Security Weekly. The Geopolitics of the United States, part I - STRATFOR. Also, for ABC Wednesday meme (today is letter H), I show you a MAXIMUM CARD / MAXICARD / DORINCARD from USA, with The ARCTIC HARE (Lepus arcticus)

Please read this interesting article: Security Weekly
The Geopolitics of the United States - STRATFOR.

For ABC Wednesday meme (today is letter H), I show you a MAXIMUM CARD / MAXICARD / DORINCARD from USA, with The ARCTIC HARE (Lepus arcticus)

"The arctic hare (Lepus arcticus), or polar rabbit is a hare which is adapted largely to polar and mountainous habitats. It was once considered^{[citation needed]} a subspecies of the mountain hare, but it is now regarded as a separate species. The arctic hare survives with a thick coat of fur and usually digs holes under the ground or snow to keep warm and sleep. Arctic hares look like rabbits but have longer ears and can stand up taller, they can live/maintain themselves in cold places unlike rabbits. They can travel together with many other hares, sometimes huddling with dozens or more, but are usually found alone, taking in some cases more than one partner. 

The arctic hare can run up to 40 miles (64 km) per hour.^[3] 

Its top predator is the arctic wolf."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_hare

No, HARE KRISHNA is NOT a species of hare from India.

Arctic Hare[1]
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Lagomorpha
Family:	Leporidae
Genus:	Lepus
Species:	L. arcticus
Binomial name
Lepus arcticus Ross, 1819
Arctic Hare range

DID YOU KNOW that "Although hares are known for eating plants, they can eat meat"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_hare

http://www.zazzle.com/what_stamp_postage-172780532697535446?rf=238693463283865848

Ask yourself WHAT would this cute Arctic Hare do, if he encounters an Arctic corpse (no, not Afrika Korps)...

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Part 1 - What's the difference between RABBITS and HARES? Also, I show you my creations in traditional maximaphily (compliant with rules of FIP CfM): Year of the Hare (or Rabbit, as a mistake, according to zodiac semantics) maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards from USA

Notice the usefulness of a companion item when the postmark is not fully visible on one item.

Also, notice how I politely twisted the arm of the open-minded postal associate into providing me more than one instance of the pictorial postmark, adding stamps on the back.

Out of many, at least some postmarks came out visible and complete.

Do you realize that I used OLDER stamps, not the "STUP" [euphemism] kumquats stamps from this year???

"The Chinese Year of the Rabbit ( 兔 ) is actually the Chinese Year of the Hare, as China has seven native species of hares and no native species of rabbits. 

The Chinese applied their word for hare to the first rabbits to be taken to China, and the word is now erron[e]ously back-translated into English as rabbit. 

The hare is the fourth animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. 

The Year of the Hare is associated with the earthly branch symbol 卯."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_rabbit

Not to be outdone, the Vietnamese zodiac takes the error even further, and translates it into Year of the Cat!

"In the related Vietnamese zodiac, the cat takes the place of the hare.^[1][2"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_rabbit

"Differences from rabbits

Main article: Rabbit

Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other leporids, but rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form. 

Hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection, relative to that afforded by a burrow, by being born fully furred and with eyes open. 

They are hence able to fend for themselves soon after birth; they are precocial. 

By contrast, the related rabbits and cottontail rabbits are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless.

All rabbits (except the cottontail rabbits) live underground in burrows or warrens, while hares (and cottontail rabbits) live in simple nests above the ground, and usually do not live in groups. 

Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur. 

Hares have not been domesticated, while rabbits are kept as house pets. 

There is a domestic pet known as the "Belgian hare", but this is a rabbit that has been selectively bred to resemble a hare.

The hare's diet is similar to the rabbit's. 

They are both in the order Lagomorpha.

Hares have been thought to have jointed, or kinetic, skulls, unique among mammals."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare

So, boys and girls ladies and gentlemen, what did we learn today?

 Year of the Hare, not Rabbit.

All domestic lagomorphs are rabbits, not hares.

So my awww-dorable maximum cards are celebrating erroneously the Year of the Rabbit, as the nice pictorial postmark from West Nyack, New York 10994 says.

But I still love those two postcards!

Don't you? Doncha, baby?

If you don't, then you're an...insensitive savage, or something. [ :D :D :D ]

I would like this blogpost (because of the images, not because of my text) to become one of the cutest, loveliest blogposts in the blogsphere, in the history of blogging.

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

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Who framed this rabbit (or hare)? A greeting card company, that's who. Blue frame. My YOTH (Year of the Hare) non-traditional maxicard, kumquats and all...

Scroll down in this link for more hare images: http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=hare

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Halloween is approaching....owl...Frankenstein...color orange...and kumquats, too?

Cut-out from an index card, with an owl stamp and pictorial postmark from FRANKENSTEIN, MO  65016

The kumquats look like oranges, and the main subject of the stamp (Year of the Hare) is  belittled [!] as a small  drawing of a hare, barely visible, on the left side of the stamp. Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, CA 90012, perfectly visible on the matte, folded card  - which  I can postcardize anytime, should I want.

The kumquats look like oranges, and the main subject of the stamp (Year of the Hare) is  belittled [!] as a small  drawing of a hare, barely visible, on the left side of the stamp. Pictorial postmark from West Nyack, NY 10994, perfectly visible on the matte, folded card  - which  I can postcardize anytime, should I want. I never heard of West Nyack before - have you? See how a simple, nice postmark can "put a locality on the map" for you, and many others?

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

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"...Tu ne me manques pas du tout, du tout!" says the weeping bunny with translucent pink ears. My Year of the Rabbit / Hare: maximum card (with a postmark not very clear), and a folded card that I show you as the companion/reference item for that type of postmark

Whenever you get a pictorial postmark, get also that postmark on a companion/reference item, with a surface more paper-like than the glossy surface of a modern postcard.

I like the highly-embossed surface of this card.

This is a folded card, a type of  "postcard support" that FIP CfM does NOT allow you to use in creating a maximum card.

What do I think?

1 -  I can cut it in half anytime, if I so desire. 

Then it really looks like a custom postcard.

But I prefer to keep it that way - maybe I'll get more items like that from the source specified on the back of the folded card. :)

2 - I can cut it in half anytime, if a future potential partner/buyer so desires.

3 - if anybody will ever get this, he or she can cut it, or keep it just like that, or send it as an "enriched" greeting card, unique in the world as it really is.

3 - for the postmarking Post Office, this was a revenue generator, without further work necessary from a delivery mailman. 

It will not require postal delivery to anybody's mailbox, per se (not as is, "naked").

All the similar items that I requested on this occasion (postcards, folded cards, covers) were delivered to me in 1 SASE that I provided in the initial cover that I sent for this postmarking event.

It's not a postcard, and not a cover - just a philatelic "page"/souvenir. 

I gladly relinquished a stamp for the privilege of obtaining that desired postmark. 

Everybody is happy, except maybe the purists. :)

4 - could things have been better?

Sure!

If (some) maximaphily purists would argue that the stamp actually depicts some stupid  fruits [:) my wording is enhanced for entertainment purposes only; no fruit or person is REALLY stupid]  [kumquats], and therefore this YOTH (Year of the Hare) symbolic stamp design DOES NOT qualify for concordance of subject in a maximum card...then I'd say: well, you DO have a point.

As I said before, it blows my mind why a hare is NOT the primary graphic element here, in this USPS stamp.

Why don't you, USPS, instruct your designers to focus primarily on the animal in the "Year of the..."?

Leave other symbols, non-specific for that year, in the background!

Are kumquats eaten ONLY during the Year of the Hare?

What do you concoct next?

Year of the Chopsticks?

:)

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Maybe you see twisted minds around you all the time - see here some twisted heart shapes. Non-traditional MAXICARDS that I made with folded cards ("greeting cards"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from West Nyack, NY and Los Angeles, CA (the metropolis formerly known as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River)")

Non-traditional MAXICARD that I made with a folded card ("greeting card"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from West Nyack, NY.

Non-traditional MAXICARD that I made with a folded card ("greeting card"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from Los Angeles, CA (the metropolis formerly known as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River)") 

I see 3 heart shapes...do you?

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.A white collar, and 2 grey ones, created by the hind legs. :)

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See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011

Guest Heart Thursday #79

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LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011

LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011.

All domestic LEPORIDS are rabbits.

The one above has flaccid downward ears.

The wild ones, rabbits and hares - don't.

What happens when a heart shape elongates its lobes? Won't it resemble a hare head shape, with upward ears? Find it in the above image.

If not, I'll find it for ya.

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

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Cute non-traditional MAXICARD with a greeting card showing 2 small rabbits in deep snow. Infamous kumquats stamp and nice Year of the Hare (YOTH) pictorial postmark from West Nyack, New York

Cute non-traditional MAXICARD with a greeting card showing 2 small rabbits in deep snow. Infamous kumquats stamp and nice Year of the Hare (YOTH) pictorial postmark from West Nyack, New York.

See also: http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=yoth

U, as in Understanding each other.

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Yes, now it's Year of the Hare, but why don't you make every year to be Year of the Rare? YOU are RARE! Or, "you are unique, like everybody else [get it? :) ]. YOU have a rare/unique set of qualities (and defects, I might specify) - why shouldn't YOU express yourself by designing FREE OF CHARGE? Look at my tiger stamps. You, too, can do something like that, or better! :)

Year of the Hare ( more correct than Year of the Rabbit, they say)

Why don't you make every year to be Year of the RARE creator/designer (that's YOU!)?

"Tu, soltanto tu..."

:)

Designing such personalized stamps is a lot of fun!

I also put them for sale (minimum quantity is a sheet of 20 stamps, per Zazzle policy) in my Public Gallery at Zazzle (they ship only to US addresses).

I also put them for sale individually, not in sheets of 20, at http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco.

Today I am shipping ("Dude, where's my SHIP?") 9 of the above tiger personalized stamps to a collector in Germany. 

He paid at delcampe $5 apiece, plus a combined $5 for shipping, delcampe fees and PayPal fees. Total $50.

A week ago, I have shipped a set of ALL 11 different tiger personalized stamps to a collector/dealer in the Russian Federation. 

Total 11x$5 +$5= $60. Plus $12 Registered Mail fee, per USPS. Final amount = $72.

DID YOU KNOW that there are more US$ billionaires in Moscow than in any other city in the world?

Billionaires from around the world, bored out of your mind...you're welcome to splurge on my stupid little stamp designs...:) :)

What's in it for you, if you are a regular Joe or Jane, working your ass off at the daily grind, living your life of quiet desperation? [Welcome to the Club!]

As I said, ANYBODY in the world can design in 200+ lines of products at Zazzle, not just stamps.

FREE.

Then put them for sale.

Then, if anything sells, you'll get a modest royalty.

But it may add up, if you're wildly successful [lasciate ogni speranza...but you never know, until you try :) ]

I have occasionally created other items, besides stamps.

Take a look, if you don't believe me :) ( see the Dubya T-shirt, the giant panda poster, etc.):

See my store at Zazzle

http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco

I'll say it again, to make it clear for everybody:

I spoke on the phone 1-888-8ZAZZLE (1-888-892-9953)with Jillina @zazzle, and she checked with her supervisor.

Zazzle stamps can ONLY be shipped to an US address!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The best procedure is this:

1) you can design zazzle personalized stamps by registering at zazzle.com (the main US website of Zazzle), regardless of where in the world you reside.

Put them in the Public Gallery so you can receive royalty payments (thru PayPal or check) from Zazzle, should your products find buyers!

2) you can order zazzle stamps ONLY from zazzle.com (not the regional zazzle portals!), regardless of where in the world is your billing address associated with your credit card.

3) you can ONLY receive those stamps at an address in USA! So you better get a partner/friend in USA! :)

Y, as in Year of the RARE "YOU"

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Pink flowers and cute LEPORIDS. My non-traditional DORINCARD about Year of the Hare

Pink flowers and cute LEPORIDS. My non-traditional DORINCARD about Year of the Hare.

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

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