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Postal agency steps up its
efforts to sell collector stamps
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The nation's postal service is getting serious about selling stamps to collectors. The agency, Correos de Costa Rica, always had examples of new stamp issues on its Web site, but now it has created a separate set of pages for collectors to browse what is available. Until now, the best way of getting new issues was to visit the postal store in the downtown main office or make an agreement with one of several private dealers. The virtual store is being promoted on the first page of the agency's Web site. Linked pages contain examples of the stamps issued this year and last. The most recent is a six-stamp arrangement honoring the 60 years of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad. The stamps came out Tuesday. The arrangement is 125 by 170 mm or 4.9 inches by 6.7 inches. The stamps feature tunnel workers and linemen photographed by Fabián Rois Mata and illustrations of telecommunications, renewable energy and environmental education shot by Karina Vanegas Vargas, said the agency. The stamps were printed by Gozaka S.A. |
The colorful six-stamp set sells for 2,040 ($3.58). The stamps affixed to a first-day cover sell for 3,800 ($6.66). The envelope carries the logos of the telecommunications company. A children's literature series was the topic of an earlier story. |
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Citi says involvement by
board member in Herradura land dispute not unethical
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Citi Bank has cleared its own board member Armando González of any illegal or wrongful conduct from his involvement in purchasing a squatter's rights to an expat's property in Herradura. Cristina Alfaro Serdio, legal and compliance head for Banco CMB S.A., Citi's subsidiary here, wrote to expat Henry Schiffner, who lives in Spain, and said that her office and outside lawyers looked over allegations against González, a prominent businessman, based on |
information
provided by him and another expat. They had complained that his
intrusion into the
continuing legal dispute between legal owners and a squatter who
claimed possession was unethical. However, she said, the private dispute over a parcel of land is unrelated to the company's employees and banking operations. ". . . to date we have been unable to establish any illegal or wrongful conduct by Mr. González," she wrote in English in the June 30 letter. |
| The beneficial effects of appreciating your situation |
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I have been thinking about my friend Mavis, I opened a file with her
name on it. In it I found an e-mail dated March 26, 2007.
She had originally received it from her friend, Margaret Nydell.
Mavis had added a note saying, “Might help when you can’t think of a
topic for your column.” I have a topic, but reading over what she sent, I think it is a good time to share it with others. Although some of you probably have read this, when it first circled the Internet, it can’t hurt to reconsider it today. This is the “Earth Status Report” for 2006. Things have changed since then with the economic outlook considerably dimmer and more people hurting and depressed, but . . .”If you woke up healthy this morning, you are happier than the one million people who will not survive next week. “If you never suffered a war, the loneliness of a jail cell, the agony of torture or hunger, you are happier than 500 million people in the world.” (I am sure that number is much greater today.) “If you can enter a house of worship without fear of jail or death, you are happier than 3 million people in the world. “If there is food in your fridge, you have shoes and clothes, you have a bed and roof, you are richer than 75 percent of the people in the world. And if you have a bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the money box, you belong to the 8 percent of the people in the world who are well-to-do. “And if you read this, you are three times blessed because: 1. somebody just thought of you, 2. You don’t belong to the 200 million people in the world that cannot read, and 3. You have a computer!” Actually, dear Mavis, as I said, I do have a subject for this week – it is the placebo effect. Some of my friends laugh at my faith in the power of the placebo effect. I try not to proselytize. Just recently I read an article in Psychological Science by Alia J. Crum and Ellen J. Langer on “Exercise and the Placebo Effect.” In it is a definition: “The placebo effect is any effect that is not attributed to an actual |
“This supported their hypothesis that exercise affects health
in part
or in whole via the placebo effect.” It also shows again that the
placebo effect is not just about sugar pills. Symbols and beliefs
and
plain old expectations can bring about both positive and negative
results. |
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