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Pieter,

In your blog you mention your young children and the resources that they'll have to see you, such as Youtube recordings. You have been very organized in transitioning the ZeroMQ project over to the community over the last several weeks. As with the community, are you preparing archives, books, or other materials (digital or analog) for your children? If so, what are you archiving and in what formats?

Thanks again for all your hard work and contributions over the years.

Thank you Paul, for doing another AMA! As someone with a hard-to-fit size, I've become a huge fan of Allen Edmonds since discovering them in 2011! Your service is also awesome (your excellent staff even helped me acquire and re-import the last in-stock Walnut Shell Daltons from the Serravalle store!)

Two questions:

1) In an interview at the launch of the Dalton, you noted that the City Center (Minneapolis) is used as a test-bed for new styles. Is this still true? I contacted the store and they seemed to confirm, but the answers were vague -- mostly, I was told about new styles coming in the fall line-up. Is it true the City Center store carries "beta" / "testing" styles? Does this include the not-released Parsons student lines? Besides physically going there, what might be the best way of learning about these small-run, City-Center-only styles?

2) Because I love Allen Edmonds and because I have a hard-to-fit size, I'm interested in any plans you might have to expand beyond dress shoes? I know there is the Voyager, but it's not the most stylish of options and I'm really wondering if you might introduce new "walking shoes" or sneakers to your range?