of the lab bench, watching her narrowly. Mary got down off her stool and came over closer to me, smoothing the two bills in her fingers. The five was on top.
"I'd like change for a five," she said, handing it to me. She worked it three times while we watched.
"Utterly smooth," Lindstrom said. "I didn't see her make the switch."
"Me, too," I agreed. I could see the tension drain from Mary's face. She was prettier when she wasn't worried. She was pretty all the time, when you got right down to it. No wonder she could fool a teller. He probably hadn't taken his eyes off that dazzling smile.
"Is that all?" Lindstrom asked.
"Would you certify that you saw her make these switches, and that Psi was not involved?" I asked him.
"Of course. I don't want to, but, if you call me as a witness, I'll testify to what I saw," he said glumly.
"It may not be necessary," I said. "I really ought to call you, just to teach you some manners, Prof. But then, we all have a right to be a little yellow."
Mary would have preferred to remain in silence as we rode a cab back to the Moldy Fig, and huddled over in her corner of the bubble. There wasn't enough light, that high over the city, to read her expression.
"Here's the strategy," I said, about midtown. "If we can get the Bank to agree to restitution, and to sign an admission that you did not use HC or any other Psi powers to work your theft, I think you'll be off the hook. I doubt the Federal Jury will listen to an information."
"I hope you're right."
"This is my business," I growled. "Do you want me to represent you?"
She didn't answer that until the 'copter had grounded in front of the Fig. "All right," she said. "I don't know what you're so mad at all the time, but it doesn't seem to be me. I'd like you to represent me."
I watched her scoot across the sidewalk and run up the stairs to Elmer's place. For some screwy reason I hoped she had another place to hole up for the night. I was getting as bad as Renner--looking lecherously at the raffish display of shapely leg as the blond bombshell beat it.
I directed my hacker to my apartment, and grabbed the phone in the bubble. The Mobile Operator got me Vito Passarelli at his home. He sounded as if he had already retired.
"This is you know who," I said. "It's late, I know, but we'd better talk before morning. My apartment is the safest spot I can think of. I'm in the Directory."
I beat His Honor to my apartment by long enough to hang up my jacket, turn the ceiling on to a dim but friendly glow and get out a bottle of Scotch. Judges don't drink bourbon.
I let Passarelli in when the buzzer sounded. "I'm reasonably sure there are no microphones in this place," I said. "This Mary Hall thing is getting hot--we'd better start taking precautions."
"Always," he said, running a hand over his balding head. His eyes saw the bottle and asked me a question. I threw some of the Pinch Bottle over ice and handed it to him, taking mine neat.
"Here's to crime," he said, sipping the liquor. "What happened?"
I poked a finger at my favorite easy-chair, which Passarelli took. I stood in front of him, still holding my drink. "I got myself in a jam."
"You're talking to the wrong man," he said coldly. "Get yourself a lawyer--a good Lawyer."
"You're in it with me, Passarelli."
"Never met you," he said, getting up. "Thanks for the drink." He started for the door.
"That witch has the Stigma after all," I said to his back. That stopped him. He came back and poked his angry face into mine.
"You had her tested?"
"Professor Lindstrom, at Columbia," I told him. "She is slick as a whistle. Lindstrom fell for her yarn that it was sleight of hand--but it was HC. I'd have sworn it didn't exist."
"Well," he said. "Well, well. All right, Maragon. What's the jam you're in?"
"You suggested I should represent her, and I'm going to. But with the Stigma? That's more than I bargained for. You know no reputable attorney can afford to represent a Psi. Not if he wants any Normal business. Too much feeling."
"Going to duck out on her?"
"Damned if I'll welch!" I said, more hotly than I had meant to. "You sure don't seem very shaken up by the news."
"It's not any news to me," Passarelli said tightly. "You forget that I've had first-hand experience with that little lady. She gave me the business right in my courtroom. I'm no credulous egghead like Lindstrom. I know the difference between sleight of hand and an hallucination. She made me see just what she wanted me to see."
"Now you know why I think you're in the same jam, Judge," I said. "You'll look great running for office, with your opposition telling the public how a Psi foozled your vision. They'll stomp on the loud pedal about how you let her get away with it and wangle a 'Not Guilty' verdict when she was guilty as sin."
"Yes," he agreed. "It's a hot potato, all right."
"There's just one out," I insisted. "That girl would have made restitution long ago if the Bank would have permitted it. And I've been asking myself how come--why should the Bank get sniffy and not want its money back?" That was the right question. He went back to the easy-chair and sat down. His eyes came up to meet mine, and then he held out his glass. I splashed some more Pinch in it.
"Politics, politics," he mourned. "The social workers are after me on this thing. They want that girl to be in a jam. They've asked me to work on the Bank, asked that I make sure restitution can't be made. They want the threat of a Federal indictment to hang over her head."
"So she'll agree to my committing her to their care. You know what they try to do--it's the doctrine of sterilization. Remove young Psis from the Psi society--cut them loose from their natural contacts, force them to quit using their powers. It's the same technique they use on narcotic violators, if they aren't too deeply committed to drugs."
"And you are really resisting that?"
"Wouldn't you? Of course I had to tell the Bank to refuse restitution. But do you think Psi is a sickness, like narcotic addiction? Nonsense. Telepathy is no more sickness than the ability to discriminate colors, or hear the tones of a scale. This is equivalent to the color-blind and tone-deaf asking that the rest of us stop perceiving color or hearing the pitch of sound. Ridiculous."
"What is the cure?"
"We could argue all night," he said wearily. Then my buzzer sounded. "Expecting anybody else?" he said, alarmed in an instant.
"I can't think of anybody I'd like to find out that you were here," I said. "Get out of sight." He carried his drink into my bedroom.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some GOP lawmakers are taking steps to ban billboards that advertise medical marijuana, further limit where dispensaries can be located and make Oklahoma's medical pot program more transparent.
Those lawmakers filed bills ahead of the Feb. 3 start of the legislative session, The Oklahoman reported, even though the legislators who passed last year's "Unity Bill" that established a legal framework for State Question 788, indicated they don't want sweeping changes to the medical marijuana program this year.
Sen. Mark Allen introduced a measure that would ban medical marijuana from being promoted on billboards. Allen did not return the newspaper's call seeking comment.
Chip Paul, who wrote Oklahoma's medical marijuana petition, said billboard marketing has been discussed often among those in the medical marijuana industry.
"We all agree that there's a line there, but what is the appropriate line is debatable," he said.
Rep. Jim Olsen recommended legislation that would bar medical marijuana dispensaries from being situated within 1,000 feet (305 meters) of churches or other places of worship. It would not apply to established businesses.
Olson said his proposal stemmed from a local pastor raising concerns about how the dispensaries could potentially influence children.
"We don't really want children to think that marijuana is the answer to their problems," Olsen said. "Now, that's not to dispute what many people, older people say that it has helped their pain. I wouldn't dispute that for a minute."
Sen. Roger Thompson, who leads the Senate Appropriations Committee, also recommended legislation aiming to establish a new medical marijuana tax fund that legislators would use to allot funds to Oklahoma's Medical Marijuana Authority, which currently receives the profits directly.
"We'll determine what it costs to run the agency, and then we'll make the distributions," Thompson said.
House Majority Floor Leader Jon Echols said there is little chance the Legislature would pass any bills that would completely upend the state's medical marijuana program this year.
Echols noted he and Rep. Scott Fetgatter have between four to six changes to the medical marijuana program they would like to see completed. Fetgatter is crafting a legislative proposal that would address driving under the influence of pot.
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Men wishing to be fertile or improve their fertility for success in conceiving with a female partner are being warned of an increasingly wider array of behaviors and practices to avoid. Much of this was brought to readers' attention in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal and worthy of noting by all interested in the subject of male infertility1. I have a few related comments to add to the coverage of the subject by Melinda Beck who authored the very well done article.
While cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol consumption are generally well-known to lower sperm production, researchers are finding that some commonly prescribed drugs can all lower the level of testosterone needed to make sperm. One such category is anti-androgens for enlarged prostate including Proscar ® (and its sister medication for male pattern baldness, Propecia) (finasteride) and Avodart ® (dutasteride). Just because men are typically in their 50s and 60s when experiencing the first bothersome symptoms of enlarged prostate such as weak urine flow and urgency and frequency of urination doesn't necessarily mean their spouses are beyond child-bearing years. Since half of all infertility cases are attributable to the male partner or both partners, both the man and his female partner have to do their share to improve the odds of conceiving.
If fertility is a concern, there are other drugs to consider for enlarged prostate, such as Flomax ® (tamsulosin) and Uroxatrol ® (alfuzosin hydrochloride) that work by relaxing the prostate's smooth muscle and the bladder neck to improve the flow of urine and reduce bladder obstruction. There are also more invasive measures than medication, for the condition also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). And while a procedure such as the GreenLight TM laser therapy offers long lasting symptom relief by vaporizing tissue, with far fewer patients (less than 1%) suffering erectile dysfunction than with the "gold standard" transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) surgical procedure, still 33% of all laser patients experience retrograde ejaculation in which sperm is ejaculated backwards into the bladder instead of forward through the urethra during orgasm. Such considerations need to be discussed fully with a man's urologist and in the context of reproductive goals of the couple.
There are other behavioral changes a man can make to protect his fertility, some well known and others less well known. Preventing heat build-up in the groin area by avoiding hot baths, hot tubs, and tight pants are typically widely known. More recently, studies at Stony Brook University in New York demonstrated that even repeatedly resting a laptop on the lap for extended periods of time can elevate temperatures in the scrotum and hamper or stop sperm production. Sports trauma - and even the shape of a man's bicycle seat - can make a difference. One of the bigger culprits - and one affecting increasing numbers of our population - is obesity. Excessive weight lowers a man's libido, reduces sperm counts, and disrupts hormone balances because fatty tissue produces estrogen, which has a countervailing effect on testosterone production. Just as losing excess weight can significantly eliminate the severity of stress urinary incontinence in women, eliminating girth brings multiple benefits to a man's reproductive capabilities.
Ultimately, men need to be well educated about all of these risk factors and behaviors so they can make a combination of lifestyle choices to improve their reproductive health.
Nancy Muller, PhD
1 Beck M. Surprising causes of male infertility, The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2011, D3.


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JUNIORS - tough start for our 9&U team
Our 9&U orange ball team got their team winter league underway with a tough away match at Portsmouth.
They competed well in the singles and would have clinched the match if they had won the doubles. Back on court for some doubles practice then!
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District 6080 International Experience Opportunity
Colombia Project Fair (Districts 4271 and 4281)
Cali, Colombia
January 29 – February 3, 2020
As you may know, one of my goals for my year as our District Governor is to encourage our Rotarians to experience a meaningful international experience through Rotary. I am pleased to offer a unique opportunity to do just that by attending the fifth annual project fair sponsored by the clubs in two districts in the beautiful country of Colombia.
I am very familiar with Colombia, a love affair that began with my spending my second year as a college student in the city of Cali on a foreign study program. My passion for Latin America and for the warm people of Colombia have not left me over the years. I am fortunate that I have been able to return often.
The project fair will allow us to meet Rotarians from all over the country as they come together to present project opportunities their areas. We will be joined by Rotarians from other parts of the world and have a chance to establish relationships that could lead to lasting friendships and close future collaboration opportunities.
Perhaps more importantly, we will be able to get a taste of Cali, its culture and its people in a way few tourists are able to experience. I have been in close personal contact with the two district governors along with Carlos Saavedra, a Past DG who is the Chair for the project fair event. He assures me we will be warmly welcomed.
The Plan
Wednesday January 29 – travel to Cali. See the registration details document for further information on booking flights. I will travel several days earlier and make sure all arrangements are confirmed. I will be joined by local Rotarians with mini buses to meet travelers at the airport for transportation to the Dann Carlton Hotel which is the venue for the project fair.
Thursday January 30 – We will have tour options to see the sites of the city, do some shopping and enjoy some Colombian food. We will plan an evening event for the group, and while I have some ideas, it is not finalized so I will leave you in suspense.
Friday, January 31 and Saturday February 1 – The Project Fair will be in full swing. There will be activities associated with the Fair that will be available for our enjoyment. Here again, details are not yet available, but I wouldn't worry – Colombians know how to entertain.
Sunday February 2 – We will have various tour options to choose from, including visiting some historic nearby cities that have their own sites and charm.
Monday February 3 – We will depart home and connect to our final destinations in Missouri, arriving the same evening.
The Costs
The following are approximations based on my best available information at this time.
Airfare – currently around $900 per person round trip.
Hotel Dann Carlton Cali for 5 nights – approx. $90 per night including taxes and fees.
Project Fair Registration, ground transportation, some meals and activities – $180 per person.
Please let me know if any questions. Our group is growing, although there is still plenty of time to join in!
Paul Reinert
District Governor 2019 – 2020
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Trip Details
I am happy that you are joining this adventure for Rotarians from the Midwest – USA to visit the Colombia project fair. Here are instructions for you as we prepare for this trip.
Attached you will find the official flyer for the Project Fair along with a Registration Form to be completed and submitted. Please print out the registration form and complete all requested info, scan and return to me. I will group them and submit them. Note that there is a US$180 registration fee that will cover all meals and activities in connection with the actual fair along with transfers from/to the airport. The hosts will be contacting you regarding submission of the registration fee, or I will see if it makes more sense for me to coordinate for all of us. Do not send any money now.
Air Travel
There are two principal options for travel from Missouri to Cali, one on American Airlines through Miami arriving Cali at 9:26pm on AA921, and the other on United through Houston and connect in Panama arriving at 8:29pm (there actually is a possible earlier connection arriving at 5:20 that might be worth trying although the connection time looks a little tight). Based on the fares below, the United connection looks preferable except no option to leave directly from COMO.
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I will be traveling to Colombia several days prior to your arrival so will not be with you on the outbound travel, however, I will be meeting you at the Cali airport on your arrival. If no objections to the United routing, I would then suggest that you book your flights at your earliest convenience. These rates appear pretty good and I would not expect them to go much lower.
We will be staying at the Hotel Dann Carlton in Cali. This is where the Project Fair Venue is located and is a different Hotel from the Dann Cali. Be careful on this when making reservations. Below is the current pricing for five nights including taxes and fees at current exchange rates that are variable and may change, although Colombia has been very stable for a number of years. This is a quality hotel and reflects the inexpensive cost in Colombia and currently a strong USD exchange rate.
|CO Pesos
Current exchange rate $1 = COP 3,442.
There are suites available also. To book your room, go to the website hotelesdanncali.com and select the Dann Carlton hotel for the dates January 29 through February 3.
I will be bringing district banners and you should consider having some club banners to give away. I also would suggest having some inexpensive mementos from Missouri as gifts for our hosts. Please let me know if you have any other questions.


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- Be sure your weight is equally distributed on your standing foot, meaning the weight is held equally from big toe to pinky toe to heel.
- When you feel ready, lift your other foot off the ground and bend your knee.
- Hold this position for 30 seconds, aiming to reach 1 minute. If you falter before the 30 seconds is up, keep repeating until you have been trying for 30 seconds.
- Repeat on the other side.
Exercise 2: Standing on one leg, backward.
- Start with your feet hip-width apart.
- Shift your weight to the foot you are going to balance on.
- Look at a fixed object in front of you.
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- When you're ready, lift the other foot off the ground, reaching your leg straight behind you and point your toes.
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- Hold for 30 seconds, increasing the time to 1 minute. If you falter, keep trying until the 30 seconds is up.
- Repeat on the other side.
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