"Established in 1949 [put a COMMA here, I might recommend :) ] the American Topical Association [ ATA ] is the largest philatelic society devoted specifically to topical stamp collecting. Serving members in over 90 countries, we pride ourselves in being the best source of information, fellowship and authority in this field."

Please visit and join:  http://www.americantopicalassn.org/ 

American Topical Association ✆	4:18 PM (3 hours ago)
to me

To: Mr. Dorin Cojocariu, ATA 49811 [See? I am a member! :) ]

ATA NewsFlashForward – Jan 6, 2012

BEST WISHES FROM YOUR ATA FOR A HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!!

TOPICAL TIME

The Nov-Dec issue was mailed yesterday. Allowing for the nine business days in which the USPS expects delivery, US members can expect to receive their copy by Jan. 17. This information is regularly posted on our website. Your copy will be encased in plastic rather than a paper cover--saving both trees and dollars.  Wayne Youngblood is working hard playing major catch-up with the Jan-Feb issue.  We thank all our members for their patience.

This issue of Topical Time was mailed to 41 more ATA members than the previous issue!  ATA is making progress on its membership goals; thanks to all who are promoting Topical Time and ATA membership.

The Nov-Dec issue includes interesting lead articles by two of our UK members (Barry Floyd and Jeff Dugdale) on "African Art on Stamps" and "Life in the Colonial Bush." And there is a prepublication offer you won't want to miss for ATA's upcoming book, Handbook of Disney on Stamps. Watch for your copy soon!

NEW ON OUR WEBSITE    www.americantopicalassn.org 

•  Press Release: ATA Certifies The Disneyana on Stamps Society (DoSS) as a Study Unit

•  National Topical Stamp Show (NTSS) 2012 - Lancaster, Pa.

-          Initial venue information

-          Exhibit Prospectus

-          Official Exhibit Entry Form

•  Link to APS Manual on Judging:  www.americantopicalassn.org/exhibiting.hmtl

•  Updated Checklist and Archived Articles listing.  Checklist page now includes info on lists available from ATA Study Units

•  Press Release: ATA Releases Two New DVDs: Scouts on Stamps and Nursing on Stamps

•  Press Release: ATA Names New Director of Chapters: Tonny Van Loij

We hope you didn’t miss the selection of 200 holiday stamps rotating through the ATA main web page in December.  Do stop by the site often and see the wonderful improvements that ATA Webmaster Sean Lamb is making!

NOMINATIONS FOR 2012-2014 TERMS of BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Nominations for ATA officers to serve from June 2012-June 2014 are officially open. They may be made in writing by any ATA Chapter or by any ten ATA members in good standing. All nominations, including a brief biographical sketch, must be received no later than January 31, 2012, by the ATA executive director.

Officers to be elected are president, first and second vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and between four and nine directors.

A ballot with biographical sketches will be published in the March-April issue of Topical Time. Deadline for receipt of ballots is May 31. Results will be announced and the elected officers and directors will be installed at the ATA business meeting during our next National Topical Stamp Show (NTSS) scheduled for June 22-24, 2012, in Lancaster, PA.

REMINDER

Our ATA founder, Jerry Husak, and his wife, Sally, now reside in an extended care facility. They would enjoy hearing from you.  Updated contact info:

Freedom Inn

13810 West Sandridge Drive - Apt 304

Sun City West, AZ 85375-4473

Sally’s phone: 623-546-8376 (same as before);   Jerry’s phone: 623-214-5699

BUCK THE TREND APPEAL UPDATE  - WE MADE OUR GOAL!!  

This report includes gifts through Dec. 31, 2011.  The chart in the Jan-Feb issue of Topical Time shows numbers at the time the issue went to press on Dec. 15.

2011 BTTF Campaign—FINAL REPORT
GOAL OF BUCK THE TRENDAPPEAL	$50,000
Reported received in last TT issue	31,274
Received since that last report	22,539
TOTAL TO DATE	$53,813
EXCEEDED OUR GOAL !!	$ 3,813

A RECORD 404 MEMBERS CONTRIBUTED – UP 10% FROM LAST YEAR.

A BIG A THANK YOU TO ALL WHO DONATED!!

ATA AMBASSADORS…

…are usually trained by Executive Director Vera Felts to help staff ATA tables at stamp shows and events.  Theypromote the ATA and its resources as well as encourage showgoers to become members.

NATIONAL POSTAGE STAMP SHOW, New York - Oct 13-16. New members: 4

Ambassadors: Caroline Scannell, Allan Fisk, Fred Skvara

AAPEX, Michigan - Nov 4-6. New members: 4

Ambassadors: Sandra and Andy Lingler.

CHICAGOPEX, Illinois – Nov 18-20. New members: 7

Ambassadors in Training: Agbenyega Adedze, Roger Ashley, Roland Essig, Eliot Landau, Bob Mather, Sadruddin Noorani , Bob Pechinski, Van Siegling, David Witkosky

Plan to attend APS AMERISTAMP in ATLANTA, Jan. 27-29?  Please volunteer for ATA's Ambassador-In-Training program at that show!  Choose the day (Fri/Sat/Sun) that you could meet for the "training" from 9:15-10 a.m.  You'll then help staff the ATA table for a couple of hours during the show at a convenient time for you.  We'd love to have you as a new Ambassador for ATA!

WANTED –

Contact Jack Denys if you are interested:  Jdenys@verizon.net

▪    AWARDS CHAIR FOR ANNUAL SHOW (NTSS)

Purchases, organizes, transports, coordinates and helps distribute exhibit certificates and awards for NTSS 

	National Topical Stamp Show Lancaster, Pennsylvania June 22-24, 2012 www.americantopicalassn.org/shows.htm
Lancaster Host Resort and Conference Center, 2300 Lincoln Highway East Lancaster  PA  17602

Designed to draw attention to the wonders of the United States, this international rate stamp shows the glories of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with one of its beautiful, iconic farmsteads set amid gently rolling hills. Known for its breathtaking rural scenery, agricultural bounty, and small towns with evocative names like Bird-in-Hand and Paradise, Lancaster County is perhaps most famous as part of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The Amish, with their horse-drawn buggies, one-room schoolhouses, and traditional lifestyle, give the county a traditional, Old World charm. Their pristine family farms, surrounded by neatly cultivated fields, offer visitors a glimpse of another century and a quieter way of life. From: http://www.beyondtheperf.com/2012-preview/#stamp-lancaster-county-pennsylvania First Day of Issue:  Jan. 20, 2012, Lancaster, Pa. (no ceremony)

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Vera Felts
Executive Director
American Topical Association
PO Box 8, Carterville, IL 62918-0008
americantopical@msn.com
http://www.americantopicalassn.org
Phone/Fax: 618-985-5100

Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters - 2011-10-05

Please watch this summarizing, very meaningful clip:
http://youtu.be/N8o3peQq79Q

http://occupywallst.org/

Read this again, about some banksters and other$:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=board+of+directors

Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

'via Blog this'

Steve Jobs
Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Born	Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1]
Died	October 5, 2011 (aged 56)
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Alma mater	Reed College (one semester in 1972)
Occupation	Chairman, Apple Inc.
Years active	1974–2011
Net worth	$8.3 billion (2011)[2]
Board member of	The Walt Disney Company,[3]Apple, Inc.
Religion	Buddhism[4]
Spouse	Laurene Powell Jobs (m. 1991–2011; his death)
Children	4
Relatives	Mona Simpson (sister)
Signature
Website
Steve Jobs

"Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)^[5][6][7] was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,^[8] chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.^[9][10] Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.^[11]

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula^[8] and others designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.^[12][13] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,^[14][15] Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.

In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off asPixar Animation Studios.^[16] He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.^[17] Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.^[18][19] On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.

On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.^{[20][21][22][23]"}

Syria, Germany, Armenia...

"Jobs was born in San Francisco^[1] and was adopted by the Armenian family of Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian)^[24] of Mountain View, California.^[5] Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim immigrant to the U.S from Homs,^[25][26] who later became a political science professor,^[27] and Joanne Schieble (later Simpson), an American graduate student^[28] of German ancestry^[29] who went on to become a speech language pathologist^[30] – eventually married. The marriage produced Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson.^[31] Jandali claims that he didn't want to put Jobs up for adoption but that Simpson's parents did not approve of her marrying a Syrian. Jandali was estranged from Jobs and never contacted him."

"Jobs always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legendWayne Gretzky:^[77]

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.

—Steve Jobs"

"Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:^[88]

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."

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

I love the work of WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature, and of GROTH AG! "Groth AG is the sole licensee of WWF International, Gland. Only with the agreement of WWF International and Groth AG, can stamps be issued with the WWF Panda Logo." I give you the link to the WWF Stamp Shop - Groth AG, from which you can buy stamps, FDC, maximum cards [don't buy too many maxicards - leave some for me! :) ] Tell Anita and Hans Groth that I referred you - MAYBE you'll get a 10% discount or so :) . I said MAYBE.

"The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organizationworking on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and theUnited States. It is the world's largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries, supporting around 1,300^[4]conservation and environmental projects. WWF is a foundation,^[5] in 2010 deriving 57% of funding from individuals and bequests, 17% from government sources (such as the World Bank,DFID, USAID) and 11% from corporations.^[6]

The group says its mission is "to halt and reverse the destruction of our environment".^[7]Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of three biomes that contain most of the world's biodiversity: forests, freshwater ecosystems, and oceans and coasts. Among other issues, it is also concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change."

World Wide Fund for Nature

Founder(s)	Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld Julian Huxley [1] Max Nicholson Peter Scott Guy Mountfort Godfrey A. Rockefeller [2]
Type	Charitable trust
Founded	April 29, 1961 (First office opened in September, 1961 in Morges, Switzerland)
Location	Gland, Switzerland
Key people	President: Yolanda Kakabadse
Area served	World wide
Focus	Environmentalism
Method	Lobbying, research, consultancy
Revenue	€525 million (2010) [3]
Motto	For a Living Planet
Website	wwf.org panda.org

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

WWF Stamp Shop - Groth AG

Groth AG

Groth AG specialises in the production of philatelic and numismatic collectables. We are one of the worldwide leading and experienced companies in this field. The collectables are produced in high Swiss quality and are well-known and accepted by our customers. Some of the collectables that we produced are: Year of the Child 1979  UNICEF Flag Stamp Collection Mother and Child  UN Collection Endangered Animals  Medal Collection 30th Anniversary of WWF Our main collection, however, is the WWF Conservation Stamp Collection. Groth AG is the sole licensee of WWF International, Gland. Only with the agreement of WWF International and Groth AG, can stamps be issued with the WWF Panda Logo. Since 1983, some 1,500 different stamps, all arranged by Groth AG have been issued in 211 countries. The WWF Conservation Stamp Collection is the largest thematic collection worldwide. Groth AG was established by Hans Groth in 1965. To this day we are a family owned business. Hans Groth is the CEO and his son Daniel Groth is a member of the Board of Directors. Anita Groth, married to Hans Groth on January 20, 2006, is responsible for the production of the WWF Stamp Collection. His Royal Highness, Prince Philip - President Emeritus of WWF International - with Anita and Hans Groth. Our office is at the Gewerbestrasse 19 in Unterägeri (Canton Zug). A beautiful little town with over 7 500 inhabitants with its enchanting lake at the foothills of the Swiss Alps. More information can be found at the Website www.aegerital.ch.

WWF Information

25th Anniversary WWF Stamp Collection

GROTH AG UPDATE

Article in Newsletter "The Nature of Business" WWF International January 2007

When Hans Groth, CEO of Groth AG, signed the contract with WWF in 1982, he was confident the WWF Stamp Collection would be a long-term product that would last for at least 10 years! Today, Hans is proud to say that the collection - the largest thematic collection in the world - is still selling well and that his company will soon be celebrating a quarter of a century of collaboration with WWF. It is projected that the Collection will continue to be produced at least until 2011 when WWF will celebrate its 50th Anniversary.

To date over one billion stamps and almost 400 issues have been printed and sold, generating more than 20 million Swiss francs in royalties - an important source of funding for WWF's conservation activities. Groth AG was established by Hans Groth in 1965. lt is a family-owned business of which Hans is the CEO and his son Daniel a member of the Board of Directors. Hans' wife Anita is responsible for production of the WWF Stamp Collection. Their offices are in Unteraegeri (Zug, Switzerland), a charming town in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. At its 1998 Annual Conference in Interlaken (Switzerland), WWF awarded Hans Groth the Gold Panda Award - the organization's highest environmental prize - in recognition of his dedication to the cause of the environment. Hans and Anita have expressed their pleasure at working with WWF, saying: "We wish to thank the team at WWF International for their confidence which has allowed us to produce this beautiful collection over the past 25 years." Contact: hans.groth@groth.ch See also: www.wwfstamp.com

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