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Left. Jeromes, Gilbert, Grant & Co. clock. Center. Movement of clock at left. Right. Label of clock at left.
John Jameson (VA)
If my detailed inventory is accurate, my first clock was a Jeromes, Gilbert, Grant and Co. acquired in May 1961. My wife and I had been in Waterford, VA, on one of our field trips looking for antiques for our Arlington, VA, home. Those of you who have been to, or perhaps have had the good fortune to live in Waterford, know it to be a charming, small, out-of-the way town west of Leesburg, VA, surrounded by fields and forests. All very bucolic. As I recall it had one store, maybe two, and one could drive into town and park easily. Hopefully the town remains much the same thanks to zoning and other restrictions by the wise residents.
Mostly we browsed, but at the end of the day we stopped at the Roses Antique Shop. I don't recall any previous interest in antique clocks, but the clock shown in Figure 1 caught my eye. The price of $27.50 (from my inventory record) seemed like a lot to me, but I went ahead. My wife humored me.
As illustrated on page of 62 of NAWCC Bulletin Supplement No. 15 (spring 1986), in Chris H. Bailey's excellent book, From Rags to Riches to Rags, The Story of Chauncey Jerome, the clock is described as an "unusual model shelf clock by Jeromes, Gilbert, Grant and Co. made about 1839. Zinc dial with black painted chapter. Lower mirror is original." The case is quite thin (three inches) and perfectly flat in front unlike the usual ogee or beveled front. Likely it was a prototype for those models. This clock is in the collection of the American Clock and Watch Museum. My guess is that my clock originally had a mirror that was replaced with a reverse painted tablet. My purchase is pretty much as found with some touching up of the tablet and a repair to the glass over the dial.
Elsewhere in Bulletin Supplement No. 15 (pages 25 and 56), Bailey describes Jeromes' evening in Richmond, VA, in 1837 when he conceived the idea of a cheap, one-day brass clock that would take the place of wooden-works clocks. Following discussion with his brother, Noble Jerome, upon returning to Bristol, CT, in January 1838, Noble set to work to develop the new movement. While production continued on wooden-works clocks, in 1839 the two Jeromes went into partnership with William Gilbert, Zelotes C. Grant, among others to raise capital. Production started using Noble's design. While the new clock was a great sales success, the company was dissolved in 1840, perhaps to get rid of partners and their shares of the income.
This clock was in my possession for many years but is now owned by my good friend and fellow accumulator, Ralph Whitmer, who took the photographs and reviewed this paper. We would be interested in knowing of other such clocks owned by collectors or in other museums.
Left. B. Arlington pocket watch. Center. Acquisition No. 8. Right. R & A Vienna Regulator, acquisition No. 3.
Donald Bellairs (CA)
Our interest in antique clocks and watches began in 1966 when we received, from my father-in-law, three old pocket watches possessed by his mother prior to her death. One needed cleaning and the other two needed repairs. As our ignorance about watches and clocks was absolute we consulted our local watch repairman. One he cleaned and we gave it to my wife's sister; the second one he repaired and we kept it; the third one he returned to us with the admonition to find an old watch repairman who would restore it for "love" not "money." Then he said, "I could do the repairs but you could not pay my bill."
The watch in question is a man's silver case-in-case fusee pocket watch made by B. Arlington of London. The hallmarks on the case date the watch to the year 1814. We were successful in finding an elderly retired watch repairman who consented to do the extensive repair. Someone in the past had separated the plates without letting down the spring. The fusee chain was broken and other damage sustained. The guilty party, I surmise, was able to stuff the parts and pieces back into the case and close it up. This was how I handed it to Mr. Walter Charles of Point Loma, CA (San Diego). He accepted it with obvious joy as he hadn't worked on a fusee movement in years.
A few weeks later a call informed us that our watch was ready for pickup and was running quite nicely. At this time our family consisted of four children plus a foster daughter. As I was just beginning a teaching career, money was quite tight. Upon our arrival in Point Loma Mr. Charles handed us a running watch and said, "I did $300 worth of work on this." I was stunned as this just about equaled one month's salary. My heart missed a few beats, then Mr. Charles smiled and said, "But, you owe me $50." He had indeed done the work for love and not for money.
This adventure sparked the beginning of our interest in clocks and watches. Unfortunately, we do not know the history of the watch. It came to us through my wife's grandmother and/or her sister. The sister died first and Grandma came to possess the watch. It may have belonged to their father—we like to think so. When I asked my father-in-law from whence his mother obtained the watch, he said, "I don't know, I never asked her." Oh, how I wish he had!
A cousin later also denied any knowledge of the history of this old watch. Even though we can't trace its full history, this B. Arlington watch is a prized possession and was the first stage in our development of an interest in timekeeping and the collection of timekeepers.
After joining the La Mesa, CA, clock club (now San Diego County Chapter 59 of the NAWCC), our interest shifted to clocks. Over the nearly 45 years since receiving Grandma's watch we have owned about 1,850 clocks. No, we do not still have them all!
Although the gift of the three watches sparked our horological interest, for some reason even unexplainable to us, we tend to consider acquisition No. 8 the start of our active collecting.
We had purchased a number of antiques at a nearby auction house by 1968 when No. 8 came upon the scene. We had even previously bought a small R & A Vienna Regulator, but again, though No. 3 is still in our possession, it is not the "Start."
Auctioneers could be a subject of a dissertation all by themselves. Digressing for just a moment, we were attending an auction in northern Kansas where the auctioneer tried to pass himself off as the stereotypical country hick—called himself colonel, used a heavy country drawl, used poor English, anything to further the image of a real Rube. My wife was standing slightly behind me with her hand on my shoulder. When she wanted me to bid, she would squeeze her fingers. Within two squeezes the auctioneer did not even glance at me, he simply took our bid from her flexed fingers! A real Rube!
Back to the purchase of clock No. 8. The auctioneer selling this clock must have been a cousin to the one in Kansas. A helper handed him a cuckoo case and a shoe box full of parts. I could not assemble a clock at that time and this one was not one in which I saw any promise at all, not even at $7. My wife saw differently, she poked me in the ribs, I jumped, the auctioneer shouted "SOLD!" and our nearly 45 years of collecting clocks began.
I took the box of pieces to our local repairman. He looked carefully at them and said, "You have such an interest in clocks that you should do the cleaning and assembly of this one." I said, "But I know nothing." He replied, "Just ask me if you get stuck and I'll tell you what to do next." This was the true beginning, if not of collecting, of the cleaning and repair of clocks.
The finials were missing from the case, we could see the empty holes, but we had no idea what should go in those holes. My wife is quite talented in design so she came up with a pattern, and I made some pieces to fit where finials should have been. After knowing what a cuckoo finial should look like we hesitated to replace our initial effort. Our oldest son now has a one-of-a-kind cuckoo clock—and it's still running 42 years later!


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Fossil-fuel reliance puts world on track for 3.6-degree rise in temperature: report
By Peter Hannam
Global investment in fossil-fuel energy continues to outpace new spending on renewable sources, leaving the world on track for temperature increases of at least 3.6 degrees, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.
Last year, more than $1.1 trillion (A$1.19 trillion) was poured into the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels, producing much of the greenhouse gas emissions largely blamed for global warming.
By contrast, $US250 billion was invested in clean energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, down from the 2011 peak of $US300 billion, the Paris-based IEA said in its inaugural World Energy Investment Outlook study. Energy efficiency efforts attracted another $US130 billion.
To keep global warming to within 2 degrees of pre-industrial levels – the internationally agreed target – annual investment in low-carbon energy supply would need to rise to almost $US900 billion and spending on energy efficiency needs to exceed $US1 trillion, said the IEA's chief economist, Fatih Birol.
"Dependable policy signals will be essential to ensure that these (renewable energy) investments offer a sufficiently attractive risk-adjusted return," Dr Birol told Fairfax Media.
Policymakers have "the most important role to play" in driving such investments, he said: "They need to provide clear and credible signals that lower risks and inspire confidence if we are to switch investment to low-carbon sources and energy efficiency at the necessary scale and speed to meet the world's climate change target."
Dr Birol's comments come hours after US President Barack Obama unveiled the US government's most ambitious policy to tackle climate change. Power plants will be required by the US Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions by 30 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030.
Australia's own emissions target had an inadvertent increase of its own this week. As the Abbott government had failed to scrap the carbon price by May 31, a default cap on emissions came into effect ahead of the proposed start of an emissions trading scheme next year.
If the Abbott government fails to repeal or amend the Gillard government's Clean Energy Act, Australia's target will be more than tripled to 18.8 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020 rather than the bipartisan-backed 5 per cent.
Globally, temperatures have risen about 0.8 degrees in the past century. In its latest report out last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offered a range of scenarios on the likely increase in global temperatures by the end of the century.
Based on differing emissions projections, global mean surface temperatures will rise 0.3-4.8 degrees in the 2081-2100 period compared with 1986-2005, the IPCC said.
High-emissions trajectory
The IEA report indicates "a major disconnect between climate change goals and actions being taken to meet them", Dr Birol said.
On the current trajectory, investment in the energy sector will amount to a mammoth $US48 trillion between now and 2035, including $US8 trillion on energy efficiency, the report says.
Of that total, about $US23 trillion will go into fossil-fuel extraction, transport and oil refining, and $US7 trillion into transmission and distribution.
Despite the increase in fossil-fuel investments, relatively little of the investment in power generation will be in new fossil-fuel burning plants. Of the $US10 trillion to be channelled into new electricity generation capacity, about $US6 trillion will go into renewables and $US1 trillion into nuclear plants, the IEA estimates.
The IEA's Dr Birol said investment trends were subject to changes in economic conditions, unexpected events in terms of resource availability, technological breakthroughs and the introduction of more stringent energy and environmental policies.
He said the Obama administration's plans to curb emissions from the power sector "are good examples of actions that could shift the pattern of investment, at least within the United States".
"But let's not forget that the global energy system is a juggernaut: it cannot change direction sharply or quickly so unless other countries follow suit it is unlikely to dramatically alter the breakdown of investment needs at the global level," Dr Birol said.

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PANTHERS RALLY FOR POINT: Buffalo Tops Florida 4-3 in SO after Leading 3-2 in Third ... Mike Weaver Out Perhaps for a While
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The Panthers goaltending situation hasn't exactly been a Carousel of Progress lately, although plenty of things have been spinning around.
Thursday, it was Jose Theodore making saves on all 15 shots seen in relief of starter Scott Clemmensen -- roles were reversed two nights before -- to help Florida pick up a point with a 4-3 shootout loss to Buffalo at BB&T Center.
Brian Campbell, who spend parts of eight seasons in Buffalo, zipped a 60-foot shot past Ryan Miller with 1:26 left in regulation to tie things and force overtime.
The Sabres won it in the shootout round by going 2-0 against Theodore; Jonathan Huberdeau and Peter Mueller both misfired for the Panthers as Florida is now 1-1 in the shootout and 1-5 in overtime this season.
"I've always had a long leash with my goalies,'' coach Kevin Dineen said. "They understand the game and when to step it up. But that's not happening right now.''
The Panthers, winless in nine of the past 11, were on the verge of losing in regulation despite playing well for most of the game.
Florida took aim at Miller and dominated play in the third and overtime -- yet got just the one goal. And the one point.
"Look at the game, the tempo, the pace,'' Dineen said, "and we're not dissatisfied with the way we played the game. Just that we didn't get the two points. If we play that way, keep going in that direction, it's the right one.''
Still, the Panthers -- despite all their problems -- are four points back of first place Carolina in the Southeast Division with home-and-home games against the Hurricanes this weekend.
The Panthers' next five games are against divisional opponents and could help create some separation in the muddled Southeast.
"It's frustrating not to get the two points,'' Campbell said. "We need the points and this could be the biggest weekend of the season. We need to come out with a couple of wins.''
Tuesday, Theodore came into the game before the first intermission after Clemmensen gave up three goals on 10 shots in 16:46. The Panthers, then down 3-2 after rallying from a 2-0 deficit, played a scoreless second before that strong third.
Theodore, arguably Florida's MVP last season, still can right what has been to this point a shaky season. Clemmensen started Thursday after his masterful relief appearance against Pittsburgh Tuesday; expect Theodore to get the call Saturday in Raleigh.
Nathan Gerbe got things started for Buffalo by throwing up a floater that found its way past Clemmensen. A few minutes later, Tyler Ennis scored on a power play.
Then it was Florida's turn. Drew Shore got a power play goal at 14:24 of the first by knocking a loose puck off the boards past Ryan Miller. Less than a minute later, Marcel Goc dove for a loose puck by the cage, corraled it and wraped it around Miller to tie the score.
Only a few moments later, Gerbe got hit second after losing his feet yet finding the top corner of the net. Theodore was quickly off his stool by the door to the bench and got ready to take over.
"We played well enough and deserved to win,'' Shore said. "We bring that effort, things are going to start to turn around.''
Center Stephen Weiss was back with the Panthers on Thursday after missing a few days to be with his family after the passing of his grandmother, Elizabeth Weiss.
Stephen said his grandmother passed away before Sunday's game -- one in which he was benched in the third period -- against the Bruins. He said he didn't know until afterward.
"She meant a lot to all our family,'' Weiss said. "She didn't have a mean bone in her body. Very warm, always ready to give you advice. I just always remember going there Christmas Eve and spending time with them was always fun. We'll miss her for sure."
As far as his struggles go -- Weiss has one goal in 15 games -- he said if he plays better he doesn't have to worry about being demoted to the fourth line or benched as was the case Sunday.
"It's never fun to be sat and the easy answer is to play better. That's the bottom line,'' he said. "It's not the first time I've been benched.''
-- Defenseman Filip Kuba returned to the lineup after missing the past two games with an undisclosed upper body injury.
Florida played a defenseman down for much of the game, however, as Mike Weaver left in the first period with a lower body injury that could see him miss substantial time.
"[Weaver] is going to be out an extended amount of time,'' Dineen said. "It's going to be quite a while by the looks of it.''


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Internet evildoers stitch together vile ransomware-survey scam chimaera
Used criminal brain stolen from brain depository
Internet Igors have fused genomes from two of the web's most noxious scam strains to create a repulsive chimaera.
The new ransomware doing the rounds locks up victims' PCs before forcing their users to complete a survey in order to receive an unlock code.
Traditional ransomware scams typically involving locking up systems before accusing prospective marks of some fictitious crime, from distributing music or films on file-sharing networks to circulating child-abuse images. Victims are typically coerced into coughing up a "fine" of about £100 using untraceable cash vouchers in order to obtain codes to unlock their computers.
Tying things up in survey scams is a new and arguably less ambitious tactic. Survey scams typically involve attempts by dodgy marketing affiliates to trick consumers into completing a survey that offers the "chance" to win an iPad or similar. In reality the ruse is purely designed to harvest personal information. In more extreme cases victims are tricked into handing over their mobile number and signed up for expensive but lame premium rate services, such as daily horoscopes by SMS.
Packaged scams to get victims (referred to as "slaves") to complete online surveys using ransomware have begun appearing in underground cybercrime forums. Webroot has a write-up on one such scam, together with screeenshots, in a blog post here.
The ransomware strain blocks Task Manager, CMD, Regedit and the Start Menu.
"Despite the fact that the ransomware doesn't pose any sophisticated features ... it [still] provides an example of an efficient business model aiming to utilize cost-per-action (CPA) affiliate networks in an attempt to generate revenue for the market participants," writes malware researcher Dancho Danchev. ®


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A thread of love runs throughout the story of Cardboard Piano, a play set in northern Uganda. It begins with the profound love between two teenage girls, Chris and Adiel, who perform their own secret wedding ceremony in the town's church on New Year's eve. One is the daughter of the white missionaries who'd founded the church; the other, a local Ugandan parishioner. Actor Adelin Phelps plays Chris, the missionaries' daughter; Kiara Jackson is Adiel, her bride. The play takes us on a years-long journey from the night of their wedding to its aftermath.
"When I first read this play, I really connected with Chris," Adelin said. "I very quickly fell in love with her and with this story. I love how passionate Chris is and her strong conviction in what she believes. Yet there's this contradiction that lives in her; she's smart but also naive and sheltered.
I play Chris at different ages, 16 and 30 years old. And as broken as she becomes, she's a fighter in the whole play. Women fighting for their needs and beliefs on stage–I'm drawn to that."
Playing a rich, complex character that must sustain intense emotions as well as display a range of emotions in quick shifts will require stamina. As Adelin attests, "This is not an easy play for any of the cast members. It's an intense story that moves quickly. What happens to Chris is difficult to execute, but getting to try to do it is so incredible from an actor's standpoint of serving this story."
A thread of love runs through Adelin's desire to not only be in Cardboard Piano, but also to be an actor in the first place. Her desire to act began early as a deep inner knowledge, then a private acknowledgement before coming out as a public dream.
Adelin first fell in love with theatre when, as a child, she saw The Wizard of Oz with her school. The experience was so powerful that she was glued to the stage.
For a long time, however, Adelin pursued dance instead. Though she loved movement, she never wanted to become a professional dancer. And she came to realize that what she loved most about dance were its acting aspects.
"When I was 17," Adelin recalled, "I knew I wanted to go to college and learn how to act. I had very little experience, not really doing it in high school, but I knew I had to pursue it. The fire in my belly had grown bigger and hotter every year throughout my life. And so I decided to apply and audition for schools. "
Adelin had made no backup plan, having consciously made the decision to commit her life to acting. Ultimately, she got into her top pick of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and, as she put it, "The rest is history."
A thread of love has steadily run through Adelin's acting career, quite evident in a physical theatre ensemble that she co-founded with core members in 2010 after a few years of collaborating on Minnesota Fringe Festival performances. Called Transatlantic Love Affair, the ensemble's name was inspired by the long-distance relationship between Artistic Director Isabel Nelson and Artistic Associate Diogo Lopes before they got married.
The special synergy within the group was there from the beginning. Not only do they love working together, but they also work beautifully together. That's a good recipe for stellar productions, and their shows have been consistently well-received. In fact, their 2017 production Promised Land, a reimagined telling of Hansel and Gretel as an immigration story, sold out all its performances.
Adelin has wondered, "What would it have been like if she'd pursued acting earlier?" But she doesn't dwell on it. She's simply grateful that she'd ultimately followed her heart to do what she loves.
Adelin anticipates an exciting year ahead. Besides being in Cardboard Piano, she's involved in other projects that she is not privy to reveal at the moment. So look out for her, and follow her thread of love.
Information on Transatlantic Love Affair here
Tickets and information on Cardboard Piano here


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Adding images/icons into the Copenhagen Theme
回答済みLong time lurker, first-time poster. A lot of the code and ideas I gathered from @moderatorwes and all the other mods so enjoy.
The majority of all Help Centers today have images or icons on their Home Page to draw attention to certain parts of their Help Center. We normally see images on the Home Page next to the list of categories. We also see icons on the Category Pages and Sections Pages so for this tutorial we will focus on those three pages. This tutorial will cover two different methods for adding images/icons.
1. Method 1 is using the IS helper
2. Method 2 is using JQUERY
You can find step by step instructions and even download a copy of the code from the test Help Center located here: Adding Images/Icons Into the Copenhagen Theme
If you have questions/comments/or feedback please post them below.
Enjoy - Anonymous
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@Wes, looks like someone beat you to it. :-)
Great tip @anonymous. Thanks for sharing it. -
Well, we are glad that you stopped lurking and posted such a great tip! Moderator Wes inspires a lot of people. :)
As thanks for your contribution, look for a link for a Zendesk t-shirt in your inbox!
Thanks for sharing this!
@Jennifer, yes he sure does and thanks for the t-shirt :)
@Anonymous - Great tip and glad you were able to piecemeal my code snippets together from the various post. I know the community members will be grateful that everything is in one post. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for this tip! It's helped a ton!
@Anonymous, this is great! I was trying to find out why my images weren't showing up in both our English and Spanish categories, but I was using English words to identify the categories:
{{#is name 'category name'}}
{{/is}}Now, using the category IDs instead, the images are appearing in both help centers.
{{#is id 115008316527}}
{{/is}}Thank you!!
@Deb I'm glad you were able to resolve your issue with the ID. I'm glad you found the code useful and easy to implement. Best of luck with your Help Center.
Thanks for being so helpful, @Anonymous!
is there a way to hide the description with this, aside from deleting the description? Maybe only have the description show when hovering over the category?
Hey Robert!
I can't give detailed info on how to do it, not being familiar enough with Javascript, but I'm fairly certain you can use JS to manipulate the way that content displays (or not). We don't have any tips that address that specifically but we have lots of coding gurus here in the Community that may be able to help!
@Jessie - we actually figured out how to do it. It just requires adding some code to the sytles.css file - super easy actually and does not need to involve JS.
Fantastic! I'm glad you got it figured out!
When using the jQuery method, if no image exists for a category a blank box is displayed.
Is there a code modification which will display images if they exist in the document head, but show only the heading if there is no image.
Hi @...,
As per the code, in your template replace

and at the bottom of your style.css file add:
.hide {display: none;}
In your script code replace:
$('.icon').each(function (idx, itm){
var categoryID = $(this).attr('data-title');
$(itm).attr('src', categoryIcons[categoryID]);
</script>Let me know if this solves your issue.
Team Diziana
@... - Perfect, thanks!
Hey all, for some reason neither of the methods works for me, the icons are not being displayed. Does anyone have any general suggestions for troubleshooting? I know this is fishing broadly but maybe anyone else has come across issues while trying this out?
Thanks in advance!
I had a similar issue last week-
after playing with it a lot I found a <sections> part on the hbs file
We do not have sections included in our subscription, so I removed it to un-clutter- and this did the trick!
@... thanks a lot!
I took another look at the sections part of our hbs file and noticed that we actually use sections on our home page. Adding the code to the sections part of the file instead of the categories part did the trick for me. Thanks for the nudge :)
Thanks for article Anonymous, it's very detailed and useful.
@... great catch! I couldn't figure out why the solution was not working for me, your comment helped! Thanks again
So happy!
I'm still struggling with one specific category that won't show icons no matter what.
It's set up exactly the same like the rest but one specific categoy is very stubborn.If anyone knows how this could be solved or why would a specific category not show icons- any leads much appreciated!
@..., are you having problems with the icon showing on the category link on the home page, or with the icon showing on the category page?
Some things I could think of to check:
- Was the image you are using for the icon uploaded to assets, and are you using the correct placeholder for it?
- Do all the classes used in your templates exist in style.css?
Thank you so much Karen!
I can't locate any of those...
Here's my code for category pages:

{{#each sections}}

<i class="fa
{{#is name 'Help me save money'}} fas fa-search-dollar{{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me save time'}} far fa-clock {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me with EVERYTHING'}} fas fa-hand-holding-usd {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Our Training'}} fas fa-chalkboard-teacher {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Vendor'}} fas fa-industry {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Commissary'}} fas fa-warehouse {{/is}}
{{#if articles}}....
The first 3 are not working. The last 3 (and 25 more) are working as expected :) lol
@... It looks like you're using font awesome, so now I see you don't need to have uploaded icons to assets.
It looks like your code is missing the closing quote and angled bracket, so I'm not sure how any of your lines work. Don't you need to have "> after the last {{/is}}?
Is it correct to use class fa before fas fa-[icon-name]? The examples at https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/referencing-icons/basic-use just show class="fas fa-[icon-name]". Also, I noticed that your second one is using far class, which according to that link requires font awesome Pro, so do you have that?
I see that the icons you are using do exist at https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet, so they seem to be correct. Still, you could try changing them to the icons used on the lines that work, just to double check. And you could try changing the icons on the lines that work to the icons used on the lines that don't work.
Another suggestion would be to inspect the element at the section name, and see what the generated HTML looks like. That may give you a clue to what's happening. And sorry for the obvious, but have you double checked that the section names are correct?
Hope this helps you to locate the problem.
Sorry I have about 25 categories with separate icons so I cut only the start, and forgot to add the closing quote.
that's the closing:">
I have tried changing the icons both ways and it's consistently the same result- on one of the pages, icons won't show no matter what.
But- BINGO! When I inspected the html, I found the issue!
While all pages render the classes properly:
That page doesn't read the class, and there's no "::before ==0" added:Any idea what controls this function or how in the world I managed to mess this up? lol
Thank you again so so much!! -
This is very strange, because the before pseudoclass should exist automatically in the Font Awesome style sheet. Did you add Font Awesome in your theme by adding a line like this in document_head.hbs? (Not sure if it makes a difference how you added it.)

To simulate this, I added Font Awesome icons in the category page of my test Copenhagen theme. I think I set it up like yours, and used an icon that doesn't work for you and an icon that does work for you, and they both display.

{{#each sections}}

The before pseudoclass for fa-search-dollar specifies to display code "\f688" before the content, which makes the icon appear before Forms.
So no matter which icon you try to display on the 'Help me save money' section, it doesn't display? Can you send a screenshot of the entire element when you inspect it, like my screenshot above, showing it from  to , with all the inner elements expanded?
OMGGGGGG Mystery solved!
Here's what I had set:
{{#is name 'Help me save money'}} fas fa-dollar-sign{{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me save time'}} far fa-clock {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me with EVERYTHING'}} fas fa-hand-holding-usd {{/is}}Here's what I SHOULD have set:
{{#is name 'Help me save money '}} fas fa-dollar-sign{{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me save time '}} far fa-clock {{/is}}
{{#is name 'Help me with EVERYTHING '}} fas fa-hand-holding-usd {{/is}}Tiny little space at the end of the title, that doesn't catch on copy-paste from the title!!
I realized this when you asked for the full screenshot, and I noticed the extra dash at the end of the link:So thank you so so much for this!!! I've been pushing this away for months and so happy it's resolved!
Hi Ruthy,
I'm glad that I helped you figure this out, because I was really perplexed by this. I'm still not sure that I fully understand what the problem was. Did the section title have a dash or space at the end?
Yes, sorry :)
There's apparently an extra space that doesn't show when you look at the title.
It's also not picking it up when I copy-pasted the title.
It's basically an invisible extra space, but it's visible on the long link from Zendesk:Moral of the story: if anyone else encounters this odd issue, you should check in the source for the exact wording and spaces as it shows on the link.
Thanks for sharing what you figured out, Ruthy!
Personally, nothing is working for me. All I try to do is to have these Sections look better (an image / an icon ) anything. I follow all the steps but it's not up to date right now - Nothing is working. If you can show me the steps I'd be happy. I added a random picture as an asset, then I went in the Section_page.hbs tried to copy that code in there:
{{#is id 360003646880}}{{/is}}
360003646880 being my Section ID and asset 'pexels-ketut-subiyanto-4246118.jpg being the random picture I wanted to try and I uploaded to the asset - ITS NOT WORKING!! DAMMNNIT!!


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In a recent interview a friend of mine was asked:
If you do not have time to write test scripts, so as quick way what are the things exactly you will test manually in the order of preference ?
In a recent interview a friend of mine was asked:
If you do not have time to write test scripts, so as quick way what are the things exactly you will test manually in the order of preference ?
It would depend on how well I knew the product or project - if I was familiar with it, I'd have a good idea of where the risks were so I'd focus my testing this way:
If I don't know the system before I start testing, the first thing I'd do is a combination of exploratory testing and research to find out as much as I can about the steel thread, the requirements, and the risk areas.
Finally, I'd make sure to communicate my assessment of the risks involved in releasing the product. Whether it releases or not is a business decision based on factors I can't control (which could include contractual obligations), but I can make sure that the risks I see are clearly stated so that the people who make the decision aren't working with inadequate information.
Testing is an information service. The goal is to inform some set of people about the product.
Who are you trying to inform with your testing? What information do those people most need about the product?
Test the things that yield that information.
As there is no time to automate the test scripts.It is better to perform risk based manual testing so that the critical defects can be found and fixed.Hence making the system stable under such pressure and then try to find the bugs in the interfaces among the modules and make them fixed.
If the risks are known then you can test them at first, after that worth to organize a exploratory testing focusing on the risky areas.
First, I would suggest to go with Exploratory testing. In case if you are pretty much aware of requirements then please go with Functional testing as it is considered as Black Box technique.


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Editor's note: This article was originally presented at Making Cosmetics in Birmingham, U.K., March 28–29, 2012, as a paper titled "Creating and activating brand meaning in consumer decisions: Integrating critical brand stimuli through-the-line."
- If consumers aren't making decisions based on POP marketing, the factors that are influencing them are more likely based on a continuous conscious and unconscious processing of brand stimuli.
- Marketing messages need to be directed in both mass and niche channels, helping to build a larger presence and create a more significant association and network within consumers' memories.
- There are core visual mnemonics that trigger semantic memory networks and predict the likely reaction to consumers' exposure to these visuals while in a shopping environment.
Contesting the premise that the great majority of consumer decision-making takes place at the point-of-purchase (POP) and arguing that the nature and extent of POP information processing is primed by explicit and implicit memory representations of brand stimuli and meaning, this article addresses how beauty brands should stress the need for an integrated perspective of above-the-line (directed at mass audiences; ATL) and below-the-line (directed at niche audiences; BTL) communications that better reflect the rapid, holistic and continuous decision-making processes of low involvement consumers. Here, the authors present an approach for identifying those elements of brand stimuli that are critical to both developing and activating semantic memory networks, via both ATL and BTL communications.
The Impetus for Consumer Decision-making
In 2003, Pira International highlighted a significant shift in focus and investment toward POP communications activity on the grounds that 70% of customer purchasing decisions are undertaken at the point of purchase.1
As the authors believe this POP decision-making is often not the case, it is argued that the nature and extent of POP information processing is primed by memory representations of brand stimuli and meaning. The continuous processing of communications stimuli in the external media environment leads to the creation of semantic memory networks (engrams) that provide a context for the processing of POP stimuli. Much of this processing may be automatic, preconscious and not available to explicit memory—hence consumers' belief that the processing of new external material is solely responsible for their decision-making at POP.
This article is based on the premise that brand meaning is represented in semantic memory networks, and that these are continuously created, by both conscious, elaborative processing2 and preconscious, automatic processing of brand stimuli.3–5 Secondly, it is stressed that these networks, or engrams2,6, are triggered in-store by key elements of brand-related stimuli, and it is this integrated processing that drives decision-making. These concepts are discussed to build a fairly detailed picture of consumer decision-making under conditions of low attention and low involvement, a scenario that is prevalent throughout fast-moving consumer goods categories.7
The Need for an Integrated Approach
The main implication of this scenario is that organizations and brand owners need to take a holistic view of how marketing communications can shape consumer decision-making. In particular, brand owners and marketing and sales directors are faced with two questions that, taken together, may be seen to drive purchase decisions:
- How do we create, change and reinforce brand engrams through continuous exposure in the media environment?
- How do we ensure these engrams are triggered by stimuli at POP?
In turn, this gives rise to two key problems for market researchers to address:
- How do we identify and understand the engrams that currently exist for the brand?
- How do we identify the elements of the brand stimuli that most effectively trigger these engrams at POP?
Within marketing research literature, it is evident that a number of methodological approaches have been developed to address these questions. For example, traditional qualitative methods and questioning techniques have historically been used in brand image research. More detailed and rigorous attempts to elicit brand meaning, perceptions and attitudes are often characterized by the use of projective techniques, such as word association, sentence completion, scene description and third-party observation, and the psychological research technique known as priming.8 Discussed in some detail here, the authors come to the conclusion that the state of methodological development with regard to identifying, developing and activating brand engrams is relatively advanced.
However, one of the notable themes throughout the development of market research in this area is the tendency to focus on one element of the communication and decision-making process. For example, many studies focus on the effects of advertising or the effectiveness of packaging, often using qualitative techniques supported by quantitative data. To the authors' knowledge, there have been few, if any, attempts to develop methodologies that are specifically designed to identify the extent to which brand-related stimuli are effective throughout the integrated communication and decision-making process; i.e., the extent to which these stimulus effects might be seen to cut through ATL and BTL communications.
It is suggested this may be a result of the way in which marketing research has historically been commissioned and utilized by communications practitioners. In this sense, research has primarily been used to evaluate the effectiveness of separate elements in the chain of communication from consumer awareness to shopper purchasing decisions—e.g., ATL, PR, packaging, promotion, BTL—evaluated separately within one brand's marketing mix. This is often because one executive is dealing with different specialists and sees their particular contribution to the marketing mix as an individual discipline that needs to be measured separately.
In addition, responsibility for the different channels is usually split between management departments within an organization, such as marketing and sales, marketing and category management, and so on. Thus, current brand research tends to be silo-managed with different objectives, and the way in which market research is commissioned and used tends to:
- separate the functions of communication into ATL and BTL, and evaluate them individually because of historical procurement protocols;
- solely research consumer opinion by assuming consumers and shoppers have the same psychological state while consuming and shopping. In this respect, research indicates the retail environment subverts shopping intentions and generates unplanned purchasing behaviors; and
- predict likely success based only on the conscious recall and perceptions of respondents. In this respect, research indicates shopping, and especially fast-moving consumer goods shopping, is more likely to be based rather on consumers' shopping schema and subsequently their script or experiential behavior. This tends to involve shoppers' implicit semantic memory and is not predicted or measured by conventional research.
Although it is true that planners within communication agencies will often construct a brand world, the authors are not aware of any research process that actively seeks to identify the elements of brand visual equity that will cut through from ATL to the shop floor. Addressing this issue, the authors also present a methodological approach that will enable market researchers to investigate the extent to which brand-related stimuli are effective throughout the communications process, both ATL and BTL.
In this sense, it is proposed that, should market researchers be able to distill these critical elements from the overall brand stimuli, this will allow for greater creativity in the design of marketing communications while reducing the risk of core brand mnemonics being lost in this process.
Identifying Key Mnemonics to Activate Brand Meaning
"All cues are not created equal [when] obtaining attitude persistence under low-involvement conditions."9
Inherent in this quote is a recognition that some mnemonics are stronger than others at activating brand memories and meaning. Here, the authors seek to identify the core visual mnemonics (CVM) that trigger semantic memory networks and predict the likely reaction to exposure among the consumers passing a category display in a store. In the experience of the authors, it would appear very few brand owners identify their brand's CVM and its relative strength on-shelf. As a result, brands may lose their CVM through redesign, resulting in a decrease in sales.
In a self-selection fast-moving consumer goods retail environment, key mnemonics are usually visual, although memory networks can be triggered by aroma, music and more. These mnemonics prompt recall, which in turn trigger a schema or a script reaction. These concepts may be seen to mirror that of the brand engram: "Cognitive structures termed schema represent the total, integrated network of information, feelings and associated ideas consumers have about products, brands, services, stores etc."10
"A special type of schema, called a script, is a stereotypical event sequence, describing what a consumer should do in a particular consumption situation."11
A script reaction to a brand mnemonic can be a physical or a mental process and is largely dependent upon two factors:
- a consumer's disposition toward a brand; and
- a consumer's shopping mission or motivation.
For example, in the case of a Guinness brand loyalist who had intended to buy Guinness before entering a store, recognition of a brand mnemonic would prompt a selection schema. To an occasional consumer of Guinness who wants to buy from the beer category, recognition of a brand mnemonic might prompt a consideration schema in which Guinness is one of several brands he may choose. To a rejecter of Guinness, recognition would prompt a deselection schema.
Schemas or engrams can be visualized as a three-dimensional web of feelings, associations, experiences and imagery associated with a brand. Recall of the brand can be accessed using many routes. By understanding consumers' disposition toward a brand and their motivations for considering or purchasing it, it is possible to link a strong brand association with a motivation to purchase. Schema can therefore be prompted by a number of associations or themes. As such, brands may be seen to have a palette of imagery, associations and themes that can activate the brand schema or engram and essentially cut through from ATL to BTL. This palette may be described as brand visual equity.
Schema research methodology deconstructs the media associated with a category—such as packaging, magazine ads and TV ads—to which consumers are exposed. Groups of consumers with differing dispositions toward the sponsoring brands are taken through a range of exercises in relation to the media. These exercises are designed to identify:
- the brand mnemonics that drive recognition and recall;
- the strength of the CVM in relation to market competitors;
- typical shopping missions and motivations;
- the decision-making process and related visual cues;
- typical consumption patterns; and
- the brand visual equity, i.e., the palette of imagery, associations and themes around the brand.
This article concludes by stressing the importance of such methodological development in this field. In particular, the authors note that once brand managers clearly understand the specific visual language required to trigger explicit and implicit semantic memory networks, the visual presence of brands on the shop floor can be strategically managed to generate effective cut-through from ATL to BTL.
However, the development of effective methodologies in this area must take into account of the fact that, in fast-moving consumer goods categories characterized by very low levels of attention and involvement, consumers largely adopt automatic purchasing modes. As such, it is perhaps inappropriate to expect cognitive research models with a focus on conscious, explicit memory traces to predict through-the-line efficacy of marketing.
A process that avoids verbal overshadowing and reveals a window to the adaptive unconscious may prove to be of real value in advancing research methodology in this field.
- Pira International, The future of point-of-purchase research in the UK and Ireland: Executive summary, Pira International Ltd. (2003)
- DL Schacter, Illusory memories: A cognitive neuroscience analysis. PNAS, 93(24), 13527–13534 (1996)
- HS Krishnan and S Shapiro, Comparing Implicit and Explicit Memory for Brand Names from Advertisements, J Expl Psych: App, 147–163 (June 2, 1996)
- S Shapiro, When an ad's influence is beyond our conscious control: Perceptual and conceptual fluency effects caused by incidental exposure, J Cons Res, 26(1), (1999)
- JR Rossiter and RB Silberstein, Brain-Imaging Detection of Visual Scene Encoding in Long-term Memory for TV Commercials, J Ad Res, 41(2), 13–22, (2001)
- R Heath, Low involvement processing—a new model of brand communication, J of Mark Comm, 7, 27–33 (2001)
- H Skinner and P Stephens, Speaking the same language: the relevance of neuro-linguistic programming to effective marketing communications, J Mark Comm, 9, 177–192 (2003)
- A Hill, Non-conscious processes and semantic image profiling, J Mark Res Soc, 35(1), 315–323 (1993)
- J Sengputa, RC Goodstein and DS Boniger, J of Cons Res, 23 (1997)
- JG Lynch and TK Srull, J of Cons Res, 9, 18–37 (1982)
- GR Foxall, RE Goldsmith and S Brown, Consumer Psychology for Marketing, Cengage Learning EMEA, Andover, Hampshire, UK (1998)
Anthony Grimes is a lecturer of marketing at the University of Manchester's Manchester School of Business.
Rob Barker is the director of Shopper Insights Ltd., an Oxford, U.K.-based business that works with clients and partners who see a commercial advantage in understanding how communication and design influence attitudes and behaviors.
A graduate of London University, David Elliott gained postgraduate qualifications in export marketing. After 13 years in U.K. and international marketing roles, he moved to Singapore and then Indonesia in increasingly senior positions. After returning to the U.K. in 1993 he gained an MBA and runs a successful U.K. and international consultancy. Clients have included Seven Seas, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Reckitt Benckiser, Boots and more. Throughout his career he has had a keen interest in the way consumers respond to brands, which has led to cooperation with research practitioners and academics in areas such as low involvement theory and the role of brand engrams.


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Is he in the same Iraq that I am? One attack per day in Anbar!? I want to see the stats because I am pretty sure thats succesful SVBIED attacks ... in fact, I am going to look them up myself and get back to you all.
Here's a commentary by a U.S. Senator on experiences during a recent trip to Iraq. He tells of positive progress throughout Iraq and argues that abandoning efforts there as a knee-jerk reaction to the day's headlines is a narrow-minded and misinformed plan. The Senator? Joe Lieberman - who ran for vice president with Al Gore in 2000.
Wall Street Journal
June 15, 2007
Pg. 17
What I Saw In Iraq
By Joseph Lieberman
I recently returned from Iraq and four other countries in the Middle East, my first trip to the region since December. In the intervening five months, almost everything about the American war effort in Baghdad has changed, with a new coalition military commander, Gen. David Petraeus; a new U.S. ambassador, Ryan Crocker; the introduction, at last, of new troops; and most important of all, a bold, new counterinsurgency strategy.
The question of course is -- is it working? Here in Washington, advocates of retreat insist with absolute certainty that it is not, seizing upon every suicide bombing and American casualty as proof positive that the U.S. has failed in Iraq, and that it is time to get out.
In Baghdad, however, discussions with the talented Americans responsible for leading this fight are more balanced, more hopeful and, above all, more strategic in their focus -- fixated not just on the headline or loss of the day, but on the larger stakes in this struggle, beginning with who our enemies are in Iraq. The officials I met in Baghdad said that 90% of suicide bombings in Iraq today are the work of non-Iraqi, al Qaeda terrorists. In fact, al Qaeda's leaders have repeatedly said that Iraq is the central front of their global war against us. That is why it is nonsensical for anyone to claim that the war in Iraq can be separated from the war against al Qaeda -- and why a U.S. pullout, under fire, would represent an epic victory for al Qaeda, as significant as their attacks on 9/11.
Some of my colleagues in Washington claim we can fight al Qaeda in Iraq while disengaging from the sectarian violence there. Not so, say our commanders in Baghdad, who point out that the crux of al Qaeda's strategy is to spark Iraqi civil war.
Al Qaeda is launching spectacular terrorist bombings in Iraq, such as the despicable attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra this week, to try to provoke sectarian violence. Its obvious aim is to use Sunni-Shia bloodshed to collapse the Iraqi government and create a failed state in the heart of the Middle East, radicalizing the region and providing a base from which to launch terrorist attacks against the West.
Facts on the ground also compel us to recognize that Iran is doing everything in its power to drive us out of Iraq, including providing substantive support, training and sophisticated explosive devices to insurgents who are murdering American soldiers. Iran has initiated a deadly military confrontation with us, from bases in Iran, which we ignore at our peril, and at the peril of our allies throughout the Middle East.
The precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces would not only throw open large parts of Iraq to domination by the radical regime in Tehran, it would also send an unmistakable message to the entire Middle East -- from Lebanon to Gaza to the Persian Gulf where Iranian agents are threatening our allies -- that Iran is ascendant there, and America is in retreat. One Arab leader told me during my trip that he is extremely concerned about Tehran's nuclear ambitions, but that he doubted America's staying power in the region and our political will to protect his country from Iranian retaliation over the long term. Abandoning Iraq now would substantiate precisely these gathering fears across the Middle East that the U.S. is becoming an unreliable ally.
That is why -- as terrible as the continuing human cost of fighting this war in Iraq is -- the human cost of losing it would be even greater.
Gen. Petraeus and other U.S. officials in Iraq emphasize that it is still too soon to draw hard judgments about the success of our new security strategy -- but during my visit I saw hopeful signs of progress. Consider Anbar province, Iraq's heart of darkness for most of the past four years. When I last visited Anbar in December, the U.S. military would not allow me to visit the provincial capital, Ramadi, because it was too dangerous. Anbar was one of al Qaeda's major strongholds in Iraq and the region where the majority of American casualties were occurring. A few months earlier, the Marine Corps chief of intelligence in Iraq had written off the entire province as "lost," while the Iraq Study Group described the situation there as "deteriorating."
When I returned to Anbar on this trip, however, the security environment had undergone a dramatic reversal. Attacks on U.S. troops there have dropped from an average of 30 to 35 a day a few months ago to less than one a day now, according to Col. John Charlton, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, headquartered in Ramadi. Whereas six months ago only half of Ramadi's 23 tribes were cooperating with the coalition, all have now been persuaded to join an anti-al Qaeda alliance. One of Ramadi's leading sheikhs told me: "A rifle pointed at an American soldier is a rifle pointed at an Iraqi."
The recent U.S. experience in Anbar also rebuts the bromide that the new security plan is doomed to fail because there is no "military" solution for Iraq. In fact, no one believes there is a purely "military" solution for Iraq. But the presence of U.S. forces is critical not just to ensuring basic security, but to a much broader spectrum of diplomatic, political and economic missions -- which are being carried out today in Iraq under Gen. Petraeus's counterinsurgency strategy.
In Anbar, for example, the U.S. military has been essential to the formation and survival of the tribal alliance against al Qaeda, simultaneously holding together an otherwise fractious group of Sunni Arab leaders through deft diplomacy, while establishing a political bridge between them and the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad. "This is a continuous effort," Col. Charlton said. "We meet with the sheikhs every single day and at every single level."
In Baghdad, U.S. forces have cut in half the number of Iraqi deaths from sectarian violence since the surge began in February. They have also been making critical improvements in governance, basic services and commercial activity at the grassroots level.
On Haifa Street, for instance, where there was bloody fighting not so long ago, the 2nd "Black Jack" Brigade of our First Cavalry Division, under the command of a typically impressive American colonel, Bryan Roberts, has not only retaken the neighborhood from insurgents, but is working with the local population to revamp the electrical grid and sewer system, renovate schools and clinics, and create an "economic safe zone" where businesses can reopen. Indeed, of the brigade's five "lines of operations," only one is strictly military. That Iraq reality makes pure fiction of the argument heard in Washington that the surge will fail because it is only "military."
Some argue that the new strategy is failing because, despite gains in Baghdad and Anbar, violence has increased elsewhere in the country, such as Diyala province. This gets things backwards: Our troops have succeeded in improving security conditions in precisely those parts of Iraq where the "surge" has focused. Al Qaeda has shifted its operations to places like Diyala in large measure because we have made progress in pushing them out of Anbar and Baghdad. The question now is, do we consolidate and build on the successes that the new strategy has achieved, keeping al Qaeda on the run, or do we abandon them?
To be sure, there are still daunting challenges ahead. Iraqi political leaders, in particular, need to step forward and urgently work through difficult political questions, whose resolution is necessary for national reconciliation and, as I told them, continuing American support.
These necessary legislative compromises would be difficult to accomplish in any political system, including peaceful, long-established democracies -- as the recent performance of our own Congress reminds us. Nonetheless, Iraqi leaders are struggling against enormous odds to make progress, and told me they expect to pass at least some of the key benchmark bills this summer. It is critical that they do so.
Here, too, however, a little perspective is useful. While benchmarks are critically important, American soldiers are not fighting in Iraq today only so that Iraqis can pass a law to share oil revenues. They are fighting because a failed state in the heart of the Middle East, overrun by al Qaeda and Iran, would be a catastrophe for American national security and our safety here at home. They are fighting al Qaeda and agents of Iran in order to create the stability in Iraq that will allow its government to take over, to achieve the national reconciliation that will enable them to pass the oil law and other benchmark legislation.
I returned from Iraq grateful for the progress I saw and painfully aware of the difficult problems that remain ahead. But I also returned with a renewed understanding of how important it is that we not abandon Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran, so long as victory there is still possible.
And I conclude from my visit that victory is still possible in Iraq -- thanks to the Iraqi majority that desperately wants a better life, and because of the courage, compassion and competence of the extraordinary soldiers and statesmen who are carrying the fight there, starting with Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. The question now is, will we politicians in Washington rise to match their leadership, sacrifices and understanding of what is on the line for us in Iraq -- or will we betray them, and along with them, America's future security?
Is he in the same Iraq that I am? One attack per day in Anbar!? I want to see the stats because I am pretty sure thats succesful SVBIED attacks ... in fact, I am going to look them up myself and get back to you all.
Putting Foot to Al Qaeda Ass Since 1993
OK... I am back. I knew I had been reading the statistics correctly. I read every daily contact report and the tempo has not abated significantly. As much as I want a dramatic decrease in violence we can't wish it so.
Senator Lieberman is either deliberately skewing the truth or he was badly, badly briefed. He has made poor assumptions in this report that appear to be easily detectable. Here is a direct quote from the June 16 Report to Congress:
Here is the chart from the same report:The total number of attacks in Anbar has dropped 34% since December 2006, with Ramadi—where attacks are at a two-year low—accounting for the largest decline in violence levels. Attacks in Anbar have dropped from 35 per day in the previous reporting period to just under 26, dipping below average daily attacks in Salah ad Din Province. (Source: MNC-I)
Violence is increasing elsewhere because the insurgent enemy is simply allowing us to step on the mercury and they spread to other more permissive regions. The Senator is justified in being happy to visit Ramadi, but his visit is in no way indicative of the security situation for the Iraqis or American forces in Iraq... not even close. You can't wish it so.


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Announcing Speakers for Ecoroof Portland
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We're excited to announce our guests and keynote speakers that will be traveling to Portland next month:
Stephan Brenneisen is a geographer, ecologist, and green roof expert from Basel, Switzerland. He is the head of the Green Roof Competence Centre at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and president of the Swiss Engineering and Architect Union-Norm Commission. In this role he has led the development of different green roof standards for Switzerland for habitat approach (biodiversity, nature conservation) and light weight innovations. He is currently working as a lecturer and project leader in urban planning and nature conservation. His research has covered the ecological compensation value of green roofs, with a focus on biodiversity and city planning aspects. Stephan will be in Portland in early March to consult on ecoroof design for habitat and biodiversity. His presentation (details coming soon) will take place on Thursday, March 3rd.
Wolfgang Ansel is currently the Director of the International Green Roof Association (IGRA). IGRA`s targets include the worldwide promotion of the ecological Green Roof idea, an international knowledge transfer in the field of Green roofs and the stimulation of international standards for good practices and reliable Green Roof technology. Wolfgang Ansel is co-author of different Green Roofs Books ("Green Roofs – Bringing Nature Back to Town, Proceedings – International Green Roof Congress 2009", and many others). During the last year he was an invited speaker at congresses in Europe, North America and Asia. One of his main areas of work is implementing green roof policies on an international level. Wolfgang will be speaking at Ecoroof Portland.
Renowned biologist, restoration ecologist and expert designer of living architectural systems, Paul Kephart is sought after for his skill has an innovator and pioneer in the fields of environmental planning and ecological design. Paul has developed his profound understanding of natural processes over the course of almost thirty years of diverse ecological work including ecological design, horticulture, botanical surveying, biological assessment, watershed management, mitigation, land stewardship and resource management planning. He is the President of Rana Creek Habitat Restoration in Carmel, California. Paul has applied his ecological design training on noteworthy large-scale architectural icons, including Gap Headquarters, California Academy of Sciences, and the Vancouver Convention Center. Paul will be speaking at Ecoroof Portland.
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Hubs Weight: Front 79g, Rear 229g
Front QR*100mm, 12*100mm Thru Axle or 15*100mm Thru Axle,
Rear QR*135mm, 12*135mm Thru Axle or 12*142mm Thru Axle
Cassette Body: For Shimano 10.11 speed. (Contact us if you need spacers to run 9/10 speed) / Sram XDR / Campagnolo
Spokes: Pillar Wing 20 Spokes
Spoke Count: Front 24H, Rear 24H
Nipples: Black Sapim Secure Lock Nipples
Wheelset Weight: 1380g+/-15g
Including Accessories:
Extra Spokes(2pcs)
Valve Extenders(2pcs)
Recommended Tire Width: 28mm to 47mm
Tube Compatibility: Presta
Rider Weight Limit: 231lbs /105kg
Max Tire Pressure Limit: 125PSI/8.6bar(Clincher)
90PSI (Tubeless)
Warranty: 3 Years
Certification: UCI Approved
Strict Quality Control
We have strict quality control processes to make sure we deliver excellent quality wheels to customers.
1. Vertical stiffness test: 300 kgf
2. Torsion test: 50 kgf
3. Spoke tension test: 300 kgf
4. Braking test: High temperature resistance
5. Road condition simulation test: Distance: 1000km, avg speed: 45 kph
6. Double stress relief process: Ensures stable and perfect roundness and trueness, eliminating the need for trueing the wheels for a long period of time.
7. UCI impact test: 40J (UCI standard) / 80J (Yoeleo standard)
UCI Approved Wheels
Yoeleo carbon wheels are UCI approved
Also we have SGS certification
Yoeleo SAT Technology
1. What is YOELEO SAT technology?
YOELEO SAT technology means to build wheels using rims without spoke holes on tire bed, thus, wheels are built without damaging original carbon weave.
2. What are the advantages of SAT technology?
a. Increase 30% strength to wheels;
b. SAT wheels perform better on bumps and pot holes;
c. Inflation capacity increases 10%;
d. No rim tape required: weight savings of 15g/set
Tubeless Technology
Compatible with both clincher and tubeless tires
No rim sealing tape needed for tubeless tires with Yoeleo SAT technology
Faster and easier to install tubeless tires
Disc Brake Rim Design
Super Light T800 Carbon Fiber
Nicer Looking without Brake Track
Better Aerodynamic
Offset Rim Design
Offset wheels are asymmetrically profiled wheels which are different from regular bicycle wheels due to their spoke holes drilled offset from the center of the rim.
Benifits of YOELEO offset wheels are :
1.More durable
The spokes in an offset wheel will be at a higher tension compared to a regular symmetric wheel, so an offset wheel will need less re-truing.
2.Increased lateral stiffness & vertical compliance
Reducing the severity of the spoke angle on the drive side boosts lateral wheel stiffness while also improving vertical compliance for increased control.
3.Wider rims
Wider rim or a wider tire or both, you don't need to pressure your tires as high as in a narrower one to support your weight. Lower pressure makes the ride more comfortable,can take from 28c-47c tires
The Fastest Carbon Wheels
Yoeleo carbon wheels are the fastest, best aerodynamic design compare with other brand
Data from test in wind tunnel (tested at 30KM/H)
The Fastest Carbon Wheels
Data from test in wind tunnel (tested at 50KM/H)
ABG stands for Anti Bite Guard and in fact it is a piece of steel spline fitted on the cassette body, being strong enough to significantly reduce or completely remove the problem with bitten/damaged freehubs by cassette.
New and improved design. Four pawls alternate to allow constant engagement of the ratchet teeth to increase efficiency and resilience when pedaling
Straight Pull Technology
We using the Novatec straingt pull hubs.The term Straightpull refers to spokes with no bend at the head. This design allows for an ideal strength to weight ratio when compared to conventional spokes. Due to their more precise alignment and direct trajectory, straight-pull spoke technology creates a stiffer, more responsive wheel.
2019 Ironman 70.3 World Championship
Farai Dalu from South Afica and Troy Harrison from Australia both qualified for 2019 Ironman 70.3 World Championship
Farai Dalu using Yoeleo SAT C60|88 Clincher/Tubeless
Troy Harrison using Yoeleo SAT C60+D3 Clincher/Tubeless
Ironman Kona
Massimo Ciocia from Italy qualified for Ironman World Championship Kona twice
Using Yoeleo SAT C50|88 Pro Clincher/Tubeless
Worldwide Happy Customers
Happy Yoeleo customers are located in over 100 countries
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Made by experienced employees utilizing advanced machinery.
The process from raw material choice to the final QC inspection are carefully exercised by professionals to ensure our product arrives next to your door with perfect quality.
Simon has been a Yoeleo customer since 2014 and has a long history with us.
We'd say he is one of our most steadfast and loyal customers.
About Cycling Team: As one of the leading cycling teams in Canada, we attribute the reputation to the lasting customer relationships we've developed throughout the years. We believe that all of our partner foundations deserve the highest level of visibility, and we are committed to providing just that.
Team members come from 4 main countries: Canada, France, Germany and USA.
Yoeleo Sponsored Team - Cykeln
Since 2016 Yoeleo has proudly sponsored the Italian team Cykeln. They ride the Yoeleo SAT T60/88 carbon wheelsets. In 2016, team member Martino Poccianti set the course record on the Red Hook Milano circuit, with a blistering time of 1:29.576 (52 kph), a full 2 seconds faster than the previous record.


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The fonds consists of a photo album containing some family photographs and images of their travels, as well as greeting cards and other miscellany. The bulk of the images however, show a trip to Alberta around 1911-1913, including views of Calgary, Lethbridge, Crowsnest Pass, Banff and other Alberta locales. Several dozen of the Lethbridge images were taken by Arthur Rafton Canning, 1865-1952, who operated the British & Colonial Photographic Company in Lethbridge from 1907 to 1913.
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The 445 from Catalina incorporates crisp, contemporary styling with proportions and features that make Catalinas comfortable and secure underway and on the hook.
Based on a new hull design with a long waterline and moderate beam and freeboard, the 445 has excellent performance potential. The hull form is optimized to provide the gentle, predictable motion underway, which is so appreciated in other Catalina models.
The deck is strikingly handsome with a low profile cabin structure, twin helm stations and a roomy cockpit with tall, secure, comfortable coamings and a cockpit table that seats 4-6. The deck is finished with a traditional diamond-patterned non-skid.
The owner's cabin is forward for privacy and optimum ventilation. Private head access from the forward cabin along with an electric head and separate shower complete the forward cabin arrangement. The guest cabin is aft with a large comfortable double berth, angled for easy access and greater headroom.
This design incorporates an innovative cabin on the port side. This cabin is a flexible space that can easily be converted to whatever your cruising style dictates at the time – sleeping quarters, storage, or a work room with a bench. The galley has the storage and features needed for extended cruising.


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Peers will build on key aspects of the movement that Shareable, as a pioneering sharing movement organization, helped shape. Peers' mission is to make sharing the defining economic activity of our time. They will do this through grassroots campaigns to make sharing more visible, grow the number of sharers, and legalize sharing.
What's Next for the Sharing Movement?
Neal Gorentio
Shareable.net, 31 July 2013
With the launch a promising new sharing movement organization called Peers today, it's a good time to reflect on the character of the sharing movement.
Peers will build on key aspects of the movement that Shareable, as a pioneering sharing movement organization, helped shape. Peers' mission is to make sharing the defining economic activity of our time. They will do this through grassroots campaigns to make sharing more visible, grow the number of sharers, and legalize sharing.
Let's take stock of the movement. We have something special here. Sharing is deeply empowering. It's fun and fulfilling to connect with others in such a mutually beneficial way, and sharing also helps us meet our needs. It's rare that a movement has such powerful psychological and economic personal drivers. On top of this is the fact that we urgently need to share. Poverty and resource depletion are today's defining challenges. Sharing is a systemic fix that can address these challenges simultaneously.
With mainstream media coverage of the sharing trend, millions of people are waking up to the potential of sharing. Cities are waking up to it too – the mayors of 15 major cities recently signed a Shareable Cities Resolution promising to advance the sharing economy in their cities. This builds on the plans of Mayor Edwin Lee of San Francisco and Mayor Park Won-soon of Seoul who have shareable city initiatives already underway.
We should appreciate the strengths of this movement and build on them. Here's more on what we have to build on and how we can build on it.
Peer to Peer Inside
Peers puts the soul of the sharing economy into its name. Peer to peer dynamics form the basis of a new, liberating social contract.
The old social contract bound citizens to large hierarchies like nations and multinational corporations. In this contract, citizens gained the protection of hierarchies in return for obedience, labor or taxes. Citizen's rights were protected by intermediaries like labor unions, courts, and elected officials.
This contract favored the powerful from the start, but now they've completely broken it. The powerful — mainly big business in Western-style democracies — have co-opted or weakened the intermediaries designed to protect citizens. The elite are now almost completely free to consolidate wealth and power even more that they already have — all at grave expense to citizens.
I know this, you know this, and the multitudes know this. As a result, we're seeing an unprecedented level of social unrest around the world.
As they have always done in crises, people are turning to each other to survive. What's different today is that a new coordination mechanism — the Internet — enables individuals to create, share, and govern directly with one another using networks instead of hierarchies.
With this, a new social contract is forming based on peer to peer relations, which the P2P Foundation has been exploring for a decade. Instead competing with sharp elbows for rank in the hierarchy, individuals are empowered to face each other as equals and ask a simple but revolutionary question — "what can we create together?"
A Revolution For, Not Against
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As Shareable's stories make clear, the answer to the above question is nearly all that we need to for an autonomous peer to peer society. That's good, because sharers prefer to create alternatives rather than fight hierarchies for change.
Why? Because making stuff is what they love to do most of all. Shareable's audience is filled with folks from the creative class: programmers, journalists, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, designers, educators, engineers, artists, lawyers, scientists, communicators, and the like.
They also prefer to build, rather than fight, because it's a cheaper, easier, and faster way to create change. Sharers use new tools, technologies, and organizing strategies to route around existing institutions to solve problems.
Creative Commons is a perfect example. Rather than reform copyright laws, it created licenses that empowered creators everywhere to control how their work is shared. It's an elegant legal, social, and technological hack.
Another powerful example is Open Source Ecology (OSE), which is open sourcing the designs for the 50 machine tools necessary for modern life. Instead of fighting institutions that create economic inequality, OSE is giving citizens the ultimate DIY toolbox to build their own economy.
Over time, this strategy will become more viable as tools to share, make, and collaborate continue to drop in cost, as they have for decades. Citizens will be able to do it themselves in many more areas of life. This gives the movement an economic engine that resistance movements lack. Sharing can support us while we create change.
But it might all come down to this. Creating is energizing. It taps into our passions. It brings us together. It leaves a legacy that can be built on.
Synergy in Cities
To quote Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh, "Cities are platforms for sharing." Shared infrastructure and population density means that cities are ideal places to share.
This is being amplified with the ubiquity of cell phones and rapid urbanization. We've only recently become an urban, cell phone carrying species. Today, more people live in cities and own a cell phone than do not.
This has opened up unprecedented opportunities to connect to people, place, and property in more positive ways in real time. While there's been plenty of innovation in this space already, the restructuring of urban life from a top down to peer to peer mode has only just begun.
Cities are the ideal place to grow the sharing movement for other reasons as well. For example, they're hotbeds of political innovation. When environmental and anti-smoking groups couldn't overcome corporate power at the national level, some went local and made progress city by city. Cities around the world now boast the most advanced carbon reduction programs and anti-smoking laws.
Not to mention that city governments need to share. With shrinking budgets and growing demand for services, they need to do a lot more with less. This means engaging citizens in running the city as much as possible, collaborating with local governments in their metro region, and sharing resources and best practices with cities around the world.
In 2011, Shareable pointed the way for the sharing movement with ShareSF, which convened sharing entrepreneurs, city officials, and nonprofit leaders to explore how they could amplify San Francisco as a platform for sharing. This lead to the founding of San Francisco's Sharing Economy Working Group by Mayor Ed Lee, Shareable's 15-part series with the Sustainable Economies Law Center on sharing policies for cities, and the founding of the local advocacy group BayShare.
The action in San Francisco inspired Mayor Park Won-soon of Seoul, South Korea to launch a "Sharing City" initiative, which is an ambitious plan to make Seoul the most shareable city in the world. It could inspire cities throughout Asia and beyond.
In addition, OuiShare has organized its European network around city nodes. This grassroots network is engaging city governments in several European cities. I'm excited to see what comes of their work.
Peers will build on this by catalyzing bottom-up campaigns for sharing behavior, culture, and policy change in cities throughout the world.
Collaborating for Impact
No single organization can create the change that's needed. It will take a multitude of organizations to create a green, enlivening, bottom-up economy. Peers is launching with collaboration in mind from the start. My friend, Natalie Foster, who is leading Peers, began a recent meeting with me about collaboration with a simple question: "How can we help Shareable succeed?"
That's the right attitude, and we must go further. Sharing groups need to deepen collaboration with each other and other movements.
Sharing groups already collaborate in an ad hoc fashion, but do not plan collectively. The movement would do well to form multi-stakeholder networks to develop and focus on shared priorities. I laid out a vision for a sharing movement coalition last fall in "Time to Go Big: A Vision for the Sharing Economy."
Collaboration is the shape of change. Foundations are increasingly funding networks of nonprofits to solve problems. A recent example is the RE-AMP network in the U.S Midwest, which emerged from a sophisticated process taking several years, with the goal of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the region. Prior to RE-AMP, over a hundred nonprofits worked separately on the same problem, each with their own relationships to foundations. After RE-AMP, nonprofits and foundations work together on four shared priorities. They are now making dramatic progress.
While developing such networks takes much skill and time, it's one of the few ways to get transformative change. True social change requires new social structures. New tools, technologies and processes enable groups to design new social structures for change.
With this in mind, Shareable recently submitted a funding proposal to the Garfield Foundation (who funded the development of RE-AMP) with five other nonprofits — The Center for a New American Dream, The New Economics Institute, BALLE, Post Carbon Institute, and Transition US — to develop a similar network to democratize local economies in the US. Importantly, the intention was to begin with six nonprofits, but include dozens of groups over time. We've agreed to collaborate whether we win the grant or not.
The sharing movement needs to take this one step further by collaborating with other movements that share similar goals. The environmental and anti-poverty movements come immediately to mind as allies.
After all, what else should a sharing movement do but collaborate? It's the perfect opportunity to practice shared leadership and, as Otto Scharmer of Theory U fame might advise, lead collaboratively from the emerging future with the good of the whole in mind.
Systemic Change
I believe that sharing can address the root causes of both poverty and climate change, the most important problems of our times. Carsharing statistics point to this.
A 2010 UC Berkeley study showed that one shared car replaces up to 13 owned cars and that 50% of new members joined to get access to a car that didn't already have access. Another study estimated that for every 15,000 cars a city could take off the ownership rolls, it could keep $127 million in the local economy annually (80% of car spending goes out of the local economy). If San Francisco, for example, reduced car ownership by half to around 250,000 cars, it could keep over $2 billion in the local economy annually.
I don't know of any single strategy that can dramatically reduce consumption of a resource while dramatically increasing access to the very same resource, while strengthening the local economy. Do you?
This is the magic of sharing. We need to recognize the potential of sharing as a solution, focus on the highest impact opportunities available to each of us in our own communities, and mobilize our networks around these opportunities.
Our survival may depend on this.
All Together Now
So what's next for the sharing movement? This is for us to decide. With the advent of peer culture and technologies, our fates have never been more firmly in our own hands.
That said, my suggestion is to start with the sharing movement's existing strengths and build on them by:
- Putting peer relations at the center of everything we do. It's through peer relationships that we produce the most important product in the human world – each other. We should build a culture that fosters empowering relationships and brings out the best in people.
- Building the alternative production, consumption, and governance institutions we need to support each other in a peer world and thus gain our independence from the life-threatening hierarchies of the past.
- Focusing our efforts at the local level, where change is still possible and sharing innovations can help support peers meet their everyday needs.
- Developing effective multi-stakeholder and inter-movement collaborations for rapid, large scale, transformative change.
- Working on the highest impact opportunities. Place the weight of the movement and the public behind these opportunities.
What would you add to these suggestions?
– See more at: http://www.shareable.net/blog/whats-next-for-the-sharing-movement#39;s+Next+for+the+Sharing+Movement?&utm_campaign=Shareable:+What%27s+Next+for+the+Sharing+Movement?content


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A few hours ago Oracle made APEX 4.2 available for download.
If it's the first time you look at 4.2, you can read about the many new features. With every release I have to say the same thing... it's the best release ever :-)
Obviously mobile is a big topic in 4.2, but for me personally I like the integration of HTML5 and CSS3 the most. At OOW, OTN asked me about APEX 4.2 and what I liked... there are so many, but the support for Responsive web design is the "key feature" for me to create future applications in a declarative way. That interview was even done before Shakeeb's excellent presentation about Responsive Web Design and his nice video.
So go and download 4.2 and start playing with it in your own environment today!


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The Marysville Police Department conducts checks on registered sex offenders, however, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office is the authorized authority, and you can get additional information from their web page: https://snohomishcountywa.gov/302/Registered-Sex-Offenders.
You can also contact the Washington State Department of Corrections Special Needs Unit at (360) 571-4300. Request to speak with a supervisor on duty regarding sex offenders that are on active community custody.
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The term "sex offender" refers to any person, juvenile, or an adult, who is convicted of specific offenses that include, but are not limited to: rape, rape of a child, child molestation, sexual misconduct with a minor, indecent liberties (with or without forcible compulsion), sexual violation of human remains, incest, communication with a minor for immoral purposes (both felony and gross misdemeanor).
A person can also be listed as a sex offender if they are convicted of a felony with a finding of sexual motivation, or a federal out-of-state conviction that, under Washington State Law, would be classified as a felony sex offense. For more information, please read RCW 9A.44, 9A.64.020, 9.68A.090, 9.94A.127, and 13.40.135.
Any adult or juvenile who has been convicted of any sex offense (listed above) after February 28, 1990 (the date listed in the Community Protection Act of 1990), or who is on active supervision for a sex offense (probation or parole, now called community custody), or who has been committed as a sexually violent predator, as defined in RCW 71.09. For more information, please visit http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx
The duration of a sex offender's duty to register is based up on the original offense, not the level they are classified as:
One of three risk levels is assigned to a sex offender based on the potential risk to re-offend. Specific factors are taken into consideration when determining the risk level of a sex offender; some of which are past criminal history, conviction data, and psychological behavioral evaluations. The leveling of a sex offender is merely a guide to the risk of re-offense; there is no way to know the future actions of any individual, including those convicted of a sex offense:
This Department releases sex offender information pursuant to RCW 4.24.550 which authorizes law enforcement to release information to the public regarding sex offenders when the agency determines that disclosure of information is relevant and necessary to protect the public and to counteract the danger created by the particular offender. The content of the information made available, as well as where and how the information is disseminated, is restricted to the standards set forth in Chapter 4.24 and by the Washington State Supreme Court ruling in State v. Ward, 123 WA 2d 488 (1994.)
The individuals who appear on the Snohomish County/Marysville Police websites have been convicted of a sex offense that requires registration with the Sheriff's Office in the county of their residence. Furthermore, previous criminal history places them in a classification level that reflects the potential to re-offend.
These sex offenders have served the sentence imposed on them by the courts and have advised the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office that they will be living in the location listed with their information.
The Marysville Police Department has no legal authority to direct where a sex offender may or may not live. Unless court ordered restrictions exist, these offenders are constitutionally free to live wherever they choose.
Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; prior to the passage of the Community Protection Act of 1990 (which mandates sex offender registration) law enforcement officials did not know where offenders were living. Citizens should refrain from threatening, intimidating, or harassing registered sex offenders. Such abuse could potentially end law enforcement's ability to notify the community. Persons who engage in this behavior not only threaten to take away this tool, but could face criminal charges based on their actions and intent.
The Marysville Police Department has no legal authority to direct where sex offenders may or may not live. Currently in Washington State, there is no law or statute regarding where sex offenders may or may not reside; unless court-ordered restrictions exist, the offender is constitutionally free to live wherever they choose.
If a sex offender is on active probation through the Washington State Department of Corrections, they can have restrictions on where they live and where they can go (such as parks, malls, etc.) and who they can have contact with, i.e. minors; however those restrictions are lifted once the sex offender has completed his community custody. For more information about sex offenders and probation please visit the Department of Corrections website at http://www.doc.wa.gov/corrections/.


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SECAUCUS AND BEYOND — The Walmart in Secaucus was temporarily shut down Monday afternoon due to an anonymous bomb threat, officials said.
The threat was the latest in a string of such threats to stores across the country, starting Friday. Threats were called in to several stores in Kansas and Missouri over the weekend.
The FBI is investigating the series of threats. Police would not say if they believe they are the work of one person or group, or copycats.
Another Walmart in Bayonne has not received a threat, despite rumors, according to Bayonne police.