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Saracens clinched a place in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals with a 64-6 demolition of Connacht at Allianz Park.
Needing just a win over the Irish side to secure second place in Pool 3 and one of the two best runners-up quarter-final places, Saracens ran in 11 tries in total.
Sarries scored tries through David Strettle (3), Chris Ashton (2), Alex Goode, Chris Wyles, Jackson Wray, George Kruis, James Johnston, and Schalk Brits. Had Charlie Hodgson not missed eight difficult kicks, the hosts would have won by an even bigger margin.
Hodgson's misses and two penalties from Dan Parks allowed the Irish to remain in contention for much of the first half - but it was all one-way traffic after Connacht prop Nathan White had picked up a yellow card.
Brits and the Vunipola brothers, Mako and Billy, were at the heart of a dominant home pack which enabled star performer Goode and Brad Barritt to impress in the back line.
Hodgson was selected at fly-half for the hosts with Owen Farrell on the bench. Duncan Taylor was included in the centre in place of Wyles and there were recalls to the starting line-up for forwards Matt Stevens, Kruis and Ernst Joubert.
Connacht opted for experience with Parks, Gavin Duffy and Michael Swift back in the side - and Parks made no mistake with an early penalty.
Hodgson was wide with a long-range penalty attempt but soon after the home side led with a well-crafted try.
From a scrum 35 metres out, Barritt and Mako Vunipola made penetrative runs which put the visitors' defence on the back foot. The ball was recycled and a neat pass from Hodgson gave Ashton just enough room for the wing to squeeze in at the corner.
Hodgson missed the conversion and declined to attempt a kickable penalty as Saracens chose a more attacking option - but they were not rewarded as Billy Vunipola was unable to force his way over from a line-out five metres out.
Despite having the better of the opening quarter, Saracens trailed 6-5 at the end of it after Parks kicked his second penalty.
Hodgson was successful with his third kick at goal before Saracens scored another excellent try - Goode and Hodgson making enterprising runs to provide Strettle with an easy touchdown.
Connacht suffered a further blow when White was sin-binned for stamping on Barritt in a ruck, with the TMO deciding that a yellow card was a sufficient punishment.
This proved costly as with the last play of the half, Brits finished off a line-out drive to give Saracens an 18-6 interval lead.
Within two minutes of the restart, the bonus point was in the bag. From inside his own 22, Goode ran brilliantly to evade five defenders before feeding Taylor, whose pass sent Strettle in his for his second try.
White returned but it made no difference as the irrepressible Goode again tore apart the visitors' defence to score a superb solo try.
With the game won, Saracens made a raft of changes with five substitutions in quick succession but it did not stop their flow with Kruis forcing his way over for the try which Hodgson converted to loud cheers.
Hodgson was replaced by Farrell but this was soon reversed as Farrell left the field with a cut head.
However Saracens continued on the rampage with replacements, Wyles, Wray and Johnston all scoring tries before Strettle and Ashton crossed to ensure Connacht were routed.
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A busy opening day at Interlagos saw Michael Schumacher claim an early advantage over championship favourite Fernando Alonso. The title contenders - plus all their rivals - report back from Brazil
Alexander Wurz, third driver, Williams (1st, + 12.547s):
Its the end, no more Friday driver role for me! Im really pleased that I had such a good last lap. In fact, if I can squeeze some laps like that out of the car next year, where there are no mistakes and everything was fine, I will be very happy. The work we did today was good; we completed our usual tyre tests as well as some set-up comparisons and brake work. Now we need to get our heads together with our engineers to make sure we have a good package for tomorrows qualifying and the race on Sunday.
Anthony Davidson, third driver, Honda (2nd, + 0.106s):
A nice end to the season for me. The car was feeling really good all the way through today, particularly on the long runs which is promising for the race. The track continued improving all through the day and as the temperature warmed up it suited our car more and more, so hopefully the weather will continue to get better through the weekend. We had a bit of traffic on my last run which was a shame as the times could have been quicker but that's Friday driving for you. Reliability has again been excellent so we have a lot positives to take forward into the rest of the weekend."
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It was a good Friday. Although rain was predicted, it stayed dry which was an advantage and meant that in both sessions we were able do our preparation work well. I did a lot of laps and collected a lot of data. I like the track very much. It is very bumpy but a lot of fun to drive on.
Jarno Trulli, Toyota (4th, + 0.936s):
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Jenson Button, Honda (5th, + 0.938s):
We have made improvements throughout the day as we've tried various set-up options. The balance was better this afternoon as the track improved and our pace seems encouraging. We had a few problems with traffic, particularly in the afternoon session, but it didn't impact on the running too much. Anthony was able to cover a lot of laps so we will have plenty of information to look through tonight."
Michael Schumacher, Ferrari (6th, + 1.166s):
Of course, I am well aware this is my last Grand Prix, but once I am in the car, it feels no different to any other. I am here with my family and my closest friends which makes me happy. I would like to thank BMW Sauber for their nice gesture (running Thanks Michael on their rear wings). On the technical front, first impressions are good: the car and the Bridgestones seem to be working well. The situation seems pretty close and from our side we are happy with the work we have done today. Our aim is clearly to try and win the constructors championship and that will require a one-two finish.
Ralf Schumacher, Toyota (7th, + 1.218s):
"This circuit has always been difficult due to the bumps and today was no different. Today's sessions went okay and we had no real problems. We completed all our programmes as planned but now we have to sit together and make our tyre choice, which will be difficult. This is a challenging circuit for cars and drivers but I think our package should be good here. Our speed has been strong at recent races and we were quick at Suzuka a fortnight ago. So the trend has clearly been in the right direction and we hope that can continue here. Our target for the weekend is to take fifth place in the constructors' championship and I think that would be a just reward after all the hard work the team has put in this season."
Franck Montagny, third driver, Super Aguri (8th, + 1.245s):
This is my last day with Super Aguri, so it is quite a special day. I was happy with the car during the final session and we finished 8th fastest. We completed two tyre tests in the afternoon because we had a problem this morning with the steering rack which caused us to cancel our first session. I think it's good because a top 10 finish shows everyone that the team is getting better and better. But there is a little bit of sadness because the guys here have been very good to me and I would like to thank them and Aguri for my great time with the team.
Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren (9th, + 1.256s):
"We made some progress on our set up work and tyre evaluation, however we still have a little work to do tomorrow, but everything looks fine so far."
Fernando Alonso, Renault (10 th, + 1.273s):
The grip levels were very low today, and the track was getting better and better as the session went on. That means it's difficult to draw too many conclusions about the set-up or the performance of the car, and we will have to work well this evening to anticipate how the circuit will change for tomorrow and the race. So what counts today is the basic feeling, and it was good, with no problems at all in either session. The Michelin tyres were working well, and the car was pretty comfortable to drive. So I am feeling happy, and confident for the rest of the weekend.
Pedro de la Rosa, McLaren (11th, + 1.379s):
"Basically we finished the planned programme for today, and with my fresh engine I could do more laps than usual on a Friday. This gave us some extra information on the tyres. I am happy with the progress that we made today."
Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault (12th, + 1.506s):
With difficult track conditions today, it was hard to put together the best lap straight away on new tyres. There is some work to do on the car balance as I had too much oversteer, especially in the second sector, but we improved the situation during practice - and we will hope to take another step forward for tomorrow. We will look hard at the tyre choice tonight because that will be an important factor for the rest of the weekend, but I think we are in a good position.
Rubens Barrichello, Honda (13th, + 1.887s):
I had a few issues with the set-up of the car to begin with but we made improvements this afternoon. The car has been quite slow on the straights which we need to look into tonight to find the reason. We got some useful work done today but there is still a lot of work to be done as I am not completely satisfied with the car."
Michael Ammermuller, third driver, Red Bull (14th, + 1.889s):
I feel a little sad as that was the last Friday test Ill do this year. Id love to do some testing for the team next year, hopefully Ill be able to. Its great to drive here, although there are a lot of left-hand corners, which can pull on the neck quite a lot. There are also a lot of bumps in the track, often under braking, but everyone faces the same problem.
Tiago Monteiro, Spyker MF1 (15th, + 1.921s):
"I think today was a good performance for the whole team. Considering how much fuel we had on board it was really promising. We managed to find good car balance having made improvements throughout the afternoon session, earlier the car had been pretty difficult to handle but the set-up now suits my style of driving. It could rain tonight and we may have a different track tomorrow. We will keep our eyes open for changing conditions but its always very positive to have a start to the weekend like this."
Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber (16th, + 1.963s):
I have done just a few laps. The track is quite nice to drive, but there is not a lot of grip and it is a bit bumpy. However, it is the same for everybody. For me everything is okay and it is just a normal Friday, although I did spin after going on a white line, which I think was still a bit wet from this morning.
Felipe Massa, Ferrari (17th, + 2.014s):
We worked a lot on car set-up, which was not quite right at the start of the session, especially in terms of grip. Towards the end, we managed to improve, which makes me reasonably confident for tomorrow. My yellow and green race suit? Its a tribute to my country and I must say I am very happy to have my first race in a Ferrari in Brazil wearing our national colours.
Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber (18th, + 2.246s):
Normally I really like driving in Interlagos, but today I found it pretty difficult because the balance of my car is not right yet. The car isn.t behaving consistently, but on the other hand the lap times where consistent, and that is positive.
Mark Webber, Williams (19th, + 2.292s):
We went through our usual Friday programme and I had a few laps in the afternoon session to get a feel for the car on this track. We did some wing comparisons here and there and checked a few things out so we have lots of data to look through tonight from Alexs running.
Ernesto Viso, third driver, Spyker MF1 (20th, + 2.425s):
"I was very excited to be at the Brazilian Grand Prix as a third driver especially with the Spyker MF1 Team and I think we did a good job. It's basically my first ever time in F1 and at this track and I think we made a lot of good progress with the set-up and the tyre programme. I hope we can communicate over the winter and with some support maybe look at expanding my F1 experience next year."
Takuma Sato, Super Aguri (21st, + 2.476s):
It was a good start to the weekend. We made good progress during both sessions and we felt comfortable with that. Interlagos is a bumpy track and always challenging for the drivers and demanding for the car set-up, but our car seems to be working well. I believe that we can carry over todays progress to tomorrow.
Christijan Albers, Spyker MF1 (22nd, + 2.539s):
"It was quite a useful day as I think we know what tyres we will choose for tomorrow. It is a short track so we encountered quite a lot of traffic but it doesn't matter as its only a Friday. We will see how it goes tomorrow but at this time it doesn't look too bad."
Nico Rosberg, Williams (23rd, + 2.577s):
This afternoon was my first outing at Interlagos. Its not too hard a track to learn and I found my rhythm pretty quickly. Its definitely a nice track, good fun and enjoyable to drive. We based todays sessions on tyre tests and we definitely achieved some good results and the Bridgestones are looking strong here. We also did some aero comparisons to see what the optimum set-up will be and have some very good results there too. It was a good job from Alex to be quickest in the second session and I hope we can keep the pace going over the weekend.
David Coulthard, Red Bull (24th, + 2.667s):
A normal Friday practice. Nothing to report.
Vitantonio Liuzzi, Toro Rosso (25th, + 3.190s):
A difficult day on a difficult track. It was a bit damp at the start of practice and we adjusted the setup bit by bit as it dried. We concentrated on working towards the race and from what we have seen so far, I think we will have a tough time on Sunday. We expect to improve our performance tomorrow by trying various changes to the car. The engine restrictor does not help us with the many changes of gradient here.
Scott Speed, Toro Rosso (26th, + 3.308s):
Another new track for me. Its very tight and right now it is also very slippery. So going for a full lap without missing a braking point or sliding out off line has been very difficult. Of course I had heard about how bumpy this place is and the fact that its an anti-clockwise track, but after the first two hours Im feeling fine physically. In terms of car performance, it felt on the edge everywhere and although the track condition will improve it will always be tough for us as we usually struggle on this type of circuit. A difficult end to the season I think.
Neel Jani, third driver, Toro Rosso (27th, + 3.321s):
Being the third driver all year for this team has been a very nice experience. Never in my racing life have I learnt so much in one year, about set-up, tyres and so on. I have enjoyed it even though there have been some frustrating moments. Life goes on and my next aim is to actually race in F1. The team got better and better during the year and I think now they are working well together. Here at the track, I had a good morning, but in the afternoon I had a broken exhaust.
Robert Doornbos, Red Bull (28th, + 3.704s):
A pretty quiet day really. We just did one lap this morning and this afternoon our planned programme was cut short due to a suspected engine problem, which is now being investigated further. I ended up sitting on the side of the track watching the others drive - but well make up for it tomorrow and on Sunday. The circuits good to drive here.
Sakon Yamamoto, Super Aguri (29th, + 5.774s):
It was not really a successful day for me because even though we had no issues this morning at the beginning of FP2 the car soon had a problem. This took a long time to fix and then we could only complete two timed laps, which is too short to determine good car balance. We havent collected a lot of data from my car, so we shall have to work hard to prepare for tomorrow.


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Residence Halls
Our new freshman residence hall opened Fall 2014. This facility is located directly on-campus, with amazing views of Auke Lake, Mendenhall Glacier, and the numerous mountains, trees, and wildlife that surround the Juneau campus. With 120 bed spaces spread out across four floors of two bedroom, suite-style units, this building will be a hub of activities, social connections, and access to educational services on-campus. View a few photos of the new facility in our campus photo gallery.
In addition to resident units, this 34,000 square foot facility offers lounge spaces, study nooks, a seminar/classroom, community kitchen, laundry facilities, student mailboxes, and interior access to garbage and recycling disposal. A front desk location will not only allow for monitoring of student and guest access to this swipe-card access secured building, but also be a source of information and referral for residents.
All housing residents are required to purchase a meal plan. To learn more about our food options on campus, please visit the Campus Dining page.
2014-2015 | Semester | Meal Plan | Total/Semester | Total/ Academic |
Freshman Residence Hall (shared room) | $2,500 | $1,675 | $4,175 | $8,350 |
Freshman Residence Hall (private room) | $3,300 | $1,675 | $4,975 | $9,950 |
Single Student Housing/Apartments
Single students with the class status of Sophomore and higher can be placed in apartment housing. There are two types of apartment housing: four bedroom apartments with single rooms and two bedroom apartments with double rooms.
Four Bedroom Apartments
These are apartments with four bedrooms. Each resident has their own room and shares the bathroom, living room, dining room, and kitchen with three other people.
Two Bedroom Apartments
These are apartments with two bedrooms. Each resident shares a room with one other person and shares the bathroom, living room, dining room, and kitchen with three other people.
All apartments are equipped with microwave, stove, and refrigerator. The common space in each apartment is fully furnished with couches, dining room table, and chairs. Each bedroom is furnished with a twin extra-long bed, dresser, and desk (double rooms with 2 of each). Each apartment has a storage room in the entry way. The townhouse-style apartments also have storage underneath the stairs.
All housing residents are required to purchase a meal plan. To learn more about our food options on campus, please visit the Campus Dining Page.
2014-2015 | Semester | Meal Plan | Total Semester | Total Academic |
Four Bedroom Apartment | $3,100 | $600 | $3,700 | $7,400 |
Two Bedroom Apartment | $2,600 | $600 | $3,200 | $6,400 |
Single in Two Bedroom Apartment | $3,400 | $600 | $4,000 | $8,000 |
Family Housing
Family housing at UAS offers students with partners and/or children a wonderful living environment.
There are numerous benefits to living on-campus, beyond simple convenience. Opportunities to develop connections with other residents, as well as faculty and staff can be vital to creating a supportive network and resources in your education.
The Residence Life department's goal is to provide a living environment that focuses on academic success. We do this by creating and maintaining comfortable homes for our students, through policies and procedures that encourage learning and studies, and by implementing programs and events that challenge our residents to reflect upon their growth.
Furthermore, Family Housing provides an opportunity to create their own environment within one of our apartment units while taking part in the opportunities provided by our larger Housing community.
Family Housing units are two-bedroom apartments.
All apartments are equipped with a full kitchen consisting of a microwave, stove, refrigerator, and plenty of cabinet space for storage. The living room in each apartment is fully furnished with couches, dining room table, and chairs. Each bedroom is furnished with a two twin extra-long beds, two dressers, and two desks. Each apartment has a storage room in the entry way and two-bedroom apartments have hook-ups for a washer and dryer if a resident chooses to provide those appliances on their own. The townhouse-style apartments also have storage underneath the stairs.
2014-2015 | Semester | Total/Semester | Total/ Academic |
Family Apartment - Two Bedroom Apartments | $6,800 | $6,800 | $13,600 |
Section 8 funding may be applied to UAS Housing costs.
Fall/Spring 2014-2015 Family Applicants
To see if you qualify as a family please click on our Family Eligibility Criteria
Interested in completing a housing agreement for academic year 2014-2015?
- 2014-2015 Family Student Housing Agreement
- Criminal History Form -all adults residing in household will need to complete
For more information on how to apply and student eligibility criteria please view our apply page.
How to apply for Housing.
Here are the three steps you need to do to apply for housing:
- Complete the Housing Application which includes:
- Student Housing Agreement
- Record of Immunizations
- Criminal History
- Pay the Housing Deposit ($300)
- Complete (or not) Optional forms:
- Vehicle Registration
- Bike Registration
- Housing Roommate Request
More Details:
To be accepted into and placed in Student Housing, each applicant must provide a $25 non-refundable application fee and the following documents.
Fall/Spring 2014-2015 Single Students Applicants
- 2014-2015 Single Student Housing Agreement/Application Packet
- Record of Immunizations Form
- Criminal History Form
- 2014-2015 Winter Break Agreement: Available Soon
Fall/Spring 2014-2015 Family Applicants
- 2014-2015 Family Student Housing Agreement
- Family Eligibility Criteria
- Criminal History Form - (all adults residing in household will need to complete)
Summer 2014 Single Student Applicants
Additional Housing Documents
- Vehicle Registration (optional)
- Bike Registration (optional)
- Housing Roommate Request Form (optional)
Cancellation Form:
These forms need to be filled out to cancel housing, whether you have or have not moved into UAS Student Housing.
2014 Winter Break Request
We recommend that you submit the Application, Profile, and Deposit as soon as possible, unless you are able to submit the entire documents needed at once. Placement for Fall Applicant will happen after July 1st. All completed applications received by the housing office at that time will be placed.
Once required documents are received and you file is complete you will be placed, space permitting.
- Rain gear - Rain coat & pants, rubber boots
- Snow gear - warm clothes, snow boots, gloves, hat
- Sheets, pillow, blankets, comforter
- Beds are twin "extra long"
- Fitted sheet 38" x 80", flat sheet 66" x 108"
- Hangers
- Alarm clock
- Towels and toiletries (shampoo, soap, toothpaste etc.)
- Dishes
- Banfield Students: microwave-safe dishes
- Apartment Students: kitchen supplies & cooking utensils.
- Personal computer or laptop
- Television
- Hair dryer
- Phone
- Iron/ironing board
- Bicycle with lock
- Radio
- Musical instruments
- Coffee maker
- Wall decorations
- Hunting rifle/bow (must register and check in at Housing Lodge desk)
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Testing software systems to verify they perform reliably and as expected is a very critical quality control activity. Unfortunately, this critical activity is being performed on almost every software project in a very ad hoc, informal manner by developers, testers, and users. Informal surveys conducted by the International Institute for Software Testing indicate that less than 1% of test professionals attending these seminars have used formal test design techniques to design their tests. Formal academic programs seldom provide even rudimentary coverage of software testing, let alone teaching it as a discipline. Testing activities in many software projects are rarely planned and test teams are unable to perform adequate testing. Software testers have been given very little training and guidance on how to perform effective testing.
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One of the most effective ways to establish a profession is establishing formal educational programs that cover all areas of study that can serve the profession. An essential first step to developing educational programs is to develop Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) that must be mastered by everyone who wishes to belong to the profession. Educating testers on curriculum that is based on a well-established BOK is the only way to establish testing as a discipline and to change the perception that testing is an ad hoc activity that requires minimal training. To fill this gap, the International Institute of Software Testing (IIST) has taken the lead since 1999 and has become the only provider of education-based certifications. IISTs Advisory Board, a group of industry experts and practitioners, provides direction to the effort of developing education-based certifications. The IIST Advisory Board strongly believes that the value of any certification program lies in its ability to meet individuals diverse needs and interests for both breadth and depth of content, enabling them to improve the way they perform their job more effectively on a day-to-day basis.
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To achieve this goal of education-based certifications, IIST now offers six education-based certifications. Each certification is based on a well-defined Body of Knowledge (BOK) approved by IISTs Advisory Board. To achieve these certifications, a candidate must attend a number of instructor-lead courses and pass an test for each course. Tests in Education-Based Certifications are not multiple choice or true/false type of tests. The Advisory Board agreed that such a model is vastly superior to certifications that are based on passing an exam and do not require a rigorous course of study.
Developing your Testing and QA Career Through Education-Based Certifications
The chart below depicts what the International Institute for Software Testing recommends as possible career path for individuals involved in software testing and quality management. Other paths are also possible based on individuals specific professional development goals.
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Sermon Five: More Than Rules
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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi
"If a man commits adultery with another man's wife – with the wife of his neighbor – both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death." Leviticus 20:10
John 8:6-9
katagrapho: "making a list,"
"If any of you is without sin, let him begin stoning her."
"When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour."
Revelation 8:1
"You are weighed in the balance and found wanting." Daniel 5
Jesus is the only one qualified to deliver judgment.
1) Rules Can Be Cumbersome
God's Word provides both guidance and commandments. And those commandments, those laws, they are here to protect us.
The problem is that they had somehow gotten the idea that following those rules made them a Christian.
2) The Rules Don't Inspire Grace
And the grace of Jesus, that same grace that saved a woman from being stoned, calls to those who have been hauling around a long list of rules and rituals and obligations – Jesus calls to those who tired of pretending to be more than they are. He calls to those who have had the guilt and fear of religions wear them down and he says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
When you come into a situation in which rules take precedence over love and grace, it's hard to fall in love.
Rules I understood prior to marrying Sue:
1. Be faithful to her. As long as we both live I am going to be hers alone.
2. To provide for her. I'm going to meet her needs.
3. To be committed to her. For better or for worse.
There are other rules I didn't know about that have since been established...
1. I am to keep my clothes picked up off the floor.
2. I am not to make fun of her or the breed of her puppy.
3. I am to say out loud what I am thinking.
"Who can be good, if not made so by loving? . . . Love God and do as you please." Augustine
Guilt and fear are poor motivators, but love motivates us inwardly, from the heart, to do our best.
"The letter [of the law] kills, but the Spirit gives life." 2 Corinthians 3:6
"Christ's love compels us." 2 Corinthians 5:14
People whose lives have been touched by grace understand that the Christian life is not a matter of following a moral code, nor is it a matter of believing a prescribed set of doctrines; the Christian life is a relationship with God. That relationship is marked by love and trust. We discover that we are respected and accepted by God and our hearts respond with love and dedication.
3) The Rules Don't Keep Us Around
When our kids grow up and they define Christianity as keeping a moral code instead of defining Christianity as being a follower of Jesus Christ, then they will walk away from both.
We cannot expect to recruit the world to a set of standards that we would never live by or follow if it wasn't for a love relationship with Jesus Christ.
"But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit". Titus 3:4-5
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Larry Port, Founder of Rocket Matter, shares many benefits and challenges he has encountered running a business targeting lawyers. Larry goes on to explain why he strongly prefers working on a business to business solution as opposed to a consumer facing product. It's a fun interview that challenges a lot of conventional wisdom.
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I'm Larry Port. I'm the CEO and Chief Software Architect of Rocket Matter, which is a Web-based product for lawyers to manage their offices. And I'm here today to talk about how I got Rocket Matter off the ground.
Cool. So how long has Rocket Matter been a thing?
So the initial idea happened in December of 2006 and, kind of, when you're a software developer, you know, you probably recognize having this thing where people just kind of mooch ideas and advice off of you. Like, "How does this work? How does that work?" So what was happening was is that I was kind of keeping my ear to the ground because I always thought that maybe one day I would start my own business, but at the same time I kind of was, like, thinking that I would never get up the courage to start my own business. So I kept hearing from attorneys more than anyone else. And that's one of the gifts, I think, of living in South Florida and not being in, kind of, like, a tech hub where there's all sorts of other ideas floating around. I mean, I was hearing from the actual professionals themselves, what their pain points were, and it kept on coming up with law offices (smaller law offices). So I looked around at what the current offerings were. This was 2006 (late 2006, December). And this was, you know, Salesforce was in full force (no pun intended) at that point. I was working for Ultimate Software, which was an HR payroll system that's here in Weston; you know, a behemoth organization. I had been doing -- in New York I had been working on Web-based trading systems for Morgan Stanley for, like, hedge funds and things like that. So, like, the world was online using Web-based applications to deal with very sensitive information and there was nothing in legal. So how could this be? I took a deeper look at the space; indeed, there really was nothing. No Web-based software as a service products for legal. And that was kind of the genesis of the idea. So I started coding in January and by August was able to demonstrate it to a local law firm that decided to start using it. And they started using it in November. So it was less than a year from, like, just Eureka moment to having a lawyer actually using it. And it was ten months of development to having somebody actually using it. And at first it wasn't on any servers or anything like that. We bought some sort of, like, HP machine before we got crazy Rackspace or any other kind of hosting. And there was no EC2 back (way back) in 2007. So we just hosted it on the local network, worked out the bugs that way, made it really easy to deploy fixes and things like that, and by February we were up and hosted at Rackspace. And so we had our production machines up and we were announced to the world, which is a whole 'nother story. But that's kind of how the genesis of the idea and the initial product got up and into place.
Cool. So the urgency with which you got your first customer implies you bootstrapped?
Yes. Right. Very good. So yeah. My business partner at the time, the two of us put in, like, I think $20,000 apiece. And so that got us going for a long time. We didn't take salaries. We quit our jobs in March or April of 2007 so we had a period, you know, where it was just, like, a total leap of faith. Now the thing is when you're an engineer I always felt that I could always get a job if I needed to. I mean, it's just, you know, if you're a good engineer you're going to find a job if you fall flat on your face. And I figured, you know, and maybe this was, like, justification and things I told my wife but, you know, the idea was, okay, so I'll try this, I'll architect a solution from scratch, and so I'll pick up those skills having said that I'd build a solution from scratch and maybe some business skills along the way and maybe I'll be even more marketable at the end of that time. And I had enough of a nest egg and stuff saved up to do it that I figured it was worth the risk.
Cool. So let's think about this target audience. Did you have any affinity or prior knowledge of lawyers other than you I guess talked to a few that said they had this need? So other than, like, a market-researchy kind of thing I guess the thing that I get hung up on is I think people think of them as being a hard target audience, right? Like, they've got a lot of rules that they've got to stick to. All the, well, you know compliance regulation. I don't even know that most people that say those words know what they mean by that and then everyone goes, like, "Yeah, I know. Lawyers, right? That looks hard."
Right. So, no, there's that. To be honest, like, the real thing we wanted was we wanted some sort of subscription and recurring revenue stream because when we were Ultimate Software which you can kind of look up their history (they're a publicly traded company), they kind of had something like their first profitable quarter in, like, 17 years when we were there and that was in 2006. I was there from 2004-2007. But they had, like, initially the Oracle style of install. So these huge, crazy, enterprise, mega-bucks, like, six-figure installations. And so the revenues were all over the charts and they couldn't really predict anything. And then they switched to the software as a service model where they were getting recurring fees. And so it was just, like, kind of a steady incline of income. So the thing was, okay, let's look around. What could we possibly apply this revenue model to? And so the first thing we were actually going to do was come up with some sort of, like, zombie software where it was, like, you know, some sort of zombie game. And, in retrospect, when you look at Zynga we may have been, like, total idiots. But what happened was is that we saw this thing for lawyers. And we saw the need just because our friends were anecdotally telling us about this need. And then we looked around and the software was so bad. The software is, like, Windows 1995 software. I've used some of it. When you export a file you're limited to eight characters. And then it became less a question of compliance in terms of, like, what problems they had in their law firms that they were trying to solve. And most of it was organizational. Most of it was, like, keeping on top of their cases, which they would call "matters," which is why we call the company Rocket Matter for, like, "rocket" like speed and "matter" to speak to their technology. So they needed to keep track of their matters and their cases, they need to keep track of their contacts, they need to keep track of their time (that was the big one). They were hemorrhaging their billable time. So, you know, if you've worked in any kind of, like, business-to-business context before (like, if you have to understand how options or equities work or HR rules work), what lawyers are trying to solve are really simple problems by comparison.
That's pretty cool. Now a couple of things come out of that. The first one is so when they're used to this hastily put together line of business type software are they intimidated when they come against something that looks very nice like your software? Because I have to say I was, like, "Wow, this is for lawyers? This isn't what I think of that kind of software looking like, right?"
You're right. We made a clean break from what they're used to using. So the answer is are they intimidated by, like, our new kind of sleek software? And the answer is no because we built it using existing Web idioms that they should be familiar with. So it's very much constructed like Wikipedia or Internet Movie Database where you have global search, you have dashboard screens, and you have contextual linking to dig deep into your information. So that's kind of how it's architected.
That's cool. I think too many people are quick to jump to the idea that if they're not targeting, you know, fellow developers then they really need to dumb-down the metaphors, right? Like, "I don't know that they're going to understand how to search," which is, I think, it's terrible. It's very dismissive but also kind of common knowledge if you talk to people, right? You know, it's kind of like a common wisdom that people agree to.
Yeah. I think that there's a huge opportunity there too because what we were coming up against in the space is -- especially if you're students of, like, you know, what's happening with, like, modern Web development and user interaction. You read, like, something like "Getting Real" by the 37signals guys and, you know, this whole less is more philosophy. We would case these trade show floors. That was another thing we did in terms of cheap market research. We would find, like, a trade show that would, like, cater to lawyers where there'd be other software vendors and we'd walk the floor and we'd talk to the salespeople. And they'd show off their products and they would brag that 80% of the users were only using 20% of the features as if that was a good thing.
So I think the opportunity exists for almost every business vertical to go in there and just knock it out of the park because the software that's in there is really bad and the people that are there (the entrenched competition) are not going to be able to turn around and do what you can do because they're going to have to try and have feature parity and they're going to want to take their product and port it using the same kind of database/data models and there's going to be internal strife because they're going to be these sized organizations where there's going to be a lot of old school people and the new voices are just going to be beaten down. So today's the day to go start a business-to-business software product because you can make one on the Web that's just going to beat the pants off of anything that's like an old school client/server installation.
Yeah. One of the things I thought was kind of an interesting focus on your main list of features is, you know, this GTD which, again, is another one of those things where I was like, "Wait a minute, isn't that just a programmer cult? Like, is that a selling feature that, like, a lot of lawyers are looking for? Do they know David Allen?"
Well, that's the thing, right, is that there's a subset of lawyers that are just really into this kind of stuff. And I think those are going to be your first adopters. So we do a lot of things where we go after the real early adopters. If you think about the, kind of, like, technology-life cycle adoption curve and you think you have the, like, crazy people like you or me that are, like, creating things and then you have the early adopters who are like the business people. Kind of the crazy ones who are like, "Wow, this might work and this might save me oodles." So they're real into, you know, what things are out there that could make huge savings. And then you have the majorities, right? But these early adopters are kind of critical to get you, like, up and running. And so what you do is you insert some things in there that, like, resonate with them and GDT is one of those things. So, by way of an example, I went to lunch with an attorney in Chicago last week. And this guy told me that he was reading books on, like, lean manufacturing processes and trying to apply those to legal. Now, you know, what's interesting about that is that in software we've done that. So we've taken what the automotive industry has done and adapted it and we have agile and we have lean and we have all sorts of crazy nonsense, right?
So we've tried to take some of those ideas. Hey, if it can go from automotive to software, why can't it go from software to legal? So what we do is we put things in there that will resonate with this early adopter crowd and hopefully get adopted by everybody else too.
That seems like that would be really jarring at first. Like, "Why are you reading about Toyota so much, as a lawyer, right?"
Right, right. No, it's interesting. So I had lunch with this attorney because we were at this big convention (a national convention) called ABA Tech Show and he was a speaker there and he did a thing on mind maps. And so I'm like, wow, that's amazing that, you know, you would think, like, people that are in the mind mapping field are, like, the creatives and, you know, people in software design. But it turns out, like, there's a small subset of attorneys that are into it because it allows them to see everything that's going on in a case at a glance. So that's what kind of peaked my interest and I went out and talked to him and he started talking about all these different things that, like, like you say, like, Toyota has introduced or other things. And what it's done is it's allowed us to really kind of have a whole conversation around having a more efficient law firm. So, you know, I come into this space and I'm a software engineer and I don't necessarily really know how to market it. But, God bless, we live in a time and the age where there's blogs. So blogs are big. And, you know, we've developed, like, kind of a whole thing around giving content out. And that content are all these new, crazy ideas that we've observed in the software industry that work and applying them to professional services; namely legal.
That's really cool because sometimes, you know, a good idea doesn't have to be restricted to the scope that it kind of first gets traction in, right? Like, just because the nerds want to think about workflows, right, and they understand that you need to set something in place. Whereas I think a lot of other people kind of don't accept that because they don't want to think about the problem solving nature of a certain thing, right? But then once you kind of have a nice rule of thumb laid out, like a nice easy enough pattern [13:07] or whatever and you say, "No, no, no, no. I'm telling you; just have faith in the system. It'll work." You don't have to understand the system, right?
Right, you don't. But the thing is, certain ones are the ones that, like, I pride myself that we've developed as software engineers (maybe it's just because we're, like, algorithm-focused), like, work amazingly well for this vertical. Like, a typical example is the Pomodoro Technique, which is this thing that this Italian software developer invented. It's called Pomodoro because he's Italian and that means tomato in Italian, I guess. I guess everybody knows that but just throwing it out there. But in any case, he had a little tomato timer in his kitchen and he wound it up for 25 minutes and he would work on one thing and only one thing for 25 minutes. So no Twitter, no Facebook, no e-mail, can't get up and get a cup of coffee or I guess espresso in his case, or go to the bathroom or anything like that. You just work on one thing and only one thing for 25 minutes. Then at the end of the 25 minutes you get up, you take a 5 minute break, you get a cup of water, you go to the bathroom, get your cup of coffee. Also, nobody can interrupt you in those 25 minutes so you go out and you say, "Hey, what were you talking to me about?" Now that's kind of, like, so simple but so amazing in our day and age of constant distraction to work for 25 minutes on only one thing. And for the legal profession they're constantly getting hammered by their clients or judges. You should spend some time in a small law office. It's like a World War I trench. Like, bullets whizzing overhead and all that kind of stuff. So the idea that they can, like, get the chunk of time in on average, maybe be unresponsive for 12.5 minutes and still get all their work done is like a huge mind shift. And that's been, like, such a popular thing that we've been talking about that we actually had little tomato timers with our logo printed up on them and sent them out to law firms.
It's cool that that works really well for you because I think more often I hear stories about people attempting to bring reason into another industry and just being frustrated like, "They just can't." Most famously you hear Merlin Mann talk about, like, trying to go to different big companies and try and explain some of his Inbox Zero type ideas. And it works really well at Google but then when you try to give the same talk at, I think it was Pixar, right -- do you know this anecdote?
No, I don't know this one.
So he goes, I'm pretty sure it was Pixar that he was trying to pitch this idea of separating yourself from distractions. And someone said, "Well, that's great for you, I guess, but I've got 35 top priority items." And, you know, his response to that was, "That's absurd. You can't possibly," right, because if everything's high priority, nothing is. And I think that's a thing that, kind of, we get but largely in the business world it seems like it's a concept that people like to brag about how many plates they've got spinning at the same time. But it's poison, right? It's toxic to try and do that. Like, you can't really multitask that way indefinitely, right? So, like, the idea of just kind of breaking things down, actually focusing on what you need to do now, and then do everything else kind of in due time, right?
Yeah. I think that's tricky and I think one of the reasons we've been able to do it is because we don't serve as large organizations that have a built-in corporate culture that, you know, the legal profession, by far, is I think 88% of it or something is, like, 25 total employees or less. When you have that you have organizational freedom and they can work however they want. But it just turns out that this whole movement that we've seen in the past couple of years away from multitasking, towards single-tasking, really resonates with people. I do a talk -- as part of our marketing I write a lot of articles and I do a lot of public speaking. They have continuing legal education; that's been part of our things. But I do this one thing that addresses some of these issues, which is about work life balance. And I talk a lot about what, like, Nicholas Carr talks about in The Shallows and, like, over-Internet exposure and how it screws up our brains and the importance of single-tasking. And when I'm done with this particular talk, people come up to me as if I was, like, a rabbi or a priest (on a street corner at three o'clock in the morning). No, but you know -- some sort of, like, spiritual person and they, like, confess to me and all this crazy stuff. And it's just nuts. I mean, it's out there, it's a real thing, it's hurting people. And when you are marketing to small businesses that aren't restricted by a specific kind of organizational culture where Steve Jobs might come down the hall and scream at you, I think it works.
I think there's a really good lesson in there because I know I'm guilty of this (I think most people are), that the idea that I'm quick to kind of almost, like, paraphrase and lump how I characterize a whole group of people. And I think that the image a lot of times of, like, lawyers, for instance, in this case, are they're kind of stodgy. So the idea of being able to introduce interesting methodologies to their lifestyle -- I would assume that they're not into that. But for you to come and describe it the way that you've seen it actually from dealing with them, it's like, well, I mean, in a lot of ways they're kind of like a startup. They're these really small teams, they have to wear a lot of hats, and ultimately they don't want to do half the administrative tasks that they're forced to do. It's like, "Wait, I think I can relate to this group of people a lot more than I would have otherwise imagined I could."
That's a very good way to put it. And keep in mind that I don't need all of them. I mean, there's 1.1 million lawyers in the country and I don't need all of them to really want to jump on the bandwagon. But I guarantee you, in any profession that's out there you're going to find the people that are reading Seth Godin and reading Malcolm Gladwell and that are, like, real hip to interesting ideas. And those people are going to be the people that you bond with and they're going to be the people where you get your toehold. So when you start your business you start a conversation with those people because not only are those people going to be receptive, they're going to spread the idea. So, you know, it doesn't have to be the case that all of the people are going to adopt these things. What you need is that some of the people, a highly influential subset of those people, will adopt those ideas and that's kind of how the whole thing snowballs.
That is a really good and kind of subtle point to bring out about, like, trying to vet whether or not you have a big enough target audience, right? Like, you still have to be able to think about aiming small to miss small and still having enough people, but not getting overwhelmed with this idea of, like, "We need all of the lawyers," right? No, you don't. You need enough of them and kind of figure out your business model, which is another thing that I think is really interesting about this target audience because you could keep how many customers you need down because you're enabled to actually charge them a decent amount of money, right? I think the monthly plans are, like, around 60 bucks. And you could see a lot of people trying to sell to a lot of audiences and saying, "I can't sell anything for 60 bucks a month," right? But you found an audience that you can.
Well, I think that's the beauty of professional services. And I think based on what we give them compared to what we give them that $60 is cheap. The way that we priced our software was we did a competitive analysis and the only thing we could really look at was, like, client-server installations. So we talked to some consultants, we got the pricing on those different products, how much they pay up front for them, and we just did this whole total cost of ownership analysis where we figured out how much it would cost to service those things over five years, how much it would cost to install them and, you know, these people are going to have to buy, like, SQL Server licenses and have people come in. And you know what that's like; it just breaks all the time and stuff. So we backed into a calculation of roughly, like, $50 a month. So that's what it was initially. And then when we started discovering that there were more one-user accounts than, like, three-user accounts then the first user became more expensive. It became $60 a month. So that's where our pricing came out on and we were able to write a pretty compelling argument that that was appropriately priced. Compared to, like, a Salesforce or something like that it's kind of cheap. You know, like a full-on Salesforce product. And we're not the cheapest ones out there. There are people that undercut us, but we don't want to be there. We don't want to be playing that way. I think if you're in a business-to-business business -- but if you're in a -- let's say...
That's too much business.
That's too much business. If you're in a B2B business then you have the luxury of charging more because there's a precedent and an expectation that is there already. And if you price it too low then you're also not going to be able to leverage the channels of distribution that exist. Like, there's a whole network of people that, you know, install networks and install software for given verticals. Like, you know, they might do legal only; they might do a bunch of different professional service type things. But if it's not pricey enough then it's not going to be of interest to them to distribute it because they're not going to get enough of a commission. So you have to think about a lot of different things when you're selling business-to-business but you're going to be able to sell more stuff and you're going to be able to sell higher prices.
That is a huge lesson. All too often I'm talking to people and, you know, they say something like they've been working, you know, six months or more on, you know, like, an app. Like, maybe it's a game, maybe it's whatever. And they're like, "Yeah. Man, I'm going to have to sell a whole lot of 99 cents to recoup this cost." And it's like, "Why don't you sell it for more, like, if that's what it takes you to break even?" Like, "No one would pay it." It's like, "Well, that would have been a good thing to figure out six months ago."
I would think so. I'll tell you one thing, not that I would ever do this. I went to a Business of Software Conference, which is a conference they have once a year. Joel Spolsky runs it. The guy from Redgate Software (if that's what it's still called), Neil Davidson, he runs it too. And I sat in on this panel and we talked about pricing and we were all talking about this. And there were people that said that they'd tripled their prices. Now this is not consumer. This is not B2C, this is B2B. They tripled their prices and it didn't make a single bit of difference about who signed up and who did not. Because when you change your pricing expectations for B2B it changes a lot. It changes the perception of your product. Like, so if you have a more expensive product it's considered premier. You know, there's a lot that goes into it. And so the B2C market is something I know nothing about so I have no idea how to price for that. My first chops were at Morgan Stanley so I was coding stuff for hedge funds. My second thing was, like, you know, B2B HR software and now I'm doing this so I really don't know that market. But I will say that in B2B stuff that you have a greater ability to vary your pricing.
That's a good thing to bring up too because I think conventional wisdom is, well, it's always easier to lower a price than to raise it, right? People say that but I'm not really convinced that it's true. I've heard too many stories like what you mentioned there or even, like, with freelancers just saying, you know, January came around and they doubled their wage. And they had repeat business and they talked to them about that. And, you know, some people will notice and they'll ask you why and then you say, "Well, I cost more now. Like, you know, I've got this, I've got to prioritize this, and I'm doing," you know, whatever's different about the company. You can always explain why it's true and, generally, people are like, "Yeah. No, that makes sense. Most things cost more," right? Like, when my lease ends at my apartment the price is likely to go up, right? Like, that's just how the world works but people are really intimidated by that at large.
Well, because the problem is it's really hard to A/B test that, right? Like, you can't raise prices on one set of customers and see how they react and then decide to raise it on the other. So, you know, it kind of goes against our whole, like, data-driven nature as, like, software people. But, you know, it's an interesting thing, right? And I think people are too quick to lower their prices. The other part of that is that if you think about it as a consumer, if you're a business consumer and, like, business budgets are different than personal budgets, you know. Like, businesses will spend $1000/$2000 without even thinking about it. You know, whereas you and me, we're going to think about it. So, you know, they have a different way of thinking about how they spend their money so I think that needs to be taken into consideration too. And if you're going to raise their prices -- like, if you have a volume SAAS business and you raise your price by $10, you could be making, like, you know, $100,000 more a month, you know, depending on how many clients you have. So any kind of tick up on a software as a service recurring revenue business you could potentially generate a ton of cash.
Yeah. I can't remember what the number is but, like, there's that great anecdote with you had mentioned 37signals before. I forget how much -- they had raised their price and they'd lost some users and they ended up, like, they still doubled their revenue, right? And then they said, "Well, now there's less support calls. So we're even more than breaking even", right?
That's true. And the thing is with the customers that aren't willing to pay that much, you know, you've got to question whether or not they're the kind of customers that you really want to have. Because we want customers that appreciate, like, value and really get what we're trying to do. We don't want people on board who are just trying to find the cheapest solution. That's not what we're about. We're a premier product and we want people to appreciate it.
Yeah. That's an excellent point to bring up to everybody too, right, because I think that's not necessarily intuitive for a lot of people.
Yeah. And I think it's a big gamble and people are afraid of it and you can always play around with it. One of the things that's very interesting in the field, something that we have not done, is have different pricing tiers. That's kind of interesting. So, you know, most normal SAAS companies, other than mine, have different tiers. So they'll have, you know, for $19.99 you get x, for $39.99 you get y, and for 59.99 you get z. And so they have all these very clever ways inside of those different tiers of getting people to migrate their way up, you know, whether it's capacity or whether it's features or whatever it is. And so, you know, I think that's a way around it if people are kind of afraid to take the plunge or think that their pricing might be wrong is that you introduce a higher tier. And so you have different price tiers, right? And this is something that fits into the paradigm of kind of what you were alluding to before of the expectations of the consumer and at the same time gives you a chance to maybe intelligently get them more and more into your feature, you know, more and more gummed up and get them on a click-to-upsell to a higher price point. I think that's another way to go about it.
You know what always hits me a little bit wrong whenever people talk about business models like that where, you know, you've got to be the pro tier account before you can get all of the good features is I don't think that it usually costs you any less to develop or maintain those features that none of your users are using, right? Like, it almost seems like you could amortize that cost out and probably be better off because all of the users have all of the features and, you know, they're all paying the same amount; they can all be just as frothy about how awesome your product is. Because it's really dangerous if you can take whatever your magic, you know, the secret sauce (whatever you want to call it). Like, that feature that's your killer feature and it's like, "Well, that's only pro tier guys get to use that feature." Well then everybody else that has never experienced that doesn't even understand why you're that great.
So that's the flipside to the coin, right?
So, you know, I think that's a good thing. I don't think you want to retroactively do it. That's a good point. I think that you might want to think about it when you have, like, another feature coming down the road that a lot of people would pay money for. I don't think it would be a wise move to split your existing product apart and do that. But if you think about it there, just kind of like the example that you said before where there's going to be less support calls, there are going to be some features in your product that are going to require more support calls than others. Perfect example: Google Calendar integration, right? We have Google Calendar integration in our application and that just takes a while for people to configure, for whatever reason. For, like, you or me or software people that's, you know, not going to be too hard. But, you know, synchronization can raise its ugly head every once in a while and there could be conflicts or whatever. So features like that, you know, you may want to put in a more expensive, like, price bucket just because it has more of an impact on your organization.
That makes a lot of sense to me in a way that I don't think that's oftentimes how people choose which things go into the more expensive bucket, right? It's more like this idea of you're trying to dangle that thing that you expect them to want the most, but yeah. Take the expensive features and make them part of the expensive plan. Again, it seems extremely obvious for you to say it, but I don't think that's how a lot of businesses structure themselves.
Well, I think you have to pretty much create a matrix, right? So you have core functionality and you have the killer feature that everybody wants and will pay money for and then you have stuff that's, like, kind of hard to do. So I think what you want to do is you want to take stuff that's hard to do and stuff that people pay money for and put that in your higher tier. And, ideally, it's new; you're not cannibalizing your existing product.
Larry, I feel like we could do this for twice as long but I don't want to hold you up. This has been our thirty minutes. I'm going to have to have you back.
Ryan, thank you so much. I appreciate that.


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The winner of both the men's and women's competitions at the World Cup Final achieve qualification places for 2012.
Three weeks later the top eight finishers per gender at the European Championships at Medway in Kent also achieve 2012 quota places.
Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB's Performance Director, said: "We've been training at between 1800 to 2100m altitude. It's not bone-breaking, but the effects of training for two weeks at this altitude are significant.
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The fencing and swimming elements of the World Cup Final take place at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, a non-2012 venue.
The athletes then move to Greenwich Park for the riding and the run/shoot. Greenwich Park will host the same disciplines at London 2012.
The GB team is based at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath.
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- World Cup Final – London, 9-10 July – winner achieves an Olympic quota place
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