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1 ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari 'E.T'. 2 game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made. 3 Film director Zak Penn showed one 'E.T'. 4 cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe. 5 About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of 'E.T. 6 The Extra-Terrestrial' that the game's maker wanted to hide forever. 7 'I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,' said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products. 8 Most of the crowd left the landfill before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up massive clouds of dust mingled with garbage. 9 By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. 10 Some were playing the infamous game in a make-shift gaming den with a TV and an 1980's game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. 11 doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the 'Back To The Future' movies. 12 Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games. 13 'It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights and found dozens of games,' he said. 14 They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. 15 But it paid off. He says they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and were still playable in their game consoles. 16 The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. 17 The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s. 18 Xbox Entertainment Studios is one of the companies developing the film, which is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft's Xbox game consoles. 19 Whether - and most importantly, why - Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on Internet blog posts and forums. 20 Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said 'nobody here has any idea what that's about'. 21 The company has no 'corporate knowledge' about the Alamogordo burial. 22 Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, 'We're just watching like everybody else'. 23 Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. 24 It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001. 25 A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. 26 An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 80 miles south of Alamogordo. 27 Local news reports from the time said that the landfill employees were throwing cartridges there and running a bulldozer over them before covering them with dirt and trash. 28 The city of Alamogordo agreed to give the documentarians 250 cartridges or 10 percent of the cartridges found, whichever is greater,. 29 Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea said finding something in the landfill might bring more tourists to this city in southeastern New Mexico that is home to an Air Force base and White Sands National Monument. 30 'Lots of people just pass through, unfortunately,' she said. 31 The 'E.T'. game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multimillion dollar video game industry that didn't bounce back for several years. 32 Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, said the game tanked because 'it was practically broken'. 33 A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably. 34 The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. 35 'They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they'd be able to keep up,' Amini says. 36 Joe Lewandowski, who became manager of the 300-acre landfill a few months after the cartridge dump and has been a consultant for the documentarians, told The Associated Press that they used old photographs and dug exploratory wells to find the actual burial site. 37 The incidents following the burial remained a part of Alamogordo's local folklore, he said. 38 For him, the only memories of 'E.T'. 39 the game were of an awful game he once bought for his kid. 40 'I was busy merging two garbage companies together,' he said. 41 'I didn't have time for that'.

cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe .

backhoe

what is this?

1 ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari 'E.T'. 2 game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made. 3 Film director Zak Penn showed one 'E.T'. 4 cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe. 5 About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of 'E.T. 6 The Extra-Terrestrial' that the game's maker wanted to hide forever. 7 'I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,' said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products. 8 Most of the crowd left the landfill before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up massive clouds of dust mingled with garbage. 9 By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. 10 Some were playing the infamous game in a make-shift gaming den with a TV and an 1980's game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. 11 doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the 'Back To The Future' movies. 12 Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games. 13 'It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights and found dozens of games,' he said. 14 They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. 15 But it paid off. He says they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and were still playable in their game consoles. 16 The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. 17 The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s. 18 Xbox Entertainment Studios is one of the companies developing the film, which is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft's Xbox game consoles. 19 Whether - and most importantly, why - Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on Internet blog posts and forums. 20 Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said 'nobody here has any idea what that's about'. 21 The company has no 'corporate knowledge' about the Alamogordo burial. 22 Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, 'We're just watching like everybody else'. 23 Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. 24 It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001. 25 A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. 26 An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 80 miles south of Alamogordo. 27 Local news reports from the time said that the landfill employees were throwing cartridges there and running a bulldozer over them before covering them with dirt and trash. 28 The city of Alamogordo agreed to give the documentarians 250 cartridges or 10 percent of the cartridges found, whichever is greater,. 29 Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea said finding something in the landfill might bring more tourists to this city in southeastern New Mexico that is home to an Air Force base and White Sands National Monument. 30 'Lots of people just pass through, unfortunately,' she said. 31 The 'E.T'. game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multimillion dollar video game industry that didn't bounce back for several years. 32 Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, said the game tanked because 'it was practically broken'. 33 A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably. 34 The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. 35 'They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they'd be able to keep up,' Amini says. 36 Joe Lewandowski, who became manager of the 300-acre landfill a few months after the cartridge dump and has been a consultant for the documentarians, told The Associated Press that they used old photographs and dug exploratory wells to find the actual burial site. 37 The incidents following the burial remained a part of Alamogordo's local folklore, he said. 38 For him, the only memories of 'E.T'. 39 the game were of an awful game he once bought for his kid. 40 'I was busy merging two garbage companies together,' he said. 41 'I didn't have time for that'.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete - covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of " E . T .

discarded copies

Is this some conspiracy or something?

1 ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari 'E.T'. 2 game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made. 3 Film director Zak Penn showed one 'E.T'. 4 cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe. 5 About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of 'E.T. 6 The Extra-Terrestrial' that the game's maker wanted to hide forever. 7 'I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,' said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products. 8 Most of the crowd left the landfill before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up massive clouds of dust mingled with garbage. 9 By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. 10 Some were playing the infamous game in a make-shift gaming den with a TV and an 1980's game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. 11 doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the 'Back To The Future' movies. 12 Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games. 13 'It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights and found dozens of games,' he said. 14 They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. 15 But it paid off. He says they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and were still playable in their game consoles. 16 The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. 17 The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s. 18 Xbox Entertainment Studios is one of the companies developing the film, which is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft's Xbox game consoles. 19 Whether - and most importantly, why - Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on Internet blog posts and forums. 20 Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said 'nobody here has any idea what that's about'. 21 The company has no 'corporate knowledge' about the Alamogordo burial. 22 Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, 'We're just watching like everybody else'. 23 Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. 24 It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001. 25 A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. 26 An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 80 miles south of Alamogordo. 27 Local news reports from the time said that the landfill employees were throwing cartridges there and running a bulldozer over them before covering them with dirt and trash. 28 The city of Alamogordo agreed to give the documentarians 250 cartridges or 10 percent of the cartridges found, whichever is greater,. 29 Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea said finding something in the landfill might bring more tourists to this city in southeastern New Mexico that is home to an Air Force base and White Sands National Monument. 30 'Lots of people just pass through, unfortunately,' she said. 31 The 'E.T'. game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multimillion dollar video game industry that didn't bounce back for several years. 32 Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, said the game tanked because 'it was practically broken'. 33 A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably. 34 The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. 35 'They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they'd be able to keep up,' Amini says. 36 Joe Lewandowski, who became manager of the 300-acre landfill a few months after the cartridge dump and has been a consultant for the documentarians, told The Associated Press that they used old photographs and dug exploratory wells to find the actual burial site. 37 The incidents following the burial remained a part of Alamogordo's local folklore, he said. 38 For him, the only memories of 'E.T'. 39 the game were of an awful game he once bought for his kid. 40 'I was busy merging two garbage companies together,' he said. 41 'I didn't have time for that'.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete - covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of " E . T .

copies

When did Atari release \"E.T.\"?

1 ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari 'E.T'. 2 game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made. 3 Film director Zak Penn showed one 'E.T'. 4 cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe. 5 About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of 'E.T. 6 The Extra-Terrestrial' that the game's maker wanted to hide forever. 7 'I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,' said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products. 8 Most of the crowd left the landfill before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up massive clouds of dust mingled with garbage. 9 By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. 10 Some were playing the infamous game in a make-shift gaming den with a TV and an 1980's game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. 11 doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the 'Back To The Future' movies. 12 Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games. 13 'It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights and found dozens of games,' he said. 14 They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. 15 But it paid off. He says they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and were still playable in their game consoles. 16 The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. 17 The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s. 18 Xbox Entertainment Studios is one of the companies developing the film, which is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft's Xbox game consoles. 19 Whether - and most importantly, why - Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on Internet blog posts and forums. 20 Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said 'nobody here has any idea what that's about'. 21 The company has no 'corporate knowledge' about the Alamogordo burial. 22 Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, 'We're just watching like everybody else'. 23 Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. 24 It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001. 25 A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. 26 An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 80 miles south of Alamogordo. 27 Local news reports from the time said that the landfill employees were throwing cartridges there and running a bulldozer over them before covering them with dirt and trash. 28 The city of Alamogordo agreed to give the documentarians 250 cartridges or 10 percent of the cartridges found, whichever is greater,. 29 Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea said finding something in the landfill might bring more tourists to this city in southeastern New Mexico that is home to an Air Force base and White Sands National Monument. 30 'Lots of people just pass through, unfortunately,' she said. 31 The 'E.T'. game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multimillion dollar video game industry that didn't bounce back for several years. 32 Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, said the game tanked because 'it was practically broken'. 33 A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably. 34 The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. 35 'They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they'd be able to keep up,' Amini says. 36 Joe Lewandowski, who became manager of the 300-acre landfill a few months after the cartridge dump and has been a consultant for the documentarians, told The Associated Press that they used old photographs and dug exploratory wells to find the actual burial site. 37 The incidents following the burial remained a part of Alamogordo's local folklore, he said. 38 For him, the only memories of 'E.T'. 39 the game were of an awful game he once bought for his kid. 40 'I was busy merging two garbage companies together,' he said. 41 'I didn't have time for that'.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete - covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of " E . T .

in search of up to a million discarded copies

Why were so many thrown out at this one site?

1 FRESNO, Calif. - Fifteen years ago, there were just 105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep across their namesake mountain range. 2 Today, they number more than 500. And just last month, four rams and 10 ewes, nine of which were pregnant, were helicoptered into Big Arroyo Canyon, high in the mountains about 10 miles east of Lodgepole in Sequoia National Park. 3 That marks a dual milestone - it's the first time bighorn sheep have settled in the Great Western Divide in more than 100 years while also proving that human intervention can bring the species back from the brink of extinction. 4 'This shows that recovery is actually feasible and possible,' says Daniel Gammons, biologist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 5 'Most species that end up on the endangered species list don't ever come off, and there's a real opportunity here to see success'. 6 It's taken more than a decade of research to make it happen, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and the U.S. 7 Fish and Wildlife Service all involved in the recovery. 8 The Sierra Nevada bighorns once numbered in the thousands before settlers started crossing the mountain range in the 1800s, bringing disease and hunting that nearly wiped out the sheep. 9 In 1971, Sierra Nevada bighorns were one of the first animals listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. 10 In 2000, the federal government added the bighorns to its endangered lists. 11 'There was a lot of concern about extinction,' says state biologist Tom Stephenson, the recovery project leader. 12 'But with some good fortune and the combination of the right recovery efforts, it's gone as well as anybody could've imagined'. 13 Teams of biologists and volunteers in 2000 began their research, and in 2007 started reintroducing the Sierra Nevada bighorn by dispersing them into herds along the Sierra's crest. 14 The agencies designated 16 areas for the bighorns with the initial goal of repopulating 12 of them. 15 The new Big Arroyo herd that was established in March near Lodgepole is the 10th and next on the list are Laurel Creek on the southern end of Sequoia National Park and Taboose Creek on the eastern border of Kings Canyon National Park. 16 The two parks fully enclose or share a border with 10 of the 16 areas covering about 22 percent of all designated critical habitat across the Sierra, Gammons said. 17 Recovery efforts date back to the 1970s when the bighorn population declined to one area - Wheeler Ridge on the northern edge of Kings Canyon. 18 The herd became the source population for recovery efforts in the 1970s and 1980s that introduced sheep to Mono Basin east of Yosemite and Mount Baxter and Mount Williamson east of Kings Canyon and Sequoia. 19 Now, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, agencies take a few animals from four source herds that can support removal to create new herds. 20 Stephenson says that because ewes only birth one lamb per year, he believes it will be another decade before 12 herds are repopulated. 21 Currently, the estimated 500-plus bighorn sheep are roughly half females and half males. 22 The goal is to have 305 adult and yearling females among the entire population. 23 Spotting a bighorn in the wild is like finding a needle in a haystack. 24 They're masters of disguise, blending in with the rocky and snowy mountainsides of the high country with camouflage-like fur. 25 Bighorns use stellar vision to spot predators and then use the rugged terrain as a means of escape. 26 They can live anywhere from 11,000-14,000 feet in the warmer months, Stephenson says. 27 During the coldest months, the sheep may migrate to as low as 6,000 feet. 28 Because of the remoteness of the habitat, Stephenson and his team hike into the backcountry to monitor populations and fly in helicopters around mountaintops to capture the animals with net guns. 29 Each bighorn is captured individually to be examined, fitted with a collar transmitter and then placed in a box to be flown to a specific herd. 30 There are some concerns about ongoing drought; one in the mid-1990s significantly cut into the population. 31 But Stephenson and his team are hopeful that by spreading out the herds the sheep will survive and continue to grow in numbers. 32 Recreation has not been affected by the project, says Dana Dierkes, spokeswoman for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, though regular sheep grazing in national forests has been banned to ensure the health and survival of the bighorn. 33 It's already prohibited in national parks. 34 Grazing sheep have sometimes introduced disease into herds, with bighorn falling victim to pinkeye, pneumonia and other ailments.

FRESNO , Calif . - Fifteen years ago , there were just 105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep across their namesake mountain range .

105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep

Why were there so few?

1 FRESNO, Calif. - Fifteen years ago, there were just 105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep across their namesake mountain range. 2 Today, they number more than 500. And just last month, four rams and 10 ewes, nine of which were pregnant, were helicoptered into Big Arroyo Canyon, high in the mountains about 10 miles east of Lodgepole in Sequoia National Park. 3 That marks a dual milestone - it's the first time bighorn sheep have settled in the Great Western Divide in more than 100 years while also proving that human intervention can bring the species back from the brink of extinction. 4 'This shows that recovery is actually feasible and possible,' says Daniel Gammons, biologist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 5 'Most species that end up on the endangered species list don't ever come off, and there's a real opportunity here to see success'. 6 It's taken more than a decade of research to make it happen, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and the U.S. 7 Fish and Wildlife Service all involved in the recovery. 8 The Sierra Nevada bighorns once numbered in the thousands before settlers started crossing the mountain range in the 1800s, bringing disease and hunting that nearly wiped out the sheep. 9 In 1971, Sierra Nevada bighorns were one of the first animals listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. 10 In 2000, the federal government added the bighorns to its endangered lists. 11 'There was a lot of concern about extinction,' says state biologist Tom Stephenson, the recovery project leader. 12 'But with some good fortune and the combination of the right recovery efforts, it's gone as well as anybody could've imagined'. 13 Teams of biologists and volunteers in 2000 began their research, and in 2007 started reintroducing the Sierra Nevada bighorn by dispersing them into herds along the Sierra's crest. 14 The agencies designated 16 areas for the bighorns with the initial goal of repopulating 12 of them. 15 The new Big Arroyo herd that was established in March near Lodgepole is the 10th and next on the list are Laurel Creek on the southern end of Sequoia National Park and Taboose Creek on the eastern border of Kings Canyon National Park. 16 The two parks fully enclose or share a border with 10 of the 16 areas covering about 22 percent of all designated critical habitat across the Sierra, Gammons said. 17 Recovery efforts date back to the 1970s when the bighorn population declined to one area - Wheeler Ridge on the northern edge of Kings Canyon. 18 The herd became the source population for recovery efforts in the 1970s and 1980s that introduced sheep to Mono Basin east of Yosemite and Mount Baxter and Mount Williamson east of Kings Canyon and Sequoia. 19 Now, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, agencies take a few animals from four source herds that can support removal to create new herds. 20 Stephenson says that because ewes only birth one lamb per year, he believes it will be another decade before 12 herds are repopulated. 21 Currently, the estimated 500-plus bighorn sheep are roughly half females and half males. 22 The goal is to have 305 adult and yearling females among the entire population. 23 Spotting a bighorn in the wild is like finding a needle in a haystack. 24 They're masters of disguise, blending in with the rocky and snowy mountainsides of the high country with camouflage-like fur. 25 Bighorns use stellar vision to spot predators and then use the rugged terrain as a means of escape. 26 They can live anywhere from 11,000-14,000 feet in the warmer months, Stephenson says. 27 During the coldest months, the sheep may migrate to as low as 6,000 feet. 28 Because of the remoteness of the habitat, Stephenson and his team hike into the backcountry to monitor populations and fly in helicopters around mountaintops to capture the animals with net guns. 29 Each bighorn is captured individually to be examined, fitted with a collar transmitter and then placed in a box to be flown to a specific herd. 30 There are some concerns about ongoing drought; one in the mid-1990s significantly cut into the population. 31 But Stephenson and his team are hopeful that by spreading out the herds the sheep will survive and continue to grow in numbers. 32 Recreation has not been affected by the project, says Dana Dierkes, spokeswoman for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, though regular sheep grazing in national forests has been banned to ensure the health and survival of the bighorn. 33 It's already prohibited in national parks. 34 Grazing sheep have sometimes introduced disease into herds, with bighorn falling victim to pinkeye, pneumonia and other ailments.

" This shows that recovery is actually feasible and possible , " says Daniel Gammons , biologist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks .

recovery

Recovery done by who?

1 FRESNO, Calif. - Fifteen years ago, there were just 105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep across their namesake mountain range. 2 Today, they number more than 500. And just last month, four rams and 10 ewes, nine of which were pregnant, were helicoptered into Big Arroyo Canyon, high in the mountains about 10 miles east of Lodgepole in Sequoia National Park. 3 That marks a dual milestone - it's the first time bighorn sheep have settled in the Great Western Divide in more than 100 years while also proving that human intervention can bring the species back from the brink of extinction. 4 'This shows that recovery is actually feasible and possible,' says Daniel Gammons, biologist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 5 'Most species that end up on the endangered species list don't ever come off, and there's a real opportunity here to see success'. 6 It's taken more than a decade of research to make it happen, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and the U.S. 7 Fish and Wildlife Service all involved in the recovery. 8 The Sierra Nevada bighorns once numbered in the thousands before settlers started crossing the mountain range in the 1800s, bringing disease and hunting that nearly wiped out the sheep. 9 In 1971, Sierra Nevada bighorns were one of the first animals listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. 10 In 2000, the federal government added the bighorns to its endangered lists. 11 'There was a lot of concern about extinction,' says state biologist Tom Stephenson, the recovery project leader. 12 'But with some good fortune and the combination of the right recovery efforts, it's gone as well as anybody could've imagined'. 13 Teams of biologists and volunteers in 2000 began their research, and in 2007 started reintroducing the Sierra Nevada bighorn by dispersing them into herds along the Sierra's crest. 14 The agencies designated 16 areas for the bighorns with the initial goal of repopulating 12 of them. 15 The new Big Arroyo herd that was established in March near Lodgepole is the 10th and next on the list are Laurel Creek on the southern end of Sequoia National Park and Taboose Creek on the eastern border of Kings Canyon National Park. 16 The two parks fully enclose or share a border with 10 of the 16 areas covering about 22 percent of all designated critical habitat across the Sierra, Gammons said. 17 Recovery efforts date back to the 1970s when the bighorn population declined to one area - Wheeler Ridge on the northern edge of Kings Canyon. 18 The herd became the source population for recovery efforts in the 1970s and 1980s that introduced sheep to Mono Basin east of Yosemite and Mount Baxter and Mount Williamson east of Kings Canyon and Sequoia. 19 Now, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, agencies take a few animals from four source herds that can support removal to create new herds. 20 Stephenson says that because ewes only birth one lamb per year, he believes it will be another decade before 12 herds are repopulated. 21 Currently, the estimated 500-plus bighorn sheep are roughly half females and half males. 22 The goal is to have 305 adult and yearling females among the entire population. 23 Spotting a bighorn in the wild is like finding a needle in a haystack. 24 They're masters of disguise, blending in with the rocky and snowy mountainsides of the high country with camouflage-like fur. 25 Bighorns use stellar vision to spot predators and then use the rugged terrain as a means of escape. 26 They can live anywhere from 11,000-14,000 feet in the warmer months, Stephenson says. 27 During the coldest months, the sheep may migrate to as low as 6,000 feet. 28 Because of the remoteness of the habitat, Stephenson and his team hike into the backcountry to monitor populations and fly in helicopters around mountaintops to capture the animals with net guns. 29 Each bighorn is captured individually to be examined, fitted with a collar transmitter and then placed in a box to be flown to a specific herd. 30 There are some concerns about ongoing drought; one in the mid-1990s significantly cut into the population. 31 But Stephenson and his team are hopeful that by spreading out the herds the sheep will survive and continue to grow in numbers. 32 Recreation has not been affected by the project, says Dana Dierkes, spokeswoman for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, though regular sheep grazing in national forests has been banned to ensure the health and survival of the bighorn. 33 It's already prohibited in national parks. 34 Grazing sheep have sometimes introduced disease into herds, with bighorn falling victim to pinkeye, pneumonia and other ailments.

" Most species that end up on the endangered species list don ' t ever come off , and there ' s a real opportunity here to see success " .

real opportunity

How long is the plan?

1 FRESNO, Calif. - Fifteen years ago, there were just 105 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep across their namesake mountain range. 2 Today, they number more than 500. And just last month, four rams and 10 ewes, nine of which were pregnant, were helicoptered into Big Arroyo Canyon, high in the mountains about 10 miles east of Lodgepole in Sequoia National Park. 3 That marks a dual milestone - it's the first time bighorn sheep have settled in the Great Western Divide in more than 100 years while also proving that human intervention can bring the species back from the brink of extinction. 4 'This shows that recovery is actually feasible and possible,' says Daniel Gammons, biologist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 5 'Most species that end up on the endangered species list don't ever come off, and there's a real opportunity here to see success'. 6 It's taken more than a decade of research to make it happen, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and the U.S. 7 Fish and Wildlife Service all involved in the recovery. 8 The Sierra Nevada bighorns once numbered in the thousands before settlers started crossing the mountain range in the 1800s, bringing disease and hunting that nearly wiped out the sheep. 9 In 1971, Sierra Nevada bighorns were one of the first animals listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. 10 In 2000, the federal government added the bighorns to its endangered lists. 11 'There was a lot of concern about extinction,' says state biologist Tom Stephenson, the recovery project leader. 12 'But with some good fortune and the combination of the right recovery efforts, it's gone as well as anybody could've imagined'. 13 Teams of biologists and volunteers in 2000 began their research, and in 2007 started reintroducing the Sierra Nevada bighorn by dispersing them into herds along the Sierra's crest. 14 The agencies designated 16 areas for the bighorns with the initial goal of repopulating 12 of them. 15 The new Big Arroyo herd that was established in March near Lodgepole is the 10th and next on the list are Laurel Creek on the southern end of Sequoia National Park and Taboose Creek on the eastern border of Kings Canyon National Park. 16 The two parks fully enclose or share a border with 10 of the 16 areas covering about 22 percent of all designated critical habitat across the Sierra, Gammons said. 17 Recovery efforts date back to the 1970s when the bighorn population declined to one area - Wheeler Ridge on the northern edge of Kings Canyon. 18 The herd became the source population for recovery efforts in the 1970s and 1980s that introduced sheep to Mono Basin east of Yosemite and Mount Baxter and Mount Williamson east of Kings Canyon and Sequoia. 19 Now, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, agencies take a few animals from four source herds that can support removal to create new herds. 20 Stephenson says that because ewes only birth one lamb per year, he believes it will be another decade before 12 herds are repopulated. 21 Currently, the estimated 500-plus bighorn sheep are roughly half females and half males. 22 The goal is to have 305 adult and yearling females among the entire population. 23 Spotting a bighorn in the wild is like finding a needle in a haystack. 24 They're masters of disguise, blending in with the rocky and snowy mountainsides of the high country with camouflage-like fur. 25 Bighorns use stellar vision to spot predators and then use the rugged terrain as a means of escape. 26 They can live anywhere from 11,000-14,000 feet in the warmer months, Stephenson says. 27 During the coldest months, the sheep may migrate to as low as 6,000 feet. 28 Because of the remoteness of the habitat, Stephenson and his team hike into the backcountry to monitor populations and fly in helicopters around mountaintops to capture the animals with net guns. 29 Each bighorn is captured individually to be examined, fitted with a collar transmitter and then placed in a box to be flown to a specific herd. 30 There are some concerns about ongoing drought; one in the mid-1990s significantly cut into the population. 31 But Stephenson and his team are hopeful that by spreading out the herds the sheep will survive and continue to grow in numbers. 32 Recreation has not been affected by the project, says Dana Dierkes, spokeswoman for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, though regular sheep grazing in national forests has been banned to ensure the health and survival of the bighorn. 33 It's already prohibited in national parks. 34 Grazing sheep have sometimes introduced disease into herds, with bighorn falling victim to pinkeye, pneumonia and other ailments.

" Most species that end up on the endangered species list don ' t ever come off , and there ' s a real opportunity here to see success " .

don ' t ever come off ,

Why is it so rare for endangered animals to find their way off the list?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone .

incriminated by his smartphone

How did the man's smartphone get him in trouble?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone .

California

What was this California man accused of doing?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone .

selfie generation

who are they?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

Loaded with pictures , some of them imprudent , David Leon Riley ' s Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant .

searched by police in 2009 without a warrant

How could the police search the man's phone without a warrant?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

Loaded with pictures , some of them imprudent , David Leon Riley ' s Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant .

searched

Does this seem like an invasion of privacy?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

Loaded with pictures , some of them imprudent , David Leon Riley ' s Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant .

imprudent ,

what is the meaning of this word?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

He got busted . Now the justices , who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies , will consider a quintessentially 21st - century problem .

quintessentially

Why is it quintessential?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

He got busted . Now the justices , who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies , will consider a quintessentially 21st - century problem .

busted

What was he busted for?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday , where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned , justices must fit data - packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment ' s guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures .

Fourth

What was the result of this deliberation?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up .

phones

Mostly cell phones - right?

1 WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers will meet the selfie generation next week when the Supreme Court dials up the case of a California man incriminated by his smartphone. 2 Loaded with pictures, some of them imprudent, David Leon Riley's Samsung Instinct was searched by police in 2009 without a warrant. 3 He got busted. Now the justices, who sometimes seem uncomfortable with new technologies, will consider a quintessentially 21st-century problem. 4 In an unplugged courtroom Tuesday, where television cameras and electronic devices have long been banned, justices must fit data-packed smartphones into the contours of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5 The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up. 6 'A modern smartphone,' Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher noted in a brief, 'is a portal into our most sensitive and confidential affairs. 7 The digital contents of such a device should not be subject to a fishing expedition'. 8 Fisher is representing Riley, the San Diego man whose case will be heard along with a separate flip-phone search challenge filed by a Boston-area native named Brima Wurie. 9 The cases pose potentially far-reaching consequences for police and phone users alike. 10 Privacy advocates fear that a ruling against Riley and Wurie would render vulnerable the secrets of the 90 percent of U.S. adults who own cellphones, a growing number of which are outfitted like the various iPhone, Samsung or Android models. 11 Law enforcement officials, in turn, fear they might lose an invaluable investigative tool. 12 'A photograph, short video, letter, list of addresses or other material that could be properly seized from an arrestee's pocket in paper form is not imbued with special First and Fourth Amendment protection simply because it is digitized and carried on a cellphone,' the California attorney general's office wrote in a brief. 13 California Solicitor General Edward C. Dumont, whom President Barack Obama once nominated to the federal bench, will join with Obama's Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben in urging the court to give law enforcement leeway in searching smartphones. 14 The Riley and Wurie cases present different scenarios, and they'll be argued back to back for an hour each on Tuesday morning. 15 Both rest on the warrant-less searches of devices unimagined at the time the Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. 16 'I think the Riley case, in particular, is incredibly important,' Elizabeth B. Wydra, chief counsel of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, said Friday, 'and it should be important for everyone who has a smartphone'. 17 Riley was pulled over by a San Diego police officer on Aug. 22, 2009, prosecutors and defense attorneys agree, but they characterize him very differently. 18 Fisher called Riley a 'college student'. 19 California officials called him 'a member of a San Diego Blood gang'. 20 Police impounded Riley's Lexus for his driving with a suspended license, and in a subsequent search found two guns. 21 A police officer then scrolled through Riley's unlocked phone, finding video clips of gang initiation fights, pictures of gang signs and clips of a red Oldsmobile allegedly used in an earlier gang shooting. 22 Convicted on charges that included attempted murder, Riley was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life. 23 The 23-year-old is incarcerated at California's Kern Valley State Prison. 24 In Wurie's case, Boston police lacked a warrant when they checked the call log on his gray Verizon LG phone after busting him on drug and gun charges. 25 Wurie was convicted in 2009 and is serving a 262-month prison term at a federal facility in New Hampshire. 26 The Riley case may prove to be the most consequential because it deals directly with the multimedia capacity of modern smartphones. 27 An estimated 56 percent of U.S. adults were using smartphones last year, according to one survey. 28 'You're talking about a treasure trove of personal information,' Wydra said, 'the kind of information that we think of as deeply private'. 29 The attorneys general of 14 states, including Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi, have weighed in on California's behalf. 30 Many more amicus briefs have been filed in support of the other side, by groups that range from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Library Association. 31 'What Americans are reading is normally none of the government's business,' the librarians said. 32 'This case threatens that principle because it allows police officers to peer into the contents of a person's entire personal library using a device that happens to be found on that person'. 33 The nine justices won't be starting from scratch. 34 In a 1973 decision that involved the discovery of heroin inside a crumpled cigarette pack, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to thoroughly search someone who's been arrested. 35 There are limits, though. The searches are supposed to be for weapons or relevant evidence. 36 Moreover, in a 1969 decision involving the warrant-less search of the house of a Santa Ana, Calif., man, the justices cautioned that police cannot 'rummage at will among his papers in search of whatever will convict him'. 37 One possibility, among many, is the court might allow more lenient searches of phone call numbers in the Wurie case while imposing tighter restrictions on broader content searches in the Riley case. 38 Justice Antonin Scalia, in particular, might prove to be a key swing vote among conservatives.

The eventual outcome will clarify rules that were written long before phones wised up .

rules

What other Amendments have had to be clarified to fit in to 21st-century problems?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

It ' s the underdog of U . S . currency , the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register .

underdog of U . S . currency ,

What is the underdog of U.S. currency?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

It ' s the underdog of U . S . currency , the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register .

the greenback

Which greenback?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

It ' s the underdog of U . S . currency , the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register .

greenback

What is greenback currency?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

The $ 2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states .

3 percent

Why does the $2 bill only make up 3 percent of money in circulation?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

The $ 2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states .

3

Why is the $2 bill so uncommon?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

Now , it ' s about to get its time in the limelight , thanks to a Delray Beach , Fla . , man who has always loved it .

about to get its time in the limelight ,

How is it going to get time in the limelight?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

Now , it ' s about to get its time in the limelight , thanks to a Delray Beach , Fla . , man who has always loved it .

Delray Beach ,

Who is Delray Beach and why does he matter?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that ' ll tell the story of the two and its " magic " .

the story of the two and its " magic "

Why are $2 bills seen as so much more desirable?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that ' ll tell the story of the two and its " magic " .

" magic "

What magic are they referring to?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

" I think everyone ' s curious about it , " he said .

everyone ' s curious about it , "

Why is everyone so curious about it?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

" I think everyone ' s curious about it , " he said .

everyone ' s curious

Why do they feel everyone would be curious about this?

1 It's the underdog of U.S. currency, the greenback more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. 2 The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. 3 Now, it's about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. 4 John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that'll tell the story of the two and its 'magic'. 5 'I think everyone's curious about it,' he said. 6 'When you spend one, there's always a reaction'. 7 Turns out it also makes for quite a story. 8 The quirky bill with Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back is more than just a collector's item. 9 It's a regular at some strip clubs, a piece of a longtime Clemson University tradition and a tool used to show a group's economic influence. 10 While many save $2 bills, others make a point to spend them - just to see what happens next. 11 Bennardo was always one to save them. 12 By last summer, the Immagine Productions owner and Lynn University professor of film and television editing had 11 of them in a desk drawer, sitting inside an old checkbook box, never to be spent. 13 It got him thinking: What is it about the two? 14 And 'The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary' was born. 15 Amy Byer Shainman, a Jupiter, Fla., resident and breast cancer advocate who is also passionate about the bill, joined on as executive producer. 16 She said she has kept a two her high school crush gave her for more than 25 years without knowing why. 17 'There's a mystique surrounding the $2 bill, a mystique that it's rare and anything that's rare is a matter of intrigue,' Byer Shainman said. 18 After raising about $18,000 for the project on Kickstarter.com, Bennardo got to work last summer. 19 Some of his stops were in South Florida. 20 There's Ettra Gallery in Delray Beach, where he talked to a man who turns $2 bills into art. 21 Then there's his Miami shoot with American Healthy Vending, who explained why most machines don't take twos. 22 And, Bennardo only had to go to Miami to capture Clemson's tradition at work during the Orange Bowl. 23 Beyond that, he has traveled to several states - including Texas, New York, Michigan and Oregon - and interviewed about 50 people in all. 24 Along the way, Bennardo has discovered a whole society of others who share his and Byer Shainman's enthusiasm for the offbeat bill. 25 Among them is Heather McCabe, a copywriter from Brooklyn, N.Y., who requests $2 bills from her bank and spends them at local businesses in hopes of seeing the currency catch on. 26 She chronicles the reactions she gets on her blog, Two Buckaroo. 27 McCabe, 39, started spending twos about 15 years ago because she liked the added interaction with people behind the counter. 28 'It became something a little more special,' she said. 29 'And plus, it always felt like an experiment, like, ‘What's going to happen when I spend this $2 bill?' It never gets old'. 30 Most people smile at the sight of the unusual bill and share a story about their experiences with it, McCabe said. 31 Some take two singles out of their own wallets so they can pocket the deuce. 32 Others refuse it, though McCabe said that's the least common outcome. 33 Many people believe the bill, which the federal government began issuing in 1862, was taken out of circulation. 34 Because of that, you can find regular old $2 bills marked up to double their value on eBay, when they can easily be picked up at the bank for, well, $2. 35 There was a 10-year period that the government stopped printing twos. 36 But that ended in 1976, when they were brought back - with much fanfare - to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial. 37 If they had just disappeared, Bennardo said, 'we wouldn't have this great piece of Americana saved. 38 And I wouldn't have a movie'. As of last year there were a billion $2 bills in circulation, according to the Federal Reserve. 39 Forty-five million more went into production in October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas. 40 And Bennardo was there, filming. Still, twos are rare. 41 'They've always been kind of an odd bill because the standard cash drawer is set up for $1s, $5s, $10s or $20s,' said Tony Swicer, a West Palm Beach resident and president of the Florida United Numismatists - a group for people who are passionate about currency. 42 'Some people think they're good luck, some people think they're bad luck. 43 It's really funny and there's no reason for either one'. 44 There are theories that they can be rid of its 'bad luck' by tearing off its corners - an idea Bennardo explored for his film. 45 At the same time, the two has been embraced by some groups and industries. 46 Strip clubs hand them out because people see them as 'funny money' or don't want them, so they easily hand them out to dancers. 47 Several groups have used them to prove their economic clout. 48 Bennardo interviewed members of one such group, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Michigan, who deliberately spent twos around the state to show their spending power. 49 Similar campaigns have been launched by other groups, from nudists in Pasco County, Fla., in 2007 to unemployed steel company workers in Utah in 2003, to members of the NAACP in the 1980s. 50 Clemson University students spend $2 bills stamped with tiger paws in cities that host the school for football bowl games. 51 It's a tradition that began in 1977, when Georgia Tech decided to stop playing football against the school. 52 But to Matthew Zaklad, another $2 bill enthusiast, the appeal of the currency is the way it brightens people's days and the connections it forges. 53 'They are one of those rare things that consistently triggers a memory of something good and often familial,' said Zaklad, 41, a business consultant who lives in Manhattan. 54 Bennardo, who has pursued stories including that of a World War II vet reunited with a $2 bill he and other wartime buddies signed 70 years ago, agreed, saying that's at the heart of his movie. 55 'I think that's what the film is going to show us, is that this bill is more than we think it is,' he said.

" I think everyone ' s curious about it , " he said .

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Was the documentary ever finished?