Obama and the Arab Spring | STRATFOR. Also, I show you an uncirculated Colorano FDC (First Day Cover), with a cool silk cachet, about Ski Jumping. Unlike social unrest and revolutions, in ski jumping you're supposed to know how to arrive safely at your destination

Please read: Obama and the Arab Spring | STRATFOR

Unlike social unrest and revolutions, in ski jumping you're supposed to know how to arrive safely at your destination.

You can SPRING to action or reaction in a social protest/movement/revolution, but...WHERE are you going to land? And how?

An uncirculated Colorano FDC (First Day Cover), with a cool silk cachet,  about Ski Jumping.

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

http://www.colorano.com/about/

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Should Facebook Pay You? Or: How To Monetize Friends And Charge People | Fast Company. Also, I show you a maximum card that I created with an ad card (junk mail) showing two cents

Please read: Should Facebook Pay You? Or: How To Monetize Friends And Charge People | Fast Company

No, the 1 cent coin is NOT the precursor of the copper wire.

The tug-of-war tale is just somebody's foul joke.

"The major applications of copper are in electrical wires (60%), roofing and plumbing (20%) and industrial machinery (15%). 

Copper is mostly used as a metal, but when a higher hardness is required it is combined with other elements to make an alloy (5% of total use) such as brass and bronze.^[15] 

A small part of copper supply is used in production of compounds for nutritional supplements and fungicides in agriculture.^[28][60] 

Machining of copper is possible, although it is usually necessary to use an alloy for intricate parts to get good machinability characteristics."

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

So, think about copper not as the subject of a foul joke, but as an antibiofouling element:

"Antibiofouling applications

Copper has long been used as a biostatic surface to line parts of ships to protect against barnacles and mussels. It was originally used pure, but has since been superseded byMuntz metal. Bacteria will not grow on a copper surface because it is biostatic. Similarly, as discussed in copper alloys in aquaculture, copper alloys have become important netting materials in the aquaculture industry for the fact that they are antimicrobial and prevent biofouling even in extreme conditions^[68] and have strong structural and corrosion-resistant^[69] properties in marine environments. Copper doorknobs are used by hospitals to reduce the transfer of disease, and Legionnaires' disease is suppressed by copper tubing in plumbing systems."

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

Seven maximum card variants that I created with the 84 cents stamp showing the Gates of the Valley, Yosemite National Park. The FDOI (First Day of Issue cancellation, non-pictorial, with killer bars) is from St.Louis, MO, but I would have preferred a pictorial postmark from a nearby post office

Which is your favorite, of these 7 maxicards, and why?

I like the whole set, since the 7 MCs contribute their own perspective on the subject.

A set of maximum card variants is always more interesting than any single one, for me.

http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2005/sr05_056.htm

"Yosemite National Park ( /joʊˈsɛmɪtiː/ yoh-sem-it-ee) is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. 

The park covers an area of 761,268 acres (3,080.74 km²)^[2] and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain.^[4] 

Over 3.7 million people visit Yosemite each year:^[3] most spend their time in the seven square miles (18 km²) of Yosemite Valley.^[5] 

Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity.^[5] 

Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness.^[6] 

Although not the first designated national park, Yosemite was central to the development of the national park idea, largely owing to the work of people like Galen Clark and John Muir.^[7]"

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

Take THAT, Manneken Pis! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:O%27Shaughnessy_Dam.jpg

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

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