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Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper 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Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman 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What’s on TV Friday: An Ilana Glazer Stand-Up Special and ‘Little Women’

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ILANA GLAZER: THE PLANET IS BURNING Stream on Amazon. The coming-of-age New York sitcom “Broad City” made stars of its creators, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. About a year after wrapping up that show, Glazer is taking a solo turn with this stand-up special, which includes sharp observations on anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia. She also discusses married life and, briefly, the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window” (“It was fine,” she decrees, before doing a bit on Grace Kelly’s voice).

THE KID (2019) Stream on Amazon and Hulu. Ethan Hawke plays the Old West Sheriff Pat Garrett on the hunt for Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan) in this Western, which centers on a pair of young siblings who get caught in the middle of that hunt. The movie’s best quality by far, Jeannette Catsoulis said in her review for The New York Times, is Matthew J. Lloyd’s cinematography. “Though at times squintingly dark, his New Mexico scrub and skylines are distractingly pleasing,” Catsoulis wrote. “While marquee names wrestle with characters as insubstantial as holograms, Lloyd gives us a reason to keep watching.”

JUDY (2019) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. This year’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony is on Sunday night, and The New York Times’s Carpetbagger columnist recently predicted that Renée Zellweger would win an acting award for her portrayal of the singer and actor Judy Garland in this biopic. “Judy” zooms in on its subject in the final year of her life, with Zellweger playing Garland struggling through a string of concerts at a London cabaret-restaurant in the late-1960s. She’s broke, with a pill habit, family problems and a troubled past. (Zellweger has a lot to work with, carefully.) The movie is “part maternal melodrama, part martyr story,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. “Mostly,” she added, “‘Judy’ offers the familiar spectacle of one star playing another. Zellweger’s performance is credible, with agitated flutters and filigreed touches, though it leans hard on Judy’s tremulous fragility, as if she were a panicked hummingbird.”

LITTLE WOMEN (1994) 7 p.m. on Showtime Showcase. Those who have gone to see Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” in theaters and want to experience another take on the material can turn to this 1994 version, which casts Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Trini Alvarado and Kirsten Dunst as the four March sisters, and follows them as they come of age. The cast also includes Susan Sarandon and Christian Bale. “It’s actually one of the few movies of mine I don’t turn off when it comes on,” Ryder said in a recent interview with The Times. “I think every generation,” she said, “deserves their own ‘Little Women.’”

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW RECUT 8:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This new, half-hour version of PBS’s popular antiques-appraisal show kicks off with an episode that focuses on vintage objects from United States politics, like signed photos of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and a drum used during the 1848 presidential election.

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Mosquitoes Quotes

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• A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. – Ambrose Bierce • A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. – O. Henry • Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty. – Jenny Han • All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. – Kobayashi Issa • An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran. – Lauren Oliver • And sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain. – Nikolai Gogol • Anyone who thinks he’s too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito – Jeannette Walls • As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. – James Carville • At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide – once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we’ve probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively. – Bill McKibben

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Mosquito', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_mosquito').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_mosquito img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety. – Max Lucado • Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony. – John McCain • Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it’s a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb – If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito. – Lizzie Borden • Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party. – Louis L’Amour • But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses. – Hans Zinsser • Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn’t know where to begin. – Pee Wee Reese • Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. – Bill Gates • Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don’t make the mistake of thinking that the… cosmos… gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. – H. P. Lovecraft • Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments. – Edward Bunker • Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito. – Confucius • Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers…. Think if Tiffany’s made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was! – Brenda Ueland • Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. – Richard Stallman • From the front Rdar announces, “Don’t you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?” “Whenever I eat a GoFast bar,” Ben says, “I’m always like, ‘So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes. – John Green • Gossip is the social mosquito. – Myrtle Reed • Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it’s the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern. – Darren Hardy • I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace. – John Muir • I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits – plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. – Jack London • I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you’re able to hit it, you’re able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots… it’s a beautiful thing. – Alexis Arguello • I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. – Jack London • I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla’s just sat there doing nowt. – Karl Pilkington • I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid. – William F. Longgood • I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn’t such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I’d ever done. – River Phoenix • I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God? – Mark Twain • I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. – Ronald Ross • I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. – Ian Somerhalder • I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. – Leonard Cohen • I never write a book unless I can’t help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch. – Gregory Maguire • I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we. – Henry David Thoreau • I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it’s target. – Kenneth Williams • I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we’ve had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It’s confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California. – Laura Harrington • I was nicknamed ‘Skeeter’ in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. – Skeet Ulrich • I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn’t foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn’t the type – I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me. – Winona Ryder • I would take all the precautions, I’m going to bring my natural remedies, keep the mosquitoes away naturally and I’m going to bring my DEET. I’m going to do my part. And again, it’s something, when a baby is involved you don’t want to take any risks. So I would just exercise a lot of caution and do my part and then get tested and go for it. – Kerri Walsh • If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don’t have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I’m a little more respectful of ants. – Douglas Hofstadter • If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don’t ask how. Hitch him up. – Muhammad Ali • If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids. – Jimmy Carr • If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • If you don’t believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Anita Roddick • If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. – Henry Rollins • I’m like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don’t sweat. – Shakira • In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have – it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it’s a big shitshow full of uneducated people. – Willis Earl Beal • in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes… the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation… and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation. – Elizabeth Gilbert • In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans. – Erma Bombeck • Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat. – Don Marquis • Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree. – Robin Boyd • It’s lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)! – Arthur Guiterman • It’s very freaky in Chicago.There’s something in the water there, I don’t know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world. – Quincy Jones • I’ve just been bitten on the neck by a vampire… mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying? – Vera Nazarian • Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats. – Edward Abbey • Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it. – Henry David Thoreau • Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. – Henry David Thoreau • Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. – Joko Beck • Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It’s not the monster that stops us but the mosquito. – Robert G. Allen • Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. “So they’re good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people. – Cassandra Clare • Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis – just a few examples – these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them. – Margaret Chan • Mosquito […] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. “How much longer do you think you will live?” she asked. “You are already a skeleton.” Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. – Chinua Achebe • Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion. – Demetri Martin • Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth. – Katherine Applegate • Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game. – David Allen • Mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations. – Cornelia Otis Skinner • Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me – Robin Wright • Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, … good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. – James Wright • Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that’s the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. – David Lynch • My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war. – Seth Grahame-Smith • My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death. – Francis Bacon • No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can’t ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won’t find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can’t help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you’re their first good meal since last fall. – Patricia C. Wrede • Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It’s found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area. – Laura Harrington • Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful. – Charles Kuralt • Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men. – Harry Anderson • On what bugged him, A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. – Ralph Klein • One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. – Edna Ferber • People who say that small things don’t bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito. – Dennis Rainey • Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable. – Susan Orlean • Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?” “Which part” asked Maggie. “The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening? – Mira Grant • Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes. – Joyce Brothers • She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother’s calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez • She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it. – Nora Roberts • So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can’t. You’re like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don’t know where to start. – Reggie Jackson • So, that was Nature’s way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like ‘evil’ and ‘vicious’, they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. – John Marsden • Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes. – L. Neil Smith • Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking. – Henry Ward Beecher • Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening – she makes one. – Kirk Kirkpatrick • The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease. – Ross Gelbspan • The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. … She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. – Ronald Ross • The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. – Benito Mussolini • The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end. – Winifred Holtby • The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. – B. H. Liddell Hart • The lumbermen…regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools….And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or “denudatics,” more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating. – Gifford Pinchot • The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. – William Beebe • The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol • The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken. – Elizabeth Gilbert • The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito … As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito … It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts … must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache. – Marston Bates • The scary thing about the future… there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they’ll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can’t reason with a drone. – Matt Groening • The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That’s why I love the spider – it is the only way we have to deal with these insects. – Louise Bourgeois • The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother. – Louise Bourgeois • The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. – Bill Gates • There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged. – Annie Dillard • There is one distinctive charm about fishing – its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself. – Mary Kingsley • There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once. – Don Marquis • This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito. – Ronald Ross • This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God’s Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. – Lysa TerKeurst • To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you. – Madison Smartt Bell • We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. – U.G. Krishnamurti • We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there’s life on Mars – why can’t we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people? – Jacqueline Novogratz • We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal. – Gary Paulsen • we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds. – Rebecca Wells • We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. – Gautama Buddha • We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • We scarified a mosquito. I bet that’s what did it. It was probably a virgin too. – Kelley Armstrong • Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of ‘eye-flies’ – minute little insects which try to get into one’s ears and eyelids – tormented me at their pleasure – Ronald Ross • When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed. – Mel Brooks • Whether one sees the world as God’s creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito. – Robert C. Solomon • You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. – Amy Tan • You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face. – Simon Cowell • You have mosquitoes. I have the Press. – Prince Philip • You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra) – Sherrilyn Kenyon

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A Modest Proposal for the U.S. Mint

Last week Thursday into Friday morning, the U.S. Mint conducted its fourth Numismatic Forum. The location was at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the site where the first such event was held in 2016.

Attendance was by invitation only. In years past there have been perhaps 55-65 guests. At one point, one of the speakers mentioned that 44 guests attended this year, with about 1/3 of them only participating on Thursday.

The impression I gained from the first Numismatic Forum was that it was an event to see and be seen for those influential in the numismatic community. This year’s attendance was whittled down. For instance, I did not see any attendees representing the American Numismatic Association or Industry Council for Tangible Assets, as happened at prior events. There were fewer representatives this year from the numismatic media. The one category of attendee that seemed to be well represented last week was the top tier U.S. Mint customers in the bulk purchasing program. The Royal Canadian Mint also sent representatives for the first time.

From Left to Right: Rob Kurzyna, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint, David Jacobs, Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint, Ellen McCullom, Superintendent of the West Point Mint, Randy Johnson, Superintendent of the Denver Mint, David Croft, U.S. Mint Associate Director for the Manufacturing Directorate, and David J. Ryder, Director of the US Mint.

The U.S. Mint is responsible for producing the circulating coinage for America (coins, sets, and medals sold to collectors, and bullion coinage.) The products it manufactures are specified by legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president. Thus, the U.S. Mint has limited ability to take the initiative on what it produces. For circulating coinage, the Mint produces quantities requested by the Federal Reserve Bank, a process that further limits the flexibility of the Mint.

U.S. Mint Director David Ryder welcomed the audience, then promptly gave a future outlook for planned issues. Among the plans (some of which would require legislation in order to occur) are:

In 2020, the Mint is planning to offer a coin and medal set honoring the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower landing, a product to be issued in conjunction with the British Royal Mint.

In 2021 there will be new designs for Gold and Silver Eagle coinage to incorporate more anti-counterfeiting features.

A second round of America The Beautiful Quarters is not planned, even though the original legislation for the series authorized a second set of issues.

Instead, from 2022-2025 the Mint would like to issue a 20-coin series of quarters featuring American animals

Also from 2022-2025, the Mint would like to issue half dollars featuring endangered species.

In 2026, the intention would be to issue one-year circulating commemoratives of the cent through $1.00 coins to honor the 250th Anniversary of American Independence, an idea similar to the Bicentennial quarters, halves, and dollars that came out for 1976.

Beginning in 2027, the Mint hopes to issue a 20-quarter series over four years depicting sports popular with youth. The Mint would poll children and numismatists to identify which 20 sports would be depicted. These coins would have some ties with the 2028 Summer Olympics that will be held in Los Angeles, California. In addition, there would be half dollars issued for the Paralympics happening at the same time.

Discussions are taking place at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to change the reverse of the $2.00 Federal Reserve Note for 2026.

After Ryder’s introduction, attendees walked over to the Philadelphia Mint a short distance away to meet new Superintendent Rob Kurzyna and Chief Engraver Joe Menna. After a presentation on the U.S. Mint’s history, we were given a tour right on the production floor, an opportunity not extended to the general public.

After we returned to the Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Mint Chief Assayer Jeannette Grogan, who works at the West Point Mint where bullion Eagles are struck, described her duties. When gold is received to be used for striking coins, the incoming metal is checked for 13 potential impurities. In the case of platinum that is received, a total of 24 potential impurities are analyzed. In response to a question she received about why “copper spots” could develop on a .999 fine 1-Ounce Gold Buffalo, she explained that the metal is not completely pure. When such spots appear, they almost always are a gold-silver sulfide impurity that makes up less than 1/10 of one percent of the metal.

It was disclosed that the U.S. Mint is becoming more pro-active at working with coin legislation in Congress. In the past, the Mint usually testified before a committee in the second chamber after a bill had already passed out of the first chamber. Once a bill reached the second chamber, it was almost impossible to incorporate revisions that would improve the Mint’s ability to adjust details such as mintage limits. Now the Mint’s liaisons with Congress are trying to work with those preparing the original draft of coin legislation to better meet Mint production capabilities and the likely public demand for issues.

Next was a review of the joint marketing of Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing products. It was explained that the American Innovation Dollar program allows each coin to feature either an innovator or an innovation, with the 2019 issues representing both options. Also, because these coins are never authorized to be put into circulation, they will not be included in the annual proof and mint sets. Instead, there will be a separate American Innovation Dollar Proof Set issued each year.

The Mint is looking to continue the program of randomly inserting limited mintages of W-mintmarked quarters into circulation but may revise the process in how they are dispersed.

When the Mint is directed to issue specific coins, there is often some flexibility in being able to strike coins with different finishes such as reverse proofs and enhanced reverse proofs. However, there is the risk that if there are too many such limited-mintage special finishes issued, it could destroy the long-term value of all special issues.

To appeal to the youth market, the Mint offered a 2019 Rocket Ship set around the time of the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 First Moon Landing. The timing contributed to the strong sales of this set, which is not something that can be counted on to boost sales of future youth issues.

On Nov. 14, the Mint will put on sale the 2019-S Enhanced Reverse Proof Silver Eagle Dollar with a mintage of 30,000 coins. The issue price will be $65.95. Attendees and the Forum anticipate this will sell out almost instantly, in part because the certificate of authenticity coming with the coin will have an individual serial number. Mint officials made it clear several times that a low serial number on the certificate would have no relation as to whether the accompanying coin was one of the first to be struck. Attendees were of mixed sentiment about the value of putting serial numbers on certificates of authenticity.

During this segment of the program, Mint Director Ryder projected that the America the Beautiful Quarters would generate a $10 billion profit, although a good amount of this would have been generated by the annual production of quarters for circulation purposes.

In terms of sales, the fiscal year 2019 (ended Sept. 30, 2019) volume was up 20% from 2018. International bulk dealer sales more than doubled, partly in response to the U.S. Mint exhibiting at the huge Berlin, Germany international coin show in February for the first time since 2008. Purchases by dealers in the bulk sales program were up 16% from the previous fiscal year. Tier Four bulk purchasers, those who spend at least $1,000,000 annually with the Mint, account for 84% of all bulk sales volume. Bulk sales account for 30% of the U.S. Mint’s sales volume of numismatic products. Over 80% of all sales of FY 2019 were shipped the same day.

An area of improvement for the Mint is that it has reduced customer returns and has become more accurate at projecting demand so as to minimize over-production. There was a problem this year where the U.S. Mint was not able to fulfill all would-be purchasers of the Apollo 11 5-Ounce Proof Silver Dollars because of difficulties sourcing the blanks. Current sales of this coin are in the mid-sixty thousands, with Mint Director Ryder projecting ultimate sales of 90,000 coins out of the mintage limit of 100,000.

Another area of improvement has been enhancements in worker safety. The Mint’s experience rate for time lost due to injuries at work is only about one-quarter that of its industrial peer group.

The Mint has also improved its turnaround time to put a coin into production. Where it used to take 18-24 months after a coin design was approved to begin striking it, it now only takes as little as six months.

The Mint has also acquired an expensive Pico-2 Laser for evaluation. The use of this machine could make it possible to strike coins with super fine details. The resulting issues would have greater beauty as well as being more difficult to counterfeit.

Discussion followed on Thursday afternoon and into Friday morning on potential refinements to the bulk sales program. One potential change could be to ship forthcoming coins and sets in the bulk sales program to purchasers before the release date under an embargo agreement so that such sellers would be able to provide products immediately on the initial release date.

At the end of the program, there was a general question and answer session, which included all four Mint Superintendents. One point raised was to return the dates and mintmarks to the obverse or reverse of coins where formerly-produced Presidential dollars or the current American Innovation Dollars have this information on the edge. Unfortunately, the authorizing legislation for these coins specified that the dates and mintmarks be placed on the edge. Therefore, the Mint does not have the option to relocate these characters.

One question I asked was if the 2021 Commemorative Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars program becomes law, (where the Mint is considering striking some CC-mintmarked coins at the old Carson City Mint,) would it also be possible to strike some O-mintmarked coins at the old New Orleans Mint? These were two former mints that struck Morgan Dollars.

Director Ryder explained that there is significant competition for which two commemorative programs would be issued in 2021, and he is not sure that there is enough public support for this to be one of them. However, if it does, he thinks these commemoratives will be among the most popular ever issued by the U.S. Mint. It would cost $1.8 million to arrange the striking of coins at the Carson City Mint, which he expects would be covered by public demand for the CC-mintmarked dollars.

My modest proposal.

I also made a modest proposal to two Mint officials that both liked the idea and thought it intriguing. When the Kennedy Half Dollars were struck for circulation in the last two decades up to 2001, annual circulating mintages ranged from almost 20 million to over 50 million. From 2002 through 2018, the Mint has not released any Kennedy halves into circulation, only selling them to collectors for more than face value, a premium they have maintained. Since 2002, annual mintages have averaged less than 5.25 million.

Since the Mint is already authorized to strike Kennedy halves and to put them into circulation, I suggest that the Mint resume doing so, though only a few million each year. With such a small mintage of a circulating coin, these will most likely trade for more than face value. As a result, the public will likely contact their banks and credit unions hoping to acquire such coins, which would lead the financial institutions to contact the Federal Reserve to obtain them. Consequently, the Fed would direct the Mint to strike such coins. However, if the Fed chose not to order such coins, the Mint could perhaps set up a program where banks and credit unions could order $500 or $1,000 face value bags direct from the Mint. After all, the Mint would make a high percentage profit even if it absorbed shipping costs to charge only face value delivered.

Then, should this program succeed in growing the number of funds that the Mint turns in to the U.S. Treasury, perhaps this result could prompt passage of an amendment to the legislation for the American Innovation Dollars to allow small quantities to be issued into circulation. Current requirements are that four million of each design be struck but not placed into circulation. When the Presidential Dollars through 2011 were still being put into circulation, mintages were all above 70 million per president. If the Mint could then put a few million of each American Innovation Dollar into circulation, that would almost certainly result in the public asking their banks and credit unions for these coins, prompting financial institutions to ask the Federal Reserve to supply them, which would then ask the Mint to strike them. Alternatively, the Mint could again bypass the Fed to deliver them directly to banks and credit unions at face value.

With low mintages of these halves and possibly dollars put into circulation, the Mint would increase the profits it transfers to the U.S. Treasury each year. The other result would be an almost-certain increase in the number of coin collectors.

Decades ago, it was possible to search through loose change in hopes of finding coins worth more than face value. Many of those who perused the coins in their pockets went on to become numismatists. Today, it is almost impossible to find premium coins in circulation.

Should the Mint expand its program of putting limited quantities of W-mintmarked quarters into circulation by also issuing modest mintages of Kennedy Half Dollars and even American Innovation Dollars, the public would again have an incentive to “check their change” for coins that would be worth more than face value. If adopted, this proposal could help fund the U.S. government and spark an increase in the number of coin collectors at the same time. What’s not to like?

Patrick A. Heller was the American Numismatic Association 2018 Glenn Smedley Memorial Service Award, 2017 Exemplary Service Award 2012 Harry Forman National Dealer of the Year Award, and 2008 Presidential Award winner. Over the years, he has also been honored by the Numismatic Literary Guild (including twice in 2019), Professional Numismatists Guild, Industry Council for Tangible Assets, and the Michigan State Numismatic Society. He is the communications officer of Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan and writes Liberty’s Outlook, a monthly newsletter on rare coins and precious metals subjects. Past newsletter issues can be viewed at http://www.libertycoinservice.com. Some of his radio commentaries titled “Things You ‘Know’ That Just Aren’t So, And Important News You Need To Know” can be heard at 8:45 AM Wednesday and Friday mornings on 1320-AM WILS in Lansing (which streams live and become part of the audio and text archives posted at http://www.1320wils.com).

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