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The From email address of the Payment Initiated email, which was previously your organization's primary email address can now be changed to an email address that belongs to any of your organization's contact persons.
You can get your hosted payment pages across to more people by enabling the new social share buttons, which let your customers share your hosted payment page's link to their own social media (Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp) handles.
Enabling this feature lets your customers make partial payments with any amount of their choice, when they make payments from the customer portal or through invoice payment links.
You will now be able to pause, resume, and postpone the next billing date of multiple subscriptions at once using the bulk update feature.
You can now configure a number series for your product, and every subscription that's created henceforth with a plan from that product will follow the product's number series.
Integrate with Mercado Pago, one of the leading payment service providers in Latin America, to enable your customers to pay you quickly and securely via the following payment modes—Cash, Cards, and Red Link Transfers. Learn more.
The Pause and Resume feature, which was previously in beta, is now open for everyone to use. Enable it in Settings to suspend your customers' subscriptions temporarily and resume them when necessary, without affecting your churn reports. Learn more.
A new custom field, with the data type as Attachment, can be used to attach documents, such as PDFs and JPEGs, while creating customers and transactions in Zoho Subscriptions. You can select documents either from your device's local storage or from the cloud.
We've added two new events--one that occurs when an invoice has been voided and another when a credit note has been refunded. You can use these events in your workflows to trigger actions such as webhooks and email alerts.
Hate scrolling through lists to find what you're looking for? You can now rearrange custom fields by simply dragging and dropping your most used ones to the top of the list. The order of your custom fields in Settings will also be applied to custom fields in the Hosted Payment Pages, the Customer Portal and while creating transactions in Zoho Subscriptions.
With this update, you can integrate with Zoho Desk to view your customers' subscription-related information contextually, alongside tickets. You'll also be able to create new customers and contact persons in Zoho Subscriptions right from Zoho Desk. Learn more.
If your customers need to suspend their subscriptions temporarily, you can now pause and resume subscriptions, instead of canceling and re-activating them, since paused subscriptions do not affect your churn reports. Also, you can automate this process and save time by configuring a pause and resume schedule. Learn more.
The newly added 'open_inSameTab' node in the embed widget's code lets you choose whether you want to direct your customers to the hosted payment pages on the same tab or on a different tab. Set the value of this node as "true" if you want the hosted payment pages to open in the same browser tab as the embed widget.
With this update, you can select the documents/images that you've stored on Zoho WorkDrive while attaching files to transactions in Zoho Subscriptions.
You can now configure VAT treatments at the subscription-level. You will also have the option to apply that VAT treatment as default for a customer. This is applicable only for VAT MOSS enabled organizations in the Global, UAE and UK editions of Zoho Subscriptions.
The iDeal payment method, via the Stripe integration, is now available on the hosted payment pages. It will be available on public hosted payment pages if your organization's country is set to the Netherlands and your currency is set to Euro. If not, you will still be able to use it on API hosted payment pages with the specified country and currency settings.
The PDF copy of an invoice can now be sent to your customers along with the Payment Initiated email for ACH and direct debit payments. To enable this, write to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Use the %FirstName% and %LastName% placeholders to include your customers' first and last names, respectively, in your email alerts. These place holders will also be available while adding parameters to webhooks.
The list of subscriptions from the Subscriptions module can now be sorted based on their amount, in either ascending or descending order.
You can set your own Favicon (the icon on browser tabs) for the Zoho Subscriptions web app and customer portal. This option will be available only if you've enabled custom domain mapping. Learn more.
You will now be able to collect payments in currencies other than your base currency using the Razorpay integration. This will be applicable when your customers make payments via invoice payment links, the customer portal and API hosted payment pages. Learn more.
The custom domain mapping feature has a brand-new interface! You can now disable, re-enable and delete your domain mapping right from Zoho Subscriptions, without the need for contacting our support. Learn more.
You can now create custom fields for your products. These custom fields will be available when creating plans and add-ons and also in the line-item level when creating new transactions.
Metered billing can now be enabled for subscriptions, even if it wasn't enabled when the subscription was created.
You can now choose to make your comments on invoices available in the customer portal using the Display in portal option. Your customers will be notified about these comments via email and will be able to reply to them as well.
The data that your customers enter on your web form or website while signing up for a subscription can now be pre-filled on the hosted payment pages. This will provide your customers with a faster and seamless checkout experience. Learn more.
You can now integrate with one of India's largest payment gateways, which allows your customers to pay for subscriptions via their Credit/Debit cards, Internet Banking, Paytm Wallet and apps that support UPI payments like Google Pay, BHIM or PhonePe. Learn more.
Now, whenever you make excess payments, they will also be applied to auto-charge enabled subscriptions, instead of only online subscriptions (without auto-charge) and offline subscriptions.
The new Zoho Subscriptions-Zoho Analytics integration makes your data from Zoho Subscriptions available in Zoho Analytics. The integration offers 30+ subscriptions specific reports and also lets you create custom reports from multiple sources. Learn more.
When you send invoice links to your customers, a message at the top of the page will display their total outstanding balance along with a link to pay for the total outstanding balance in a single payment.
Unbilled Charges lets you retain your customers' subscription related charges, which include charges for new subscriptions, one-time add-ons and additional charges. You can review and raise a single invoice for the retained charges later. Learn more.
You can now use iDeal (via Stripe), to collect payments from customers in the Netherlands. After enabling it, iDeal will be available for customers whose country is set to Netherlands and currency is set to Euro.
Reporting tags that you've created in Zoho Books can now be associated with customers, plans and add-ons in Zoho Subscriptions. These tags can be used to filter the Sales by Add-on and Sales by Plans reports. Learn more.
The PayTabs payment gateway supports GCC-based payments methods such as SADAD, mada, Knet, Oman Net and BENEFIT and is now available to collect payments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia editions of Zoho Subscriptions.
Custom Schedulers let you schedule tasks and provide you with various recurrence options, thereby giving you more control over when your tasks are executed. Learn more.
You can now access Zoho Subscriptions in Japanese. The customer portal and all your hosted payment pages will be available in Japenese as well.
Multi-select is a new custom field type, which lets you provide multiple selectable options for custom fields.
The GoCardless integration in Zoho Subscriptions now lets you collect direct debit payments from Australia, Canada and Switzerland. Learn more.
Web Tabs allow you to access external websites and web applications right from Zoho Subscriptions. You can also configure access permissions for each web tab based on users and roles.
You can now secure your webhooks in Zoho Subscriptions by configuring a secret key, which will be used to generate a hash value. This hash value can then be verified with the same secret key from the receiving end, thereby ensuring that the webhook was sent from Zoho Subscriptions. Learn more.
With the new update, you can configure an account to reflect the setup fee amount. This is useful for instances where the setup fee might not be suited to the default sales account but more suited to a liability or expense account instead.
From now on, your subscriptions will have subscription numbers instead of subscription names. This will help you identify your subscriptions more easily. You can also configure the suffix and prefix to auto-generate subscription numbers.
You can now choose to export only the data that's visible in your custom views and default view filters for the Customers, Subscriptions and Invoices modules.
Custom views that you create can now be shared with selected users and roles.
You can perform advanced searches for credit notes to find a particular credit note instead of going through each of them manually.
Column customization lets you quicky show/hide columns in the credit notes list page, without having to create a new custom view.
Invoice links that you generate can now be set to expire after a particular number of days, thereby, reducing the potential for misuse in the long run.
You can now view all your credit notes in the Credit Notes module from the left sidebar. You can also use custom views and default view filters only to view the credit notes that are based on certain criteria.
The new update lets you quicky show/hide columns in the Subscriptions list page, without having to create a new custom view. Custom fields can now be added as a column as well.
Extend your customer's subscription without going through the hassle of creating new subscriptions ever again.
You can now upload files from your desktop or attach files from Zoho Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, box, Evernote and other handy integrations.
Customize the columns that are available in the Customers and Invoices module. You can also choose to include custom fields.
The list view for various modules will now be available just the way you filtered and customized them the last time.
We have now added the Transactions module where you will be able to view the details of both your online and offline payments. For the online payments, you will be able to view the transactions list for both the successful and unsuccessful payments.
The Zoho Subscriptions app for Zendesk allows your customer support executive to access customer details in an instant. You will be able to view the customer information from Zoho Subscriptions right from your ticket view. Learn more.
Start collecting payments on your hosted pages by using the all new ICICI eazypay integration.
You can now refund the payments you received through the ICICI eazypay (available for early access).
You can now access all the email conversations you've had with your customers on Zoho Mail right from your Zoho Subscriptions account. You will be able to view all the email interactions between you and your customers and add the email conversations to the customer comment section. Learn more.
We have now enhanced our payment failure reports. This enhancement includes the ability to view your card details, export PDFs and also narrow down your results using advanced search.
You can now tweak the Subscribe button label for Paypal, GoCardless and Razorpay checkouts. Previously, you were only able to customize the subscribe button for regular checkouts and Express checkouts.
Let your customers know exactly what's going wrong with their payment failures by checking out the Error Codes in your Payment Failure and lost opportunities report.
You can now display a price caption under the price on your widgets. You can make use of this price caption to add information related to your plan and pricing.
Your customers can now filter the subscriptions they view in their Customer Portal based on All, Live and Trial subscriptions. They can also sort entries in the Subscriptions, Invoices and Payments Made tabs based on fields such as the Invoice#, Payment#, Date and Total.
Besides Credit Card and Bank Account, you can now charge your customer's PayPal account for a particular invoice.
The Payment Details report now includes the Payment Mode used for each recorded payment.
Choose whether you want to include any sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) while exporting modules such as Customers, Contact Persons, Subscriptions, Invoices or Payments.
You can now create Workflow Rules which are triggered when a payment method is added or deleted for a customer. The payment methods include Cards, Bank Accounts and PayPal.
Create and embed customizable Checkout buttons and Pricing Tables for all your products and their plans. Learn more.
Discover automation in Zoho Subscriptions with Email Alerts, Webhooks and Custom Functions. You can now create your own Workflow Rules and specify the action to be performed when any rule is triggered.
Create your own Custom Buttons to be used within the Zoho Subscriptions interface. You can write a deluge script for your button which will get executed when you click it. Custom Buttons are available for the Invoices, Subscriptions and Customers modules.
You can now upload an image to be associated with a plan. This image will show up in your pricing table widget. Learn more about Embed Widget.
Zoho Subscriptions now allows you to change the label of Setup Fee. You can specify the text to be displayed in place of "Setup Fee" in your invoices and hosted payment pages.
Protect your reports with a password while exporting them in CSV, XLS or XLSX formats.
You can now customize emails that you send to your customers while inviting them to the Customer Portal.
Do you have additional charges to add to your customer's subscription? You can now customize the name of the additional charge you add. This helps you easily identify why you've charged your customer.
Thanks to the enhanced Zoho Subscriptions - Zoho CRM integration, as you can now create and edit new subscriptions right from your Zoho CRM account.
Reorder and edit the payment methods that appear on your hosted payment pages. So, you can prioritize your preferred payment gateway and get paid faster.
Charge your customers based on their usage with Metered Billing for your subscriptions. Learn more.
Zoho Subscriptions integrates with Gmail to bring all your mails to one place. Learn more.
Microsoft's O365 and Outlook integrates with Zoho Subscriptions, to let you collaborate effectively with your colleagues and organize your emails.Learn more.
You can now update customers, record payments and find invoices in a zap with the updated Zoho Subscriptions - Zapier integration.
Custom views just got more customizable. You can now use 'OR' to filter down your views and get what exactly you are looking for.
Identify what's stopping you from receiving payments with the Gateway Error Codes in your Payment Failure report.
UK users can now generate an EC Sales List report (ESL) to report the value of goods and services supplied to VAT-registered businesses in other EU member states.
You can now back up all your data including customer details, invoices and subscriptions with minimal effort. Read more.
Export files with utmost security using the XLSX file format. You can assign a password to protect your data when you export files in this format.
Access the Time to Get Paid report to get insights into the time intervals in which you are liable to get paid.
Get paid faster through online modes such as Debit Card, Credit Card, Net Banking, UPI, NEFT, RTGS and offline modes such as Cash or Cheque by integrating your account with ICICI Bank eazypay. Read more.
Associate a salesperson to a credit note that you create in Zoho Subscriptions. Also, you can generate a Sales by Salesperson report.
Create templates to export specific data from each module.You can select the fields you want to export and also customize the field labels.
You can now see all the system generated emails that are sent to your customers.
Now, you will be able to switch the payment method of a subscription from PayPal to Card or ACH, and remove the PayPal account associated with a subscription.
Configure payment gateways on the invoices that you send to your customers.
During checkout, customers can view the precise tax rates for their transactions with the Avalara integration.
Collect advance payments for invoices from your customers and record them in Zoho Subscriptions including the GST applied.
Give check numbers for Accounts Receivable Conversion (ARC) and Back Office Conversion (BOC) for authorizing your bank account with Authorize.Net.
You can now enable the customer custom fields to show up in hosted payment pages and Customer Portal when configuring a custom field. Learn more about Custom Fields in Hosted Payment Pages.
Find out the discounts you have given to your customers, date-wise, product-wise and dig in further to gain more insights.
View all your activities done in a single report. Let it be your customer's actions or yours, everything lies in there.
View a detailed report displaying the taxable and non-taxable amount for a Tax Authority.
Keep a track on how much each customer owes you. You can check out the all-new Aging summary report to know the dates within which you can expect payments.
Configure a bunch of reasons for cancellations and let your customers give you their valuable feedback.
Get your customer's cards updated in a single hook. Configure your settings and let Zoho Subscriptions manage the card updates done by your customers at Stripe.
Bring out the invoice for the current billing cycle, while creating backdated subscriptions.
Start experiencing Zoho Subscriptions and the Customer Portal in Chinese.
You can now generate sales report by salesperson which will give you a unique insight into the sales by your salespersons.
You can now choose between the payment options, ACH and Credit Card, your customers can pay through.
You can configure the Invoice and Credit Note PDF templates in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Italic, Dutch, Portuguese, German and Swedish languages.
Now Invoice and Credit Note PDF templates can be configured in landscape and portrait orientations.
You can now specify the number of times a coupon can be applied.
Indian merchants can now associate PAN Number to a GST unregistered business/customer.
The domain branding allows you and your users to access Zoho Subscriptions and your customers to access Customer Portal and hosted page from a domain of your choice. Read more
Experience the rejuvenated user interface in Secure payment page and Portal payment page.
Crossing the countries! Get more convenience with Paying in your native currency.
Reaching out to the land of the Golden Falcon. Enjoy the convenience of paying in your native currency.
Accept payments from anywhere in the world by using our integration with PayPal. Read more
You can now generate sales report by addons which will give you a comprehensive statistics of the addons' sold count, total sales and much more.
Indian users can now associate the Invoice while creating the Credit note. In addition to that, the reason for raising Credit note (such as sales return, post sale discount etc., ) can also be specified which is mandatory to file the GST return.
You can now update the Invoices' information from Zoho Subscriptions. Except the changes in lineitem all other update are now possible here.
Now Indian merchants can request their customers to update the GST treatment, GSTIN and Place of Supply through Customer Portal.
You can now update Currency, Payment Terms, Custom field information, GST treatment, GSTIN and Place of Supply(Indian Edition) for your customers all at once.
With the Zoho Cliq integration, you can get notified in a Zoho Cliq channel for any payment related action.
You can now update Notes and Terms & Conditions entered in all the previous subscriptions with one click.
Zoho Subscriptions now supports webhook for actions - when a subscription is scheduled to cancel, subscription scheduled to cancel is removed, subscription is marked as unpaid and billing date is changed.
You can now display custom field data when using Custom Views.
New subscription filters - Trial, Trial Expired (Previous Week), Trial Expiring (Next Week), Unpaid, Having Unpaid Invoices, Non Renewing and Subscription Expiring (This Month).
You can now print, download and delete multiple invoices together.
You can now enter the reason when you write off, void or undo these actions for an Invoice. These reasons will be displayed in the Invoice comments.
New invoice filters - Payment initiated, write off, unpaid, overdue. Read more.
Zoho Subscriptions is now GST Ready for our Indian customers. Click here to know how to migrate your existing organisation to support GST regime.
Zoho Subscriptions now supports webhook for subscription cancellation on next renewal.
Testing Zoho Subscriptions' API is now easier with the new Postman collection. Test all the APIs using Postman and test organization before implementing them. Click here to know more.
You can now search using Amount Range, Plan, Addon and Custom Fields.
You can now send email notifications to your customers when their trial for the subscription expires.
You no longer have to wait for Zoho Subscriptions and Zoho CRM to sync. You can search and select the newly created Account or Contact from Zoho CRM in Zoho Subscriptions instantly and create subscription.Read more
Zoho Subscriptions' andriod application is now availble at Play Store. Click here to download.
Upon new subscription via hosted page, your customers can now be taken to the newly designed thank you page instead of just displaying the success message.
You can now manage your salespeople and actions related to them whilst creating/editing a subscription.
Now you can keep track your API usage using the Activity report. Read more
The Custom Domain Mapping allows you and your users to access Zoho Subscriptions and your customers to access Customer Portal and hosted page from a domain of your choice. Read more
If you have the same Zoho Subscriptions' customers in your GoCardless account, you can now sync all their mandates with a click of a button.
Thinking about starting your own affiliate program with Zoho Subscriptions? Well, we've got you covered with our new plug-in. Using iDevAffiliate with Zoho Subscriptions, it will take you just a few minutes to get set up. Read more
You can now experience Zoho Subscriptions in Swedish.
By enabling VAT MOSS, you can now record and track digital services that you sell to customers in other EU member states.
Create your own filter to view invoice list and information related to it. Read more.
Paypal account can now be updated via Request Payment Method.
We now support Direct Debit payments for European countries using GoCardless. Read more.
You can now delete refund transactions. Read more.
You can now create customized roles for the Users and provide complete or partial access to the modules inside Zoho Subscriptions. Read more.
We've now added a new "Subscription Renewal" trigger for Zapier integration. Read more about Zapier integration.
Create your own filter to view customer list and information related to it. Read More.
You can now collect charge for an invoice via Direct Debit using GoCardless integration. Also, one-time payments can be paid using bank account. Read More.
With Office 365 integration, you can import your Office 365 contacts into Zoho Subscriptions as Users and Customers. Read More.
Zoho Subscriptions now supports webhook for actions such as Subscription about to Expire, Subscription about to Cancel and Credit Note events - Add and Delete.
EU edition customers can now use Zoho Subscriptions' WordPress plug-in to easily embed the hosted payment pages in their website. Read More.
You can now update the sales person for invoices generated already.
Credit Note and Excess Payment raised for a customer can now be applied to any open invoices for the same customer.
Zoho Subscriptions now automatically applies currency exchange rates for customers with different currency. Read More.
You can now import customers' cards from your Stripe account to Zoho Subscriptions. Read More.
Zoho Subscriptions' iOS application is now available in Apple's App Store. Click here to download.
You can now choose to display billing frequency of plan and description of plan and addon in hosted payment pages.
You now have the option to delete invoices. Read More.
You can now choose to enable Customer Portal automatically for customers who susbcribe via hosted payment pages. Read More.
We've now added 3 new triggers for Zapier integration - New Invoice, Upgrade and Downgrade subscriptions. Read More.
Create your own filter to view subscripiton list and information related to it. Read More.
Zoho Subscriptions now supports webhook for actions such as Subscription Deletion and Trial about to Expire.
Indian customers can now collect recurring payments online through credit card, debit card, netbanking and popular wallets. Read More.
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Get around and explore Zoho Subscriptions in Español and Italiano.
In addition to drop-down and text, we now support custom fields for decimal, percentage, phone, number, email, URL and amount datatypes in our hosted payment pages.
You can now add comments and notes related to a customer and read them in a comprehensive timelined view under Customer Overview section.
You can now mark a contact persons as the Primary Contact for a customer. Read More.
Your customers can now cancel their subscriptions from Customer Portal. Read More.
Customer Portal is now available in 7 new languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese and Deutsch.
You can now generate sales report by plans which will give you a comprehensive statistics of the plans' sold count, total sales and much more. Read More.
You can now import/export Plans, Addons and Coupons.
You can now import/export customers' payments.
Ability to display coupon code applied for the subscription in the invoice.
You can now invite customers to your portal to view subscriptions, invoices, make online payments and update card. Read More.
Bonjour! Start experiencing Zoho Subscriptions in French.
Canada businesses can now fetch precise tax rates for their transactions with Avalara integration.
Payflow Pro now supports Express Checkout. Read More.
You can now choose between the payment options, Express Checkout and Credit Card, your customers can pay through. Read More.
You can now add salutation for your customers and their contact persons.
You can now choose to receive or deny email notifications upon receiving online payments.
Have a complete and updated invoice records with the new Import and Export option. Read More.
Edit your expired subscriptions to make them live again.
You can now delete subscriptions that you no longer need.
Fetch precise tax rates for your transactions with Avalara integration (for U.S edition only). Read More.
You can now add new payment modes to categorize the payments you receive. Read More...
The days of your customers paying for the addons they never use are done. From here on out, your customers can exclude addon(s) while subscribing from Hosted Payment Pages.
Merchants in Australia can now set up taxation in accordance with Australian tax laws. Read More...
Get notified when a card/bank account is added through Request Payment Method. Even if the attempt fails we will keep you posted.
Associating Coupons to Addons has never been streamlined or easier before. You can now choose to associate coupons to a more categorized addon types.
Need a payment gateway that maximizes ease of use? With WePay, you can create a merchant account in minutes and start accepting online payments from your customers. Read More...
Yes, you can now create subscriptions with earlier dates to the present one. Create subscriptions without losing sight of history and move ahead with your business. Read More...
You can now edit the email templates you send when requesting for payment method. No more same old monogamous emails.
Store your customer's Facebook, Twitter and Skype IDs in the contacts section.
Now you have the ability to allow or deny the use of same display name for more than one customer.
You can now add comments to invoices and also view status updates and actions in chronological order.
Receive real-time notifications for payments received and also for lost opportunities.
With the Slack integration, get notified whenever a customer makes a payment or even when a payment failure occurs. Read More...
Canadian merchants can now accept ACH payments via Forte
Merchants in Canada can now set up taxation in accordance with Canadian tax laws. READ MORE...
You can now set custom trial periods for individual subscriptions.
Yes, from now on you will never get a chance to miss the Renewal Event for an unpaid invoice.
Ability to apply credits for the Dunning Invoices.
You can now collect charge for any invoice by using the customers' saved bank accounts. You can also use a different bank account to process it as a one-time payment.
Ability to filter the invoices for which an ACH payment has been initiated.
The new, enhanced layout for Zoho Subscriptions introduces a visual overhaul along with a multitude of useful new features.
Customers for whom bank account transactions have been enabled can now enter their bank account information directly in the hosted page and proceed to make an ACH payment. Read our blog post on how to do it.
The Renewal Summary report gives you a list of all the renewals that have happened and any upcoming renewals to occur in the selected date range. The report is also equipped with plan and customer filters to help drill down the reports for a better and narrow view.
Subscription details reports is now equipped with shipping and billing address of the customer to get detailed description about the customers location both in the console and CSV Export.
The Lost Opportunities report is revamped to provide a better experience when it comes to following up the with the customers. The customers who have later signed up successfully with the particular email address will no longer be listed in the lost opportunities.
Helps you to upgrade or downgrade the subscription without trial period.
Ability to update billing address and shipping address for an invoice.
Ability to checkout with customer's own currency.
This is a free tool to forecast your subscription business revenue. Check it out!
Forte joins Zoho Subscriptions for Canadian ACH payments.
Yes, from now on you can edit the future subscriptions as well, before it goes live.
Type based custom fields for Customers, Subscriptions, Invoices and Payments.
Easily create an instant page to suit your website with our themes.Read More...
Express your company's moto and what's on your mind through the header footer sections in the pages now. Read More...
Yes, if your customer has credits available in his account, it can be visible in the hostedpage as well.
Zoho Subscriptions launches its WordPress plugin for the easy integration of Hosted Payment Pages in your WordPress site. Read More...
Explore Loads of customising around sizes, buttons,and splashing colors.
A Big treat to US Customers. Now, say Forte for ACH payments (USD).
Now the Coupon text box will available even for the hostedpages created through the API.
Now you can specify whether you need to be Cc'd when your customer gets notified through email.
Ability to add or remove fields. Make them optional or mandatory. Read More...
Now you can have your predefined description for plans and addons which can be specified while creating or updating them. This can be updated while creating the subscription as well.
You can choose if the subscription changes should be applied immediately or at the end of the term. Read More...
Don't lose out on revenue. Track every lost customer and convert them into paying customers with an in-depth report on Lost Opportunities. Read More...
Want to integrate one of your favorite web apps with Zoho Subscriptions, but don't have the engineering horsepower or time to get it done? There is most likely a Zap for that. Read More...
Zoho Subscriptions launches excess payment support to handle advance payments. Read More...
More options for you to accept payments. 2Checkout is the new entrant to our list of payment gateways with one-time payment support.
We have crossed continents! Zoho Subscriptions releases in the land of hope and glory. Read More...
All your inventory resulting from plans and add-ons are captured in Zoho Books.
Import Google contacts as customers and users as users. Manage their subscriptions with ease.
Save more with every transaction. Reduce payout time and collect payment directly from customer's account.
Generate single consolidated invoice for multiple offline subscriptions. Read More...
Zoho Subscriptions extends functionality to charge invoices with existing cards.
Now sync your customer contacts and view invoices generated in Zoho Subscriptions with this integration. Read More...
After the Beta success, fully loaded US edition of Zoho Subscriptions is released.
Update card details of your customers to avoid any failed transactions.
Credit notes gets extended from online to offline invoices. Now redeem credit notes for offline subscriptions. Read More...
Zoho Subscriptions expands the network of its payment gateways with Paypal Support.
Zoho Subscriptions announces support to weekly billing frequency.
Zoho Subscriptions launches functionality to change quantity in the hosted payment pages.
More ways to push your sales. Let your customers redeem coupons and avail discounts on their subscriptions.
Now generate single consolidated for multiple trail and future subscriptions. Read More...
Authorize.Net joins Zoho Subscriptions with ACH payment support.
Launch of Beta US edition tailormade to support US taxes.
Zoho Subscriptions adds WorldPay to the list of payment gateways.
Zoho Subscriptions announces support for the taxes.
Forte partners Zoho Subscriptions as its payment gateway to support financial transactions.
A giant leap for Zoho Subscriptions with the launch of hosted payment pages. Just embed these pages in your website and get running in minutes.
Now map plans and addons to the ledger in Zoho books, an online accounting software.
More the customization, better it is for your business. Add custom fields to capture customer and subscription details.
Zoho, the trusted online partner for millions of users releases Zoho Subscriptions, an online subscription billing and subscription management software. Read More...


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Gerick Cycle Destroyed by Fire
For the second time in less than a month a bicycle shop has been destroyed by a fire. Last month it was Duke's Cycle in Toronto, yesterday (March 10th) it was Gerick Cycle in Kelowna, B.C.
Gerick Cycle and Jammers Liquor Store at Northgate Plaza in Kelowna suffered extensive damage, including a collapsed roof. Neighbouring businesses in the strip mall, including Jenny Craig and Total Pet, suffered smoke and water damage. There were no injuries.
Fire and police investigators have not determined the precise cause of the blaze, but it appears that wooden pallets outside of the backdoor of Gerick's may have been set on fire. Damage is estimated to be in excess of $1 million.
A video interview with a spokesperson from the fire department can be viewed Here.
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Nicknamed "Pearl of the Adriatic", Dubrovnik is a seaport in the south of Croatia that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Heavily bombed during the 1991 war, all the damaged buildings have been repaired, and the whole of Dubrovnik, famous for its medieval City Walls, can now be considered an open-air museum.
Whether you're visiting for the first time or the hundredth, Split will never cease to amaze you! This city has traversed the centuries, but has always managed to retain its splendour.
Tempted to go to Croatia? Why don't you head north and visit the Dalmatian city of Zadar? With its impressive walls and city gates, marbled pedestrian streets, two contemporary art installations celebrating the sun and the sea that need to be experienced to be believed and astonishing scenic attractions all around, Zadar is still relatively unexplored.
You will certainly be pleasantly surprised by Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, even if only because you know so little about it.


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We're heading down the home stretch on the driveline for Gary Schweitzer's '65 World's Fair Magic Skyway Mustang convertible. We've rebuilt his 200ci six and C4 Cruise-O-Matic, so this month, we head to Mustangs Etc. for the rear axle portion of Gary's driveline renewal. Gary's 7 1/4-inch axle housing was so badly rusted and pitted from Michigan winter road salt that it could not be restored. That's when Garrett Marks of Mustangs Etc. came to our rescue with a rust-free California core.
Technician Mike O'Brian of Mustangs Etc. gave our six-cylinder rear end his close attention, right down to rebuilding the original Ford wheel cylinders with 1/4-inch bleeders for authenticity. National Parts Depot set us up with everything vital to this rebuild-bearings, seals, and all brake parts.
The Ford 7 1/4-inch rear axle is the most forgotten axle in the industry because so little is available for them. Particularly hard to find are the ring-and-pinion gear sets. Gary's 2.83:1 gears were in excellent condition. Most are not. This means you must search for new-old-stock or excellent used to get you going again.


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Thought Leadership
Is inflation overstated?
Thought Leadership
Is inflation overstated?
Are hundreds of millions of dollars of pension payments being made unnecessarily? The truth may be politically unpalatable, but it could lie with inflation and its likely overstatement over several decades.
Consumer price inflation is one of the most widely used economic statistics and has a direct impact on the payment of billions of dollars of benefits, pensions and salaries. However, its measurement is open to interpretation and often controversy. Increasingly, researchers believe that the failure of inflation indices to capture changes in what we buy and how we buy it has resulted in reported inflation being higher than it really is.
The most influential recent study was the Boskin Report, commissioned by the US Senate in 1996. This concluded that the widely-used US consumer price index (CPI) overstated inflation by 1.1 percentage points a year. The report found several biases, the main one being an inability to account for the changing quality of goods and services and new goods coming on to the market. The index also failed to adequately account for consumers switching between different expenditure categories (upper-level substitution bias) and between different goods within expenditure categories (lower-level substitution bias). The rise of discount stores has further muddied the picture (outlet bias). The chart shows the breakdown of these biases. Despite recent improvements to its calculation, the index is still estimated to be biased upwards by between 0.5 and 1.0 percentage points a year.
Figure 1: Contributions to the Total Upward Bias in US CPI according to the 1996 Boskin Report
Source: Greenlees, 2006.
Adjusting for improving quality is a difficult task. Advances in internet speeds, digital content, smart phones and computers are some of the many technological improvements that are hard to capture in an index. The iPhone is a classic example of how technology increases quality and convenience by incorporating a whole host of items that were formerly supplied separately, including telephones, cameras, CD players and GPS systems. Few of these improvements are picked up by CPI¹. So whilst the price of an iPhone now is surely higher than a typical mobile phone 10 years ago, the additional benefits should outweigh the measured price increase. In their struggle to capture the enhanced quality of products like the iPhone, indices like the CPI inevitably create an upward bias. The problem may have been compounded if, as some have argued, technological change is taking place at a faster rate today than in the past.
The implications stretch widely. If CPI is overstated, then real GDP will be understated – one estimate puts the difference at 0.25 percentage points a year². And if the CPI bias has increased recently, it may go some way to explaining the productivity slowdown seen in the US lately. The overstatement may also have cost the US government significant amounts of tax revenue, as tax brackets have been over-indexed. With a third of US federal budget outlays estimated to be influenced by CPI³, it means that hundreds of millions of dollars of government debt may have been – and will continue to be – accumulated unnecessarily. This extends to the many private employment contracts and pension payments that are determined by CPI. Any upward bias in the price index is likely to mean that corporate pension fund liabilities – and deficits – are overstated.
The likely upward bias in CPI has profound consequences for our understanding of our own financial health and that of the wider economy. As long as indices such as the CPI fail to accurately capture the effects of changing consumer preferences and technological advances, they are likely to overstate inflation. As a result, economic measures of standards of living, such as GDP or real wages, will continue to portray a worse picture than is actually the case.
¹ Davies, Gavyn (2015), The greatest unknown - the impact of technology on the economy, Financial Times, 15th June 2015
² Boskin, Michael.J (2004), Causes and Consequences of Bias in the Consumer Price Index as a Measure of the Cost of Living, 58th International Atlantic Economic Society Conference
³ Boskin. Michael & Jorgenson, Dale (1997), Implications of Overstating Inflation for Indexing Government Programs and Understanding Economic Progress, American Economic Review 87, no. 2 (1997): 89-94.
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SOL Campbell has the support of the Professional Footballers' Association after warning of the danger of racist abuse and violence at Euro 2012.
The former England defender said that UEFA was wrong to choose Poland and Ukraine to host this summer's tournament as it put supporters in danger.
The ex-Arsenal and Tottenham man told BBC Panorama: "Stay at home, watch it on TV. Don't even risk it... because you could end up coming back in a coffin."
And PFA deputy chief executive Bobby Barnes, who will be at the tournament in an official capacity with UEFA, said that while Campbell's choice of words may have been overly dramatic, the danger should not be underestimated.
He told BBC Radio Five Live: "I think he's being a little bit cautious but fans are obviously going to be at risk and it's a case of how the authorities actually impose the force that they are going to need to.
"As Sol said, we've seen the footage and there have been problems, not just from these countries but around eastern Europe over a number of years now.
"It probably gives a little bit of concern over the fact they were actually awarded these particular games but they have been and indeed you look at Russia 2018 coming up, where there are known, documented problems there as well.
"What you hope is that the countries will take this opportunity, with the eyes of the world on them, to try and present a much better face and make sure that the things they're being criticised for, they do their damnedest to make sure they don't happen.
"The one thing these countries are going to want to do is save the face of their particular country. If you've got the sort of chanting that we're all hoping and praying doesn't happen, or any sort of attacks on anybody, then obviously it's not going to be in their best interests.
"One would hope there will be a very strong response should anything occur."
Barnes revealed he would restrict his excursions at the tournament to matchday engagements only, in order to limit the threat to his own safety.
"I can't pretend I'm going there in a totally carefree manner," he said. "I'll be going as part of a UEFA group and I shall not be going out sightseeing.
"The really sad thing is I've been to most of the major championships, be it the European Championship or the World Cup, and the whole benefit and the joy of going to these things is the fact that you're walking around and getting the atmosphere and mixing with fans from other countries.
"It's just going to be really sad if a section of society are going to be denied that opportunity because of their colour and I think that needs to be looked at when we look at future venues."


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rude slang To personally assume or expose oneself to some risk, danger, or responsibility; to imperil oneself or put oneself in harm's way. Look, I'm putting my ass on the line for you here. I could get fired if they find out what we're up to! You have to take some risks to be successful in business and in life, but don't put your ass on the line for no good reason.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Richard Howell had 17 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 25 North Carolina State beat Cleveland State 80-63 on Saturday in its annual return to Reynolds Coliseum.
C.J. Leslie scored a team-high 19 for the Wolfpack (6-2), who shot 55 percent and led by double figures most of the afternoon. Freshman T.J. Warren added 16 points, part of a balanced offensive showing for N.C. State.
Reynolds was the Wolfpack's home for 50 years before the program moved off campus to PNC Arena for the 1999-2000 season. But the school has typically played at least one game a year at Reynolds for the past decade as a nod to the program's tradition.
N.C. State improved to 14-0 in the building since its move.
Charlie Lee scored 15 to lead the Vikings (6-3), who got no closer than 10 points after halftime.
Cleveland State, a Horizon League program, played its third straight game without preseason all-conference pick Anton Grady. The 6-foot-8 sophomore is expected to miss at least four weeks because of a knee injury sustained against Robert Morris on Nov. 20.
His absence made it tougher for the Vikings to match up inside with Leslie and Howell.
Howell, a 6-8 senior, finished 7-for-11 from the field and posted his third double-double in four games. Leslie, a 6-9 junior, finished 7-for-8 from the field to go with eight rebounds.
Warren added two 3-pointers, the second to beat the shot clock and push the Wolfpack's lead to 73-55 with 4:44 left.
N.C. State was coming off a 69-65 win against Connecticut in Madison Square Garden for the Jimmy V Classic on Tuesday night, capping a demanding first few weeks for the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference favorite.
The Wolfpack lost to Oklahoma State in the Puerto Rico Tipoff championship, then lost at Michigan in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. But things should get considerably easier with N.C. State starting a six-game homestand Saturday that will keep it in Raleigh until 2013.


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Spider Module Completed.Added Random time interval between requests and proxy. --Dhruv Jain (talk) 03:59, 8 September 2013 (CDT)
Note: Some of these features maybe scraped off depending on the feasibility of application
»Web Spider Module
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Cross-site Script Injection Module
Database Tampering – SQL Injection Module, including:
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With all due respect, you are the teacher. Only you know whether your students will understand it or not. You see them at each and every class. You know their level. You will have written such directions for them before. Did they understand the last one? The one before that? When you were a learner at their level, would you have understood the instruction?
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Assorted ideas about games.
Lately I've found myself fascinated by minimalist D&D rules like "Searchers of the Unknown" and its worthy successor "1974 Style". I also like the d20-only philosophy of True20 and Numenera's Only Players Roll principle. All three have collided in my brain to create the following incomplete rules:
Every character, player or NPC, has a Level, which denotes attack, defense, and miscellaneous physical prowess. PCs start at 1, as usual. Every character has the
Recently I've been playing The Strange with a reasonably stable group. Yesterday I had an idea for a space-opera style recursion (parallel world for the rest of the gaming world), and having nobody else to tell I'm telling you. Don't you feel special?
The problem with wedging an entire galaxy, or even a solar system, into one of the Strange's recursions is that recursions are supposed to be small, much smaller than Earth, so that the GM isn't madly mapping planets for every adventure.
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For those of you who don't know what "sword and planet" is, it's science fiction in which our lone Earthling hero is thrown onto an alien planet with generally low technology and must fight to survive. Examples include Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom series (A Princess on Mars, etc.) and some of Jack Vance's work (particularly the Planet of Adventure series). The excuse for swords being the weapon of choice varies from decaying cultures to alien oppressors.
Recently I've
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(Originally posted on Google+, for some inexplicable reason.)
Just to toss out a topic (or possibly sweaty dynamite) ... what's the general opinion on "evil races" in games? By which I mean entire intelligent species whose sole purpose is essentially to kill/enslave/annoy humans.
As one might gather, I'm not a fan. My first problem is that real-world societies have attributed two-dimensional malice to their enemies far too often, with tragic results, and
Yesterday I babbled about viewing RPG rules as an interface between players and GMs, similar to a GUI or API in computer programs. In this view, the game rules, like GUIs or APIs, are most useful when they avoid unnecessary clutter and complexity.
One other interesting consequence of this analogy is that, like interfaces, rules have to be stable in order to be useful. This applies both to official versions of the rules and house rules.
For example, in every version


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Suit dismissed? $200 million action over High's prosecution hits bump
The deadline for serving defendants in the $200 million civil suit against the City of Staunton passed on April 12, and the plaintiff says he's not sure whether his case will now be dismissed after a high-profile defendant allegedly avoided service.
"I'm very disappointed that the mayor– of all people– wouldn't come forward, acknowledge it, and defend the city," says plaintiff Bill Thomas of Staunton Mayor Lacy King, the allegedly uncooperative defendant.
Thomas's suit– which he's waging without the assistance of a lawyer– alleges decades of harassment and a conspiracy by city officials and police relating to a brutal double slaying in an ice cream parlor 41 years ago. Mayor King worked for the Staunton Police Department for 32 years before retiring as Deputy Chief in 2001, and he was elected to City Council the following year.
According to a notice in the court file, Thomas had 120 days after his December 13 filing to serve the defendants. He says he was advised by the U.S. District Court clerk in Roanoke to instead get the defendants to sign a form waiving service. So he sent certified letters to four defendants, including Mayor King, City Manager Stephen Owen, and Staunton City Attorney Douglas Guynn. Owen and Guynn signed, says Thomas.
Victor Santos, the attorney representing the city, says he also signed the waiver request. But Santos says while such waivers are a standard operating procedure in civil suits, he says defendants are not legally obligated to waive; they can demand service by the deadline.
King did not return the Hook's calls, but Santos says King gets 30 days to respond– so King could yet waive service. Santos also questions Thomas' decision to send the waiver requests mere days before the deadline rather than going ahead and serving defendants, something that can't be ignored.
"If time was an issue," says Santos, "he should have had someone serve it."
"I just did what the clerk instructed me," responds Thomas, who concedes that having a lawyer would simplify matters.
"He's got multiple procedural hurdles to overcome," notes Santos.
Thomas, however, says procedural hurdles are nothing compared to the pain he's suffered over the past four decades.
The 68-year-old, who last held a steady job in the late 1960s, says he suffered myriad insults and injuries ever since Staunton officials charged him in the brutal slaying of two young women working in the High's Ice Cream parlor on the night of April 11, 1967.
The case dragged on with no suspects for several months until alleged statements that Thomas had been making around town– coupled with an investigator's claim that he'd been seen near the parlor the night of the murders– brought him to attention of authorities.
Thomas denies making any such statements and immediately proclaimed his innocence. In 1968, a jury found Thomas not guilty of one of the murders, but the case continued to hang over him as the second murder remained an open investigation. That is, until late 2008, when some citizen investigators identified the real killer as Sharron Diane Crawford Smith.
At the time of the murders, Smith was 19 years old and, according to Thomas' suit, was romantically involved with a Staunton police detective named Davie Bocock– the lead investigator in the High's murder case. Bocock, the suit alleges, may have fathered one or more children with Crawford and even helped her hide the murder weapon on his farm.
As Smith would eventually confess before her death in early 2009, Bocock (who died in 2006) helped her cover up the crime before targeting Thomas as the suspect. The suit points out that witnesses emerged to relate that Smith had issued death threats and had even showed someone the gun she planned to use– in the weeks before the killings.
With no one ever successfully prosecuted for the crime, Thomas says, he felt like he was under constant surveillance. Indeed, in a 2009 interview with the Hook, the twin brother of one of the victims reveals that he once contemplated killing Thomas when he encountered Thomas in a grocery parking lot.
"It was constant fear for my safety" says Thomas, who hasn't applied for work since 1970, when his hiring by the A&P grocery store chain was canceled after a last-minute criminal records check. "That's the last job I applied for," says Thomas.
Since then, Thomas has supported himself by searching title abstracts for mineral companies– oil, natural gas, coal. It wasn't enough, however, to make a solid living; he lost the family home in the tiny Shenandoah town of Spottswood to foreclosure in 1996 and now lives next door. A former horse barn converted with plastic sheeting and patches of drywall, the building is heated by a single pot-bellied stove, an admittedly "humble" home.
Thomas talks of recent intimidations and harassment, but he declines to elaborate, except to say he felt so threatened that he spent some time in a hotel.
If Mayor King doesn't sign the waiver and the case gets dismissed, legal rules might still allow Thomas to refile, and he vows to persevere in his quest for justice. But opposition attorney Santos says he doesn't believe, even if Thomas meets all the rules and deadlines, that Thomas can win.
"You've got to show there was conspiracy," says Santos. "But if there was, where in the world would you get the evidence? Most of the main players are dead. The officer and his partner are deceased; the person who says she did it is deceased."
Furthermore, says Santos, court records show that while a judge, in an effort to fully clear Thomas, made a show of officially dismissing a second indictment after Crawford's confession, there is no record that Thomas was ever actually indicted for the second murder.
"It wasn't hanging over his head all these years," says Santos. "He believed for some reason that it was."
Thomas, however, says the facts of his life and the wrongs he says he has suffered due to the alleged misdeeds of the defendants will speak volumes in court; so he's not giving up, even if City officials throw up roadblocks, as he believes Mayor King has done.
"It's been 42 years of me against them," says Thomas, "and this is just another way to try to draw things out or complicate the matter."Attached Documents:Read more on: Bill ThomasHigh's Ice Creammurderstaunton


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Jeffrey Rosen takes up the question "Can a Law Change a Society?" in the New York Times today, in a discussion of the Seattle school case. He relies principally on Michael Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, and he makes it seem as if the answer is reasonably clear, and that the categories (law and society) are separate rather than intersecting and overlapping. The article ends with the suggestion that courts matter very little: "Brown pushed the country in a direction it was already going, and in the same sense, the large forces today are going to continue to operate regardless of what the Supreme Court just decided," Professor Klarman said. "We're headed toward an ambiguous place where we're committed both to colorblindness and to diversity in public life. We might have a black president, but we'll still have a society with very segregated neighborhoods and public schools. I don't think the court decision will make much difference either way."
The literature on this is, of course, more complex. Critiques of Klarman are here (Paul Finkelman in the Harvard Law Review) and here (my essay in the Chicago Law Review). And a more nuanced take on the way courts affect society can be found in the work of Michael McCann, e.g. his book Rights at Work.


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Mass held for missing Cedarburg man
Robert Steinbrecker, 24, last seen early Thursday morning
A Mass was held Monday in honor of a missing Cedarburg man.
Robert Steinbrecker, 24, was last seen around 2 a.m. Thursday walking along Cedar Creek Road.
Police said they've searched Cedar Creek and nearby parks but have come up empty, so the search was temporarily called off.
Steinbrecker is described as 6 feet tall and weighing 185 pounds.
The noon Mass was at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Cedarburg.
A friend of the family said that the Steinbreckers remains hopeful that their son will be found safe.
"The family is very confident that he is out there somewhere, and we just want to express support and offer our prayers," Julie Larrivee said.
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Flight of the Pigeons June 19th, 2010
I was wandering down a street at one point, when I noticed a large flock of pigeons flying overhead. They were circling and swooping in tight arcs, round and round. Someone was pigeon flying! Naturally, I paused to watch and snap a few pictures.
The art of pigeon flying remains quite popular in the Arab world. I've often see flocks of pigeons circling over the rooftops in Cairo, Beirut and Amman, for instance. But the shot above wasn't taken anywhere in the Arab world. Can you guess where?
Brussels, Belgium. Yep.
Some say the use of pigeons to carry messages can be traced back to the ancient Persians (some 2800 years ago). The ancient Romans also used messenger pigeons in their military campaigns over 2000 years ago (for example, Julius Caesar was reputed to have used them in his conquest of Gaul). Use of pigeons to carry messages outside of a military setting – in a postal system – goes back to the late 10th Century at least in the Arab world, where it was developed under Fatimid rule.
The use of homing pigeons by the French during the siege of Paris in 1870-1871 gave new breath to their use in the military in Europe who used them extensively during World War I and again in World War II. You can find out more about war pigeons here.
There's a memorial to those messenger pigeon trainers who fell in service to Belgium during World War I at one end of the garden at the far side of the Quai au Briques. Here's a shot of it below.
All this may be interesting but it doesn't explain why someone was flying pigeons in Brussels.
Turns out that the (modern) sport of pigeon racing was developed and gained immense popularity in Belgium in the middle of the 19th Century. The sport has since spread all over the world, though it seems to be suffering from a lack of interest by the general public. You can find out more about pigeon racing here.
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Art imitates... Not our life, but don't we wish
As even the semi-saavy are now well aware, merchandisers like J-Crew, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Pottery Barn have gone beyond simply and straight-forwardly advertising their products. Now they attempt to manufacture a lifestyle– a visually attractive vacation/recreation-like space filled with pretty people who always have a glass of wine or an iced tea on hand, where stubble looks good, and where no one ever sweats.
And then, with a sneaky calculated second pass, they place their merchandise within that stylish space, and sell it– sled rides, hardwood floors, fisherman sweaters, and all– to the consumer.
Painter Jonathan Stuhlman has noticed these pretty places in the popular catalogs, and his reaction to Jcrewville is far from anti-consumerist disgust— instead, it's one of admiration. After all, the visuals from these catalogs have been carefully and skillfully crafted and are often quite beautiful. Their persuasive charm is implicitly acknowledged in the buying habits of many, even though the products might not be the kinds of things you generally cop to.
Although with his latest exhibit at the Mudhouse, Stuhlman does just that. Although he cleverly loots the catalogues for his show's title "j. cr & p. brn," he still manages to pay irony-less tribute to the contemporary catalog mise-en-scene.
Like your typical catalog environment (only Spring/Summer lines here), Stuhlman's paintings are open, airy, and oxygen-rich spaces, assembled in sandy khakis, sky blues, and Nantucket-beach-house white. He tightly frames his compositions, which, though devoid of actual humans, just about imply the missing models and their fancy clothes, who could very well be lounging just beyond one of Stuhlman's frames.
In one painting, for example, a bare white wall meets a glossy wood-paneled floor almost at the bottom of the frame, and just peeking out from the side, there's an empty, matching wood bench.
Stuhlman isn't afraid to take scenes from his own glossy Jcrewville and push them towards abstraction. In another context, one of his paintings may look like nothing but blurry blocks and stripes of color on a long skinny canvass.
But placed alongside Stuhlman's other work, the subject becomes obvious: a strip of sand under treeline under blue sky, stratified, cut, and set end-out, like a slice of cake. Indirectly, Stuhlman may be asking us to give a moment of thought to what's going on in the catalogs (i.e., are we really aware of this marketing scheme?), but in the main, he lets the viewer enjoy the scenery—and you don't have to supply your credit card number.
Jonathan Stuhlman's "j. cr & p. brn," two series of oil on panel paintings. run through September 29 at the Mudhouse, 213 Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 984-6833.


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Scott wrote:But when species G evolves from F which evolved from E which evolved from D which evolved from C which evolved from B which evolved from A, the difference between A and G may be much greater than the difference between A and B or between B and C, etc. This is part of why the moon analogy fails--because the question isn't so much whether the difference between G and A is categorically different than the difference between B and A but rather the question is whether the difference between G and F is categorically different than B and A.
No, I didn't only assert the contrary, I explained it in the quote above. The jump from A to G is categorically different than the jump from A to B. But the jump from F to G is not. The jump from a creature who cannot move very fast to one who can fly well is categorically different than the small leaps in evolution by natural selection that have been demonstrated. The jump from a creature who has absolutely no sense of light waves to one who can see and then to one who can see with stereoscopic eyesight is categorically different than the small leaps in evolution by natural selection that have been demonstrated. And indeed the jump from creatures who have no legs or arms to erect, bipedal creatures is categorically different than the small leaps in evolution by natural selection that have been demonstrated. They are all categorically different from A to B in the way that A to G is categorically different than A to B. But they can be broken down into small steps in which case each of those smaller steps is not categorically different in any way that would make it unreasonable to, after getting from point A to point G, conclude we did it by doing the same thing done with point A to B and to point B and to C to go from point C to D and from D to E and from E to F and from F to G.Meleagar wrote:So far, it hasn't "failed". You've only asserted the contrary.
I don't know how I could convince you that it is reasonable to assume that if you can walk across any one town that is 5 miles long that you could walk across the whole state that is 500 miles long, if you have gotten across the state and there is no evidence of any other form of travel. If you want me to show you that each 5-mile-consecutive-set in that 500 is not categorically different than all of the others, I don't know how to do that if I don't have the time or specific knowledge about every single 5-mile-consecutive-set. But if every 5-mile-consecutive-set at which we do look in-depth, we see you can and did get across by walking it then it is reasonable not a compositional fallacy to assume you can and did get across all the 100 of the 5-mile sets particularly if you have already gotten across the full 500-miles and there is no evidence of any other explanation. Your moon example and your War and Peace example are each a false analogy and they may, being false analogies, be compositional fallacies unlike a reasonable induction. Indeed, ironically, it does seem fair to conclude that you can't walk to the moon because you can't walk to the clouds. And if you could walk to the clouds between where you were on Earth and the moon, then I think that would make it more reasonable to conclude you can walk to the moon, particularly if walking was the only known form of travel and you have traveled to the moon.
A required aspect of any scientific theory is falsifiability. The reasonably achieved theory that I can walk across the 500 mile state would be disproved by the discovery of a magical force-field in the middle to which nobody can walk-through but would require some kind of special spaceship to cross. The theory of gravity would be disproven if we woke up one morning all floating away. The theory of evolution by natural selection would be disproven if there was a single small leap that couldn't have occurred or big leap that couldn't be broken down into smaller leaps. So if your point is that the theory is fallible or falsifiable, then I agree. It is as at least as falsifiable as the theory of gravity. Every logically valid induction is--technically--fallible. But it is incorrect to say these theories commit a so-called composition fallacy such as the alleged fallacy in your moon example.
Together we personally can try to research the known data to see what evidence there is that a certain small leap could have or did occur by evolution by natural selection or not if that's what you really want to do. But if we don't want to spend years and get a doctorate doing it, then we need to break it down into one or two small leaps, such as the jump from winged creatures that could glide long distances to ones that can actually fly or the jump from creatures who can't walk on two legs to ones who can but not for long (like my old cat), or we could do ones that usually don't walk on two legs to those who usually do. We personally don't have the resources to do them all, just as we may not have the resources to research in-depth each mile on a 500-mile-consecutive set of land. But if we look at some different sets of 5-consecutive-miles within the full 500-miles and find each of those are walkable or were walked, it is reasonable in the absence of any evidence otherwise and especially under the fact that we have travelled the 500-miles to conclude we did it by walking; right?


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Four Portland State University students and a high school senior entering PSU this fall were honored with scholarships this week by the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber and local businesses.
The Hispanic Chamber, which represents the Latino business community in Oregon and Southwest Oregon, awarded more than $109,000 in scholarships to more than 40 students at a luncheon at the Oregon Convention Center. That money is donated by business and civic groups and also being matched by the universities and colleges that the students attend.
The Portland State winners are:
- Natalie Caceres, who received $1,000 each from KUNP-TV Univision and Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield.
- Karina Espana, who received $3,500 from Latino Leadership.
- Julieta Georgeades, who received $1,500 from the Hispanic Chamber and $1,000 from Portland Latino Gay Pride.
- Maria Leija Briones, who received $1,000 from Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, $1,000 from Kranovich & Lucero, $500 from COAT Flagging and $500 from the Hispanic Chamber.
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Apple has acquired and shut down Swell, a mobile app that personalizes audio news feeds, according to reports.
Apple bought Swell's parent, startup Concept.io for $30 million and will shutter the app, the Wall Street Journal reported based on an unnamed source. Swell is considered to be similar to Pandora in that users can choose to listen to the new content or skip it. Concept.io was valued at $19 million last year and raised $5.4 million in funds.
Concept.io was "incubated" at Charles River Ventures, the WSJ reported, and its chief executive and founder Ram Ramkumar was an "entrepreneur in residence." Other investors include Google Ventures, Draper Nexus Ventures and InterWest Partners.
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"American Idol" Season 10 has named its final four.
James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Scotty McCreery and Haley Reinhart will battle it out for the crown, following Jacob Lusk's elimination on Thursday night.
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After a shaky set of performances on Wednesday night on his part, it was Jacob, the young man often compared to Luther Vandross, who was let go on Thursday evening's program.
"I got to share a little bit with America and Americans fell in love with me and now I can go and put out that good feelin' R&B music that reminds you of Luther, that reminds you of those great old singers," Jacob told show host Ryan Seacrest after learning the elimination news. "I get to come out and put that out."
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Jacob's elimination didn't come as much of a surprise as his first round song on Wednesday – "No Air," in which he sang both Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown's parts – featured a few bum notes and created an air of confusion among the judges.
Randy even said Jacob made a wrong move, selecting the pop number instead of the R&B numbers he'd filled his "Idol" career with.
"I think you're one of the greatest singers here… I don't think that's the direction for you," Randy, who once said Jacob's audition round performance was the best vocal "ever" on "Idol," commented on Wednesday night after Jacob sang "No Air."
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"Be the new Luther; be the new of that; don't be the Chris Brown, Rihanna," Randy added.
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His final song as the credits rolled was "A House Is Not A Home," a Luther standard.
While Jacob's elimination wasn't very shocking, Lauren Alaina's placement in the bottom two was.
The teenager had tears pouring down her face earlier in the night after she saw her competitors, James, Scotty and even Haley, who failed to earn high praise with the judges when she performed an unreleased Lady Gaga song the night before, head to the safety zone.
Luckily for Lauren, she was saved thanks to Jacob's elimination, and she composed herself enough to cheer on Jacob during his final number.
In related "Idol" elimination night news, judge Jennifer Lopez actually hit the stage on Thursday's show, performing her hit, "On The Floor."
Additionally, FOX star Gordon Ramsay stopped by for a spot of "Hell's Kitchen" style taste tests with the contestants.
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The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce (Fairfax Chamber), in partnership with the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness, The Connection Newspapers and Apple Federal Credit Union, has announced the 2nd Annual Jeans Day to Put the ZIP on Homelessness (http://jeansday2012.eventbrite.com).
On Jeans Day 2012—Friday, Dec. 14—businesses, county agencies, non-profit organizations and civic and faith-based groups in Northern Virginia will allow employees or members to wear jeans to work or gatherings in exchange for a $5 contribution to End Homelessness. Last year, more than 100 employers, representing 3,000 employees, participated in the initiative.
Twenty-two organizations, representing nearly 2,000 employees, have already signed up to participate in Jeans Day 2012, including:
City of Fairfax Regional Library
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Ernst & Young
Fairfax County Department of Housing
Fairfax County Department of Human Resources
Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood & Community Services
Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court
Fairfax County Office of the County Attorney
Fairfax County Office to Prevent and End Homelessness
Fairfax County Retirement Administration Agency
Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board-Chantilly Center
Helios HR
Holland & Knight LLP
The ILEX Group
Kositzka, Wicks & Company
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The O'Reilly Law Firm
Reston Association
Steve Gladis Leadership Partners
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Virginia Commerce Bank
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"We're proud to partner with the county, through the Office to Prevent & End Homelessness, The Connection Newspapers and Apple Credit Union to provide an opportunity for businesses and their employees to participate in the robust work to end homelessness going on in our community," said Fairfax Chamber President & CEO Jim Corcoran. "Northern Virginia businesses step up every day to support our community in many ways, but we're especially excited about this opportunity because it's a chance for employees to get involved directly."
"Now, more than ever, we need you to get involved as we move forward with the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness. Everyone is in need of some type of help at one point in time or another. Now, we need your help, and Jeans Day is a great way for you and your business to get involved to prevent and end homelessness in our community as we know it," said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova.
"In Fairfax County, it's easy to forget that there are homeless families here, homeless children in the schools, and that many people who are homeless here are actually working, but don't make nearly enough money to afford housing," said The Connection Publisher Mary Kimm. "The Connection is committed to raising awareness of homelessness and the need to provide permanent shelter, and to recognizing the good works of individuals and businesses in Northern Virginia."
Nearly 3,000 children, women and men face homelessness and the threat of severe temperatures and hunger today in the Fairfax County-Falls Church community. The majority of people without homes in our community are children and working families. Homelessness affects everyone, with social and economic costs to the community, including increased public costs for medical care and education.
Interested organizations can register to participate in the initiative any time between now and Dec. 14, and can do so at http://jeansday2012.eventbrite.com.
More information about homelessness in Fairfax County, and the partnership to end it, is available at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/homeless/.


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I was wondering why I was getting so much less spam since last two or three days. Now I know the answer. This is a great example of journalism – as the Washington Post 'Security Fix' Blogger Brian managed to shut down McColo, a US-based hosting provider responsible for 75% worldwide spam. From the blog post:
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And she's happier about it than she looks.
{Grandma 'Nette gave her her first ever piggies, but this is the first time they've been captured by the camera. Thanks for the inspiration, Grandma--we didn't think we could do it!--and thanks to Aunt Aimee for the adorable lady bug clips!}