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Cellulitis is an infection of the skin and tissue just below the skin. The infection may occur anywhere on the body. It is most common on the lower legs.
Cellulitis is caused by a bacterial infection. It may come from bacteria that normally live on the skin or bacteria from other sources. The bacteria enter the skin through a cut or injury. The infection spreads into the surrounding skin.
Factors that may increase the chance of cellulitis include:
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Symptoms may begin within hours or days and can include:
Cellulitis near the eyes may cause pain with eye movements and should be treated right away.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your doctor will also ask about exposure to natural bodies of water or animals. Your skin will be closely examined. The border of the cellulitis on your skin may be marked. This will help to monitor its progress
Tests may include:
In severe cases, the infection can lead to tissue death known as
gangrene. It can also spread to the bone or other structures.
Images may be taken of your bodily structures. This can be done with:
The goal is to eliminate the infection and reduce discomfort. Most cases resolve after 1-2 weeks of treatment.
Hospital care may be needed if you have:
Treatment includes:
Antibiotics may be taken by mouth or injected into a muscle or vein. The method will depend on the severity of the infection. The antibiotic chosen will depend on the bacteria causing the infection. Pain medication may also be prescribed.
This may include:
If you have an infected wound, it will need to be cleaned. Dead tissue may be removed.
In certain situations, a collection of pus may develop. This is called an
abscess. It can be drained.
To help reduce your chance of cellulitis:
American Academy of Dermatology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Canadian Dermatology Association
Health Canada
Cellulitis. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated July 13, 2015. Accessed August 5, 2015.
Cellulitis and erysipelas. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases website. Available at:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/cellulitiserysipelas/pages/default.aspx. Updated November 8, 2013. Accessed August 5, 2015.
Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, et al. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Clin Infect Dis. 2014;59(2):147-159.
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Dr Listro needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 199 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
Listro Chiropractic and Massage Clinic "keeping active people active"
we are a clinic owned and opperated by dr listro - chiropractor for 30 yrs+. key services are spinal adjustments, patient education and massage from Registered massage therapists. goal is to help people be pain free, reach health and performance potential, improve quality of life.
see current website to know more about clinic http://www.drlistro.com
clinic is in a higher income neighbourhood, we want to attract yonge and old, regular everyday athletes.
major core of business potential are women between the ages 25-50yrs old
we want to abstract away from the "old school" bone crushing reputation of chiropractors
at Listro Chiropractic we emphasize the need to exercise the body and live a healthy lifestyle
i would love to see a fresh and energizing cutting edge look
prefer to see a navy blue combined with bright orange. light coloured army green good too.
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First World War: Stars back bid to remember EVERY Commonwealth serviceman who fell
THE Royal British Legion has launched a campaign to help people pay tribute to each of the 1,117,077 Commonwealth servicemen and women who died in the First World War.
You can look up a family member, namesake, or make a random search - the important thing is that not a single one of them is left without a dedication.
The Every Man Remembered initiative - backed by stars of the stage, screen and the world of business - was unveiled today to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the war.
It is an online database that allows people to pay tribute to people with whom they are connected or to find someone who has no-one to commemorate them.
Renowned figures from entertainment, arts and business have already hailed some of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Actor Tom Hardy, Downton Abbey creator Lord Julian Fellowes, TV historian Dan Snow and West Ham United vice chairman Karren Brady are among those who have been photographed holding pictures of fallen First World War servicemen they are connected to.
Dr Stephen Clarke, head of remembrance at the Legion, said: "Every Man Remembered will be our greatest act of remembrance during the First World War centenary.
"We're asking the British public to commemorate every one of the 1,117,077 men and women who died during the First World War through our huge online database.
"You can look up a family member, namesake, or make a random search - the important thing is that not a single one of them is left without a dedication and recognition of the role they played in providing the freedom we have today."
Users can find someone who was in their family, or who shares their name, age, workplace, birthday or home town.
The campaign was inspired by a British Explorer Scout who visited a war cemetery in Belgium and wrote to the Legion asking why some of the graves had dozens of poppies and crosses next to them, while others had none.
Dr Clarke added: "The support The Royal British Legion provides is just as important for our armed forces today as it was when the charity was founded after the First World War.
"Every Man Remembered will help us make a real connection to those who died 100 years ago and support those who continue to serve."
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Receiving cards and notes from friends and family around the holidays is something that always makes me really happy. They're warm, charming, and great for catching up, but then comes the question: Er... so, what's the right amount of time to keep these things before they get chucked into the recycling bin? Something about this whole act makes me weirdly guilty. (Surely, I'm not the only freak who thinks about this, right?) Ultimately, they always seem to make their way into my box of holiday decorations so I can procrastinate the inevitable for another year.
So after a couple of weeks of gazing at the ghosts of Christmas Cards Past this year, I've come up with a compromise that I feel comfortable with... making them into gift tags.
There quick, a little more charming than the regular store-bought fare and totally, 100% free from guilt!
-recycled cards
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Step 1: Cut away parts of the card that have writing on them.
Step 2: You'll need some tags to use as templates for tracing onto the useable parts of the cards. The ones pictured below I made, but it's just as easy to skip this part by tracing some old gift tags that you've already got sitting around.
Step 3: Trace your tags on to the backside of the card. (You may want to plan where you're going to lay each tag to make sure you getting the most interesting parts of the image.)
Step 3: Carefully cut out the tags you've drawn on the traced lines.
Step 4: Use a hole punch to make a little hole in the top of the tag.
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Norman Oder, who blogs at Atlantic Yards Report, and who knows more about Bruce Ratner's proposed Atlantic Yards project than anyone else, published an op-ed in Metro New York yesterday exposing the strange lack of factual information available on Atlantic Yards, a multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-subsidized project. How can politicians or the citizens of the city support a project whose costs are unknown? His op-ed is called "The Unreality of Atlantic Yards." It follows:
Before we can debate a major project like Atlantic Yards, we must get the facts straight. Regarding some key aspects of the development — its size and the cost or benefit to the public — too many people are in the dark.
Atlantic Yards, slated to include a basketball arena and 16 mostly residential towers, would be the largest project in Brooklyn's history and likely the country's densest residential community. There's an argument for high-rise construction near Brooklyn's biggest transit hub, but overdevelopment could produce ruinous traffic and overcrowded schools. Developer Forest City Ratner moved tactically; after announcing Atlantic Yards in December 2003, FCR last year increased the project's size by 14 percent. This year the developer twice announced small reductions, bringing the project back to square one — an 8 million-square-foot project that would require the Empire State Development Corporation, a state authority, to override city zoning. Still, gubernatorial shoo-in Eliot Spitzer, on whose watch the project would be constructed, opined that the latest cut was sufficient. Spitzer's interpretation undoubtedly stems from media reports that announced a recent 8 percent reduction without acknowledging the project's original size. The Municipal Art Society and other critics say that Atlantic Yards should be truncated by a third, or a half. Even the latter might strain Brooklyn's infrastructure and overwhelm adjacent neighborhoods.
A larger failure regards the ESDC's claim that Atlantic Yards would bring $1.4 billion in new taxes to the city and state. For three months, the agency refused to produce its analysis, even denying Freedom of Information Law requests. However, after activists, journalists and Brooklyn Assemblyman Jim Brennan pressed the agency, the ESDC provided a seven-page memo. It wasn't convincing. For example, while it calculated about $500 million in subsidies and tax exemptions, the agency omitted hundreds of millions more in public spending for such things as public utility relocation, schools, affordable housing and police and fire service. The ESDC says it never calculates such public costs in its models. Still, the city's Independent Budget Office included most of those costs in its own analysis of Atlantic Yards. So did a report commissioned by the developer.
A poll released by Crain's New York Business last month compounded the confusion. Those polled were told that "the project will provide" 2,250 affordable apartments, but weren't informed that it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Naturally, few questioned this "benefit," even though such subsidies might be better deployed elsewhere. Based on the answer to such poorly worded questions, some 60 percent of respondents said they supported Atlantic Yards. Indeed, after a lawsuit against the use of eminent domain for Atlantic Yards was filed last week, Mayor Mike Bloomberg defended the project, claiming that Atlantic Yards was "overwhelmingly favored" by Brooklynites and city residents.
We don't know the Atlantic Yards bottom line. We don't have a fair sense of public opinion. We do know the project hasn't been fundamentally reduced in size. And we know that too many public officials are either underinformed or play fast and loose with the facts.
Read the piece in Metro New York at The Unreality of Atlantic Yards.


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Daily Devotional
October 31
Twilight: The Great Invitation
by the Rev. Andrew Kuyvenhoven
Isaiah's God is the Holy One of Israel. In God's presence we have to be morally clean. God has chosen his Servant, who will rule in righteousness in a kingdom of peace.
Bible Reading:
Isaiah 55:1–5
Bible Text:
"Come, all who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk" (lsa. 55:1).
Nothing in the Old Testament comes closer to the New Testament gospel than this part of Isaiah. In chapter 53 the faithful servant obtains our salvation by giving his life as an offering for our sins. And in today's passage God opens wide the doors and invites the world to the joy of his salvation.
Four times he says, "Come!" All who will ever participate in the salvation of God must obey this call. "Come!"
God uses seven more commands in this short passage: "Buy! Eat! Listen! Listen! Give ear! Come! Hear!"
All these commands indicate essentially the same thing. And everyone in this world is personally responsible to react accordingly and obey the gracious call of the gospel. You and I must come and eat. We must hear and obey and be persuaded and go—all through the same door, all to God. The door is Jesus. And God's gift of salvation is presented under the symbols of water, which stands for the basic need of humanity; milk, which is more special; and wine, which makes it a feast.
God calls us to the banquet of salvation. He urges us to come, telling us not to foolishly try to buy with money what can be had only by grace.
No money can ever buy life. But they who believe the gospel will have life eternally.
Andrew Kuyvenhoven's Daylight, a modern devotional classic, was originally published in 1994. This edition is copyright by Faith Alive Christian Resources, from whom may be ordered Daylight, the predecessor of Twilight.
A man of many accomplishments, Andrew Kuyvenhoven is probably best known for his contributions to Today (formerly The Family Altar), a widely-used monthly devotional booklet associated with the Back to God Hour. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations for this edition of Twilight are from the New International Version Be sure to read the "Preface" and the "Acknowledgments" by the author.


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Kid Fest Going on Now Until 5 PM Saturday April 20
Townsquare Media and Catholic Charities are pleased to sponsor Kid's Fest today, April 20th now through 5 PM at the Brewer Auditorium. Kid's Fest, presented by Playland Adventures and General Rentals is a completely free event with bounce houses, pony rides by Coldbrook Equestrian, the Flannery Brothers performing from 1-2 PM, Wingnut the Clown from 11-1 and legendary magician Danny Baker from 2 - 2:45!
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This is Barrie's favorite mind-reading effect using a deck of cards.
A person thinks of a card, and the performer discovers its identity in a dramatic fashion. What makes this demonstration different from other card discoveries is that it can be done with a borrowed deck without any handling of the cards by the performer.
The revelation of the "thought-of card" is presented in such a fashion that everyone present believes they are witnessing an actual demonstration of thought transference.
The method used for this modest miracle, like many memorable effects in magic, is simple. Yet, the performer must be able to control the situation without the appearance of doing so, and he must be able to dramatize his apparent ability to receive the mental thoughts of a person. Totally Impossible Card Revelation allows you to do just that.
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Top Racquetball Players In The World In Sioux Falls
The 36th annual Lewis Drug Pro/Am Racquetball Tournament opens today in Sioux Falls and runs through Sunday.
All of the top 12 players in International Racquetball Tour rankings will be in town competing for more than $25,000 in prize money.
Also competing is Kane Waselenchuk, the eight time world champion who has held the top ranking in the sport since 2008.
The tournament begins with a Pro/Am doubles tournament and is being held at various racquetball courts around town.
The professional championship matches will be held Saturday at Family Wellness.


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Black in America: The New Promised Land - Silicon Valley
Aired November 24, 2011 - 16:00 ET
MICHAEL ARRINGTON, CRUNCHFUND: You know, this is a white and Asian world here. It just is. HANK WILLIAMS, 46, KLOUD.CO: People are minting money in Silicon Valley right now. I want a piece of it. ANGELA BENTON, 30, GETCUED.COM: Hi. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a capitalist endeavor. You know, we're all serious adults, entrepreneurs. BENTON: I'm determined. WAYNE SUTTON, 36, VOUCHAPP.COM: I'm tired of playing games. TIFFANI ASHTON BELL, 26, PENCILYOU.IN: I believe in my product. I believe in my ideas. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we're building great companies, every single one of us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm chasing success. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And so we want to stand out because we're just so damn good that they have to notice us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Each founder is going to have two minutes to pitch their idea. BENTON: I'm nervous. I haven't been nervous all night and I'm nervous. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The way we're going to make money -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Um. ANTHONY FRAZIER, 25, PLAYD.IT: Um. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You didn't tell me a thing about what your business plan was or what you intend to do for revenue. FRAZIER: OK. PROF. VIVEK WADHWA, DUKE UNIVERSITY When I did raise Venture Capital my buddies here advised me was to get a white guy to be your front man. And I did that. I hired very impressive, six-foot-tall polished white guy, and let him do all the talking. SUTTON: It's very sad. In 2011, we got a black president. And he's not putting no money in my pocket right now directly. So what do we go to do? Play the game until we're successful. SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN PRESENTS HOST (on camera): If 10 years down the road there are no more black entrepreneurs than there are today, what's at risk? WILLIAMS: A permanent underclass. O'BRIEN (voice-over): In this unassuming three-bedroom home in Mountain View, California, Angela Benton and Wayne Sutton hope to make history. SUTTON: Here? Certainly doesn't look like. BENTON: One of them is supposed to be a sofa bed. O'BRIEN: The friends connected online. Two black Internet entrepreneurs trying to succeed in an overwhelmingly white industry. BENTON: For whatever reason, African-Americans tend to be consumers of technology and not really creators of technology. SUTTON: Name me one black web tech founder or start-up CEO. Where's the example of a black Mark Zuckerberg? O'BRIEN: Last year only 1 percent of Internet start-ups that received funding were founded by African-Americans. So Angela and Wayne created the New Media Accelerator. NewME for short. A ground- breaking program designed to speed up the development and success of minority-led start-ups in Silicon Valley. BENTON: If you're going to be an actor you go to L.A. If you're going to be in fashion, you go to New York. And if you're going to be in technology, then you come to Silicon Valley. O'BRIEN: Modeled after similar programs, NewME offers its dot com founders immediate access to deep-pocketed investors, well-connected mentors, and opens doors to some of the most successful Internet companies in the world. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to Facebook. O'BRIEN: The downside? BENTON: Everyone will be living together. O'BRIEN: Eight people. Nine weeks. One house. One goal. Changing the face of Silicon Valley. BENTON: For it to be successful to me, founders have to get investment. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks for your enthusiasm for coming to Google. O'BRIEN: The high-stakes program, backed by sponsors, culminates in demo day when each entrepreneur will have just six minutes to pitch their company to a room full of investors. Seventy-five people applied. Six were chosen by Angela and Wayne based on their start-up ideas. BENTON: People are leaving their loved ones for the summer. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready, Kenny? BENTON: They're leaving their spouses. They're leaving their kids. Some of them are quitting their jobs. So people are making major life changes to take a risk and be involved in this program and that's a little bit of pressure. Hi. Right. Nice to meet you. O'BRIEN: They include a former MIT student body president. BENTON: Pius is really smart. Pius is really strong. O'BRIEN: A master programmer. BENTON: Tiffani is super sweet. She's a girl and she's also a programmer. So that's an oddity. O'BRIEN: A former hedge fund project manager. BENTON: Crisson is really focused. O'BRIEN: A video game blogger. BENTON: Anthony, I like to call him cool, because he's just laid back. He's not trying to be something he's not. O'BRIEN: An engineer from Detroit. BENTON: Hajj has swagger. He's a sales guy. O'BRIEN: A former dot com millionaire. BENTON: Hank, he's experienced. He's raised money before. O'BRIEN: NewME cofounder and self-described country boy, Wayne Sutton. SUTTON: It takes courage and guts to come out here, you know, and leave my son, my wife a while, and you know come out here and pursue your dreams. PIUS UZAMERE, 28, BECOUPLY.COM: This isn't a charity. It's not a summer camp. We're capitalists. We're all trying to build great businesses. And we're trying to secure the funding needed to build those businesses. O'BRIEN (on camera): Why is this so important? WILLIAMS: How can you have a huge and growing part of the economy with no participation from a significant demographic? O'BRIEN: The odds of success are slim. Eighty percent of all start- ups founded by first-time entrepreneurs fail. But Angela is confident her accelerator will help the housemates beat the odds. Something she says she's done her entire life. BENTON: I was 15, and I was in ninth grade and I was pregnant. But it was a hard time. I mean, when you're around people in society and you're also around your own family and people think they know how your life is going to end up. O'BRIEN: Driven to prove people wrong, Angela earned a master's degree in graphic design and founded a trailblazing Web site for African-Americans interested in technology. Today, Angela is 30. A single mother of three. In addition to running the NewME accelerator with Wayne, Angela is working on her own start-up. Getcued. A mobile app that makes shopping and restaurant recommendations based on past experiences. BENTON: People often have a lot of excuses. I hate that because I could have had every reason to have a lot of excuses. And I didn't. I mean, just how bad do you want something? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six people that share one bathroom? O'BRIEN: The eight entrepreneurs arrive in Mountain View with billion-dollar dreams. But for the next nine weeks, they'll sleep on $80 air mattresses. WILLIAMS: It's not what I would call five-star accommodations. I'd call it scrappy. O'BRIEN: But their first event is first-class. Welcome reception sponsored by Google. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How you doing? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good, how are you doing? UZAMERE: The first inkling that something may be a little different than we'd expected was when there was an announcement about a dragon's den and that the judges for the dragon's den should please come up to the stage. WILLIAMS: Dragons don't sound good. BENTON: I'm going in cold and I'm pitching. Cued is basically -- and I don't even know what I'm supposed to say next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN (voice-over): By the end of the first day, the NewME entrepreneurs find themselves inside the headquarters of Google. An Internet start-up founded in 1998, today worth close to $200 billion. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How you doing? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People respond positively and negatively. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This place is amazing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. Welcome to Google. O'BRIEN: But quickly, their excitement is replaced by concern. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If anyone who's involved in judging the dragon's den, please come up to the front. UZAMERE: We're kind of all wondering what is the dragon's den? It's essentially slang for a panel of judges where they, you know, throw you and your company in and, you know, they essentially rip you to shreds after you pitch. And it's really the antithesis of an unstressful environment. BENTON: The founders felt kind of ambushed in a way. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First founder to come up is Tiffani Bell for the company Pencil You In. BELL: So, yes. I'm Tiffani. O'BRIEN: Tiffani graduated from Howard University with a degree in computer science. She quit her job as a Web developer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to join the accelerator. (On camera): How many black female programmers do you know? BELL: So before I went to Howard, I would say none. Historically, black people -- whether we're talking about, like, you know, buffalo soldiers or the Tuskegee airmen have not traditionally been thought of as being capable of things. And so I think that's kind of how it is for me as a black woman in technology. Pencil You In is my start-up. And I'm -- right now I'm allowing beauticians to accept appointments online. At this point I have a functional product. FRAZIER: By the time she was done and the judges started critiquing her, they were critiquing her on everything that they told us we have to worry about. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You need to do your darnedest to differentiate what you're doing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was serious. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our next entrepreneur is Anthony Frazier. His start-up is Played. FRAZIER: We want to give gamers a chance to recommend games and also have the app recommend games to them based off what they've played. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You didn't tell me a thing about what your business plan was and what you want -- what you intend to do for revenue. FRAZIER: It was definitely a dragon's lair. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are your launch plans? FRAZIER: Some people got chewed up more than others. WILLIAMS: A material entrepreneur. Our first product is called Kloud.co Organizer. We let you organize information. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know who your customer is. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't ever give vague numbers. Give specific numbers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My way of impressing my girlfriend is building a Web app so -- (LAUGHTER) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are things you said that kind of backed me off. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're a chief salesperson. You have to figure out how to relate to your audience. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know what you built, what you're aspiring to built. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last but certainly not least we have Angela Benton. BENTON: Cued is basically a mobile application. When I was giving my pitch, I literally just -- my mind kind of blanked. I'm nervous. I haven't been nervous all night, and I'm nervous. I was just like, wait, I'm at Google, and I'm pitching, and I don't even know what I'm supposed to say next. That's it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your nervousness I think cut you a little bit short so. O'BRIEN: The Google event is over. And the impression left is not good. WRIGHT: I kind of felt bad for them because any time you -- you know, give a good pitch it's a missed opportunity. O'BRIEN: Yet the house mates feel it went OK. BENTON: The presentations across the board were really strong. FRAZIER: I would probably give myself a seven. WILLIAMS: I thought people did really well, though, considering that there -- that there was no preparation. O'BRIEN: Housemate Hank Williams has pitched to Silicon Valley investors before. (On camera): Are you the oldest person in the house? WILLIAMS: By far. O'BRIEN: Really? WILLIAMS: I think, yes. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Hank grew up in Harlem. The son of a judge. He left the University of Pennsylvania after his junior year and in 2000 founded an Internet radio start-up that raised $40 million. Two years later, it folded. WILLIAMS: Emotionally it was very difficult. I really for a couple of years didn't want anything to do with technology at all. O'BRIEN: Hank has spent the last four years full time developing Kloud.co, a Web platform to help people organize their e-mail and personal documents online. (On camera): What are you looking for moneywise? WILLIAMS: Over the course of the next several years of the company, $5 to $10 million. O'BRIEN: Are you competing with the people in the house? WILLIAMS: No. Not at all. We're eight companies out of thousands seeking funding. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Silicon Valley is a long way from Newark, New Jersey, where NewME entrepreneur Anthony Frazier grew up. FRAZIER: I didn't grow up with a lot of money. When I was living in Newark, the only time I would see a person of a different color, you know, a white person would be like the missionaries walking around trying to convert people. O'BRIEN: After dropping out of community college, he worked the overnight shift at K-Mart. FRAZIER: The people I worked with, that was their life. But I've realized that a lot of those people didn't really have many options. I don't want to work like that. I kind of want to make my own way. O'BRIEN: A video game fanatic, Anthony created a video game Web site which led to his start-up idea. (On camera): So tell me about Playd. FRAZIER: Playd is a social network for gamers. I got passion. I got determination. I got heart. I may not have the paper to say I know what I know, but I know what I know. O'BRIEN (voice-over): For NewME entrepreneur Pius Uzamere, the summer in Silicon Valley is about going all in on his dot com idea. An MIT grad and former student body president, Pius quit his consulting business last year to work with his co-founder and girlfriend Becky, developing BeCouply, a social network for couples. UZAMERE: For me this isn't a summer project. This isn't -- it's not a hobby. O'BRIEN: Living off their savings, the couple bought one-way tickets to the West Coast. Becky will live close to the NewME house during the nine-week program. UZAMERE: Definitely for us the stakes are very high. O'BRIEN: The housemates know the road to demo day won't be easy. WILLIAMS: If you're going to take something personal when someone says, I didn't think that was very good at all, and is very blunt and straightforward, and that hurts your feelings, go home now. Go home now. UZAMERE: There are lots of people who, you know, they hear about the program like this and they assume that it's more or less a handout. You know? And that we aren't serious entrepreneurs. And all they're doing is charity for -- for minorities. It's a capitalist endeavor. We're all serious adults, entrepreneurs who -- you know, we're building great companies, every single one of us. And so we want to stand out because we're just so damn good that they have to notice us. O'BRIEN (on camera): Why do you think there are so few African- American tech entrepreneurs? RON CONWAY, ANGEL INVESTOR: I think that they probably think that it is an uphill battle. O'BRIEN: Is it? CONWAY: It is an uphill battle for -- O'BRIEN: For everyone or for African-Americans specifically? CONWAY: Oh, for everyone. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Perhaps the most influential investor in Silicon Valley is Ron Conway. An early investor in Google, PayPal, and Twitter, Conway invests about $10 million a year in start-ups. CONWAY: But we only invest in one out of 30 companies that we see. So it's a very -- it's a whittling down process that's pretty brutal. I have to admit that a lot of it is who you know. If they're well known to us, we will tend to see that entrepreneur before an entrepreneur who's just coming in blind. O'BRIEN: Is that particularly hard if you're African-American? CONWAY: I would -- I would say yes. It's disappointing, but, you know, we don't know how to go recruit those people. WRIGHT: So right now all you should be thinking about is how do I execute on my idea. O'BRIEN: One week after the Google event, the entrepreneurs have dinner with one of their mentors, Navarrow Wright, the chief technology officer for the Internet company Interactive One. Navarrow was also one of the four dragons during the Google event. (On camera): What was your take? Describe for me that moment. WRIGHT: I said to myself that they weren't ready. Everyone here is kind of looking at this environment of this incubator, and saying, I don't want to be the first person to tell this black person that hey, they're not doing a good job. Right? So I guess to a certain degree that role is kind of fallen on me because -- O'BRIEN: On the black guy. WRIGHT: On the black guy. Yes. Show of hands. Who thinks they did well? So nobody thinks they did well? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I did OK. WRIGHT: I think you guys need to be a little bit harder on yourselves. And let's be clear. My goal to say that is to not to belittle anybody in this room. My goal to say that is that I need you guys and want you guys to understand the vastness of this opportunity. Right? You guys walked through Palo Alto to get here. This is probably the most black people who are in the town right now. Let's be honest, right? So you need to understand the reality that you're in. WILLIAMS: No one that walked into that room knew they were about to pitch. WRIGHT: Let's say you walked in there and Mark Zuckerberg was in there and said, hey, I want to hear your idea. So you're going to tell me that it's OK to say, oh, well, I didn't know I was going to pitch to him and I shouldn't be ready? You're going to make those excuses and at the end of the nine weeks not be where you need to be? But you got to recognize the only person that was in control of that was yourself. It wasn't the Valley. It wasn't the investors. It was you. Because you guys made the decision to come out here and it's bigger than you. If an investor is only seeing one African-American a year to give a pitch, right, and you don't do well, you not only affected you, you affected other people. It's that important. I joke with Angela. There's a tag line. No whack demos on demo day. O'BRIEN (voice-over): There are still eight weeks till demo day. And every day the challenge seems greater. ARRINGTON: This is a white and Asian world here. It just is. WADHWA: When I did raise venture capital, my buddy here's advice to me was, get a white guy to be your front man. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN (voice-over): The NewME entrepreneurs start their journey humbled. They have eight weeks left to develop their dot com companies and refine their pitches before demo day. UZAMERE: This is anything but the real world. This is anything but "Jersey Shore." You know we're all here to work. I don't know if there's even any alcohol in this house. There are a lot of computers. A lot of people coding late at night. WILLIAMS: I wake up at 6:00, there's already one or two people that have taken a shower. So I think everyone is pretty focused and pretty intense. And, you know, there's not a lot of play time. MITCH KAPOR, KAPOR CAPITAL: Start-ups are hard. You have to go through suffering. Most of the time in unexpected ways that will really test and challenge. Are you also trying to do an actual raise of capital? O'BRIEN: Noted tech entrepreneur Mitch Kapor is a sponsor and mentor of the NewME program. KAPOR: They're going to want to know what your plan is. O'BRIEN: In 1982 Kapor founded the Lotus Development Corporation which developed the popular Lotus 123 spreadsheet. The company was later sold for $3.5 billion. Today Kapor invests in start-ups. KAPOR: I'm incredibly excited about NewME. O'BRIEN (on camera): Why do you care about a bunch of black entrepreneurs who've come to Silicon Valley to try to be successful? KAPOR: We have serious problems being economically competitive in the world. And we have to have everybody, absolutely everybody, who can contribute making their maximum contribution. You can't tell the whole story. WRIGHT: OK. KAPOR: Is it really true that every entrepreneur with an idea gets an equal shot? That's absolutely not true. ARRINGTON: There are so few women and minorities asking money from VCs, I'm not sure if there's enough data to really know if there's some sort of built-in bias. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Michael Arrington is the founder of the influential Silicon Valley Web site, techcrunch. Today a venture capitalist, Arrington is outspoken in his belief that success in the Valley is more merit-based than any other place in the world. (On camera): Why do you think there are so few African-American tech entrepreneurs here? ARRINGTON: I don't know. And it's something that should be fixed. But I think a lot of it goes back to school. A lot of the successful people here are engineers. Because if they aren't engineers, they have to find an engineer to help them build the software or hardware or both. O'BRIEN: So the pipeline issue. ARRINGTON: Yes. I think that's a big problem. O'BRIEN: Who would you say is the number one black technology entrepreneur? ARRINGTON: You know, that's a weird question. Who would you say is the number one black -- O'BRIEN: I don't cover technology. ARRINGTON: Yes. You know I'm trying to think of any black CEOs in Silicon Valley and I'm not even coming up with any. O'BRIEN: So the entrepreneurs, people making companies. ARRINGTON: I don't know a single black entrepreneur. O'BRIEN: And you cover the industry. ARRINGTON: I mean there -- O'BRIEN: What does that say? ARRINGTON: It means there just aren't any. You saw the perfect meritocratic, but generally speaking it doesn't matter what your education is. It doesn't matter who your parents are here. You can become very successful based purely on your brain size and how you use it. KAPOR: I have not been in the room recently when somebody said, oh, that's an African-American , like, company. I'm not going to invest there. But I guarantee you from personal experience, that's what people are thinking. So I would go toe to toe with Michael Arrington and wind up saying, the part that is meritocratic is great and there's a big part of it that isn't. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Arrington says the rarity of black entrepreneurs might give them an edge. ARRINGTON: This is a white and Asian world here. It just is. It's not a good thing. We have a conference three times in a year. It's actually launched on stage. We're looking for women and minorities all the time. There's a guy actually he was my first client when I was a lawyer, his last company just launched at our event. And he's African-American. It's a cool start-up. His start-u is really cool. But he could have launched a clown show on stage and I would have put him up there. Absolutely. I think he's the first time we've had an African-American -- be the sole founder. UZAMERE: Me and Becky sometimes watch that show "Down Home Cooking with the Neelies." WILLIAMS: The burgers look almost done. O'BRIEN: Among the 25 speakers and mentors who meet with the NewME entrepreneurs, it's Vivek Wadhwa's visit that leaves them speechless. WADHWA: You know, I think what you're doing is fantastic. O'BRIEN: He's a professor at Duke. Wadhwa came to the United States from India in 1980 and founded two Internet companies that raised $50 million. WADHWA: Can I be critical about the community? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. WADHWA: You folks don't help each other. In some parts of America you have this entitlement attitude that we've been discriminated against. Theirs ancestors came as slaves. And that's what's held the community back. You know my community did the exact opposite. We didn't -- we basically said, all right, there's a problem here. We'll fix it ourselves. O'BRIEN: Professor Wadhwa says investors in the Valley practice what's known as pattern matching. They see entrepreneurs who are successful, mainly young, white males, and invest in those who fit that pattern. WADHWA: When I did raise venture capital, my buddy's here advice to me was, he said get a white guy to be your front man. And I did that. I hired a very impressive six-foot-tall polished white guy and let him do all the talking. That's the way it is here. I'm telling you. I've done it, OK? I mean this is -- as I said, this is how I surmounted the problems. That's the way the system works here. You might as well understand it. And then use it to your advantage. BENTON: I'm still kind of, like, speechless. WILLIAMS: You know, there's something raw and very direct about it that's -- you know, that's a little -- it's jarring. SUTTON: It's very sad. In 2011, it's very sad. We got a black president. And he's not putting no money in my pocket right now directly. So what do we got to do? Play the game until we successful. WADHWA: There's so many kids in Berkeley or Stanford you can hire. O'BRIEN: Professor Wadhwa leaves and Hank gathers the housemates to talk. WILLIAMS: We are alone, you know. We're just us. This is it. There's not that many of us. And so it's kind of weird. We've been here a week, and no one's done a demo or showed a screenshot or anything between us. I mean it's crazy. And I -- I guess we're all just trying to -- you know, everyone is so focused on themselves and the -- and I don't mean to offend anybody. I'm not saying that people are selfish. But I'm saying that we're -- you know, who else is going to help you? Who else? We ought to figure out how to band together and, like, make something bigger and better and more powerful. Because there's almost none of us. Maybe this is a catalyst. I don't know. SUTTON: That's why we have a bigger success working together than we do alone. BENTON: We need to have something that comes out of this after nine weeks. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's get cracking. BENTON: OK. I'm changing my clothes. I'm putting on my sweats. O'BRIEN: They realize to have any chance of success on demo day, they'll have to work together. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not crazy about it, but it's something. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The simplest feature that will differentiate you and develop that and try to make that your demo day prototype. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) WILLIAMS: I'm trying to get one thing clear, which is that I can't be the front man. I can't even talk about this. You've got to do it. That's all I'm saying. UZAMERE: We're about a month out from tem demo day, and the pressure's on. FRAZIER: The stakes are really high. I think if the stakes aren't high enough, maybe you aren't taking that much of a risk. I definitely took a huge risk coming out here, you know. Excuse me. I'm trying to get some information on where exactly this is going to take place. My state of mind is just focused on the product. Get as many big people and big places excited about what I'm doing. You know, they thought we were volunteers. I guess that comes with it. You know? So I started a brand-new start-up called Playd. It's called Playd. And it's going to be a gamer -- thank you. You got a card? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do, yes. FRAZIER: Yes? Yes that's when I realized this whole thing is about relationships. Playd is a good idea, you know. I'm thinking this one is going to be the big one. It'll be interesting to see how it all folds out. O'BRIEN: With less than two weeks until demo day, the stress level inside the house is rising. Pius's girlfriend, Becky, doesn't live in the house. But she's a constant presence. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See you guys tomorrow. O'BRIEN: Pius doesn't drive, so Becky must walk several miles to take the bus to get to the NewME house. Unless one of the housemates drives her. BENTON: What's annoying is the expectation that we are supposed to take care of them. So it's not my obligation to make sure that you get home at 1:00 in the morning. UZAMERE: It's been very interesting seeing how resistant certain people have been about, you know, giving her a ride or anything else. It's kind of odd. O'BRIEN (on camera): Are people hostile to Becky? WRIGHT: I think people are honest. And how that is internalized, that's a totally different question. UZAMERE: My name's Pius. BECKY CRUZE, BECOUPLY.COM: And I'm Becky. And we are the co-founders of BeCouply. UZAMERE: I think that some people have definitely had some kind of latent hostility towards her. For what reasons, I can't speculate. O'BRIEN: Is race an issue? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do think that there seems to be some element, unconscious or not, that seems like this is a program for black entrepreneurs and you're not a black entrepreneur. And I certainly would not dispute that. I am not a black entrepreneur. BENTON: If no one can pick you up or no one can drop you off, then you got to take the train or bus. It had nothing to do with Becky being white. I like Becky a lot. O'BRIEN (voice-over): It's just another problem for Angela to deal with. (On camera): You seem very stressed to me. Are you? BENTON: Yes. I mean, I am. It's a lot going on. It's a lot happening. You need to know what you're going to pitch. O'BRIEN (voice-over): She's away from her three daughters, running the accelerator, developing her own dot com company. And it's become clear. The best way to make the accelerator a long-term success is to move to Silicon Valley with her kids. BENTON: If I do it, I want to do it right so that they can start the new school season out here. I mean, that's -- O'BRIEN (on camera): That's in three weeks. BENTON: Yes. That's crazy. So we'll see. O'BRIEN (voice-over): For weeks, the entrepreneurs have worked day and night, developing business plans, building their websites, refining their pitches. But for Wayne Sutton, the hardest part is missing his 7-month-old son. SUTTON: I'm happy. It's emotional, too. Because you want to play with him, hold him and stuff. And I'm across the country and just, you know, dealing with stuff and I could be playing with him. I know I'm not doing this, making this sacrifice so I can get rich. I want my little boy to be successful. I want to learn so I can teach him to be successful. O'BRIEN: Most nights Wayne works until 11:00 p.m. at a neighborhood yogurt shop. He walks home to clear his head. On a Monday night, he's walking home when he's stopped by police. SUTTON: I saw two cops, hands on their hips, ready to pull out a gun, a baton or something to take me down if necessary. O'BRIEN: The officers run a background check. Wayne doesn't have a criminal record. He's told he can go. SUTTON: 11:00, 2:00, 1:00 in the afternoon, 11:00 at night. If I'm walking down the street, just trying to get home, I shouldn't get stopped by police. O'BRIEN: Mountain View Police tell us they stopped Wayne because he was an unfamiliar face in the neighborhood. SUTTON: It don't look good for me to be stopped by the police. I'm not trying to sell a rap album. I'm trying to launch a company here. I don't need no street credibility. I need start-up credibility. That's what I need. UZAMERE: Apparently he was walking while black. HAJJ, 39, GOKIT.ME: You would think in Silicon Valley where you're supposedly judged based on talent alone and great ideas that you would be judged the same way. Whether you're walking down the street or whether you're pitching an idea. It just truly reinforces that that's not the reality that we as African-Americans live in. I want to get back to my computer -- O'BRIEN: With just 24 hours left until demo day, the housemates hold one final practice session. WRIGHT: Show how your product solves the problem. WILLIAMS: OK. I've been writing software a long time and thinking about data. Standing in front of a podium is always a little bit nerve-racking. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is everyone doing today? I feel pretty good. But I also realize that there's a difference between practice and game day, you know. I mean, it's totally different when the lights are on. My heart is still beating weird. BELL: I'm Tiffani Ashton Bell, CEO and founder of Pencil You In. We it come to salons -- hold on. Hold on. Stop. O'BRIEN: Tiffani, a programmer, is nervous. BELL: It's probably the most high-profile thing that I've done in my life as far as a speaking event. Mostly just because I feel like it could be one thing that determines the course of the rest of my life. SUTTON: It's something you can't remember word for word. I don't know. But just tell the story. WRIGHT: You need to make a statement, just keep going if you wanted. But if you stop and pause -- BELL: Right. WRIGHT: -- they'll know you're making a mistake. O'BRIEN: There's no more time to practice. Tomorrow is demo day. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) FRAZIER: Keep a cool head. Focus. KAPOR: It's like opening night on Broadway. And now it's show time. BELL: Going to make it happen today. WILLIAMS: I'm a little nervous. KAPOR: Of course you're going to be scared. It's only human. UZAMERE: Let's do it again. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Less than an hour to go, and the entrepreneurs run through their demo day pitches one last time. WRIGHT: Now let's take a quick look at some of the features that separate -- KAPOR: The counsel that I try to give is, be real, be substantive, but just say enough to get a serious investor interested and hungry for more. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you. All the way to the back. UZAMERE: When we walk in, we see it's standing room only. Investors. Venture capitalists. Angels. Members of the press were there. It was a big deal. Really high stakes. O'BRIEN: For Anthony Frazier, demo day is much more than an opportunity to pitch. FRAZIER: For a large part of the first half of my life, you know, you know, me and my mother and my brother had to go to different houses and stay with different family members. We never had a place to call our own. And one day my mother told me, like, you're going to get me a house. I just think about her wanting a house. I'm going to get her a house. WRIGHT: Father God, thank you for allowing us to take this journey together. Let us recognize that our talents have brought us here. I thank (INAUDIBLE) to bring our ideas to fruition, to ignore the fact that we haven't been done before, we've done great things, we thank you in Jesus' name, (INAUDIBLE) our demos. Amen. O'BRIEN: Demo day begins. Each entrepreneur gets six minutes to pitch. WRIGHT: I'm going to ask everyone to take their seats, please. One last call to take your seats. Good morning, everyone. Less than 1 percent of technology start-ups are founded by African-Americans. And in a place where opportunities and challenges are overcome every day, that's a significant one. So without further ado, Pius Uzamere and Becky Cruze from BeCouply. UZAMERE: We kind of just launched into it. My name is Pius. I'm the product designer and hacker behind BeCouply. Well, we focus on three things. Discovering new date ideas and date spots. Everything starts to fade away. The crowd disappears. And there's nothing but the material. We're not just building an app here, but we're really on a mission. And that mission is to help every couple in the world have an epic social life. Thanks. WRIGHT: If you guys work with them, you might want to put them not breaking up in your liquidation preference. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I personally feel a responsibility to make sure that I leave everything on the court. That I leave everything out there. In life, you always want to be able to say, you know what? I have no regrets. BELL: Barbershops and salons just in the United States alone made $37 billion in revenue. BENTON: Standing off to the side and watching everyone present was -- I was just on cloud nine. It was like going to your kid's graduation. WILLIAMS: There's no way I could have expected things to turn out as well as they did. Today what we're going to focus on is specific features that we have that relate to collaborations. FRAZIER: I was a little nervous, of course. But, you know, got to shake it off when it's time to go. The cool thing about it is, when people see this -- O'BRIEN (on camera): What was going through your head? FRAZIER: I just thought about what I don't want to be doing next year. O'BRIEN: What do you mean? FRAZIER: I don't want to work at K-Mart. So, you know. It's either this or nothing, so. O'BRIEN: So you had to hit it? FRAZIER: Yes. We will be giving gamers digital rewards when you go out and buy it the first day. BENTON: What Cued does, it actually brings the suggestions and the recommendations into you. So Cued really connects what you like online with what you like in real life. That's what Cued is. Thanks. WRIGHT: Can I ask all the founders to come up, please? I think you guys can agree you give us some great ideas today and some great products. Can you join me and welcome the first class of the NewME accelerated program. HAJJ: I think the group did amazing. Every single person I thought represented the accelerator, represented the race. WRIGHT: If you think about where we came from at the first Google event and what you saw today, what was encouraging is a lot of people in the audience said they were good pitches. I mean there was a writer from techcrunch who sent out a tweet saying this was one of the best start-up she's been to. KAPOR: Hands down, nothing to apologize for, no adjustment in standards. And I go on record about that. O'BRIEN (voice-over): But a strong pitch is just a first step. BENTON: It's not demo day and somebody -- you just get a check one day. Ends up in the mail. Ends up in your bank account. It doesn't really happen like that. There is follow-up that has to be done. There are series of meetings that have to be done. FRAZIER: It's not like we can go home and sleep. No. You know, then again, I'm going to go home and work harder, you know? It gets harder from here. It doesn't get easier. O'BRIEN (on camera): So if we look three months from now and nobody has received funding, did you fail? BENTON: That's not going to happen. O'BRIEN (voice-over): If getting funded is a measure of success, who's succeeded? The answer might surprise you. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN (voice-over): After delivering their pitches on demo day, it's time for the NewME entrepreneurs to chat with potential investors. FRAZIER: I want to show you how our -- UZAMERE: We got to kind of take the temperature of the crowd, see which investors were really interested. O'BRIEN (on camera): Is success getting funded? KAPOR: I think a few companies getting funded should be part of the score of whether it was successful or not. O'BRIEN: Will some of the companies that were presenting get funded? KAPOR: I think so. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Nine weeks after arriving in Silicon Valley, the first NewME accelerator ends. BENTON: So what's next? FRAZIER: Everything's next, you know. If I didn't come out here and do the accelerator, I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to meet a lot of key people and bond with other entrepreneurs that look just like me. O'BRIEN (on camera): Why is that important? FRAZIER: There's probably somebody just like me, you know, want to do something with computers. If I had that example early on, maybe I would have done it. If I had myself now go to my younger self and say, look, you need to do this, this, this, this and you can be, like, right here, oh, man, I'd be different. Yes. I would love that. UZAMERE: If no one were funded, I would be extremely surprised. WILLIAMS: It has been very real. UZAMERE: Yes, it has. Having been out here, it's clear that people -- a lot of them have great intentions. But I think a lot of the people we met throughout the program and on demo day were, you know, utterly surprised just how good everyone was. And why is that a surprise? O'BRIEN: Do you think you've changed the world? Do you think you've changed Silicon Valley? SUTTON: No. O'BRIEN: What did you do, then? SUTTON: What we have done is that other entrepreneurs who look like us, they'd be like, if you guys can do it, we can do it. WILLIAMS: Then the black community, we're starting to understand how important technology is and we're starting to want to participate. On the other side, we have to demonstrate success. We have to get some points on the board. And in a visible way. That's why this is really significant. O'BRIEN (voice-over): When the accelerator ended in August, Tiffani returned home to Fayetteville, North Carolina. She hasn't received any funding yet, but Tiffani says her start-up is adding customers. And early next year, she plans to move back to Silicon Valley. Crisson, Hajj and Wayne also returned home. They haven't received funding either. But say they remain committed to building their start-ups into successful companies. SUTTON: I want success so bad that it hurts. O'BRIEN: In October, Hank received an undisclosed investment in Kloud.co. He continues to talk to investors from his home base in Harlem, New York. Anthony is back in New Jersey. He's also seeking funding and says his Playd app will be available in the Apple app store by the end of the year. After the accelerator ended, Pius and Becky moved to San Francisco. This fall, two funders invested an undisclosed amount in their start- up, BeCouply. One of those investors, Mitch Kapor. And in September, Angela Benton moved to Silicon Valley with her three daughters. She put her start-up on hold and is planning the second edition of the NewME accelerator program set to start in early 2012. This time, she says, she wants to include more women and other underrepresented minorities. (On camera): A lot of people have complained about the issues of a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But nobody else created an accelerator to fix it. BENTON: When I think about my life, being pregnant at 15, all of the circumstances that I've had in my life are really just similar to what I did with the accelerator. Like, literally, it's just problem and solution. And the solution is thinking of things creatively. Not the same way that, you know, anyone else would think about it. I think a lot of people talk. It's easy to talk. It's hard to do.


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Writing press releases has always been a professional activity, and there are rules. But today, the rules seem to have abandoned and turned over to the high-pitch hawkers of online ecommerce.
For years I've depended on press releases to identify new products and services for the readers of DT&G and the various content areas of the Design Center. Everyone likes to hear about and discover new products. Lately however good press releases are few and far between. I'm not saying there are less -- heavens no! There are 100-times as many as there was a year ago. But today there's 100-times as much garbage. That's part of the problem.
I will not attempt to tell you in this article exactly how to write your release. But I will tell you how to guarantee your release will get tossed in the trash can. I cannot speak for all editors, but I believe if you follow these simple tips you'll have a better chance in any publication; particularly mine. So if you want to reach the audience you're looking for, you'll keep reading.
1: Empty titles don't give a clue - we're outta here.
"Power On End of Millennium Spectacular Offer" is an example of an empty title. If you use the online news purveyors like I do you'll get several hundred of these a week. And all you'll get is the headline and the first line of the release in a list where you'll select the releases you want to receive in full. What exactly does that say? Unless you know that "Power On" is a software company, the release is meaningless. Besides, it reads like an ad... SWISH into file 13.
Write your title in 36 to 40 characters that embodies the essence of the BENEFIT. Can you say "benefit" ... I knew you could. Unless you're a household word, you don't need to put your company name there. Let your message speak for itself. The title is no place to attempt to educate the reader about who you are. This is the crucial line of text that entices us to even order the release. Read your title to another person and see if they say "tell me more," or can even guess what the release will be about. If they can't, then you're dead. Rewrite.
2: Say What?
The next problem is in the first 8 to 10 words in the release. Most releases these days either talk total nonsense, or again their full company name. Some will even put it in the title, then two or three times again in the opening of the release. Adobe is the worst for this. By the time we have some inkling of what the release is about, Adobe has already bored us with their name four or five times. It's not radio. We're not stupid.
The beginning of your press release is critical. If you lose the editor there, you're in the trash can. Nine out of ten press releases today have forgotten the inverted pyramid. They'll start out with 75 words that have no meaning to the editor what so ever. Like: "Acme company, the leader in applied technology has joined with the Bacme company to develop a totally new something-or-other that will revolutionize the...". I have no idea what they're talking about, so it must not be very important -- Wooosh! Deleted.
Tell the editor -- in no uncertain terms -- WHAT it is, WHY it is needed or what problem their new gizmo or service will fix, HOW it will help their readers and WHO makes it. In 75 words or less. It's not rocket science.
3: Bored beyond tears
I got one yesterday that was 4,500 words long. Give me a break. It seems the bigger the company is, the longer their press releases are. They must pay their publicists more, so therefore they feel compelled to sit and write for days -- on one press release.
Press agents read my lips: If you can't get it into 400 words or less, then don't send it. The news has to be tantamount to the second coming of Christ in order to justify more than 400 words. If you are compelled with a need to pad it beyond that, then provide a synopsis of 400 words or less -- then offer additional background in the second page. No publication, is going to publish 4,000 written by you -- that's like 3 pages! And, NO editor is going to spend an hour or so to edit your words. The third page is death. Actually the second page is death, but the third page is really death.
4: The facts. Give us the facts.
The lists and release service I've subscribed to are supposed to be sending me news about software and hardware, particularly those in the visual communications fields. In most press releases I have to dig and dig and dig just to find out what the new program does -- if, in fact it is a program. Many times they've cleverly eluded the press purveyor keywords and included a release that actually has nothing to do with the subject. Adobe is famous for this. Everyone knows that Adobe hasn't had anything new in maybe two years. But every week, here are fresh new press releases from Adobe. They've stopped making news so now they have resorted to inventing news about people who use their software. (Gosh, how much must they be paying those people to dream this stuff up???) Unfortunately I have to read them -- because of the remote chance that there really is something newsworthy in those releases.
Know your editor; know your reader -- most important, know your product: what it is and WHO the release is aimed at: who can use it; what is required; and what results can be expected. Is it for Windows or is it for Mac??? My publications are in the graphic arts fields... don't send me skin care and stock merger press releases.
5: Don't shoot us with bullets
Yes, bullet lists. Many of the software vendors have discovered the power of bullet points. Actually that's good. Nothing telegraphs concepts faster or easier than bullet lists. But please, writers, don't kill us. A recent release talking about an upgrade to a well known program killed me with over 100 bullets. This was just an upgrade folks. Schzoooop.... empty the trash.
Give the editor the STRONGEST four or five bullets. They should be strong enough to inspire us to read further. Don't think for a moment that you can make up for quality with quantity. We simply won't read it.
6: Brag your way to the trash can
Everyone seems to be the leader -- or at least they claim to be. Of 78 press releases I downloaded Sunday, there were 120 instances of the phrase "the leader." Several claimed to be the leader in the very same field. If you believe that garbage, then you'll think there are twenty leaders in the online commerce world. If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
Folks, there can only be one leader. I know, that's shocking news, but if everyone claims to be "the leader" then no one is the leader. One company the other day tried to tell me they are the leader in image editing. Oh, please! Unless you're Adobe Photoshop, don't give me that hogwash. And if you are in fact Adobe Photoshop, you really don't need to tell me you're the leader, everyone in this industry KNOWS you're the leader.
* Don't insult our intelligence.
* Don't lie. We'll know better, and the delete button is an instant away.
SIDEBAR:Then there are those annoying "special" characters. You know the ones... they don't print correctly on the web, and most of them don't work in ascii text nor cross-platform. They're just annoying. The bigger companies are the worst offenders. Is there anyone on this planet who does not know that Adobe or Apple or Microsoft are trademarked company names? Then why are they compelled to include 117 little (TM) (tee-ems in parens) in their press release? Didn't anyone read them the Trademark Office code that states a TM symbol on the first instance of the word works, and makes all the other 116 unnecessary? Editors have to strip all that crap out. Thank goodness for search-&-replace. Sue me if I don't use it -- it's empty content.
7: Do NOT send DOT-DOC files
I'm going to delete your dot-doc file instantly. In fact I won't even download it if I can help it. I'll write an entire article on dot-doc files, and why they're the scourge of the online world -- later -- but for now, just understand that dot-doc files are a nuisance inflicted on the recipient. I've got proof: a recent 187 K dot-doc file had no reason to be a dot-doc file, and when saved out as a text file weighed in at 18 K. No editor needs all of the junk that goes along with dot-doc files just to read a little text. Until Microsoft learns how to save a file correctly, don't send dot-doc files. PDF files are starting to be almost as bad.
It's just too easy to hit the delete button.
8: NO Attachments
Sheesh. Nothing's worse than being held hostage by your email program while 15 megabytes of attachments download to your computer. One recent ecommerce web site sent me a release with 16 file attachments. This idiot sent all the graphics on their web page. The graphics had absolutely NOTHING to say, nor anything to do with the press release. Simply decoration. Another attached a 3-meg dot-exe file that couldn't even be opened on my system, even if I wasn't afraid it was loaded with virus and worms.
Don't waste my time -- rather inspire me to ask for more info. Say it through your deeds, and say it in the press release. Don't send me your web page or some huge document unless you want to be trashed instantly.
SIDEBAR: Graphics, logos, product shots shouldn't be attached either. There's a perfect way to get your pictures published -- but NOT by attaching them. It took me six emails recently to get this concept across to a press agent for one of the big camera manufacturers who should have known better in the first place. (The level of intelligence of some of these people is insulting.)
YES, PLEASE, we want pictures. But don't attach them. And don't aimlessly send us to the web site's front page. Duh. I went to the camera web site and it took 17 clicks (through agonizingly slow loading pages) to actually find the image I was looking for. Don't insult us, and don't expect us to spend twenty minutes or more in your web site hunting for an image.
Here's the trick: provide a live link to the exact image.
Wasn't that easy? Now the image comes right up in the browser. Provide a second link to a high resolution image in case the editor is working on a print publication. Guess what? You'll get a picture with the article instead of no picture! Presto, you're a success. You've got awesome image and info delivery technology at your fingertips that can make everyone's life easier. Use it.
9: NO HTML email
The only thing worse than html email is spam... in fact, they're pretty much the same. Give me a bunch of html code to strip out of the text, and you are history. One press item I received the other day had over 4,500 characters of code in order to deliver about 300 characters of info.
Understand that editors are preparing texts for their publications. That's our job. Okay, so you want us to see your nice pretty page, formatted to appease your own ego... right? ERROR! You'll never, I repeat never, get your formatting in our publications, so why try? Give up that AOL email account. If you send me html, then I know that you knew you really didn't have anything important to say. You were trying to make it look more important than it really is. Right? Impress me with the message. Not your decoration and formatting.
10: No one home? Don't bother
The most disturbing trend in the press industry these days is all the vendors now seem to be hiding behind the veil of the web. No one wants to be contacted. "Don't contact us, just go to our web page." This spells sudden death to the press release. In fact, if a contact name, phone and email address is NOT at the top of the page, I instantly hit the "end" key, and jump to the bottom of the release. If it's not there the SPAM alert goes off. "New 6,000 dpi color printer for $199 -- click here" is NOT a press release. It's spam.
The only people in the world who do not want to be contacted through their press release have good reason. Probably because you're selling advertising on your site, and the only purpose of this press release is to get us to go to your web site to run up your advertising revenue. It's spam -- raw, irritating, useless, bandwidth-sucking spam.
And, don't try to fool us either. We know that "firstname.lastname@example.com" or "firstname.lastname@example.com" in all likelihood means communicating with a robot. So, no matter what you promise in the release, if you don't want to be seen, then you must have something to hide. In the trash for sure.
In conclusion
Reading the releases I've downloaded over the past months leads me to believe that there is nothing new happening. No new products. No new services. Nothing to report other than ecommerce web sites, corporate venture mergers or other means to extort easy money out of readers. Is that the image you, as a press agent for your company, want to portray? If so, don't bother. Take me off your list.
If, on the other hand, your company does have a good product -- one that offers real value and benefit to the readers in the Design Center, then you'll read and heed the tips above. Nothing is better than good news. I love it, you love it, readers love it. So why not send it so we can actually use it? Okay?
Thanks for reading
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Wells Fargo Grants Aim to 'Lift' Communities
By EGP Staff Report
Wells Fargo is accepting applications for $11.4 million in grants to help nonprofits in 25 cities accelerate economic recovery and improvements in neighborhoods hard hit by foreclosures, including Los Angeles, the company has announced.
The deadline to apply to the UrbanLIFTSM Community Grant Program is Sept. 30.
"We're committed to advance community stabilization in cities significantly impacted by the housing downturn and improving the quality of life for everyone in our communities," said Jon Campbell, executive vice president and head of Government and Community relations at Wells Fargo. "UrbanLIFT(SM) will help provide local nonprofits with additional resources they need to create safe, sustainable neighborhoods."
The UrbanLIFT(SM) community grant program, funded by Wells Fargo and administered by NeighborWorks America(R), is designed to provide for four types of large improvement projects: single-family housing rehabilitation, demolition, neighborhood improvement and housing-related site improvements.
The goal is to support neighborhood stabilization programs in areas with large ethnic populations that were significantly affected by the housing crisis, according to Well Fargo.
Eligible cities were determined as parts of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In California, the targeted cities are Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Ana, San Jose, Stockton and Vallejo. Other cities across the country include Phoenix, Arizona; Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, FL; Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, TX; Detroit; Kansas City and St. Louis, MO; Las Vegas; New York; Memphis, TN; and Virginia Beach, VA.
Approximately $458,000 is expected to be available for each of the communities, according to Wells Fargo.
"This represents a significant commitment by Wells Fargo to invest in programs that will strengthen minority communities affected by foreclosure," said JK Huey, senior vice president of asset management and preservation with Wells Fargo Home Lending Servicing. "We appreciate the perspective and collaboration with HUD, along with their efforts to shape these initiatives."
Local, regional and national 501(c)(3) non-profits that want to apply for the UrbanLIFT(SM) community grant program may do so at www.urbanapplication.org.
For questions or to request applications, nonprofits can call (202) 733-6980 or email firstname.lastname@example.com This Post
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Children's Innovative Therapy Group, LLC (CITG) is a pediatric speech-language therapy practice located in Bethesda, Maryland serving the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.
CITG provides a full scope of speech-language and feeding therapy services which include:
It is the mission at CITG to provide state-of-the-art diagnostic, therapy, and consultative speech-language services where each child's individual differences, their unique gifts and challenges, are taken into account so the child makes the best progress possible. CITG specializes in working with children from birth through adolescence. Our staff has expertise in providing therapy to children with a wide range of developmental delays including autism spectrum disorder, apraxia of speech, cognitive delays, a variety of syndromes, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, ADHD, executive dysfunction, dyslexia, and seizure disorders.
If you are interested in scheduling a speech language or feeding evaluation, please contact the director, Chris Hwang, at (301) 913-9009 ext. 6, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. We are proud to continue collaborating with our founder, Diane Lewis MA, CCC-SLP and share an office space with the occupational therapists at Canyon Kids, LLC.


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Class Notes - 2000s
August 06, 2008
Erik Benton B.A. and Carrie Uffindell B.A., for a belated honeymoon, visited their old friend, Patt Mills B.A. '98, in Egypt. In between working on their house and playing with their two cats, Benton works for Elite Care. Uffindell works at Powell's, and is writing her first novel.
Catherine Brinkman J.D. has joined the ambassador board of directors for Portland's DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital. Ambassador board members are charged with fundraising for the nonprofit emergency and critical-care animal hospital in Portland. Brinkman is an associate at the Portland office of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, where she focuses on construction and commercial litigation.
Lisa Chiang J.D. has announced the formation of her own practice in Seattle. Chiang is also a commercial real estate agent.
Kathleen Finkle B.A. and Kevin Finkle B.A. '98, married since 2005, have bought a home in southeast Portland. They perform locally with White Rhino Marimba, and Kevin also performs with Fools in Paradise. If you're in town, stop by and say hi.
Michael Fleming J.D. has joined Green and Lavelle, specializing in insurance coverage litigation, after spending six years with a large New York firm.
Scott Kennedy B.A. is pleased to hear that everyone is doing so well. He has started his residency in anesthesiology at Oregon Health & Science University. Married and the father of two boys, Isaac, 5, and Kyle, 4, he finds life busy but still fun.
Megan Adams J.D. is currently in her third year of medical school in Baltimore. Previously, she clerked for two judges on Maryland's intermediate appellate court.
Sarah Antonelli B.A. and her husband, John Harris, and their two cats live in Chandler, Arizona, where he works at FujiFilm and she works at Intel. In spring 2007 they traveled to Croatia and Germany–her first trip overseas. (See also Marriages.)
David Bean J.D. is a partner at the Portland firm Meyer & Wyse, where he specializes in family law. (See also Births)
Jules Kopel-Bailey B.A. is running for state representative in southeast Portland. Check out his website at www.julesfororegon.com.
Anne Peattie B.A. had a big year in 2007. She got married in August and finished her Ph.D. in integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley in December. To top it off, in January 2008 she and her husband began a two-year residency in England, where she is doing postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. She hopes Lewis & Clark friends will visit.
Sadna Samaranayake B.A., with the help of a graduate fellowship in social entrepreneurship, is working toward her M.A. at New York University. Samaranayake, cofounder of a Web design and development business, has also established a foundation to help Sri Lankan children affected by the 2005 Asian tsunami.
Adam Burr B.A. completed his master's degree in film at Loyola Marymount University. The film he made for his senior project was shown in November 2007 at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. The film, Re: Monday, is about an Internet-arranged suicide in an Oregon forest.
Jamie Contreras J.D. has been appointed assistant attorney general in the appellate division with the Oregon Department of Justice. She spent the previous year at a private law firm in Portland, and prior to that worked as assistant attorney general in the general counsel office.
Donna Maddux J.D. has been appointed attorney in charge of the Organized Crime Section of the Criminal Justice Division with the Oregon Department of Justice. After law school, Maddux joined the DOJ as an honors attorney before becoming a regular assistant attorney assigned to the Criminal Justice Division's Tobacco Compliance Task Force.
Brian Pasko J.D. has joined the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness as its policy director. Previously, Pasko served as the Sierra Club's lobbyist in Minnesota and was a principal negotiator for environmental interests in Minnesota's Mercury Reduction Act in 2006 and the Renewable Energy Standard in 2007.
Rosemary Schmidt B.A. is living in Japan, teaching English for the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) program. Previously she worked as an Americorps volunteer in Hawaii, providing services to homeless veterans on the island of Oahu. After her term with the JET program, she plans to volunteer with the Peace Corps or World Teach, and ultimately to attend graduate school to study social work with an international focus.
Jessica Wingler J.D. has joined the Roseburg law firm of Nilsen, Johnson & McKinney as an associate attorney. She works in the areas of personal injury, domestic relations, business, and real estate.
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Amy Collinge B.A. lives in northeast Portland and teaches first-grade Spanish immersion at Vose Elementary School.
Victoria Lantz B.A. is writing her dissertation in the theatre and drama department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her husband, Nick Lantz B.A., is a poetry fellow in UW's Program in Creative Writing.
Erik Larsen J.D. has joined the Medford firm Hornecker, Cowling, Hassen & Heysell as an associate. His practice areas include business law, tax law, and estates and trusts.
Jeffrey Payne J.D. has been appointed assistant attorney general in the Appellate Division with the Oregon Department of Justice. He spent the last year at a private law firm in Portland.
Liz Posey B.A. is president of the Urban League Young Professionals in Anchorage. Posey says that the multiethnic group, which formed in fall 2007, aims "to nurture young leaders, and get more young people of color to be socially engaged." She also has her own community-development consulting business.
Kathleen Profitt J.D. has joined the firm Barker Martin in their Portland office as an associate. She specializes in homeowner association representation and construction defect work. Previously, Profitt worked for Foster Pepper.
Alex Usackis B.A. is working toward his master's degree in sport business management at Sam Houston University.
Michelle Acosta J.D. has joined the Law Offices of Robert Badger in Honolulu. She specializes in family law and real estate and commercial litigation.
Megan Brown J.D. has joined Wooten Hart, a firm located in Roanoke, Virginia. She specializes in medical malpractice.
Adam Draper J.D. has joined the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. He is the organization's staff counsel and handles environmental issue campaigns as well as issues involving whistleblowers.
Stephanie Engelsman J.D. has joined the Multnomah County Office of the Metropolitan Public Defender as a staff attorney. She previously worked as an assistant public defender for Kane County, Illinois.
Margaret Forrestal B.A., a recent graduate of the Boulder College of Massage Therapy, has started her own business, Bodywise Therapeutic Massage, in her hometown of St. Louis.
Deva Gatica B.A. lives in Hawaii, where she is working toward her master's degree in global leadership and sustainable development. Gatica also consults with several nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations, and she is working on a book with the Toda Institute and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation addressing the challenge of abolishing nuclear weapons.
Sarah Holzer B.A. went to massage school and is now working at a spa in southeast Portland and loving it. She and her new husband, Noah, live in Beaverton with their "insane dog," Howie.
Amanda Johnson B.A., after a brief stint in the fashion industry, is completing her M.S. in education with a focus in museum education. She is also a full-time third-grade assistant teacher in New York.
Anda Lincoln J.D. has joined the Phoenix firm Stinson Morrison Hecker as an associate. Lincoln focuses on general business law, software and technology licensing, maintenance and consulting agreements with Fortune 100 companies, and represents numerous public and privately held companies.
Thu Ngo B.A. headed from Lewis & Clark to the University of California at Irvine to earn her M.A. in English in 2005 (and had lots of fun doing so). Then she returned home to the Bay Area to earn a single-subject teaching credential from Santa Clara University. She is in her second year of teaching English at Milpitas High School in her hometown. She would love to get in touch with old L&C friends at email@example.com.
Darcy Rumberger B.A. is attending medical school at the University of Florida. Please feel free to contact her with any questions.
Sara Sluszka B.A., after graduating, moved back to the East Coast, where for two years she taught English and literacy to Senegalese immigrants in Harlem. She also worked part time as a community organizer/advocate at the Street Vendor Project, which provides legal representation and legislative advocacy to street vendors. More recently she interned for three months in Geneva with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions as part of her law school program at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
Mark Thompson J.D. has joined the Public Power Council as staff counsel. He most recently practiced law at Richardson & O'Leary in Boise, where he specialized in energy issues.
Erin Tobin J.D. has joined Earthjustice as an associate in the law firm's Oakland, California, office.
Denis Vannier J.D. has been appointed assistant attorney general in the Appellate Division with the Oregon Department of Justice. Previously, he spent two years working in the Criminal and Civil Rights Section of the Trial Division and was an honors attorney in the Appellate and General Counsel divisions.
Mark Burrell B.A. reports, "It's been a few years since I've been back to Portland, but I have fond memories of it. I think I miss the rain and the green leaves surrounding everything the most. We haven't had rain for five months now in Iraq and the only green I see is what I wear every day. It's a dicey situation here and also an important time in history to be here. Someday tourists are going to be taking trips here to see the wide-flowing Tigris, visit Saddam's opulent palaces, and walk under Assassin's Gate without knowing how it got its nickname. Until that day comes, we'll be here fighting for something that doesn't come free."
Holly Anne Gibbons J.D. is a board member at Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary and is a member of Downtown Salem Rotary. Gibbons is an associate at the Law Office of Eden Rose Brown in Salem.
Matt Goldberg J.D. has organized a legal advocacy group for low-income breast cancer patients. Through the group, he hosts a continuing legal education program to train lawyers in doing pro bono work for the patients. Goldberg is an associate for K&L Gates in the firm's Portland office.
Damon Henrie J.D. has joined Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue, where he focuses on construction, insurance, homeowner association, and agricultural law as a member of the firm's construction and insurance defense teams. Previously, Henrie was with Vial Fotheringham in Portland.
Mariah Holeman B.A. moved to Salem, provided executive-level support at an engineering firm, and enrolled in massage school. She is happily married and is a practicing licensed massage therapist (www.massagebymariah.com).
Stasia Honnold B.A. says, "I'm teaching seventh-grade English! In Portland! And getting paid for it! Life doesn't get much better (or busier) than this."
Colin McKean J.D. has joined the Portland firm Gevurtz Menashe as an associate. McKean's memberships include the Family Law sections of the American Bar Association and the Oregon State Bar, and the Young Lawyers Section of the Multnomah Bar Association.
Erin Nomiyama B.A., although she hasn't finished her thesis, has changed her topic to search visualization. She works at User-Centered Design, based in Virginia.
Quiana Washington B.A., after receiving her master's degree in education from Oregon State University in 2006, moved back home to Los Angeles to teach the youth where she grew up. She is in her second year as "a proud fifth-grade teacher."
Lindsay Arthur B.A. handled sled dogs for a musher racing in the 2008 Iditarod. They trained in Colorado, Montana, and Alaska.
Dan Budihardjo J.D. has joined Kantor Taylor McCarthy as an associate attorney. The Seattle firm specializes in affordable housing and general real estate development. Budihardjo provides legal counsel to developers of residential projects and communities, including condominiums, apartments, subdivisions, and mixed-use projects.
Joanne Ko J.D. has joined the Seattle firm In Pacta as an associate. She specializes in employment law, business law, family law, and estate law.
Frank Lupo J.D. has joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers through the Chief Counsel's Civilian Honors Program. Lupo has been assigned to the New Orleans office, where he assists in various aspects of the Hurricane Katrina rebuilding effort.
Robin McIntyre J.D. has been appointed assistant attorney general in the Appellate Division with the Oregon Department of Justice. McIntyre spent the previous eight months working in the Natural Resources Section of the General Counsel Division. Prior to joining the DOJ, McIntyre worked for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Ken Mitchell-Phillips J.D. has joined Davis Wright Tremaine as an associate in the firm's Portland office. His business and corporate practice focuses on securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and emerging business and technology. Mitchell-Phillips' career includes positions as an account manager at Infinity Broadcast, regional recruiting manager for State Farm Insurance, executive director for Give Us This Day, and broadcast producer for the U.S. Air Force.
Keirei Ri B.A., studying at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, says, "New York is amazing and I am loving it."
Jonas Roy B.A. has moved to Boston, where he brews his own cider and beer and is "a part-time seeker of occult knowledge."
Antoinette Awuakye J.D. has joined the legal department at the Regency Group as their benefits contract compliance analyst for Oregon. Awuakye is married to classmate Blayne Green J.D.
David Crowther J.D. has joined Marger Johnson & McCollom as a patent agent. His practice focuses on patent application preparation and prosecution. Crowther previously worked as an engineer for Tektronix and Thomson Grass Valley.
Jeff Ellsworth J.D. has joined the Bend firm Karnopp Petersen as an associate. His practice focuses on business law, corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions. Ellsworth previously worked as a judicial intern to Judge Anna Brown of the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon.
TJ Harrison B.A. spent three months after graduation in her father's home city of Sydney, Australia, working at a café and spending time with relatives. Then she and Emily Webb B.A. traveled in New Zealand for three months, working on organic farms in exchange for accommodations. Now TJ has decided to settle back home in Oregon and work for the Forest Grove Community Charter School. Soon you'll also be able to catch her behind the scenes at a fine dining establishment in Banks or thereabouts.
Blerina Kotori J.D. has joined the firm Tonkon Torp as an associate attorney. Kotori works in the firm's labor and employment practice group.
Lisa Murphy J.D. has joined S&R Environmental Consulting in Denver as director of regulatory compliance.
Trevor Parker B.A., while attending the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, has started a job search in Portland, where he would love to find a secondary-level language arts teaching job.
Melissa Saulog B.A. is back in San Francisco working in public relations as an account coordinator at Shift Communications.


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Bluebird4 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
Blue Bird Yoga
We are 2 Missouri girls who wear big smiles--30 years old--friends for 11 years. We have taught Bikram Yoga (at the same studio) for 3 years--the yoga studio we are opening will be Vinyasa Yoga.
We teach yoga to live what we love. We will offer an upbeat environment that will leave all who walk through our doors with a bounce in their step and a glow on their face. We will be assertive in requiring people to follow our yoga etiquette (taking off shoes at the front door, starting class on time with no late-admission). Our students will be participating in a fun, disciplined, energizing yoga experience. We will not chant and we will deliver yoga principles in layman's terms.
Our yoga studio will be in historic downtown St. Charles, MO that has cobblestone streets and brick buildings. The studio will be minimalistic--loft layout, with a variety of bright accent colors (red, orange, turquoise, maybe gold) .
An eclectic group:
20 - 45 year old women.
Stay at home moms.
Liberal arts college students.
Athletic men and women.
Our studio name - Blue Bird Yoga -
a Blue bird, and your creative vision.
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