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Allies of Syrian Rebels Look to Isolate Extremists
A gathering of international allies of the Syrian opposition will discuss how the rebels can be supported while isolating more extremist elements within it. WSJ's Nour Malas reports from Beirut. Photo: AP
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Investment advisors often lament that they live in a world that's always on, where there are no boundaries on time. They are right to wonder if they are spending their days in ways that best serve their clients. Is it better to try to be all things to all people, for example, or play to your professional strengths, even at the risk of paying less attention to some things that may matter to some clients? While the latest Rydex|SGI AdvisorBenchmaking report doesn't answer that question, it shows the many demands on advisors' time and how they manage it as well as the mix of services they offer.
The 2011 report revealed, for example, that advisors surveyed spend up to half their time on just three activities—portfolio management, client meetings and acquisition, and client service. However, the largest shifts in how advisors spend their time—a trend over the past three years—suggests that the industry may have settled into a "new normal," with a strong emphasis on relationship basics, including spending more time on client communication and client relationship management. The single biggest change seen in 2011 was a shift toward more time spent on portfolio management, which jumped from 10% in 2010 to 17% in 2011. Challenging markets appear to be taking up more of advisors' attention as they develop investment strategies focused on meeting clients' objectives, in spite of volatile market conditions.
The areas that appear to be suffering from a lack of focus are those that require the advisor to work "on" the business: e.g., business strategy and administration. The one increase in this area was time spent on marketing, which is important given that advisors' also place a lot of emphasis on asset growth. In a breakdown of the study group, almost 40% were small RIA firms (those with less than $50 million in assets), up slightly from the prior year, but down from the years immediately preceding a difficult 2008.
What was surprising in this year's data was the decline in time spent on compliance—despite the fact that advisors also said that they view the compliance burden as a threat to the business. The decrease in time spent on compliance, however, corresponds to a sharp increase in outsourcing in this area, suggesting that advisors have found an effective way to manage their compliance challenges while freeing up their time for other important activities.
The service offering of most RIA firms has not changed significantly in the last two years. The four cornerstones of advisory firms (investment advice, retirement planning, investment management and financial planning) appear to be relatively stable, and a second tier of services includes insurance, estate and charitable giving planning—although anywhere from 14% to 21% of advisors refer the business out. The emphasis on making certain services available shows that, regardless of whether they are performed internally our outsourced, RIA firms do prioritize planning as part of the overall relationship, and as a driver of investment strategy and implementation.
The service model also looks to remain stable for the foreseeable future: Across a wide range of services, the "plan to offer" category did not break out of the single digits for any type of service (see chart below). The services we are likely to see RIAs offer in the future are investment services to other advisors and charitable giving planning, each of which 6% of advisors plan to offer. As a continuing influx of products makes portfolio construction more complex and time consuming, portfolio construction may be decreasingly productive—and even unrealistic—for the advisor to efficiently manage alone. Specializing in investment management to other advisors could provide a competitive advantage. Firms that delegate at least some investment management to subadvisors may be able to improve their overall business profile.
The latest survey also showed a stable interest on the part of advisors in acquiring a professional designation, which many see as an avenue to broadening their business or deepening their skill in a particular area. Interestingly, the number of advisors who said they were "working toward" the CFP designation was 14%–three to seven times higher than for other designations. This result is not surprising given the emphasis on planning in the RIA service model. From this data, one could argue that the "planning" services being offered by advisors are becoming more robust, as certification is designed and governed by an independent standard-setting body.
Serving clients, growing the business, improving your skills or offerings—the next time you wonder how you'll get it all done, read a few of the profiles of Barron's list of America's Top Advisors. There, you'll find a quantitative type who analyzes clients' cash flows, an early adopter of ETFs in financial plans, a disciplined asset allocator, a dispenser of financial advice on a radio show, a stock-option expert, a male-female partnership, a coach for clients entering retirement, even a stickler for responding to client needs. What stands out is not the success they've achieved, but how they've decided to run their business. They discovered their talent, aimed to be the best at what motivated them and offered that expertise to others. The clients of these advisors weren't concerned about AUM, time spent managing investments or outsourcing a service. What appeared to attract them, and their business, was their advisors' drive, confidence and zeal—timeless qualities for any advisory relationship.


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JOPLIN, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Empire District Electric Company (NYSE:EDE) will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss the results for the third quarter and twelve months ended September 30, 2012 on Friday, October 26, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (12:00 p.m. Central). The conference call will follow the Company's earnings news release, which will be available on Thursday, October 25, 2012.
Participants in the call should dial 877-941-8609, no passcode required. A replay of the call will be available for two weeks by dialing 800-406-7325 and entering the passcode 4569694#.
A live webcast of the call can be accessed via the Internet on Empire's web site at www.empiredistrict.com. The webcast will be available for replay for one year.
Based in Joplin, Missouri, The Empire District Electric Company (NYSE: EDE) is an investor-owned, regulated utility providing electricity, natural gas (through its wholly owned subsidiary The Empire District Gas Company), and water service, with approximately 215,000 customers in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. A subsidiary of the Company also provides fiber optic services. For more information regarding Empire, visit www.empiredistrict.com.
The Empire District Electric Company
Investor Relations:
Janet S. Watson, 417-625-5108
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leather, skin or hide of animals, cured by tanning to prevent decay and to impart flexibility and toughness. Prehistoric and primitive peoples preserved pelts with grease and smoke and used them chiefly for shoes, garments, coverings, tents, and containers. Today pelts are prepared for tanning by dehairing, usually with lime, followed by fleshing and cleaning. After tanning, leather is generally treated with fats to assure pliability. The practice of shaving leather to the required thickness was abandoned early in the 18th cent. after the invention of a machine that split the tanned leather into a flesh layer and a grain (hair-side) layer; skivers are thin, soft grains used for linings and for covering firm surfaces. Characteristic grains may be brought out by rubbing, as in morocco leather (goatskin), or may be imitated by embossing. Finishes include glazing, a high glaze being achieved by rolling with glass cylinders; coloring with stains or dyes; enameling or lacquering as for patent leather; and sueding, buffing with emery or carborundum wheels to raise a nap, usually on the flesh side. Russia leather, originally vegetable-tanned calfskin dressed with birch oil that imparted a characteristic odor and often dyed red with brazilwood, is a term now covering a number of variants. Rawhide is similar to parchment and is untanned. Cordovan, or Spanish, leather, a soft, colored leather made at Córdoba during the Middle Ages and often richly modeled and gilded, is imitated for wall coverings, panels, and screens. Leather is much used in bookbinding . Artificial leather, made since about 1850, was originally a strong fabric coated with a rubber composition or with a synthetic substance such as pyroxylin. Since World War II, materials made from vinyl polymers have far outstripped the earlier artificial leathers in commercial importance.
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Lance Patrick
Personal Bio: I'm left handed. I'm allergic to girls with cats. I wanna be just like Leslie Neilson and I still want to be an astronaut when i grow up.
Professional Bio: For their first time on stage, most comedians perform three minutes of material in front of an anemic crowd at a small comedy club during Open Mic night. Not the case for comedian Lance Patrick. Lance's very first time on stage was opening up for national headliner Gabriel Iglesias at a sold out, 2000-seat comedy show at Hard Rock Live in Orlando. Having studied and observed some of the best comedians on the road today, Lance is quickly turning rare opportunities into growing success on the comedic stage.
Born in Elkhart, IN. and raised in the south, Lance made his way west with comedic/acting ambitions. Not able to afford acting classes, he realized that watching and being around standup comedians was the best, most inexpensive alternative to classes, and that watching comedians was a smart way to learn delivery, comedic timing and character development.
Wanting to surround himself with everything comedy, he pursued an entry-level job at the World Famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, owned by the legendary Mitzi Shore. Much like veteran comedians David Letterman, Jim Carrey and Sam Kinison who had their start at the Store, Lance jumped at every chance he could to work at the club – whether it was working the ticket booth or answering phones, he was willing to hustle. After a few rejections, it was a small detail in the resume that ultimately got Lance hired: nursing assistant. Little did he know that they were searching for a caregiver for Mitzi. Mitzi, however, had no interest in a caregiver; sticking true to the Store's artist colony, she only wanted Lance working for her if he was a working comedian. Not having stepped foot on a stage in his life, Lance and the store's management team had to trick Mitzi into believing he was a comedian but wasn't going on stage as he was just working out his perfect set. Even though Lance was living with Mitzi as her caregiver, every time she requested him to go on stage, Lance managed to come up with every excuse in the book as to why he wasn't going up!
While still working at the Comedy Store, Lance began working on web marketing campaigns for such comedians as Steve Byrne (Comedy Central) and Jon Reep (Last Comic Standing). MySpace quickly took notice of his work, and Lance was hired to work for the company as Comedy Content Producer, where he had the opportunity to work and travel with such comedians as Joel McHale, Bobby Lee, Eddie Izzard, Dana Carvey, Cheech & Chong and many others. He used the unique opportunities to listen to their stories about the business, taking whatever advice or guidance they offered, and continued to hone his craft.
It was working on a Secret Show for MySpace that he met and started working with Gabriel Iglesias. In 2009, Lance left MySpace to work exclusively with Gabriel as his director of online marketing, as Gabriel was just embarking on a national sold out comedy tour. After a few months on tour, with Lance practicing his joke telling and stories with the crew, Gabriel challenged Lance. Two weeks to practice and write a set, and if he felt ready for the opportunity, Gabriel would allow him to open up for him on stage.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Two weeks later, on March 13, 2010 Lance stepped on stage, and performed his very first set in front of Gabriel's sold out crowd of 2000 people, with much success. To Lance, those five minutes on-stage felt like an eternity, but he could proudly admit that he didn't earn sympathy laughs – since it wasn't until AFTER the performance that it was announced as Lance's first time on-stage. Gabriel jokingly told Lance before he stepped on stage, "Lance, you going up here for the first time, in front of a crowd of 2000 people instead of 20… is like being a virgin and losing your virginity to Pamela Anderson! No pressure! haha"
Since then, Lance has opened for Jon Reep, Edwin San Juan, and the legendary Louie Anderson among many others. He has toured with Gabriel on the wildly successful Fluffy Shop Tour in the U.S, Australia & New Zealand most recently opening Gabriel's 16 city European Tour through the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
For this comedian, who has found a way to create growing success out of unique opportunities, there is no doubt he will find a way to create a name for himself.
Lance Patrick's Upcoming Shows
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My Author & Pet Pairings
The idea for this post actually came to me while working on our Jules Verne feature awhile ago. I couldn't help but think that his beard reminded me of a terrier's chin.
My quirky mind went from there, matching authors with what I thought would be (or would have been) a suitable pet for them – based on appearance alone, of course.
So here you go, some of my author/pet pairings:
|Jules Verne & Scottish Terrier
|Agatha Christie & Pug Dog
|Walt Whitman & Old English Sheepdog
|Daphne du Maurier & Persian Cat
|Dashiell Hammett & Partridge Cochin Hen
|Malcolm Gladwell & Bichon Frise
|J.K. Rowling & Afghan Hound
|Herta Muller & Aye Aye Lemur


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C and C++ are members of the same family of languages. The evolutionary boldness of C++ removes some of the marketplace pressure on C; people who are continually pushing for innovation are naturally drawn to the C++ development process. Each language had a coherent original design (by Dennis Ritchie and Bjarne Stroustrup, respectively), followed by successive refinement in a very competitive marketplace of ideas. Both languages share an extreme concern for performance, with the slogan "don't leave space for a more-efficient systems-programming language underneath our language (C or C++)." However, it's unfair to complain that the original designs assigned too little importance to cybersecurity; both languages pre-date the beginnings of concern for security. But in recent years, as the marketplace has started to emphasize cybersecurity, C and C++ have been responding in several ways.
In early 2002, Bill Gates' famous "battleship-turning" memo made cybersecurity a top goal for Microsoft. About a year later, Microsoft proposed a new "bounds-checking" library to WG14, which eventually became Technical Report 24731-1. It now is part of C11 as the (optional) Annex K. (An almost-final draft of C11 is available here [PDF].)
The C11 Annex K Functions
I'll start my tour of Annex K with the
fopen_s function. The main innovation is that files are opened with exclusive (also known as non-shared) access. Furthermore, if the
mode string doesn't begin with
u (such as with code being updated from the older
fopen ), then to the extent that the underlying system supports it, the file gets a file permission that prevents other users on the system from accessing the file.
In this article, I'll sequentially enumerate the security benefits of these
_s functions. The new semantics illustrate the pattern of "least privilege." This "exclusive" mode was previously available in the Posix
open() function, but the ISO standard for C doesn't standardize system-dependent, low-level I/O. See Robert Seacord's book Secure Coding in C and C++ for detailed discussion of these various security benefits of the Annex K library.
fopen() safety
If a file is opened with
x as the last character in the
mode argument, and the requested filename is already in use, the
fopen_s function fails (as opposed to truncating the existing file, which is presumably already being used by someone). If the application program had been required first to check whether the file was in use and then to create the new file, this would illustrate the "time-of-check versus time-of-use" vulnerability (TOCTOU). The Annex K document aims to minimize the TOCTOU.
mode argument is passed to
fopen_s as a
const char* pointer, as is the
filename argument. Requiring these pointers to be non-null is one of the "runtime-constraints" of the
fopen_s function, to use the C11 terminology.
If any of the runtime-constraints is violated, the library function (here,
fopen_s) invokes the run time-constraint handler. (In Visual Studio, this handler is known as the invalid parameter handler same concept, different name.)
This approach is a new pattern of response to security issues: Invoke the runtime-constraint handler if any runtime-constraint is violated. Previously, a runtime-constraint violation would have resulted in an undefined behavior if not caught.
If the runtime-constraints are not violated, then
fopen_s returns the resulting
FILE* pointer through an argument, rather than producing it as the returned value of the function. If
fopen_s fails for any of several reasons, it returns a nonzero value according to the conventions encoded in
<errno.h>. The various Annex K headers provide the typedef name
errno_t for this returned
int value. This reduces the inconsistency of return-value idioms to the greatest extent possible, by uniformly returning
errno_t for erroneous conditions that did not violate a runtime-constraint.
This initial discussion about
fopen_s has introduced the first four patterns of the Annex K library:
- Provide least privilege;
- Minimize TOCTOU vulnerability;
- Use runtime-constraint handlers for logic errors;
- Reduce the return value variability using
errno_treturned values.
In the original C standard, and still in C++ today, most library functions specify something like "if copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined." In C99 and C11, there is a syntactic way to specify this restriction, the
restrict keyword. As a result of all these various design decisions, the calling sequence for secure
fopen_s calls looks like this:
errno_t fopen_s(FILE * restrict * restrict streamptr, const char * restrict filename, const char * restrict mode);
Designing the runtime-constraint handler provides the implementation and the project team a range of choices. The simplest handler simply invokes
abort(). A somewhat more complex architecture gives the user a choice between aborting or debugging, potentially preserving the full state of the stack frames and global variables. Other handlers could be used: In an application that never terminates, the handler could reinitialize, flush the current transaction, start a new transaction, and so forth. In a specialized testing situation, the handler could log the failures.
freopen_s function illustrates the same patterns as
fopen_s, including the
x and
u mode flags.
Fixing tmpnam()
Continuing with the file-oriented functions, consider
errno_t tmpnam_s(char *s, rsize_t maxsize);
This function illustrates another security pattern in C11: "In the calling sequence of the function, every pointer through which the function might modify an array is immediately followed by the number of elements which the function is permitted to modify."
In the case of
tmpnam_s, the second argument specifies a maximum for the number of characters that can be modified by
tmpnam_s. The type of the second argument is
rsize_t, designating a "restricted
size_t" value. The intent is to prevent the common error of inadvertently passing a negative value, which after conversion to an unsigned type, becomes a huge number, and in this case, defeating the purpose of bounds-checking the string written into
s. This common error is intended to be caught within
tmpnam_s by comparing
maxsize against
RSIZE_MAX and invoking the runtime-constraint handler if it's larger. (I've said "intended" several times, because Annex K makes it optional whether
RSIZE_MAX is any smaller than
SIZE_MAX.) This manner of designating bounding values with the type
rsize_t is another security best practice promulgated in the Annex K library.
Next, consider the
tmpfile_s function:
errno_t tmpfile_s(FILE * restrict * restrict streamptr);
It could be invoked like this:
FILE *myTempFile = 0; errno_t err = tmpfile_s(&myTempFile);
There is a window of TOCTOU vulnerability between obtaining a filename from
tmpnam_s and subsequently creating that file with
fopen_s. Using
tmpfile_s eliminates that particular vulnerability.


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ESAC Communication & Education Corporate Office
The growing importance of ESAC, lead to the creation of a dedicated and joint Corporate ESAC Communication and Education Office.
In the area of Communication, the Office is responsible of ESA official communication activities in Spain and Portugal, organisation of ESA launch and major events at the centre and coordination of launch events in major Universities and national institutions, interactions with Media, spokesperson role, management of the ESAC Centre image and communication and support to the Head of ESAC for high-level visits. The ESAC Communication office is planned to be involved in the near future in the context of supporting the definition and implementation of an ESA Knowledge management policy, enlarging then its horizontal role within ESA.
In the context of Education, ESAC Education Office depends from ESA Corporate Education Office, as in charge of a large number of university level educational activities involving cooperation with almost all ESA Directorates.
The Office manages, in close coordination with the ESA Directorate of Human Space Flight, the ESA Student parabolic flight activity, called Fly Your Thesis! This field of activity was afterwards enlarged to include microgravity and hypergravity research education activities making use of the ZARM drop tower in Bremen, Germany (Drop Your Thesis!) and the ESA Large Diameter Centrifuge, in ESTEC, the Netherlands (Spin Your Thesis!).
The Office also launched in 2009, in close coordination with the ESA Directorate of Navigation, the EDUNAV program, aiming at enlarging education cooperation on the filed of Satellite Navigation at European university level.
ESAC education is also supporting several European Universities offering M.Sc. degrees in space-related fields, providing guidance, educational material and developing system engineering educational tools, in cooperation with several ESA Directorates.
The office launched in 2008 the ESA "PRESTIGE" programme (PRogram in Education for Space, Technology, Innovation and knowledGE) in close coordination with ESA Human resources and ESA Technical Directorate. This program aims at increasing the competence of European universities in areas identified as critical for the space domain, through close research collaboration with ESA.
Finally, the ESAC Education Office supports the International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg, France as well as numerous educational activities in the framework of the International Space Education Board (ISEB), which represent the education offices of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), ESA, JAXA, NASA and CNES.


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In late March, 259km is a long way to go, and all the more so at the tail-end of the coldest, least cycle training-friendly March for half a century. Actually, it's a long way to go at any time of year when it includes the cobbles and climbs that litter the route of the Tour of Flanders, one of the Monuments of professional cycle racing.
So it was with a heavy heart that I checked the 133km box on the online entry form; in my two earlier participations I rode the long route and nobody likes to fall short. Entry for the medium and short rides – the short one covers a still-respectable 83km – is box-check easy; those wanting to ride the full-length route must also book and pre-pay for passage on one of the coaches that transfers riders to Bruges, where it starts. Space is limited and, once the coaches are full, so too is entry.
The ride number that arrives by email allows its recipient to collect the rider pack from the event HQ. Currently it is in the pleasant town of Oudenaarde, which is also the home of the Tour of Flanders museum. This is well worth a visit, not least because it offers the chance to spot former world road race champion and, still, greatest-ever roadman sprinter Freddy Maertens, who is often there.
From the rider pack envelope I pulled the usual selection of leaflets along with a plastic card ride number and zip-ties. The number incorporated a thick strip along the back, which I took to be the timing chip. Er, no. Had I taken the trouble to read the relevant leaflet more closely, I might have learned that I needed to pay a further five euros for a timing chip. 'Might', because it's not clear from the leaflet. In any case, the number plate merely gives entitlement to supplies and makes life easier for the event photographers.
As it happens, there may not have been much point to having a timing chip. I turned up at the event HQ at the Qubus with riding companion Juan and together we slowly rolled off in search of something over which to ride, both of us assuming that our ride numbers incorporated chips… After a kilometre or so in the company of others without seeing a timing mat, we assumed we were on the course and set about riding it.
Bog standard
Frankly, the first few kilometres were ditchwater-dull, literally in places as we rode alongside the brackish marsh bordering Oudenaarde's river, the Schelde. Soon enough we left the town's outlying industrial estates and headed for the hills or, more accurately, the Koppenberg.
Only recently re-admitted to the Tour of Flanders after a lengthy absence, this forbidding cobbled climb goes straight up the side of a steep slope. It is perhaps most infamous for the moment in 1987 when a race car drove over the fallen Jesper Skibby's wheel, only narrowly avoiding his foot.
It is a nasty little climb that can force a dismount even on a quiet day. With many thousands of sportivistes queueing up for a crack, it was completely clogged with the walking. This was bad news for those wearing full-on road shoes and cleats, many of whom were forced to scrabble for a foothold. Several of the more serious-looking riders around us were seriously cross at finding themselves unable to tackle their dream hill undisturbed; overall, the Koppenberg lived up to its reputation.
By the top I was beginning to wonder if the forced walk was something I'd be repeating on the many narrow cobbled climbs still to come. It wasn't. Judging by the rate at which we were passing other riders, Juan and I were going pretty quickly and, after a couple of hours' riding, we found the bunches of riders ahead of us thinning out.
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Look back in anger
I was struck by how few of them tried to take our wheel. In past cyclo-sportives I have ridden in Belgium, a faster back wheel has always been an invitation to take a ride. Maybe nobody is that bothered these days, or maybe fewer riders know either how to do it or why. I was also struck by the poor roadcraft of many riders. It is one thing to have to stop on a climb, surely another to do so without a thought for those coming up behind who may not want to have to do the same.
On tarmac or kassieien, the result is likely to be the same; if too close to the person who stops, perhaps for a handed-up can of Red Bull, you too will have to stop. The answer, where it is possible, is careful choice of line to ensure that your trajectory takes you wide of any obstruction likely to pop up in the next 50m or so.
This is, if anything, even more important on the flatter sections, where closing speed is much higher. Especially when following 'Juannosaurus Rex' on his first visit to Flanders cobbles, which he invariably attacked with great enthusiasm and power.
On the longer sections, of which there were several including the draining Mariaborrestraat, the invariable result was a textbook demonstration of the importance of pacing, as the mighty Juan's initial speed proved too hard to sustain. There's a lot of talk about 'surfing' the cobbles or suchlike; go fast enough and you start to skip across the tops of the bumps rather than drop down into each gap between cobbles, or something like that.
Of course, the problem is that it requires a minimum speed before it takes effect, much like when a boat 'planes', and although the result is a more-or-less noticeable diminution in vibration and discomfort, the effort required to reach the required speed means that it can only be sustained for a short time. It's a bit like sprinting up a hill; if the legs tie up before you reach the summit, you may have to stop completely. On flattish pavé, you will simply slow to a near-crawl and must wait for the next section of tarmac to recuperate.
Later in the ride Juan's superior fitness prevailed and I was left to my own devices, which included spending several kilometres on the wheels of a trio riding knobbly-tyred full-susser downhill mtbs at high speed – while the tarmac lasted. Back on the kassieien, they slowed right up, leaving me to wonder at the wisdom of their machine and, more importantly, tyre choice. Road bikes rule on the cobbles.
Last supper
At the top of the Karnemelbeekstrasse lay the final feed. Time to wolf down a few waffles, suck a few orange quarters and refill the bottle before heading for the finale. Having ridden the Oude Kwaremont/Paterberg double whammy many times, I was dreading what lay ahead.
Long and draggy precedes short and very steep, but by adopting the slowest speed I could maintain without actually stopping I kept the agony to a minimum and cleared the Paterberg – my own choice for worst climb of the ride – without having to dismount. Unlike many of those around me.
The Paterberg precedes a fast descent to Berchem and horrible long drag back into Oudenaarde, on which we enjoyed a proper block headwind. On this leg of the ride, the only other rider using the 'drops' was the young French chap who caught me halfway along and kindly towed me to within 500m of the finish, where I found the strength to help out.
It was a suitably low-key finale to a ride that isn't quite what it was when I last rode it over a decade ago. Firstly, even the long ride no longer follows the precise route of the pro Classic race that takes place the following day, and secondly, the event is crowded – for the early climbs at least. There's a great atmosphere, but the sportiviste who wants to savour the cobbles and climbs but without the clamour and crush would do well to choose another weekend.
Sportive Sound bites
Juan Cristen
"Flanders, a great ride that tests the resolve of your gear and your legs, started with a melée of riders jostling for space leading to the first cobbled climb which was a gentle walk not a ride. Thankfully, the climb seemed to tire out legs as the hordes began to disperse afterwards, allowing for a stunning rolling ride through lanes and over cobbled sections that rattle you right down to the eyeballs. Each cobbled section drains more push out of your legs, making sustaining speed across them increasingly difficult and the last cobbled climb a fight with your legs to work at all! Brilliant ride – can't wait to do it again."
Vicent Halpern
"Riding the cobbles of the Tour of Flanders was great fun and it is truly a must-do sportive. The sportive is well organised, with a relaxed start and a well marshalled and signposted route. You don't have to do the long route to get the full experience as I did the medium route of 133km, which takes in all the major climbs. For the perfect weekend, I stayed over for the Tour of Flanders pro race the next day, and could really enjoy the Belgium atmosphere watching on large TV screens, drinking beer and cheering on the riders"
Monica Da Plenza
"The Tour of Flanders has been an amazing experience. I chose the 140km distance as I wanted to do it quite fast. Riding on cobbles was quite hard, especially on the downhill, now I understand how the professionals feel when they are riding on it! I loved every moment; well, maybe less on 21 per cent hills but the atmosphere of the sportive and watching the 'big boys' the day after was fantastic!"
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I was delighted to hear that furniture makers and fellow bloggers Sammy and Glenn of pachadesign have been asked to do an intervention at the National Trust property Bucks Mills Cabin.
Sammy and Glenn create furniture and accessories using reclaimed and natural materials. They have a beautifully spare and yet textured aesthetic that might be termed 'post-industrial wabi'.
They live close to Bucks Mills village, which is on the north Devon coast between Clovelly and Bideford. Glenn happens to be a surfing buddy of the local National Trust ranger (networking Devon-style!) and they got talking about plans to use the tiny building for artists' residencies.
The Cabin was owned by artists Judith Ackland (1889-1971) and Mary Stella Edwards (1893-1989). They stayed and worked there during the summer months between the 1920s and Judith's death in 1971.
Sammy and Glenn have temporarily replaced some of the contents of the Cabin with their own creations and those of ceramicists RAMP and designer Sam Pickard.
The items have been selected to fit in and at the same time to subtly contrast with the setting. I think this is a fascinating investigation into what 'spirit of place' is and how it is created.
The installation at Bucks Mills Cabin can be seen this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (22nd to 24th July), 11:00-15:00.


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Archive for Watch Famliy Guy Season 15 Online
Family Guy settles in to its new home on ITV2 and begins with a bang with series 15 of the animated comedy following the ups and downs in the life of the Griffins, a typical United States family located in a typical North American home in an typical North American town. Family Guy is really an American cartoon television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane.
The series focuses on the dysfunctional Griffin family; father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family dog. The show is placed during the fictional capital of scotland- Quahog, Rhode Island. ITV has announced that instances of the show's 15th season is going to be broadcast on ITV2 and ITV 2 HD later this season and you'll be streaming online in the ITV Hub – the new-look, new-name version of the present ITV Player service.
FOX has officially renewed the tv series for another season expected to debut in 2016.


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Habs owner issues statement amid controversy over coach who can't speak French
MONTREAL - The owner of the Montreal Canadiens was forced to issue a public statement Monday amid an explosive clash between hockey and language.
For weeks Quebec has been awash in reports of the perceived erosion of French-language rights, with constant news about companies failing to provide services or hire employees who speak the province' majority language.
Enter the Montreal Canadiens, perhaps Quebec's most cherished institution.
The team once known as the Flying Frenchmen now has almost no francophone players. And on the weekend, it did something that triggered a firestorm of controversy in Quebec—it hired a coach who speaks zero French.
The hiring of Randy Cunneyworth was enough to prompt calls, from nationalist fringe groups, for a boycott of products related to the Habs. One political commentator even suggested local hockey journalists should refuse to address Cunneyworth in English.
And Quebec's entire political class predictably weighed in, with politicians of every stripe calling the move unacceptable.
Habs owner Geoff Molson responded with a statement, crafted so cautiously it could have been penned by a political speechwriter.
In it, Molson performed a delicate two-step. First he explained why Cunneyworth was the right man for the job, then in the next paragraph stressed how important French is to the organization.
Molson explained that Cunneyworth was hired because he is talented and also, as the team's assistant coach, is in the best position to step in immediately and help the team win.
Cunneyworth was hired with a unique title—as interim coach for the rest of the season.
"The action was taken to remedy the situation without further delay," Molson said. "Randy Cunneyworth is a qualified and experienced coach who has earned the respect of the players and everyone within the organisation."
Molson pointed out that the position will be re-evaulated at the end of the season.
He said language will be a factor when, after the season, the team has to hire a permanent coach. He said finding a coach who can win is the main priority, but language ability will also count.
"It is obvious that the ability for the head coach to express himself in both French and English will be a very important factor in the selection of the permanent head coach," he said.
This is the second time the youthful owner and team president has issued a statement to fans amid controversy.
Last year, Molson expressed his disappointment that the league did not suspend Boston Bruin defenceman Zdeno Chara for his hit on Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty.
The new coach told reporters that he couldn't let himself be distracted by external controveries; he said his priority was turning the Habs' season around.
"My first focus and first responsibility is to the team," Cunneyworth told journalists in Boston, where his Habs were playing Monday night.
The Cunneyworth hiring also prompted Quebec's entire political class to clear the bench Monday and start pummeling the Habs.
Two government ministers weighed in with similar messages: that the Habs are ingrained in Quebecers' DNA, and people in the province expect the coach to be able to speak their language.
The issue is a particularly sensitive one for the Charest government, which tends to come under fire whenever a language controversy pops up.
The governing Liberals are seen as the least nationalist political party in the province and are constantly prodded by opponents to take a tougher stand on language-and-identity issues.
Asked about the latest controversy, the province's culture minister said she expects the Habs to correct the situation.
Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre didn't quite call for Cunneyworth's firing. But she said the Habs had given the impression his hiring was temporary, and she takes them at their word.
"The Canadiens say this is temporary—but it's unfortunate," St-Pierre said in an interview.
"It's important for the head coach to beable to communicate with fans."
Critics of the hiring say the Canadiens are more than just a hockey team and, for more than a century, have been an institution that represents French-Canadian pride.
One columnist today compared them to Spanish soccer team Barcelona, which expects its players to learn the Catalan language and whose slogan is, "More than a team."
Francophone hockey writers are also wondering where else Quebecers can get a start in the NHL if the Montreal Canadiens won't give them one.
They point out that most other Quebecers coaching in the NHL, including both of last year's Stanley Cup finalists, got their start coaching the Habs.
Another common refrain heard in Montreal is that fans would be willing to support the hiring of a coach who can't speak French—if it were someone like the accomplished Mike Babcock, or local hero Kirk Muller.
The Habs have not had a unilingual Anglo coach since 1970-71 season, when Al MacNeil coached them. They won a Stanley Cup that year but MacNeil had a poor relationship with some players and was demoted to the minors after the season.
Opposition politicians in Quebec were talking an even harder line on Monday.
Parti Quebecois language critic Yves-Francois Blanchet said he wasn't quite joining the call for a boycott of Habs-related products. But he said he might not be buying Molson beer for a while.
"If I go into a depanneur there's a chance I'll buy something other than Molson because I'm mad with them," he said.
"For the rest, I'll leave it to the good judgment of consumers."


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The following students have been recognized as Provost Scholars for 2012.
Any undergraduate student who meets the following requirement is eligible to be named a Provost Scholar:
Provost Scholar recognition is given only once during a student's time of study at IUP.
Following is a list of students who qualified as Provost Scholars in Fall 2012. The list of Pennsylvania Provost Scholars is organized alphabetically by county and city.
Sara E. Schrider, Southview Drive, Spanish
Regan E. Little, Belmont Road, Management
Carissa A. Smith, Heritage Drive, Interior Design
Danielle N. Davis, North Queen Street, Respiratory Care
Molly E. Plank, West Myrtle Street, Physical Education and Sport
Jenna L. Nicholson, Kevin Drive, Family and Consumer Science Education
Ian S. Lynch, Bateman Road, Political Science
Robert J. Bisceglia, Bucktail Drive, History
Ryan C. Gray, Summit Drive, Computer Science
Sheryl Eichenlaub, Kings School Road, Child Development and Family Relations
Sean M. Herald, Timberidge Drive, Anthropology
Mia K. Reuschling, Eastview Road, Criminology
Kayla A. Stillwagon, Walnut Street, Respiratory Care
Patrick E. Connell, Jenny Drive, Accounting
Joshua T. Noble, Bakerstown Road, Marketing
Carrie E. O'Hanlon, Pictwood Drive, Social Studies Education
Chelsea E. O'Hanlon, Pictwood Drive, English Education
Clarissa E. Stewart, Black Walnut Lane, Music Education
Adrian L. Callen, Spring Street, Art Studio
Ariana E. Winovich, Oakwood Court, Biology
Kelsey M. Matarazzo, Canyon Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kelly A. Trapani, Fiddleback Drive, Health and Physical Education
Alena C. Okert, Owens Avenue, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Megan L. Bertoline, Cavitt Road, Undeclared Business
Staci M. Harnden, Harvard Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Samantha A. Heinzl, Lansdowne Drive, Criminology
Alese J. Klemens, Jacqueline Drive, Journalism
Kaitlyn A. Fung, Reiss Lane, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Angela R. Devereaux, Steubenville Pike, Health and Physical Education
Matthew M. Antonich, 8th Street, Communications Media
Megan L. Bell, Goldsmith Road, English
Naomi R. Cannon, Powers Run Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Nina C. Cerro, McCully Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Megan C. Conley, Lechner Lane, Social Studies Education
Kasey L. Cook, Fawn Court, Nutrition
Kyle G. Gaetano, Blossom Hill Road, Finance
Lauren M. Haas, Thorncliffe Drive, Nuclear Medicine Technology
Eric T. Harbison, Grand Avenue, Biology Education
Katherine M. Houlis, Marlin Drive W, Communications Media
Carly B. Lewis, Old Orchard Trail, Nutrition
Dorothy E. Lucas, Boxfield Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Brittany C. Lyons, Dorseyville Road, Nursing
Caitlin G. Lyons, Dorseyville Road, Nursing
Chelsey J. McDonald, Woodland Road, Nursing
Lindsey D. McDonald, Woodland Road, Nursing
Amy E. Paine, Lemoyne Avenue, Communications Media
Margaret J. Radford, Merwyn Avenue, Religious Studies
Patrick M. Rossiter, Hoosac Street, Accounting
Lauren N. Rubash, Meadow View Court, Social Studies Education
Lindsay N. Ryan, Gales Drive, Management
Mariah L. Sanders, Aurelius Street, Psychology
Christina N. Soracco, West Prospect Avenue, English
Meghan C. Sullivan, Ardmore Manor Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Nicole L. Szulborski, McClure Avenue, Nutrition
Natalie V. Thiess, Brittany Place, English
Laura M. Wilkins, Bellwood Drive, Art
Caesandra Burgh, Quaker Road, Music Education
Bridget R. Clark, River Road, Communications Media
Nicole E. Miller, Bristol Drive, Accounting
Keileigh L. Koch, Sara Lane, Music Performance
Kelsey M. Lucas, Glencoe Drive, Hospitality Management
Michael E. Koller, Fox Meadow Drive, Accounting
Elizabeth P. Sternby, Davison Drive, Journalism
Rebecca A. Nichol, State Route 85, Mathematics
Andrea R. Kiehl, Montgomery Flats Road, English
Zachary A. Montgomery, Crooked Creek Dam Road, Health and Physical Education
Andrew J. Brochetti, Shady Lane, Marketing
Kara A. Doms, Sisterville Road, Biology
Lacey L. Hohl, State Route 2021, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Amber James, State Route 2007, Nursing
Phillip S. Wyant, Silvis Hollow Road, Music Education
Ethan R. Zimmerman, Zimmerman Way, Criminology
Elizabeth A. Stimmell, White Cloud Road, Chemistry
Abygail E. Stivason, 2nd Street, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Ryan J. Wasilchak, Pleasant Hill Road, Biology
Bethany A. Baker, North Jefferson Street, Nutrition
Aaron P. Sulava, Schall Lane, Safety Sciences
Heather A. Furdak, Center Grange Road, Physical Education and Sport
Taylor N. Guthrie, Craig Street, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Rachel M. Villareale, West 7th Street, Music Education
Melissa R. King, Chestnut Street, French
Taylor V. Crawford, Springs Ridge Drive, Nursing
Scott R. Dotterer, Jenna Drive, Management
Chelsea G. Murray, Cold Run Road, English Education
Joseph W. Kolenda, Redwood Drive, Computer Science
Tate A. Dewalt, Pine Woods Court, Music Education
Lauren A. Sebastinas, Gouglersville Road, Interior Design
Ryan P. Egan, Focht Road, Management
Erinn L. Boguslowski, Dorchester Drive, Criminology
Robert M. Haberstroh, North 2nd Street, Computer Science
Olivia N. Hand, Hartzell Avenue, Nursing
Caitlyn M. Hazenstab, Sickles Corner Back Road, Criminology
Alexandra M. Julian, East 23rd Avenue, Nutrition
Douglas A. Longwill, East Penn Avenue, Psychology
Joshua M. Wertz, Fordham Circle, Music Performance
James L. Dalgarn, Orchard Drive, Biology
Colin B. Greenleaf, 3rd Avenue, Criminology
Brian P. Saylor, Orchard Drive, Biology
Laura K. Delozier, Woodlawn Terrace, Biology Education
Brooke D. Frederick, Jones Street, French Education K-12
Dwayne K. Cherry, Criminology
Christina M. Brisbin, Decker Hollow Road, Music Education
Melissa M. Hilderley, Bryan Court, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jamie L. Root, Oak Avenue, Communications Media
Jenna M. Keen, Chaff Court, Nursing
Emily J. Weber, Sugarbush Drive, Journalism
Casey E. Yoder, Dublin Pike, Nursing
Jessica D. Reilly, Surrey Road, Psychology
Emily L. Burg, Newtown Road, Biology
Renee E. Clouse, Thornwood Drive, Middle Level Education
Jamie L. Czech, Crisswell Road, Human Resource Management
Victoria A. Mizwicki, Penn Drive, Social Studies Education
Bernard J. Carr, Parker Road, Electro Optics/Laser Engineer
Madison D. Crist, Primrose Drive, Nutrition
Rowdy W. Durci, Winfield Road, Criminology
Hali C. Morris, Bryan Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kaitlyn M. Grzywinski, Beatty Drive, Mathematics Education
Ryan C. Krause, Sheldon Road, Management Information Systems
Madeline M. Matusik, Pointe Drive, Regional Planning
Kurt R. Stridinger, State Road, Management
Erika K. Barlow, Glen Rape Road, Social Studies Education
Halee V. Stroup, South Green Lane, Psychology
Victoria L. Murphy, International Studies
Julie A. Veneskey, Zeke Lane, Nursing
Katlin R. Daniels, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Stephanie D. Anna, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Nicholas A. Adams, Tioga Street, Music Education
Jessie L. Bruckhart, Russell Avenue, Regional Planning
Andrew Cominsky, Nees Avenue, Undeclared Business
Shannon M. Costa, Goucher Street, Management Information Systems
Craig A. Harris, Churchill Street, Management
Kaila B. Henry, Moss Lane, Sociology
Jill R. Marguccio, Erickson Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Shana N. Martin, Christy Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jennifer L. Pfeil, Tyke Road, Sociology
Benjamin E. Knapic, Route 403 Highway, Computer Science
Hayley M. Paronish, 34th Street, Communications Media
Thomas J. Paronish, Vine Street, Geology
Grace E. Thomas, Goodridge Road, Art Education
Kaitlin M. Cence, Linwood Avenue, Accounting
Kelsey M. Hoover, Edelweiss Street, Sociology
Kyle A. Gossard, Gillespie Avenue, Music Education
Jacob A. Zerby, Political Science
Brooke E. Wissinger, Forest Hills Drive, Family and Consumer Science Education
Brittany S. Krestar, Ragers Hill Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kristi B. Olsavsky, Griffith Street, Management
Miranda M. Olsavsky, Accounting
Allison M. Plowman, Plowman Road, Nursing
Michael P. Jones, Sizerville Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Ian Q. Grant, Philosophy
Matthew D. DePra, Tusseyville Road, Music Education
Emily E. Hoffman, Natural Science
Kelsey L. Jordan, Tussey Meadow Lane, Nursing
Kendyl C. Paolini, Lower Georges Valley Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Aubrie E. Nader, Taylors Mill Road, Communications Media
Gabriella R. Ruggeri, Peck Road, Nuclear Medicine Technology
Robert J. Smith, Chestnut Court, International Studies
Tyler J. Caba, Barton Drive, Management
James P. DiBello, Kirby Drive, Criminology
Andrew E. Kornet, Palomino Drive, Physical Education and Sport
Laura F. Murray, Edgemill Way, Child Development and Family Relations
Cassandra L. Barton, East Weber Avenue, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Skylar M. Buriak, Treasure Lake, Accounting
Emma J. Straight, Treasure Lake, Nursing
Samantha J. Thompson, Treasure Lake, Biology Education
Kristin R. Krause, Fernwood Road, Nursing
Rebecca E. Olson, Substation Road, Psychology
Rebecca A. Kephart, Spring Road, Criminology
Shaylea A. Grannis, Hospitality Management
Natalie V. Robison, Rockton Mountain Highway, Physical Education and Sport
Brittany C. Martell, Woodland Bigler Highway, Psychology
Emily L. Karas, Scenic Drive, Family and Consumer Science Education
Kailyn M. Mott, Woods Edge Drive, Nursing
Collin R. Hart, US Highway 322, Music Education
Ethan L. Oertly, Frenchtown Road, Accounting
Dustin J. Steider, Mallory Road, Psychology
Paige A. Peterson, English Education
Katherine E. Lewis, Wing Road, English
Brittany L. Brown, Brown Road, Music Education
Deanna E. Welsh, Conneaut Street, Nursing
Abigail L. Shipe, Conestoga Road, Nursing
Katie M. Barrett, Beagle Club Road, History
Jonathan E. Goodman, Hope Terrace, Undeclared Business
Joshua C. Readshaw, Prickly Pear Drive, Music Education
Keelin R. McGrath, Truffle Glen Road, Art Education
Nicholas F. Roberto, Brookridge Drive, Marketing
Amber N. Rockwell, Williamsburg Way, Hospitality Management
Courtney R. Seeno, Wallingford Way, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jamie L. Shepherd, Winston Drive, Natural Science
Kelsey B. Papinchak, Benyou Lane, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kasi L. Hicks, Bonnymead Avenue, Communications Media
Kady L. Maurer, Circle Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kayle L. Scott, North 50th Street, English
Anthony D. Smith, Clinton Road, Communications Media
Abbey M. Zelko, Worcester Avenue, Journalism
Andrew V. Zeplin, Whisper Wood Lane, Finance
Kaitlyn E. Donegan, Appenzell Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Aaron J. Lupia, Powderhorn Road, Health and Physical Education
Michael E. Lupia, Powderhorn Road, Health and Physical Education
Corrie E. Whitmer, Chestnut Street, Journalism
Erin R. Clark, Glenwood Avenue, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Kelsey F. Bretz, Penn Street, Computer Science
Kenneth A. Thiry, Willow Street, Accounting
Dylan J. Dippold, Robin Road, Psychology
Michele F. Sharrow, Hemlock Road, English
Danielle R. Simchick, Johnsonburg Road, Spanish Education K-12
Peter J. Greenawalt, Chemistry
Jessica S. Sheehan, Water Street, Marketing
Mary Ann B. Hedlund, Courtland Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Michelle B. Hedlund, Courtland Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Madeline L. Jobczynski, Harvard Road, English
Kristina M. Krasowski, Norcross Road, Natural Science
Conrad F. Kubaney, Lakeside Drive, Nursing
Laura R. Nientimp, Indiana Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Theresa A. Scarnati, North Wayside Drive, Mathematics
Lauren E. Stephan, Saint Ann Drive, Nursing
Marissa A. Twiss, West 42nd Street, Nutrition
Phylis Zimmermann, Downing Court, Vocational-Technical Education
Nicole K. Borstorff, Holdson Drive, Finance
Ashley E. Bronakowski, Hollyberry Lane, English Education
Katie L. Grahek, Lynn Road, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Barbara N. Shultz, Breakneck Road, English
Brant E. Roberts, Music Education
Kyle A. Pillar, Center Street, Communications Media
Austin T. Beaufort, Michaux Drive, Music Education
Ashley N. Frankenfield, West Weaver Road, Management
Vincent S. Hall, Moss Spring Avenue, Management
Abbie M. Bender, Orchard Lane, Biology
Zachary C. Grass, Peaceful Oak Drive, Music Education
Kristen N. Swope, Gehr Road, Psychology
Megan D. Fox, Buckeye Road, Journalism
Jessany A. Knapp, North West Street, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Josie M. Patton, Mount Morris Road, Communications Media
Alyssa B. Black, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Heidi A. Farmery, Sociology
Joseph Canton, Luciusboro Road, English
Michael J. Duffey, Maple Avenue, History
Marissa R. Falcone, Evans Avenue, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Kylie R. Smathers, Rome Street, Middle Level Education
Shawn R. Yutzey, Communications Media
Alexandria L. Liddle, Route 240 Highway, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Andrew J. Machak, Berts Road, Psychology
Jennifer S. Kopczyk, Diamondville Road, Disability Services
Danielle M. Malicky, Walcott Street, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Benjamin J. Miller, Clymer Road, Nursing
Zachary G. Kunkle, Kunkle Lane, Safety Sciences
Franklinn M. Alexander, Store Hill Road, Physical Education and Sport
Jacqueline A. Connor, Route 286 Highway, Psychology
Rebecca A. Bowser, Ruth Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Samuel W. LeBlanc, Pearce Hollow Road, Health and Physical Education
Ryan S. Lightcap, Route 85 Highway, Health and Physical Education
Meghan S. McMeans, Wells Road, Art
Deanna R. Charles, Littletown Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jessica L. Henry, Henry Road, Family and Consumer Science Education
Richard M. Petricig, Crownover Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Christina E. Schmidt, Chestnut Alley, Hospitality Management
Anthony A. Almes, Edgewood Avenue, Regional Planning
Lillian C. Aurand, Philadelphia Street, Biology
Scott L. Blystone, Grant Street, Management Information Systems
Maureen E. Bock, Valley Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jenna A. Bothell, South 6th Street, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Audrey R. Botsford, East Pike Road, Nursing
Matthew R. Brown, East Pike Road, History
Hillary N. Daldoss, Lucerne Road, Marketing
Jessie A. Dalrymple, Dolores Circle, Psychology
Kathryn E. Edmondson, Ashley Drive, Anthropology
Wade R. Evans, Cresswell Road, Nursing
Taralyn E. Federoff, Valley Road, Political Science
Hannah M. Fullerton, Ben Franklin Road, Art
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Ashlee A. Rice, Ann Circle, Biology
Lindsey N. Smathers, Simpson Road, Criminology
Katie E. Stanko, South 11th Street, Psychology
Andrew J. Trefny, North 5th Street, Regional Planning
Emilie J. Borst, Pearce Hollow Road, Finance
Breanne R. Denning, Pearce Hollow Road, Middle Level Education
Brandon E. Snickles, Nursing
Aaron M. Knapic, Harrison Avenue, Social Studies Education
Alyssa B. Altman, Girty Road, English Education
Paige M. Cashdollar, Windy Flats Road, Art Studio
Michael A. Lockhart, Route 210 Highway, Criminology
Megan S. McCully, Gahagan Road, Social Studies Education
Cody A. Wells, Barnard Road, Social Studies Education
Megan C. Gallagher, Kerr Street, Music Education
Amanda E. Henretty, Fog Hollow Lane, Interior Design
Chadwick L. Schuckers, Belgiumtown Road, Political Science
Shannon D. Shaffer, Ramsaytown Road, Music Education
Jared L. Burkett, Oak Run Ave, Fashion Merchandising
Michael D. Depp-Hutchinson, Woodland Avenue, Theater
Devan J. Penman, North Penn Street, Physical Education and Sport
Heather L. Phillips, South Main Street, Accounting
Breana C. Barrett, Grant Street, Middle Level Education
Eden R. Kahle, Kahle Road, Journalism
Karli L. Spangler, Shields Road, Music Education
Chanie M. Spearing, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Ashley R. Kipp, Crestview Drive, Physical Education and Sport
Morgan C. Chase, Church Street, Theater
Kaitlyn D. Klinges, Rural Route 2, Political Science
Katherine A. Carter, Edgewood Drive, Hospitality Management
Nicolas J. Fillgrove, State Street, Psychology
Derrick Anderson, Sunrise Boulevard, Management
Kelsey M. Hayden, Hillcrest Lane, Biology
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Alexandra V. Freeman, Ashton Place, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Keri A. Swisher, Fulton Inn Road, Sociology
Kristen D. Kozminski, Stiefel Avenue, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Tiffany M. Murphey, Moravia Street, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Amanda L. Shaffer, Joyce Lane, Natural Science
Rachel S. Scherer, Halltown Road, Anthropology
Hannah K. Woodward, West Elm Street, Marketing
Susan J. O'Toole, Aspen Lane, Middle Level Education
Kelsey M. Peters, Larch Circle, Communications Media
Jessica D. Stachura, East Brookfield Drive, History
Courtney J. Fillman, Lone Lane, Deaf Education
Kelsey M. Shaulis, Spring Wood Drive, Spanish Education K-12
Kelly A. Nonnemacher, Franklin Street, Child Development and Family Relations
Catherine A. Caffrey, Rebecca Lane, Communications Media
Laura P. McFadden, Meadow Drive, Communications Media
Janelle M. Stayt, Kistler Road, Marketing
Sarah M. Leskowsky, Oak Drive, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Jill A. Franklin, Silo Road, Hospitality Management
Katherine A. Swiatek, Hunlock Harveyville Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Shawni J. Scott, Main Road, Anthropology
Elisa D. Laird, Mulholland Drive, Nursing
Ryan J. Everett, South Grant Street, Psychology
Tynan J. Shannon, Constitution Avenue, Criminology
Kristen M. Geer, Welsh Street, Art Education
Lauren A. Harvey, Hemlock Avenue, Physical Education and Sport
Kalie N. Walter, Tionesta Avenue, Marketing
Erin N. Black, Beaver Drive, Psychology
Shelby L. Runyan, Big Shanty Road, Business Education
Danielle M. Nielsen, Hamlin Street, Nutrition
Zachary G. Candela, Taylor Street, Biology
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Nicole M. Gregg, Crestview Drive, Nursing
Rebekah D. Schaaf, Rutledge Road, Interior Design
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Aleda K. Johnson, Payton Road, Communications Media
Nadhirah A. Norman, Haven Lake, English
Mary T. Gutekunst, Crystal Lane, Anthropology
Michael T. McKeegan, New Street, Spanish Education K-12
Jared W. Barnett, Washington Lane, Geography
Mary E. Ward, Valley Woods Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kerry L. Young, Roosevelt Boulevard, Psychology
Jeremy D. Edwards, Village Way, Asian Studies
Christian D. Lamar, Bedford Lane, Biology
Katie L. Vining, South Limerick Road, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
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Jessica M. Paulus, Beacon Road, Interior Design
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Angel R. Huss, North 5th Street, Physical Education and Sport
Khalia I. Brown, Devereaux Avenue, Criminology
Aijah K. Goodwin, Kemble Avenue, Psychology
Victor Lopez, North Hancock Street, Accounting
Cynthia Milord, Wyndale Avenue, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Deshante L. Nelson, Chancellor Street, Criminology
Keyonna M. Savage, Medary Avenue, Communications Media
Chloe E. Smith, Arlington Street, Music Education
Ethan Y. Wang, Kalos Street, Accounting
Ashley M. Moyer, East Campus Avenue, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Brendan F. Saunders, Bicycle Road, Psychology
Annie E. Bridge, Waterway Drive, Child Development and Family Relations
Heather M. Daly, Gilbert Hollow Road, Nursing
Gabriel J. Mazzotti, Music Education
William L. Harman, Barn Street, Political Science
Elizabeth C. Caton, Sherman Street, Deaf Education
Hanna A. Weimer, Broadway Street, Deaf Education
Alex T. Brown, West Catherine Street, Criminology
Matthew D. Lohr, Ralphton Road, Criminology
Stephany C. Flynn, Jackson Avenue, Social Studies Education
Bryan D. Castrogiovanni, Rural Route 7, Mathematics Education
Claire D. Bertinet, Park Road, Family and Consumer Science Education
Charles M. Culbertson, West 3rd Street, Biochemistry
Justin T. Loll, Fairfield Avenue, Safety Sciences
Karie A. Obremski, Hindman Avenue, Fashion Merchandising
Jessie A. Crawford, McWreath Road, Music
Samantha R. Ritzer, East National Pike, Geology
Travis L. Fiem, Lone Pine Road, Music Education
Carley E. Mendez, Henderson Avenue, Accounting
Franklin D. Morris, McKee Road, Criminology
Rebekah I. Beers, Shawnee Path, Child Development and Family Relations
Erin L. Dixon, Terrace Avenue, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Jenna M. Herstek, Watson Road, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Kayla M. Robinson, Karpaw Lane, Social Studies Education
Hayley R. Rusz, Jackson Road, Art Education
Kimber L. Carnahan, West Lebanon Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Zachary S. Wolfe, Kenneth Drive, Physical Education and Sport
Morgan A. Allman, Panizzi Road, English Education
Brooke E. Bentley, Johnson Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Kylie A. Chiu, Westland Drive, International Business
Aqua O. Gentis, Attleboro Place, International Business
Patrick M. Pushic, Barnhart Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Adam D. Santavy, Churchill Drive, French Education K-12
Jordan A. Sherrow, Shelby Drive, Asian Studies
Melissa A. Dobransky, Valley Vue Drive, Child Development and Family Relations
Kayla M. Henderson, Cherokee Street, Nursing
Rachel L. Knopf, 9th Street, Art Education
Lauren E. Yates, Reed Court, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Samantha A. Kissel, Walnut Street, Mathematics Education
Krista Park, Heimann Road, Management
Andy C. Wyant, Spring Street, Theater
Lindsay N. Blystone, Hermitage Circle, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Eric M. McAlpine, Hilltop Drive, Criminology
Taylor E. Farina, Ashbaugh Road, Speech and Lang Pathology Education
Nicole R. Harvan, Fennel Street, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Nicholle M. Merenda, Archway Drive, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Travis M. Deyarmin, Wheatley Circle, Computer Science
Bryan D. Rape, Coal Road, Regional Planning
Jack W. Connor, Gabrielle Drive, Health and Physical Education
Rachel J. Ciocca, White Street, Art Education
Alexis G. Gorenz, Adams Drive, Marketing
Hannah N. Guyon, Hahntown Wendel Road, English
Alicia A. Zimmerman, Chaintown Road, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Joshua A. Darr, Thompson Street, Biology
Ryan P. Merle, Donelson Road, Economics
Daniel V. Dicocco, Pine Hollow Road, Music Education
Seth M. Dixon, Baker School Road, History
Catherine D. Roberto, Washington Avenue, Marketing
Emily C. Stephens, North Balsinger Road, Natural Science
Brian M. Lohr, Sherwood Circle, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
Julianne N. Reger, South 5th Street, Physical Education and Sport
William J. Kelly, Mountain View Terrace, Nursing
Hali M. Soloski, Vosburg Road, Nursing
Luke J. Barricklow, Fairway Drive, Health and Physical Education
Joseph J. Trebilcock, Hametown Road, Anthropology
Natalie J. Hotaling, East Parkview Road, Journalism
Cassandra Stroman, Kendale Road, Criminology
Courtney A. Price, Diamond Run Court, International Business
Kiersen A. Hoffacker, Yingling Drive, Child Development and Family Relations
Elena R. Pietrowicz, Kings Way, Criminology
Christan J. Frederick, West Shoff Road, Nuclear Medicine Technology
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Logan S. Sealover, Brittany Court, Computer Science
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Chelsey M. Hipp, Clarksville, Early Childhood Education/Special Education
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Ashley M. Meredith, Columbia, Communications Media
Elizabeth P. Reynolds, Fort George G Meade, Anthropology
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Teresa M. Dierks, Germantown, Chemistry
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Gretchen D. Heine, Ijamsville, Spanish for Internationl Trade
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Kristen L. Kenski, Mount Airy, Nursing
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Brianne V. Stewart, Hewitt, Physical Education and Sport
Matthew R. Jones, Piscataway, Finance
Domenica A. Caporusso, Sewell, Nutrition
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Austen W. Perelman-Hall, Cleveland Heights, Marketing
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Ashley R. Youngkin, Cuyahoga Falls, Accounting
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Chase P. Robson, Centreville, International Business
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Videos | January 4, 2007
Three Years on Mars - Spirit's Story
The hardy Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, originally designed for a three-month mission, are still going strong.
Transcript:Three Years on Mars: Spirit's Story
Narrator: Scientists expected the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity to run for three months. Three years later the hardy rovers are still operating on opposite sides of the red planet. This is Spirit's story.
Scott Maxwell, Mars Exploration Rover Planner
Opportunity is very much the glamour girl. She just lands where there is evidence for water and Spirit is a little more the serious sister. She really had to work a little more for everything she accomplished.
Narrator: Scientists realized these plains of Gusev Crater didn't have the water story everyone was looking for and they wondered, could the hills harbor the pot of gold?
Chris Leger, Mars Exploration Rover Planner They basically just gave us the keys for a couple of months and said get the rover to the Columbia Hills by Sol 160.
John Callas, Mars Exploration Rover Mission Manager We started to find the water story in the Columbia Hills. We have made very important discoveries within the rocks. Mineral types that we believe formed in water. And both Spirit and Opportunity have done that through their missions.
Narrator: The discoveries didn't come without challenges.
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Mars Exploration Rover Mobility Engineer We design all these rovers to go and do science on flat terrain, but we go to Mars and find out that all the high priority science are on slopes and mountains.
Narrator: A climber himself, Chris Leger helped Spirit with Martian mountaineering.
Leger: If you look at a map of our traverse we started on the north side and then traversed all the way around and then approached it from the west side where we eventually climbed up.
Narrator: After scaling the summit of Husband Hill, Spirit's right front wheel stopped rolling and the rover was back-sliding on loose ground.
Maxwell: Spirit was definitely in jeopardy. In a very short period of time we had to figure how to drive her with five-wheels, how to get her out of the sand trap she was in and how to get her up on to something dragging one wheel as she went that would enable to point the solar panels at the sun.
Leger: And we were watching the solar power curves going down and down every day and the heaters start to come on to keep the vehicle alive.
Trebi-Ollennu: We were fortunate to get Spirit just in time to what we call Low Ridge which is a 10 degree slope so we could point spirit 10 degrees towards the sun.
Narrator: It was just in the nick of time. Spirit hunkered down for the winter but still managed to do science. The rover found evidence of ice clouds in the atmosphere and snapped the most detailed Martian panorama ever taken.
Maxwell: Both rovers have had two brain transplants in the time they've been on the surface of Mars.
Trebi-Ollennu: Basically, the rover software is probably what you and I know as the10 commandments but it's got more like 1000 commandments. Thou shall not go over a rock over 25 centimeters tall. Thou shall not drive and get a tilt of more than 25 degrees and thou shall not kill yourself.
Narrator: With winter gone, Spirit, ever the trooper, is on the move again.
Maxwell: She's a stubborn little girl and she's hanging in there and she's not going to give up.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
Today Apple released their new iOS6 to current iPhone users, history has shown me that EVERY time there is a new iOS update for the iPhone it kicks off bluetooth users of Ford SYNC.
I understand it's pretty much inevitable because these are usually big software updates and the Ford SYNC system is (1) built from Microsoft and (2) would need to be updated every day if we wanted SYNC to be up-to-date with phones. So I decided to give our customers a HEADS UP, this time around, I'd rather them know it MIGHT happen so they aren't frustrated with their systems when they perform their software update and then all of a sudden they can not SYNC up the bluetooth in their Ford or Lincoln.
My way to inform our customers? I created my FIRST infographic...
I hope y'all like it but I would really love some thoughts to make sure I have the right idea of what an "infographic" is.
When I posted this yesterday, within in 15 minutes I had 3 calls already to set up appointments for tomorrow...
Anywho, let me know what y'all think of the infographic! I love feedback. :)
Views: 469
Ashley and Jillian, were you able to publish the infographics you created onto the dealership's primary website?
Nice looking Infographic Jillian... Where did you publish and post it for your customers to see?
Good thinking Ashley! Looks great!
I love it Jillian! Thanks for sharing!
One good thing about my Android updates. It doesn't upset my OnStar....lol.
Thanks Michael! I hadn't thought of those!
Nicely done Ashley! Be sure to post it EVERYWHERE that you are online! Facebook, Google+, Twitter and see if you can post it to listing sites like MerchantCircle.com, InsiderPages.com and perhaps even Yelp as one of your dealership pics. Its pretty relevant info and Im sure folks that stumble across it would appreciate that you arent always promoting sales info. My $0.2 that is... :)
Thanks Ralph, I posted this on our Facebook page and Twitter site and today on our Google Plus Page. 75% of my SYNC customers connect with me through our social media sites so I hoped they would catch this on there. We are in the process of starting a dealership blog, if we had one established already that would be the first place I publish it...
Ashley, I really like and admire your effort to inform and update your Access Ford customers... So the real question is: Where will this infographic be published/posted/distributed?
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Every time I try to get comfortable! someone destroys it by taking over; bulling! However, I was trying to be comfortable without muscle! meaning, Im going to a meeting; an open meeting somewhere with drug addicts! Maybe it was the 7th grade with worthless teachers and bullies! or the 6th grade with worthless teachers and a worthless school system! Maybe it was a horrible job situation! the 99th horrible waist of my time at a useless stupid job of no value!
Or, I was in another useless waisted town; I knew no one! did not have any direction!
or a waisted experience with false relatives who abused me or used me or and then throw me away!
or worthless useless parents that did the same! or false friends pretending to be real!
useless 2 faced women; over n over n over! so worthless are they; I wont get within 100 feet of them!
So; where do I go!
Where do I call home!
Ive dealt with the dead! and I know many intelligent good people; sophisticated people; they are dead now!
A useless judicial system! A useless police department!
Where is home!
Where can I go that is safe!
Why cant I find a home; a place!
Ive know many people that have killed themselves because everything and everyone is corrupt! and they had no money or direction because they live in a time of sadness; meaning their country is worthless and its people the same! Not really the peoples fault; they are reacting as well!
The point; Im not going to drug myself over it or kill myself over it! Ive dealt with the dead! they have assured me! Im not one of them! that is not my answer! but what is!
I have God; I have to work harder at attracting success! What does it mean! where is a safe place!
Even in the public parks; I could not be myself! the cops were called! I was hanging out at different times of the day and at night before the park closed! I understand! but I was doing nothing wrong! I live here! its my country! but after the cops game; it was never the same! I never wanted to go back! to much authority!
Everywhere I go its authority!
Im not sure whats left!
I know this! Im spinning my wheels, over n over n over and Im just being taken advantage of in every direction! that is all that is happening!
Ive known intelligent people who have killed themselves! no one cared! no one even mentions it! I care! I miss them! God knows this! no one on earth cares! The bad are running everything! the good have to kill themselves! Im not going to! so now what! where do I go!
Where do I go! where do I go! where is my freedom!
I have to work with God to understand what Im doing on this planet! what is the point! where is my freedom!
I am a victim in all of this!
I thought I would have a father that would help me and protect me when young! I was wrong; he was lying! he was no father, he was a treacherous betrayer and nothing more! a predator!
I go to allot of 12 step meetings with drug addicts! Why do I find it strange when a number of the criminal based drug addicts attempt to take over the meetings! These are addicts not using drugs anymore; not in prisons anymore! why do I try to get used to a place that is unsafe! and its proven unsafe! and yet, I will allow myself to get used to it believing its safe; then get smashed by a violation of someone taking away my rights! or trying to inderectly intimidate me! I saw to myself that this is wrong! I wont stand for this! Then why am I their! is this not their meeting! Im their because I used drugs at one time and Im looking for recovery! but why do I think its safe! I just need it to be safe! did I not do this same behavior when young with everything and everyone around me! I trying to make bad people into good people when they were bad! did I not attempt to make unsafe places into good places when they were unsafe! nothing changed in them! why am I making them out to be safe!
I have this idea that God has brought me to these safe places! thats how it feels! I get used to them; suddenly, someone has taken advantage of me! Why did I think they wouldn't! their doing the same thing to their own children!
ITs important for the reader to understand! I do not plan to kill myself because I feel completely trapped in every direction! this does not equal suicide! not anymore! Ive seen the living that are now dead! and the dead have talked to me! I am past them! theirs is not my direction! but now what!
Im asking God; seriously! what direction do I go! I want to hide some place and be free! I seem to have no such place! I must work with God! Im not getting it! where is home!
Where is home!
Where is home!
Ive been online at other places! places I write blogs like this! I got kicked off! Im sorry my blogs did not fit! but I had to write them the way they are so I could get better; but it was not a place for people to get better; it was just a place for people to look good and complain! I actually was getting better from writing! and they kicked me off! and I noticed; they kicked me off when I stared outgrowing the place! and this happens to me in every area of my life, over n over n over!
I have no town to go to! no home; no purpose anywhere! and Ive mentioned, many people like me have killed themselves because of it! Ive known a few! but its not me! not my time! not my way! not now! the dead of talked to me! they have told me; NO!; Its not my way! even tho the child in me feels a fronted at times! Im not sure of the answer of being violated! I have to keep talking to God and working on it!
Nothing sucks worse then being in a place or a town and you have no idea why! Im not in control of my own life or where I roam or why! not good!
I have to talk to God about all of this! God is suppose to create a safe place for me on earth!


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Fourteen-year-old Rachel Crow, who wowed Simon Cowell (and TV viewers) with her X Factor audition last year, has just debuted a new song and video from her upcoming album, and it deals with bullying. Crow sings:
Who do you think you are
Loud mouth cafeteria star
Maybe somebody was cruel to you
So you think that's what you're supposed to do
And continues:
I won't let it get to me no more
I don't wanna feel this way
I can't believe I let it go so far
No no, it's not okay
What do you know about me?
Do you wanna know what I think?
Mean girls, mean girls
I'm a just comb you out of my curls
Mean girls, mean girls,
You no longer run my world
The song is kind of meh, but at least Crow, who has a small part on a Nickelodeon show called Fred, is singing positive, age-appropriate stuff to her young fans?


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PARPG goes Agile
Posted by mvbarracuda in Misc on January 31st, 2011
Heya and welcome to a short PARPG news update.
Agile & Scrum
If you've watched our wiki closely over the last four weeks, you might have realized that the PARPG team has been researching Agile software development in general and Scrum as one Agile framework in special. When we had our first stab at the project from early 2009 until early 2010, we ran into a couple of issues we couldn't really cope with back then:
- Lack of focus on actual development goals
- Lack of agreed upon development guidelines and processes
- Lack of communication and coordination between the different development departments
After qubodup recommended a Scrum book to me, I checked it out over the last year's Christmas holidays. I started to realize that Scrum could help us to stay focused, have an agreed upon process and ensure that developers actually communicate with each other.
Unfortunately I'm somewhat short of time and can't go into detail, but if you would like to know more about Scrum, Agile and how we'll utilize it in the future, feel free to check out the Agile article series at our wiki.
Sprint prioritization meeting
As part of going Agile, we'll have our first sprint prioritization meeting at Friday, 4th of February, 11PM UTC±0 at our new sprint IRC channel #parpg-sprint. The channel will be used for strict on topic sprint discussion in the future. If community members would like to attend the sprint prioritization meeting, they're welcome to do so. This said: discussion will be restricted to PARPG developers to keep the meeting as productive as possible.
Agile articles
All developers who participate in the meeting are encouraged to check out at least these three articles to be prepared for the meeting:
This said: the other Agile articles at the wiki are good reads to get started as well, so if you got some more time on your hands, feel free to check them out.
Concept art sneak peek
As we subscribe to the philosophy, that a news update without some fancy to look at isn't a good news update, there you go. Gaspard worked on some environment concept art:
See you at the next PARPG news update, scheduled for mid February. The next news update will cover how the writer application process turned out!


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Jerry O'Keefe has shaped over 25,000 surfboards over the past 25 years while shaping for labels such as Dewey Weber Surfboards, Stewart Surfboards, Timmy Patterson, Lost Surf Boards, Hobie Surfboards, & Hurley. Jerry currently shapes for Dewey Weber & Hurley; as well as, his own label, Soul Stix! His surf boards have been ridden by pros such as Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Mick Fanning, Brett Simpson, Yadin Nicol, Jim Hogan, Neco Padaradtz, Dillon Perillo, Chase Brady, Brad Ettinger, Brian McNulty, David Nuuhiwa, Damien Hobgood, Martin Potter, Nat Young, Herbie Fletcher, Rory Russell & others. You can find his surfboard ridden by some of the best at Trestles & Huntington Beach on a daily basis.
Jerry O'keefe currently uses two shaping options. His boards are either shaped totally by hand or he can utilize his CAD design, CNC state of the art shaping machine the APS 3000. This state of the art machinery offers precision dimensions & the opportunity to recreate your favorite surfboard. The APS 3000 provides cutting services as well as design & shaping, it is currently being utilized by Dewey Weber Surfboards, Superstix, Hamish Graham, Lost, Hurley & Soul Stix. Giant surf board manufacturers such as Al Merrick, Lost surfboards, & others begin the process of building surfboards with super surf board blanks that Jerry designed. Jerry also designs and shapes blanks for Surf Blanks America, one of the leading surfboard blank manufacturers in the world.
Dewey Weber 60th Anniversary Hatchet FinFrom: $125.00 Select options
Dewey Weber 9.6 STORYBOARD$5,000.00 Add to cart
Dewey Weber Gift CertificateFrom: $50.00 Select options
Dewey Weber Block Logo Flat Snap Hat$32.95 Select options
Dewey Weber Icon Logo Trucker Hat$26.95 Select options
Dewey Weber Block Letter Long Sleeve T$32.95 Select options
Dewey Weber 9.2 Planer$1,500.00 Read More
Dewey Weber 9.2 Stylist$1,500.00 Read More
Dewey Weber Classic Logo Hoodie$52.95 Select options
Dewey Weber Icon Logo Long Sleeve T$32.95 Select options
Dewey Weber Classic Logo Long Sleeve T$32.95 Select options
Dewey Weber Block Letter T$26.95 Select options