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CONNECT, CAPTIVATE & CONVERT. We're about engaging with your audience and turning them into customers. Then we turn customers into fans.
Once upon a time, digital marketing was our sole specialty. We grew up the ugly stepchild, when offline reigned supreme. We're e-business specialists, having collectively sold almost $1B in goods and services. Dirigo is well-known for strategic planning, designing and developing engaging websites, direct response e-commerce, and e-mail marketing. We also manage paid advertising, social media, web best practices (eg SEO), and online reputations. As luck would have it, traditional media is losing the battle to digital (though there is a role for both media types) and digital rules the roost.
In 2009 we pivoted into traditional marketing and media: branding and positioning; more strategy and planning; television, print, and radio pre- through post-production; and media buying. Traditional marketing (lead) agencies don't have the skills yet to integrate creative, media, and technology to meet the demands of the 24/7/365 consumer. They'll likely never acquire the skills because they're not prepared to make the investment required to be truly digitial. Digital marketing is considerably more difficult because of always changing technological needs, staffing shortages, and rapid change. Our pivot into traditional was possible because we already employed veterans of the offline marketing world. Coordination between agencies is no longer enough. All of your marketing efforts should be integrated into one single, agile, engaging strategy. We're the advertising agency of today and tomorrow and we'd like to be given an opportunity to earn your business. If you don't care for advertising agencies, hire Dirigo. We're a different sort of agency.
Dirigo is a professionally, culturally, and academically diverse group which enables us to see the big picture, challenge one another, and serve our clients well. Our modus operandi is an important part of our success. At the end of the day, what you'll remember about Dirigo is the special blend of aptitude, rigor, and instinct that we bring to the success of your project.
Educated, Experienced, Knowledgeable and Creative
We are fresh thinkers. Conceptual thinkers. Out of the box thinkers. We are leaders in our industry because we never forget to be students of it. We are a consulting-centered boutique agency engineered to transform marketing in the connected world. Give us a call, and let's talk about how we can put Dirigo to work for you, 207.358.2990.
The Dirigo team is comprised of marketing veterans with proven successes in building award-winning designs, print, and digital creative solutions and branding, e-commerce, m-commerce, advanced and intuitive search, consumer engagement, social and rich media, user interface/information architecture, consumer psychology/personas, marketing strategy, and digital best practices. We present Dirigo's foremost players—the finest team in New England with more than century of collective marketing and technology experience.
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David's entrepreneurial endeavors began at an early age in grade school. He teamed up with a classmate, now a successful writer and comic book creator, and produced calendar sketches mimicking the political actions of soon-to-be President Jimmy Carter. It was 1976 when business hours started at the first bell of the lunch period. The two partners set up shop in the courtyard and students quickly offered their milk money for the hot new product. Word spread through the school and soon grabbed the attention of the school principal, who thought the two entrepreneurs were stealing their classmates' lunch money.
David scores a high 3 on the Enneagram Test: he has issues with workaholism and competitiveness. Threes typically become so alienated from themselves that they no longer know what they truly want, or what their real feelings or interests are. Threes have come to believe that emotions get in the way of their performance, so they substitute thinking and practical action for feelings. David says "I'm a bit messed up — but okay with it because I love what I do". If you love what you do it's not work.
That adrenal rush from his first taste of entrepreneurship and success had a profound impact on David. It was that drive and success—then and now—that David seeks to achieve in every project with his team at Dirigo. He has a polyphasic personality and oftentimes would rather mobilize for a deadline or to win the day than be concerned with rest or sustenance. He is outlandishly modern in the context of esoteric teachings.
His fondness of Jane Austen novels (Emma and Mansfield Park) seems to conflict with his all-time favorite read, Frank Hurbert's Dune trilogy. If he were a food, he'd be roti canai—a type of flatbread he grew to love when spending time in Malaysia. As a Star Wars character, he'd choose to be Kyle Katran. Who? Kyle joined the Jedi Order under Luke Skywalker, eventually becoming one of its strongest Jedi and a member of the Jedi Council. His favorite color is #008080, one of the initial group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987. FYI, the redesigned version of the United States $100 note features teal as its primary background color.
In the early 1990s David had completed his studies and went to work in Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of an economic redevelopment team in Suffolk, a small Protestant community within the predominantly Catholic West Belfast. Upon return stateside, the California job market was stalled due to the 1990-1991 recession. As fate would have it, instinct kicked in and David founded a computer export firm with his college professor and help from a former Taiwanese MBA alumni. His travels to the Soviet Bloc flourished into a computer hardware business, which grew into a chain of value-added retail stores in central California.
In 1993 David acquired a small print company and voilà, an in-house marketing agency for media buying, advertising, and collateral production began. His firm was well-known for broadcasting live on the radio in five different markets from Taipei Taiwan and other parts of the Far East while on buying trips and trade shows. The business was more about merchandising and advertising than technology. In the mid-90s his firm was outselling IBM and Dell in central California. DKA had a strong following in the auto industry. With a revenue per square foot metric of approximately $4,100, David was closely watched by Silicon Valley firms like SuperMicro and Asus plus funders FINOVA Capital Corporation and GE Capital. For perspective (2011), Best Buy runs at $900 per square foot, Tiffany & Co takes $3,000, and Apple is untouched at $6,000.
In the pre-Internet days David built a bulletin board system with 300 baud modems to distribute software drivers. His first website went online in late January 1996. Yes, you could call this the social networking dinosaur age, but remember that without CompuServe, Prodigy and that upstart AOL, there would be no Facebook, no Twitter, not even Google. By 1997 he had more than 200,000 products on-line powered by a feed from Ingram Micro. Though he was fully involved in selling his wares online, he was preoccupied with brick and mortar. As the clone-PC revolution started to wind down at the end of the 90s, David's eight year run in the hardware business transitioned. He turned his firm over to his partners and said goodbye to the 60+ employees and began his pivot into the interactive world.
The Dirigo staff like to say that he "got the entrepreneurial itch, jumped the Cali ship, and moved to Maine" to begin a new life with MBA colleague, Victoria Kuhn. After spending a few months with CP Web Media, David joined a start-up interactive firm in Portland, where he honed his HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL ASP/VP Script, and Adobe Photoshop skills and learned the agency business.
In the summer of 2003 David transitioned his clients to Dirigo Design & Development, Inc. His focus was and still is direct response marketing, diving deep with just a few clients. Automotive and health were his largest verticals. All the experiences of going deep give Dirigo a unique perspective in the marketplace. "We're so much more than a web development, web design, and custom programming shop," says David. "We really do grow web businesses and the infrastructure that is needed—from shipping and regulatory issues to incorporation and introducing financial partners/angels and creating business agreements." A number of the Dirigo Class of 2003 clients has blossomed into mega successful pure-play Internet businesses. In late 2010 Dirigo began the pivot from being a purely interactive shop to boutique ad agency. That pivot is still happily underway. "The web developer title never really fit," says David. "It was too small a box." In 2012 Dirigo partnered with CBC Advertising and dove deep into the automotive vertical.
David built Dirigo as a Microsoft .NET shop. Why? Because .NET is a mid-market programming platform that supports Web development as well as C/C++, Visual C++, VB.NET, C#, F#, M, Python, and Ruby. The language allows the sort of deep integration and interoperability required to run a mid-sized business. PHP, the other predominate Web language that Dirigo supports, is a general-purpose scripting language. We even support UniVerse (a Pick RocketU2 database).
David's earliest e-commerce work included Talk America/Vital Basics/Factor Nutrition, Puristat, Comina, Always Young, and Planet Dog. Corporate work included Sun Microsystems, Allaire (now Dreamweaver, owned by Adobe), L.L.Bean, MEMIC, ExxonMobil, The First, Bangor Savings, GMAC, Duncan Donuts, Business Objects (now SAP), and scores more. One of his greatest success continues to be Women to Women, a startup that he helped build into national brand. David is a partner/owner in Concordia Partners LLC — the sales and marketing outfit behind www.womentowomen.com. The site is constantly ranked among the Top 50 "Health & Medical > Information" sites in the world by Experian Hitwise. More striking, womentowomen.com is the only site in the Top 50 supported solely by product sales.
In the world of creative and web design and development there is a hefty gap between the cheapest and the most expensive provider, with many in between. David pushes Dirigo to be in the middle. The difference is thought, research, strategy, time, expertise and success, and quality. He insists that the Dirigo staff take time to explain the mysteries of creative and web design and development, the intricacies of running an Internet business—what it takes to succeed on-line—SEO, PPC, SEM… so that our clients understand how they're spending their hard earned dollars. His mission, always, is to provide our clients measurable S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely) ROI (return on investment).
David holds an MBA from the Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno, and a BS in finance. He served 8 years on the senior management team of Concordia Partners LLC, owns DermaHarmony.com, invests in tech start-ups, and is a co-founder of 207 Brand LLC, MerchantApplause and Donorfull LLC. David lives with Victoria Kuhn and their twins in Falmouth, Maine. There's lots more too. Ask the Dirigo staff about silverware, bitcoin mining and bar soap. They'll give you an ear full — Dirigo is an interesting place. He can be found online at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, Mashable, Marketing Sherpa, Ad Week, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, and Webmaster World.
Connect With Dirigo Design & Development and Connect With Your Goals
Achieving success in your business isn't just about your organization's products and services. And it's much more than your organization's brand and its leadership team. Dirigo is an experienced integrative marketing organization that achieves goals. If your organization wants to generate more, call David Addison at 207-358-2980. We're here to help you connect with your customers and grow your organization.
Jonathan Paul Berry (JP) is an accomplished software developer with eight years of commercial experience. This guy lives and breathes tech. Like many Millennials, what he does for work is not a profession: it's pure lifestyle. He follows his passion. At age 10 he invented an underwater adventure device called Scuba Tech. Since then he's created a laser controlled Multi Touch Computer Table, an advanced Electric Skateboard with bluetooth controls, and a very cool, Head's Up Display similar to the Google's Project Glass.
JP engineered his first website in 2000 during the dot-com era. Since then he's rapidly ascended to become a superb interactive developer. We asked him recently what special attribute makes him good at what he does. Jokingly, he replied "one ear lobe is connected and the other is not," some sort of genetic anomaly. Whatever gives him coding mo-jo, we like it.
He was born in Covington, Louisiana and relocated during his college years to Long Beach, California where he attended Devry University, a Computer Information Systems and Computer Engineering major. In 2005 he moved to Denver, Colorado where he landed a seat on the web development team at Markit on Demand. You've likely never heard of Markit, but, you've likely used one of their websites in the last week.
Technical skills include:
He's never been a Dreamweaver type. His favorite editors include Visual Studio, Emacs, and Sublime Text Editor. His preferred platforms are CodeFirst, Zurb Foundation, and jQuery.
So he's a great coder and creative: what else? JP is consistently engaged and brings intelligence, insight, dedication, and a whitty sense of humor to the task at hand. He offers key insight and a clear road map of how to get there. He's great at sharing his knowledge and at explaining the obscure world of web engineering to almost anyone. From the moment you meet JP you'll feel this great energy about him. An innovator who can take a smoking heap of trash and turn it into a shiny new widget. He's a motivated self-starter, a digital-age MacGyver! We're happy to have JP on Team Dirigo.
Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Well
If you need a developer who will work to meet your needs rather than just fit you in to what they usually do, perhaps it's time to find out what's been missing in your online efforts. Contact us to start the conversation about your online needs or project.
Justin joined Dirigo in June 2013 as a transplant from the West Coast where he worked as a programmer on an events management SaaS platform (ArtsPeople, also known as Ticket Turtle — a ~30 employee outfit similar to Ticket Master). With so much work in e-commerce, Justin has become a guru of e-commerce pricing engines. He is proficient in PHP/ Python/DoctrinePHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, CSS3, HTML5 and responsive web design (Zend and Bootstrap). He is also proficient with Wordpress, ModX and Expression Engine.
Justin is a lead developer on our ski resort platform (Schweitzer Mountain Resort is a nice example) and is co-pilot for DirigoEdge — our lightweight open-source responsive ASP.NET CMS platform. He's exclusive to our highest-end most difficult work.
Why does the world need another CMS? Because we found other platforms unable to push the limits of responsive design the way Dirigo does. We needed new technology/UX for a new era of development. We believe that the future of web development is tied to more sophisticated content management systems — systems that will inevitably make low-end web developers obsolete. We want to help shape the technology that is going to interrupt our industry. Sophisticated vertical SaaS web solutions are the future. With thousands of downloads of DirigoEdge already, we're on our way.
Justin is a Massachuttes native who straddles Generation X and Y. He is well educated, mature, active, balanced, happy and family-oriented. He owns a home in South Portland and became a father with the arrival of Ava Colangelo in August 2013.
He began his career with part-time work for his newly renovated high school where he deployed network cable. After graduating he took-up with Lucent Technologies assembling and deploying UNIX-based workstations (Sun Sparc and Ultra's). After graduating with an Associate's Degree in Art, Justin went on to pursue a BS in Computer Science with Portland State University. During college Justin maintained an online storefront and worked for Bose as on an elete technical team. For a brief period Justin worked for ContentNext in NYC, a division of UK publisher Guardian newspapers, as a developer on a set of very large news websites.
Justin built his career in the open source L.A.M.P. and then moved to ASP.NET. The move was easy because he was well versed in object oriented code and had been in the deep end of the pond for a long while. He's a wiz with WordPress, ModX and Expression Engine. Justin programs fluently in ASP.NET C#, Visual Basic, Phyton, PHP, C/C++, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Oracle Siebel CRM, etc. He's as comfortable programming on a Mac as a PC. He can administer Windows, Sun and Linux servers.
To the right side of Justin's workstation is a chess board and a decanter of fine southern whiskey. The techs are constantly tangled in chess games. Sitting on top of his monitors is a remote control helicopter launch pad for office reconnaissance. A PlayStation Kinect camera follows your every move in his work area — it plays various human interaction games. Sprinkled at the back of his work surface is a box of Arduino boards, parts and pieces for tinkering. You get the picture. Pure tech! Justin is also a musician and sound recording guru.
Justin is the Swiss Army Knife of programmers. That's how we like them. Few web developers (say, five out of a hundred) have the zeal that this guy has.
Delivering Advanced Web Applications is what I Do!
I've helped a lot of organizations develop solutions that excel in high-complexity environments to achieve challenging business objectives. Take a look around the Dirigo site and ring me if you think I can help.
Ryan Smith joined Dirigo in the summer of 2013. He was previously the webmaster for Search Engine Land and the SMX conference folks (Danny Sullivan's outfit) and a developer & SEO analyst for Vanessa Fox at Nine by Blue prior to their acquisition by the Rimm Kauffman Group. If you know anything about SEO you'll recognize that this is the big leagues.
Prior to teaming-up with Bruce Clay, David worked with Ryan extensively back in the 2003-2004 period on the Dunkin Donuts national account. As an SEO resource, you cannot do better anywhere on planet earth. As a webmaster, he's terrific.
Ryan is a longtime tech who has spent the last 10 years in the deep end of the SEO pond. He's fluent with PHP, ASP.NET (C# & VBScript) Python, Ruby, ColdFusion, Perl, JavaScript/jQuery and SQL. He has great technical knowledge with a penchant for abstract thought and a thirst for new challenges.
Ryan Smith has been a technical SEO consultant and custom SEO tool developer for over a decade, and an expert web developer and web server administrator for almost twenty years.
For clients ranging from mom & pops to the Fortune 100, as well as for many well-known boutique SEO firms, Ryan advises on, produces and executes comprehensive search marketing strategies, performs highly-detailed technical and forensic SEO audits, architects search-optimized and responsive web applications, and consults on issues such as web analytics, usability and conversion optimization, IA migration, IP delivery, web server configuration, hosting migration, bot throttling and filtering, content-scraper detection and all sorts of other highly technical stuff.
He lives with his two small children (two and four) and wife in Scarborough Maine.
Ryan will be presenting next at the PubCon conference in Las Vegas in October 2013. A full review will be posted when we get some time to write it.
We're so lucky to have an SEO resource of this caliber. Not to burst Ryan's bubble, but, Jamie, David and Victoria are all well skilled in the art of SEO. Ryan brings to the table ~20,000 hours of SEO output. He's our undisputed heavyweight.
Great things happen when two agencies join together. Meet CBC-Dirigo.
Frank Drigotas has been with CBC Advertising (previously Creative Broadcast Concepts) for nearly three decades. CBC is an automotive advertising agency that works with some of the most successful retail auto dealers in North America and the Caribbean. In 2012 CBC and Dirigo joined forces on the development of a fully responsive web platform for automotive dealers, plus we offer other integrated digital services: reputation management, social media marketing, paid search marketing (PPC), and search engine optimization (SEO or what we call search marketing integration).
CBC's goal then, and now, was to work with a handful of the world's most successful automobile retailers. And CBC has succeeded in a big way! They were the first ad agency to join the J.D. Power Automotive Roundtable and they've set many more firsts.
Dirigo began a transition into offline advertising in 2010. The partnership with Frank and Barry Morgan at CBC quickens our pace and provides a deep well into all things offline.
After graduating from Notre Dame, with a BA in American Studies, and returning to Maine, Frank spent a brief period working in other ad agencies. In 1987 he joined Jim Boldebook's team at CBC, as an account executive. Eleven years later he purchased the business from Jim in partnership with Barry.
The agency was founded with a single client: John M. Pulsifer. Pulsifer is known in the auto world as Jolly John. They started CBC together and worked to fine-tune Pulsifer's image. Jolly John was an "ad guy's dream come true" because he was willing to dress up, act like a comedian, and make people laugh. He embraced innovative ideas to sell cars and raised money for charity. Even though John passed away in 2011, he's still a legend in Maine and New Hampshire. Like all good legends, Jolly was backed-up by some mighty fine ad mad men. When it came to selling cars, Jolly John and CBC were a great pair. In the 1980s the team deployed Jolly's flair, with sound branding and aggressive marketing techniques combined with Jolly's keen focus on excellent customer service at the dealership. This changed the face of auto advertising forever and built one of the most successful auto advertising agencies in the USA.
At Dirigo, our early niche —still alive and well today—was direct response interactive Internet marketing. There are some striking similarities between the retail automotive sector and direct response. Both rely on strong branding, varied marketing channels, and consistent marketing messages to reach prospects and convert them to hot leads. The closer between the two is different (in automotive sales, the staff close leads; on a direct response site, the website closes the leads, with support of the call center team) but what's the same is quality Calls to Action (whether text, graphics, intake forms, social, video, etc.) that support the sales conversion process.
Frank resides in Kennebunk where he raised three boys with his wife, Vickie. He spends many Saturdays watching his boys play high school and collegiate soccer and football. And his personal exercise commitment is impressive, between boot camp on the beach and a running schedule. He even ran a couple of marathons, including the Boston Marathon!
If trapped on a deserted island Frank would prefer to have running shoes, his wife, and a transistor radio to listen to Red Sox games. He loves major league baseball (MLB) and its history — back to 1927! His childhood hero — you got it — Carl Yastrzemski. And it's fitting that if he wasn't at CBC, we would want to be the GM of a major league baseball team!
His future goals are simple: to provide opportunities for others at CBC-Dirigo to enjoy as satisfying a career as he had. And that can only happen by making dealer clients successful. We believe that the CBC-Dirigo partnership is well-positioned in the ever-changing and complex world of automotive advertising.
A little more about CBC Advertising: CBC is one of the leading automotive advertising agencies in the United States, servicing over 100 dealer groups in the US, Canada, and the Virgin Islands with 25 full-time employees. Prior to 2012, CBC was primarily involved with radio, television, and print. With the partnership, Dirigo and CBC complement each other. CBC brings to Dirigo in-house television and radio production and 30 years of traditional media experience. Likewise, Dirigo brings to CBC more than 17 years of digital media experience. Moreover, Dirigo brings digital best practices and experiences from outside the auto industry. This brings fresh perspective to a highly insular vertical.
From podcasts to product placements, auto dealers today face more choices than ever before. The Internet plays a big role in selling cars.
Bri Garrett is young, at 23 years of age she has more than a decade of programming experience. She typifies the new Millennial Generation knowledge worker. She was born of the computer era and gravitated toward technology and video games at an early age. She engineered her first website in 1999 during the dot-com boom. She attended a technology High School and went on to earn a BS in Computer Science from the University of West Florida (UFW). In 2008, during college, she joined the university staff as a Sr. Web Applications Engineer and employee of the University I.T. Department. This was not a student position, but, a full-time professional staff position. She was that good! She became the core developer of the Faculty Academic Credential System and the University website.
At UWF Bri was Vice President of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for computing and information disciplines. She was President of the ArgoForce programming team where she earned an honorable mention from the AITP National Java Programming Competition. The university programming team earned the Division 1 championship under her stewardship.
She is fully proficient in C, JAVA, ASP.NET (both VBScript and C#), PHP, ColdFusion, SQL (My, Microsoft and Oracle), JavaScript, and jQuery. She can hold her own with Python, (Flask), C++, Maven, Node.js, and Amazon Web Services. When Bri joined Dirigo she had limited ASP.NET experience. She mastered the platform in under 90 days. She's well skilled with GIT, Mercurial and Team Foundation Server version control systems. Her favorite IDEs include Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ.
Her professional interests surround distributed systems and the future of the web environment. She is extremely interested in new web technologies that exist in enterprise web applications such as those seen in companies like Amazon and Google. Her aim is to make the web more efficient, secure and open to all. Prior to joining Dirigo she was courted by Amazon in Seattle Washington. As luck would have it, she wanted to move to, of all places, Maine.
Why Portland Maine vs Seattle Washington? Simple, quality of life! What are the most unexpected cities that are leading the high-tech revolution? Techie.com's 2013 report puts Portland, home to iconic lighthouses, historic New England architecture, and an active working waterfront port, in the top 10. High-tech development has been democratized by cloud-based resources, sophisticated telcom tools, SaaS, and collaboration tools – these have aided to the net outmigration from traditional tech centers. For application development and graphics art, Portland has steadily grown since 1999. We have a vibrant tech community that rivals cities 10x our size. We are leading innovative change and market disruption.
She has a love affair with technology and possesses a proven ability to develop and execute marketing solutions that provide superior ROI. For Bri, design and programming are tools used to create competitive advantage and change. She is more than a programmer - she knows that there is no viable digital strategy that isn't integrated into the larger brand and business strategy. When a gifted programmer understands that differentiation is one of the most powerful attributes a brand can possess in the fight for consumer attention and loyalty, powerful things can be achieved. She's rarely 100% satisfied. The resulting behavior is a never-ending cycle of learning how to develop solutions that are better, faster, open, and easier to scale.
I Love My Clients and They Love Me Back
I've helped a lot of small businesses, large corporations, and non-profits and would love to help you too. Where you live doesn't matter — 2/3 of our clients are from away. We can help regardless of where you live. Take a look around our site and ring me if you think I can help.
Jamie Ippolito has been in the marketing, public relations, and technology/systems space for more than 14 years. He's part manager, programmer, and marketer. In this field, anyone who can build a single functioning website tends to crown himself a "web developer." It's not so difficult to learn how to build a website. True art is running the gauntlet of technology and loving it. What does it take to generate $32MM in online revenue from 170,000 customers? Can you oversee, design, and implement a five-year technology roadmap enabling rapid deployment of new customer acquisition functionality? Have you built a world class catalog, brand and e-commerce site on a skinny $5MM budget? Can you manage digital marketing strategies and programs, PPC, SEO, reputation, e-mail, social media, security, distribution centers, data warehousing, reporting, analytics (and the list keeps going) ... with mastery of about 75 other disciplines? This is Jamie.
His strengths include:
Prior to joining Dirigo in the fall 2012, Jamie spent five years as Director of Technology at FetchDog.com. Prior to that, he spent five years as the Manager of Interactive Services at American Skiing Company where he oversaw $20MM in e-commerce sales. From 2000 to 2003 he was the Online Marketing Manager for Sunday River where he oversaw $2MM in e-commerce revenue.
Jamie is a graduate of Carabassett Valley Academy — a private middle/high school at Sugarloaf Mountain — offering a unique balance of college preparatory academics and competitive ski and snowboard training. It should be no surprise that his favorite vertical is the ski and resort sector. If you love what you do it's not work. That's why Dirigo builds website solutions for ski resorts.
Jamie is a Mainer—he grew up in Rumford and moved back to the Carrabassett Valley (Maine ski heaven) after earning a BA in English from Bates College. He was always interested in technology and naturally gravitated to the Internet during the dot-com bubble. Back in the day he was an overclocker: one of those guys jacking-up his Pentium 120 to run at 150 (water cooling his processor). It was all in a quest to Duke Nukem faster. He still likes the games but like many with a wife and two young children, has joined the ranks of the responsible and accountable.
At Dirigo, Jamie combines his past experiences with strategy and technology while interfacing with clients on branding, e-commerce, m-commerce, e-mail communications, and digital advertising projects. His first task at Dirigo was to rebuild our e-mail service provider (ESP) platform. Two-thirds of ESPs deploy the very same platform we use. Jamie put Dirigo into the same class as Responsys, Lyris, ExactTarget, EmailVision, Silverpop, CheetahMail, MailChimp, and many more during his first 100 days. Jamie set his sights on building turn-key responsive (RWD) interactive solutions for the hospitality and auto verticals. He has taken a place alongside David Addison and Victoria Kuhn as a rainmaker for his client-set.
Jamie is a natural collaborator, a high-impact leader, and an expert at facilitating common ground and consensus agreement among diverse stakeholders. He has a strong talent for helping business groups frame critical business issues, identify and evaluate practical solutions, and establish clear goals that achieve extraordinary results. Jamie is especially adept at working with senior business leaders who need to quickly reach consensus on a clear digital strategy, and then transition to action to meet the demands of fast-changing markets.
There is Just no Substitute for Experience
Knowing how to effectively sell online requires a level of expertise that only comes from years of working in this field. You've found a team who will work intelligently month in and month out to meet your needs.E-mail me or ring 207.358.2981 to start the conversation about your online needs or digital project.
Victoria brings almost 20 years of strategy, marketing, brand positioning, facilitating groups, and research experience to her role with Strategy, Media & Content at Dirigo Design & Development, Inc. She leads our social marketing (including Facebook and Twitter), SEO, SEM/PPC, blog, content generation, and competitive intelligence teams. What makes Victoria's work special to her clients is her ability to integrate diverse strategy, branding, product, and marketing campaigns with a focus on return on investment (ROI). Early on, she built her career around offline channels like radio, broadcast and network TV, local print, and—wait for it—regional and national newspapers and magazines. She's as comfortable with old media as new. Most clients need both.
Her battle stance mental state is like "being a quarterback, running with the ball, rarely turning back to question her own defense and looking for holes in the other team's line." Full-on takeover! The other team loses! On the Enneagram test, Victoria scores high as an eight (the Driver) and a three (the Performer). She's a high achiever who identifies strongly with the American popular image of youth, energy, and competitiveness.
On the personal side, her twin eight-year-old children keep her and her husband on the go. She can be found making cookies, running through the sprinklers in the backyard (summer, of course), or at Crescent Beach building sand castles or damming up the little stream. Her love of baseball dictates her favorite color, orange—the San Francisco Giants shade. She spent a few years as the official scorekeeper in the Giants minor league baseball farm system. Her heroes include Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Jackie Robinson, and a local favorite from where she was raised, Dick Selma (and her Dad, who like her was a scorekeeper and taught her the scorekeeping ropes).
Networking throughout the Maine business and non-profit communities, Victoria is a key player in helping her clients to develop new opportunities. She creates boutique-to-comprehensive marketing and product strategies, including Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and Twitter, which target clients' strengths and competitors' weaknesses. Her tools include primary and secondary market research, one-on-one interviews, SEO, SEM/PPC, content drafting (including blog), group facilitation, SWOT analysis, the PEST framework, competitive intelligence, and Hitwise, to name a few.
But is she a geek? She definitely programmed a calculator in math class. To this day she indexes and catalogues everything, often takes notes in more than one color, and adores jigsaw puzzles. But, she never played Dungeons and Dragons, is not into video games, and loathes science fiction films. She reads Google patents, voices her opinions on the Webmasterword, TechCrunch, and Mashable forums, and can run circles around most marketers and interactive folks. She's a conundrum—in her own class.
Prior to joining Dirigo, Victoria spent 13 years at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (including the ol' Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine) in roles such as Marketing Director, Chief of State to the General Manager, Plan Strategist, Senior Project Manager, and Senior Competitive Intelligence Analyst. Prior work experiences include Director of Market Research for a Maine research firm and several years spent at Farm Bureau Financial Services in marketing.
She is committed to her adopted state of Maine, serving on the volunteer boards for the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine and Piper Shores. Victoria is also a member of Maine Medical Center's Board Performance Improvement Committee representing patients and families and their experiences at the hospital, and she also serves as a member of the Advisory and Health Care Sub-Committees for the Maine Development Foundation/Leadership Maine. She was named an honorary board member at Community Dental in 2007 after actively serving on the CD board for a number of years. Previously, she was a Loaned Executive at the United Way of Greater Portland and a member of the Community Advisory Committee at the Maine Health Access Foundation (and member of Board-level Grants Committee). She is a proud member of the Kappa Class (2003) of Leadership Maine—go Kappa!
Asked about the future of the Internet or a snazzy term like Web 3.0, Victoria offers an ambitious response: responsive and predominantly mobile, aggregated, portable, and filtered with artificially intelligent algorithms tailoring semantic search results divining by a searcher's intent and the contextual meaning—full integration of social, video, geo-targeting, mobile, a touch of the cloud and conscience arising from social relationships (something Adam Smith wrote about in The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 …).
Victoria professes that she cannot live without her iPhone Notes app—"it's the simplicity that I appreciate." If one of the developers here at the office could program her, she would choose to be a "Wii yoga program." Yoga and meditation keep her grounded and focused (still a work in progress).
In addition to her collegiate experiences, there's alphabet soup behind her name (she's a Fellow in two institutes plus she has two other certificates). Victoria is a lifelong learner, committed to keeping abreast of trends, emerging business opportunities, and subjects of interest to her. She reads gads of professional blogs and e-bulletin boards. What's the book on her nightstand at the writing of this bio? Tao of Twitter. Victoria's favorite professional books include The Hero and the Outlaw, The Art of War, The Servant, Conscious Golf, and The Four Agreements.
Connect With Dirigo Design & Development and Connect With Your Goals
Achieving success in your business isn't just about your organization's products and services. And it's much more than your organization's brand and its leadership team. Dirigo is an experienced integrative marketing organization that achieves goals. If your organization wants to generate more, call Victoria Kuhn at 207-358-2990. We're here to help you connect with your customers and grow your organization.
Jessie is an accomplished print and interactive designer with more than 14 years of real-world experience. As creative director at Dirigo, she rules the roost in creative Web design, brand positioning, logo development, and print collateral. She uses her past experiences in art, design, and production at Bangor Metro and Maine Home+Design to our clients' advantage. Way back, she worked for five years as a Web developer.
Jessie is a chameleon, a jack of all trades, a diverse thinker able to adeptly pivot and change her spots. Visually, she's a really lush neon green super sophisticated lizard that becomes another color when she wants (maybe eggplant or paprika red).
When I asked Jessie's favorite color, she said that the question was akin to having to select a favorite child (and that's hard). She doesn't have any two-legged children though her favorite child is a four-legged border collie named Two-Bit. A great Machiavelli in her own right, Two-Bit is super sweet and loves attention (and rules as the office dog). Hey, she never answered the color question…
In Jess's spare time, she is an avid brunch eater, consumer (and maker!) of fermented foods and beverages, and wishes that her mind would make itself up. While chameleons are omnivores, Jessie is a vegetarian though she has the occasional weak moment and wants to eat steak tartare!
As a Mainer, she's from one of the sweetest parts of Maine: Dover-Foxcroft in Piscataquis County, graduating from Dover-Foxcroft Academy. She grew up with two sisters, a younger brother, a dog, a cat and a bird. She left the big town of D-F for Orono to attend University of Maine. In 2005 she graduated with a bachelor's degree in new media and minors in studio art and computer science. At UMaine she learned and honed her design, printing, and artistry—and while she says, "I'm not a programmer now," she represents the rare breed that transcends design and interactive marketing. In college she programmed in Visual Basic, C++, and VB.NET. While these programming languages may be from yesterday, they give her perspective untypical of a creative designer-brand steward extraordinaire.
She is a proud member of the Me generation, not selfish, but aware of herself and being herself. Jessie is a social beast. She frequents Facebook, Flickr, Bnter, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, AboutMe, and Tumblr. Jessie uses technology, even when she sleeps. She wants to be invisible, fly or shape-shift. For style, it's Lady Gaga and David Bowie smashed into a glamorous, beautiful hybrid. She's not binary, frequenting both Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. When I asked where Jessie wants to travel, she said, "all the countries" very matter of factly… or worldwide club hopping. Like any good agency pro, she's able to adapt to changes in deadlines and changes in the nature of assignments. Jessie can always be depended upon to meet or beat deadlines and brings enthusiasm and energy to her projects.
Connect With Dirigo Design & Development and Connect With Your Marketing Goals
Achieving success in your business isn't just about your organization's products and services. And it's much more than your organization's brand and its leadership team. Dirigo is an experienced integrative marketing organization that achieves goals. If your organization wants to generate more, call Victoria Kuhn at 207.358.2990. We're here to help you connect with your customers and grow your organization.
Barry Morgan graduated from the University of Maine in 1979. After moving to Portland, Barry teamed up with Sunshine Broadcasting and launched his career in radio advertising. For a short period he was a partner in a regional newspaper until he joined CBC Advertising (previously Creative Broadcast Concepts). Ten years after joining CBC, Barry became CEO of the agency (and entered into a partnership with Frank Drigotas, both purchasing it from Jim Boldebook). In 2012 Barry's CBC partnered with Victoria Kuhn and Dirigo to build a truly responsive advertising platform (you can read more about web development, responsive design, and execution).
Dirigo has a strong automotive customer base and a robust set of direct response advertising and lead generation clients. Direct response and lead generation marketing and the automotive sector share many traits. At the end of the day, it all comes down to results. Can you get results? Can you sell cars and trucks, software, health products, seeds? Well, both CBC and Dirigo can sell and service our clients too! And having a diverse customer set turns out to be a strength.
After more than 2,500 hours, in the summer 2013, we launched Faulkner Hyundai on the "Overdrive Automotive Solutions" platform. The CBC-Faulkner relationship started in 1993 with one radio ad and now more than two decades later, it has developed into a robust partnership that has delivered impressive results and helped solidify two of the most trusted names in the automotive industry. The Faulkner Organization is one of the largest automotive dealerships in the US with almost a billion dollars in annual sales and close to 1,000 employees. Mike Rocci's Philadelphia Hyundai site (and the Faulkner Organization) was the perfect alpha client for the new platform.
A little more about CBC Advertising: CBC is one of the leading automotive advertising agencies, servicing more than 100 dealer groups in North America and the Caribbean. They also happen to be one of Maine's largest specialty ad agencies. With the addition of Dirigo, it now has full mastery of both digital and offline marketing. The two firms complement each other. CBC brings to Dirigo in-house television and radio production. Likewise, Dirigo brings to CBC a deeper interactive skill set.
Entering the auto platform space is brave. The market is dominated by an old establishment: ADP's Cobalt Group, Reynolds and Reynolds, VinSolutions, and Dominion Enterprises—each with hundreds, and some with thousands, of employees.
Knock, knock. We're here to play in the digital/web automotive market, come talk to us. We think that we can do better!
Matthew Small works on the Strategy, Media & Content side of the Dirigo house. He manages scads of search engine marketing campaigns (SEM), online reputation management programs, social media engagements, and e-mail sending strategies. He is a master of Bing Ads, Google Adwords/AdSense, Google Merchant Circle, Facebook Ads, and DoubleClick for Publishers. We use Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, and our own proprietary analytics system to manage campaigns and budgets.
With his primary focus being to increase visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs), Matt whips-up his magic through various optimizations—on-page and off-page—plus paid placements (PPC), contextual advertising, remarketing campaigns, dynamic auto ads, pay-per-call, and paid inclusion. He's responsible for on-page search engine optimization (SEO) or what we call search marketing integration: that is, Matt adjusts and rewrites web content to achieve higher rankings in SERPs plus he recommends new landing pages to provide a better user experience and higher paid search quality scores too.
Matt also partakes in social media marketing or the process of gaining traffic through social channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Day in and day out Matt is centered on creating and curating content that attracts attention and encourages engagement. And because our clients need full-service marketing services, Matt also buys and manages offline print campaigns and participates in video and photo shoots. He also supports e-mail marketing, HTML markup, and SQL data. Prior to joining Dirigo Matt worked for TripAdvisor in Boston on various projects to thwart reputation SPAM. Prior to TripAdvisor he worked in the financial services sector where he performed due diligence on financial analysis, market research, and field reports. At Dirigo, Matt's largest verticals are the automotive and health sectors.
Matt graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics with a minor in information technology from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He's an avid skier. As a member of the alpine ski team at UMass he helped secure the 2008 USCSA National Championship. He's a giant slalom guy and we're glad he's on the Dirigo team (and our ski team too).
At Dirigo, we're all about SMART (specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound) goals and prioritize them accordingly. This is where his economics degree comes in handy: SEO, PPC, reputation, and social media are all about metrics and analytics.
Matt doesn't believe in SEO games—that is outright manipulation of the engines to achieve high rankings. His primarily focus has always been on serving consumers via long-term strategies. The days of SEO as a distinct, independent discipline are over. SEO/SEM has become a more creative, diverse, and challenging profession. Consumers and search engines want quality content, engagement and dialogue, and social proof of a brands' existence. Matt is fixated on the integration of best practices. He likes to say: "if we serve end-users and produce and curate high quality content, good results follow." He's dead on!
Marketing is Easy... it's Doing it Right that's the Hard Part
No matter what stage your business is in, we can help by providing you with strategy, development creative, search engine marketing, copywriting, social media solutions and much more. Connect with Dirigo and connect with your goals. Call us today at 207.291.2990
Derek joined Dirigo in the October 2013 after three years with Sugarloaf Mountain as their full-time in-house ASP.NET & PHP web developer. Sugarloaf sits atop an Ingeniux CMS installation—an enterprise content managment solution that he installed and integrated. Earlier, Derek was the primary developer for the Stein Eriksen Lodge and the Chateaux reservation booking widgets, their marketing retarget systems, and general webmaster duties. At Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Derek rolled out a homespun PHP-based CMS system during their last major redesign. From 2000 to 2013 he freelanced, primarily developing smaller sites with Wordpress and other CMS systems, custom Tumbler themes, and single page web apps using Node.js, Express.js and Backbone.
His technology wheelhouse includes Microsoft SQL, MySQL, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, HTM5, CSS3, Saas/LESS, jQuery, JSON, JavaScript, XML, PHP, Mongoose and loads of JS frameworks. Derek feels equally at home with the L.A.M.P. stack as he does on Microsoft server technology.
Like most of the Dirigo team, Derek is full stack developer—meaning that he is as strong on the front-end as he is on the back-end. He is particularly strong such that there is no hindrance of speed or quality in either area.
The "front-end" of the web is that part that you can see and interact with. This includes design and the user movement and interaction piece (the CSS, JavaScript and HTML). The "back-end" consists of the server, the underlying application logic, and the database. The lines between designer and developer seem to get more and more blurry as time marches on. At Dirigo we don't split our team into front-end and back-end components. Everyone is expected to master it all. We run a learning-lab environment where staff freely teach and exchange ideas.
The future of website development is to create a website without the web developer. I'm part of that moment. My role, always, is to think, problem solve and conceptualize—translating ideas into working things. I respect the tasks that clients want to do themselves, and I'm here to offer expert advice and provide technical expertise as needed. I'm here at Dirigo building business systems and platforms that will reshape our industry. Change is coming!
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I would be happy to share with you my experiences and to help the right client grow its online business. Drop me a note and I'll be in touch with you as soon as possible.
Gerry is a renaissance man, a modern day polymath, a chameleon of sorts with an undergraduate degree in theatre plus minors in business and music. He graduated with a MS in Computer Science in the fall of 2012—that's the ticket for Dirigo. We eat-up computer science majors. They have excellent critical thinking skills and the ability to see the steps needed to implement a design that functions well for the user's experience.
Gerry programs in ASP.NET, J2EE, C#, C, Pearl, Spec#, jQuery, AJAX, and SQL. He is being apprenticed by our senior software developers as he follows that long and winding dark road on his way to becoming a master himself. Becoming a brilliant developer here at Dirigo is akin to studying Wing Chun under the tutelage of Yip Man (look it up). This is an industry where practice, repetition, and access to challenging works count. It takes at least five years to become a fully self sufficient developer.
Developers need to be more than code-generating machines. We expect more of our digital life and these Gerry-type guys. Coding don't cut it anymore! The key to being a great web developer is not the technologies, but the best practices that you follow. Technologies come and go. Best practices mostly remain—albeit they evolve slowly. As a developer, if you have a good grounding you can change with the times and technologies without difficulty. The Dirigo way is to instill best practices. Gerry is soaking up lots of marketing strategy. He often asks "why?" This is the most important question a developer can ask. The development cycle is a two-way conversation. Gerry can only advise clients produce the right solution if he's thinking about the "bigger picture."
Gerry has taken over our Flash ActionScripting activities and our video streaming servers. He is a master of the Entity Framework Code First and modal-view-controller (MVC) approaches. In addition, Gerry works with the ADXStudio, Dirigo Edge, and WordPress content management systems.
Gerry's interest in computer science stems from a desire to design and develop new software that is not only practical but user friendly. Just as users are not developers, developers are not users (we know, how profound!). The only way to achieve user-developer merriment is to work with users throughout the conceptualization, creative design, and goal of the digital brand process—and incorporate feedback throughout with best practices to provide the best user experience possible. While a coder, Gerry brings a balance of critical thinking, creativity, logic, and fun to our clients.
During the interview process, we asked Gerry if he knew he was going to be trapped on a desert island what three things would he bring. You know, one of those pesky interview questions. "First of all, I would thank the ship's captain for allowing me to bring three things." Umm, we thought this was an interesting response, and then he said: "A 500-gallon tank of gas, a chainsaw for clearing out trees, and a helicopter for getting home." Pragmatic and a nice outside the box answer. Most folks bring stuff like a satellite phone, a bottle of Jack and Coke, and a Swiss army knife. What he conveyed well was imagination and resourcefulness: two critical qualities at Dirigo and a strength of Gerry's.
In Gerry's spare time, he is very much involved with theatre. He dances, acts, directs and is on the board of a local dance company, Vivid Motion.
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We are fresh thinkers. Conceptual thinkers. Out of the box thinkers. We are leaders in our industry because we never forget to be students of it. We are a consulting-centered botique agency engineered to transform marketing in the connected world. Give us a call, and let's talk about how we can put Dirigo to work for you.


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Soil, in its function as an important storage and transmitter for water, consequently influencesthe local climate. According to soil physical properties on the one hand, and water availability at the soil surface on the other hand, it may have different impact intensities through distinct evaporation from the surface. To find out to which extend these two parameters limit the local cooling effect of soils in the urban environment is a main issue of the project HUSCO (Hamburg Urban Soil Climate Observatory).
The project aims at increasing knowledge on the interactions between pedosphere and atmosphere in the urban environment. Focus lies on the experimental quantification of the urban climate's heterogeneity and the observation of the interdependence of pedosphere and atmosphere in cities, using the example of Hamburg, Germany. Within the city, different urban structural units are considered, with regard to local soil properties, groundwater table depth and land use characteristics. Thereby, the local scale processes are monitored and anlaysed. Additionally, the greater meteorological conditions and the cumulative effect of the city structure itself are taken into account.
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Focussing on the impact of soil hydrology in typical urban structural units, the local effect of groundwater and soil properties on meteorological variables is assessed by atmospheric and in-situ soil measurements, supplemented by eddy-covariance flux measurements.
Long-term measurements started in summer 2010 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The measurement sites are located within three urban districts: the city core and two suburban districts, which feature different mean groundwater table depths. The sites were selected according to urban land use characteristics, additionally regarding soil properties and vegetation. To detect the local climate effects, six meteorological stations monitor basic atmospheric parameters at 2 m screen level. In addition, twelve soil measurement stations evaluate processes and seasonal variations in soil water balance and thermal properties. Two Eddy covariance systems determine the resulting turbulent fluxes of energy and water.
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Common warts are small, grainy skin growths that occur most often on your fingers or hands. Rough to the touch, common warts also often feature a pattern of tiny black dots — sometimes called seeds — which are small, clotted blood vessels.
Common warts are caused by a virus and are transmitted by touch. Children and young adults are more likely to develop common warts, as are people who have weakened immune systems. Common warts usually disappear on their own, but many people choose to remove them because they find them bothersome or embarrassing.
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About -- -- now that's very close to -- personally.
And this has to do with a senate resolution.
That has just been passed this is senate resolution 19 -- nine.
And I'll read this to you it designates this week December 1 through December 7.
A resolution supporting the goals and ideas of crohn's and colitis awareness week.
I'll read it real fast senate resolution 199 express his appreciation to the family members and caregivers.
Who support people in the United States living with Crohn's Disease.
And altered -- colitis.
It also -- health care professionals who care for Crohn's Disease.
And -- sort of colitis patients and biomedical researchers who do work to advance researching into developing new treatments for these diseases which impact.
Almost one and a half.
Million people in this country alone and people all over the world and I said it's close to me personally because I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease.
Right after I graduated from college about twenty years or so ago I shouldn't have just -- -- myself but I did.
Anyway let's talk more about this important resolution.
And about these diseases which are inflammatory bowel -- is how they're classified.
And joining us to talk about that as doctor Ellen Sheryl who is.
-- the -- Roberts IBD center at Weill Cornell which is here in New York City and then you specialize in treating patients with inflammatory I do things.
Glad that you hear and Rondell -- -- is the executive director.
Of the crohn's and colitis foundation of America's greater New York chapter which helped so many people in the New York City area and it's great to see you -- -- You've been a good friend for a long long time first at all explain to people doctor show what what is -- what are inflammatory bowel disease I've mentioned crohn's and colitis but.
What are we talking about.
Lets -- go back to the basics they're basically inflammation diseases that affect the intestine but also areas outside of the intestine and what is inflammation we all recognize -- -- we see it on our hands it's basically.
The first stage in wound.
And it's -- -- it's raised its tender.
And so you can look at a sunburn as inflammation as well in many ways inflammatory bowel disease crohn's and colitis is an inflammation in the GI tract the second inside -- Crohn's Disease can affect anywhere in the GI -- from the mouth to the very bottom of the GI tract.
Where is all sort of colitis tends to be inflammation limited to parts of the colon or the entire -- why do people get it.
So why people get it these and believed to be related to some environmental.
Com -- -- whether it's a bacteria in your -- There tends to be a genetic susceptibility.
And this drives and -- controlled inflammatory or inflammation response.
So all of us actually -- GI tract have inflammation you can ask why doesn't everybody get inflammatory bowel disease because the natural state -- the GI tract is inflammation but it's.
Controlled inflammation.
In crohn's and colitis the inflammation is -- control.
The -- never comes off the fuel or the gas tank it just constantly fueling this inflammatory response there -- -- white blood cells immune cells that.
-- factories that make these inflammatory proteins.
And again we think that it's occurring in a genetic background and with bacterial -- so -- or two major projects -- -- The Human Genome Project which has at -- it.
Now probably close to nine New Yorkers -- more than a hundred genes associated with these diseases.
And the human micro bio on the got micro bio which is looking at all the bacteria in -- got to see how those -- -- cause inflammation.
And what do we know about the progress of these projects and are we close to finding a cure because.
People who have these conditions they are chronic people will live with these conditions over their lives that.
Tragedy is that these conditions as you alluded to affect young people in the prime of their lives.
It's increasing being incidents so more and more people are being affected by these diseases at younger and younger ages six months.
And then of course teens twenties and thirties.
It may be president Kennedy had this in a disease that's also debatable but the point is that -- is young people and then there's another peak of older people.
The -- search is targeting.
The areas molecules that cause inflammation.
And we're constantly looking at ways of making selective therapies safer so that we can identify the molecules that are causing the disease so we know.
That anti TNF molecular biologic therapies.
Or not for everyone.
But if you can figure out which patients will benefit you can actually make a dramatic decrease in the inflammation.
So the research is going forward on many different levels.
There -- many centers including our own -- New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and Columbia.
My dad are looking at the molecules the bacteria and the jeans so we -- -- getting closer all the time to say with in the decade.
I'm I think that's optimistic and I'm hoping that it really is within not outside of the next ten years that we come without a new approaches.
Well I like your optimism.
I really do and I know the Rondell does as well.
So -- -- the crohn's and colitis foundation of America I'll just tell people and they can find you online and see CFA dot word.
This is an organization to help.
Both patients and family members to give people information because I mean I remember when I was first diagnosis of what is Crohn's Disease and -- most people just.
Really don't know exactly what it's all about but I imagine that this senate resolution which is so important will really help to boost awareness which is such a key here is an.
Absolutely that's that's what we're hoping this is such a huge staff and that building awareness and letting people know about these diseases.
And fortunately there are often very silent diseases and not wonderful things for patients to talk about and and -- open about in public so.
Lot of times people really -- silence and therefore -- where it doesn't get out and people aren't really educated about life in planetary about disease is.
So having the senate resolution is a wonderful way to get the word out let people know how devastating diseases can be and how many people are fact it.
Tell me about the the services that CC FA offers.
Four people who might wanna learn more about this or who might know someone who is affected by.
By -- were all sort of -- Absolutely one of the best things and we can do for awareness week is go to that Debbie Debbie Debbie -- TC FA dot org website there's so much wonderful information there.
So if you do you know someone who's affected please send them onto the web site.
And and there's many many other things that we can do it says build -- that are actually listed on -- website you can like us on FaceBook and Twitter.
We also have a brand new -- of this year congressional caucus for crimes -- callais yes that was started by the end of crunch and Jesse Jackson.
And we're trying to encourage more of representatives to join that -- -- So there's a very easy land -- -- if you -- an advocate ceiling to send a letter -- legislator and encourage them to join nine.
Final question for you a doctor when asked because a lot of people in our chat had been.
Mentioning -- -- Or irritable bowel syndrome there are all types of -- GI.
Issues problems that people might have that are not inflammatory bowel disease how do you get a diagnosis.
If you're experiencing some of these symptoms and you -- -- find out exactly what you.
So I think one of the major things about this bill is that it's going to draw our attention to the fact that these diseases are under diagnosed or misdiagnosed.
So there's actually center for advanced I just -- care which is part of New York Presbyterian Hospital that will help patients to get these type of information.
I think also.
You know Jennifer -- organization the advocacy for patients with chronic illness sick helps to focus patients to address not only that diagnostic aspect.
But he had in the maintenance problems and this is a lifelong disease controlling inflammation in every practice crohn's and colitis and -- critical so while we're trying to cure the disease rules are trying to.
Control the symptoms as well as the disease itself -- many support programs as well as muscular skeletal health nutritional health.
And all that ultimately lead to the correct diagnosis.
Well thank you both for the work that you do and for coming on talking to us about this.
Senate resolution 199 -- you gonna get this frame you should put it up in the office absolutely blown up and -- very exciting.
Once again doctor Ellen -- and Rondell -- C.
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Taking advantage of my relatively neat looking nails/ fingers at the moment to swatch a bunch of polishes which have been sitting in my stash for a few weeks. I feel like I am soooo behind in my updates.
Here, we have the Diorific vernis from Dior Holidays 2013. Both are beautiful, and contain mainly golden multi color shimmer bits in the polishes.
Minuit is a blackened red, while Winter is a sheer pearlised white. Both contain the shimmer bits that add dimension to the overall shade. I think that Winter is great as a topcoat over light color polishes like pink, or white, though in this set of swatches, I layered over Minuit. The bonus for Winter? Despite its sheerness, it layered to 3 coats without any streaking/ visible brush strokes.
Minuit is opaque in two coats, and it lasts me a good 5 days without chipping.
Swatches & comparisons here:
Comparisons to two Chanel polishes that came to my mind, but they are not the same at all.
Taboo has an inky purple base, while Malice is smooth and redder.
Have you picked up any of the Diorific vernis?
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Long Island Player of the Year
Alex Robinson, Holy Trinity, P, Sr.
The Titans lefthander was dynamic in helping the Titans win the NSCHSAA championship. He throws his fastball in the low 90s and has an excellent curveball. He was dominant in almost every outing. He went 7-0 with a 0.58 ERA and 0.66 WHIP. In 48 innings, he allowed 12 hits, walked 20 and struck out 96.
The Maryland-bound Robinson allowed one extra-base hit. Robinson was the state Gatorade Player of the Year and finished his career 19-2 with a 0.77 ERA and 189 strikeouts in 128 innings. Robinson won Game 1 of the NSCHSAA best-of-three championship series by throwing a two-hitter with two walks and nine strikeouts in an 8-1 win over St. Anthony's. In Game 1 of the semifinals against St. John the Baptist, Robinson threw a two-hitter and struck out 13 in a 2-0 win. Robinson threw his fourth career no-hitter with a career-high 19 strikeouts in the regular season against St. Mary's.
Suffolk Player of the Year
Mike O'Reilly, Shoreham-Wading River, P/SS, Sr.
O'Reilly won the 45th Yastrzemski Award, which goes to the best player in Suffolk. O'Reilly batted .467 with a school-record 17 doubles, 21 runs, four home runs, 23 RBI, a .789 slugging percentage and struck out just six times in 90 at-bats. He had 42 hits, which is second in program history. He went 8-3 with a 1.24 ERA and 0.77 WHIP. O'Reilly pitched 84 2/3 innings and allowed 46 hits, 19 walks and struck out 141. O'Reilly, who will play at Flagler University, pitched 10 scoreless innings in the Long Island Class A championship game against Plainedge before allowing three runs in the 11th inning. It snapped a streak of 22 consecutive scoreless innings pitched in the playoffs. He allowed six hits, walked three and struck out a program-record 19 in a 3-1 loss. O'Reilly also hit two walk-off homers in the postseason and helped SWR win its second consecutive Suffolk Class A championship.
Casey Baker, Connetquot, SS, Jr.
Baker hit .441 with 21 runs, 13 RBIs, 10 stolen bases, 13 walks and struck out once in 68 at-bats during the regular season. Baker batted .636 (14-for-22) with nine runs, six walks, seven RBI and six stolen bases in the postseason as the T-Birds won the Suffolk Class AA county title.
Will Cheshire, MacArthur, CF, Sr.
Cheshire had a hit in every game. He batted .423 with 23 runs, 24 RBI and a .516 on-base percentage. He will play baseball and football at Nassau Community College.
Charles Galiano, Commack, C, Sr.
Galiano was drafted in the 36th round by the Philadelphia Phillies. Galiano batted .372 with 21 runs, eight doubles, two triples, 24 RBI and four stolen bases to help Commack win the Suffolk League I title. He will play at Fordham University.
Dave Groeneveld, St. Anthony's, 1B, Sr.
Groeneveld helped lead the Friars to the NSCHSAA finals for the first time in 11 seasons. He batted .463 with 11 doubles, three triples, one home run, 30 RBI, a .516 on-base percentage and a .688 slugging percentage. He will play at C.W. Post.
David Leiderman, Bellmore JFK, 2B, Sr.
Leiderman had a hit in every game he played, including 14 multiple-hit games. He batted .609 with nine doubles, one home run and 13 RBI. He will play at Hofstra.
Tyler Manez, Plainedge, P/OF, Sr.
Manez was drafted with the first pick of the 32nd round by the Houston Astros. Manez pitched 11 innings and allowed eight hits, no walks and struck out 10 in a win in the Long Island Class A championship. He went 7-2 with a 1.06 ERA with 31 walks and 117 strikeouts in 72 innings. He batted .308 with two home runs and 19 RBI. He will play at Elon University.
Nick Nunziato, Ward Melville, SS, Sr.
Nunziato is an excellent defensive player and one of the top power hitters on the Island. He batted .478 with seven doubles, four triples, six home runs, 37 RBI and a .917 slugging percentage. He will play at the University of New Haven.
Jack Parenty, Holy Trinity, 2B, Sr.
Parenty was the ideal leadoff hitter. He got on base consistently and was very aggressive on the bases. He batted .441 with 23 runs, 17 RBIs, 24 stolen bases and a .563 on-base percentage. He will play at Stony Brook.
Mike Rizzitello, Connetquot, C, Sr.
Rizzitello batted .370 with 19 runs, 12 walks, one home run, 17 RBIs and five stolen bases during the regular season. He hit .333 with eight walks, seven runs, three RBIs and three stolen bases during the postseason. He will play at Dowling.
C.J. Schildt, Hauppauge, P/1B, Sr.
Schildt went 6-2 with a 0.80 ERA and 0.95 WHIP. He allowed 42 hits, no home runs or triples, walked 16 and struck out 73 in 61 innings. He picked off six runners and batted .321 with a homer and 21 RBI. He didn't commit an error and will play at Stony Brook.
Joe Siringo, Oyster Bay, P/1B/3B, Sr.
Siringo helped Oyster Bay win the Nassau Class B championship with an 8-1 record and 0.66 ERA. He pitched 64 innings and allowed 27 hits, 17 walks and struck out 106. Siringo, who will play at Sacred Heart, batted .468 with 32 runs, three home runs, 20 RBI and a .649 slugging percentage.
Frank Trimarco, Calhoun, P/1B, Sr.
The lefthander went 7-2 with a 1.14 ERA and 0.87 WHIP in helping the Colts reach the state Class AA semifinals. In 80 innings, he allowed 54 hits, walked 16 and struck out 105. Trimarco hit .340 and will play at Monmouth University.
Matt Vogel, Patchogue-Medford, P/SS, Jr.
Vogel batted .420 with 26 runs, 20 RBIs and a .630 slugging percentage. On the mound, he went 2-1 with a 1.20 ERA, striking out 43 in 23 innings.
Nassau Coach of the Year: Joe Corea, Calhoun
Suffolk Coach of the Year: Bob Ambrosini, Connetquot
Compiled by Adam Ronis


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Elihu took another breath so Job could soak all this in. Then he continued:
"Do you think it's normal for you to claim to be more righteous than G-d? Do you really think one's lot is the same whether he's a sinner or a saint? I'll answer both you and your three friends, who were left speechless by your arguments. Look up at the Heavens - see how high they are? Try to grasp how exalted G-d is. No matter how much you may sin, do you think it can possibly affect Him? Conversely, even if you're very righteous, do you think you're giving Him anything? Your actions only impact on other human beings, not on G-d."
"Many people cry out to G-d because they are oppressed by others, who do not fear Him. But G-d has given us a greater capacity for wisdom than He has given His other creatures, so let's use it. We see the oppressed cry out and G-d may not answer them immediately. Well, you, Job, are not being oppressed by man, but by G-d Himself, yet you complain that He doesn't come down here and answer you in person? You should just state your case and wait for His reply, in His own due time. Just be aware that what you've endured so far is nothing compared to what one's sins truly deserve; G-d is graciously overlooking many of them. You, Job, simply don't know what you're talking about."


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text: The Gallery News Lagerfeld Workings 19 March 2012 Lauren Milligan Updated Monday March 19, 2.20pm: Go inside Karl Lagerfeld's world with his newly-launched website, which - as well as giving fans to shop his latest label's new offering - also offers an insight into what inspires and interests the man himself, from his most recent photography exhibitions to his favourite sayings and words of wisdom. See his work as guest editor for the Metro and read his guide to the chicest Parisian destinations, including book shops, hotels and fashion boutiques. Browse the site yourself at KARL.COM. SEE KARL'S NEW OWN LABEL COLLECTIONUpdated Monday January 30, 11.31am: Karl Lagerfeld says that his debut collection for his new label, Karl, is an insight into his personality. SEE THE COLLECTION HERE"It's a graphic idea of what I like, what could be translated from me to girls," he explained. "It's very graphic; black and white, silver and grey. Chanel is me doing Chanel, Fendi is me doing Italy and this is me doing me, whatever that means. Don't ask me too many questions because it's very strange to see your face wherever you turn."The Chanel legend also explained why he decided to enter the mid-range market, having worked at the luxury end of the industry as well as launching a collection for H&M in 2004."The people I've been in business with before, they always want to be in competition with Chanel or Fendi - I wasn't interested," he said. "Why would I want to do the same thing? I liked to do H&M, because it was a different point and this is another one. The middle class does not have enough class that I think the middle class should have."Lagerfeld started his fashion career at Balmain, where he worked as Pierre Balmain's apprentice - an experience that wasn't all positive."At Balmain I wasn't crazy about what he did and he wasn't very pleasant," he told US Vogue. "But I said to myself 'you are here to learn, shut up and forget about it.' I thought it was chicer at Dior and Balenciaga, but you can learn there because you are not influenced. You learn not what to do." SEE KARL'S NEW COLLECTION IN FULL HEREUpdated Thursday January 26, 4.15pm: Join Karl Lagerfeld in Paris and be part of the official countdown for the unveiling of his new label. Watch a procession of sunglasses-wearing models showcase the designer's latest looks, surrounded by hundreds of excited shoppers here on VogueTV. WATCH THE FILM HEREUpdated Thursday January 26, 9.09am: As befits his status in his adopted hometown, Karl Lagerfeld drew the crowds in Paris yesterday for the unveiling of his new Karl collection. The designer attended in person alongside Net-A-Porter founder Natalie Massenet to officially launch the range, which has already attracted spectaular sales on the online boutique. In support of the designer, Massenet sported a much-more-casual than usual black puffed jacket bearing the new Karl logo. Elsewhere, hundreds of eager shoppers gathered in London for the launch of Net-A-Porter's Karl pop-up window, all vying for an item from the Chanel's helmer's new collection."The Karl launch was extraordinary in London," said Net-A-Porter Group head of brand relations Jenny Cossons. "We had people waiting in line from midday and hundreds came over the course of the afternoon. It was so exciting to be part of a global fashion first - live and in real time - and you could really feel the buzz amongst those people who were there." SEE THE FULL COLLECTION HEREUpdated Wednesday January 25, 8.31am: Karl Lagerfeld has unveiled his debut collection for his new, more affordable line Karl for the first time in full today. With prices starting at £50 for fingerless gloves and detachable collars, highlights include sequinned dresses and skirts, crisp white shirts with cut-away back detailing, tough leather jackets and T-shirts bearing the Chanel helmer's famous face. The collection will be available from NET-A-PORTER.COM later this afternoon. SEE THE COLLECTION HEREUpdated Tuesday January 24, 9.47am: Last night, Net-A-Porter gave a lucky group of press a preview of the new Karl collection at its offices in London - and we can report that the pieces are everything we hoped they would be. PVC-sleeve jumpers in grey and black jersey; leather and sequinned collars; sleek wool jackets; super-skinny jeans; and even Karl's signature fingerless gloves - all adorned with the new Karl logo - make up a collection that is sure to fly off the virtual shelves. SEE A PREVIEW HEREIt also emerged today, WWD reports, that New York shoppers will be treated to a new 650-square-foot pop-up Karl shop - set to open this Friday at 375 Bleecker Street, showcasing the Karl line, along with a selection of Lagerfeld-approved books, brooches and gadgets. WATCH KARL INTERVIEW HIMSELF ON VOGUETVUpdated Monday January 23, 11.31am: As the countdown begins for Karl Lagerfeld's new and more affordable line, Net-A-Porter will be hosting five international pop-up store windows - in London, Paris, New York, Berlin and Sydney - featuring its edit of the new collection on Wednesday January 25, the day of the label's launch. Shoppers will be able to buy and win pieces, using the iPad2 and iPhones, and take home Karl goodie bags and T-shirts. London's event will be held at Covent Garden's Unit 3 at 3.30pm on Wednesday, whilst the designer himself will celebrate the launch in Paris on the same day; opening a mysterious cube bearing his face that appeared on Friday in Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, containing unseen film footage. SEE A PREVIEW OF THE COLLECTIONUpdated Friday December 16, 10.08am: Along with a new microsite dedicated to all things Karl, NET-A-PORTER.COM has unveiled pictures of his new collection. Download the new app to play a "Find Karl" game and to "Karlify" your look by uploading a picture and seeing it with the Chanel helmer's famous white hair and black glasses. To peruse the site, click HERE.Updated Thursday December 8, 1.22pm: Karl Lagerfeld has unveiled the first picture from his soon-to-be-launched new and affordable womenswear line - a pair of slim-leg, black trousers paired with a metallic biker jacker and leather vest. A detachable collar bares the words "I only wear the latest thing, it's my job." The collection will be unveiled in its entirety during Couture Fashion Week in Paris on January 25.Updated Monday October 24, 8.55am: Karl Lagerfeld is launching a new, affordable womenswear label, entitled Karl, which is expected to go on sale in January exclusively on NET-A-PORTER.COM Prices for the rock 'n' roll-inspired collection start at €60 (£52)."It's my today's taste and style and a reflection of how I think a great number of people would like to be dressed now," Lagerfeld told WWD. "I just want not too expensive clothes that people may like and perhaps want to wear. That was my concept for a long time, but my business partners in the past wanted to be like Chanel or Fendi without putting behind what is needed to be like that."The 100-piece range will feature evening and daywear, including timeless black dresses with plunging backs, silver jeans and vest tops. Although the collection will launch initially online, there are plans to open dedicated Karl Lagerfeld stores and temporary boutiques."We are thrilled and proud to be the exclusive partner for the launch of KARL," said said NET-A-PORTER.COM founder and executive chairman Natalie Massenet. "From the moment we saw the collection we were hooked and we can't wait to introduce this to a global fashion consumer for whom Karl Lagerfeld is an icon in his own right. The collection will speak to every woman who wants a bit of the inimitable fabulous street chic that Karl Lagerfeld is known for. And given Karl's fascination with all things modern, this will be a 21st Century launch - globally available, in-season for instant gratification and harnessing the power of the digital media and social commerce. It's truly an honour for us to collaborate with Karl and his team." Related Gallery H&M's Designer Collaborations Related Gallery Karl Lagerfeld: Life In Pictures Related Gallery Karl Lagerfeld's Quotes - 09/02/2009