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YEA!!!!!!!
It's about time
Exhibit 10.1 STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of August 26, 2004 (this "Agreement"), by and among the parties set forth on Schedule A annexed hereto, (jointly and severally referred to as the "Shareholder(s)"), The Furia Organization, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Purchaser"), and Fronthaul, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Company").
1.4 Consideration and Payment for the Shares.
In consideration for the Shares, Purchaser shall pay to the Seller a total purchase price consisting of 20,000,000 post-split shares of Purchaser's restricted common stock (Shareholders of the Purchaser have approved a 1 for 5 reverse split effective August 2004) and 500,000 shares of Purchaser's Series A Convertible Preferred Shares ("Preferred Shares") (20,000,000 shares of common stock and the 500,000 Preferred Shares are collectively referred to as the "Purchase Price"). The Preferred Shares shall have the following rights, privileges and preferences:
(a) The Preferred Shares shall have no voting rights;
(b) The Preferred Shares shall have a non-cumulative dividend of $.001per shares;
(c) In the event of liquidation or dissolution of the Purchaser, the Preferred Shares, to the extent of $.001 per share shall have priority over the Purchaser's Common Shares with respect to distribution.
(d) The Preferred Shares shall be convertible, at the option of the Holder, into Common Shares of the Purchaser, at the rate of 100 shares of Common Stock for each share of Preferred Stock, which right of conversion shall be based upon the following formula:
(i) Upon the Purchaser achieving revenues of $250,000 within twelve (12) months from the date of this Agreement, an aggregate of 25% of the Preferred Shares may be converted;
(ii) Upon the Purchaser achieving revenues of $500,000 within twelve (12) months from the date of this Agreement, an aggregate of 50% of the Preferred Shares may be converted; and
(iii) Upon the Purchaser achieving revenues of $750,000 within twelve (12) months from the date of this Agreement, an aggregate of 100% of the Preferred Shares may be converted.
(e) On the one year anniversary of this Agreement ("Anniversary Date"), should the Purchaser fail to achieve any or all of the revenue thresholds, the Purchaser shall redeem the unconverted Preferred Shares at a price of $.50 per share. Should the Purchaser fail to redeem any or all of the unconverted Preferred Shares within 30 days from the Anniversary Date, then the Shareholder, without regards to the revenue requirements set forth above may, at any time thereafter, convert the Preferred Shares to common stock as hereinbefore set forth.
http://www.secinfo.com/dVmfp.1Xs.d.htm
Alexander Michael D
Statement of Change in Beneficial Ownership of Securities • Form 4
Filed On 1/31/07 - For 12/30/04
1. Title of Derivative Security - Preferred Stock
2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security - $0.03
3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) - 12/30/04
4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) - A
5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) - 500,000 (1)
6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) - 12/30/04, 12/30/08
7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security - COMMON STOCK 50,000,000
8. Price of Derivative Security - $0.01
9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) - 75,154,780
10. Ownership Form - Direct (D)
Explanation of Responses:
1. ISSUANCE OF CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK TO MICHAEL D. ALEXANDER AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PREVIOUSLY OVERLOOKED. PREFERRED STOCK CONVERTS AT A RATIO OF 100 COMMON SHARES TO 1 PREFERRED SHARE.
http://www.secinfo.com/d17yWq.u8.htm
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/757563/000129707707000007/xslF345X02/primary_doc.xml
Alexander Michael D
Statement of Change in Beneficial Ownership of Securities • Form 4
Filed On 2/07/07 - For 4/27/06
Explanation of Responses:
1. Gifting of shares to various charity, non-affiliate entities and/or non-affliates.
2. Result of sale by Paula Alexander.
3. Total of $2,500,000 shares held jointly by Michael Alexander and Paula Alexander after the sale on 8/18/06.
4. Acquisition a result of conversion of convertible preferred stock issued to Michael D. Alexander as chief Executive Officer on 12/30/04. Preferred stock converted at a ratio of 100 common shares to 1 preferred share.
http://www.secinfo.com/d17yWq.u7.htm
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/757563/000129707707000008/xslF345X02/primary_doc.xml
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First Tropical Storm of the Season Forms Off Guatemala Coast
Tropical Storm Agatha, the first tropical storm of the 2010 season, formed Saturday off the coast of Guatemala, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Tropical Storm Agatha is currently located about 170 miles south-southwest of Puerto de San Jose, Guatemala, and 270 miles west of San Salvador, El Salvador, with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour. The storm is moving at about five miles per hour.
A tropical storm warning was in effect Saturday for the Pacific coast of southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala, and all of El Salvador from Boca de Pijijiapan, Mexico southeastward to the El Salvador-Honduras border.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2010/05/29/tropical-storm-season-forms-guatemala-coast/
Fire at Iran oil well, three dead
TEHRAN Sat May 29, 2010(Reuters) - A fire at an Iranian oil well near the Iraq border killed three people on Saturday and injured 10 more, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
"The fire broke out on Saturday morning in an oil well at the Naft Shahr border region for unknown reasons," Bahram Teimouri, governor of Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah province, told IRNA. Kermanshah borders Iraq.
There was no risk of the fire spreading to other wells, the official said. Firefighters and rescue teams were at the scene. IRNA reported.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64S0JE20100529
Gas build-up threatens North Sea oil rig
Workers evacuated as Norwegian engineers pump cement into offshore well to prevent explosion as Deepwater crisis highlights environmental dangers of drilling
Thursday 27 May 2010 - Ninety oil workers have been evacuated from a North Sea rig as engineers fight to control a huge build up of pressure in a well which critics say has the potential to blow-up the platform and cause a major environmental problem.
The Norwegian company Statoil has been pumping cement into an offshore well on the Gullfaks field in an operation similar to the one being attempted today by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
The equivalent of around 70,000 barrels of oil a day of production from the Gullfaks C, Tordis and Gimle platforms has been shut down and more than 90 staff evacuated from the area, which lies in Norwegian waters.
The country's industry regulator said it was the third well control incident on Gullfaks in the past six months.
Jake Molloy, offshore organiser of the RMT union in Aberdeen, said the case also highlighted the continuing dangers of oil extraction off Britain's coast. He added: "The huge gas bubble under the Gullfaks has the potential to threaten the platform."
However, Statoil said today that the well was being brought under control. "We had a build-up in pressure and the barriers (through the blowout preventer) worked as they should. We are now pumping cement into the well and the pressure is starting to fall," said Kai Neilsen, a spokesman for the oil group in London.
Nelson said the previous incidents on Gullfaks had not been serious but Inger Anda, a spokeswoman for Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), said a well "kick", reported in December, was serious. A further incident on 30 April this year – also a gas kick caused by high pressure – was brought under control quickly.
Anda said the authority was having daily meetings with Statoil until the latest problem was resolved.
Gullfaks C started production in 1990. It is one of three large concrete-legged platforms comprising the huge Gullfaks development and stands in water 217 metres deep – much shallower than BP's Deepwater well in the Gulf. The unit taps oil from the Tordis field as well as taking in supplies from the Gimle and Skinfaks satellite fields.
The Bellona green campaign group said it was concerned about lax regulation in the North Sea. It described the Statoil field emergency as "very critical" and highlighted continued risks of offshore oil and gas exploration in the wake of BP's well blowout and environmental disaster off America.
"They have a situation in which there is uncontrolled pressure from the well, one of the barriers is gone and one barrier is left," said Frederic Hauge, head of Bellona, one of the leading environmental groups in Norway.
"Uncontrolled pressure is very serious and has the capability of being a large accident," he said, adding that in the first quarter of 2010, eight incidents took place in the Norwegian oil industry that could have had huge consequences. "That is very serious. Regulatory work in Norway may look nice from outside, but we have a lot of security issues in the Norwegian industry."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/27/north-sea-oil-rig-gas-threat
So what information have you gleaned from the 2009 Q4 and 2010 Q1 quarterly reports?
That would be the worst thing to happen.
It wouldn't matter if it was a Cat 1 or 5.
I lived in New Orleans for 15 years, and some friends down there say they can smell oil already, even without a hurricane.
I hope so
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama: Gov't in charge of oil disaster response
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama moved aggressively to show his government is in charge of the Gulf oil spill on Thursday, calling the spill an "unprecedented disaster" and blasting a "scandalously close relationship" between oil companies and regulators.
"The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort," Obama told a news conference. He was responding to criticism that his administration had been slow to act and had left BP in charge of plugging the leak.
Obama said many critics failed to realize "this has been our highest priority."
He conceded that "people are going to be frustrated until it stops."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama
Gulf oil spill now bigger than Exxon Valdez
Gulf oil spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history, according to new estimates released Thursday, but the Coast Guard and BP said an untested procedure to stop it seemed to be working.
A team of scientists trying to determine how much oil has been flowing since the offshore rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20 and sank two days later found the rate was more than twice and possibly up to five times as high as previously thought.
Even using the most conservative estimate, that means the leak has grown to nearly 19 million gallons over the past five weeks, surpassing the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, which at about 11 million gallons had been the nation's worst spill. Under the highest Gulf spill estimate, nearly 39 million gallons may have leaked, enough to fill 30 school gymnasiums.
"Now we know the true scale of the monster we are fighting in the Gulf," said Jeremy Symons, vice president of the National Wildlife Federation. "BP has unleashed an unstoppable force of appalling proportions."
BP did not immediately comment on the new estimate.
U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt said two different teams of scientists calculated that the well has been spewing between 504,000 and more than a million gallons a day.
BP and the Coast Guard estimated soon after the explosion that about 210,000 gallons a day was leaking, but scientists who watched underwater video of well had been saying for weeks it was probably more.
Last week, BP inserted a mile-long tube to siphon some of the oil into a tanker. The tube sucked up 924,000 gallons, but engineers had to dismantle it so they could start the risky procedure known as a top kill to try to cut off the flow altogether by shooting heavy drilling fluid into the well.
If that works, BP will inject cement into the well to seal it. The top kill has been used above ground but has never been tried 5,000 feet beneath the sea. BP pegged its chance of success at 60 to 70 percent.
Lt. Commander Tony Russell, an aide to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday that the mud was stopping some oil and gas but had a ways to go before it proved successful. The top kill started Wednesday night and it could be several days before officials know if it is working.
"As you inject your mud into it, it is going to stop some hydrocarbons," Russell said. "That doesn't mean it's successful."
BP spokesman Tom Mueller also discounted news reports that the top kill had worked.
"We appreciate the optimism, but the top kill operation is continuing through the day today — that hasn't changed," he said Thursday morning. "We don't anticipate being able to say anything definitive on that until later today."
Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached all the way to Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned Thursday.
Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum stepped down just hours before a planned White House press conference where President Barack Obama was expected to extend a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling.
Birnbaum and her agency came under withering criticism from lawmakers of both parties over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry. An internal Interior Department report released earlier this week found that between 2000 and 2008, agency staff members accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography. Birnbaum had run the service since July 2009.
After receiving the results of a 30-day safety review from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Obama also planned to delay controversial lease sales off the coast of Alaska and cancel entirely plans for drilling lease sales in the Western Gulf and off the coast of Virginia, according to a White House aide.
Polls show the public is souring on the administration's handling of the catastrophe, and fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the 100-mile stretch of Gulf coast affected by the spill are fed up with BP's failures to stop the oil.
"I have anxiety attacks," said Sarah Rigaud, owner of Sarah's Restaurant in Grand Isle, La., where the public beach was closed because blobs of oil that looked like melted chocolate had washed up on shore. "Every day I pray that something happens, that it will be stopped and everybody can get back to normal."
The Coast Guard pulled commercial fishing boats from oil cleanup efforts in Breton Sound off the Louisiana coast on Wednesday after several people became ill. Crew members on three vessels reported nausea, dizziness, headaches and chest pains, the Coast Guard said. Four people were hospitalized, including one who was flown to a hospital.
If the top kill fails, BP says it has several backup plans, including sealing the well's blowout preventer with a smaller cap, which would contain the oil. An earlier attempt to cap the blowout preventer failed. BP could also try a "junk shot" — shooting golf balls and other debris into the blowout preventer to clog it up — during the top kill process.
The only permanent solution is drilling a second well, but that will take a couple of months. BP plans to go ahead with that even if the top kill works.
Though the spill is now the biggest in U.S. history, it's not the biggest ever in the Gulf. An offshore drilling rig in Mexican waters — the Ixtoc I — blew up in June 1979, releasing 140 million gallons of oil.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
Witness says BP took 'shortcuts'
AP Exclusive: Rig worker says managers complained BP took 'shortcuts' before explosion
Wednesday May 26, 2010, 12:42 pm EDT
COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well that blew out, triggering the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to witness statements obtained by The Associated Press.
Truitt Crawford, a roustabout for drilling rig owner Transocean Ltd., told Coast Guard investigators about the complaints. The seawater, which would have provided less weight to contain surging pressure from the ocean depths, was being used to prepare for dropping a final blob of cement into the well.
"I overheard upper management talking saying that BP was taking shortcuts by displacing the well with saltwater instead of mud without sealing the well with cement plugs, this is why it blew out," Crawford said in his statement.
A spokesman for BP, which was leasing the rig Deepwater Horizon when it exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, declined to comment.
The Coast Guard on Wednesday granted final approval for BP's latest bid to plug the leaking well by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud and cement. There was no word on when that attempt might begin.
Meanwhile, the statements from workers ahead of a hearing in New Orleans on Wednesday and a congressional memo about a BP internal investigation of the blast indicated warning signs were ignored. Tests less than an hour before the well blew out found a buildup of pressure that was an "indicator of a very large abnormality," BP's investigator said, according to the congressional memo.
Still, the rig team was "satisfied" that another test was successful and resumed adding the seawater, said the memo by U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak to members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is investigating what went wrong.
There were other signs of problems, including an unexpected loss of fluid from a pipe known as a riser five hours before the explosion, which the memo said could have indicated a leak in the blowout preventer, a huge piece of equipment that should have shut down the well in case of an emergency. BP has cited its failure as a contributor to the blast.
The witness statements show rig workers talked just minutes before the blowout about pressure problems in the well. At first, nobody seemed too worried: The chief mate for Transocean left two crew members to deal with the issue on their own.
What began as a routine pressure problem, however, suddenly turned to panic. The workers called bosses to report a situation, with assistant driller Stephen Curtis telling one senior operator that the well was "coming in." Someone told well site leader Donald Vidrine that they were "getting mud back." The toolpusher, Jason Anderson, tried to shut down the well.
It didn't work. Both Curtis and Anderson died in the explosion.
At the hearing in New Orleans on Wednesday, Douglas Brown, the Deepwater Horizon's chief mechanic, testified about what he described as a "skirmish" between someone he called the "company man" -- a BP official -- and three other employees during a meeting the day of the explosion.
Brown said he didn't pay particular attention to what they were discussing because it did not involve his engine room duties. He later said he did not know the BP official's name.
"The driller outlined what would be taking place, but the company man stood up and said 'We'll be having some changes to that,'" Brown testified. He said the three other workers initially disagreed but "the company man said 'This is how it's going to be.'"
Frustration with BP and the federal government has only grown since then as efforts to stop the leak have failed. At least 7 million gallons of crude have spilled into the sea, fouling Louisiana's marshes and coating birds and other wildlife.
President Barack Obama prepared to head to the Gulf on Friday to review efforts to halt the oil that scientists said seems to be growing significantly darker, from what they can see in an underwater video. It suggests that heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out.
Ahead of his trip, Obama planned to address an Interior Department review of offshore drilling that is expected to recommend tougher safety protocols and inspections for the industry, according to an administration official. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the public release Thursday of the findings of a 30-day review Obama ordered after the spill.
A new report from the Interior Department's acting inspector general alleged that drilling regulators have been so close to oil and gas companies they've been accepting gifts including hunting and fishing trips and even negotiating to go work for them.
The top kill BP was poised to try Wednesday involves pumping enough mud into the gusher to overcome the flow of the well.
Engineers plan to follow it up with cement that the company hopes will permanently seal the well. It may be several days before BP knows if it worked. BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward earlier pegged its chances of success at 60 to 70 percent.
Bob Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said the procedure carries a high risk of failure because of the velocity at which the oil may be spewing.
"I certainly pray that it works, because if it doesn't there's this long waiting time" before BP can dig relief wells that would cut off the flow, Bea said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-Exclusive-Witness-says-BP-apf-3179178022.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
Here we go!
Maybe...LOL
This should be interesting
Card Activation Technologies, Inc.
FORM 8-K
May 24, 2010
Card Activation Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") plans to host an informational conference call for investors on June 28, 2010 at 4:15 p.m. EST, whereby Robert H. Kite, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, will direct a discussion of the Company's earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, the Company's financial condition and results of operations, the status of any pending litigation to which the Company is a party, and any other matters that the Company may determine before the call to be material to investors' understanding of the Company.
The call will be open to all interested parties, and the Company will allow questions from participants upon completion of Mr. Kite's presentation. Participants may access the call by dialing 877-512-8228, conference ID 77687600. For those unable to listen live, a recording of the call will also be available on the Company's website www.cardactivationtech.com from June 29, 2010.
http://www.secinfo.com/d12Pk6.rMAu.htm
Great Lakes To Get Great Big Wind Turbines
May 24, 2010 - Lake Erie will soon be dotted with five massive 4 MW wind turbines making it the first offshore freshwater wind farm in the continent.
The wind farm project, announced at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual WINDPOWER Conference in Dallas, will be a collaborative effort between General Electric (GE) and the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo). At peak efficiency, the wind farm will be capable of providing 20 MW of energy, enough to power 16,000 homes in the Northern Ohio region.
“Ohio’s greatest potential for creating wind energy is offshore in Lake Erie, and this partnership marks a significant step forward,” said Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. “
GE will fit the turbines with ScanWind technology which replaces standard gearboxes with an advanced drive train. ScanWind is a Scandinavian corporation which developed the technology and was acquired by GE in 2009.
“We look forward to installing our next generation offshore, direct drive wind technology in Lake Erie,” said Vic Abate, President of AWEA’s Board of Directors and Vice President of GE’s Renewable Energy. “GE is committed to working with LEEDCo to achieve its vision of creating an offshore wind sector in Northern Ohio and the Great Lakes region.”
The massive turbines, each weighing 225 tons, would stand 300 feet above the lake and be grouped approximately six miles or so off Cleveland’s shore.
The expected cost is projected to be $100 million. Financing terms for the venture are still incomplete. State and federal tax credits together with loans or grants may be needed. Half of the project’s expense will be the turbines themselves. The balance of the cost would cover purchase of the towers, foundations on the lake bottom, an underwater power line to the shore, and engineering expenses.
The 20 MW venture is just the initial phase. If the test phase is successful, LEEDCo would like to see the Lake Erie wind farm generating up to 1000 MW of energy by 2020.
“LEEDCo is pleased to be working with GE and we value the equipment efficiency, product innovation, and commercial acumen they bring to the partnership,” according to, President of LEEDCo, Dr. Lorry Wagner.
“Together, we aim to develop a cost-effective approach for installing and maintaining offshore wind turbines with the highest possible availability. We are confident that as the GE product line develops and our methodologies mature, the combination will promote a self-sustaining and growing market for offshore wind in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes, providing economic opportunity and emissions-free energy for Northern Ohio”, Wagner added.
The opportunity to spur Ohio’s job market is an added bonus. “In Ohio, we have all the right assets to make offshore wind energy successful, including an innovative workforce and the manufacturing strengths that would allow us to build all the component parts for wind turbines.” said Governor Strickland. “This partnership will not only advance offshore wind technologies, it will also advance Ohio’s economy. We are eager to continue the State’s strong collaboration with GE and LEEDCo as we pursue this exciting, first-of-its-kind initiative for Lake Erie.”
“This is not just about making power, it’s about creating jobs,” Wagner concurred.
http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/05/24/great-lakes-get-great-big-wind-turbines/
This made me think about my visit to Avery Island
However, Roger Anderson and Albert Boulanger of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory describe the basic geology of the oil-rich region of the Gulf:
Production in the deepwater province is centered in turbidite sands recently deposited from the Mississippi delta. Even more prolific rates have been recorded in the carbonates of Mexico, with the Golden Lane and Campeche reporting 100,000 barrel per day production from single wells. However, most of the deep and ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico is covered by the Sigsbee salt sheet that forms a large, near-surface “moonscape” culminating at the edge of the continental slope in an 800 meter high escarpment.
Salt is the dominant structural element of the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico petroleum system. Large horizontal salt sheets, driven by the huge Plio-Pleistocene to Oligocene sediment dump of the Mississippi, Rio Grande and other Gulf Coast Rivers, dominate the slope to the Sigsbee escarpment. Salt movement is recorded by large, stepped, counter-regional growth faults and down-to-the-basin fault systems soling into evacuated salt surfaces. Horizontal velocities of salt movement to the south are in the several cm/year range, making this supposedly passive margin as tectonically active as most plate boundaries.
Kevin Costner's idea for cleaning up Gulf of Mexico oil spill gets nod from BP, report says
May 18, 2010 - has decided that a $24 million oil-water separator promoted by actor Kevin Costner could be useful in its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, WWL-TV reports.
Costner came forward this month with an oil spill cleanup technology he started devising after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. He demonstrated a centrifuge that he said could be placed on barges and used to suck in oily water, separate the oil and spit out mostly pure water.
BP watched the machine at work this past Thursday.
Sand barrier proposal to fight Gulf of Mexico oil deserves prompt response, state and local officials say
The Times-Picayune, May 24, 2010 - As federal agencies continue to study the state's proposal to build a chain of sand barriers along the Louisiana coast, Gov. Bobby Jindal and other state and local leaders are heightening the rhetorical battle against the federal government's delays in giving a clear "yes" or "no" to the expansive, $350 million proposal.
As proposed, the plan would build up a mostly continuous chain of six-foot sand berms stretching more than 80 miles east and west of the Mississippi River in an attempt to keep oil out of coastal wetlands. The Army Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the oil spill, offered few new details on the likelihood of approval Monday.
Allen cited several logistical challenges with the state's proposal during a White House news conference Monday afternoon, though he said the Coast Guard and corps are still considering it.
"Building a set of barrier islands and berms that large would take a very, very long time -- even by the state's own estimates six to nine months in some cases -- and a significant amount of resources associated with that might be applied elsewhere," Allen said.
As proposed, the sand dredging would be an unprecedented engineering effort, requiring as many as 18 dredges to be mobilized from across the country to begin building up islands. There are substantial questions about whether the berms could be built in time to stop the oil. And several scientists and environmental experts have cautioned that the hasty approach could jeopardize future barrier island restoration efforts by depleting the state's limited offshore sand resources.
State and local officials have been complaining for more than a week about the corps delays in granting the permits and the federal government's hesitance in approving the project, saying the environmental consequences of oil in the wetlands far outweigh environmental concerns from building up the artificial islands. This week, Louisiana officials appear to be moving in their own direction.
Jindal has modified an existing restoration project at East Grand Terre -- east of Grand Isle -- and asked a dredge working there to extend the beach there to provide more protection for the marshes behind it. And Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser will seek $1 million from the Plaquemines Parish Council Thursday to begin a smaller dredging project that would fill in gaps in existing barrier islands off that parish's coastline.
Nungesser, who is running for re-election this fall, had particularly strong words for Allen, saying "It's an embarrassment to have people like that in these positions in this country."
"What kind of leader sits there and tears apart a plan and says 'It can't be done, it'll take too long,' without a backup?" he asked. "To sit here and continue to give excuses about why something can't be done, but to have no other plan. ... That's no leader."
On Monday, Jindal and Sen. David Vitter pushed the plan again in a news conference with congressional leaders, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
"Every day that it's not approved is another day the choice is made for us" to allow oil to seep into coastal marshes, Jindal said.
And Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell sent a forceful letter over the weekend to Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp, the commanding general of the corps, asking for "prompt approval" of the emergency permits to begin dredging. Caldwell in the letter says the federal government does not have the right to block a state from doing emergency response activities to prevent environmental damage and urged Van Antwerp to issue the permit and avoid "an unnecessary constitutional confrontation between the state and federal governments."
If the corps does not OK the plan, Caldwell wrote, "I will have no choice but to advise the Governor to go forward with our plans to construct the barrier islands without a fill permit from the Corps in order to set up a legal test of your constitutional and statutory authority."
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/sand_barrier_proposal_to_fight.html
The state applied for a federal permit to begin work on the sand barriers nearly two weeks ago, and Gov. Bobby Jindal has been griping daily about the slow response. Jindal was photographed May 8 in Venice discussing the plan with Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell tells Corps of Engineers state has emergency powers to build barrier islands
May 24, 2010 - Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sunday advising them that the State of Louisiana was within its rights to rebuild barrier islands in order to combat the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Caldwell advised Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, commanding general of the Corps, that under the U.S. constitution the federal government does not have the legal authority to deny a state the right to conduct such emergency operations to protect its citizens and territory.
The letter cites recent interpretations of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves to the states those powers not specifically granted to the federal government. Caldwell contends that the statues governing fill permits usually required for such construction lack the necessary "clear statement" from Congress that the laws were intended to divest the states of their traditional emergency powers.
Caldwell ends by saying advising Antwerp to direct the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers to issue emergency permits. He also warns that if the district office "persists in its illegal and ill-advised efforts" to block the construction of the barriers, he will advise Gov. Bobby Jindal to go forward with the plans and challenge the Corps authority in court.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/attorney_general_buddy_caldwel.html
STATE OF LOUISIANA
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
JAMES D. BUDDY" CALDWELL
ATTORNEY GENERAL
May 23, 2010
Lieuteuant General Robert L. "Van" Van Antwerp
Commanding General of the US Army Corps Engineers
Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers
441 G. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20314-1000
Dear General Van Antwerp:
I am writing you personally in the hope that an unnecessary and divisive constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the State of Louisiana can be avoided.
As you may know from news reports, the State of Louisiana is attempting to construct or re-build a system ofbarrier islands to prevent or mitigate the destructive effects of the huge BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill from coming ashore in sensitive coastal areas of Louisiana. We were recently informed that some employees of the New Orleans District are inclined to deny a routine request for a dredge and fill permit for this work.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you of Louisiana's legal position that under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the federal government does not have the legal authority to deny a state the right to conduct such necessary emergency response actions to prevent or mitigate natural resource damages to its territory and the property of its citizens (except perhaps ifthe President personally takes over direction of the mitigation effort, which has not occurred).
The constitutional problem of reconciling the powers reserved to the states under the 10th Amendment with the broad powers ofthe federal government to regulate under the Commerce Clause has been one of the most divisive and controversial legal issues in our federal union over the last few decades. In recent years, this conflict has generally been avoided by requiring a "clear statement" from the Congress that it actually intends to attempt to divest states oftheir traditional powers.
Nothing in the broad, general language of CWA §404 regarding fill permits provides the necessary "clear statement" by Congress that would be required under current Supreme Court case law in order to divest a state of its traditional powers to prevent harm to its natural resources in an emergency. Compare Solid Waste Agency o/Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps o/Engineers, 531 Us. 159, 174 (2001) ("significant constitutional questions" and "nothing approaching a clear statement from Congress that it intended § 404(a) to reach an abandoned sand and gravel pit"; "Rather than expressing a desire to readjust the federal-state balance in this manner, Congress chose to 'recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of States ... to plan the development and use ... of land and water resources ... .' 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (b).") Similarly, here the specific language ofCWA §311(e)(I) quoted in footnote 1 above does not reflect the "clear statement" necessary to displace traditional state authority but instead clearly contemplates that "action ... by a State" may proceed in parallel with federal efforts to prevent or mitigate "an imminent and substantial threat to ... shorelines, beaches, habitat etc .... because of an actual or threatened discharge of oil..." In addition, the Coastal Zone Management Act, specifically directs your agency, as well as all other federal agencies, to defer to state policies to protect the coastal zone, in which these barrier islands would be located. This is the exact opposite of a "clear statement" by Congress to divest state authority, but instead reflects a political judgment by the Congress to accommodate both state and federal interests. Moreover, the barrier islands would be located on lands that are owned by the State, and held in public trust for the people ofthe State. Therefore, the State's interest in their management is particularly high and the federal interest is attenuated.
I urge you to take counsel with others in the Administration, including the Department ofJustice and the Office of General Counsel of the Army, before allowing the New Orleans District to provoke an unnecessary constitutional confrontation between state and federal governments at a time that we all ought to rise above petty jurisdictional concerns to work together to prevent an unprecedented environmental disaster in the making.
A legal confrontation over the scope of the Corps's authority under CWA §404 to regulate state actions in emergency situations may result in adverse legal precedents being set in the courts or in the Congress that further restrict the authority of your agency.8 A better outcome for all concerned would be for you to direct the New Orleans District to issue emergency permits under the September l3, 2007 General Permit for emergency operations in the New Orleans District.9 This General Permit specifically provides for "emergency dredging and placement of fills to confine oil or hazardous materials" and defers the question of restoration or leaving the barriers in place permanently until after the emergency has passed. Alternatively, we urge you and your staff to find some other creative way to avoid a confrontation.
We prefer to avoid this fight and would rather accommodate both your authority and ours. However, if the New Orleans District persists in its illegal and ill-advised efforts to block necessary emergency actions by the State ofLouisiana to construct the barriers needed to prevent or mitigate immense natural resource damage from occurring to our coastal zones, I will have no choice but to advise the Governor to go forward with our plans to construct the barrier islands without a fill permit from the Corps in order to set up a legal test of your statutory and constitutional authority. This unnecessary legal confrontation can and should be avoided by issuing your prompt approval, as promised in the General Permit.
If you need any further information, or wish to set up a meeting to discuss, please contact me, or my First Assistant Trey Phillips (w:225-326-6769 or c:225-588-5180) or outside counsel assisting this office with these issues, E. Donald Elliott (w:202-303-l120 or c:202 256-4149) or Allan Kanner (w:504-524-5777 or c: 504-450-2020).
Very truly yours,
JAMES D. "BUDDY" CALDWELL
ATTORNEY GENERAL
cc: U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander John McHugh, Secretary of the Army Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources David Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Gary Guzy, Deputy and General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality Craig R. Schmauder, Deputy General Counsel of the Army (Civil Works and Environment) Chief Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
http://media.2theadvocate.com/documents/AGlettertoCorpsMay23.pdf
State officials say they won't wait for approval to build sand barriers
By The Associated Press May 23, 2010, 4:20PM
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Jindal's defiant comments Sunday came as oil pushed at least 12 miles into the heart of Louisiana's marshes. Two major pelican rookeries are now awash in crude.
Jindal made his remarks on a boat at the edge of one of the pelican nesting grounds in Barataria Bay. He and officials from several coastal parishes say the berms would close the door on the oil still pouring from a deepwater gusher about 50 miles off the coast.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is studying the environmental impacts from the emergency barrier proposal. The Corps didn't immediately respond to e-mails and telephone messages.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/state_officials_say_they_wont.html
Nesting pelicans are seen landing as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana.
Frustration mounting over BP delays, lack of progress in Gulf of Mexico oil spill
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
May 23, 2010, 9:50PM
VENICE -- On a Sunday of expanding coastal destruction from the Gulf oil disaster and little progress in containing it, frustrations bubbled to the surface from local and state leaders in Venice to federal officials in Houston and Washington, D.C.
Parish leaders and Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged from an afternoon strategy session at a Venice fishing harbor to complain about a lack of urgency from federal agencies and BP to address the oil washing into coastal marshes day after day.
Jindal said he supported a decision by local and Jefferson Parish leaders on Grand Isle on Saturday to commandeer about 30 fishing vessels that BP had commissioned but hadn't deployed to lay down protective boom as the oil came ashore.
The normally dispassionate Jindal even joked that he would go to jail with the mayors of Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte if federal authorities tried to stop them.
More than 65 miles of Louisiana's shoreline has now been affected by oil, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- more than the total sea coastline of Delaware and Maryland combined, Jindal said.
Meanwhile, in Houston, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar blasted the British oil giant for consistently missing deadlines it had set for shutting off the massive well leak still spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico each day.
"I am angry and frustrated that BP has been unable to stop the leak, " Salazar said at a news conference following hours of morning meetings with the company. "We're 33 days in, and deadline after deadline has been missed."
Salazar specifically cited the company's slow schedule for employing a "top kill" to block the oil spewing at the well head 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The plan is to use two 6-5/8-inch hoses to blast 16.4-pound-per-gallon mud into the choke and kill lines of the failed blowout preventer, in hopes of stopping up the four-story-tall device through which the oil is flowing.
Salazar noted that BP had originally promised to kill the well May 18. Five days later, it had planned to do it again, and then put the procedure off to Tuesday.
Now, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said Sunday afternoon, officials expect to wait until Wednesday to conduct the top kill, allowing engineers enough time to run tests.
As the well kill has been repeatedly delayed, rumblings have increased that BP is more interested in saving the expensive and potentially lucrative well.
U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt bristled at that suggestion, calling on the gathered media in Houston to combat those perceptions.
"When it comes to containing flow or killing the well, whether you're a member of BP, others in the industry or the public sector, we are all united in wanting the same result. We all want to kill this well and stop polluting the ocean. We are all on the same page with that."
BP spokesman John Curry said Sunday the company plans to explain the top-kill process further in the coming days. He said it's still possible the company will need to shoot junk, in the form of golf balls and other debris, into the blowout preventer after the mud, and then follow up with more mud to completely stem the flow.
With each criticism of BP and the federal government's inability to force the company to move faster when oil is spotted coming ashore, local officials have started to clamor for President Barack Obama to federalize the disaster response under the Oil Pollution Act.
But Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander, reiterated on the Sunday morning talk a message he's been sharing almost since the disaster struck April 20: Industry, and not the federal government, has all the resources to deal with the leak 5,000 feet below the sea and as it comes toward land.
The fear is that if Obama federalizes the response and supplants BP, not only will it be more difficult to get the company to pay for the response efforts, but the federal government may not have the capacity to get the job done.
Landry of the Coast Guard instead announced that the federal agencies would double their oversight teams in hopes that more people will be able to push BP to muster resources in the right places as oil comes in.
Landry criticized BP for allowing some equipment that could aid in efforts to block or clean up the spreading oil slick to sit unused, even as oil is washing up onto the Gulf Coast.
"There is really no excuse for not having constant activity, " Landry said.
Landry, who spoke with members of the media after an aerial survey of the oil slick, said she had to pressure BP to use equipment and boats that had been prestaged in areas near the western edge of the oil slick. Some of that equipment went unused, in part because workers had been taking breaks because of the heat, she said.
BP was told to hire additional work crews to ensure equipment was not sitting idle, she said.
"Our frustration with BP is there should be no delays at all, " Landry said.
Of Jindal's complaint about a lack of urgency from federal agencies and BP, Landry said: "There is a sense of urgency, and there has been since day one. We have not backed off on this since day one."
The disconnect between state and federal governments was clear as Salazar trumpeted 1.73 million feet of boom and more than 1,000 vessels deployed on the front lines, while Jindal complained that during a boat tour of oiled coastline Sunday he saw only two vessels trying to protect the shore.
Jindal said 143,000 feet of boom sat in staging areas while oil damaged 65 miles of Louisiana coastline. It has been 20 days since the state asked for 5 million feet of hard boom, but only 786,185 feet of hard boom has been delivered so far, he said.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, along with Jindal and other parish leaders, said the White House's first priority should be granting an emergency permit to skip federal environmental reviews and allow coastal parishes to follow their 3-week-old plan to place dredged sand as berms between barrier islands so oil won't get into delicate marshes, something that wouldn't require any change in BP's role.
"The president has the authority to issue an emergency permit, " Jindal said.
"This is proof that the parish plans work, " he added, pointing at a picture of sand berm in Fourchon laid by Louisiana National Guard troops in four days that kept oil out of an estuary.
Then he pointed to a picture of a oiled pelican at a bird sanctuary on Cat Island, off the coast of Plaquemines Parish, unable to fly or swim because of the oil, and another picture of pelican eggs discolored with brown gunk, saying: "This is the danger of not acting."
Jindal said the state identified "remote sites" away from the oil spill to dredge the sand for the berms and provided those to the Army Corps of Engineers a week ago to address the agency's concerns about churning up oil in the protective barriers.
He also said the plan has the benefit of providing lasting protection against future hurricanes.
But an angry Nungesser said the Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and BP have been unwilling to listen.
"I am so disappointed in the agencies and BP that this continues to happen, " he said. "We are working a plan and we are going to save our coast, but not with the help of the agencies that are standing in the way."
In a crowd of angry parish leaders, no one was angrier than Nungesser. He said he wasn't buying Allen's explanation of why the federal government couldn't take charge of the whole response immediately. He called out Allen personally for what he called a lack of leadership from federal authorities.
"He needs to step up to the plate and be a leader, " Nungesser growled. "How has he not enacted every option at this point?"
As frustrated as local leaders have been with the federal Stafford Act that governs FEMA's response to hurricanes, they are even more bewildered by the response structure created by the Oil Pollution Act.
They say their response plans have been stymied by a circuitous command structure that makes it difficult to get their ideas and concerns to anyone with any authority.
"One frustration is the amount of time it's taking them to respond, " said Jindal, who said that parish presidents would report oil coming ashore, but at times had to wait 24 hours for BP to respond because they needed to get higher-ups at the Coast Guard on the case.
"The parishes may get a sympathetic response from their liaisons at the (Unified Command Center), the Coast Guard liaisons, the BP liaisons, but those liaisons don't have the authority to get things done."
Jindal's suggestion was to have the Coast Guard place commanders with responsibility of directing resources in each of three vulnerable bays: Timbalier Bay in Terrebonne Parish, Barataria Bay in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes and Breton Sound in Plaquemines Parish.
Meanwhile, Jindal said he would increase the use of state resources to "fill in gaps in the barrier islands." He said the state already has a permit for one dredging project, and it has another 40 projects under way using National Guard helicopters to drop sandbags or build Tiger dams.
As the oil came to Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle's shores, he said he thought of circumventing federal law and dredging himself, but thought better of it.
"You don't know how bad I wanted to go as a pirate and take that dredge and start blowing sand, " he said.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard's Landry said a panel of government and academic experts has been convened to establish a firmer estimate how much oil has been pouring into the gulf.
The government is also preparing an "armada" of research vessels to monitor the impact of the oil, as well as the chemical dispersants being used in an effort to minimize its effects, Landry said.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Landry were to meet with BP officials Sunday night to discuss a government directive ordering the company to use "less toxic" dispersants in the cleanup.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser points to an oil-covered pelican in Barataria Bay while talking to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal about the oil from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/frustration_mounting_over_bp_d.html
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Senior Development Outreach and Communication Officer
The Senior Development Outreach and Communications (DOC) Officer reports directly to the Deputy Mission Director, USAID/Ethiopia. He/she will serve as the Mission’s principal liaison with all strategic objective teams and implementing partners, providing leadership in the development and implementation of the Mission’s overall communications strategy. The senior DOC Officer collaborates closely with the U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer and Press and Information Officer to ensure that Embassy personnel are always aware of USAID public activities and projects. The DOC Officer also serves as the primary liaison with USAID’s Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. The DOC Officer will interact with senior managers throughout the Embassy, with local and international press contacts, and with senior Government of Ethiopia officials. The incumbent will be a key member of the Mission’s senior management team.
In FY 2009 USAID/Ethiopia managed the largest assistance budget in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia is a focus country for three separate Presidential initiatives, PEPFAR, PMI, and the President’s Africa Education Initiative, and has a core budget of about $500 million. In addition, in FY 09 USAID/Ethiopia programmed about $600 million in emergency assistance.
USAID's Approach to the Global Water Crisis
Overview
Creating a more water secure world requires addressing immediate needs while building the foundation for meeting future demands on water resources. The centrality of water for individuals, societies and the environment also means that water issues intersect with all other aspects of development. Recognizing these facts, USAID and the U.S. Government strive to address the Global Water Crisis through cross-cutting programs that incorporate the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management.
This “Integrated Water Resources Management” (IWRM) approach is clearly articulated in the U.S. Government’s new water action plan, entitled ‘Addressing Water Challenges in a Developing World: Framework for Action.” The Framework provides an overarching strategic guide that can be used to weave together all of the diverse threads of U.S. Government water sector efforts, and provides USAID missions and partners with guidelines for working in the water sector.
How We Work
Decades of experience in the water sector has taught USAID that investments in policy and legal reforms, building local capacity and strengthening water resources planning, management and governance yield more lasting change than investments in infrastructure. By focusing on these types of projects, the U.S. Government can help create and support the underlying conditions for sustained improvements in water resources management.
Some of the Tools that USAID employs to realize these goals:
Development Credit Authority: Private Sector Finance for Water
Global Development Alliances (GDAs): Promoting Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Development
Education and Knowledge Management
Training and Workshops
Publications and Technical Guides
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/water/global_water_crisis.html
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Perichyappan Senthilnathan
He has held Sr. Environmental/Technical Engineering positions at Merck & Co. Inc., ZENON for Environmental Inc. and EnviroGem Inc. He was involved in developing immersed membrane water treatment and immersed membrane bioreactor technologies (that received "Stockholm Industry Water Aware-2003", "Manning Innovation Aware-2000", and "Water Environment Federation Innovative Technology Award-1998").
Kébir Ratnani
Kébir Ratnani, Director. Mr. Ratnani possesses an encompassing 30-year experience in the natural gas, electricity, windmill, waste water and water sectors. Over the course of his career, he has assumed different managerial and technical functions, academically endowed with a Diploma in Management & Marketing from the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago, U.S.A, an M Sc. A. and a B.Sc. A. in Chemical Engineering from Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
His high-caliber profile and track record are distinguished through his professional achievements. Mr. Ratnani's proficiency in his fields of expertise led him to develop 13 inventions for which he now owns patents; all related to natural gas, petrochemical and environmental technologies.
At the international level, he concluded numerous cooperation agreements with several governments, namely Algeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Kenya, Tunisia, Senegal, Libya, Gambia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Denmark, France, Spain, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary and Russia.
He also negotiated project financing with organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Canadian International Development Agency.
In 1991, he directed the opening of the Natural Gas Technologies Centre, a research organization associated with Gaz Métropolitain, Gaz de France, Brooklyn Union Gas, and Osaka Gas. Subsequently, in 1997, he was appointed Vice-President of Hydro Quebec International. In this capacity, he was responsible for the Technology, Transfer and BOT (Build, Operate & Transfer) and Concession projects. In 2000, he joined SNC-Lavalin International, one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure and in the provision of operations and maintenance services, as Senior Vice-President.
He continues to work for SNC-Lavalin today and is responsible for Water, Energy and Infrastructure Projects in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Mr. Ratnani also serves as a director and advisory board member of Methes Energies International Ltd. and as a director of Sofame Technologies Inc. From approximately February 2004 to April 5, 2005, Mr. Ratnani served as a director of Terra Nostra Technology Ltd.
WORLD LEADERS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON ADAPTATION
Report establishes structural and financial mechanisms to help those already impacted by global warming
BONN, GERMANY Monday, 08 June 2009 — A task force of former heads of state and government and business and civil society leaders from more than 20 countries today released "Facilitating an International Agreement on Climate Change: Adaptation to Climate Change." The report, issued by Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA), a partnership of the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and the Club of Madrid, sets forth innovative recommendations to enable, finance, and govern global adaptation measures. The report was distributed today to the more than 180 country representatives participating in the UN-led climate negotiations under way in Bonn, Germany.
"Vulnerable populations who are already experiencing impacts from climate change upon their natural resources and livelihoods need the tools and financial resources to adapt," said Ricardo Lagos, president of the Club of Madrid, a UN Special Envoy for Climate Change, and former president of Chile. "Without assistance, developing countries will find it harder to improve their economic conditions and make progress toward poverty alleviation."
"It is a sad fact that those least responsible for global warming are the ones who will suffer the most," said Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former U.S. Undersecretary of State. "The countries whose economic development put most of the carbon into the atmosphere have a moral obligation to step up and assist those who are living with the consequences."
The recommendations urge the international community to:
• Immediately fund implementation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action from least developed countries and small island states that are most threatened by and are already experiencing negative climate impacts;
• Provide financial assistance to developing countries whose public health infrastructure is already fragile and faces more strain as climate impacts intensify;
• Launch a major initiative to reduce deforestation and support accounting mechanisms that give economic value to threatened ecosystems;
• Create regional centers to develop and distribute new crop strains which are resistant to heat, drought and salt water encroachment;
• Direct UN agencies to better coordinate their actions and "deliver as one" at the country level;
• Establish a UN high-level task force to outline a new vision for sustainable development in a low-carbon world.
The report can be found on GLCA's web site at www.globalclimateaction.com.
Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA)
The Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) is a task force of world leaders committed to addressing climate change through international negotiations. A joint initiative of the UN Foundation and the Club of Madrid, the GLCA consists of former heads of state and government as well as leaders from business, government and civil society from more than 20 countries.
Building on the expertise of the members of the Club of Madrid and the knowledge and expertise of the United Nations Foundation, the GLCA consists of six former heads of state, seven former heads of government, and 12 leaders from government, business and civil societies, from more than 20 countries. The GLCA is co-chaired by former Chilean President and current Club of Madrid President Ricardo Lagos, and United Nations Foundation President and former U.S. Senator Timothy E. Wirth.
GLCA Members
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND
Former Prime Minister of Norway
KIM CAMPBELL
Former Prime Minister of Canada
FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO
Former President of Brazil
JOSÉ MARÍA FIGUERES
Former President of Costa Rica
FELIPE GONZÀLEZ
Former Prime Minister of Spain
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
Secretary General, Iberoamericana
LIONEL JOSPIN
Former Prime Minister of France
YORIKO KAWAGUCHI
Former Foreign, Environment Minister, Japan
RICARDO LAGOS
Former President of Chile
GLCA Co-Chair
HONG-KOO LEE
Former Prime Minister of South Korea
PAAVO LIPPONEN
Former Prime Minister of Finland
WANGARI MAATHAI
Nobel Peace Laureate
Founder, Greenbelt Movement
BENJAMIN MKAPA
Former President of Tanzania
VALLI MOOSA
Former South African Environment Minister and former President of the IUCN
MARY ROBINSON
Former President of Ireland
JAMES E. ROGERS
Chairman & CEO, Duke Energy
PETRE ROMAN
Former Prime Minister of Romania
YASHWANT SINHA
Former Finance, External Affairs Minister, India
GEORGE SOROS
Founder & Chairman
Open Society Institute, Soros Fund LLC
KLAUS TÖPFER
Former Executive Director, UNEP
TED TURNER
Chairman, Turner Enterprises
TIMOTHY E. WIRTH
President, UN Foundation and Better World Fund
GLCA Co-Chair
JAMES WOLFENSOHN
Former President, World Bank
ERNESTO ZEDILLO
Former President of Mexico
SHI ZHENGRONG
Chairman & CEO Suntech Power, China
GLCA Facilitator
MOHAMED EL-ASHRY
Senior Fellow, UN Foundation
GLCA Senior Advisors
JUNFENG LI
Executive Director, China Renewable Energy Association
HERMAN MULDER
Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact and World Business Council for Sustainable Development
R.K. PACHAURI
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
DR. YOUBA SOKONA
Executive Secretary, Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)
SIR CRISPIN TICKELL
Former UK Ambassador to the UN
LAURENCE TUBIANA
Director, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), France
http://www.globalactionnow.org
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Landmark Conference Aims to Transform Low Cost Off-grid Lighting Sector
Nairobi, Kenya, May 18 2010 – IFC and the World Bank today began hosting the region’s Lighting Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya as part of an effort to bridge the energy gap in Sub-Saharan Africa through off-grid lighting solutions. Lighting Africa’s objective is to transform the lives of 2.5 million people by 2012 by developing a commercially viable platform that can enable the development of low-cost off-grid lighting. It aims to reach 250 million people by 2030.
According to official estimates, Africa will have 700 million people without electricity by 2030. Lighting Africa aims at supporting the populations who do not have access to the grid and rely on kerosene and candles for their lighting needs.
More than 600 participants and 50 exhibitors are attending the second Lighting Africa conference and trade fair, which is introducing a new generation of affordable and better quality off-grid lighting products targeting low-income consumers. Quality products will allow them to realize significant cost savings, gains in productivity to raise their living standards and be less exposed health risks by moving from kerosene to modern off-grid lighting.
The gathering will take stock of the current status of the off-grid lighting sector. It will discuss current trends and the best way forward on quality issues, market development, access to finance, policy challenges and technology innovations.
This new sector received a boost from the signing of a letter of intent to form an industry association dedicated to off-grid lighting solutions. The aim of the association is to formalize the sector growth by setting quality standards and working with governments and multilateral organizations to maintain momentum for developing this market.
According to Dana Rysankova, the World Bank’s Program Manager for Lighting Africa, ?Africa has moved from the periphery to the center of the off-grid lighting sector. In 2008, there were few products specifically developed for the African market. Today, there are more than 70 products from 50 manufacturers. There is today also a wide variety of goods between $25-50, and a growing number of good products under $25.?
Entries to Lighting Africa’s Outstanding Products Awards demonstrate that quality products can be made available at affordable prices. The Outstanding Products Awards will recognize the best products available in Sub-Saharan African countries and the winners will be announced at a gala dinner on May 18.
Russell Sturm, Head of IFC Climate Change Advisory Services at IFC, said ?Consumers are today spending an estimated $10-17 billion on fuel-based lighting products. This ties 10-30 percent of their disposable income to inefficient lighting with negative health impacts. A new generation of lighting products presented at the trade fair can help fill in the gap in a cleaner, more efficient way until electricity reaches everyone.
Keynote speakers at the conference include Zakari Ayieko, CEO Rural Electrification Authority, Kenya; Johannes Zutt, World Bank Director for Kenya; John Barorot, Chief Technical Officer, Safaricom; and Ogunlade Davidson, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Sierra Leone. The conference will conclude on May 20.
About Lighting Africa
Lighting Africa, a joint World Bank and IFC program, seeks to accelerate the development of markets for modern off-grid lighting products in Sub-Saharan Africa where an estimated 10 to 30 percent of household incomes is spent on hazardous and low quality fuel-based lighting products. The goal is to mobilize and provide support to the private sector to supply quality, affordable and safe lighting to 2.5 million people by facilitating the sale of 500,000 off-grid lighting units by 2012 while, at the same time, creating a sustainable commercial platform that will realize the vision of providing 250 million people with modern off-grid lighting products by 2030. Promoting the use of improved low cost off-grid lighting technology will provide an avenue for social, health and economic development especially for households and small businesses that will realize significant cost savings and increases in productivity from the transition.
Lighting Africa is implemented in partnership with: the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Energy Sector Management Assistance (ESMAP), The UK Department for International Development (DFID), Good Energies Inc., Luxemburg, The Netherlands, The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), and the Asia Sustainable and Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE).
About IFC
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, creates opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. We foster sustainable economic growth in developing countries by supporting private sector development, mobilizing capital for private enterprise, and providing advisory and risk mitigation services to businesses and governments. Our new investments totaled $14.5 billion in fiscal 2009, helping channel capital into developing countries during the financial crisis. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
About the World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world, with the mission of global poverty reduction and the improvement of living standards. It is not a bank in the common sense. It is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 185 member countries — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). Each institution plays a different but supportive role in this mission. The IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together, they provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit, and grants to developing countries for education, health, infrastructure, communications, and many other purposes. By doing so, the World Bank concentrates on building the climate for investment, jobs and sustainable growth, so that economies will grow, and
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Since June 2005, Carlos serves as Senior Financial Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. Before joining the IADB, he was a Senior Vice-president & Head of The Americas Group & Europe at BBVA International Financial Institutions, in Madrid. In total he spent 18 years with BBVA, where he has held numerous positions both in Spain and overseas, including several years in Tokyo as Chief Representative for Capital Markets & Investment Banking for Asia-Pacific.
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Solar energy powers unusual World Cup public viewing
World Future Council organizes Power Kick for Africa in Ghana
Hamburg, May 11, 2010 - “Our village is so lucky”, says Alex Ahwireng, Oboadaka’s young Assembly Man, with a smile. Oboadaka is a small village an hour away from Ghana’s capital city Accra and is not connected to the national electricity grid. Despite this, roughly 6900 people in Oboadaka and surrounding villages will be able to follow the football World Cup held in South Africa. How? The World Future Council – a Foundation that works to secure the rights of future generations – and cooperation partner Energiebau Sunergy Ghana Ltd. will bring solar energy to Oboadaka to enable open-air public viewings of many World Cup matches.
WFC Councillor Hafsat Abiola-Costello from Nigeria: “We want to show the people that solar power is reliable and can be installed easily and without the need to connect to the national electricity grid. We want to motivate African politicians to support the uptake of renewable energies. The first time the World Cup is hosted by an African nation offers the perfect opportunity to promote the benefits of renewable energy.”
Eighty percent of African people are reliant on wood or coal for fuel. This is a serious barrier to development but also a huge opportunity. If Africa succeeds in meeting the necessary development needs with renewable energies such as solar, wind and biomass, a large increase in global carbon emissions could be prevented. This is why the World Future Council is increasing public and political awareness by bringing solar power to Oboadaka. For the same reason, the WFC supports the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA), a platform for international cooperation that consists of political decision-makers as well as representatives from business and civil society from numerous African nations.
From June 21 to 23, AREA members will meet in Accra to discuss political implementation tools, finance possibilities and technology in a workshop entitled “Power Kick for Africa”. Right after the wrap-up session and final press briefing they will travel to Oboadaka to watch the World Cup match between Ghana and Germany together with the villagers on June 23.
WFC Councillor Hafsat Abiola-Costello: “At the public viewing people will experience the benefits and opportunities of renewable energies and political decision-makers will witness how appreciative local people are to no longer be cut off from global events.“
But Oboadaka’s good fortune will not end with the World Cup final on July 11. The solar panels will be donated by Energiebau Sunergy Ghana Ltd. and will thus remain in the village to supply the small hospital with a reliable source of electricity. A big help for doctors and nurses who – until now - carry out their work without access to electricity.
http://worldfuturecouncil.org/2438.html
Lawmakers hit BP: 'Live video doesn't lie'
By Steve Hargreaves, Senior writer
May 20, 2010: 5:11 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After days of badgering from lawmakers seeking greater access to video footage of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP Thursday made a live camera available for the public to view the disaster site 5,000 feet below water.
The camera is moved periodically. Some of the shots show oil gushing from pipes or the above the well head.
The new video has drawn scrutiny on BP's claim of how many barrels of oil were leaking out daily.
Lawmakers seized the opportunity to criticize the company, accusing it of purposely misleading the public.
"I think now we are beginning to understand that we cannot trust BP," said Ed Markey, D-Mass., one of the lawmakers that led the charge for more footage. "Now the decisions will have to be made by others because it is clear that they have been hiding the actual consequences of this spill."
Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., highlighted the seemingly large amount of oil that was still leaking into the water despite BP's efforts to channel it to the surface via a makeshift pipe.
"It's a fraction of the oil that's being siphoned off," said Boxer. "which tells you there is a much greater volume than BP said."
Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla., added, "I'm not sure that we have had the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth out here. And each step it was like pulling teeth to get the video released. But you know, Mr. President, live video pictures don't lie."
Late Thursday, the White House ordered BP to release "any data and other information" related to the spill.
BP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The company has been criticized for both being slow to release video of the spill and for their estimates as to how much oil is leaking.
BP (BP) first released video of the leaking oil May 12, only after prodding from lawmakers and 22 days after the Deepwater Horizon drill rig caught fire. The rig sank two days later, claiming 11 lives and leaving an uncapped oil well gushing into the Gulf.
BP and the Coast Guard say the well is partially closed, and is leaking just 210,000 gallons of oil a day.
But other scientists have said it could be much higher, perhaps ten times that amount, and have complained that BP is not giving them access to the disaster site or related data
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/news/economy/BP_spillcam/index.htm
Another spillcam feed:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wkrg
A quick dip into the SBP pool is the universal remedy for delivery
FINRA NEWS RELEASE - April 6, 2010
FINRA Fines Citigroup $650,000 for Direct Borrow Program Deficiencies
First Action involving a Stock Borrow Program Cites Disclosure and Supervisory Failures
http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2010/P121245
Sweet, it just keeps on going...
Court papers indicate the SEC is investigating another alleged scheme. Judge Telesca wrote, “The SEC claims that Tackaberry is involved in a new promissory note scheme...he has been raising money for several start-up companies with no operating history and offering promissory notes with an 8% return.”
In court papers, Stoelting said he has subpoenaed promissory notes issued by Charge on Demand LLC, Innovation Group Enterprises LL, and Stucco LLC. In court papers, Tackaberry denies soliciting investments on behalf of those entities.
Oil arrives on La. shore, edges into key current
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writers Michael Kunzelman And Greg Bluestein, Associated Press Writers – 24 mins ago
NEW ORLEANS – BP conceded Thursday that more oil than it estimated is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy crude washed into Louisiana's wetlands for the first time, feeding worries and uncertainty about the massive monthlong spill.
Mark Proegler, a spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, said a mile-long tube inserted into a leaking pipe over the weekend is capturing 210,000 gallons a day — the total amount the company and the Coast Guard have estimated is gushing into the sea — but some is still escaping. He would not say how much.
Several professors who have watched video of the leak have already said they believe the amount spewing out is much higher than the official estimates.
Proegler said the 210,000 gallons — 5,000 barrels — has always been just an estimate because there is no way to measure how much is spilling from the seafloor.
The well blew out after an explosion a month ago on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 people.
Brown ooze from the spill coated marsh grasses and hung in the shallow water of a wetland at Louisiana's southeastern tip, the first heavy oil seen on shore so far. Gov. Bobby Jindal declared Wednesday it was just the outer edge of the real spill, much heavier than an oily sheen seen before.
"This is the heavy oil that everyone's been fearing that is here now," Jindal said during a boat tour. The wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi are home to rare birds, mammals and a wide variety of marine life.
BP, which was leasing the rig when it exploded, was marshaling equipment and conducting tests Thursday ahead of a new effort to choke off the oil's flow. Crews hoped that by Sunday they can start a procedure known as a "top kill," which involves pumping heavy mud into the crippled equipment on top of the well, then permanently sealing it with cement.
The procedure has been used before to halt gushing oil above ground, but like other methods BP is exploring it has never been used 5,000 feet below the sea. That's why scientists and engineers have spent much of the last week preparing and taking a series of measurements to make sure that the mission doesn't backfire.
"The philosophy from the beginning is not to take any action which could make the situation worse, and those are the final steps we're doing," said Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer.
In addition to the oil washing up in Louisiana, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that a small portion of the slick had entered the so-called loop current, a stream of fast moving water that circulates around the Gulf before bending around Florida and up the Atlantic coast. Its arrival may portend a wider environmental catastrophe affecting the Florida Keys and tourist-dotted beaches along that state's east coast.
Tracking the unpredictable spill and the complex loop current is a challenge for scientists, said Charlie Henry, a NOAA environmental scientist.
The loop moves based on the shifting winds and other environmental factors, so even though the oil is leaking continuously it may be in the current one day, and out the next. And the slick itself has defied scientists' efforts to track it and predict its path. Instead, it has repeatedly advanced and retreated, an ominous, shape-shifting mass in the Gulf, with vast underwater lobes extending outward.
Even farther south, U.S. officials were talking to Cuba about how to respond to the spill should it reach the island's northern coast, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
Florida's state meteorologist said it will be at least another seven days before the oil reaches waters west of the Keys, and state officials sought to reassure visitors that beaches are still clean and safe. During a news conference, David Halstead, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, showed off a picture of a Coppertone bottle on a beach.
"What's the only oil on the beaches? Suntan oil," Halstead said.
Tar balls found earlier in the Florida Keys were not from the spill, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. Still, at least 6 million gallons have already poured into the Gulf off Louisiana since the rig explosion. The Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 11 million gallons in Alaska in 1989.
Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., said in a news release that BP complied with his request that a live feed of the oil spill be made publicly available on the Web.
It was not available Thursday morning but Eben Burnham-Snyder, spokesman for the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said in an e-mail that it should show up soon.
Greenpeace activists scaled BP's London headquarters Thursday to hang a flag accusing the oil company of polluting the environment. The group said the action was prompted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as well as a controversial project in Canada.
"It takes some cheek to go and use a sunflower logo when your business is dirty oil," Greenpeace activist Ben Stewart said from a balcony above the headquarters' front door in a telephone interview.
BP spokesman Robert Wine called the action "a very calm and genteel protest," and said no employees had been prevented from getting to work.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
Rep. Markey to post live video of massive Gulf oil spill
May 20, 2010
By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
BP has told US Representative Edward Markey that it will release a live feed of the gushing source of the oil spill that is fouling the Gulf of Mexico so that Markey can show it on his House committee's website, www.globalwarming.house.gov, Markey said.
"This may be BP's footage, but it’s America’s ocean. Now anyone will be able to see the real-time effects the BP spill is having on our ocean,” the Massachusetts congressman said in a statement released Wednesday. “This footage will aid analysis by independent scientists blocked by BP from coming to see the spill.”
Markey chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. He sent letters to BP America's chief executive asking him to make the footage available on the BP website. If BP could not host it, Markey offered to put it on the website for the committee.
“BP is going to have to pay for the cleanup of this spill and the long-term damage. Hosting this video on our website is the only freebie they’re going to get,” Markey said in the statement.
The statement said Markey expected the live feed to be posted Wednesday night. The video was not posted by this morning.
"They released the feed to us last night and we are currently working on the technical issues to get it live," Eben Burnham-Snyder, a spokesman for the committee, said this morning.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/05/rep_markey_to_p.html
The feed should be available tonight at
http://www.globalwarming.house.gov/
When the "Good Times" ended in the late '80's, they had to go legit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Mafia
What's going on with NNAN
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17 Schoen Place Pittsford, New York 14534
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NYS Department of State - Division of Corporations
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Registrant: Innovation Group Enterprises, LLC
17 Schoen Place Pittsford, New York 14534
Administrative Contact:
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Innovation Group Enterprises, LLC
17 Schoen Place Pittsford, New York 14534
(585) 586-0150
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Cory Reeve - Program Manager at ITX Corp.
Rochester, New York Area
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Registrant: Innovation Group Enterprises, LLC
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Rochester, New York 14618
Administrative Contact:
Weaver, David
Innovation Group Enterprises, LLC
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Rochester, New York 14618
(585) 802-2908
Dave Weaver - Manager at Ster-o-Wave, LLC
Rochester, New York Area
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Domain Name: INNOVATIONGE.COM
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Registrant: Darren Coon
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Administrative Contact:
Coon, Darren dcoon@teachergeek.com
74 Lacey Lane Brockport, New York 14420
(585) 322-5798
NYS Department of State - Division of Corporations
Current Entity Name: WORLDWIDE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC
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County: MONROE
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE
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RICHARD POPOVIC
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NY SOS
Domain Name: CELLTRAFFIX.COM
Creation Date: 15-aug-2007
Expiration Date: 15-aug-2010
CellTraffix Inc. is a privately held development-stage medical technology company pioneering new devices for diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. CellTraffix is focused on bringing novel kits and therapeutic products to market to serve the oncology and adult stem cell markets.
Management
Thomas M. Fitzgerald - CEO
W. Timothy Bibens - Director of Operations
Joel Wojciechowski, Ph.D. - Director of Preclinical Development
Board of Directors
Thomas M. Fitzgerald
Michael L. Weiner
Ricardo Mesa-Tejada, M.D.
17 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
585.267.4840
www.celltraffix.com
Domain Name: BIOPHAN.COM
Creation Date: 13-oct-2000
Expiration Date: 13-oct-2010
Registrant: Biophan, LLC
Mike Weiner
15 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
5852674800
Email: vquinn@biophan.com
Administrative Contact:
Biophan Technologies, Inc.
Carolyn Hotchkiss
Domain Name: TILLC.COM
Creation Date: 02-feb-2000
Expiration Date: 02-feb-2011
Registrant: Technology Innovations, LLC
Carolyn Hotchkiss
15 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
5852674802
Email: vquinn@biophan.com
Technology Innovations, LLC
5100 S.Cleveland Avenue Suite 318
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Board of Directors
Michael L. Weiner
Ross B. Kenzie
Howard S. Robbins, esq.
Jim Wemett
Domain Name: BIOMEDSOLUTIONS.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
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Biomed Solutions, LLC
15 Schoen Place
Pittsford, NY 14534
Biomed Solutions develops and invests in business opportunities based upon a strong foundation of intellectual property. We hold equity interests in public and private companies and patents covering a wide variety of innovations involved in future advances in medical devices and treatments.
We are based in the historic Pittsford Flour Mill in Schoen Place. Pittsford is a suburb of Rochester, NY. Biomed holds equity in Nanoset, LLC, Myotech, LLC, and Nanocomp, LLC.
Board of Directors
Mike Weiner
Ross B. Kenzie
Affiliates
Biophan Technologies Inc
OncoVista LLC
Myotech LLC
NaturalNano Inc
Domain Name: STEMCAPTURE.NET
Creation Date: 08-sep-2005
Expiration Date: 08-sep-2013
Registrant: Biomed Solutions, LLC
Carolyn Hotchkiss
15 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
5852674813
Email: chotchkiss@biophan.com
Indelta Learning Systems, LLC
17 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
Richard M. Popovic - President
http://www.indeltalearning.com/contact.html
Ann Mura
Owner at Worldwide Medical Solutions Llc, Pittsford, NY
http://www.jigsaw.com/scid23717526/ann_mura.xhtml
Ann Marie Mura
VP at Innovation Group
Rochester, New York Area
Currently holds this position
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ann-marie-mura/10/601/7b4