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Excel spreadsheets can simplify the way you work if you have the knowhow.
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This is a very good electronics project report on "wireless drawing device" which uses a keypad or a mouse to draw on the TV through a wireless communication medium (RF - 433.92 MHz). The user should be able to move the drawing pointer to anywhere within the four border lines. One should also be able to draw or erase images on the TV screen. You can also Subscribe to FINAL YEAR PROJECT'S by Email for more such projects and seminar.
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Meet at Cole Island Navel Base and you will be guided through stunning designated heritage park featuring naval buildings dating back to 1860 with Richard Linzey, Ben Gourely and Gord Macdonald.
The tour of the Naval Base includes: visit to the Riggers Shop, and views of the Admiral's House, Duntze Head QF battery, Bickford's Tower, Works Yard and timber seasoning sheds, and dry dock and pump house. The conservation and buildings archaeology tour of Cole Island includes the guardhouse, shell stores and powder magazines. Pre-registration is required; space is limited. Registration ends Monday May 1st
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Over the past 2 years I have been sort of MIA from the industry in part to my committing to raise my daughter and not have someone else raise her but now I am back and ready to jump in with both feet. I will be doing some select Trade work so definitely don't hesitate to ask but also don't be offended if I decide that we are not a good fit, I have been in the industry as well as internationally for over 7 years and I know what I want and don't want when it comes to my portfolio.
I specialize in high fashion but am wanting to get more lifestyle pictures as well since I think I would enjoy that aspect of the modeling world. I also am great if you are looking to develop your portfolio and have reasonable rates for doing so or partial trades for the right person.
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It works like every other controller and gets the job done...
PS3 Black Wireless Controllerby DoubleSight
ITEM#: 13069220Enhance your gaming experience with this PS3 wireless controller. Available in black, this PS3 is from Dreamgear.
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Phil LaTessa has been in the field of mortgage banking and compliance for more than two decades, spending most of that time at The Funding Source. He founded the company in 1996 and became a FHA DE Underwriter in 2001. In 2006 he established compliance. In addition to overseeing the processing and underwriting departments, including hiring and firing responsibilities, Phil LaTessa personally worked with higher risk loans, conducting underwriting services in the interest of obtaining a final decision. His years of experience in the field have given him a keen eye for risk tolerance, and during his time at The Funding Source he set company risk tolerance overlays and other policies.
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When I was 18 years old, I brought my black boyfriend home to meet my father. My father, a first-generation Italian-American, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, was racist. I had no idea. It never occurred to me that my father, who had never mentioned race in any capacity, would have a problem with his daughter dating a black man.
I walked my boyfriend into the back of my father's store, only nervous because I was about to introduce my dad to a boy for the first time. My boyfriend had a smile that would light up a room and a charm that was irresistible. He was funny, respectful and likable; I was positive my father would take to him. I led him into my father's office and said, "Hi Dad. This is Teddy." Teddy reached out to shake my father's hand. My father turned around and walked out of his office.
He called me that night to express his "disappointment" in me, and then he didn't speak to me again for almost two years.
I never forgave my father for that and our relationship was never the same. It wasn't something we could ever work through because my father had an interesting habit of pretending things that he couldn't justify or explain never happened. He eventually denied that he had ever had a problem with Teddy's race. When we finally started speaking again, if I ever tried to bring it up, he just looked at me with a blank stare for a few seconds and changed the subject. I am certain that until the day he died he never saw a racist when he looked in the mirror.
My father turning his back on us in his office that day was a pivotal point in my life. It was the first time I felt real shame – deep in the pit of my stomach. I thought, "I come from this." I felt responsible for it. I didn't know how to explain what happened so I never tried. I buried it deeply and revisited it from time to time, anecdotally, if I ever had to explain my strained relationship with my father to anyone.
My father died five years ago. We never did bridge the gap that caused in our relationship. He never met my husband – the father of my two children. I sometimes wonder if he would have accepted him. Our son was made in my father's image. He has the same skin tone (my father was very dark-featured Sicilian), the same hairline, and the same furrowed brow. With his long legs, and baby belly, he even has my father's stance. Some day, I'd like to tell my son stories about the grandfather he resembles so much. Do I leave out the one that will certainly put a chasm between him and his dead ancestor?
I've been thinking about my father's "silent" racism since last weekend when I heard the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. The interview with the woman who sat on the jury put me in a dark, quiet place where I haven't been since that day I left my father's empty store – red-faced and horrified.
I think all of us thought race did not play a role. We never had that discussion. – Juror B37
The absence of racial diversity in your surroundings doesn't justify blatantly ignoring that racism exists. If your life experience is so homogeneous that it doesn't even occur to you that a young, unarmed black man who is shot dead by a white man would ignite a conversation about race, then you live in a bubble. I know, because I spent my young life there – some naive place that allowed me to pretend racism didn't exist, simply because I hadn't witnessed it firsthand.
How many times have you heard someone mention the "race card" when talking about the Zimmerman trial? It's almost as if some believe that arrogantly denying racism exists makes a person less racist. Denying that we have a lot of racial inequities in this country doesn't make you transcend them; it makes you entitled and naive. Race isn't even an issue to me! Exactly. That's the problem. You can't live in that kind of oblivion and not be responsible for what happens outside of it.
My husband and I moved from Brooklyn, New York to Orlando, Florida a couple of months ago — a state now synonymous with Trayvon Martin's death. When the kids finally get down to sleep at night, he likes to go on long bike rides. Every time he leaves the house alone at night, I'm uneasy. I never tell him that because how do you tell an almost 40-year-old man that you fear for his safety every time he leaves the house? It's ridiculous. I just keep my mouth shut, and hope no one messes with him.
We haven't had any problems lately, but there were a few incidents in the past when we came here to visit. Once a cop actually drew his gun on him when he was playing guitar in the park because a neighbor thought he looked "suspicious." On Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, he went for a walk and got a police escort home. Another neighbor thought something just didn't look quite right about a grown black man going out to walk off a huge meal on a nice night.
Every time something like this happens, I try to comfort him but I can't. I don't know how that feels. I don't know what it's like to have the whole damn world assume that you're guilty of something constantly. The same Korean shop owner that would greet me with a smile when I got my coffee in the morning would follow my husband around the shop when he went down to pick up milk for our child. I don't know how that feels. How do I even begin to speak on it? I just look at my husband and shake my head. I don't know what to say.
I just can't ignore the crippling shame I feel any longer. I could hardly look my own husband in the face after that verdict the other night. So how do I face my child?
How will I explain to him eventually that the beautiful half of him that came from his black father is going to make his life harder and there's no explanation, justification or logic behind it? That there are people that will simply hate him and suspect the worst of him? That he will need to justify his every move and be forever responsible for making the white people around him feel comfortable and safe – or else.
I have a black son that I am raising in a state that thinks his life isn't worth shit. I have friends so used to this type of news that they weren't even surprised by the verdict. I don't want my friends to live in a world like this, I don't want my husband to live in a world like this, and I damn sure don't want my kids to. I have no idea what to do about any of this. The only thing I've been able to do so far is open my mouth and say,
This is wrong.
This is racist.
This is fucked up.
A young man who was doing nothing but walking home with some snacks in his hands is dead. We have a murderer who hasn't expressed a second of remorse and a defense team that was disturbingly giddy about the verdict. We have a juror who thinks a vigilante who gunned down an unarmed child had a heart that was "in the right place," and we have a huge segment of the public who simply doesn't care that a 17-year-old was gunned down by a man who had no business following him or questioning him in any way.
I'm just completely at a loss.
The fact that there are people who can look at all the details of this case and truly believe race wasn't a factor makes me terrified to raise my son in this world. I'd rather be surrounded by blatant racists, rather than hoards of silent, indifferent ones justifying the death of a young, unarmed man and never seeing a racist when they look in the mirror.
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A new collaboration between the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) and the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult will enable the oil and gas sector to access advanced capabilities that can drive down manufacturing costs and enhance the materials in use in industry.
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Career Exploration Presentation Assignment
Professional Dancer
What does a person do in your career?
A dancer has many options on what they do with their career. Some options include company dancer, choreographer, or a studio owner. As a company dancer you get paid to travel around the world and perform dances. When you're a choreographer you show and tell performers what to do in a dance. You get paid to bring your imagination to life. As a studio owner you pay teachers or you yourself to choreograph for your students and teach them technique to prepare them for the real world.
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Required skills:
To be successful as a professional dancer one has to be a quick study, because dancers are taught choreography fast and on the spot. Another skill needed is flexibility , when you're not flexible a lot of things put in a dance you can't do. To be a professional dancer you have to be physically fit because dancers push their bodies to their physical limits daily. Balance is another important skill. It enables you to do leg lifts, turns, and tricks that require a large amount of concentration.
Course Requirements:
- Hip Hop
- Ballet
- Contemporary/modern
- Lyrical
- Acro
- Pointe
- Tap
- Imrov.
- Jazz
Until physically incapable of meeting the requirements you can be a professional dancer.
College example
Sam Houston State University- Graduate department(Masters in fine arts.)
Admission requirements:
- Letter of inquiry
- Graduate studies online application with fee
- Resume/ curriculum vita
- Video portfolio of performance and choreography
- 3 letters of recommendation
- Transcripts of all previous college work
- Confirmation of degree conferral
- On sight audition
- Interview with dance faculty
- Technique audition in ballet and modern
- Presentation of a solo performance of a choreographic work composed by applicant
Company dancer: Varies depending on company, experience, and position.
Example: NYC Rockets- $72,000-$78,000 annually
Future Outlook:
It is particularly hard to get a job as a professional dancer, because of how many dancers there are and how little jobs are available. The career has a long future, as long as the requirements are met and and the technique is maintained the job is stable.
When your a professional dancer you do it because of your passion for it or for the opportunity to possibly becoming rich and famous like the ballet dancer Misty Copleand.
Similar Careers:
Careers similar to a professional dancer's is anything in the fine arts category or Sports category. For example, theater can be similar to dance because it involves performing and being in front of an audience. Also, Track can be similar to dancing because of the physical strain put on your body and the flexibility it requires to jump hurtles and stuff like that.
Reason for picking:
I picked this career because I love dance and want it to be my career. I have been Taking since I was 3 and love the rush it gives me every time I perform on stage.
Beautiful Dance from SYTYCD


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Being of service to others is a main tenet of Colors for a Cure. It requires many people of purpose to create a large community event such as this. We are always on the lookout for people who wish to be of service to their community in a fun, meaningful way. Once people serve with C4C, they quite frequently return for the experience in consecutive years. Please know that we attempt to accommodate each volunteer's wishes but with such a large event and numerous volunteers, we hope you understand that on event day you may be moved to assist in a different area.
Below you will find a list of available positions in which you can serve, along with estimated service time for each position. Click on the position for more information. Once you find your perfect spot to serve, click on the green Sign up to Volunteer button.
Our volunteer stations are all full for the 2017 Colors for a Cure. Thank you for your interest and we hope to see you there!
The Road crew seeds and maintains the spirit of our event. You are our community cheerleaders. You will be assigned a spot out on the course from which you will cheer the walkers/runners on with words of encouragement, holding up signs, cheering and clapping. This service position keeps our participants safe at intersections where there is no police presence. (Approx service time: 3 hours)
This position requires VIP's to be available to serve at both the Packet Pickup Expo & Registration event held Saturday night before the event, as well as on event day. Positions include bib pulling, tshirt pulling, registering and problem-solving. You are our goodwill ambassadors as you are the first VIP's that participants come face to face with. (Approx service time: 6-8 hrs)
Event participants love those VIP's (Volunteers in Purple) who serve in this position. They get quite thirsty out on the course, especially the runners. You will be assigned a water station from which you will pass out water to course participants while cheering them on to the finish line. (Approx service time: 3 hours)
This position is perfect for those of you who won't be volunteering on event day but would like to participate in the planning of the event to play an integral part in building community for a meaningful cause. Your involvement can be attending regular meetings to create, plan and problem-solve our way to a successful event or you can just sign up to be on the list to help out when we need tasks done and errands run before the event. Pre-event planners are the backbone of our event. (Approx service time: varies according to availability)
This appointment asks for you to serve for a few hours during and after the event helping to keep our event clean, tearing the event down afterwards and to insure that trash is picked up and properly disposed of after the event. Our goal is to return the plaza to the state it was before our event started. This position helps to keep maintain a nice clean atmosphere in which to celebrate. (Approx service time: 3 hours)


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Field Greens With Roasted Bacon-Wrapped Pears
Recipe by southern chef in lo
Got this one from Southern Living--great for a formal dinner and sure to impress.
Top Review by Ms B.
OMG. I could eat my weight in this salad. I used purchased T. Marzetti's Roasted Garlic Italian Vinaigrette instead of the apple-ginger version suggested in the recipe. I think that it was PERFECT with the sweetness of the roasted pears, saltiness of the bacon and parm, and earthiness of the pecans on the fresh greens. (I also used regular bacon that I partially cooked in the microwave...until still bendy, but just starting to crisp...before wrapping around the pear sections and roasting.)
See Discussion:2 Reviews
Ingredients Nutrition
- 12 slice bacon (Oscar Mayer ready to serve bacon)
- 3 large pears, peeled and quartered
- 1419.54 ml mixed salad greens
- 158.51 ml pecans, toasted
- 158.51 ml shaved parmesan cheese
- apple-ginger vinaigrette
Directions See How It's Made
- Wrap one slice of bacon around each pear quarter, and secure with a wooden pick. Place pear quarters on a wire rack in a 15- x 10-inch jelly-roll pan.
- Bake pears at 350°F for 10 minutes.
- Arrange salad greens on 4 serving plates, and sprinkle evenly with pecans and Parmesan cheese. Place 3 pear quarters on each salad, and serve with Apple-Ginger Vinaigrette.
- Note: For testing purposes only, we used Oscar Mayer Ready to Serve Bacon.


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As with any unit of study, war units lend themselves to multiple skill building exercises that help stretch student understanding of more than just the story. Today's texts not only help to supplement war literature, they also teach two different types of skills: argument analysis and rhetorical analysis.
Argument Analysis
Room for Debate
I can't get enough of this NYT opinion page. I profiled them several weekends ago as a necessary resource for any classroom teacher. While they have many war related topics the two below are the best for supplementing The Things They Carried. Have students read, SOAPSTone Questions & Chart. Consider having them write their own persuasive and "expert" responses in the same short format using the original pieces as research/evidence.
Rhetorical Analysis via Speeches
Perfect for using with The Red Badge of Courage, consider having student use our Gettysburg Address Rhetorical Exercises for a close reading on style and annotation.
- Bush's Second Inaugural Speech
- "Sometimes a Great Speech"-The Weekly Standard
Have students read Bush's speech and annotate for rhetoric and style. They should be paying attention to war references throughout. The Weekly Standard's response to the speech professionally parses Bush's rhetoric. Have them read the response afterwards. Then, have them create their own rhetorical exercise. They should use previous rhetorical exercise like the one linked above for "The Gettysburg Address" as an example.


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I have tried spicework before but did not rely hade the time for it
Now I rely wont it to work BUT
Wan ever I start a scan the scan hangs while "filling" a computer
Every time different computer
are all winxp with no firewall end I have the admin privileges …
Any idée for the source of the problem?
p.s. thre are no errors in the scan errors tab
p.s2. sory for my english ...
This topic was created during version 1.0.
The latest version is 7.5.00101.
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Dec 14, 2006 at 7:46 UTC
1st Post
I'm having the same exact problem. I start a scan and it finds
everything, but when it goes back after the discovery it seems to just
hang on any random computer at different times. It acts like it's
working but it will stay on the same computer all night. I have no
firewalls and most of the machines are Windows 2000.
Any idea what this could be? I love the look at feel of this software
so I hope that I can figure out what's causing the problem so that I can
continue using it.
Dec 14, 2006 at 9:48 UTC
We will help you get to the root of this if you send in a support
request to email@example.com
Dec 18, 2006 at 7:27 UTC
1st Post
I have the same problem. Everything was working fine then i noticed it
was just hanging on different PC's for extremely long amounts of time.
It changes every time which PC it hangs on.
Dec 18, 2006 at 8:12 UTC
Since the scanner is multi-threaded, you have to put the scanner in slow
mode in order to see if it hangs on a particular machine.
Jan 10, 2007 at 10:33 UTC
I am suddenly having the same problem. Never had a problem before the last update. Now the scan will randomly hang on different machines. I have gone so far as to leave it running overnight and still the hang would remain.
I have also tried changing the scan speed (it was on Medium) to slow with the same results. Any news on this or is there anything I can try?
Charles G
Spiceworks Product Advisor
General PC Nerd
Jan 11, 2007 at 11:25 UTC
Hi Charles,
Sorry about this - it should not hang.
Do the following so that we can see a log of it:
- shutdown spiceworks
- change the verbose flag to true in data/settings.yaml (make a backup copy just in case)
- restart spiceworks and do a full scan
- if it hangs, wait 20 minutes to be sure, and then send the log file log/finder_child.log to email@example.com and we will see if we can figure out what is going on.
Mar 14, 2007 at 1:21 UTC
What ever came of this?
Apr 28, 2007 at 11:25 UTC
See associated threads based on tags. Tags are the marked links at the bottom of this thread.
May 1, 2007 at 8:42 UTC
Odom InfoTech wrote:
> What ever came of this?
I would still like to know what type of solutions were found regarding this issue.
Apr 7, 2010 at 11:45 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Any follow up? Crickets.
May 27, 2010 at 2:15 UTC
1st Post
I am getting the same problem in version 4.7.50804. The scan is stuck at 100% and it still goes on with "Currently Running network scan -- click to learn more". It never stops.
Is there anybody else with this issue?
May 27, 2010 at 10:19 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
I am getting the same problem in version 4.7.50804. The scan is stuck at 100% and it still goes on with "Currently Running network scan -- click to learn more". It never stops.
Is there anybody else with this issue?
You must post questions to a new thread, you cannot hope on to a three year old thread. No one knows that you posted here except for me and only because I'm subscribed to make sure that people don't post looking for help on dead threads (exactly what happened.)
There are over 100K threads in this forum and posting to one that was three years ago means that literally no one knows that you posted.
Please open a new thread and thousands of people will hop right on to help you out.
May 28, 2010 at 3:17 UTC
Sorry... Thank you for the information.
Anyway; now I rebooted the server where SpiceWorks is and I don`t get the "Currently running network scan". I`m waiting for the next scheduled scan to kick in and I`ll see if it will hang again. if the problem still persists I`ll open a new thread.
Thank you!
May 28, 2010 at 10:17 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Sounds good. Let me know.
May 4, 2011 at 1:56 UTC
Actually, a lot of us know there was a new post, because the thread comes up as one of the most relevant search results when keying in the symptom "network scan completed but still running".
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
You may get a better answer to your question by starting a new discussion.


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Thames Clippers review
A boat trip to Greenwich is #17 in my London Bucket List
Some days you just want to sit in a boat until the river runs dry... have it keep floating until there's nothing left to float on. That's why God invented these Thames Clippers. These boats have got the longest routes in London: from Putney all the way up to North Greenwich and O2 Arena. But here's a word of warning: they're not sightseeing boats. They don't have a top deck full of open-air seats, and there's no live commentary onboard either. They are basically aimed at commuters rather than tourists, and you're supposed to use like them like a bus -- you can even use your Oyster card on them.
I have decided to ride the cable car today (by The O2), but I am terrified of heights so I need to treat myself first. That's why I'm sitting on a boat at Putney Pier -- because that is my idea of a treat. It's 7 AM at the moment and we don't get going for another ten minutes, so the boat is gently rolling on the water as the motor ticks over. No one is quite awake yet. The cafe guy is sleepwalking around in his Costa coffee apron asking everybody if they want to buy a drink, and a couple of mums are yawning at each other like they're having a silent conversation. Then all of a sudden the alarm goes off: the captain switches on the engine and we all jump up. The boat has woken up. Imagine a farm tractor coughing up blood. It is spluttering and chuntering and spewing out fumes and when he kicks open the motor it's like being thrust into the face of a force ten gale.
There's nothing much to see between Putney and Chelsea so you can let your camera have an extra ten minutes in bed. It's all parkland and riverside flats around here -- the kind of boring flats that are made out of plastic, glass and steel. But we are under way now so I'm happy. There's something very relaxing about sitting on a boat with the cold wind and the seagulls. They are all wheeling around the riverside flats.
We're sitting at Chelsea Harbour now, and I can see an office lady running manically down the jetty with her arms waving around like the broken blades of a windmill, trying desperately to stop the boat from pulling away. Don't worry, lady... this boat is too lazy to pull away before you get here. Two minutes later and we're still sitting here, and she's still huffing and puffing and looking flustered in her seat, trying to get her breath back.
The first real landmarks come after Chelsea. Once you've passed the delicate Albert Bridge get your camera out and get clicking. You can see Christopher Wren's Royal Hospital on the left, and the giant golden Buddha of Battersea Park on the right. Then you'll pass the brutal bulk of Battersea Power Station (still without its chimneys at the time of writing -- have they taken them away to be cleaned?). Battersea looks like a massive building site at the moment, half-hidden in cranes and steelwork scaffolding. After that comes the top secret MI6 building (which everyone knows about) and finally Big Ben and Parliament. That is your cue to gather up your belongings and leave, because you need to disembark at Embankment if you want to continue on to Greenwich.
If you want to take a break then I recommend having a walk through Embankment station and down Villiers Street to Trafalgar Square, where you can have a nose around and a sit down under Nelson's Column. If you want to copy me then try to grab the window in Caffe Nero, opposite the Column -- that is my seat. I'll let you share my seat today -- but don't mess it up, though, because it's my favourite seat.
I'm back at the Embankment Pier now, waiting for the boat to North Greenwich (that's where The O2 is). The landmarks come thick and fast from this point on, and you might have to swivel your eyes in different directions to see them all. First up is Cleopatras Needle on the left, then the Royal Festival Hall on the right, then Temple (left), Tate (right), St. Paul's (left), Globe Theatre (right), The Shard (right), The Monument (left)... are you keeping up? Can you remember when our cameras could only take 32 photos, and then we'd have to hand the film reel in to the chemist every fortnight? (I'm showing my age now.) Thank Christ it's not like that anymore, because we'd rapidly run out of photos.
The final landmarks on this city stretch are the big guns of HMS Belfast, the crenellated walls around the Tower of London, and Tower Bridge. Once you're past the bridge the skipper kicks open the motor and speeds up to the skyscrapers at Canary Wharf.
I have abandoned my indoors seat and gone outside now -- it's not the same looking out of a plate glass window. I much prefer sitting outside. You need to taste the sea spray flying over the side. You need to hear the diesel roar and the churning of the water. You miss the sharp white reflections bouncing off the breaks, and the mad chatter of the seagulls as they fly alongside. If your hair doesn't get messed up in the wind then you haven't had your money's worth.
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February 17th was a momentous occasion for me. It was my half-birthday. But not just any half-birthday. It was my 30 1/2 year old birthday. I thought turning 30 was a milestone, but that's because I hadn't yet turned 30 1/2. Not only am I six months older, wiser and more mature, but I am also more courageous. Why, just today I made the calm and rational decision to go to a friend's house, even though it was snowing really hard, and stay there for a few hours. 6 months ago I might have panicked and headed home right away, but the new and improved; calm, cool and collected Crystal decided to stay and guess what? We made it home just fine later on. Some might call this a lack in judgement, that my risky behavior shows that I shouldn't be making those kinds of decisions until I'm at least 30 3/4. But they're just haters.
Since turning 30 1/2 I've learned a lot of things. For example that I have 6 unmatching gloves in my underwear drawer. Also that our friends' water dispenser in their fridge no longer works. Also that I like Kit-Kats better than Twix. These are all things I didn't know at the tender age of 30.
The frustrating thing is that one of my besties will always, no matter how many half-birthdays I have, be one day older than me. That one day gives her such an edge. She's had one whole extra day on earth to grow, mature, and accomplish things. I would be so much further ahead in life if I had just been born one day earlier.
But at least I've got another 1/2 of a year under my belt. And hopefully by the time I'm 31 1/2 I'll be able to report on how much more I've learned.


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Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge Results.
Long Beach, Calif. – April 12, 2014 – Formula DRIFT hosted the Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge during the 40th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Daigo Saito in the Achilles Radial Lexus SC430 takes the victory.
The Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge for the second consecutive year brought motorsports action under the lights during the annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach with a filled capacity within Turns 9, 10, and 11 of the famous street course. Sixteen of the top Formula DRIFT drivers competed for a $25,000 prize purse. Eight vehicle manufacturers and seven tire companies were represented in the competition.
The action under the lights along with ever changing track temperatures proved to be a test of driver skill. Number one qualifier, Forrest Wang in Get Nuts Lab / Hankook Tire Nissan S14 finishes in third place. Daigo Saito met teammate Kenny Moen in the Bridges Racing / Achilles Radial Nissan 240SX in the finals. Saito, the 2012 Formula DRIFT champion, was able to edge out Moen to take the victory. For the second consecutive weekend, Moen takes the second spot on the podium.
"Last weekend at Round 1 of Formula DRIFT was no good for me, but this week with a few modifications on the vehicle I was able to get the win," said Daigo Saito, winner of the Motegi Super Drift Challenge. "I am happy with the win and look to continue the momentum into the next round."
Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge Event Results
1. Saito, Daigo Achilles Radial Lexus SC430 Winner
2. Moen, Kenneth Bridges Racing Nissan 240SX 2nd Place
3. Wang, Forrest Get Nuts Lab / Hankook Tire Nissan S14 3rd Place
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In the era of the reboot, there is no reason the folks at PBS shouldn't dust off some of the great shows of the 80's and 90's for a funky remix or two. That's why we here at CRAVE have found you 5 of the hottest remixes of PBS shows that will make you bust-a-move.
After all, there is no wrong way to learn!
Sit back, relax, and prepare to have your ass-rocked by audio-fire!
1. Bob Ross blows your f*cking mind:
If you ever have trouble sleeping, this guy's voice is like Valium.
2. Mr. Roger's drops mind-science:
We just got Incepted by Mr. Rogers.
3. Julia "cut a b*tch" Child:
RIP Julia. Pour one out on the curb.
4. Reading Rainbow, shake your ass!
Where the hell was this intro when we were kids?
5. Sesame Street bringing some Latin flavor to PBS:
Not nearly enough face-time for Sesame Streets only Latin member, Oskar the Groucho.


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Cian O'Sullivan is the picture of confidence as he speaks to a packed lecture hall at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
A tall, lantern-jawed man, Mr. O'Sullivan begins his presentation with a slick video explaining the genius idea developed by Beagle Inc., his Kitchener, Ont.-based startup. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Beagle's software reviews dense contracts and other legal documents and roots out critical information in minutes. Most of the 30 million small- and medium-sized businesses in North America don't use lawyers for commercial deals; Beagle's product saves them hours of aggravation.
The founder throws out some impressive numbers and names. Already, it has 750 customers and prospective investors have shown "an immense amount of interest," he tells the Rotman crowd. So have Volkswagen AG and Thomson Reuters Corp.; Mr. O'Sullivan is spending 20 per cent of his time working on these new giant customer leads. Everything seems to be going Mr. O'Sullivan's way on this mid-April, 2016, day – that is, until the audience starts barking questions.
John Harris, a retired steel magnate, asks why Beagle only charges $83 per month. If it works, that's too low, he says.
Barney Pell, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who once led U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's AI branch, says Mr. O'Sullivan should raise much more than the $400,000 (U.S.) he's seeking or investors won't take him seriously. "Right now you're in no-man's land," Mr. Pell says.
Mike Serbinis, one of Canada's most successful tech entrepreneurs, says Beagle must decide if it's going after small or large customers, but not both. Others agree: Beagle has a focus problem. "I just want to know what kind of business this is," says Shivon Zilis, a partner with San Francisco venture-capital firm Bloomberg Beta.
Watching the scene unfold is the man who designed this interrogation chamber for entrepreneurs: Ajay Agrawal, one of Canada's foremost business academics and founder of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a ground-breaking program for startups housed at Rotman.
CDL has accomplished what few incubators of technology startups in Canada have managed to do, already making a major impact on a teeming startup ecosystem. Now in its fifth year, it has developed a promising method for helping early stage companies- many of them using AI and other leading-edge technology – to grow, flourish and attract private capital.
Mr. Agrawal's aspirations go far beyond that, however. He also hopes that what the CDL team has created can point the way to a solution for a problem that has vexed our economy for decades: our sputtering ecosystem for innovation. Canada is blessed with excellent research universities and a strong pool of engineering and technical talent. Where we often stumble is in the process of turning bright ideas into cash, and spinning out technology businesses that can grow to become global players. Since Nortel Networks Corp. went bankrupt and BlackBerry Ltd. flamed out, there has been a shortage of truly large anchor companies in the Canadian tech sector. That will have to change if Canada is going to have an economy built on the jobs of the future.
With the federal government set to unveil what has been described as an "innovation budget" next week, perhaps CDL's most impressive accomplishment is that it isn't part of a grand public-sector innovation strategy, nor based on a recommendation from one of the many past reports on improving Canada's spotty record for commercializing technology. Rather, CDL has acted like a startup itself, driven by ingenuity and purpose and managed by a skeleton staff on a shoestring budget mostly financed by the private sector and individuals .
At the time of Mr. O'Sullivan's presentation last spring, Beagle was one of 13 AI firms left in CDL's machine-learning program, down from 25 that started the previous fall. All were trying to build new businesses around algorithms that can learn on their own, rather than just perform tasks programmed by humans.
To stay in the program, Mr. O'Sullivan and the other fledgling entrepreneurs had to convince at least one of the "mentors" – accomplished businesspeople who act as advisers, objective setters and judges – that it's worth devoting four hours out of their busy schedules to Beagle over the next eight weeks. If none are willing, participants are booted out of the program.
"When they come here most [CDL companies] are science projects," Mr. Agrawal says following the session. "By the time we get to this meeting" – the fourth day-long session out of five over the course of nine months – "they are ready to raise a seed round of capital." That explains why the 60-odd observers in the room include several San Francisco-area venture capitalists. Their presence "is an important indicator" of CDL's success, said founding partner Dan Debow. "It tells you they're not coming to do you a favour, they're coming to do themselves a favour."
Some liken CDL to a cross between Survivor and Dragon's Den because most firms that start get cut. That comparison irks the cerebral and serious Mr. Agrawal. Dragon's Den "rewards the ability to pitch," Mr. Agrawal said. "CDL rewards an ability to perform … our ratings are the success of these companies."
If so, CDL is a huge hit. Mr. Agrawal's initial goal was to see CDL alumni create a combined $50-million in equity value after five years. That's how he sold the program to early benefactors, including Mr. Debow and Mr. Harris, tech entrepreneurs Michael and Richard Hyatt and ex-Research In Motion Ltd. chief financial officer Dennis Kavelman, who each donated $300,000 to get CDL started.
CDL has already surpassed that goal – 20 times over. Leading the way is Thalmic Labs Inc. of Waterloo, Ont., a maker of wearable technology that was one of the first companies to go through the lab in 2012-13. Thalmic raised $120-million (U.S.) last year from Intel Capital, Amazon's Alexa Fund and others. Much of Thalmic's early guidance and funding came from CDL mentors.
Even without Thalmic, CDL would be a success: Other CDL graduate firms are valued at about $500-million combined and sell such eclectic innovations as anti-frost coatings, low-energy display lights and speech-analysis software that detects the onset of dementia. It's still too early to know if any will break out and emerge into significant enterprises; startups typically need seven to 10 years to reach that point.
Now, like a startup entrepreneur, Mr. Agrawal wants CDL to build on its early success and expand into something significant. This year, the program welcomed 100 companies – half of them focused on machine-learning. It expanded to the University of British Columbia, where "Creative Destruction Lab West" boasts early Yahoo president Jeff Mallett as a mentor. It has fielded interest from Dalhousie University in Halifax, the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business and New York University to host similar offshoots. Companies have flown in from France, Israel, Boston, New York and even Silicon Valley to participate.
But there's no time to waste: Canada's early lead in the now hot area of machine learning, a type of AI, has eroded somewhat as U.S. giants swooped to snap up leading Canadian scientists and startups. Google, Microsoft and their ilk have set themselves up to be big beneficiaries of Canada's AI talent pool.
Mr. Agrawal says now is the time to act on another field where Canada has built an early lead before the industry giants clean up: quantum computing. It's an emerging field based on a still developing technology that harnesses the power of subatomic particles. Quantum computers are expected to one day be significantly faster than the most sophisticated machines on the planet, enabling researchers to solve complex problems beyond current capabilities.
If things break as Mr. Agrawal hopes, Canada could hold that lead. To help, he's set this spring to announce a CDL stream exclusively centred on companies developing quantum computing-based AI companies.
"Our mission is that by 2020 the quantum-machine-learning initiative will have produced more, well-capitalized, revenue-generating quantum machine learning software companies than the rest of the world combined, and majority will be based in Canada," Mr. Agrawal says. "We have a model that works for building companies, but we are still in catchup mode."
Doubling down on global leaders
The idea for Creative Destruction Lab came to Mr. Agrawal during a dinner in Toronto about five years ago. The topic that evening was what Canada could do to improve its woeful record for harnessing Canadian ingenuity to stimulate economic growth.
This was familiar ground for Mr. Agrawal, now 47, an expert on innovation economics and one of Rotman's most popular professors; he'd attended an "endless number" of government-sponsored panels, round tables and meetings on the subject during his career, and many of the usual suspects were in attendance, including CEOs of some of Canada's largest companies.
But something bothered him that night. Everyone at the table "was very deferential" to the CEOs "who were talking about how important innovation was," he said. "But they hadn't really done anything that's innovative."
Rather, it was the scientists in attendance who were the true innovators, including regenerative medicine expert Molly Shoichet, quantum computing and robotics visionary Geordie Rose, and Steve Mann, a pioneer in wearable computers. "I thought to myself, 'In this room … everyone is focused on the bank CEOs, but as soon as we go global, they're not really that relevant – and the other people here are.' A light went off and I realized, 'OK, we need to double down on the people who are global leaders and they're not the ones everyone else in the country is focused on.'"
That lightbulb moment had been 20 years in the making. Over the course of his academic research Mr. Agrawal, who studied engineering before earning his PhD in strategy and economics at UBC had focused on why most universities struggle to help their research scientists achieve commercial success from their inventions.
That was a particularly acute problem in Canada. This country's 36 leading research universities earned a combined $62-million (Cdn) in licensing income from campus inventions in 2015, according to the Association of University Technology Managers, a paltry fraction of the billions of dollars in on-campus research expenditures annually. By comparison, U.S. commercialization powerhouses Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone last year brought in $94.2-million (U.S.) and $62-million in licensing income, respectively.
It wasn't that Canadian scientists were less inventive than their U.S. counterparts; in a 2008 paper, Mr. Agrawal found U of T scientists disclosed as many inventions per capita as those at MIT. However, the "technology transfer" system whereby Canada's top research university helped campus inventors commercialize their research breakthroughs was less efficient than MIT's as there were fewer patent applications, issued patents and licensing income, he wrote. When Mr. Agrawal broadened the study to 160 Canadian and U.S. universities, he found a similar gap between the two countries.
"In Canada we have a lot of important technical breakthroughs," Mr. Agrawal said. "But we have comparatively very little capital flowing in to commercialize those. That begs the question, 'Why?'"
He rejected conventional wisdom that Silicon Valley had better ideas, smarter people and more money. The main reason for the gap, he believed from his years of research, was what he described as a lack of good judgment in Canada – judgment that was essential to help scientists turn into successful entrepreneurs. That key ingredient was in abundance in Silicon Valley's established technology commercialization ecosystem.
Mr. Agrawal cited a compelling example to make his point.
A 1997 e-mail in Stanford's archives shows a campus graduate student working through a potential deal to license technology he has developed to early Internet company Excite. The student writes to Stanford's technology transfer office that he is willing to sign over rights for Excite to use his technology in exchange for a salary. He figures his time is worth $100,000 a year.But his e-mail also reveals someone named "Vinod" has advised him to instead buy a company that would own the technology. The "punchline," Mr. Agrawal said, is that the technology in question was Google's search algorithm. The student was Larry Page, who co-founded Google a year later. "Vinod" was venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, whose early backing helped to turn Google (now Alphabet Inc.) into the world's second most valuable public company.
"The most remarkable thing about [Mr. Page's] e-mail is how unremarkable it is," Mr. Agrawal said. "There's not an ounce of genius there. That could have been from a computer science student [anywhere in Canada]. In my view, the only reason this turned into a company the way it did is because of the judgment from people like Vinod."
The market for judgment
Mr. Agrawal started to develop an idea he called the "market for judgment." He wanted to bring together some of the sharpest and shrewdest investors to advise cutting-edge Canadian research scientists and help them build companies around their technology breakthroughs, providing them with the kind of business guidance Mr. Khosla had shared with Google's co-founder.
"The problem is if you are a person who needs judgment – like a PhD in computer science who's come up with a new way to organize the world's information online. You can't go down to Bay Street and buy five units of judgment. It's not for sale. And therein lies the problem. [Creating that market] became the essence of the Creative Destruction Lab."
The academic began developing the idea with a small group that included his former UBC entrepreneurship professor and pioneering Canadian venture capitalist Haig Farris, the late Osler, Harcourt & Hoskin LLP technology lawyer Geoff Taber, and Dan Debow, a successful Toronto tech entrepreneur and Rotman alumnus that Mr. Agrawal had met through Next 36, a program the professor had helped create to expose bright Canadian undergraduate students to entrepreneurs. Mr. Debow initially told him the world didn't need another accelerator, to which Mr. Agrawal replied, "'Well, I don't want to build that, I want to build something different,'" Mr. Debow recalled.
Unlike most accelerators and incubators, CDL wouldn't offer companies free office space nor take an equity stake. This was meant to be a purely altruistic venture "that emphasized something very specific: the judgment mechanism," Mr. Debow said. Mr. Agrawal also had a distinct idea how he program's success would be measured: not by number of jobs or startups generated – a typical yardstick – but equity value created by CDL companies as they raised money. "That's how investors measure the success or failure of their investments," said Mr. Debow.
To build one side of the judgment market, Mr. Agrawal felt it was crucial to take a different approach to mentorship. While mentors are a common feature of incubators and accelerators, "they generally fall into two categories," said Mr. Agrawal: people who were "well-meaning but haven't really built a significant business," or "the occasional superstar mentor" who was typically too busy to provide much help. "We wanted judgment that was neither mediocre-and-highly committed, nor superstar-but-not-committed. We wanted superstars that were committed."
Mr. Agrawal set out to assemble a stellar group of seven entrepreneurs – the G7, as he called them – who had built successful businesses from scratch through to a successful sale or public offering, and who would be willing to commit five full days to CDL, spread out over the program's nine months. "Time is the most valuable thing they have," he said.
He was also wanted them to put skin in the game by investing in CDL companies they liked, though he made a handful of exceptions for entrepreneurs whose companies hadn't yet paid out from a sale or IPO, such as Geordie Rose, a former UBC classmate who had gone on to co-found quantum-computer maker D-Wave Systems.
The G7 would be matched with an initial annual cohort of 23 early stage companies, sourced from mentors, benefactors, the Next 36, other accelerators and, most of all, university science labs. When they met, the G7 would collectively determine three short-term goals judged to be the most likely milestones to advance each CDL startup. The firms would then have eight weeks to deliver. If they couldn't they would be out.
If they did, they'd get three more objectives to meet eight weeks later. At any meeting, the G7 could invest – or vote them out. Every meeting, at least one company would be automatically cut. "We knew half [of the CDL startups] probably wouldn't make it through," said Mr. Agrawal, noting yet another difference from other startup assistance programs. "It turned out to be less than that."
Thalmic for the win
Mr. Debow, Wind Mobile founder Tony Lacavera and the Hyatt brothers were among those who signed up as mentors and financial supporters. Mr. Agrawal had further success wooing other mentors through Canada's tight-knit tech sector, including Mr. Serbinis and Calgary entrepreneur Chen Fong, who were sold on his pitch that they could make a meaningful contribution to Canada. Many were impressed by the company they'd be keeping. "I say no to almost everything," said Ted Livingston, co-founder of popular Waterloo-based mobile instant messaging service Kik and an early G7 member. "I just looked at the entrepreneurs [Mr. Agrawal assembled] and was like, 'Wow, yes. I would be honoured.' I thought this was one of the highest densities of great people I've ever seen."
But when he asked U of T and Rotman for help, Mr. Agrawal said "we didn't get a nickel." The extent of Rotman's support was allowing him to book rooms in the building. "This was really happening despite the university. We weren't really doing anything that fit within the university mould," said Mr. Agrawal. (To date, CDL has received $2.5-million from individuals, $900,000 from companies, and $400,000 from the publicly funded Ontario Centres of Excellence)
The plan came together within months and the first CDL cohort started in the fall of 2012. Almost immediately, several of the G7, including Mr. Debow, got excited about Thalmic, which just months earlier had been a mechatronics class project at University of Waterloo to make a gesture-control armband guided by electrical signals of a user's muscles.
That December Thalmic closed a $1.1-million seed financing round. "A big chunk of that came from the G7 and others they introduced us to," Thalmic CEO Stephen Lake said. "One of the first value-adds was that not only were we getting advice from people in the room but they actually were writing cheques and becoming investors." The following June, Thalmic raised another $14.5-million; Boston's Spark Capital, an early backer of Slack and Twitter, and Intel Capital led the deal. "I feel comfortable saying we can put [Thalmic] in the win column," said Mr. Debow, who joined the board.
Just-in-Time MBA
Far from celebrating CDL's early successes, however, Mr. Agrawal took the approach of an entrepreneur, tinkering to make it better. He recruited world-renowned U of T professors including Ms. Shoichet and Mr. Mann to act as CDL "chief scientists," testing technology brought in by the startups. He asked professional services firms including Osler and Ernst & Young Global Ltd. to advise the startups. Additional observers, dubbed "G7 Associates," were invited to participate. These carefully curated guests – "we look for community builders, not lone wolves," Mr. Agrawal said – included venture capitalists such as Mr. Farris and successful entrepreneurs who were expected to provide feedback, introductions and even funding to the startups.
He also changed how the G7 weeded out CDL companies. At first the selection was done by a show of hands after each meeting. Mr. Agrawal didn't like that, so the G7 was instead asked if they'd be willing to devote four hours of their time to each startup over the following eight weeks. If just one put up a hand, the startup would stay. "The best voting mechanism is individual conviction," Mr. Agrawal said. Committing four hours "makes it expensive for them to raise their hands."
That proved to be the saving grace for some. Mr. Livingston took to two founders in CDL's second year who were developing a robot tea dispenser called teaBOT. Their rough prototype looked like a high school science project but Mr. Livingston was intrigued by the team: one was a U of T aerospace robotics engineering PhD candidate who loved to build machines, and the Kik founder wanted to see what they could accomplish. "I just believed in these people," Mr. Livingston said. He alone voted to keep them in initially. At each successive meeting the prototype and pitch improved, and several G7s ultimately invested. There are now 17 teaBOTs in service, including machines in three "365 by Whole Foods" stores.
The biggest change came at the behest of steel magnate John Harris, a founding donor and regular observer of CDL meetings. He was learning from the CDL sessions himself and said "It's crazy this is happening right here in a business school and there is not a single MBA student in the room," Mr. Agrawal recalled.
Mr. Agrawal and a PhD student designed a self-directed course for CDL's second year whereby students did standard MBA analysis, observing the startup-G7 interactions and producing slides with prim recommendations. Mr. Debow called it "a lot of wasted effort, a classic MBA make-work project. Their insights were not that helpful."
But there was such a surge in demand from students and inquiries to admissions about CDL the following year that Rotman administrators took notice.
That coincided with the arrival of new dean, former Bank of Canada deputy governor Tiff Macklem in July, 2014. After giving many high-level speeches over the years about Canada's chronically stagnant productivity, Mr. Macklem quickly embraced CDL for the impact it was having. The dean has since thrown Rotman's support behind the program and the launch in 2015 of an annual CDL machine learning conference, promoting the lab publicly and meetings with government and business. "CDL is very results-oriented but it's also an experiment in how you teach entrepreneurship and how you actually accelerate companies," Mr. Macklem said. "It's working, and there are not enough examples of accelerators that are truly working."
To improve the MBA class in the third year, Mr. Agrawal decided to get students directly involved by working with the startups. Now young companies led by scientists with limited business know-how had access to "this team of super motivated, super engaged, highly talented MBAs working for them," Mr. Debow said.
Forget reading stale Harvard Business School case studies: students were now living real-time case studies. "They're not doing an academic exercise, they're taking their academic tools and applying it to a real problem – and it's a problem the founders and the G7 care about," Mr. Agrawal said. Meanwhile their professors were expected to write class notes based on the latest challenges CDL startups faced, not just wheeling out well-worn lectures. One visiting academic from Harvard called it "just-in-time education." The CDL course became "the most competitive at Rotman to get into," said Mr. Agrawal.
"It was one of the most beneficial classes I had," said Sasha Kucharczyk, who took the CDL course as an MBA student in 2013-14. "It taught you to think and act differently [to] help you attack and execute on abstract problems [to get] meaningful results." Two years later he entered his startup Preteckt, which uses AI software to predict when heavy vehicles will need maintenance, into CDL.
'World class talent'
It's 8:01 on April 13, 2016, and the fourth meeting of the CDL's "machine learning" stream for the year is under way. Mr. Agrawal, who acts as master of ceremonies, runs a tight ship. He asks everyone in the room to describe themselves in one sentence – and cuts off anyone who lingers.
One by one the 13 startups still in the program get up for their 30-minute slots. Each firm is introduced by a mentor who revisits how they've performed and proposes the next three objectives. Most of the discussion is among the associates and Mr. Agrawal, who pick over the companies as if talking about specimens while their founders stand awkwardly at the front, occasionally responding to pointed questions. "I'm really not sure yet about the company," says Mr. Pell, the former NASA AI head, of Heuritech, a startup from Paris that assesses social media posts using AI to determine fashion trends. "They're smart people," he says of the team of four AI and machine learning PhDs. "My concern is: how big is the business opportunity?"
In 2015-16, for the first time there are two CDL streams, with this one focused exclusively on startups based on "machine learning," a form of AI where algorithms automatically build themselves based on big data troves fed in. (CDL has since doubled down and now runs two machine learning streams, each starting with 25 companies.) The idea was initially met with some skepticism internally that CDL was getting too narrowly focused, but it's worked so far. Two San Francisco-based machine learning experts are mentors, known here as the ML7: Mr Pell, introduced to Mr. Agrawal a year earlier by a CDL alumnus, and Ms. Zilis of VC firm Bloomberg Beta.
The machine-learning focus has also attracted interest from top U.S. venture capital firms, which regularly send partners to observe, including Bessemer Venture Partners, True Ventures, and Google Ventures. "All the companies have been very impressive," says Adam D'Augelli, a True partner. "They have real technology and at this point will have early revenue or early product traction, which for something coming out of university is relatively rare." One Silicon Valley early stage investment firm, FundersClub provides $50,000 to any CDL company that raises money from at least one ML7 and another $100,000. By this point some CDL companies have landed seven-figure venture financings.
"There's world class talent" in Toronto, Mr. Agrawal says. "When we built [a CDL program for machine learning], that was the first time people got on a plane from Silicon Valley to Toronto rather than the other way around. Once they make that investment, they are schlepping to Canada every quarter for a board meeting. Making a second investment is a far lower hurdle. One of the most important things we're doing for the country is getting some of the world's top investors to go from zero to one" in Canada.
As the meetings progress, the ML7 ask who are the startups' customers – the Beagle dilemma – what they should charge, what key positions they should fill and whether their businesses can scale into something big. "If I don't have an understanding for how this could potentially be a billion-dollar company or if I don't believe the founder has that ambition, I categorically can't invest," Ms. Zilis says later.
Mr. Agrawal says there are three main startup risks: technology, market and entrepreneur. Through CDL, he says, entrepreneurs can show their technology works and determine initial market interest – while addressing the third point by showing they can steadily deliver on time-sensitive objectives.
Some companies are doing well. Preteckt seems to be winning over the ML7 with news it has completed its second-generation protoypes, has installed its technology on several vehicles and is working on a letter of intent with Volvo.
"I like everything they are doing," declares ML7 and tech entrepreneur Shahram Tafazoli. The ML7 assigns Preteckt objectives to install 100 revenue-generating units, file a patent application and return with a signed letter from Volvo in the next eight weeks.
Deep Genomics, meanwhile, doesn't have a product yet, but for Silicon Valley investors, that doesn't always matter. What Deep Genomics does have is CEO Brendan Frey, a renowned deep learning pioneer and U of T professor who is trying to apply his lab work to improve diagnostic yields. Like many AI experts who've started companies, he's attracted Big Silicon Valley money at a very early stage, raising $5-million from Bloomberg Beta and others. It's a reminder that south of the border, investors are willing to take larger, more speculative bets than more conservative Canadian VCs, who as a result miss out on the gigantic returns when some of those flyers turn into global giants. He's the rock star of the room, looking cool and confident in a silver paisley shirt and salt-and-pepper beard. "I got on the phone with Brendan and within five minutes I said 'You can have my money and I will help you no matter what,'" Ms Zilis says in an interview later.
Brothers Alex and Eric Dolan have developed a smartwatch app that can detect when a person with epilepsy is having a seizure and alert others. The technology was inspired by their epileptic mom and 2,600 people are testing it. "We are working with people who are scared … giving them tools so they can manage their lives," Alex Dolan tells the room.
But while some ML7s praise the Dolans, they're not convinced their Neutun Labs Inc. is a billion-dollar opportunity. One concern is that the Neutun sends out "false-positive" alarms close to half the time to emergency contacts about attacks that aren't happening. "Can it deliver something that has value? I think it's been nebulous," says ML7 Moe Kermani, a Vancouver venture capitalist.
Alex Dolan isn't backing down. "I've found a high satisfaction among users," he says in an emotionally charged and defensive tone. "I'm thanked profusely for it….we're focused on the one metric that matters – growing our users and engaging with them." Neutun is cut later that day.
"The ML7 just didn't think they could add a lot of value to the company anymore," Mr. Agrawal explains later. He says CDL "can really only help companies that are willing to be coached."
One such company is Validere Technlogies Inc. It entered the non-machine learning CDL program in 2015-16 with technology to sniff out knockoffs of perfume brands. At the behest of the G7, Validere changed its pitch and is now a hazardous waste detection service. Alberta-based G7 Chen Fong introduced the founders to oil patch executives, securing an entree that might have otherwise taken years, and the team raised $3.3-million (U.S.) in 2016 from investors in Canada and Silicon Valley.
Mr. Agrawal is particularly proud of Rotman MBA student Alyssa Randall, who "went rogue" after a machine learning company she favoured was cut early from CDL. She helped the team anyway and thanks to her efforts they have had some breakthroughs – and been accepted back into CDL for this meeting. MBAs "are viewed as suits that are overpriced and underdeliver," Mr. Agrawal says later. Ms. Randall, on the other hand, has taken big risks and overdelivered on a long shot, rather than taking the safer route of being reassigned to a company that made it through. Her company, called Algocian, graduated from CDL and hired her. "I was really happy," she said months later, though Algocian ultimately shut down. "It was an opportunity for me to solidify a positive reputation for the company."
As for Beagle, the company did end up graduating and focusing on larger enterprise customers, and CEO Cian O'Sullivan praised the program as "a fantastic initiative … an absolute perfect crash course for running a company."
That said, there are ways it could improve, he said months later. Not all advice he got from mentors from helpful, and Mr. O'Sullivan said he would have appreciated advice earlier on how difficult it would be "to train the marketplace" for a new type of product rather than attacking an existing market. He wondered if there were too many companies for mentors to keep track of, sometimes diluting the effectiveness of advice he received, and felt the mentors could have been more open to CDL companies airing their vulnerabilities, rather than "looking for strength after strength after strength. Highlighting weakness doesn't fit well in that environment."
Some wonder whether CDL can replicate its success as it expands. "The real challenge is it's all about Ajay," said Boris Wertz, a Vancouver venture capitalist who is one of CDL West's G7s this year. "As long as Ajay stays motivated he can create a real legacy."
CDL now faces the same challenge as any flourishing startup: not getting too cocky about its early success. "CDL's measure of success will ultimately be 10 years in the making,"said ML7 Lisa Shields, who is now mentoring CDL West companies. Says Mr. Debow: "One of the worst Canadian diseases is to convince yourself you're world class. Have we created Facebook yet? No? Then keep moving."
Indeed, Mr. Agrawal, who actively solicits feedback about improving CDL, hardly seems satisfied; he rejected out of hand recent suggestions CDL throw a party to celebrate its alumni hitting the $1-billion value creation mark in value. "We are so far away from achieving the mission" of improving Canada's competitiveness, he said.


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July 18th, 2004, 06:11 PM #1
But, it made me laugh out loud. Just call me warped.
Schwarzenegger Calls Dems 'Girlie Men'
But, you must admit he has a unique sort of style.Comments are opinion unless otherwise noted. Remember, pillage first. Then burn. Half of all people in the world have IQs under 100. You best learn to trust ol' SSanf!
July 18th, 2004, 06:17 PM #2
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Well they are!!!
July 18th, 2004, 06:17 PM #3
I'm starting to like this guy more and more. No it's not the least bit offensive. A man is supposed to be a man and a woman a woman. A man is not supposed to be girly. Even if that man has some idea that he does not like women, he is not to be girly.
July 18th, 2004, 06:26 PM #4

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A man is supposed to be a man and a woman a woman.

Well, I agree with that but I am not quite sure what being "girly" is.Comments are opinion unless otherwise noted. Remember, pillage first. Then burn. Half of all people in the world have IQs under 100. You best learn to trust ol' SSanf!
July 18th, 2004, 06:33 PM #5
hehe I remember the show it was funny to someone in the fourth grade. I don't think it would interest me all that much as an adult. "Look at the little girly man. Yah, what a girly man"
July 18th, 2004, 08:30 PM #6
Arnold is like a breath of fresh air when you compare him to the other stuffy, holier than thou bunch of cronies! . Pity there weren't more like him in politics.
July 18th, 2004, 10:12 PM #7
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Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn't upset by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was.
"She's a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and didn't find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be derogatory," Nunez said. "It was no question a very, very insensitive comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger."
13 yr old? Give me a break!
Ok, so he called them "wimps" - so what? Personally, I think the world is going insane.
July 19th, 2004, 08:09 AM #8
If they continue in this vein, pretty soon they'll be slinging some pretty harsh words at each other, like, "Poo Poo Head!" and "Stinky Breath!" Oh, where will the madness stop??! No doubt, we will have to give them all a timeout chair before this is through.Following everyone else is a GREAT way to become average.
July 19th, 2004, 11:48 AM #9
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Pretty harmless if you ask me.
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