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A Chiron Retrospective
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emmnn/pages/emmnn57-5551212.html
Verizon Wireless EV-DO BroadbandAccess
3-4-05: Harry Martin, Verizon Wireless Director of Data Solutions, discusses EV-DO (Broadband Wireless Access World #33
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/pages/bwaw/bwaw33-5551212.html
Con Edison, lead test site for Ambient BPL equipment, sells its broadband operations to FiberNet, while EarthLink attorney tells the FCC that "wireless and BPL technologies are not likely to be competitive in cost and performance with cable and DSL over the last mile to the home"
http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw9-5551212.html
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RF interference may sink BPL
In an extended interview with ARRL ("the national association for amateur radio") CEO David Sumner, issues are raised that call into question the viability of the BPL project.
Listen for yourself at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw8-5551212.h
David Sumner, CEO, ARRL, BPLW interview
David Sumner is the CEO of the American Radio Relay League, which looks out for the interests of amateur radio operators. He recently wrote to Susan Kennedy, a member of the California Public Utilities Commission, asking her to curb her enthusiasm for BPL, which she expressed in a recent interview at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/empnn/pages/cpt-emnn/cpt-emnn222-5551212.html
You can read Mr. Sumner's views on RF interference coming from BPL deployments and on what he thinks this, to him, unresolved problem, may mean for the future of BPL, at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw8-5551212.html
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"Prohibited/Fraudulent Clicks
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The only people who should click on the ads accompanying Etopia Media News Networks news stories are those with a legitimate and sincere interest in purchasing the products and services on offer through these ads or in learning more about these products and services by clicking on one or more of these AdSense ads.
John Joyce, President/CEO, Ambient Corporation, BPLW interview
Until Google News gets around to crawling the site, the only way you can know that John Joyce, President and CEO of Ambient Corporation, participated in a 28-minute one-on-one interview this morning on Broadband over Power Line World (BPLW) (http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw0-5551212.html/) is either to join the BPLW mailing list by sending an empty e-mail to: bplw-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or to click on the link below:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw7-5551212.html
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"Prohibited/Fraudulent Clicks
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The only people who should click on the ads accompanying Etopia Media News Networks news stories are those with a legitimate and sincere interest in purchasing the products and services on offer through these ads or in learning more about these products and services by clicking on one or more of these AdSense ads.
A possible fly in the ointment
Marvin Bloomquist, speaking for ham radio operators in Burnet, Texas, finds some fault with the deployment and the deployers of broadband over power line in his community
http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw6-5551212.html
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states:
"Prohibited/Fraudulent Clicks
"Any method that artificially and/or fraudulently generates clicks is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, incentives to click, using robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs."
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The only people who should click on the ads accompanying Etopia Media News Networks news stories are those with a legitimate and sincere interest in purchasing the products and services on offer through these ads or in learning more about these products and services by clicking on one or more of these AdSense ads.
Alvarion's Patrick Leary discusses BreezeMAX, WiMAX, and the "Wireless Houston County Committee"
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/pages/bwaw/bwaw2-5551212.html
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states:
"Prohibited/Fraudulent Clicks
"Any method that artificially and/or fraudulently generates clicks is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, incentives to click, using robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs."
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The only people who should click on the ads accompanying Etopia Media News Networks news stories are those with a legitimate and sincere interest in purchasing the products and services on offer through these ads or in learning more about these products and services by clicking on one or more of these AdSense ads.
BPL in California by Q2-05 says CPUC's Kennedy
CPUC Commissioner Susan Kennedy sees "something substantial [in BPL] going by mid-year in 2005," saying "it's criminal that California does not have a major BPL pilot project or commercial project underway and I intend to do everything we can to change that."
Read about this and listen to Commissioner Kennedy's comments at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/empnn/pages/cpt-emnn/cpt-emnn220-5551212.html
NOTICE:
This material has been prepared and published online by Etopia Media News Networks, at:
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The Google AdSense Program Policies page, at:
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states:
"Prohibited/Fraudulent Clicks
"Any method that artificially and/or fraudulently generates clicks is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, incentives to click, using robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs."
This notice should in no way be considered an illegal "incentive to click" as referenced in the excerpt from the Google AdSense Program Policies above. In order to protect the integrity of its process and the value of AdSense ads for its advertisers, Google rightfully prohibits any actions designed to artificially increase the number of clicks on the AdSense ads that run on Etopia Media News Network or other pages.
The only people who should click on the ads accompanying Etopia Media News Networks news stories are those with a legitimate and sincere interest in purchasing the products and services on offer through these ads or in learning more about these products and services by clicking on one or more of these AdSense ads.
MidNet is a start-up company dedicated to providing the kind of secure, neutral, reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity that industries like entertainment, health, government, and law require for cost-effective video conferencing and the timely transfer of digital files.
Peter Fentiman, Founder, President, CEO, and Director at MidNet, and Tilo Kunz, Founder, Chairman, COO, Director at MidNet, spoke today with Entertainment Technology World about the founding, operations, technology, and future of their corporate creation.
You can hear them discussing all this at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/pages/ent-emtnn/ent-emtnn3.html
Visit the MidNet site at:
http://www.midnetinc.com/index.html
James Robinson is the CEO of Cinema Electric, a Los Angeles-based media company that specializes in producing and distributing content for the screens of cellular phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others. Their content includes models, fashion shows, extreme sports, and "Movie Messages," stills and animated sequences cel phoners can use to communicate visually with each other.
Mr. Robinson spoke exclusively and at length today with Entertainment Technology World™ about Cinema Electric and the future of mobile media. You can hear that interview at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/pages/ent-emtnn/ent-emtnn1.html
For links and interviews about electronic voting on DREs ("touchscreens") and the related controversy about voter-verifiable paper ballots, go to:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/empnn/pages/cpt-emnn/cpt-emnn0.html
Here's an article about dwindling petroleum reserves:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emenn/pages/oil/oil1.html
It's on the Oil World(tm) (http://www.etopiamedia.net/emenn/pages/oil/oil0.html/) page of the Etopia Media Energy News Network(tm) (http://www.etopiamedia.net/emenn/pages/emenn0.html/) web site.
Some news about Pfizer's legal troubles can be found at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emmnn/pages/emmnn5.html
For something totally unrelated to Chalabi, but still somewhat political, visit a web page with some text and some links concerning Washington, D.C., girl-about-town Jessica Cutler, at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emsnn/pages/emsnn1.html
The article's called "Cheap Whore Makes Professional Ones Look Bad: The Jessica Cutler Story" and it's the first story covered by Etopia Media Sex News Network, at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emsnn/pages/emsnn0.html/
Take a poll about how you view Ms. Cutler's activities at:
http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/32291/view
Hi KauaiPl,
Thanks for getting it. I had never heard of iHub until a flood of its members drove my traffic numbers to record new levels a few months ago, after I'd interviewed people at Wave Systems for my Trusted Computing World site.
The combination of all this attention, the difficulty people were having accessing MP4 files on my site, and the documented failure of Amazon Honor System to protect my work convinced me to switch encoding formats, move my site from my own server with minimal bandwidth to a shared server in Arizona with huge downstream capacity, and sign up for a CCBill and DRMNetworks package that allows me to encrypt, protect, license, and charge for my work.
I appreciate the interest iHub members have shown in listening to these interviews with top management. I appreciate the lesson gemmerling and others taught me about trying to run a business where the backdoor, the roof, and the side windows are all wide open. I especially appreciate your comments about the reasonableness of charging for one's own work and feeling entitled to be paid for it, especially when the amount charged is a relative "pittance" and the point of the web site is to help its members make more money.
Given a sufficiently vigorous response from iHub members to my low-cost interviews, I am not only glad to continue providing access to timely, thorough, and even, sometimes, interesting, interviews with the people running the companies they are most interested in, but to conduct additional interviews with those businesspeople they identify as subjects of group interest, and to organize and produce group discussions about companies or markets relevant to listener/investors.
This is a very powerful medium we're using, and if we can take advantage of even a small part of its ability to facilitate agile and useful communications among investors, everyone involved can benefit. Isn't that, after all, the whole point of iHub?
Regards,
Etopia
Reporter
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn0.html/
http://www.etopiamedia.net/
The security problem referenced in the article linked to from this post has been solved, using Microsoft's DRM solution for audio and video as implemented by DRMNetworks with billing from CCBill.
You can now access encrypted Etopia Media Financial News Network audio interviews with top management from VirTra Systems, Q TV, Convoq, Torbay Holdings, North Star Diamonds, and Wave Systems at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn0.html/
For the latest news about DRM, including a long and exclusive interview with Adobe Security Solutions manager John Landwehr, go to:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/pages/drmw/drmw0.html
This one is free.
L. Kelly Jones is the CEO of VirTra Systems, Inc., a Texas-based company that is a leader in delivering virtual reality-based solutions for advertising, promotion, and training purposes.
On April 5, 2004, Mr. Jones talked with the Etopia Financial News Network about VirTra System's technology, markets, operations, and prospects.
To hear that interview, go here:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn6.html
Tom Large is the President and CEO of Torbay Holdings Inc. Torbay owns Designer Appliances Inc. (DAI), which makes the Quill Mouse™ Virtually Hands-Free mousing system.
On March 23, 2004, Mr. Large took some time off from his other work to talk to Etopia Financial News Network about assistive technology in general and DAI's Quill Mouse in particular. To hear that interview, go here:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn5.html
Walter Stunder is the CEO is the Founder, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of North Star Diamonds Inc. As such, he is uniquely qualified to speak for it on matters regarding its operations and prospects of that company.
On, March 22, 2004, Mr. Stunder took some time off from looking for diamonds to talk to Etopia Financial News Network about, well, looking for diamonds. You don't have to look far yourself to hear that interview. To hear that interview, go to:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn4.html
Brian Berger is the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wave Systems. John Callahan is Vice President of Marketing Communications and Public Relations at Wave. You can hear them both discuss Trusted Computing and their company at:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/emfnn/pages/emfnn2.html
Exclusive Audio Interview with Torbay Holdings President/CEO
To pay $2.00 to hear the 35-minute long, exclusive March 23, 2004, Etopia Financial News Network audio interview with Tom Large, President and CEO of Torbay Holdings, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P1RU0I0ZY147ZP
The site serving the interview with Tom Large audio stream can, as of now, only offer access to four listeners at a time, so if you pay your two dollars and find you can't get in, just ask for an instant refund and keep coming back until you can, and then don't ask for a refund that time.
Enough listeners waiting patiently to hear this and other EFNN interviews, and paying $2.00 to do so, will soon allow us to expand our platform and offer more simultaneous streams.
This won't happen if clever investors find the interview using Google and go there directly, without paying the paltry $2.00 fee that will allow us to build our operation and provide investors with additional and more extensive interviews, including video interviews and panel discussions.
If you feel like clicking on any of the ads while you're there listening, please go ahead and do so, as this will further speed the arrival of an expanded and more useful EFNN platform.
If you can't access the MPEG-4 format in which the interview is encoded, try downloading a free QuickTime media browser at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
Audio Interview with Wave Systems' VP Brian Berger
To pay $2.00 to hear the 32-minute long, exclusive March 12, 2004, Etopia Financial News Network audio interview with Brian Berger, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wave Systems, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P2EGUYVSFRZCJO
The site serving the Berger interview stream can, as of now, only offer access to four listeners at a time, so if you can't get in, please come back later.
Enough listeners waiting patiently to hear this and other EFNN interviews, and paying $2.00 to do so, will soon allow us to expand our platform and offer more simultaneous streams.
This won't happen if clever users find the interview with Google and go there directly, without paying the paltry $2.00 fee that will allow us to build our operation and provide investors with additional and more extensive interviews, including video interviews and panel discussions.
If you can't access the MPEG-4 format in which the interview is encoded, try downloading a free QuickTime media browser at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
Exclusive Audio Interview with VirTra CEO L.Kelly Jones
To pay $2.00 to hear the 26-minute long, exclusive April 5, 2004, Etopia Financial News Network audio interview with L. Kelly Jones, CEO, VirTra Systems, go to:
http://s1.amazon.com/paypage/P1B1F5NLSLMI3Q/102-6251576-9626500
The site serving the Jones interview stream can, as of now, only offer access to four listeners at a time, so if you can't get in, please come back later.
Enough listeners waiting patiently to hear this and other EFNN interviews, and paying $2.00 to do so, will soon allow us to expand our platform and offer more simultaneous streams.
If you can't access the MPEG-4 format in which the interview is encoded, try downloading a free QuickTime media browser at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
To install an Amazon Honor System Paybox linking to this interview, add this HTML code to the page:
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Torbay Holdings Inc. CEO Audio Interview on EFNN
On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, I conducted a 30-minute interview with Tom Large, President and CEO of Torbay Holdings, in which we talk about all aspects of Torbay Holdings. Before I give you the URL for the MPEG-4 streaming audio version of our conversation, I need to say a few things.
1. If you don't have an MPEG-4 compatible audio browser, you can get one for free at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
2. The Etopia Financial News Network™ (EFNN) server where this interview is posted can serve 120 audio streams at once, but the upstream connection it has to the Internet can only accommodate four 56 kbps streams at one time. Obviously, something has to be done about this situation if the hundreds of iHub members who might want to listen to it are to be able to do so.
3. I've calculated that to buy storage space and streaming bandwidth on a more advantageously-positioned server would end up costing me about $ .25 to stream one 25 MB file such as the Stunder/North Star Diamond interview. What I lose on each listening I suppose I could make up in volume, but it might not be that easy.
4. If each listener clicked around 10 times on the Google AdSense ads on the EFNN page, I might break even or make a little profit, except that Google's lawyers are relentless in their efforts to prevent anyone from asking, urging, or suggesting to anyone that they click on these ads, saying that this diminishes the value proposition to the AdWords customers who pay for these ads.
5. I'm looking into setting up a micro-payments system that would charge listeners a micro-payment of $ .50 per half-hour file access. This would cover my expenses and yield a nice per-listen profit. But would people pay half-a-dollar to listen to a literate, thorough, and useful interview with the CEO of a company in which they are thinking of investing? It's an open question. Maybe I could sell subscriptions.
6. So could you do me a favor? Go to the Torbay Holdings interview and listen to it, realizing that if you're not one of the first four people there, you won't be able to listen right then. You can come back later though, and try again. Also, you can send me an e-mail at virtualorange@yahoo.com and tell me what you think about using AdSense ads, a per-listen charge of $ .50, or a subscription arrangement to finance the increased bandwidth necessary to provide access to all those interested to this and the subsequent series of interviews I plan to do with top management at other companies as they appear on the iHub Hot Stock Boards Today. Anyone with the foresight and capital to invest now in the Etopia Financial News Network™ is also welcome to contact me at that e-mail address.
7. That's it then. You can get to the interview with Tom Large by going to http://www.celcast.biz then clicking on "Etopia Financial News Network™," then clicking on
"3-23-04—Torbay Holdings/Designer Appliance's "Quill Mouse" seeks to take the strain out of mousework" or you can just go here:
http://63.206.28.68/pages/efnn/efnn3.html.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Regards,
Marc Strassman
Reporter
Etopia Financial News Network
Etopia News
Outsourcing World
Indecency World
Global Economic Trends World
Grid World
California Politics Today
Latest VotingNews
AsiaBridge
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Celcast.Biz
North Star Diamonds CEO Audio Interview on EFNN
On Monday, March 22, 2004, I conducted a 30-minute interview with Walter Stunder, President, North Star Diamonds Inc., in which we talk about all aspects of North Star Diamonds, Inc. Before I give you the URL for the MPEG-4 streaming audio version of our conversation, I need to say a few things.
1. If you don't have an MPEG-4 compatible audio browser, you can get one for free at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
2. The Etopia Financial News Network™ (EFNN) server where this interview is posted can serve 120 audio streams at once, but the upstream connection it has to the Internet can only accommodate four 56 kbps streams at one time. Obviously, something has to be done about this situation if the hundreds of iHub members who might want to listen to it are to be able to do so.
3. I've calculated that to buy storage space and streaming bandwidth on a more advantageously-positioned server would end up costing me about $ .25 to stream one 25 MB file such as the Stunder/North Star Diamond interview. What I lose on each listening I suppose I could make up in volume, but it might not be that easy.
4. If each listener clicked around 10 times on the Google AdSense ads on the EFNN page, I might break even or make a little profit, except that Google's lawyers are relentless in their efforts to prevent anyone from asking, urging, or suggesting to anyone that they click on these ads, saying that this diminishes the value proposition to the AdWords customers who pay for these ads.
5. I'm looking into setting up a micro-payments system that would charge listeners a micro-payment of $ .50 per half-hour file access. This would cover my expenses and yield a nice per-listen profit. But would people pay half-a-dollar to listen to a literate, thorough, and useful interview with the CEO of a company in which they are thinking of investing? It's an open question. Maybe I could sell subscriptions.
6. So could you do me a favor? Go to the North Star Diamonds interview and listen to it, realizing that if you're not one of the first four people there, you won't be able to listen now. You can come back later though, and try again. Also, you can send me an e-mail at virtualorange@yahoo.com and tell me what you think about using AdSense ads, a per-listen charge of $ .50, or a subscription arrangement to finance the increased bandwidth necessary to provide access to all those interested to this and the subsequent series of interviews I want to do with top management at the other companies as they appear on the iHub Hot Stock Boards Today. Anyone with the foresight and capital to invest now in the Etopia Financial News Network™ is also welcome to contact me at that e-mail address.
7. That's it then. You can get to the interview with Walter Stunder by going to http://www.celcast.biz then clicking on "Etopia Financial News Network™," then clicking on
"3-22-04—Etopia Financial Network News Brief #2: While diamonds may be a girl's best friend, North Star Diamonds may be a good investment for anyone" or you can just go here:
http://63.206.28.68/pages/efnn/efnn2.html.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Regards,
Marc Strassman
Reporter
Etopia Financial News Network
Outsourcing World
Indecency World
Global Economic Trends World
Grid World
California Politics Today
Latest VotingNews
AsiaBridge
Trusted Computing World
Publisher
Celcast.Biz
Newbie with thanks and suggestions
Dear IHUB members,
Yesterday, an MPEG-4 audio interview I conducted with Brian Berger, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wave Systems on my Trusted Computing World website got more visits than any of my posts on my web sites ever has.
This was, I soon figured out, because KmS posted: Has anybody listened to this?
http://63.206.28.65/get/tcw/tcw2.html
on this "Wave Systems" (WAVX) e-mail list.
Since then I've exchanged e-mails with Matt, signed up as "Etopia," and read the rules.
Now I'm trying to find a way to repeat and augment yesterday's stampede by offering to provide value to IHUB members.
Investors interested in Trusted Computing should know that there's another audio interview already on the TC World site. It's an interview with Jim Ward, who is in the software group at IBM and is also the President and Board Chair at the Trusted Computing Group. You can hear Jim Ward talk about Trusted Computing at:
http://63.206.28.65/get/tcw/tcw1.html
Investors interested in grid computing should know that I also maintain the Grid Computing World site, at:
http://63.206.28.65/get/gw/grid0.html
It's full of interviews with spokespersons from Intel, United Devices, Globus, the NIH, and so on.
Before I go on to mention a proposal designed to help both my operation and investors with the need to know, I need to mention two other points.
The server that delivers these and other audio clips of interest to avid listeners is a powerful Sun Microsystems LX50 which is capable of serving up to 120 simultaneous MPEG-4 audio streams. Unfortunately, I am just getting started in the audio publishing business, I am not by any means over-capitalized, and so the upstream connection off my server is a puny DSL link from SBC that only allows for 4 simultaneous upstream transmissions, if they are set for 56 kbps.
Of course, this is tragic. Yesterday, during the rush on the Wave Systems clip, intrepid visitors who got there early could log in and listen to the interview with Brian Berger unimpeded. But after four of them were hooked up, no one else could access the sound files, so they came, saw there was nothing for them, and left.
I very much want to remedy this problem.
One way to solve it would be to spend more money to either co-locate the server at a server farm or pay for some other hosting solution that would give me greater outgoing bandwidth. These solutions will, however, cost money.
I am a registered Google AdSense publisher and if enough people click enough times on the ads on each of the pages on these sites I'll get enough money to upgrade the infrastructure and serve everyone who wants them all the audio clips to which they may want to listen.
So if you find yourself on one of my sites, drawn by a desire to hear some industry luminary or other explain the technology and business prospects of his or her company, and there's an ad there you might be interested in, just click on it (and maybe one or two others). It won't cost you anything and, if enough people do that, I'll be able to upgrade the upstream channel and serve more files to eager listeners.
This brings me to the next, and final, point. Pleased and surprised as I was to get so much sudden traffic generated by a link on IHUB, I am still calm enough to pose this question to you members: If there are companies, or government agencies, or personalities associated with either, about which you would like to know more, you can send me their names, along with general or specific questions you would like answered, and I will try to add them to my list of interviewee at the earliest possible time.
Then I can tell you about the interviews, you can visit my pages, listen to the sound clips (while clicking on the ads) and we'll have a win-win-win-win-win (me, you, the interviewees, Google Adsense, and their advertisers) situation.
If you have any comments about this proposal, or are ready to suggest a company, agency or person to be interviewed on one of my sites, you can send these comments and/or suggestions to me at:
virtualorange@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance for any interest you may have in these suggestions.
Regards,
"Etopia"