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More charity stamps are coming to your local post office, and you could have a say in what the subjects will be. Yes, we re going to have [a semi-postal stamp program], said USPS manager of stamp services Cathy Caggiano, during a press briefing earlier this month. We have to have one. Semi-postal stamps, as they re called by collectors, cost m
stanley termohrnek ore than a regular stamp. The amount in addition to the postage rate is given to charity, after costs. The Breast Cancer Research stamp, when first issued in 1998, cost 40 cents, with 32 cents for postage and 8 cents for charity. The price remained at 40 cents through two subsequent rate changes, with the amount earmarked for breast cancer research going down each time.Congress last year extended the Breast Cancer Research semi-postal, the first by the U.S., for another two years, and mandated that the U.S. Postal Service issue more semi-postals. However, it left the details up to
stanley water bottle the agency.The Postal Service was required to submit its plan to Congress by Monday. Caggiano, a 30-year veteran of the Postal Service, said the new program consists of five more semi-postals, each two years apart, starting in 2002.The public will be asked to make suggestions this spring 151; the mechanics of the process are not yet set 151; and
stanley quencher the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee will review the suggestions. From there, the recommendations will go to the Postmaster General, as is the case with every stamp subject.The subjects suggested must be Hxai Sandra Day O Connor Makes Alzheimer s Plea
Question: would you sign up for a one-way trip to Mars Followup question for those who answered No: what if you had an internet connection Obviously, a lifetime on Mars would be a lot more enjoyable with a steady diet of cat videos. But would it be possible The concept of an Interplanetary Internet first came into being in 1998, about a year after the quarter-century anniversary of the design of the Internet. At the time, a man named Vint Cerf was ruminating on the future of the Internet, and with good reason; Cerf co-developed the Internet protocol suite, a set of rul
stanley cup becher es commonly known as TCP/IP that helps orchestrate the transfer of data throughout the network of devices we call the Internet. In 1997, I asked myself what should I be doing that will be needed 25 years from
stanley cup then, Cerf recounts in a recent interview with Wired. And, after consultation with colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, we concluded that we needed much richer networking than was then available to NASA and other space faring agencies.
termo stanley 8221; And by richer, what Cerf really means is functional. If you want to communicate between planets, you ;re going to need networking protocols that accommodate for vast distances, long communication times, and lots and lots of interrupted signals. Communication between Earth and Mars, for instance, takes anywhere from four to twenty minutes, depending on the position of each planet in it