Month: March 2016
Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee Welcomes Two New Members
Steve Roach and Dennis B. Tucker recently joined the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). Both members have backgrounds in journalism — Roach is editor-at-large for Coin World, while Tucker is the publisher of Whitman Publishing Company. The eleven-member CCAC play a vital role in U.S. Mint’s operations. It provides recommendations to the Secretary of the […]
March 28, 2016
Boys Town Commemorative Coin Set is a First
At its March meeting in Washington DC, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) considered the designs for a three coin set—gold $5, silver $1, and clad $1/2 dollar—to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Boys Town. It was the first time that obverses and reverses were paired by artist for presentation to the committee. Instead […]
March 21, 2016
The Haitian Mango is in Season
The Haitian mango is in season—early March until the end of May. Mango ice cream does not taste like the mangoes you buy in the grocery store. That’s because the mangoes sold all year in supermarkets come from Ecuador or Peru. The taste of Mango’s memorialized in ice cream is grafted from the Haitian mango, […]
March 14, 2016
Ethernet EMI Filter for Better Digital Audio
DJM electronics has made the first Ethernet noise filter that might be helpful for an audio signal. It is called the GigaFOILv3 Ethernet Filter and it is currently priced at $1,000. It is commonly accepted that EMI causes Noise in power cables. When that power is used for audio, noise adversely affects the quality […]
March 7, 2016