The Turkish Role in Negotiations with Iran | STRATFOR. Also, a visual metaphor of Negotiation - "Locking horns, in a power struggle"

Please read: The Turkish Role in Negotiations with Iran | STRATFOR

A visual metaphor of Negotiation - "Locking horns, in a power struggle":

In this maximum card/ maxicard/ dorincard that I created in 2006, notice how the deer (Roosevelt Elk?) from the pictorial postmark seemlessly integrates with the deer from the stamp!!!

As if they are from the same herd! :)

I like that!

But power struggles are normal even within the same herd...between harem owners/"sultans"...

Merry Christmas! :) Santa Claus comes now with only two reindeer, due to the recession?

 

See more wintertime, etc. postmarks here: http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/Postmarks/#!cpZZ10QQtppZZ12

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White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on maximum cards from USA, Romania and Netherlands Antilles

I created this non-FIP maximum card with a real photo postcard.

I shot it (the photo, not the deer :)... ) in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA. 

At arm's length, from my car, as this doe came to see if I have any food for her.

"The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states),Canada, Mexico, Central America, and in South America as far south as Peru. It has also been introduced to New Zealand and some countries in Europe, such as Finland and the Czech Republic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer

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I'll add later other maximum card images.

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In Romania there is no wild population of white-tailed deer, but there was a stamp series honoring/celebrating/"exploiting" the fauna of the arctic region. Just as so many countries issue stamp with giant panda, when there is NO connection with the local fauna. :)

"In Valerius Geist's book Mule Deer Country he explains that by testing the mitochondrial DNA of the three species (blacktail, whitetail and mule deer), researchers have now determined that it was the mating of whitetail does [DOEs] and blacktail bucks that gave rise to the mule deer, and not the opposite as was once suspected, therefore not falling under a subspecies of O. hemionus and rather as its own species O. columbianus.^[2]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_deer}

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Bambi, "the artist formerly known as Roe Deer", now known as White-tailed Deer

I have created this maximum card.

Sure, it would have been better to have a Bambi postmark, but hey!...still Disney world...

Is Bambi as American as apple pie?

Uh, no.

A naturalized American, formerly a "Non-resident Alien" - OMG!...sounds alien...

A foreign national...

Then again, in North America (most) everybody is from somewhere else, one or MORE generations ago.

Except maybe the likes of the Kennewick Man.

Don't worry, all the other continents were basically populated by migrants as well, throughout history.

Immigrant aliens. 

Undocumented aliens, I might specify. 

But WE have proof of that.

Moreover, WE ALL come from AFRICA, according to the fossil record.

CSI Oldupai, so to speak.

Olduvai is a mispronounciation of Oldupai.

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

See the post below, about Roe Deer.

Old (1973) maximum card from Romania: The European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the Western Roe Deer or chevreuil, is an Eurasian species of deer.

This photo image shows a very delicate fawn of the Roe Deer species.

The Americanization of Bambi:
"The world famous deer Bambi (the eponymous character of the books Bambi, A Life in the Woods, and its sequel Bambi's Children, by Felix Salten) is originally a roe deer. It was only when the story was adapted into the animated feature film Bambi, by the Walt Disney Studios, was Bambi changed to a white-tailed deer. This change was made due to the white-tail being a more familiar species to the mainstream U.S. viewers. Consequently, the setting was also changed to a North American wilderness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capreolus_capreolus

Non-FIP maximum card/ maxicard/ dorincard: Deer from Shenandoah National Park, VA, USA

I was exasperated by the smudging of the postmark ink on the glossy postcards, so I experimented with the non-FIP solution of using a label. Oh, well, I like it. 

At least I can see the postmark, which ideally should have been from a post office in or near the park.

Anyway, I consider it as a modest salute/tribute/honor to Shenandoah, originating from Sterling, VA, near my home.

That postmark is from my own Mailer's Postmark Permit canceler, which uniquely identifies me as permit holder #67 (I should have had #1, I guess, but my pre-cancel application # to USPS was aggregated with the 66 bulk mailers from that zipcode).

"The most difficult thing of those three mentioned in the title is to create your own pictorial postmark, legal and valid for postage with your Post (USPS in my case - the United States Postal Service)."

Details here: http://dorinco.webs.com/

Fragment from http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard, translated from English into Chinese (Traditional)

Click on the title of this post to see my China album.

English to Chinese (Traditional) translationShow romanization

片段http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard，從英文翻譯為中文（繁體）maximaphily =收集極限明信片（明信片+印花稅 +郵戳）Maximaphily
Maximaphily是一個分支集郵，或集郵，這意味著收集極限明信片。一般來說，最大卡是一張明信片，以郵票和郵戳的整體面貌的一面。理想情況下，所有這些三要素應該一致的，但不完全相同的。傳統的方法是遵守規則的國際集郵聯合會（國際集郵聯合會）。http://www.maximaphily.info非傳統的方式，因為我把它稱為，是按照人的規則！除非你想它，當然。我呼籲 DORINCARD任何明信片是通過添加一個個性化郵票和郵戳，在畫面一側的明信片。傳統的方法，或沒有。 ：）

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Fragment from http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard, translated from English into Chinese (Traditional)

maximaphily = collecting maximum cards (postcard + stamp + postmark)

Maximaphily

Maximaphily is a branch of philately, or stamp collecting, that means collecting maximum cards.

Generally, a maximum card is a postcard, with a stamp and a postmark on the picture side. Ideally, all these 3 elements should be concordant, but not identical.

The traditional way is to comply with the rules of FIP (International Philatelic Federation).

http://www.maximaphily.info

The non-traditional way, as I call it, is to follow nobody's rules! Unless YOU want it, of course.

I call DORINCARD any postcard that was personalized by adding a stamp and a postmark, on the picture side of the postcard. Traditional way, or not. :)

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Philately (stamp collecting), as a confluence of domains: learning, writing, web design, business administration, etc.
http://dorincard.blogspot.com
http://dorinco.webs.com
http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard
http://www.delcampe.com/stores/dorinco
http://www.zazzle.com/dorinco*/
http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/

Merry Christmas! :)

http://www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid.htm

In Romanian it is "Crăciun fericit!", or "Sărbători fericite!" [not "vesele"]