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Although it's been a funny year in my consulting practice, one of the real upsides in this economy is that I've seen many communications leaders dedicating time and resources to developing skills among their team members. And, that has translated into lots of opportunities for me to teach my Strategic Communications Planning seminars.
In a recent seminar series I was struck by the excitement and enthusiasm of some participants when they were pushed to think harder, apply their business acumen and use that to make the analysis section of the plan "sing". They absolutely could do it! And, when they did, they were thrilled. Now, that makes for a very satisfying teaching experience!
I do a lot of plan reviews and coaching and advising clients on elevating their plans to a more strategic level. And, when I think back to that work, the part of the process that I often find disappointing is the analysis. Communicators have gotten so much better at doing research and collecting data but have somehow missed the part where meaning is created from data. And, I often find that the communicator isn't taking the time to really dig into the client's business need. Because they don't really understand that business driver, the communications plans come out weak or only graze the surface of what they could be. Really getting analysis is the magic to a truly strategic communications plan. There are tools to help with analysis, but a lot of it is learning to think about the business and apply some good old-fashioned brain power.
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"We are thrilled with the high level of customer engagement we have experienced since implementing Zinrelo's loyalty rewards program." John Moss, Founder at Merlin Cycles
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In the close-knit niche market of cycling, Merlin Cycles is on a constant mission to connect with customers and provide them with not only the best products available but also a mutually beneficial relationship with the brand.
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Merlin Cycles offers a range of exciting redemption options for its loyalty program users allowing loyalty points to be redeemed for money off of future purchases. Redemption amounts range from a £5 coupon code for 100 points to a £25 coupon code for 250 points.
Additionally, the brand is able to encourage repeat purchases on its website by continually motivating its customers to move through Merlin Rewards Tiers of Bronze, Silver, and Gold in order to maximize loyalty benefits and gain access to exclusive members-only discounts.
- Bronze membership is reached when £50 is spent in a 12 month period; giving the customer 7.5% off list price of any product.
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Merlin Cycles also uses the program's built-in, real time notifications to ensure that its customers are constantly updated on the points they earn for activities, redemptions and tiers. They further send out email notifications of the program to its customer base which resulted in an impressive 36% open rate and a click through rate of 6%.
"We are thrilled with the high level of customer engagement we have experienced since implementing Zinrelo's loyalty rewards program," commented John Moss, Founder at Merlin Cycles. "Having our customers go hand-in-hand with us, sharing our products with others, engaging with our brand on social media, and taking advantage of our generous loyalty rewards has further encouraged us to be the best on the market in choice, price, and customer service."
Zinrelo is an enterprise-grade loyalty rewards program offered as a self-service platform that allows businesses to boost customer engagement based on a flexible, pay as you go pricing model. The omni-channel solution integrates beautifully with existing websites and can be deployed easily for mobile (web and app), desktop and in-store (point of sale) use. The versatile program features customer email notifications, a highly scalable platform and a powerful business rules engine. This allows companies to define their own business rules for each points-earning activity, including number of points, maximum frequency, approval policies, tier qualifications and much more.Businesses can also add custom activities and build their own dashboards.
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Amazon receives a huge amount of traffic every month. If you can provide a product or products that people want then you can be very successful with the FBA model. It is down to you to source the products and deliver them to Amazon warehouses for shipping to customers.
The Amazon FBA model does require you to make an investment in product acquisition. Unlike other online business models you will need to spend a few thousand on products before you can start to see a return. But if your products are popular on Amazon they will sell fast and it will not be long before you start to see a return on your investment.
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When unrelated corals and colonies grow into each other on the reef, one of three things tend to happen; Coral A kills Coral B, Coral A overgrows Coral B, or they simply come to a mutual standstill. These two different Platygyra scribbled brain colonies of two different species apparently didn't get that memo!
Collected by Salty Pets on the central Great Barrier Reef, the fusion of these two colonies is unlike anything we've ever seen before, and likely has something to do with their meandroid growth form. It appears that for a time the two different colonies tried to grow upwards for a little while, attempting to overgrow their neighbor.
But as the meandering valleys formed grooves in their leading edge, the opposite colony did the same, and they ended up growing into each other like interlocking fingers. We've never seen this wild interconnected growth form in any coral before, and not sure that it could happen quite like this if it weren't for the two colonies of meandering scribbled brain corals involved.


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May 17 2020 — I have recently launched a special page "What they say about us" in order to let my readers explain why they come to this blog for information. Today, I publish a letter from Dr. Jim Swire. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
"INTEL TODAY, in its relentless publishing on line of so many truths about the (Lockerbie) atrocity, has recently identified two men and one woman (solicitor Gareth Pierce) who all gave enormous support in the search for TRUTH. Professor Robert Black of Edinburgh in whose shadow I was grateful to stand to help pursue the agreement of the late Colonel Gaddafi to allow his citizens to be tried in a Western court, and then George Thomson, indefatigable investigator that he is. There are so many others that their friendship and support are a major part of the ability to persevere; we are fortunate indeed to have found so many friends. Love of truth seems to attract the most loveable."
"The work of younger people and groups such as INTEL TODAY with its tapping of objective professional expertise carries the responsibility of revealing the truth. For example, search their brilliant coverage of PT35b!"
Dr. Jim Swire — Letter to Intel Today (May 17 2020)
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A Letter from Dr Jim Swire to Intel Today (May 17 2020)
We were thrown from a life as a British NHS GP and family into the hell of bereavement, deceits and official deceptions upon the brutal murder of our elder daughter Flora along with 269 other innocent souls on 21st December 1988. After the first days of numbed grief and disbelief there was the support of others similarly afflicted.
Prominent among those has been Reverend John Mosey and his wife Lisa who had also lost their daughter on the flight and John and I between us witnessed the entire trial and first appeal. He and I have often discussed how we could force some good to come out of so great an evil as this barbaric act.
We might forgive those who got protection so wrong back in 1988 and those who today continue to support the nonsense of the whole story about the Lockerbie bomb having started from Malta, The truth is now clear: that story is nonsense from beginning to end.
Yet alas it is obvious that a great deal is known by our Governments here and in America about the real origins of this deeply preventable atrocity. Not only that, but direct action has been repeatedly taken to block our clamour for truth.
On top of that, Justice itself at Zeist was, we can now see, deliberately perverted in order to establish a fable which is without proof and is void.
In decent societies we all need the truth, and the restoration of impartial justice. Without those we are even denied the chance to extend forgiveness towards those who failed our families and even towards those who in reality cold-bloodily murdered them.
Further, to leave the manner of their slaughter concealed in a fog of nonsense seems to degrade the significance of their lives.
Impartial justice was a glorious evolution from the seeds sown at Runnymede in 1215 and enshrined in the Magna Carta. it was one of the greatest gifts that England gave to the world. Yet now have we really sunk to this?
In the UK we like to think of ourselves as hosting 'the mother of Parliaments' and as being the most solidly democratic country on earth.
Yet when a country decides to conceal great matters such as the real reasons for the deaths of a large number of her citizens above and on its own soil Can it claim to be democratic?
So plain is the gap now for those who have studied the evidence between reality and Government positions and so stark the evidence now available to show that the wrong country and its citizens were blamed, that for the seekers after truth, apparent blindness of Governments and their apparent intrusions in justice at Zeist can only be described as willful.
For many years I have admired the work of English poet and philosopher John Donne:
"On a huge hill,
Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
Reach her, about must, and about must goe;
And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so;
Yet strive so, that before age, death's twilight,
Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night."
'Age, death's twilight' is fast approaching now for those of us Lockerbie relatives who have fought for truth.
We need to pass on the baton to those with the intelligence skill and perseverance to continue the pursuit of truth
INTEL TODAY in its relentless publishing on line of so many truths about the atrocity has recently identified two men and one woman (solicitor Gareth Pierce) who all gave enormous support in the search for TRUTH.
Professor Robert Black of Edinburgh in whose shadow I was grateful to stand to help pursue the agreement of the late Colonel Gaddafi to allow his citizens to be tried in a Western court, and then George Thomson, indefatigable investigator that he is.
There are so many others that their friendship and support are a major part of the ability to persevere; we are fortunate indeed to have found so many friends. Love of truth seems to attract the most loveable.
In 2012 John Ashton, emerging from the confidentiality of Megrahi's legal defence team published his book "Megrahi: you are my jury" which for the first time revealed how the mysterious circuit board fragment called 'PT35b' simply could not have come from the facilities used by the Swiss firm MEBO to manufacture sophisticated digital timers and their circuit boards for Libya and other darker clients.
John followed that with 'Scotland's shame' a book which reinforces his previous work and by its very title draws attention to the fact that since the Zeist trial 20 years have gone by without any Scot with the power to be heard having stood up and demanded relentlessly that there be a full inquiry into how the Scottish police run criminal inquiry could have gone so wrong, and how the materials offered to the Zeist court by Scotland's prosecution service have been so limited and so biased.
The Zeist court was denied the expert analysis of this fragment so elegantly set out in John's book and amplified and condensed now by INTEL TODAY. The failure to act upon the evidence now publicly available largely through the determination of these great people protects the position of both the Scottish and UK based establishments.
On the morning of the very day of John Ashton's book being published in Edinburgh I heard Prime Minister David Cameron speak on Radio Four " This book is an insult to the relatives" he said. On their 'today' programme
To many of the UK relatives the book was in fact a revelation of a major route towards the truth: the PM's words were themselves the insult to us.
Work as he now may on his memoirs and speeches in his Chipping Norton shepherd's hut, over time the truth will emerge and he may even come to regret his own words of that day.
An apology would be a first regarding any failure by our own establishment to protect those precious lives
I believe this statement by our own Prime Minister was also deeply revealing.
The publisher of John Aston's book, BIRLINN OF EDINBURGH had gone to extraordinary lengths to keep John's book's contents secret until the actual launch day.
So much so that although I had been invited to the launch and was an overnight guest with the publishers, I had only been able to see the text for the first time during the night before the launch.
That Cameron could launch his comments on the day of launch itself told us three things.
A) Intelligence eyes must have scanned the text clandestinely in advance.
B) The United Kingdom Government's Prime Minister was either unaware of or uncaring about the need of grieving relatives in his own country to know the truth as to why the UK had failed at Heathrow to protect against so copiously foretold an atrocity.
C) His statement was aligned with the wishes of the United States and its establishment, and might well be acceptable to US families, assuming them to be unaware of the real facts. Many there believed themselves to have 'closure' over the background to the atrocity . Presumably that issue, prodded by UK intelligence sources seemed to justify his comments.
Did PT35b really matter? Well one man was in charge of the major US input to the criminal investigation. He was senior FBI agent Richard A. Marquise, who did his utmost to support the smooth running of the various authorities involved in the inquiry. He said of PT35b:
"Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment."
There is nothing that can replace those we lost that night. But slowly, slowly the mists obscuring the truth about their slaughter will and are clearing.
The trial at Zeist which we worked so hard to support inadvertently revealed so much of the truth, not just to us but to anyone willing to listen, that gradually realisation is emerging even round our virus ridden planet now that we have all been led astray.
The work of younger people and groups such as INTEL TODAY with its tapping of objective professional expertise carries the responsibility of revealing the truth. For example, search their brilliant coverage of PT35b!
Even now we await the Megrahi family appeal process under Scottish solicitor Aamer Anwar that surely will reveal that the verdict against the one individual Libyan, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi was false.
Then can we please know what the Governments know as to who really did do it and why our families were not protected?
Dr Jim Swire (17th May 2020)
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Description: The eBioM3/38 antibody reacts with mouse Galectin-3 (Mac-2). Galectins are a family of animal lectins which appear to exhibit a variety of biological functions. Galectin 3 (aka LGALS3, galactose-specific soluble lectin 3, Mac-2, L-29) is one of the more extensively studied members of this family and is a 30 kDa beta-galactoside-binding protein. Due to a C-terminal carbohydrate binding site, Galectin 3 is capable of binding IgE and mammalian cell surfaces only when homodimerized or homo-oligomerized. Galectin 3 is normally distributed in epithelia of many organs and various inflammatory cells, including macrophages, as well as dendritic cells and Kupffer cells. The expression of this lectin is up-regulated during inflammation, cell proliferation, cell differentiation and through trans-activation by viral proteins. This monoclonal antibody eBioM3/38 crossreacts to human Galectin-3 (LGALS3). Applications Reported: This eBioM3/38 (M3/38) antibody has been reported for use in flow cytometric analysis. Applications Tested: This eBioM3/38 (M3/38) antibody has been tested by flow cytometric analysis of mouse thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages. This can be used at less than or equal to 0.06 µg per test. A test is defined as the amount (µg) of antibody that will stain a cell sample in a final volume of 100 µL. Cell number should be determined empirically but can range from 10^5 to 10^8 cells/test.It is recommended that the antibody be carefully titrated for optimal performance in the assay of interest. Excitation: 488-561 nm; Emission: 578 nm; Laser: Blue Laser, Green Laser, Yellow-Green Laser. Filtration: 0.2 μm post-manufacturing filtered. Galactose-specific lectin which binds IgE. May mediate with the alpha-3, beta-1 integrin the stimulation by CSPG4 of endothelial cells migration. Together with DMBT1, required for terminal differentiation of columnar epithelial cells during early embryogenesis. In the nucleus: acts as a pre-mRNA splicing factor. Involved in acute inflammatory responses including neutrophil activation and adhesion, chemoattraction of monocytes macrophages, opsonization of apoptotic neutrophils, and activation of mast cells.
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After sharing a collection of season recap videos a few weeks ago I, once again, realized how few I'd actually seen once folks started sending my the ones I'd missed.
First, now how much I appreciate that. I hate the unnavoidable fact that I only see a very small portion of the marketing in this industry. The people who take the time to keep me in the loop about the stuff I can't see from my desk in Utah are incredibly appreciated.
This time, however, more than just another list of videos, I was told about one that really spoke to me which I'll talk more about later this week.
It was Stowe's.
It looks like the others, it may feel like the others, but I want to point out a wo nuanced differences that I really, really liked.
People's Favorites
It wasn't the resort's highlights, it was a recap of the favorite moments of two people. I keep landing on this simplicity and power of this idea that we typically only reserve for testimonials or quotes. Lots of videos talked about great moments, but they were framed as the resort's favorites not a person's.
Same Voices
And those voices are the snow reporters, the same ones loyal Stowe guests listened to and trusted and they experienced this winter. They started this season's story, they kept it going, and they finished it. A GM or Marketing Director or anyone could have narrated this video, but I love it was the people who narrated the 151 days before it as well.
This video was a fitting, fun sendoff as the Vail chapter opens in this corner of Vermont.
I'm going to stop there for a few reasons, but there are some big changes coming to SlopeFillers in the coming days and weeks that have a lot to do with this video and post.
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Back to Trains on Cinderellas
AUTHOR's Note:
When I first published this page, on December 4, 2004, I hoped it would provoke some controversy. I was concerned not so much with whether Railway Stamps are Cinderellas, as how they were issued and used. I thought that if I made a challenge, someone might respond. Until today (8/7/2005), the only responses I had were ones that I solicited. It turned out I was far from the only collector of these adhesives who was confused about them. That was reassuring, but frustrating.
Finally a reader in Belgium has written to contradict some of my assertions, and set the record straight. I am publishing his letter at the end of this page. It still leaves some questions, but certainly resolves many of the uncertainties of the discussion preceding it.
SO, if all you want is the answer, skip to the end, but if you want to understand the debate surrounding it, read on.
I was confused for a long time.....
about the distinction between Parcel Post stamps and Railway stamps, and which to treat as Cinderellas.
I was encouraged in this confusion by terminology and listing policies of the Scott Catalogues, and of the ATA Handbook, World Railways Philatelic. Scott, for example, lists the parcel stamps of the Belgian National Railway (SNCB), and calls them Parcel Post stamps. They are not, as I will explain below. The ATA Handbook lists the parcel stamps of the French National Railway (SNCF), and calls them Parcel Post stamps. That too is incorrect.
The key question for me in deciding whether any stamp is or is not a Cinderella is Was it issued by the postal service? For me, if it was not a postal issue, it is a Cinderella. It may be listed in catalogs, widely collected, highly valued, exhibited in prestigious philatelic exhibitions and competitions, etc., but if it was not issued by the postal service, it is a Cinderella. That is my personal standard, and I am sure there are many who will disagree with me. I don't think they are claiming that the issues are "postal", but many feel that any government- issued stamp is not a Cinderella, and belongs in some separate category. The most popular examples are Revenue stamps and government-issued or government-sanctioned railway stamps. If you wish to put those in special categories, go ahead. To me they are Cinderellas, though they can properly be called Express stamps.
So all of the following are Cinderellas:
1. Scott- and ATA-listed "Parcel Post" stamps of Belgium.
2. Yvert & Tellier and ATA-listed "Parcel Post" stamps of France.
3. Yvert & Tellier and ATA-listed "Parcel Post" stamps of Algeria.
4. Railway parcel stamps of Great Britain.
5. Railway parcel stamps of Australia and Australian states.
6. Railway parcel stamps of Germany and German states.
7. Railway stamps of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, South Africa, the USA, and any other country.
In other words, if it has the word "railway" in its name, it is a Cinderella.
It was sold by the railway that issued it, not by a Post Office (some exceptions do exist), and the package (or letter, more about that below) it paid for was handled by railway personnel, not by postal personnel. End of story.
Note as well that most of these railway adhesives were affixed not to the parcels themselves but to waybills or bills of lading, which also helps to distinguish them as non-postal issues.
Another source of confusion is terminology.
Some catalogues and listings use the term "Railway Parcel Post". I would prefer it be called "Railway Package Service" or just "Railway Mail". The term "Post" should be used only when an item is handled by the postal service. But again, the use of the word "Railway" is the tip-off that it is not really postal.
Conversely, Parcel Post stamps are not automatically rail stamps.
That too confused me - if all the Belgian Parcel Post stamps are listed in the ATA Handbook, why aren't all the U.S. Parcel Post stamps listed there? Well, First, as I have explained above, the Belgian stamps do not really belong in the catalogue or Handbook. And Second, Parcel Post could be shipped by any of many methods - trucks, trains, planes, etc., so it can be but is not necessarily rail- related. The Handbook does rightly list some Parcel Post stamps from other countries, but only when they have an explicit rail theme, such as Scott U.S. Q3, Q5, and Q9.
Belgium, Belgium, Belgium!
Let's talk about Belgium. That is the only one of the categories listed above that is in the Scott catalogue for its country. How that happened is a mystery, though I have read various explanations. Why it persists is, I think, mostly a matter of economics: if Scott de-listed all the Belgian "Parcel Post" stamps, all the collectors who have spent large sums of money collecting them (including me, by the way) would be outraged, since the value of their collections would plummet, at least in the U.S.
But why did it start?
Here are some of the explanations I have collected (all of these sources agree with me, by the way, that these stamps do not belong in Scott, or that if they remain, the others like them should be added):
"The stamps were issued by a Government-owned railway, which gives them official status."
(Source forgotten - This does not explain why the similar stamps of France and Germany are NOT listed.)
"The stamps were sold at Post Offices."
(Source forgotten - Is this true? Which ones? During what period?)
"The catalogues include them because in Belgium the railway parcels service was the only parcels service. There was no Post Office parcels service as such."
( Tony Goodbody - True until recently - see below)
"Scott lists Belgian Parcel Post and railway stamps because, in addition to paying for railway delivery, they were valid for some classes of Parcel Post delivery."
(Janet Klug, Linn's Refresher Course - This was true for a short period, and applies only to one small issue, 1928-33.))
"It is possible that the use of these stamps on parcels to the Belgian Congo brought them into contact with the postal system enough to account for their listing as postage stamps. Belgium and the Belgian Congo had an agreement for parcels which allowed the use of the railway labels from Belgium and ordinary postage stamps from the Congo."
(Richard McB. Cabeen -Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting, New Revised Edition - an interesting theory, which simply confirms my opinion that their listing was a mistake.)
Hoping to resolve this mystery, I emailed Michael Baadke, Editor of Scott Stamp Monthly and an e-friend, sending the list of theories above, and asking whether he could confirm any of them, or add new ones. He replied (12/06/2004) as follows:
From what I could discover, the decision to list these stamps in the Scott catalog apparently came around 1888, when the first ones appeared in the 49th edition of the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. That would be just a couple of years after John Walter Scott sold his catalog business to Gustave B. Calman in December 1885.
I notice the stamps are also listed in Stanley Gibbons, Michel, Yvert et Tellier, Minkus and Belgium's own OBP specialized catalog.
I asked Scott catalog editor James E. Kloetzel for his insight on the subject, and he contributed this:
We can't speak to the original decision to list Belgian parcel stamps, although "Source Unknown," Goodbody and Cabeen are probably correct. So long as the labels paid parcel fees and were issued by a government agency, there was a logic in adding them to the catalog. When they ceased to be valid for the payment of fees, however, they were nothing more than publicity or charity labels, and so those which had crept in after 1996 were delisted in the 2005 edition.
There is a certain logic in listing railway labels that pay fees for the carriage of parcels or other mail, when the issuing authority is state-owned, but, as far as I know, Belgium is the only country for which we've included such issues. We do not plan on taking these issues out of the catalog, and perhaps we should consider adding similar stamps from some other countries (at least to the Classic) at some future date.
That was much more than I had expected, and I thought it ended the matter.
But then I happened to look at my Scott catalogue again, and stumbled on this notation at the beginning of the Parcel Post section for Belgium:
Values for used stamps are for copies with railway cancellations. Those with postal cancellations sell for twice as much.
Oops! What's that about? I re-read some articles Tony Goodbody had sent me, and found he had written this in one of them:
For a short time only, 1928-33, the Belgian Post Office operated a small packet service, and issued stamps for that service. This service was subsequently taken over by the railway company and short sets of stamps inscribed "Colis Postal" or the letter "B" in an oval and incorporating a post-horn into the design were issued from 1934 onwards and were available at post offices as well as at railway stations.So maybe there was more to this. I emailed Tony and asked him to elaborate on that statement about a postal small parcel service. Here is the e-versation that ensued:
Can you give me more information about the small parcel stamps you mentioned in that article?I have seen a claim elsewhere that the post office continued to offer a small packet service, and to issue stamps for them. I thnk Horst Brix alluded to this too, something about Michel separating the stamps into two categories.
These are short sets issued beginning in 1928: Q174-75 (overprints), Q176-79, Q181-83, 208-210, 291-6, 301-9, 328-335, 338-340, 362-373, 379-387 (My Scott catalogue doesn't go any further). They don't ALL have the B and the posthorn and the words "Colis Postal" (later "Colis Postaux" and/or "Postcolli") but most of them do.I just noticed as well that Scott says "Values for used stamps are for copies with railway cancellations. Those with postal cancellations sell for twice as much." The plot thickens.
I think it would be perfectly valid to separate the Belgian stamps into two categories. The same would be true for the German railway stamps (i.e. those inscribed "Express" vs. the others)Those with circular cancels are more attractive and scarcer of course. I try to find circular cancels as far as possible.And all the Q's you listed were sold at both PO's and RR stations?I imagine so.At the PO's they paid for small parcels conveyed however the PO chose? Or strictly by rail, with the addition of postal delivery?So it appears the situation is far more complicated than I thought. Stay tuned as I try to learn more.
Here I begin to speculate but I imagine by rail. After all Belgium has the densest rail network (i.e. more miles per person) in the world. But presumably the ones that started at a post office traveled under postal control.
Now here is one thing I noticed:
If you compare the practice in France and Belgium there are similarities. In France they used separate stamps for delivery at home, insurance, outsized parcels, cash on delivery, etc. In Belgium, they did not use separate stamps, but they did use "etiquettes" which were fixed to the waybills to indicate that certain additional services had been paid for. These are rather scarce but I have got one waybill with a triangular etiquette reading "Remboursement" which is for cash on delivery. I have another one with a wineglass picture stuck on, which indicates a fragile parcel. Others have pictures of farm animals for livestock consignments.
Recently Belgium Post initiated a real Parcel Post service, with special adhesives called Kilopost, while SNCB offers only heavy freight shipping, so apparently the era represented by the Belgian Railway stamps has ended. Mr. Kloetzel's remark above implies that happened as early as 1996.
8/7/2005 - I received the following email message:
Dear Mr. Senkus,
I have read with interest your Internet posting on Belgian Parcel Stamps.
Although I do not share your view that all Railway Parcel Stamps are Cinderellas (we should leave it to individual collectors to decide if they want to collect also Railway, Telephone, Telegraph stamps, other Fiscal stamps, etc...), I would like to give you some further information regarding the particular case of Belgium. I am NOT a specialist in this matter and what I tell you is just "common" knowledge of a citizen of Belgium who has used those services for over 40 years and who happens to collect also those "Cinderellas".
Your starting point is to say that if the label was not issued by the postal service, then it is a Cinderella. Even if we accept that definition, many of the Parcel Stamps of Belgium WERE issued by the postal service (as several of the contributors to your page have already pointed out). Moreover, stamps of both the Postal Service and the Railroad were sold by offices of both organizations. The situation is complex, and I will try to explain in detail below how these stamps were issued and used.
First, some background about the agencies involved.
You must know that in Belgium in the 1800's (as in other European countries at that time), the postal service, telephone service, telegraph service AND railway service were all under just ONE administration. It was only over time that they separated into different "independent" organizations (even if they remained under the authority for most of the time of the same Ministry). That's why you can sometimes have one service (telegraphs or railways) using the labels (stamps) issued by another service (postal service) or vice-versa.
To give you an practical example. Until a few years ago in Belgium, "Express" (= "Special Delivery") letters could be sent by remitting them either to a Post Office or (after closing hours of Post Offices) at the offices of the Railway Company, which then forwarded them during the night. Those letters (deposited either at the Post Office OR at a Railway Station) where then delivered to the address by the Telegraph Delivering Service (subordinate at that time to the Telephone Company). Such letters had to carry normal stamps issued by the postal service (Special Delivery stamps during the short period when there were such stamps). If they were deposited at the Post Office, the stamps were cancelled with a Post Office stamp (round); if there were deposited at the Railway Station, they were cancelled with a Railway cancellation stamp (rectangular format !). Therefore it is the cancellation of the letter (stamps) which tells you where a Special Delivery letter was deposited.
Now to Belgium's Railway Parcel Stamps.
First of all, you must take into account that nearly ALL catalogues list two completely different kinds of stamps under the same heading and numbering called Railway Parcel Stamps, which is confusing, because this listing then includes two rather different types of stamps used in principle for two different services, although the boundaries between the two are not always clear cut.
In the beginning (1879 up to 1928) there was only one type of stamps (Railway stamps "Chemins de Fer - Spoorwegen) issued by a service which was common to postal and railway services. Those stamps were sold both by the postal services AND by the railway services. Postal services typically accepted parcels up to a certain size and weight (which varied over time) AND they delivered parcels up to a certain size and weight (varied over time, and differing if within Belgium or in International traffic). When delivered to the post office, the parcel could use either railway stamps (if available) or normal post stamps. You can find on those stamps two types of cancellations, either the "common" Railway cancellation (rectangular in over 90% of the cases, although in the beginning there were also a few round railway cancellations with different diameters than those of the postal service) OR the much less frequent (especially on higher value stamps) "postal" cancellation (round cancellations, identical to those on normal stamps). This is why most catalogues indicate, like Scott, that <<Prices for used stamps are for copies with railway cancellations. Stamps with postal cancellations sell for about double prices>>.
In 1928, the Postal Service issued for the first time two special stamps (Scott Nr. Q174 and Q175) for small parcels accepted at the offices of the postal services. Those are two stamps from the regular issue of normal post stamps with an overprint. Subsequently, the Postal Service issued several stamps for small parcels (Postal Parcel Stamps). They all bear the words "Colis Postaux - Postcolli." More recently (after a few years of interruption of dedicated stamps for this service), the inscription "Kilopost" has been used.
Now those stamps (as opposed to those - after 1928 - bearing only the words "Chemins de Fer - Spoorwegen" or having no words and just the letter <<B>> in an oval) are indeed issued by the postal service (thus NOT Cinderellas according to your definition). They are used for small parcels (up to various weight limits) deposited at the regular Post Offices (but also at the Railway Stations, which also sell those stamps). Those small parcels are forwarded (transported) by the Railway company and are in most of the cases (but not in all cases all the time during the period 1928-1980) delivered to the addressee by the same postman (Postal Services) as the one who delivers your regular mail (except if one asked and paid for "Special Delivery", see above ....). Again, you can see from the cancellation if the stamp was used for a parcel deposited at the Post Office (round cancellation) or at the Railway Station (rectangular cancellation).
Railway stamps with overprint "Journaux - Dagbladen" (listed as "Newspaper stamps") or with overprint "Bagages - Reisgoed" (Luggage, not listed by Scott) are also issued by the Railway Company.
Railway stamps up to the present day are used (mainly by companies, large and small) to pay for the fees to have parcels (larger or heavier than those accepted by the Post Office) picked-up, transported and delivered by the Railway Company. In recent years (after 1980) the Belgian Railway Company has issued a few stamps and blocks aimed at collectors more than at the usage they are supposed to serve.
One finds Railway stamps on special forms (waybills) that the users of this service must fill in to have their goods transported. Those forms remain with the Railway Company, which, after a certain period, auctions off its archives (where collectors can then "recuperate" the used stamps). You can even find (very rare) normal postal stamps used on those waybills, either alone or mixed; moreover, those waybills can carry labels (etiquettes) for special handling (live animals or glass) or special services ("remboursement").
Postal Parcel Stamps (including Kilopost) are all sold at the regular post offices (at least in the period 1960 up to now) and one can get them from the same "collector's service" where one buys the other postal stamps.
From about 1960 to about 1990, Railway stamps were not sold to the general public by the regular post office. One had to go to a separate office of the Railway Company to get them (mint). More recently (within the past 5 or 10 years?) collectors can also get the Railway Stamps from the same collector's service where they get the regular postal stamps.
To confuse things even more, you should know that not only had the Belgian Postal Services their own railway carriages (waggons) which traveled with regular trains (this was common in all European countries until a few years ago) and where employees of the postal services where handling letters and parcels when the train was rolling, but that again in the period 1960-1990 and maybe a few years later, the Belgian Post Services had their own trains (painted in red) which they operated for transporting mail (including small parcels).
Finally, Railway Letter Stamps in Belgium (catalogued as "Official Stamps") bear either a symbol (wheel with wings) or the letter <<B>> in an oval. They are affixed on the correspondence sent by the Railway Company through the regular postal services and can in theory only be used for the correspondence of the Railway Company (if using them on private correspondence, the sender was assumed to have "stolen" them from the Railway Company), but you could always buy them mint from the post office (for collectors).
I hope to have helped you a little bit in your understanding of these "overlapping" services.
Best regards
Jean Maas
Bruxelles, Belgium
I am very grateful to Mr. Maas for taking the time to provide that extremely informative overview of the subject. His explanation has helped me to understand why there is such confusion among collectors about this matter. I think part of that confusion, especially among U.S. collectors, is that we start from the viewpoint of our own country's history, and assume it must be the same elsewhere. I confess as well that I prefer simple answers, and thought there must be a simple way to sort all Railway Stamps into clear categories. I see now that is not the case. I will no longer assert that all Railway Stamps are Cinderellas.
1/21/2007 - GO HERE for details and pictures for all the Belgian Railway stamps, including Parcel, Newspaper, Luggage, Officials, and Regular Issues.
Railway Letter Stamps are not much different from Railway Parcel Stamps, except that they paid for conveyance of a letter, and were affixed to that letter, not to a waybill. Generally Railway Letter service was more strictly regulated than the parcel service, since it was more likely to compete and conflict with the Postal letter service, so again, these are basically Express services, and Express stamps, and Cinderellas.
Railroads in three countries issued Railway Letter Stamps, but Great Britain is the only place I know of where these were officially sanctioned, during the period 1891-1941 (but see above, "Railway Letter Stamps in Belgium". There were also stamps issued and used in the UK before that period, with sometimes questionable authority, for what amounted to private mail service by railroads. The area is a complex and interesting one, which I will not try to examine here. There are authoritative publications on the topic by the Railway Philatelic Group of the UK, whom I suggest you write if you wish to learn more. (NB - the modern "Railway Letter Stamps" issued by tourist railways and Preservation Societies such as the Talyllyn and Festiniog of Great Britain do not fall into this category - they are souvenir labels.) Because these stamps were issued with government approval, and under government supervision, all the designs are essentially the same, differing only in the name of the railway, the denomination, and the color. None shows a train or locomotive, so they tend to appeal only to the serious collector. (Click here to see some of the GB Railway Letter stamps.)
The two other countries where Railway Letter Stamps were issued are Netherlands and Iraq. I know of no country which still uses railway parcels stamps or railway letter stamps apart from the above-mentioned concoctions for tourists issued in the UK and in Australia.
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Wildfire Causes Thousands To Evacuate Alberta Town, Fire Danger Expected To Continue Increasing (PHOTOS)
It has been a scary week for Alberta as a number of out of control wildfire are burning. Due to the northern Alberta wildfires, thousands have evacuated towns as the fire danger is expected to increase this week.
According to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, the number of wildfires burning across the province is "slightly higher than the five-year average." Since March 1, 2019, there have alread been 430 wildfires in Alberta. Six of these fires have been classified as out of control.
As of now, Alberta is rated at the highest possible danger level for wildfires. With the dry temperatures and wind, dangerous conditions are only expected to increase.
In a public statement issued today on May 21, 2019, Kenney stated that Alberta wildfire crews are fighting a significant wildfire in northern Alberta in the region of High Level, Mackenzie County, and the Dene Tha' First Nation.
Due to the increasing danger, a number of mandatory evacuation orders have been put in place. An evacuation order is currently in place for the town of High Level including areas south and southeast of the town. There is also one effective for areas south of the Bush River Reserve and a voluntary evacuation in place for the areas north of town.
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The Dene Tha' First Nation also declared a state of emergency for Bush River Reverse, with evacuations currently underway.
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Residents are being told to be prepared to be away from home for at least 72 hours. So far, more than 4,000 people living in northern Alberta have been evacuated without incident.
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Kenney stated that in terms of the fire intensity scale from 1 to 6, the current fire situation is sitting at a 6, "meaning that the fire is jumping from crown to crown of trees."
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Although an ongoing threat to safety, at this time, no homes have been damaged. There are also no known injuries or deaths.
Helicopter and water bombers are currently being used for the operation. Alberta Wildfire has 89 firefighters, heavy equipment, and air support assigned to this wildfire.
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Over the next 48 hours, crews from Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia will join Alberta firefighters. "These resources are very much appreciated," said Kenney. "We would be proud to return the favour in the future."
Although crews are helping to fight the blaze, Mayer, Assistant Deputy Minister with Alberta Environment, said that it is unlikely that people will be put "in front of the head" as it is too dangerous.
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Kenney also reminded the public to follow fire bans and to not throw any cigarettes out of vehicles. He said that officials believe that most of the fires are caused by human activity.
Due to Alberta's dry and windy conditions for the next foreseeable future, the fire is only expected to worsen.
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In a video posted on Kenney's public Facebook page, it was stated that wildfires this time of year are typical after the snow and winter runoff is gone and precipitation is limited.
He also stated that due to Alberta's dry and windy conditions for the next foreseeable future, the fire is only expected to worsen.
"Fire season is a long and tough battle every year and we need to be prepared for the long haul this summer," said Kenney.
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According to Environment Canada, weather for the rest of the week in Edmonton will be sunny with highs in the 20s. No precipitation is in the forecast for the next foreseeable future. With a wildfire burning just 730 km north of the city, spreading poses a huge risk.
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The Granite State Mini Sprint Racing Club, Inc. was founded in 1984 and at the end of the racing season had a total of 4 cars competing. The club had their first full season in 1985. With 7 cars competing and the membership in the club has steadily been increasing and now in 1994 we have over 100 members (going to need editing). The club was established as a NON-Profit family-oriented organization dedicated to the safe enjoyment and promotion of Mini Sprint Racing throughout the New England area. As a touring group, the club has raced at many dirt tracks as well as asphalt tracks throughout New England.
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At least one person shot and killed while dozens of travellers have been forcefully taken away along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway when suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents attacked in Borno state on Friday evening, sources said.
It was learnt that the outlawed group attacked motorists at about 5 pm at Kondiri village near Jakana town in Konduga local government area of the state on Friday abducting all passengers on board a hummer bus and injuring four others.
According to eyewitness Modu Usman who narrowly escaped the attacks, the insurgents dressed in military camouflage and with two Toyota Hilux mounted with anti-aircraft gun station by the roadside in the manner of military troops.
"God saved us, our driver has experienced that road, when we are approaching them. Already the hummer bus and two golf cars have been intercepted and motorists stopped, so they started shooting and we made a u-turn into bushes.
"So they allowed golf cars to go but all the passengers. We returned to Benishek town to pass the night. This morning we saw four vehicles including a truck with the marking of Dangote company conveying cement burnt down," Usman said.
A top vigilante source also confirmed the incident, but said only one person was killed and four others injured when insurgents waylaid the motorists. but an unspecified number of passengers were kidnapped by the insurgents.
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Having released his debut album Lights Out Paris in 2005, it took a good while for Sims to bring out the follow-up but it was most definitely worth the wait. Bad Time Zoo is 14 track record full of cutting lyrics which range from the apathy of modern society to the simple fact that the MC loves his girlfried all layered over supremely powerful production from Lava Banger creator Lazerbeak.
Opening up as he means to go on, the Minneapolis rapper claiming that we "dropped the borders but we kept them walls" and being "so close I could almost see your breath / but so far I can't hear your words" before lamenting the so-called "time of plenty" whilst all the while feeling like something is missing.
It's a theme that runs through the album but never once falls into the preaching category, which is a testament to the ability of Sims' lyrics, who despite all the problems we face implores us to "drop that cynicism" on Weight. Listening to these beats, that task doesn't seem quite so difficult.
Relying more on his own talent than bringing in scores of guests, Sims does relent on Too Much by having P.O.S. giving his take on a near-disasterous road accident. Far from taking away from Sims, it simply goes to show how talent the Doomtree camp are as both mould their flows over the beat in their own inimitable style.
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That Archie Meets Ramones comic, where America's oldest drawn teenager meets the punk rock icons, has hit the stands. If you really need more than the title, here's the official synopsis:
Hey! Ho! Let's go! America's favorite teens cross paths with the original NYC punks in this extra-sized one-shot spectacular that is not to be missed! When the Archies tank at the Riverdale High Battle of the Bands, a magical twist of fate sends them hurtling into the past—and face-to-face with none other than the Ramones! Can the legendary punks get the Archies to realize their own rock 'n' roll potential and find their way home? Probably not—but it'll be a blitzkrieg bop of a journey, as the two bands bounce from 53rd and 3rd to Rockaway Beach in this must-read crossover from the writers of the best-selling ARCHIE MEETS KISS and WE CAN NEVER GO HOME with jaw-droppingly beautiful art from Gisele Lagace ("Occupy Riverdale")!
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Ib Antoni had many exciting collaborations with customers from all over the world, including the Industry Council, a Danish industrial policy organisation that existed from 1910 to 1992, with the aim of getting the industry's interests on the political agenda. In 1921, the Industry Council merged with "Industriens Arbejdsgivere" and changed their name to Danish Industry.
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O God, to whom glory is sung in the highest, while on earth peace is proclaimed among men of goodwill; grant that same goodwill to us Thy servants; cleanse us from evil, and give peace to all Thy people; through Thy mercy, O blessed Lord God, who dost live and govern all things, world without end. Amen.
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Do you hand out treats for Halloween?
We do at our house, I'm just not the one who actually gives it out.
What was your favourite costume?
I dressed up as Tinker Bell in high school that I think worked really well. Otherwise, I was always pretty much a witch.
Favourite Halloween novel?
I don't think I have one… I don't think I've read a book that focuses around Halloween. Spooky read that I read this year that I really enjoyed, Girl From the Well and the sequel The Suffering.
Favourite Halloween movie?
Casper maybe, I love that move, it's so cute! Growing up I wanted Christina Ricci to be my older sister 😂
Candy or chips?
Oh most definitely candy!
Favourite scary monster?
Definitely vampires! Hello, have you seen Eric Northman?
Have you been to a haunted house before?
I actually had to think about this because I don't remember! I don't think I have… I would like to though!
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, has been more than happy to speak his mind on a multitude of topics whenever he believes there might be even the most tangential coronavirus connection.
He has warned against going to holiday gatherings, attending sporting events, living life without face masks even if vaccinated, allowing maskless kids to play together, and anything else that tickles his fancy.
But he has been strangely silent about the current border crisis, where our Border Patrol is being overrun by thousands of illegal aliens surging into the U.S. The migrant crisis has raised COVID-19 questions in the minds of many observers.
How many of these illegals are positive for the virus? Is our government even bothering to test them? Have they released known COVID-positive migrants into the country?
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even changed its COVID protocol guidelines to allow the Biden administration to house illegal immigrant children in shelters at 100% capacity — and more.
And at least one mayor of a U.S. border town has repeatedly sounded the alarm that the government was shipping illegals to his community and refusing to reveal the migrants' COVID-19 infection rates.
Yet Dr. Fauci has remained curiously quiet about all of this.
His silence has not gone unnoticed.
One of the leading voices calling out Fauci's refusal to call out the border crisis' COVID-19 threat is the man who served as chief of staff to former President Donald Trump.
Mark Meadows made his observation Wednesday afternoon on Twitter.
"There was no policy, medical or otherwise, that Dr. Fauci wouldn't weigh in on when President Trump was in the White House," Meadows wrote. "Curious we haven't heard from the same Dr. Fauci on Joe Biden releasing thousands of COVID untested migrants into the U.S."
There was no policy, medical or otherwise, that Dr. Fauci wouldn't weigh in on when President Trump was in the Whit… https://t.co/LGyuCIb4aQ— Mark Meadows (@Mark Meadows) 1617215106.0
Meadows isn't the only Fauci critic to note the good doctor's refusal to comment on the border situation.
Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks and a number of other GOP lawmakers fired off a letter to Fauci on March 12 asking him to use his clout to stop "a dangerous new foreign pipeline for COVID-19" along the U.S.-Mexico border, AL.com reported.
The letter stated that Biden's "dangerous" policy of "catch-and-release" along the southern border has caused an uptick in illegal crossings, exposing "the lack of any uniform testing requirements or quarantine protocols — despite the fact that Mexico now has the highest per capita COVID fatality rate in Latin America."
"Even more troubling," the letter continued, "are recent reports indicating that the surge in illegal migration is worsening by the day, creating a dangerous new foreign pipeline for COVID-19 infections in border communities, and the nation at large."
Fauci, the lawmakers noted, is "in a unique position to make recommendations based on scientific evidence and data on what you believe to be best practices when it comes to containing the spread of the virus — something you have not hesitated to do on multiple occasions over the course of the last several months."
Yet, Fauci has remained silent.
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On Wednesday night, Aug. 19, ultrarunner Dylan Bowman accomplished something extraordinary. Not only did he successfully complete the notorious Wonderland Trail that spans around the tallest mountain in Washington state, Mt. Rainier, but he did so setting the fastest known time (FKT) in history.
The 93-mile route around the iconic active stratovolcano climbs 24,000 feet of elevation gain, and the terrain is stunningly rugged and nothing short of unmerciful. The route takes hikers and runners into high apline areas, as well as lowland forests and valleys. It's an arduous trek to say the least, and completing it in the fastest time ever is an otherworldly feat.
The Red Bull athlete began his run at 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning. His goal on this unsupported FKT attempt was to break ultrarunner Ryan Ghelfi's standing record of 18 hours, 27 minutes, 42 seconds, set back in 2018.
With excessive heat and minimal water, this attempt would prove to be an exceptional challenge. He pushed himself tremendously, and at 21 miles into the trail, he was poised in a great position at just over 50 minutes ahead of pace, at Mowich Lake. And he continued to better his time, sitting at over an hour ahead of pace roughly three-quarters of the way to completion.
At just before 9 p.m. that night, he cruised into the finish with a time of 16 hours, 58 minutes, 41 seconds. This shattered the previous record by a staggering 1 hour, 29 minutes.
It goes without saying this is a monumental accomplishment at any capacity. Red Bull goes on to explain that ultrarunning FKT's have grown in popularity recently, due to COVID-19 shut downs. Athletes are looking for ways to continue to push themselves outside of the organized competitive realm. And Dylan Bowman is a sterling example of this trend.
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Looks like actor Christopher Lloyd is trading flux capacitors and taxi cabs for warm milk, leg blankets and Murder, She Wrote reruns — the Back to the Future actor is set to join previously announced leads Hector Elizondo (Last Man Standing) and Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men) in NBC's new comedy pilot Guess Who Died.
The retirement home-set project stems from Norman Lear (All in the Family) and Peter Tolan (Rescue Me); with Lear and Tolan executive producing — via Act III Productions and The Cloudland Company — alongside Lear associate Brent Miller and in conjunction with Sony Pictures Television.
Based on Lear's personal experiences of working into his later years, Guess Who Died is described as "a humorous and inspiring look at the shared joys and challenges we all experience at any stage of life." The comedy is set in the Las Esperanzado Senior Community in Palm Springs. It centers on Murray (Elizondo), a retired music executive who is positive and upbeat with sparkling eyes and a keen, sharp and wonderful sense of humor. After the death of his beloved wife, he realizes he's fallen in love with his sister-in-law, Patricia (Taylor), a former American Airlines flight attendant, who can be a little too proper at times, but she's sharp as a tack and has a great sense of humor.
Guess Who Died also stars Beth Lacke (Work It) as Cybil, Murray's daughter who works as a poetic writing teacher at a community college and visits her parents every day to help with her mom's care; and Adrian Martinez (The Blacklist: Redemption), whose Lopez is a security guard at the main guard gate at the Las Esperanzado.
Though Lloyd's film and television career dates back to the 1970s, he is best known for his role as Dr. Emmet "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future franchise; and as Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the classic sitcom Taxi. He's also appeared in The Addams Family films, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and dozens more.


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After a thrilling finish against the Bears and some help from the New York Giants, the Packers now control their own destiny heading into the final stretch of regular season play.
With two divisional games left against the Vikings and the much anticipated season finally against the Lions, Green Bay can win out and take the division title.
There is still a chance for three teams in the North to get into the playoffs. The Vikings will need a lot of help, but the Wild Card spot is theoretically still an option for all three teams.
Detroit Lions: Current Record (9-5), 1st in Division
Detroit may have had the toughest schedule in the league to finish out the season. The Lions lost last week to one of the hottest teams in the league in the New York Giants; they will now head to Dallas to play the best team in the NFC, and they'll end the year with a game to decide their season against the Packers. Detroit's sling of second half comebacks finally came to an end, but this team has proven that even when down, it seems to find a way to win. The solution has been relying on their MVP-caliber quarterback Matthew Stafford, who has been thriving despite not having any sort of running game to assist the offense. However, Detroit's much-improved defense seems to be the underlying cause of their success this year. If their leader in the secondary, Darius Slay, can stay in the lineup, this team can compete with any sort of passing attack. While Detroit has had impressive wins this year, their best win this year has been against Washington. That is the only playoff eligible team they have beat, which brings into question if they even have a chance to win out and seal their own fate. If they fall behind a good team like Dallas, they might not be able to pull out another miracle win.
Remaining Schedule: @ Cowboys, vs. Packers
Win NFC North if: win + Packers loss
Clinch playoff spot if: win + Buccaneers loss OR Redskins loss, Buccaneers loss, Falcons win
Prediction: 9-7, no playoff berth
Green Bay Packers: Current Record (8-6), 2nd in Division
Packer fans have to be content with the position that Green Bay is currently in. They have continued to "Run the Table" and go into next week against a struggling Vikings team, and finish of the year against a Detroit team that has been difficult to predict all year. The Vikings did scrape by with a win in week 2 against the Packers, but they were a very different team at that point in the season. Additionally, Green Bay is a much-improved team as they have hit their stride coming into the final stretch of the season. The Packers also seem to be getting out of the injury bug, as much of their starting secondary has gotten back into the lineup. However, both Clay Matthews and Aaron Rodgers clearly are nowhere near 100 percent healthy, and it has shown in Matthews' limited snaps and Rodgers inability to effectively run the ball. Also, just when the Packers secondary seemed to begin picking up the slack by getting five interceptions the previous game, and three against Chicago, they fell apart in the fourth quarter. There is no question that this offense is one of the top tier forces in the league, especially with Ty Montgomery turning into a threat in the backfield and Jared Cook finally becoming a go-to target for Rodgers, but if this defense can't hold up against an offense like the Chicago Bears, will they be able to handle the likes of Matthew Stafford or Sam Bradford? Despite this, the Packers appear to have the best offense in the division, and it appears that this division will come down to Week 17 against Detroit.
Remaining Schedule: vs. Vikings, @ Lions
Win NFC North if: they win out
Clinch playoff spot in week 16 if: win + Redskins loss + Buccaneers loss AND five of the following teams win: Jaguars, Browns, Falcons, Rams, Texans, Broncos, Lions (strength of schedule)
Prediction: 10-6, win NFC North
Minnesota Vikings: Current Record (7-7), 3rd in Division
Before the Vikings' abysmal performance last week against the Colts, they had a legitimate chance at the division title. Now they are clinging onto hopes of staying in the hunt for the Wild Card race. The Vikings can no longer win the division even if Detroit loses both of its games because the Lions swept the Vikings this year. New York or Dallas will take one of the two Wild Card spots depending on who wins the NFC East, so that limits the Vikings to the final Wild Card position. Washington and Tampa Bay are still ahead of Minnesota so they would both need to lose out in order for the Vikings to have a chance. Having a poor record in the division is what killed the Vikings' chances this year at winning the division, as their only win so far has been against the Packers. Winning out it definitely not out of the question for this team, but winning at Lambeau in December is no easy task. Rodgers hasn't lost a home game in December since 2008, meaning the Vikings will have their work cut out for them. Even with Peterson back, Minnesota has not performed at a playoff level since week 5, meaning they will need a major overhaul to even consider the playoffs.
Remaining Schedule: @ Packers, vs. Bears
Can no longer win NFC North
Make the playoffs if: win out + Buccaneers lose twice + Washington loses twice + Packers week 17 loss
Prediction: 8-8, no playoff berth


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