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| | The May Report: 2/18/2010: One word: Lyrica! Northwestern is literally #1 by a factor of greater than six over all other U. S. Universities! NU has a blow out lead in licensing income over #2 U. of Cal. System; A tech event NOT run by the "Mr. Potters in Bedford Falls," i.e. Howerton, Hoch and Weinstein; HPA gets its place in the sun, or is that The Trib?; Walt Sloan in Super Bowl ad
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The May Report: 2/18/2010: One word: Lyrica! Northwestern is literally #1 by a factor of greater than six over all other U. S. Universities! NU has a blow out lead in licensing income over #2 U. of Cal. System; A tech event NOT run by the "Mr. Potters in Bedford Falls," i.e. Howerton, Hoch and Weinstein; HPA gets its place in the sun, or is that The Trib?; Walt Sloan in Super Bowl ad
Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com, 773-525-3944.
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Negotiating software licenses is a complicated process that takes knowledge and skill. Revenue-recognition problems are arguably the leading cause of restatements among software companies. The consequences of getting it wrong can be severe. Some of the basic criteria for recognizing revenue are dependent on the structure and terms of a software agreement.
This seminar will focus on understanding revenue recognition issues and drafting and negotiating agreements so as to minimize revenue recognition issues.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
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Speakers:
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Previously, Dave held several senior roles with hardware, software, and technology services companies ranging from $150 million to $2.2 billion in revenue. He has been involved with two successful IPO's, several debt offerings, and over 20 acquisitions.
Marcus Harris is an attorney that works with technology companies, software developers and users regarding software development, licensing, ownership and distribution. Prior to starting his own practice he was Senior Corporate Counsel at SSA Global.
Details:
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010?
Where: TechNexus?200 S. Wacker Drive 15th Floor Chicago, IL 60606
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Lunch will be provided
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Scoop section:
-- A shocker: Northwestern leads all other U. S. Universities by a factor of greater than six to one in licensing income by dint of Lyrica, and the number two school is the entire University of California system!
-- Hey, an event in the tech world that has yet to be taken over by the rapacious Terry Howerton, Fred Hoch and David Weinstein, aka the 2010 BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION sponsored by Chicago Community Ventures and the City
-- Hyde Park Angels Trib article glorifies R. H. Bailin, Jeffrey Carter, et. al, and what about Bobby Geras?
-- Very briefly noted, by Ron May
-- Authentify assists robbery victim being sued by bank
-- MIT Expert presents "How You Can Use Enterprise 2.0 to Accelerate Your Business" "ThoseinMedia MasterClass Series" presents
-- Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee event March 13th
-- March 2 LES Chicago Chapter Meeting
-- The 11th Annual Golden Spike Seminar
Thursday and Friday, March 11 & 12, 2010
-- Friday, Feb. 26: AMC: AUG Chicago Announces Flash Camp Line-up
-- Our own Walt Sloan was in the Super Bowl commercial, playing the guitar and dancing the Boost Mobile shuffle along with several members of the Bears 1985 championship team
-- Mark Williams: Thanks for critiquing Dr. Michael P. Angarone
-- Barb Roediger: Ron could have polymyalgia rheumatica
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The Scoop section:
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A shocker: Northwestern leads all other U. S. Universities by a factor of greater than six to one in licensing income by dint of Lyrica, and the number two school is the entire University of California system!
May here. This is a must read
http://chronicle.com/article/Chart-Licensing-Revenue-and/64158/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Name of institution Licensing income Start-up companies formed Licenses executed
Northwestern U. $824,426,230 4 28
Total active licenses New patent applications U.S. patents issued
195 158 32
Total research spending
$368,169,430
U. of California system $146,314,433 55 206
Total active licenses New patent applications U.S. patents issued
1,913 899 224
Total research spending
$4,403,662,006
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May here. One word: Lyrica. That is the predominant reason that NU dominates all other U. S. Universities in the category of total licensing income.
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From TMR, 10/30/2009, Briefly noted, by Ron May
One person I really enjoyed talking to who was also on the panel was Alan K. Hauser of Northwestern. He is at NU because of Lyrica, a drug developed by a NU professor which netted the University $700MM. Alan came here from the Valley to work on biotech and life sciences tech transfer and VC at Motorola and two years ago, he made the move to NU.
The Lyrica deal was so big that they are naming a building after the professor who was the inventor, Richard B. Silverman.
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About Lyrica™
While in pursuit of finding an anticonvulsant agent for possible use in the treatment of epilepsy, Richard B. Silverman, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, along with postdoctoral fellow Ryszard Andruszkiewicz, invented the novel compound pregabalin, which successfully treats epilepsy, neuropathic pain, anxiety disorder, and fibromyalgia. LyricaTM, the trade name for pregabalin, is the first and only approved drug to date for the effective treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia, two of the most common forms of nerve pain that afflict millions of people, and for fibromyalgia.
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May again. I found this while googling info. on the drug written by Eric Olson.
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http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/category/dfj/
Olson's ObservationsMicrofinance. Economics. Technology. Science. Entrepreneurship. :: by Eric Olson
Archive for the 'DFJ' Category
Technology Transfer in the Midwest: Looking Up
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Crain's Chicago Business published a great article about technology transfer in the Midwest a few weeks back entitled "Seeking a breakthrough". The article specifically focused on tech transfer in Illinois and mentioned that, to date, Illinois has not done a great job of tech transfer.
Having come to Chicago from one of the most vibrant tech transfer centers in the world, Boston, MA (second only to Silicon Valley imho), I have seen what a great tech transfer system looks like and what it can do for the local economy. Compared to Mass and the Valley we haven't been doing a great job of commercializing technology from university labs (and from government labs) here in Illinois.
We all know the stories that still break our hearts. Mosaic/Netscape, PayPal, YouTube, etc. All of these companies were founded by Illini and yet ended up on the west coast. The numbers also back up our lack of tech transfer. From the Crain's piece:
Between 1996 and 2006, Illinois universities spun off 124 companies and made $180 million from startups and technology they licensed directly to existing companies, according to the Deerfield-based Assn. of University Technology Managers. In that same period, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone started 220 companies and made $344 million. Stanford University made $209 million between just 2002 and 2006.
Those numbers say it all but we can (and will) turn this around.
What can we do to turn this around? One of the first things we need to do is not so easy. We need to build some high profile success stories here in Illinois. I would argue that is already happening with FeedBurner (acquired by Google in 2007) and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster in 2008) along with a handful of other solid companies that have exited recently (disclosure: DFJ Portage was an investor in FeedBurner and TicketsNow). That said, those companies did not come out of university labs. However, the success stories should still show people both in and out of labs and investors that great companies can, and are, built right here.
As the Crain's piece suggests, more high profile successes in the state will create more technology millionaires who will then help to mentor and seed the next generation and so on and so forth. This is the same way Silicon Valley and Boston, MA were born and why the biggest thing we can do is build some very successful technology companies here in Illinois.
The infrastructure is also being put into place to make technology in Illinois a mainstay. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built a fantastic research park and incubator (which I frequently visit and which will house TECH cocktail Champaign this week) as has the Illinois Institute of Technology (again, another place I frequent). Both of these places along with other facilities are helping to change the tide of tech transfer here in the state.
What about the money though? We all know that investors like to be close to their companies, which is why many Illinois startups have to leave the state to get up and running. So we also need more investors here in the state. The good news is that we are starting to see a growth in the investor pool here in Illinois. From the Crain's piece:
U of I created an independent fund, Illinois Ventures LLC, based in Chicago, with the help of private donors in 2002. Its goal is to provide early-stage money and logistical help to university-based startups.
Illinois Ventures has invested $20 million so far in 15 companies, among them Tetravitae Bioscience Inc., an alternative fuel company in Chicago, and has attracted another $300 million in outside investments, much of it coming from venture-capital funds on the coasts.
Ron Kirschner, a retired physician with an MBA from DePaul University, started Heartland Angels in Skokie in 2004. The group has grown from six to 22 investors and has put more than $3 million into six early-stage Midwestern companies. Four of those grew out of universities, among them Abiant Inc., a Deerfield company based on research from the University of Chicago and New York University. The startup uses imaging to help drug manufacturers improve products by mapping how they affect the brain.
I would also add the the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce created a fund a little while back called the Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund (i2A for short) which is a $10mm vehicle dedicated to funding innovative technology companies here in Illinois.
Also, as most of you know, the firm I am an associate with, DFJ Portage Venture Partners, focuses only on the upper Midwest and has for quite some time. We are able to bring the global resources of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) into the region while remaining locally focused, something we think will really help the region grow and help entrepreneurs create world class companies right here in Illinois (and throughout the Midwest). As you can imagine we are very bullish on the Midwest as a technology center and we are excited to be part of the growing technology community here.
Successful technology transfer efforts will be a big part of what ultimately makes Illinois a leader in technology and tech transfer efforts are certainly getting exponentially better each and every day here in Illinois (for example Northwestern did a $700mm deal last year to sell part of its royalty rights to Pfizer's pain drug Lyrica - a drug based on Northwestern research).
We are just now hitting the big upswing in the "hockey stick" here in Illinois and across the Midwest. We are well on our way to rivaling the coasts when it comes to technology but we'll no doubt do it our own special way making the Midwest a unique and exciting place to start and build technology companies.
Further discussion on this topic: Chicago Tech Report: "Understanding why Marc Andreesen left Illinois" by Blagica Bottigliero
Written by Eric Olson
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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Hey, an event in the tech world that has yet to be taken over by the rapacious Terry Howerton, Fred Hoch and David Weinstein, aka the 2010 BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION sponsored by Chicago Community Ventures and the City
To: 'The May Report' ron@themayreport.com
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:56:14 -0600
Subject: 2010 BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
From: Johnson, Tom tom.johnson@cityofchicago.org
Ron - some of the most interesting Chicago Businesses have been finalists in the business plan competition the past 4 years. Also people can sign up for FREE business plan workshops - TWO PAGE SUBMISSION TEMPLATE now on line
Tj
Office of the City Treasurer Contact: Public Affairs
Stephanie D. Neely, Treasurer (312) 744-8122
Feb 8, 2010
City Treasurer announces 2010 Business Plan Competition to start Monday
$10,000 in Cash Prizes
CHICAGO (Feb 8, 2009) - Chicago City Treasurer Stephanie Neely has announced the kick off of the 2010 Chicago Small Business Plan competition. Also the date is set for July 16th for the Small Business Expo at the new UIC Forum. (Roosevelt and Halsted)
Winners of the contest will be announced at the City Treasurer's 2010 Small Business Expo. The Business Plan Competition gives entrepreneurs and start-ups the opportunity to submit a 2 page written executive summary and win money and prizes that consist of resources and mentoring sessions critical to a new business. Competitors will have until Monday, April 5th to enter.
According to Treasurer Neely, "I have made helping out Chicago small business owners a top priority of my Office. Chicago is known as the -City of Big Shoulders- but it is also a City of small businesses. Small Business licenses are vital to our economy, and account for 92% of the Business Licenses in Chicago. As we build on the momentum of the great successes of last year's business plan winners, we continue to emphasize - a great business plan is a cornerstone to success especially in a recession economy. We will gear our programs to offer as much support to our hometown businesses as possible, and look forward to the most exciting competition and Small Business Expo ever."
The Business Plan competition is sponsored by Harris Bank, with Chicago Community Ventures as the managers of the competition. There will be ten semifinalists selected. Business plan summaries will be accepted from those hoping to start up a small business, and existing small businesses owners hoping to reach their next level. Business summaries must be submitted on the official competition template available at www.chicagocitytreasurer.com . Cash prizes will include - 1st Place $5,000; 2nd place $3,500; and a $1,500 3rd place prize. A new business mentoring program will assist all the finalists.
Chicago Community Ventures will also be managing a series of FREE Business Plan Writing Workshops to help anyone hoping to start or improve a small business.
Anita Hollins, President of Chicago Community Ventures (CCV) says, "We are excited to once again be part of the Chicago City Treasurer's Business Plan Competition. At CCV, we believe that businesses are the foundation of a community and by helping to build businesses we are strengthening communities. As the manager of the competition we strive to provide technical assistance to participants to help them better plan for their business' success and become assets to their communities."
The workshops will be offered throughout the city, on a first come first serve basis. Due to space limitation, pre-registration is highly encouraged. The scheduled time and dates are posted at www.chicagocitytreasurer.com
Sign up for the workshops are being accepted at businessplans@cityofchicago.org
For more information on the business plan competition, rules, and judging process - visit http://www.chiventures.org/initiatives/busplancomp.html.
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Hyde Park Angels Trib article glorifies R. H. Bailin, Jeffrey Carter, et. al, and what about Bobby Geras?
Subject: Hyde Park Angels trib article
Date: 2/17/2010 9:11:33 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: Ira.Weiss@chicagobooth.edu
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com
There is an article in the trib today about us.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/ct-x-c--0217-angel-investors-20100215,0,465591.story
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May here. I have a good deal to say about this happy talk article by the Trib. The paper has even started a "Don't worry, be happy" section :-(
Now to substance. 55 members of HPA, 4 actual deals in four years despite all the fanfare and hype. Roughly $3MM total invested. One deal, the card shuffling machine, was only $250K. The only local investing that has gotten more hype for the actual buck invested is the i2A fund run by Lord Weinstein. Neither is worthy of writing home about.
Bob Geras, who shall now be known as Gary Slack, Jr., or PT Barnum, Jr., a man whom I thought for years did not have a self-promotional bone in his portly body, has somehow gotten the Trib to call him the, well you read it:
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The possibility of altering a person's life while reshaping the economy drives people toward this kind of activity, said LaSalle Investment president Bob Geras, who is known as the "godfather" of angel investing in Chicago. Many angel investors are entrepreneurs themselves and understand the struggle to raise capital.
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Let me ask you: How did the Trib. come up with the line about Bob being the "godfather" of angel investing in Chicago.? Did Neil Kane or Nik Rokop call them? Or did Bob "innocently" -- nonchalantly -- let that jewel drop?
But more to the issue of HPA: If Bob Geras does more deals farting in his sleep or trying to cut the padlock on the fridge that his wife Dawn put there to prevent him from killing himself with overeating while sleepwalking after nudging one of HER children to hand over the keys, than HPA has done in four years, and he has single handedly done more deals than R. H. Bailin, Jeffrey Carter, Ira Weiss, Sam Guren have ever dreamed of doing, then how come the Trib. is trumpeting these guys? (And yes, Darcy, there is a Santa Claus and I wrote this by my lonesome :-) -- that's inside baseball.) Does the Trib. do any independent research?
I suppose not with treasures of sagacity like this one in the article -- is the Trib for real?:
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Experts point to many historic examples of angel investing, including Spain's gamble on Christopher Columbus. More current examples include reality TV shows such as "Shark Tank" and "Dragons' Den," in which entrepreneurs risk embarrassment and failure to win money from business tycoons.
Chicago has not traditionally been considered a hotbed of angel investing when compared with places like Silicon Valley. But Hyde Park Angels is attempting to change that.
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Let's see now, the writer was short on space so he brought up Christopher Columbus and then skipped forward 500+ years. I guess we missed the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution. I will print the whole article tomorrow with all the goodies therein. The real question is: How many articles like this one have been written over the years by Crain's, the Trib., the Sun-Times, and other local pubs?
"Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life," says former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson (R) who added that the humorless come at you with gas, indigestion, and B. O. I just thought that was a good line and it was just on The News Hour in an interview done by Judy Woodruff.
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Very briefly noted, by Ron May
* From the LES event notice in this report for the March 2nd event:
Dr. Caralynn Nowinski-Chenoweth
Vice President, Sikich Investment Banking
CEO, Sanogene Therapeutics
Note that Carlynnn is not with Tom Churchwell as she has been for several years. Note that I wrote that TLC could not raise a fund. Note that no articles have been written about this is in The Trib or the Sun-Times and Crain's. Note that I won't even bother to say I told you so. But boy, did TLC hype his fund raise. At least Matt McCall has the class to sit down and shut up if he can't raise the bucks.
* I was right. That 60 Minutes piece on con games last Sunday evening which featured our own local Janet Tavakoli also featured a con man named Ricky Jay. I thought he looked familiar. He was in the movie House of Games based on a play by our own David Mamet and I have seen that movie about five or more times over the years. If you have not seen it, it came out in 1987 and is still one of the best movies about how con artistry works.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/
and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/
Ricky played in a card game that was intended for the "benefit" of the mark, Lindsay Crouse (Dr. Margaret Ford), and he played with his big gold ring during the poker game. That, the Joe Mantegna character Mike explained, was known as a tell.
* Check this out:
http://www.pehub.com/63662/kellogg-conference-notebooks/
* I will have much more on the MIT-EF meeting Tuesday night. But they got a completely packed room with 65 people and 90 pre-registered, according to Nancy Munro. Richard Cross estimated low 80s.
News flash. Bob Lepkowski showed up for once.
Also the food and drink was Bell Boyd or K&L light. But what the heck, they have a roof over their heads.
The talk by Tijana Rajh of Argonne is supposedly available here but I cannot download the PPT or the video.
http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EPPOffice-w/colloq/colloq.html
She gave the talk at FermiLab on October 14th.
The meeting drew a somewhat new crowd including Dr. Richard "Dick" Talsky, a spiritual advisor and radio talk show host and former chiropractor I know from the hood, mostly in the 1994-95 period. He had a "life center" around the corner at Barry off of Broadway and I gave a talk to his little group about how my life was changed by a few key minutes or episodes
OK, Dick Reck, I have to be eternally grateful to you for that first conversation in July 1992 that lasted four hours and which launched my writing about the high tech and entrepreneurial world and to you George Scholomite for eating that night in 1987 at The Medici in Surf with your then wife Leslie Pritikin who had worked with me as a recruiter for a brief period of six weeks in 1982 and to you Scott Upp for firing me in the summer of 1982 because I had "assassinated" the character of one of your managers, Mark Jeske, who had flown helicopters for President RMN and for shipping me over to an affiliated firm O'Shea for that six week period when I met the flirtatious Leslie who wore red and black all the time, and to you Joe Brzoska for tattling on me to Scott Upp -- and to bad work habits or actually no social life which resulted in my going into the office on a Saturday which ended in my having a long tete-a-tete with Brzoska -- geez, we could do an infinite regression here since the hip bone's connected to the leg bone -- and to you Oma (the German word for grandma), for intervening with my parents who were opposed at the time so that I could go to the University of Chicago, and there are others, including my dad who died 20 years ago this last December.
But if life does really come down to a few key moments, or the peak experiences which you probably won't recognize when they happen, as Charlie Sheen said in Wall Street, those episodes involving Reck, Scholomite and my paternal grandmother were three of them in my life.
Much much more on Friday morning.
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Authentify assists robbery victim being sued by bank
Subject: Authentify assists robbery victim being sued by bank
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:18 -0600
From: John Zurawski john.zurawski@authentify.com
To: "The May Report" ron@themayreport.com
Hi Ron,
This is kind of a man bites dog story that began last November.
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News Release
Contact: Todd Pauli Troy Owen
todd.pauli@authentify.com sales@hillaryinc.com
773-243-00324 800-683-1516
Authentify Joins Defense Team for Texas-based Machinery Company
Sued by Its Bank for Being a Victim of Cybercrime.
February 15, 2010 - Plano, Texas, Chicago, Illinois In November 2009 when executives of Hillary Machinery Company discovered $800,000 missing via un-authorized wire transfers from their online bank account they went looking for answers. What they got was a lawsuit. Their bank, Dallas, Texas based PlainsCapital Bank was able to recover some $571,000 of the missing funds, but when Hillary pressed them to make good on the missing $229,000, PlainsCapital filed a pre-emptive lawsuit asking the court to declare the bank's security measures "commercially reasonable" and shield them from further recovery efforts by Hillary. The lawsuit left the 25 person machinery firm scrambling to mount a defense. In their counter-claim filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Hillary revealed that they had sought and received the assistance of Chicago based Authentify.
Jim Woodhill, Authentify's founder and chairman was astonished by PlainsCapital's legal action. "This is not simply a business issue but is quickly becoming a public policy issue", said Woodhill. "Incident after incident of fraud perpetrated against small businesses using community and regional banks has been reported in the last few months. The FDIC issued specific warnings last August. The banks should be working to preserve small businesses and their capital, not suing them. Actions of this type will only drive business away from smaller financial institutions." Woodhill, a Texas resident himself, was happy to lend expertise to Hillary Machinery. "We at Authentify have considerable experience in securely authenticating both remote end users and transactions in online banking environments. Our banking clients include some of the largest banks in the world as well as smaller community banks and credit unions. What happened to Hillary was easily preventable and we've illustrated how for their defense."
No timetable has been set for the continuation of the legal proceedings in U.S. District Court, but Troy Owen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Hillary indicates they will not be the ones to back down. "We will not be bullied", offered Owen. "PlainsCapital has resources, they even received $67 million dollars in TARP funds though I doubt suing your customers who've been robbed is how that money was supposed to be used."
About Hillary Machinery: Hillary Machinery Inc was founded in 1984 by Patrick Hillary Jr. and David Weber as a spinoff of Koch Machinery Company of Houston, then one of the largest fabricating equipment dealers in the State of Texas. Dave Weber, the company's current President, joined the organization in 1978 prior to the formation of Hillary Machinery Inc, to grow the machining equipment sales division in North Texas. Since then, Hillary Machinery Inc has diversified its product and service portfolio to include fabrication and machining equipment, retrofit and remanufacture, machine tool accessories, cutting tools, metalworking fluids, field service, applications support, local warranty and parts support. Current President, Dave Weber was educated at Bradley University in Peoria, IL, where he received his Bachelors Degree in Mathematics. Visit Hillary Machinery at: www.hillaryinc.com or call
800-683-1516.
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MIT Expert presents "How You Can Use Enterprise 2.0 to Accelerate Your Business" "ThoseinMedia MasterClass Series" presents
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Subject: MIT Expert presents "How You Can Use Enterprise 2.0 to Accelerate Your Business"
"ThoseinMedia MasterClass Series" presents:
"How You Can Use Enterprise 2.0 to Accelerate Your Business"
by Dr. Andrew McAfee ( http://andrewmcafee.org/about/ Principal Researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management & Author of 'Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges' ( http://bit.ly/enterprise20book )
When: Friday March 12th at 12-1pm US EST
Where: Virtual MasterClass, join us LIVE from anywhere in the world!
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About the MasterClass:
Some of the pressing problems & challenges that businesses have been facing for a long time include harnessing & sharing knowledge, making sure it stays current & fundable and reducing redundancy. Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers to tackle these challenges. The Enterprise 2.0 toolkit includes many different types of interactive web technology such as a blogs, wikis, micro-blogs (think Twitter), social bookmarking tools like Delicious and more.
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- How to profit from Enterprise 2.0 like early adopters such as Google, the BBC and the CIA.
- How to choose the best interactive web tools to spark new ideas and create highly productive and collaborative work environments.
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Tuition: $25 USD
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A receipt will be provided for your organization reimbursement for training and professional development purposes.
ThoseinMedia is proud to present this program in partnership with AuthorsGlobe. A venture that educates, empowers & connects a global community with thought leadership. For more information go to http://www.authorsglobe.com/
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Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee event March 13th
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:01:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee eblast@windycitymediagroup.com
To: ron@themayreport.com
Subject: ANNUAL CLARENCE DARROW EVENT MARCH 13
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 17, 2010
Media contact: Tracy Baim 773-387-2394
editor@windycitytimes.com
ANNUAL CLARENCE DARROW
EVENT MARCH 13
CHICAGO - A group led by attorneys, labor leaders and social justice advocates that has gathered annually for more than 50 years to honor the memory of attorney Clarence Darrow will meet at the Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park Saturday, March 13 at 10 a.m. for its traditional wreath-tossing into the Jackson Park Lagoon. Darrow's ashes were strewn in the Lagoon after his death on March 13, 1938 in Chicago.
The annual event is convened by the Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee. This year's program will feature a special tribute to the late Leon "Len" Depress, who co-founded the committee in 1958 and remained a leader of the group. Despres (1908-2009) attended last year's event, one of his last public appearances. More than 100 Darrow devotees, civil libertarians, and First Amendment buffs are expected to attend the outdoor wreath-throwing ceremonies behind the Museum of Science and Industry and indoor symposium that follows in the Columbian Room of the adjacent Museum of Science & Industry.
This year's symposium will feature a performance by Gary L. Anderson, a renowned and lauded portrayer of Darrow. Anderson tours year-round as America's only full-time Darrow portrayer. This performance, "Search for Justice," portrays Darrow as legal warrior, engaging the justice system in a presentation that trembles with inescapable timeliness. Anderson is the CEO of The Clarence Darrow Foundation. See: www.clarencedarrowfoundation.org.
Judy Besser, great granddaugher of Clarence Darrow, will read a letter from Darrow to his daughter, Judy's grandmother, in 1929. This letter illustrates Darrow's great wit and sense of humor little known by the general public.
Loyola Law Professor Anita Weinberg, daughter of Arthur and Lila Weinberg, authors of three books on Darrow and founders of the annual Darrow event, will preside over the indoor program. Tracy Baim, publisher of The Windy City Times and daughter of Joy Darrow, will preside at the bridge.
Darrow, characterized as the "attorney for the damned," who was born in 1857 in Farmdale, Ohio, practiced in Chicago and represented the underdog and vigorously opposed capital punishment. None of his many clients was sentenced to death.
Darrow's death on March 13, 1938, was memorialized throughout the world. His ashes, and later the ashes of his wife Ruby and his son Paul, were scattered from the Darrow Bridge, which was dedicated to his memory by the Chicago Park District in 1957.
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March 2 LES Chicago Chapter Meeting
Subject: March 2 LES Chicago Chapter Meeting
From: LES Chicago Chapter mail@les.org
To: "Ron" ron@themayreport.com
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:43:10 -0500
LES Chicago Chapter Meeting
DATE & TIME
Tuesday, March 2
11:45 AM
TITLE
Technology Investment and Partnering Activity in the Recent Economy
(featuring three of Chicago's leading technology investors and advisors)
Topics of discussion:
The local and national status of angel, early stage and institutional investment in technology
Technology transaction bright spots in a dark economy
VC strategies for the near term
Future trends in technology investment and transactions
PANELISTS
Michael Liang
Principal, Baird Venture Partners
Dr. Caralynn Nowinski-Chenoweth
Vice President, Sikich Investment Banking
CEO, Sanogene Therapeutics
Jamie Bellanca
Executive-In-Residence
Baird Venture Partners.
LOCATION
Maggiano's Little Italy
(Banquet Facilities)
111 W. Grand Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
(312) 644-7700
http://www.lesusacanada.org/chicago/mar
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The 11th Annual Golden Spike Seminar
Thursday and Friday, March 11 & 12, 2010
From: Dennis Hodges wdh.2016@att.net
To: Indiana HSR Assn wdh.2016@att.net
Subject: 11th Annual Golden Spike Seminar
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:56:37 -0600
From the Indiana High Speed Rail Association....
You are heartily invited to participate in the
regionally acclaimed rail event of the Midwest
The 11th Annual Golden Spike Seminar
Thursday and Friday, March 11 & 12, 2010
Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana
Midwest Regional Rail System
Transportation for the 21st Century
Please checkout this website for all program and registration details
http://www.indianahighspeedrail.org/GSSeminar-March2010.pdf
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Friday, Feb. 26: AMC: AUG Chicago Announces Flash Camp Line-up
Subject: [AMC] AMC: AUG Chicago Announces Flash Camp Line-up
Date: 2/17/2010 11:52:36 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: harvey@tillis.com
To: announcements@amcomm.org
Line-up Announced for Flash Camp Chicago
The line-up for Flash Camp Chicago 2010 has been finalized, and as promised, this event is going to be a full-day of not-to-be-missed sessions on Adobe Flex.
Whether you are an experienced Flex developer or just getting started, you will not want to miss this day of outstanding sessions conducted by some of the industries best. Admission price includes lunch, an end-of-day networking reception, and chance to walk away with free books from O'Reilly, Peachpit, and Apress, plus a license to PowerFlasher FDT.
For the outrageously low price of $20, you cant afford not to attend, and you can get a 10% discount by using the code "AUGCHICAGO" at checkout.
Space is limited so don't delay.
Flash Camp Chicago 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Illinois Technology Association
200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th Floor
Chicago, IL
Register at http://flashcampchicago2010.eventbrite.com
Check out this line-up:
9:00 AM
James Ward (Adobe's very own)
Keynote Address
10:00 AM
Jeff Tapper
"Flex 4 for Flex 3 Developers"
11:00 AM
Kevin Schmidt
"Accessing Remote Data in Flex"
12:00 PM
Lunch (provided)
1:00 PM
Ben Schmidtke
"Rendering the Fat: How to Keep Your DataGrid Healthy"
2:00 PM
Adam Flater
"Building RIAs with Style"
3:00 PM
Michael Labriola
"Flex 4 Component Development"
4:00 PM
Networking and free beer
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Harvey S. Tillis
President
The Association for Multimedia Communications, Inc. (AMC)
P. O. Box 10645
Chicago, IL. 60610
773-276-9320 direct
http://www.amcomm.org
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Our own Walt Sloan was in the Super Bowl commercial, playing the guitar and dancing the Boost Mobile shuffle along with several members of the Bears 1985 championship team
Subject: Nano meeting follow-up
Date: 2/18/2010 4:08:21 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: wwsloan@jjltech.com
To: ronaldmay@aol.com
LinkedIn
Walter Sloan has sent you a message.
Date: 2/18/2010
Subject: Nano meeting follow-up
Ron, it was good to see you at the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology event on Tuesday. As much as I have been keeping abreast of your health status through reading The May Report, I'll admit that my level of concern for you increased after seeing you in the wheelchair on oxygen. The good news is that listening to you in the back of the room it was the same Ron May, asking tough questions and throwing a few quick jabs to familiar audience members who you knew could take a punch. I hope your physicians soon figure out the source of your persistent infection so that you can be back on your feet and in peoples faces once again.
By the way, I hope you saw me in the Super Bowl commercial, playing the guitar and dancing the Boost Mobile shuffle along with several members of the Bears 1985 championship team.
Best regards,
Walt
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Mark Williams: Thanks for critiquing Dr. Michael P. Angarone
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:10:52 -0500
From: Mark Williams williams@email.unc.edu
To: The May Report ron@themayreport.com
Subject: Michael P. Angarone
Dear Mr. May,
The readers of your report are a significant subset of the
Chicagoland population who now know that Dr. Michael P. Angarone is
someone to be avoided. Good work and I hope you figure out soon what the
heck is causing those fevers.
Best wishes,
Mark
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May here. Would you believe that Mark Williasms, who wrote this note, was the valedictorian at Montini High School in 1973, and never had a grade below an A, not even an A-, plus he had 13 A+'s in college? OK, he was so passionate about studying that the did cut the electric cord for the TV set in the dorm lounge so his studying would not be disturbed. :-) Be careful, I know a lot about a lot of folks. Are college pranks off limits? After getting a Ph.D. in PDE from MIT in 1981 under Richard Melrose, teaching at Harvard for three years, and studying in France, he has been a tenured mathemastics professor at UNC-Chapel Hill for many years with a research interest in Nonlinear partial differential equations.
Melrose: http://www-math.mit.edu/~rbm/
Mark's curriculum vitae can be found here:
http://www.math.unc.edu/Faculty/williams/
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Barb Roediger: Ron could have polymyalgia rheumatica
From: Roediger/Corporate Interior Planning Inc. info@roedigerplanning.com
To: ron@themayreport.com
Subject: FYI -- Ron
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:39:34 -0600
Ron: I have been following your newsletter for some time, and have followed
your medical issues. I'm cheering for you to get better --- we all know its
hell to feel sick. I admire your determination.
I want to make you aware of a condition my mother had that kept her
hospitalized for over two weeks before they figured out what was wrong. Her
symptoms seemed to be a lot like yours. I know you are seeing very good
physicians, but so was she. For some reason no one put two and two
together, until one young doctor came and said he recognized her symptoms as
the same as one of his family members. I'd like to think your doctors have
considered this, but it would be good to run it past them to be sure.
My mother had polymyalgia rheumatica. Her only symptoms were low grade
fever and severe anemia and fatigue with some muscle aches and pains. The
fever kept everyone stumped. It just wouldn't go away for over two weeks
while she was hospitalized. This is a type of immune system inflammation --
and if you have to have something wrong, its a nice thing to have, as it
eventually goes away after some time. It is treated with prednisone. It
was amazing, because the minute they weaned her off the prednisone, the
fever would come back. Her body needed the prednisone for a few years.
I wish you the best in your search for answers. Your readers care.
Barb Roediger
President
Roediger Corporate Interior Planning, Inc.
216 S. Jefferson Street Suite 303
Chicago, Il. 60661
312-930-9106
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