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I The Buffalo NewsSunday October 11 1987 Page 8 Sunday Pause USPS to Print 15 Billion of Christmas Issue By bill mcallister Washington Post WASHINGTON Twenty five years ago this fall the Postal Service adopted a Europe an idea and in the process came up with some of the most popular stamps ever issued in the United States the Christmas stamps The first year it was a single four cent stamp a small red and green one picturing a holiday wreath candles and the lettering And it was an overwhelm ing success Soon the public was clamoring for more and the Postal Service began issuing two holi Stamp News day stamps each year one with a contempo rary theme and the other with a traditional theme This stamps will be inaugurated at ceremonies on Oct 23 The contemporary stamp was designed by James Dean of An nandale Va and the traditional stamp fea tures a 16th century painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni Gentleman in Adoration Before the which hangs in the National Gallery of Art A measure of how popular the Christmas stamps have become is the number that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces This production run calls for about 15 billion of the two stamps compared to the typical run of 160 million for a commemora tive stamp The contemporary stamp features decora tive red blue and gold Christmas tree balls The traditional stamp will feature the 14th work of art from the National Gallery on a US Christmas stamp The adaption of the painting features a Madonna and child and carries the lettering and "Moro ni National irst day ceremonies for contempo rary stamp will be held in that capital of contemporary America Disneyland in Ana heim Calif Disney cartoon characters will be 1 i 'fii fl mW fl on hand to push the Postal campaign The traditional stamp will debut in Wash ington in ceremonies planned for the National Gallery that promise a more traditional event irst day cancellations of the Christmas stamps will be available through Nov 22 Collectors supplying their own stamped covers should mail them to Customer Affixed Envelopes Christmas Stamp Postmaster Anaheim CA 92803 9991 for the contemporary stamp and to Washington DC 20066 9991 for the traditional stamp The Postal Service will affix stamps to envelopes for 22 cents each for up to 50 cov ers These should be requested from: Contem porary Christmas Stamp Postmaster Ana heim CA 92803 9992 or Traditional Christmas Stamp Postmaster Washington DC 20066 9992 Combination covers with both stamps can be obtained from either city for 44 cents each "CTI STfvITTS LSI' Moroni National Gallery Proposed Levy Hits Residential Users The ederal Communications proposal to levy an access charge on computer net works and information services is just another example of the Reagan administration saying one thing and doing another report that the propos al which would add between $450 and $5 an hour to the cost of hook ing up to data bases that provide news stories financial information message services games and even airline schedules has met resis tance in the Reagan administration and on Capitol Hill If the case why someone in the administration tell someone in the CC to spike the proposal? George DeBakey executive director of a computer software and services industry association based in Arlington Va recently noted that US computer services in dustry has made our busi nesses and citizens powerful by pro viding easy affordable access to a wealth of information from a multi tude of sources a movement afoot at the CC could severely wk Personal Computers By LONNIE HUDKINS industry would benefit by the pro posal telephone companies the recipients of the proposed ac cess charges will not reap any he said costs are relatively fixed and are already be ing fully recovered by the existing access charge system The CC pro posal would merely shift more of the burden of paying these costs (together with a subsidy of local service) from long distance compa nies to enhanced service The CC contends the access fee hamper this he said proposal now being considered will cause substantial increases in the prices which business and residen tial users of on line computer ser vices pay for these services to the CC proposal enhanced service providers would be required to begin paying federal access charges the fees paid to is aimed at making information pro viders pay their share of the cost of the telephone network Information service providers pay a flat rate charge not based on usage while access charges based on usage are paid by long distance companies and passed along to the callers to subsidize the cost of the local phone network The Make Believe Currency of the Real World the On Bridge By ALRED SHEINWOLD The Sunday Crossword Edited by Herb Ettenson By Sidney Robbins WINGED WORDS 16 13 15 12 10 11 9 5 6 8 2 3 7 20 18 17 24 23 22 21 27 26 31 32 37 36 46 47 other 63 56 57 55 68 64 70 69 75 74 73 79 91 96 95 102 104 101 103 100 99 97 98 406 105 111 112 113 110 109 108 I 117 116 114 120 118 Puzzle Answer on Page 16 105 106 76 79 animals tissue 107 108 85 88 89 90 51 52 72 73 74 81 82 54 55 58 62 64 65 68 69 71 North All Pass WEST 843 VQJ92 075 AJ83 EAST Q65 2AK3 OAQ4 10 97 92 94 96 97 100 101 Silver halide photography the traditional method of recording im ages on film and the young upstart electronic photography will co exist in the future That is the opinion of two Eastman Kodak Co employees who work with both technologies In separate speeches recently be fore industry groups Sygmunt Swit kowski of the photo By ED ROCHE TTE Special to The News may not be able to satisfy your op ponents In a tournament a ques tion of this kind may be put up to a committee of experienced players who then have to decide what the average reasonable player would have done if there had been no hesi tation (After served on such committees for many years as I have consider it a cinch to answer such questions as how many angels can dance on the point of a needle) None of these problems plague the players in an average game or one thing almost all of their bids are doubtful and hesitant or another the other players are so busy with their own problems that unaware of hesitations or tones of voice Where innocence is bliss folly to be wise A hesitant double caused trouble when hand was played in a recent world championship opening bid of 1NT promised 16 to 18 points in high cards with balanced distribution and strength in at least three suits jump to three spades promised a very strong suit and good prospects of making nine tricks West thought of bidding 3NT but sure his partner had a spade stopper West next thought of bid ding four hearts but feared a bad heart division West considered a pass but hated to do so with eight local telephone companies for origi nating and terminating long dis tance calls on the same basis as and its long distance competi DeBakey explained He further explained that in the regulatory lexicon of the CC an service provider" is any firm which offers voice or data ser vices that involve information stor age changes in the content or for mat of a message interaction with a data base or stored informa tion or any other kind of computer processing In other words the CC proposal would apply to value added data services electronic mail on line da ta bases and a myriad of other com puter service offerings now widely used by individuals businesses government and academic institu tions including libraries or high volume providers of in formation services the increase in costs will be staggering The impact will be felt most strongly by users who subscribe to (now) relatively inexpensive information services like QuantumLink and CompuServe as well as The Source that are popu lar with home computer users who nave modems DeBakey pointed out that it is i difficult to see how the telephone By GARY HAYNES Knight Ridder Emperor of Trebizond as a possible source for commendatory comment advising that he knew the emperor as a most celebrated poet Cervan tes skipped the emperor Bruce did not While the days of rule and poetry are gone for the Comnenus dynasty of Trebizond the dreams of the de scendants have not vanished In 1955 Michael III pretender to the throne of Trebizond issued coins in denominations of 10 centimes 5 francs and 20 francs as an exercise in his divine right of claim to office It is issues likes these (and there are many) that makes Colin serious study delightful reading World covers not only the fund raising efforts of Camera Angles As you read this column your guru is perspiring in Ocho Rios Ja maica serving on the Appeals Com mittee during the 1987 World Cham pionships Like the other members of the committee I expect a great deal of trouble with hesitations Consider for example the prob lem of the hesitant double You open the bidding with one spade the next player bids two hearts and your partner doubles after a long hesita tion What should you do? Normally you allow such a dou ble to stand unless you have a very unusual hand After your long hesitation however you may be aware that your double is doubtful and you may take the double out instead of letting it stand If so your partner has conveyed unauthorized information and you have taken advantage of it In the expert game you are supposed to act as though there had been no hesitation You bid or pass just as though your partner had doubled af ter one second instead of after 20 seconds It always easy to know what you would have done if something happened Even if you can intent of non circulating legal ten der is to reverse law and let bad money beget good Not all the listings are products of mints seeking to supplement for eign trade income Some are prod ucts of the imaginations of Quixotic individuals who have slipped past the claim of being king by their own firesides to that of monarch of lost or imagined dominions When Miguel de Cervantes Saa vedra begged the indulgence of his readers for prefacing Quixote de La he pointed to the take for granted that else will set things DeBakey said mistake Write the CC There is no preface to Colin reference book "Unusual World It is intended to be a standard catalog of world coins with companion listings and price guides for non circulating coins Many of the listings are Third World endeavors to seek funds from America by picking the pocketbooks of numismatists The majority of the issues are limited editions nev er intended for circulation issues upon which is stamped a design of little consequence to the country and a denomination of higher value than is found in trade The prime Be frugal Temporary dismissal Article Party givers Kind of bunny Beat par Vicinity Audubon Soci ety member? Scored at tennis Aviators much (gormandize) Garner Noun suffix Assign chairs Horned Muscle state Building wing concern Garland Ling (Chin mountain) Sch org Condemns vocally Scare word Pared Mrs Chaplin Egyptian deity Eastern VIP Removes a weapons Sherwood eg el Krim (Moroccan leader) Goatees Traffic helicop In coming weeks as more home users who subscribe to Quantum Link and the other services begin to understand that they are about to be victimized in the name of the politicians are certain to respond that libraries and hospitals should not be subjected to the higher costs but unfortunately over their individual objections they convince their colleagues in the Congress and the bureaucrats that someone should be concerned over the plight of the home user I have a sinking feeling that the home and small business user will soon be paying much higher prices for the now fairly reasonable ser vices available or have to give them up But DeBakey suggests writing to your friendly concerned congress man before the CC adopts its ill advised proposal is often a tendency to sit back and someone make this immediately to express your opin ions Otherwise you may find that you your business and your country have significantly decreased access to information points opposite a hand of 16 to 18 points After deciding against these three possibilities West settled on a double By this time 20 or 30 sec onds had elapsed The opponents looked reproach fully at West and East muttered barred as he passed East thought hesitation barred him from bidding but he was quite wrong South almost made his doubled contract The defenders led and con tinued hearts forcing South to ruff the third round Declarer led his top spades and gave up a spade to the queen Now Elast know whether to lead diamonds or clubs He cashed the ace of diamonds and South cun ningly dropped the jack but five of diamonds was obviously his lowest possible card and therefore discouraging East switched to clubs and eventually took the set ting trick with the queen of dia monds The score of 100 points honors count in tournament play) was no great triumph for Elast West "If doubled like a human East complained could have bid 3NT have scored 600 points instead of only The members of the committee later assured East that he leaned over backward too far in his effort to be ethical West be dou bling on spade strength since East had and South had a strong spade suit of six or more cards double was surely based on side strength no matter how long it took him to double East received no unauthorized information and he could have bid 3NT with a clear conscience Coin Roundup East 1NT Opening lead 2Q SOUTH AKJ10972 254 OKJ106 None South West 3 4 Dbl graphic products group and Jack Streb of the electronic photography division predicted strong growth for both conventional and electronic photography More than 40 billion silver halide photographs were made in 1986 Swatkowski reported observing that satisfy your own conscience you mis represents nearly seven color prints for every person living in the world Color negative film accounted for 85 percent of the to tal Switkowski said the average American will be using silver halide photography well beyond the year 2000 Videotape and silver halide al ready co exist in many situations Consumers who use video cameras commonly carry their still cameras along as well and in many situa tions use them to photograph the same subjects Although video has the advan tage of motion and sound still pho tographs have greater clarity Commercial television producers like videotape but they continue to use still cameras for many enter tainment programs Streb sees electronic imaging as enhancing silver halide photogra phy not replacing it Electronic im ages he says are shown to advan tage on a video monitor They do not make very good hard copy prints and probably never will Converting conventional photo graphs to a video signal or video to still photographs is costly 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