How true - isn't it amazing and wonderful to see prayers in public -
Congress on the Capitol steps.  It would be interesting to know when this
original prayer was given - I can not imagine people walking out of prayers
at this point in time...

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Subject: Amen

A little something to make us think about the impact
we might make on our world if only we would be willing
to try!

OPENING PRAYER -- KANSAS STATE SENATE
Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given
in KANSAS at the opening session of their Senate. It
seems prayer still upsets some people.

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the KANSAS SENATE, everyone was expecting
the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

Subject: Amen

A little something to make us think about the impact
we might make on our world if only we would be willing
to try!

OPENING PRAYER -- KANSAS STATE SENATE
Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given
in KANSAS at the opening session of their Senate. It
seems prayer still upsets some people.

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the KANSAS SENATE, everyone was expecting
the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

" Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance.

We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil
good", but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed
our values.  We confess that.

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and
called it Pluralism.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery,

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare,

We have killed our unborn and called it choice,

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable,

We have neglected to discipline our children and
called it building self-esteem,

We have abused power and called it politics,

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called
it ambition,

We have polluted the air with profanity and
pornography and called it freedom of statement,

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our
forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse
us from every sin and set us free.  Guide and bless
these men and women who have been sent to direct us to
the center of Your will and to openly ask these things
in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus
Christ.  " Amen.!! "

The response was immediate. A number of legislators
walked out during the prayer in protest.  In 6 short
weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is
pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only
47 of those calls responding negatively.  The church
is now receiving international requests for copies of
this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio
program, " The Rest of the Story ", and received a
larger response to this program than any other he has
ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer
sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called, " one nation
under God. " If possible, please pass this prayer on
to your friends.  Think about this: If you forward
this prayer to everyone on your email list in less
than 30 days it would be heard by the world.

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Daren,

I have no problem sticking around with the group, it is a compliment and I am glad that you all appreciate what I have been able to contribute to the group.  I just want your opinion on something.

One of my many goals while a part of the analyst program is to become a  senior analyst or third year analyst.  It is a promotion that also brings with it a bit of a pay increase.  In no way do I want to imply greed, or that I will only stay for money, but if in your opinion I may be deserving of this, then maybe we could run it by Bob or the program, or whoever is in control of that.

Just a thought, let me know what you think.

Mike


Thanks - Enron designed that stationary specifically for me. What with my
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Karen,

Can you take a look at this week's market wrap?

thanks,
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From http://OpinionJournal.com

Best of the Web Today - January 14, 2002
By JAMES TARANTO
'A Significant Political Opportunity'  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40691-2002Jan13.html

Quoted in today's Washington Post, an unnamed "key Democratic strategist" has this to say about the Enron fiasco: "Democrats are very excited about this because this gives us a hook to bring this guy [President Bush] some accountability, plus there's no way it's not going to be a distraction for them. Privately, Democrats are almost unanimous in seeing this as a significant political opportunity. But we don't want to blow it."

Pardon us for spoiling the party, but there is a war on. It's not the most opportune of times to distract the president with a phony political scandal. Of course it's another matter if investigations turn up evidence of genuine wrongdoing by government officials, but if this strategist is to be believed, Democrats are happy to proceed in the absence of any such evidence.

And what exactly is the Bush administration alleged to have done? Here's Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, on yesterday's " Meet the Press  http://msnbc.com/news/686453.asp ": "If there was any, any involvement because of the incredible help the Bush campaign got from Enron here, it will be--I don't know that there has been--but it will be devastating." But on "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut echoed Rep. Henry Waxman, who, as we  noted Friday  http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001718 , said it was a scandal that the administration refused to give Enron special treatment. Fox doesn't have a transcript on its Web site, so here's a  CNN report  http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/13/enron/index.html :

*** QUOTE ***

[Treasury Secretary Paul] O'Neill, a guest on "Fox News Sunday," defended the government's decision not to intervene as Enron's stock price collapsed. Lieberman called O'Neill's comments "outrageous" and promised an aggressive investigation of Enron's collapse.

*** END QUOTE ***

Before the Democrats start throwing around accusations, shouldn't they at least agree on what would constitute a scandal?

The President and the Pretzel  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41179-2002Jan14.html

Here's an early nominee for  bottom news story  http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001644#bottom  of 2002: President Bush was watching the Miami-Baltimore playoff game yesterday when, as Press Secretary Ari Fleischer explains, "he was eating a pretzel, and he said it felt like it did not go down right. He fainted. He woke up what he believes were a few seconds later." He scraped his cheek when he fell. The White House physician checked him out, and he's fine. The Dolphins, on the other hand, choked, losing to the Ravens 20-3.

Picking Up the Pieces  http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,631972,00.html

"American special forces searching the Tora Bora cave complex in eastern Afghanistan are collecting dismembered fingers and human organ tissue in an attempt to establish whether Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were killed during last year's massive assault on the caves," reports London's Observer. The paper quotes an unnamed "intelligence source" as saying: "Just before the complex fell, I got a call from a friend involved in the operation. He told me: 'We really think we've got him. It's only a matter of time.' All the information we had at that time suggests he must be dead."

The paper's sources say their "most likely hypothesis" is that Osama has met Allah. The  Christian Science Monitor  http://csmonitor.com/2002/0114/p1s2-wosc.html , however, says that Afghan intelligence officials think he's in Pakistan.

How Omar Got Away  http://www.msnbc.com/news/686895.asp

Newsweek interviews Qari Saheb, who served as Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal driver, who explains how the top Talib escaped:

*** QUOTE ***

Saheb was with Omar at his compound in Kandahar last Oct. 7 when the first American bombs began to fall. According to Saheb, Omar initially spurned advisers who begged him to flee to safety. "Even if Bush shows up at my door, I will not leave," said Omar. His advisers told him that the Americans would use chemical weapons. Omar brandished a gas mask, but the aides warned him that the masks were good only for an hour. Knowing that the Americans would target his SUV, aides ushered Omar into a rickshaw. Pulled into the center of town, Omar shifted to a mud-covered truck and disappeared. He spent the next several days moving from house to house, sleeping in basements.

*** END QUOTE ***

Agence France-Presse  http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/140102/dlame31.asp  reports that "influential Pashtuns," including members of the interim Afghan government, are helping Omar evade arrest.

Osama's Unfunniest Home Videos--I  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1758000/1758422.stm

A gun-toting toddler is among the stars of a new al Qaeda video obtained in Afghanistan and aired by the  Australian Broadcasting Corp.  http://abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_457534.htm  The BBC describes the scene:

*** QUOTE ***

One sequence shows a small boy--aged about two--holding a gun. A man's voice asks him in Arabic why he is carrying a gun. Is it to kill infidels, the voice inquires.

*** END QUOTE ***

The video also shows "fighters storming a building and taking hostages, barking commands at them in English and shooting one captive dead" and "an apparent assassination attack on a motorcade."

Osama's Unfunniest Home Videos--II  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34200-2002Jan11.html

The Washington Post has details of what we assume was another tape, released by the Singapore government in the wake of the recent terror bust there:

*** QUOTE ***

The tape . . . features a man describing how explosives could be carried on a bicycle without arousing suspicion. The man--identified as Hashim bin Abas, 40, a "service engineer"--was among 15 suspected Islamic militants taken into custody in Singapore last month. . . .

According to the Singapore ministry [of home affairs], the alleged terrorist cell had two plans "ready for activation." One apparently involved blowing up the shuttle bus that carries U.S. military personnel between a naval base used by visiting warships and a train station, a scenario suggested in the videotape, which appears to have been made for reconnaissance purposes.

The tape depicts the station from various angles, then focuses on a bicycle bay located beneath the north end of the station and train tracks. Bicycles are shown with cargo boxes mounted in the back.

*** END QUOTE ***

The  Straits Times  http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,95812,00.html  reports that the Muslim Student Society at the National University of Singapore is applauding the arrests. "It is a very sad state of affairs that even Singapore is not free of the global terror network that is seeding chaos throughout the world," Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman, the group's head, tells the paper.

Radio Silence  http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/8661.htm

Abdallah Higazy, a 30-year-old Egyptian man, has been charged with perjury in an odd case that could mean nothing--or a great deal. According to authorities, Higazy, a computer-science student at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, checked into the Millenium [sic] Hilton, a luxury hotel across the street from the World Trade Center, Aug. 27 and said he planned to stay until Sept. 25. Reports the New York Post:

*** QUOTE ***

On Sept. 11, he was in the hotel room and immediately evacuated without his belongings after the attacks. . . . When hotel security eventually began clearing the rooms of personal belongings in October, an employee opened the safe in Higazy's room and found [a] pilot-to-pilot radio, a Koran, and a medallion.

The radio can be used by pilots in the air to communicate with each other or someone on the ground could use it to talk to pilots in flight. It could also be used to monitor pilots' conversations from the ground.

Higazy tried to retrieve his things in December, when FBI agents appeared and asked him about the radio. Although he admitted having some knowledge of communications equipment from being in the Egyptian Air Corps branch of that nation's army, the suspect denied the radio was his and said he'd never seen it before, authorities charge.

*** END QUOTE ***

The Queen's Flight  http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,631967,00.html

Remember Abu Qatada, the  terrorist welfare queen  Brits%20lose%20track%20of%20terrorist%20welfare%20queen%20(S.E.%20Brenner):%20http://opinionjournal.com/best/queen  known as Osama bin Laden's "Egyptian ambassador" who lost his bid to collect £213 in benefits from the British government? British Police finally got around to raiding his home last week, and found he was gone.

Our Friends the Saudis  http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2002/january/01_14_2.html

The Middle East Newsline reports that "Saudi Arabia appears to be signalling to Iraq that it is prepared for a reconciliation."

Make It a Triple  http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=13012002-102158-9032r

UPI reports that "conviction is growing in diplomatic circles where attention must be paid to such developments that the world is witnessing the emergence of a new Triple Alliance in Eurasia"--between India, Israel and Turkey.  You heard it here first.  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=95001172

To Protect the Guilty  http://headlines.sify.com/476news2.html

Tehreek-i-Jafria Pakistan, an extremist political party banned by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is changing its name to Millat-e-Jafria Pakistan, Agence France-Presse reports.

'The Taliban Wing'  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64452-2002Jan4.html

A recent Washington Post article describes how Sayed Abdullah was brutalized by the Taliban, who falsely suspected he was Christian because he had two Bibles--one in English and one in the Dari language--in his personal library:

*** QUOTE ***

Several guards came in and forced Sayed face down on the table. They tied his hands and feet to its legs. Then they beat him with sticks and heavy plastic ropes, punching, pounding, whipping. Sayed says he endured two or three hours of it before he passed out. . . .

The Taliban guards again tied him on the table. This time, they poured water on his feet, then wound electrical wires around both of his big toes. The wires were attached to an old Soviet military field telephone. The guards turned the telephone's crank, sending a searing electrical current into Sayed's feet. It went on for more than an hour. He felt as if some powerful force was lifting him high off the table, then slamming him down again, over and over.

*** END QUOTE ***

There's more, but this gives a flavor of Abdullah's five-month ordeal. In Saturday's New York Times (link requires registration), columnist  Bill Keller  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12/opinion/12KELL.html  blasts Sens. Phil Gramm, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, who, he says, "have in common the fact that they harnessed their collective century of seniority to the Taliban wing of the American right." You know, the guys who torture people they suspect of being Christians.

Yasser, That's the Ticket  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/jtaranto/?id=95001721

We got such an overwhelming number of responses to  Friday's invitation  http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001718#explain  to explain the Palestinian arms shipment that we had to put them in a separate article. Click on the headline of this item to read it.

High Bias  http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/18/asb.00.html

Andrew Sullivan  http://andrewsullivan.com/  has been doing a brilliant job rebutting liberal media folks who pooh-pooh Bernard Goldberg's best-selling book, " Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News  http://www.bennettandcurran.com/cgi-bin/Shopper.exe?preadd=action&key=0895261901 ." We particularly like this exchange, which Sullivan found in the Dec. 18 transcript of CNN's "Newsnight With Aaron Brown":

*** QUOTE ***

Brown: Some conservatives jumped on [John] Walker, saying he is a product of cultural liberalism--the California kind--helping to turn an impressionable kid against his own country.

Joining us from Salinas, California, one of those conservatives, Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution. Mr. Steele wrote a provocative article the other day in  The Wall Street Journal  http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001578 --a column in the Journal.

And here in New York, a columnist who thinks Mr. Steele is making an awfully broad generalization. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. It's nice to have both of you here. Mr. Steele.

Steele: First of all, let me interrupt you just a minute.

Brown: OK.

Steele: Is Richard Cohen a liberal?

Brown: Yeah, Richard Cohen's a liberal. I think he would say that, wouldn't he? . . .

Cohen: On this issue.

Brown: On this issue. OK. Everyone is now branded, I guess.

Steele: OK. Great.

Brown: Now let me try . . .

Steele: If I'm going to be, everybody is going to be.

*** END QUOTE ***

Of course no one suggests Brown is deliberately being unfair, but this does seem to be an indisputable example of the kind of unthinking bias about which Goldberg writes.

Let It Slide?  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40795-2002Jan13.html

Speaking of the Marin mujahid, the Washington Post has another long profile of him that adds even more details about his liberal upbringing. A few tidbits: When the Lindhs (Walker's father's name) lived in ultraliberal Takoma Park, Md., before moving to Marin County, Calif., Walker's mother became "something of a local activist. Neighbors recall her waging a zealous campaign to have a metal slide at a local playground removed, saying it was too dangerous for children." Yemen, apparently, was not too dangerous for children.

In her activism, Walker's mother shamefully exploited her young daughter:

*** QUOTE ***

Marilyn Walker took their 9-year-old daughter, Naomi, to a small local demonstration denouncing U.S. bombing raids over Iraq. The Marin Independent Journal ran a photo of the girl standing amid a few dozen protesters waving signs at passing traffic that read, "Don't Kill Iraqi Kids."

*** END QUOTE ***

Our favorite detail from the story, though, is its description of Walker's high school, which "had a rare teaching philosophy: It held no classes."

Stupidity Watch  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12/opinion/L12TERR.html

In a letter to the editor of the New York Times (link requires registration), one John E. Colbert of Chicago opines: "In searching for the next targets, the United States should consider other terrorists closer to home: thousands of deaths occur each year from drunken driving, gun violence and lack of health care--to name just a few culprits that terrorize and kill Americans." Yeah, John, let's drop a few bombs on lack of health care.

Wobegon in Albany  http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=74614

We can't help but admire the cruelty of the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union's editors, who printed a letter from one Charles Heinze that concludes as follows:

*** QUOTE ***

If we are looking for a place to start, let's start with what the average hourly pay is in America and see to it that this is the minimum wage for all full-time employees.

And before you say it can't be done, look at what welfare, and other public assistance including health care and having the thousands of not-for-profits cost us each year.

*** END QUOTE ***

A tip of the hat to whoever wrote the headline: "All Should Be Paid at Least the Average U.S. Salary." That "at least" is a stroke of genius.

Then and Mao  http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/13/wmao13.xml

London's Daily Telegraph reports on a "model Chinese village devoted to Maoist ideals":

*** QUOTE ***

Hoardings urge workers to "Put Mao Tse-tung thought in command of everything" and a deafening public address system regularly broadcasts rousing communist anthems. . . . Apartments come in only two sizes. Residents are bound by strict rules. The approval of a Communist Party committee is required for all marriages. A mass wedding is held once a year on New Year's Day. After childbirth women are sterilised. Wrongdoers are paraded through the village with their heads shaved. The village has acquired cult status among those who still pine for the certainties of the Mao era.

*** END QUOTE ***

Alas, it's being razed to make way for a business park designed to attract foreign investors.

The Son Also Sets
Several readers wrote to inquire about our  Friday item  http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001718#nimitz  on the curious death notice for Rear Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and his wife. No, this wasn't the Adm. Chester Nimitz who led the Pacific fleet during World War II; he died in 1966. It was his son. You can read the  U.S. Navy  http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq36-4.htm  biography of Nimitz Sr. or visit the  Nimitz Museum  http://www.nimitz-museum.org/nimitz_museum.asp  in Fredericksburg, Texas. And here's the  New York Times obit  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/obituaries/08NIMI.html  of Nimitz Jr. (link requires registration). Our Friday item referred not to it but to a paid death notice.

Homelessness Rediscovery Watch

*** QUOTE ***

"If George W. Bush becomes president, the armies of the homeless, hundreds of thousands strong, will once again be used to illustrate the opposition's arguments about welfare, the economy, and taxation."-- Mark Helprin  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/mhelprin/?id=65000507 , Oct. 31, 2000

"Homeless, Helpless, Hopeless; A surge in evictions across the country illustrates the depth of the economy's recession. Help is dwindling for those in trouble."--headline and subheadline, front page,  Los Angeles Times  http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000002954jan12.story , Jan. 12, 2002

"Remember the Homeless at Home Too"--headline, op-ed page,  Los Angeles Times  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000002840jan12.story , Jan. 12, 2002

*** END QUOTE ***

Still Cold in Antarctica  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40974-2002Jan13.html

If you live in Antarctica, you've probably been waiting hopefully for years for "global warming" to kick in. Sorry, it's still cold. In fact, if you think it's gotten colder, you're not crazy. "Scientists working in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of east Antarctica have found temperatures dropping at a rate of 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since 1986, and have observed similar downward trends across the continent since 1978."

"I'd be very careful with this," Michael Oppenheimer, chief scientist for  Environmental Defense  http://environmentaldefense.org/ , tells the Washington Post. "My general view has been that there's simply not enough data to make a broad statement about all of Antarctica." But we can make broad statements about the whole world?

Next headline to watch for: "Homeless Antarcticans Hit Hardest by Cooling Trend."

A Drink You Can Eat  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020111/od/brew_dc_2.html

Reuters reports a South Korean brewer has come up with "chewable liquor"--"a gelatin form of its popular Paeksaejoo rice wine." This is supposed to be an innovation, but haven't the folks at Reuters heard of  Jell-O shots  http://www.outofthefryingpan.com/recipes/jello.shots.shtml ?

Our Ever-Expanding Rights  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/49699_judo07.shtml

Last month the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on one of the silliest lawsuits we've ever heard of. Fourteen-year-old judo champion Leilani Akiyama went to court, claiming that the practice of bowing before a judo match violated her rights:

*** QUOTE ***

Bowing in a private club is one thing, but the practice should not be mandatory in a public facility for a tournament, said Akiyama's attorney, Mark Fleming.

Bowing "takes away critical thinking," said John Holm, Akiyama's stepfather and judo instructor. "You think you're giving respect, but it's really a submissive act."

Holm, who teaches 35 students at his judo club in Renton, says the bowing largely stems from customs of Shinto, an ancient religion indigenous to Japan. Shinto is based on custom, reverence for ancestral traditions, and living and acting according to the guidance of the gods.

Akiyama's mother, Mariko, a native of Japan, is Buddhist and doesn't want her children to be forced to practice Shinto rituals, Holm said.

He also said some Muslim and Christian students in his class have the skills and would like to compete in regional and national competitions but will not because it offends their beliefs.

"Bowing is a prayer act, and Muslims can only pray to Allah," Holm said. "It's just unfair."

*** END QUOTE ***

Judge Robert Lasnik should take a bow; last week, in a show of good sense, he ruled against Akiyama.

(Elizabeth Crowley helps compile Best of the Web Today. Thanks to Patricia Catto, Jim Baer, Terry Young, Zachary Emig, Shelley Taylor, Damian Bennett, C.E. Dobkin, Raghu Desikan, S.E. Brenner, Ron Stack, Paul Music, Lee Dodson, Bert Wolff, Michael Segal, Matthew Maguire, Jeff Tuccy, Paul Stoufflet, Linda Cooke, Jeff Maillian, Robert Butchko, Kevin Whited, Brian O'Donnell and Brian O'Rourke. If you have a tip, write us at  Review & Outlook  mailto:opinionjournal@wsj.com : Another Whitewater? Yippee!! (link requires registration)
- Robert Bartley  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=95001724 : Bush may usher in a new political era.
- Nancy deWolf Smith  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/nsmith/?id=95001722  visits Mullah Omar's house. (No, he isn't home.)
- James Taranto  http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/jtaranto/?id=95001721 : Our readers explain it all to Colin Powell.
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cc:
Subject: Sabotage Acts

Cuidado con los MACACOS !!!

Como andas che?  I will be going upto Houston in a couple of weeks for EOL
training. I hope to see you then.

Saludos

---------------------- Forwarded by Julian Poole/SA/Enron on 09/07/2000 06:03
PM ---------------------------

Julian Poole
09/08/2000 01:00 AM
Sent by: Julian Poole
To: Michael Guerriero/SA/Enron@Enron, Joe Kishkill/SA/Enron@Enron, Don
Black/SA/Enron@Enron, Remi Collonges/SA/Enron@Enron, Cecilia
Mercio/SA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Kabel/SA/Enron@Enron, Mario Aguilar
Benitez/SA/Enron@Enron, Bernardo Andrews/SA/Enron@Enron, John J
Shoobridge/SA/Enron@Enron, Jorge Lamoure/SA/Enron@Enron, Pablo
Acevedo/SA/Enron@Enron, Dan Feather/SA/Enron@Enron, Santiago
Porta/SA/Enron@Enron, Rodolfo Freyre/SA/Enron@Enron, Patrick
Hansen/SA/Enron@Enron, Leandro Colosqui/SA/Enron@Enron, Laura
Feldman/SA/Enron@Enron, Sarah Smith/Corp/Enron@Enron, Martha
Stevens/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott Mills/HOU/ECT@ECT, Andrea Calo/SA/Enron@Enron,
Carlos Bastos/SA/Enron@Enron, Guillermo Canovas/SA/Enron@Enron, Cristian
Folgar/SA/Enron@Enron, Fabian Valle/SA/Enron@Enron
cc:
Subject: Sabotage Acts

Argentine Power Market update:
A series of sabotage acts occurred last Tuesday, putting the whole Argentine
Electric System in danger of collapsing. The problems started at 8:30 PM when
one of the 500 kV lines from the Comahue region went down. Around 10:30 PM, 2
other lines went down as well, all in the Comahue-BsAs corridor. All 3
incidents were due to sabotage acts, in which the tensiles holding the high
tension towers were sawed.
In addition to the transmission lines sabotage, at 10:00 PM, one of the
Nuclear plants suffered technical problems and kicked out 640 MW.
This situation created a huge swing in the frequency of the system and an
overload of the 4th line from Comahue, which finally went out of service as
well at 1:30 am, and was out of service for 1 hour. This last event kicked
out the exports to Brazil which were at 1040 MW.

As a result of all the above power prices reached $170 per MWh during 11:00
PM.
Transmission lines are expected to be re-established by Saturday.

For who might be interested, below is a detailed document and map showing the
sequence of incidents and the damages caused (in Spanish).

Julian


This should be the last listing for this month unless something critical
comes up.

For the records with names changes only, I will update Global Counterparty
with the new names tomorrow (6/22/00) after 4 PM. I will also change the ERMS
SN at the same time.

If anyone has any issues with these updates, please contact me Friday
morning. Thanks!

Marilyn


-----Original Message-----
From: Bardal, Chelsea
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:54 PM
To: Love, Phillip M.
Subject: Forwards Detail1.xls


Attached please find an updated list of Mr. Horton's Direct Reports and
Assistants.  Please forward any changes to me via lotus notes.

Thank you,
Lisa


Please review.


Yes the guaranty does cover the ENA gas master.   Also, as you may know  this
gty terminates on 10/1/01.

Debra Perlingiere
Enron North America Corp.
Legal Department
1400 Smith Street, EB 3885
Houston, Texas 77002
dperlin@enron.com
Phone 713-853-7658
Fax  713-646-3490


I have some tickets available for the soccer game and fireworks, TONIGHT at 7:00 PM!  Please let me know if you are interested.

Mollie Gustafson
ext. 3817

<Embedded Microsoft Clip Gallery>


gdp-anr/ok...notice a trend here.
PL


Greg, attached is the calculation that we discussed earlier.  Hopefully this is helpful.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Freeland, Clint
Sent:	Wednesday, November  7, 2001 6:26 PM
To:	Brown, Bill W.
Subject:	RE: Debt/Cap ratio


Hi Gerald,
 where are we with regards to the TPA & Registration agreements?  we have a
demo scheduled for 11/14 and it would be nice to have those posted on the
website.

thanks,   mve

To: Michael Eiben/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Eric Gillaspie/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Web Site Format

Mike, I reviewed the pages to the site you provided.  My only comment right
now is that the correct name of the pipeline is "Houston Pipe Line Company".
Note the Pipe Line is two words.  Everything else looks fine.  We will be
getting back with you on the site access agreement.


Timeliners:

Revision to yesterday's e-mail - due date is end of July.  So proposals by
mid-June, first draft report by early/mid-July, discussion throughout.

Bob

> ----------
> From: 	Harshbarger, Robert
> Sent: 	Monday, May 21, 2001 5:16 PM
> To: 	Ellingson, Mons; Fotiou, Demetrios; Grow, Lisa; Holden-Baker, Susan;
> Smith, Chris; Tilghman, Carmine; Underwood, John; Williams, Bill
> Cc: 	'Hackney, Mark'
> Subject: 	A3A1 Ad Hoc Review Team
>
> Yes, that's right, you did raise your hand for this.
>
> We are to submit to ISAS any recommendation(s) by August ??, 2001 (what
> was the date, I didn't write it down).
>
> Is there benefit to have a face-to-face meeting?  Either way, we'll use
> e-mail for discussion and maybe a conference call or two.
>
> First assignment is to read:
> *	A3A1-Interim is what we are currently running with.
> *	A3A1-version3-draft2 goes before the NERC BOT June 10-11.
> *	A3A1-candr contains public comments and responses from NERC IS.
>
> <<File: a3a1-interim.doc>><<File: a3a1v3d2-0501.doc>><<File:
> a3a1candr.doc>>
> Questions to keep in mind:
> *	Are our current timelines as good as it gets?
> *	Do we want to adopt the Eastern Interconnection's timelines?
> *	What are the deficiencies of our timelines?
> *	Will these deficiencies be present under 1.7?
> *	Which timing requirements could be changed with an reasonable amount
> of effort (i.e., tariff items, AGC ramp times, A3A1, etc.)?
>
> Remember....
> <<File: trainedpros.wav>>
>
>  Bob Harshbarger
>  OASIS Trading Manager
>  Puget Sound Energy
>  (425) 882-4643 voice
>  (425) 882-4496 fax
>  (206) 405-5161 pager
>  (206) 604-3251 cell
>


Louise/John:

Attached are the specific numbers associated with the Central Region
Goals/Objectives for 2001.  If you have questions or require additional
clarification, please contact me at 312/541-1225.

Thanx,
Laura


If you don't have Powerpoint installed, go to
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx and download the
PowerPoint viewer.

Then you should be able to view the link at
http://my.servepics.com/pictures/attack.pps.

Again, if you are squeemish...don't bother looking at the slides.  It shows
people falling from the WTC.

-Ram.

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Here is the draft letter.
Thanks
Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hisert, George A.
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:18 AM
> To: Fergus, Gary S.; Wooster, Kelly
> Subject: Enron/California Electricity
>
> Gary and Kelly,
>
> Following up our conference call with Richard Sanders earlier today, I
> have drafted a formal written request to California Power Exchange
> Corporation ("Cal PX") requesting release of a portion of the outstanding
> letters of credit posted by Enron.  As you will note by the bracketed
> material in the letter, there are a number of points that need to be
> checked.  I am not sure that we at Brobeck currently have sufficient
> documentation to write the definitive letter.
>  <<391S@01!.DOC>>
> There is no magic to the language of the letter.  Ideally the language
> describing the reasons why we are requesting the release of collateral
> should parallel the relevant provisions of the relevant Participation
> Agreement(s) and the relevant Tariff(s).  The only provision dealing with
> release of collateral that I have found in the documents that I have is
> Section 3.3.5 in the Information Guide for the CTS Markets, and that
> Section applies only to cash collateral.
>
> I suspect that Cal PX already has standard form notices concerning the
> release or reduction of outstanding letters of credit.  However, if a form
> is required, I can provide one.
>
> Feel free to pass the drafts and this email on to the client if you feel
> that it is appropriate.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George A. Hisert
> Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
> Spear Street Tower, One Market
> San Francisco, CA 94105
> ghisert@brobeck.com
> phone 415-442-1746
> fax 415-979-2596
>

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call me if you have any questions  --kathy  x35904


Alan -

My read of the report is that the MSC wants a 2 year fixed price (established
by some administrative procedure that works off of the natural gas index) for
small commercial and residential retail customers and then they want to force
all suppliers (SCs) that participated in the Cal ISO market in 1999 to meet
this physical and financial obligation [isn't that a taking?].

They only want the fixed price for 2 years because they want to capture the
downside opportunity in later years (real generous).

It seems that the same result could be had if the UDCs contracted forward for
80% of their small commercial and residential with people like us (or DENA in
SDG&Es case).

I don't know if we need to respond directly.  We may want to understand what
type of obligation this would put on EPMI and EES (how many Mwh) for 2 years
and try and figure out what our mandatory sales price would be under their
model?

Give me a call.

Jim

	Alan Comnes@ECT
	12/04/2000 12:36 PM

		 To: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Tim
Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Mary Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 cc: Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT
		 Subject: New MSC Committee Report

All:

I just downloaded the attached from the ISO's website.  It is dated 12/1/00.

To boil it down, the MSC comes down against "soft" caps and recommends the
"get market-based rates in return for selling forward" proposal that the ISO
staff is pushing.  Forward contracts would need to at rates that
"approximate" competitive prices.  Based on my quick read that does not mean
market prices; it means somthing more akin to cost of service.  MSC also
wants there to be a penalty on generators for underscheduling.  They also
claim there proposal will not exacerbate reliability problems.

I would be interested in people's opinion if Enron should be responding to
this report.  Given the date of the report, I am not sure if/how the ISO
would file this at the FERC.

G. Alan Comnes (GAC)

Here's the list of recommendations from the report.

(1) The PX &must-buy8 requirement would become a &must-schedule8 requirement.
IOUs
would be required to schedule all forward energy through the PX, but would be
free to
purchase it from any source.
(2) California generators and entities that sell to any California purchaser
(not limited to the
PX and ISO) could continue to be eligible for market-based rates (and would
be free of
refund obligations) only if they offer a substantial portion of their sales
in the form of
two-year contracts at rates that approximate competitive prices. The details
of such a
proposal are outlined in this report. The volume offered by sellers, in the
aggregate,
would be sufficient to cover the all three IOUs, residential and small
commercial
customer load using an average load profile for weekdays and weekends for
each month.
(3) Any market participant that does not offer these two-year
market-power-mitigation
forward contracts would be subject to cost-of-service rates for all of their
sales of energy
and ancillary services into the California market for at least the two-year
market power
mitigation period.
(4) The CPUC would be encouraged to set a default rate for IOU residential
and small
commercial customers based on projected wholesale energy costs under the
2-year
contracts described above.
(5) The under-scheduling penalty should be even-handed. The MSC recommends a
real-time
trading charge that is applicable both to load and generation and, more
important, does
not distinguish between instructed and uninstructed deviations from schedule.


thanks
PL

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Hull, Bryan
Sent:	Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:56 AM
To:	Love, Phillip M.
Subject:	RE:

don't sweat it, we need the exercise

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Love, Phillip M.
Sent:	Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:55 AM
To:	Hull, Bryan
Subject:	RE:

you sure...I know I don't add much value, but I do not want to put stress on everyone else.
PL

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Hull, Bryan
Sent:	Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:46 AM
To:	Love, Phillip M.
Subject:

we can go with 6.  can you leave your jersey for tim to wear?


It's about time!  Congratulations on your promotion.

cj

	From:  Office of the Chairman                           01/12/2001 07:31 PM

Sent by: Office of the Chairman
To: All Enron Worldwide
cc:

Subject: Managing Director and Vice President Elections

The Managing Director PRC Committee met this week to elect individuals to
Managing Director and Vice President positions.  These employees are
recognized as outstanding contributors to the organization, whose individual
efforts have been instrumental in the continued success and growth of the
company.  We are pleased to announce the election of the following new
Managing Directors and Vice Presidents.  Please join us in congratulating
these individuals on their new appointments.

Managing Director ) Commercial

Phillip K. Allen, ENA (EWS) West Gas Trading - Houston
Franklin R. Bay, EBS Entertainment on Demand - Houston
Timothy N. Belden, ENA (EWS) ) West Power Trading - Portland
Michael R. Brown, EEL ) Executive - London
Christopher F. Calger, ENA (EWS) West Power Origination - Portland
Joseph M. Deffner, ENA (EWS) Treasury & Funding - Houston
Timothy J. Detmering, ENA (EWS) Corporate Development - Houston
William D. Duran, ENA (EWS) Generation Investments - Houston
Robert S. Gahn, EES Commodity Structuring - Houston
Kevin C. Garland, EBS Broadband Ventures - Houston
Ben F. Glisan, Jr., Corporate ) Global Equity Markets - Houston
Robert E. Hayes, ETS COMM Marketing - Houston
Phillip R. Milnthorp, ENA (EWS) Canada Origination & Trading - Calgary

Managing Director ) Commercial Support

Sally W. Beck, ENW (EWS) Energy Operations Management - Houston
Fernley Dyson, EEL Finance & Support Services - London

Vice President ) Commercial

Gregory Adams, EES MMC Management - Houston
Robert Bayley, EEL-UK Origination ) London
Jack D. Boatman, ETS Market Development ) Houston
Rhenn Cherry, EES Assets/Labor ) Houston
Niamh Clarke, EGM (EWS) Liquids Trading ) London
Peter Crilly, EEL-UK Origination ) London
Derek J. Davies, ENA (EWS) Canada Origination ) Calgary
Mark D. Davis, Jr., ENA (EWS) East Power Trading ) Houston
Charles Delacey, Corporate Finance ) Houston
Paul Devries, ENA (EWS) Canada Origination ) Toronto
Christopher H. Foster, ENA (EWS) West Power Trading ) Portland
Jeffrey F. Golden, EES Corporate Development ) Houston
Michael D. Grigsby, ENA West Gas Trading Group - Houston
Troy A. Henry, EES Bundled Sales-Heavy Industrial ) Houston
Rogers Herndon, ENA (EWS) East Power Trading ) Houston
James W. Lewis, EES Underwriting ) Houston
Christopher Mahoney, EGM (EWS) Liquids Trading ) London
Andrew Marsden, EBS Broadband Ventures ) London
John McClain, EBS Broadband Wholesale Origination ) Houston
Kevin J. McGowan, EGM (EWS) American Coal ) Houston
Albert E. McMichael, Jr., ENA (EWS) Gas Commodity Structuring ) Houston
Ermes I. Melinchon, Central America Origination ) Houston
Steven R. Meyers, EES Consumption ) Houston
Lloyd D. Miller, ENA (EWS) Portfolio Management ) Houston
Michael A. Miller, Wind Development / Execution-General Administration )
Houston
Marcello Romano, EBS EEL-Broadband Trading ) London
David A. Samuels, ENW (EWS) EnronOnline - Houston
Per A. Sekse, EGM (EWS) Global Risk Markets ) New York
Edward S. Smida, EBS Video on Demand ) Houston
Mark Tawney, EGM (EWS) Weather Trading ) Houston
Jon Thomsen, EBS Business Development ) Latin America/Canada ) Portland
Barry L. Tycholiz, ENA (EWS) West Gas Origination - Houston
Frank W. Vickers, ENA (EWS) East Gas Origination ) Houston
Amit Walia, Corporate, Corporate Development ) Houston
William White, EBS Global Bandwidth Risk Mgmt ) Houston
Jonathan Whitehead, EEL EA Trading ) Japan
Mark Whitt, ENA (EWS) West Gas Origination ) Denver
John A. Zufferli, ENA (EWS) Canada Power Trading - Calgary

Vice President ) Commercial Support

Beth Apollo, EEL Financial Operations Executive ) London
Marla Barnard, EBS Human Resources ) Houston
Karen L. Denne, Corporate, Public Relations ) Houston
Georganne M. Hodges, ENA (EWS) Trading, Origination & Power Plant Accounting
) Houston
Phillip Lord, EEL Transaction Support ) London
Peggy Mahoney, EES Marketing ) Communication ) Houston
Steven Montovano, Corporate, Government & Regulatory Affairs ) Dublin
Laura Scott, ENA (EWS) Canada Accounting ) Calgary
Richard C. Sherman, ENA (EWS) Transaction Support ) Houston
Gregory W. Stubblefield, EES Financial Planning & Reporting ) Houston
Dennis D. Vegas, CALME International Public Relations ) Houston

Vice President ) Specialized Technical

Sami Arap Sobrinho, ESA (EWS) Legal ) Houston
Merat Bagha, EBS Sales Engineering ) Houston
Justin Boyd, EEL Legal ) London
Mary Nell Browning, EBS Legal ) London
Jonathan Chapman, EEL Legal ) London
Robert D. Eickenroht, Corporate, Legal ) Houston
Mark Evans, EEL Legal ) London
David Forster, ENW (EWS) EnronOnline ) Houston
Janine Juggins, EEL Tax ) London
Peter C. Keohane, ENA (EWS) Canada Legal ) Calgary
Pinnamaneni V. Krishnarao, ENA (EWS) Research Group ) Houston
Travis C. McCullough, ENA (EWS) Finance Origination, Mergers/Acquisitions )
Houston
Michael Popkin, ESA (EWS) SA- Risk Management/Network Integration ) Houston
Elizabeth A. Sager, ENA (EWS) Physical Trading ) Houston
Richard B. Sanders, ENA (EWS) Litigation ) Houston
John W. Schwartzenburg, EECC Legal ) Houston
Michael D. Smith, EES Legal ) Houston
Marcus Vonbock Und Polach, EEL Legal ) London
Jay C. Webb, ENW (EWS) EnronOnline Systems ) Houston

Vice President ) Technical

Donald R. Hawkins, ETS Quality Management ) Houston
John R. Keller, ETS Engineering & Construction ) Houston


C'mon - I want a free lunch.  I could interduce you to a new place, real
close to work.

To: Chris Germany/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: Re: West Region Job Posting

No, 'cause you can't type!

Chris Germany@ECT
04/06/2000 01:51 PM
To: Marde L Driscoll/HOU/EES@EES
cc:
Subject: Re: West Region Job Posting

I think I might call.  Would you take me our for a free lunch?


Chaz and Steve,

Here's the latest, in a nutshell.  Basically, the testing is not fully
completed, even where we might have felt that it was close (because there is
also a financial component which needs to be exercised - the TCO part of the
purchase decision).  As you know, both Randy Matson and Bob McAuliffe are out
on vacation, so getting a decision from them is not likely before Christmas.
However, it looks like there has been enough feedback to/through them to
surmise that BMC is not in the driver's seat in either situation.

In a meeting today, it became apparent that BMC's revenue opportunity with
the Net Works organization is much lower than BMC has projected to you at
EBS.  The primary opportunity for BMC in Net Works is for their Schema
Manager tool, and the rest of the opportunities look increasingly dim,
especially given the time constraints imposed in your situation.

Still, the Net Works team has not completely ruled BMC out as a potential
vendor; but neither is there a commitment (written OR verbal) to make a BMC
purchase at this point.  I will be on vacation next week, but will be
checking in on Monday the 18th and Tuesday the 19th.  Jennifer or I will keep
you posted if we are able to report opportunity changes in your favor.

I have sent you a paraphrased version of Doug's most recent communication to
me.  The overall message would apply fairly universally to the other Net
Works teams in question:  more testing, but looks like BMC's total sales
opportunity to Enron is not going to get to the amount necessary to get your
deal done.  The issues mentioned in the other summary update note from
yesterday still apply.

Thank you,

Jeff

----- Forwarded by Jeff Youngflesh/NA/Enron on 12/15/2000 05:15 PM -----

	Douglas Cummins@ECT
	12/15/2000 04:14 PM

		 To: Jeff Youngflesh/NA/Enron@ENRON
		 cc:
		 Subject: Re: BMC Summary to-date

Jeff,

We backed away from Patrol for monitoring - we feel that a competitor's
solution is a better one for us.

My group still considers BMC's Schema Manager tool to be an excellent
product, and would consider it to be a viable option for purchase.  I believe
Net Works will still evaluate more similar tools, and related design tools,
before making a decision.

Regards,
Douglas


PG&E Gas Transmission-Northwest will be performing unscheduled maintenance
at Station 14 on Friday, May 11, to replace a dry seal on the Station 14
A-unit.  The maintenance will reduce the capacity through the compressor
station to 1750 MMcf/d for Gas Day Friday, May 11, 2001.

If you have any questions, please call our transportation coordinators at
(503) 833-4300.

PG&E National Energy Group and any other
company referenced herein that uses the PG&E name or
logo are not the same company as Pacific Gas and
Electric Company, the regulated California utility.  Neither
PG&E National Energy Group nor these other
referenced companies are regulated by the California Public
Utilities Commission.  Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Company
do not have to buy products from these companies in order
to continue to receive quality regulated services from the utility.


This was an article from the San Diego Tribune 8/29.


I see that it is a 4, so that will be no problem.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Fischer, Mary
Sent:	Monday, October 29, 2001 9:09 AM
To:	Richards, Todd
Subject:	FW: Entity Changes - Co. 1691

How do you feel about taking on another company?

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Trujillo, Vicsandra
Sent:	Saturday, October 27, 2001 12:06 PM
To:	Swafford, John; Ng, Mark; Fischer, Mary
Subject:	FW: Entity Changes - Co. 1691

Essie and Leon have proposed xferring Co. 1691 to your world (see below).  Do you concur?  Please let me know Monday morning.

Regards,
Vicsandra

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Lee, Patricia A.
Sent:	Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:03 AM
To:	Trujillo, Vicsandra
Subject:	FW: Entity Changes

If you have not already made these decisions, Essie's guidance should be helpful.

Patty Lee
Corporate Tax
x35172
EB1774

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Essie Locklear
Sent:	Monday, September 17, 2001 10:16 PM
To:	Patricia A Lee
Subject:	RE: Entity Changes

Please see my comments in red below.

Essie

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Lee, Patricia
Sent:	Monday, September 17, 2001 3:43 PM
To:	Locklear, Essie
Subject:	Entity Changes

Essie,

Can you recommend where these companies each fit within the new organization?  If possible, can you also give an indication of the rank - 1 through 5?

Thanks,

Patty

---------------------- Forwarded by Patricia A Lee/HOU/EES on 09/17/2001 03:42 PM ---------------------------
From:	Leon Branom/ENRON@enronXgate on 09/17/2001 02:56 PM
To:	Vicsandra Trujillo/ENRON@enronXgate
cc:	Richard Laird/HOU/EES@EES, Patricia A Lee/HOU/EES@EES
Subject:	Entity Changes

I have a few entities that may need to change groups or be assigned to a group.

18T - EI Indonesia Operations LLC
	This entity is not in TIS, SAP, nor Hyperion.  The 2000 tax return has no income, assets, or liabilities.  There is a corporate data sheet for this company, but this entity seems to have been inactive since it's creation.

86M - Enron Net Works LLC
	Despite the name, this entity appears to be a MTM company.  Per September financials, this company has about $3M of MTM and about $8K of expenses, nothing else.

The next 5 companies were my responsibility while in EBS, and did not get assigned during the reorg.

80Y - Enron Broadband Acquisition, Inc.
	This entity was created in 2000 for the acquistion of WarpSpeed Communications (now Enron WarpSpeed Services, Inc. 83N), and then dissolved upon completion of merger.  Company is around with a small amount of assets and liabilities, but no I/S items.  83N is my responsibility.
	I think this entity should stay with 83N.  So I suggest it be assigned to Leon.  It should be 4 - easy.

1579 - EBS Network Co.
	Division of 17H.  This one should possibly be assigned to Networks & Services group.  Not currently on our list of companies.
	I think this could go to either Holding/Administrative Companies (Same as 17H) or Network & Services (Leon).  4 - easy.

1691 - EPI-EBS Europe
	Set up last month to centralize merchant asset activities.  Broke out the activities of 1179.
	A similar entity (1179) was assigned to Commodity and Trade (Todd Richards and Mary Fischer) so this one should be assigned to them as well.  4 - easy.

1307 - EBIC-Apache, LLC
	Rolls up to Cherokee Finance VOF, a CFC.
	Cherokee Finance VOF is assigned to North America (Glen Walloch and Kevin Walker).  Maybe this one should also go to them as the only tax which may have to be provided would be foreign tax.  4 - easy.

1689 - EPI-EBS Ventures, LLC
	Set up last month to centralize merchant asset activities.  Broke out the activities of 1307.
	Same as 1307.  It should be assigned to North America (Glen Walloch and Kevin Walker).  4 - easy.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Leon Branom
Senior Tax Analyst
Networks and Services
(713) 345-8702  office
leon.branom@enron.com


I am now out of the office until Monday 29th October. I can be contacted through my assistant, Tracy Foy on + 44 207 783 7374. Senior lawyers covering during my absence are Justin Boyd, Marcus Von Bock, and Paul Simons. Thank you.


When: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:30 AM-11:30 AM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada).
Where: TBD

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Fundamental's Meeting

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2. 2002 Power Forecast - Gus Giron

3. Transmission
	Steven Benchluch
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     New Money:
o Launch, $3 Million Seed Funding for Semiconductor Firm Quake
o Mobile Device Software Firm Mobli Has $2 Million First Round
o Online Bond Marketplace eBond Raises $1 Million Seed Round
o SIP Software Firm Indigo Software Gets $4 Million Round One
o Software Developer For Internet Protocol Raises $1.5 Million
o Swedish Arm of eWork Exchange Gets First Round Funding
o Waveguide Developer Teem Photonics Gets $31 Million
o Cogency Semiconductor Takes $20 Million in Round Two
o Content Site InvestorForce.com Raises $52 Million Series D
o Strategic Management Group Raises $50 Million Second Round
o $9.6 Million Round Two for Disk Storage Firm NanoMagnetics
o Cube8.com To Invest Up To $7 Million in Telecom Firm Corex
o IT Training Firm IQdestination Raises $7 Million Series B
o Net Forms Developer Cardiff Raises $10 Million
o Nutripeak.com Gets $5 Million Series B, Acquires eNutrition
o Orsus Solutions Raises $20 Million in Strategic Third Round
o Partner Manager Allegis Gets $26 Million in Mezzanine Funds
o TelePacific Communications Adds $19 Million To Third Round
o Web Enabler ChinaCast Technology Gains $28.6 Million
o E-Business Resource India.com Raises $11 Million Round
o Security Provider Amsec Raises $3 Million in Series C
o Wireless Entertainment Firm Digital Bridges Gets $14 Million
o Education E-Transaction Firm KawamaCommerce Gets Funds
o VentureWorx Takes 3% Stake in Management Firm Vertical Think

     New Products:
o Digital Delivery Provider Etems Networks Launches
o ASP Provider OnShare Launches File Sharing Service
o Direct Marketing Management Firm Screen4me Announces Launch
o Steel Industry Trading Platform FerrousExchange Launches

     M&A:
o SOC Producer Cygnal Acquires IP Core Provider SiLogiX
o Chinese Internet Portal Sohu.com to Acquire ChinaRen.com
o Elderly Care Manager CareGuide Buys Senior Care Review

     New Directors:
o Redback Vice Chairman Named Chairman of Telenisus
o Education Service Provider LearnSomething Adds Two to Board
o Two Board Members Join Directory Assistance Firm, infoUSA
o Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Fan Site Fandom Elects Board Member

     New People:
o Wireless Multimedia Firm ShareWave Names CEO and President
o E-Commerce Company MarketMile Hires New President and CEO
o Former CFO of Buystream Joins Linux IT Firm Nitrosoft as CEO

     VC Fund News:
o Consultant Summa Technologies Forms Summa VentureWorks
o Lattitude Partners Closes $60 Million Technology Fund

     VC Personnel:
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======= Top Stories =======

o Baltimore Acquires Content Technologies For $992 Million

LONDON -- Baltimore Technologies, a publicly traded
online security company, said it acquired Content
Technologies Holdings, developer of MIMEsweeper
network security products. Baltimore is offering
91 million of its shares in the all-stock transaction.
The acquisition is valued at $992 million. Content
Technologies products enable organizations to implement
policies protecting them against confidentiality
breaches, exposure to e-mail legal liability, junk
e-mail, e-mail borne viruses, and misuse of e-mail.
Profitable since its inception, Content Technologies
raised a single $13 million round of funding from
private investors for expanded sales and marketing.
Investors in the round included Chase H&Q, Goldman
Sachs, a New York Teacher's Fund, PSINet, Advent
Venture Partners, and Rana.
http://www.baltimore.com/
http://www.contenttechnologies.com/
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o Pseudo Programs in Search of Funding or a Buyer

NEW YORK -- Struggling Internet television network
Pseudo Programs is in need of cash and has been
seeking a buyer. David Bohrman, who joined the company
as chief executive officer early this year, said
Pseudo has spent the last month and a half trying
to raise funding and has been exploring the possibility
of being acquired. In June, Pseudo eliminated 16%
of its workforce, about 58 jobs, and reassigned
30 others to new production positions in a bid to
create a continuous live broadcast network. In May,
the company raised a $14 million round of funding
led by Defosses International, a media unit backed
by LVMH Luis Vuitton Moet Hennesy. Intel Capital
participated along with FD5 S.A., Prospect Street
Ventures, and Tribune Ventures. Pseudo has received
additional backing from investors including Sycamore
Ventures, Big Wave Ventures, and Winfield Capital.
http://www.pseudo.com/
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o Birchmere Closes $75 Million IT Fund with $50 Million

PITTSBURGH -- Birchmere Ventures II, a venture capital
fund focused on companies based in western Pennsylvania
and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic region, said it
closed on $50 million to complete its $75 million
fundraising. The fund will be used for investment
in seed and early-stage information technology companies.
Birchmere Ventures II has invested in Internet business
software infrastructure firm Cerelbellum Software;
Lightningcast, a streaming media market firm; and
ServiceWare Technologies, a provider of an Internet-based
service platform that went public in August. The
fund is managed by Sean D.S. Sebastian, Gary G.
Glausser, and Ned Renzi.
http://www.birchmerevc.com/
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o eStyle Bucks Anti E-tailer Trend with $25 Million Financing

LOS ANGELES -- eStyle, an online retailer of maternity
clothing, nursery furnishings, baby gear, and other
gifts and products related to maternity and childraising,
said it raised $25 million in fourth-round funding.
The funding comes at a time when many private equity
investors have shied away from online retail businesses
because of questions concerning their business models.
The round was led by Primedia, with participation
from eStyles prior investors, which include Zone
Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, Vulcan Ventures,
and Goldman Sachs. The company has raised approximately
$85 million to date and may raise additional funds
from a yet-to-be-named strategic partner in the
months ahead.
http://www.estyle.com/
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o Convergent Investors Closes $64 Million High-Tech Fund

AUSTIN, Texas -- Convergent Investors, a Texas-based
venture capital investment group, said it has closed
a $64 million fund, Convergent Investors VI. The
company said it will invest in early stage high-tech,
telecommunications, e-commerce, and transaction
oriented businesses. Typical investment size will
be between $1 million and $5 million. The managing
partners are: Jimmy Mansour, Brian Smith, Willard
Hanzlik, John Chaney, Robert Gauntt, Steve Shaper
and Henry James. Convergent participated in Isochron
Data's $12 million first round in August.
http://www.convergentinvestors.com/
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o Former 49er Footballer Jones Joins ASP WebAgencies' Board

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- WebAgencies.com, an application
service provider serving the insurance agent community,
said Brent Jones, a former member of the San Francisco
49ers football team, has joined its board of directors.
Mr. Jones is an investor in the company. Since retiring
from professional sports, Mr. Jones has founded
University Technology Ventures, a venture capital
firm that works with venture capital firms and universities.
WebAgencies is backed by individual investors.
http://www.webagencies.com/

======= New Money =======

o Launch, $3 Million Seed Funding for Semiconductor Firm Quake

OTTAWA, Canada -- Quake Technologies, a semiconductor
start-up, said it launched with $3 million in seed
round funding from Brian Protiva, chief executive
officer of ADVA Optical, JDS Uniphase and other
undisclosed individual investors. The company said
it will use the funds to expand its engineering
team and for overall expansion.
http://www.quaketech.com/
_____________________________________________

o Mobile Device Software Firm Mobli Has $2 Million First Round

COPENHAGEN -- Mobli, a Los Angeles-based publisher
of software for mobile devices, said it raised approximately
$2 million in its first round of funding. BHS Holding
and the Kampsax group of companies funded the round
along with individual investors including Heather
Hazard, a business professor at the Copenhagen School
of Management; Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and CEO
of Rakuten; and Oliwer Samwer, co-founder of of
Alando. The company plans to expand its operations
into Germany and Japan.
http://www.mobli.com/
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o Online Bond Marketplace eBond Raises $1 Million Seed Round

NEW YORK -- eBond Securities, which provides individual
and small institutional investors with proprietary
methods to trade fixed income securities online,
said it has secured $1 million in funding from individual
investors. The company said proceeds of the round
will be used for the launch of additional products.
http://www.ebond.com/
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o SIP Software Firm Indigo Software Gets $4 Million Round One

ATLANTA -- Indigo Software, which develops software
based on session initiation protocol (SIP), said
it raised $4 million in its first round of funding.
The round was led by Sofinnova Ventures and included
an investment from Belgian investor GIMV. The company
intends the resulting alliance to reinforce its
position on both sides of the Atlantic. The company
said the funding will be used for continued product
development. Sofinnova said the funding is its first
investment in a company focused on session initiation
protocols.
http://www.indigosw.com/
http://www.sofinnova.com/
http://www.gimv.com/
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o Software Developer For Internet Protocol Raises $1.5 Million

COIMBATORE, India -- Amoeba Telecom, a telecommunications
software company developing management solutions
for data, voice, and video protocols, said it raised
$1.5 million in its first round of funding. Investors
in the round included GE Equity and Intel Capital.
The company said it will use the funding for product
development, global marketing, and office expansion.
As a result of the investment, Punit Bhatia, head
of GE Capital India, will take a seat on the board
of directors for Amoeba Capital.
http://www.amoebatel.com/
_____________________________________________

o Swedish Arm of eWork Exchange Gets First Round Funding

SAN FRANCISCO -- eWork Exchange said its Swedish
operation, also called eWork Exchange, received
an undisclosed amount of funding from new investor
Telia Business Innovation, a venture capital firm
in the Swedish telecommunications group Telia. Telia
Business Innovation now holds a 20% stake in the
company, which operates an online service that pairs
companies and high-level project workers. The U.S.-based
eWork Exchange is backed by eCompanies Venture Group,
ETF Group, Storie Partners, and funds associated
with DeutscheBanc Alex. Brown. In November, the
company plans to open a U.K. branch.
http://www.ework.se/
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o Waveguide Developer Teem Photonics Gets $31 Million

GRENOBLE, France -- Teem Photonics, a developer
and manufacturer of active and passive optical waveguide
components, said it received $31 million in funding
from Baker Capital and Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture
Partners. The company plans to use the funds for
product development and to open a U.S. subsidiary
by the end of the year. Previous investors are Banexi,
Innovacom, Sudinnova, Schneider Electric, Radiall,
and National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.
http://www.teemphotonics.com/
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o Cogency Semiconductor Takes $20 Million in Round Two

OTTAWA -- Cogency Semiconductor, a provider of semiconductors
for the home networking market, said it raised $20
million in its second round of funding. Celtic House
International, VenGrowth, and Working Ventures Canadian
Fund invested in the round. The company will use
the funding for research and development, recruiting
additional staff, and for sales and marketing. Cogency's
products enable high-speed digital data transmission.
http://www.cogency.com/
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o Content Site InvestorForce.com Raises $52 Million Series D

WAYNE, Pa. -- InvestorForce.com, which provides
content to the institutional investment industry,
said it secured $52 million in a Series D funding
co-led by new investors California Public Employees'
Retirement System (CalPERS) and Thomas Weisel Capital
Partners. Previous investors Internet Capital Group,
Mellon Ventures, and Merrill Lynch also contributed
to the round. Derek Lemke, a partner at Thomas Weisel
Capital Partners, was added to the company's board
of directors, which now stands at 15. The funds
will be used for product development.
http://www.investorforce.com/
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o Strategic Management Group Raises $50 Million Second Round

PHILADELPHIA -- Strategic Management Group (SMG)
and its online division, SMGnet,  a provider of
consulting, instructional design, business simulations,
and content services for technology-based companies,
said it raised $50 million in its second round of
funding from previous investor Behrman Capital.
SMG was founded in 1981. The company said the funds
will be used for product development and for expanding
its sales force.
http://www.smginc.com/
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o $9.6 Million Round Two for Disk Storage Firm NanoMagnetics

BATH, England -- NanoMagnetics, which develops storage
capacity technologies for disks using protein coating
for magnetic nanoparticles, said it raised GBP 6.7
million ($9.6 million) in its second round of funding.
The round was co-led by new investors UBS Capital,
Formula Ventures, and BankAtlantic Financial Ventures.
Interregnum, another new investor, joined previous
investors Prelude Trust, Amadeus Capital, and Cambridge
Research and Innovation in completing the funding.
The company said it will use the funding for the
development of a new research and development facility
and to bring the company's technology to market.
Greg Lockwood of UBS Capital, and John Abob of BankAtlantic
Financial Ventures will take seats on the NanoMagnetics
board of directors.
http://www.nanomagnetics.com/
_____________________________________________

o Cube8.com To Invest Up To $7 Million in Telecom Firm Corex

LONDON -- Cube8.com, a technology, media, and telecommunications
incubator, said it will invest up to GBP 4.9 million
($7 million) in Corex Networks, a provider of Internet
protocol technology aimed at reducing cost and enhancing
functionality for call centers. The company is currently
negotiating an agreement with British Telecom. Cube8.com
will make an initial investment of $700,000 for
a 14% equity stake in the company. Cube8.com has
the option to increase its holdings to 20% over
a two year period with a mixture of cash and stock.
The company said it will use the funding to develop
the product for a commercial launch. John Winfield,
finance director of Cube8, will take a seat on the
Corex Networks board of directors as a result of
the investment.
http://www.corexnetworks.com/
http://www.cube8.com/
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o IT Training Firm IQdestination Raises $7 Million Series B

DENVER -- IQdestination.com, which offers both online
and classroom-based information technology training,
said it closed a $7 million Series B round of funding.
The round was led by Access Partners and included
additional investments from meVC Draper Fisher Advisors,
Quest Capital Partnership, SV Equity Growth Fund,
and Raeder Venture Fund. The company said it will
use the funding to increase its sales force, continue
to develop its product, and to expand the company's
technology infrastructure. Frank Mendicino of Access
Partners, and David Link of Quest Capital Partnership,
will both take seats on the IQdestination.com board
of directors.
http://www.iqdestination.com/
_____________________________________________

o Net Forms Developer Cardiff Raises $10 Million

SAN DIEGO -- Cardiff Software, a creator of online
electronic forms and personalized interaction products,
said it has raised $10 million in an investment
round led by Dicom Group, a supplier of software
and consulting services. Joining Dicom were Adobe
Ventures and HarbourVest Partners, a private investment
organization that has previously invested in Cardiff.
The company said it would use the funds for late
stage development and to grow sales of its new online
products.
http://www.cardiff.com/
_____________________________________________

o Nutripeak.com Gets $5 Million Series B, Acquires eNutrition

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Nutripeak.com, a storefront
and Internet retailer of branded nutritional supplement
products based in Culver City, Calif., said it raised
$5 million in its Series B round of financing. Lead
investors in the financing include Brentwood Associates
IX LP, idealab! Capital Partners II-B and Entertainment
Media Ventures, LLC. The company said the funds
will be used to accelerate the roll-out of additional
retail stores. Along with the funding announcement,
Nutripeak.com said it has acquired Woodland Hills,
Calif.-based eNutrition, an online retailer of nutritional
supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs, sports nutrients,
and a variety of natural body care products, in
a stock-for-stock transaction. Financial terms of
the agreement were not disclosed. As a result of
the acquisition, Barry D. Blake, chairman and CEO
of Nutripeak, will be chairman and CEO of the combined
company, Nutripeak. Alex Lasbroas, president of
Nutripeak, will be president of the combined company.
Three eNutrition directors - Brian Atwood of Brentwood
Associates; Randolph Gale, former chairman and CEO
of eNutrition; and Eric Weider, president of Weider
Health and Fitness - will join Nutripeak's seven-member
board of directors.
http://www.nutripeak.com/
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o Orsus Solutions Raises $20 Million in Strategic Third Round

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Orsus Solutions, which develops
and markets integration software and services for
electronic and mobile business, said it raised $20
million in a third round of strategic funding. The
round came from corporate investors including SingTel,
which provided $3 million for the round. The company
said it will use the funding for increased marketing
and the development of new products through expanded
research and development. Its first $8 million round
of investment was completed in 1999, followed by
a $40 million private placement in April 2000. The
company is based in Sunnyvale, Ca. with a research
and development center in Israel and an office in
London. Previous investors in the company include
Mogdal Technologies, Cedar Fund, Clal Industries,
and Koor Industries, along with individual investors
and other corporate entities.
http://www.orsus.com/
_____________________________________________

o Partner Manager Allegis Gets $26 Million in Mezzanine Funds

SAN FRANCISCO -- Allegis, a partner relationship
management company that enables firms to integrate
indirect sales and distribution channels, said it
raised $26 million in its mezzanine round of funding.
New investor J & W Seligman led the round, which
included new investor Amerindo Investment Advisors
and previous investors Benchmark Capital, Brinson
Partners, Charter Growth Capital, Chase Capital,
Credit Suisse First Boston, Integral Capital, Intel
64 Fund, and Pivotal Asset Management. The company
will use the funding to further develop its services.
Allegis also has backing from Chase Hambrecht &
Quist, Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, MSD Capital, Plantir
Capital, and Staenberg Ventures.
http://www.allegis.com/
_____________________________________________

o TelePacific Communications Adds $19 Million To Third Round

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- TelePacific Communications,
a broadband telecommunications provider, said it
has raised an additional $19 million in its third
round, bringing total funding for the round to $144
million. The earlier portion of the round was raised
in April, with Investcorp as the sole investor.
New investors Hillman Co., which provided $10 million,
and Arena Capital Partners, which contributed $4
million, provided add-on funds, as did previous
investor GE Capital, which contributed $5 million
to this round. GE Capital had provided TelePacific
with a $50 million credit facility and a $10 million
equity investment in September of last year. To
date, TelePacific has raised more than $225 million.
The new investment will support expansion of the
company's network infrastructure and service areas
to several additional major U.S. metropolitan markets
through 2001. The investment will also fund expansion
of TelePacific's customer-support organization,
development and implementation of back-office systems,
and product development. The company also received
a $15 million investment in April of 1999 from Rader
Reinfrank & Co.
http://www.telepacific.com/
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o Web Enabler ChinaCast Technology Gains $28.6 Million

HONG KONG -- ChinaCast Technology, an Internet infrastructure
enabler, said it raised $28.6 million from investors
Hughes Network Systems, Intel Capital and SUNeVision.
The company said it will use the funds to develop
and deploy its services. SUNeVision partner Daniel
Tseung has been appointed to the board of directors.
http://www.chinacast.com.hk/
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o E-Business Resource India.com Raises $11 Million Round

NEW YORK -- India.com, which supplies Internet and
business-to-business information and services for
Indians in India and abroad, completed an $11 million
round of funding. Sycamore Ventures' AsiaStar IT
Fund led the round, along with the Kaufmann Fund
and funds affiliated with Primus Venture Partners.
The company said the financing will be used for
growth in its marketing and sales initiatives. India.com
is a subsidiary of World.com, an incubator that
is itself a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly
traded messaging provider Mail.com.
http://www.mail.com/
_____________________________________________

o Security Provider Amsec Raises $3 Million in Series C

MCLEAN, Va. -- Winston Partners, a private investment
firm, announced that Amsec International, which
provides security services to Fortune 1000 companies,
has closed a $3 million Series C funding round.
Winston said it joined with Arthur J. Gallagher,
an insurance brokerage firm, to lead the round of
funding as Amsec's primary institutional equity
investors. Amsec will use the proceeds to purchase
Validata, a pre-employment screening services firm,
and for working capital. Stephen Frey, a principal
at Winston, will join Scott Andrews, Winston's managing
director, on Amsec's board of directors.
http://www.amsecsolutions.com/
_____________________________________________

o Wireless Entertainment Firm Digital Bridges Gets $14 Million

FIFE, Scotland -- Digital Bridges, which develops
multimedia entertainment for wireless devices, said
it raised GBP 10 million ($14 million) in its most
recent round of funding. Apax Partners Funds and
Argo Global Capital financed the round. The company
said it will use the funds for its planned global
expansion. Digital Bridges has existing partnerships
with One2One and Vodafone in the U.K., France Telecom
Mobile, Omnitel in Italy, Telfort in the Netherlands,
Orange Switzerland, and others. As a result of the
investment, Stephen Grabiner of Apax Partners, and
Alan MacIntosh of Argo Capital have joined the company's
board of directors.
http://www.digitalbridges.com/
_____________________________________________

o Education E-Transaction Firm KawamaCommerce Gets Funds

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- KawamaCommerce, which provides
online business transaction services for school
districts, service agencies, and purchasing cooperatives,
said it has secured an undisclosed amount of funding
from Sylvan Ventures. The Sylvan investment follows
the company's $6 million Series A round of funding.
The company said it will use the funds for working
capital and growth. KawamaCorporation is also backed
by Ridgewood Capital and Ebyz.
http://www.kawamacommerce.com/
_____________________________________________

o VentureWorx Takes 3% Stake in Management Firm Vertical Think

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- VentureWorx, an incubator company,
said it acquired a 3% equity stake in Vertical Think,
a consultation firm that helps businesses design
and launch Web sites, through the purchase of 25
million shares of common stock for an undisclosed
amount. VentureWorx said it will assist the company
with expansion, recruiting advisory and management
personnel, and marketing.
http://www.verticalthink.com/
http://www.ventureworx.com/

======= New Products =======

o Digital Delivery Provider Etems Networks Launches

BOSTON -- Etems Networks, a global networking infrastructure
provider, said it has launched. The firm will provide
a service in which content can be delivered universally
in electronic/digital form, with instant digital
delivery, installation, storage, and retrieval.
The firm is currently seeking a $70 million dollar
round of funding. The company is backed by individual
investors.
http://www.etems.com/
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o ASP Provider OnShare Launches File Sharing Service

ITHACA, N.Y. -- OnShare, an application services
and technology provider of business-to-business
file sharing services, said its OnShare File Management
service application has launched. Onshare has developed
a technology that enables users to share files on
their hard drives with other users whom they specify
in an organized and secure way. OnShare said it
modeled the technology after file swapping applications
such as Napster. OnShare is backed by individual
investors and is currently raising its first round
of funding.
http://www.onsharenetworks.com/
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o Direct Marketing Management Firm Screen4me Announces Launch

ATLANTA -- Screen4me, the creator of permission
marketing and privacy tools that aim to help consumers
control the direct marketing they receive, said
it launched. The company said its first product
guards users from unsolicited telemarketing, direct
mail, and spam e-mail. The company also announced
its board, which consists of Jim Hansberger, Sr.,
the founder of Hansberger Group; Eric Hartz, president
of ZapMedia; J. Walker Smith, president of Yankelovich
Partners; and Peter Trost, the CEO and president
of Holland & Knight. Screen4me is backed by Robinson-Humphrey
Co., and Intelligent Systems, as well as individual
investors from Bran RMG, Yankelovich Partners, Siebel
Systems, Boston Consulting Group, and Holland &
Knight. The company said it is raising its first
round of funding.
http://www.screen4me.com/
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o Steel Industry Trading Platform FerrousExchange Launches

NEW YORK -- FerrousExchange, an online trading platform
for the steel industry, announced its launch. The
exchange allows buyers and sellers to make real-time
bids for products and offers auctions and request
for quotation platforms for steel products outside
of the commercial grades offered on the exchange.
FerrousExchange's investors include Ispat and Gilbraltar.
http://www.ferrousexchange.com/

======= M&A =======

o SOC Producer Cygnal Acquires IP Core Provider SiLogiX

AUSTIN, Texas -- Cygnal Integrated Products, which
designs, manufactures, and markets field-programmable
mixed signal system-on-chip (SOC) products, said
it acquired SiLogiX, a developer of silicon intellectual
property (IP) cores for the semiconductor and electronics
markets, for an undisclosed amount. Cygnal is backed
with over $15 million from Austin Ventures, JatoTech
Ventures, Cirrus Logic, Sanyo Semiconductor, and
several individual investors.
http://www.silogix.com/
http://www.cygnal.com/
_____________________________________________

o Chinese Internet Portal Sohu.com to Acquire ChinaRen.com

BEIJING -- SOHU.com, a Chinese Internet portal providing
e-mail, home pages, chat rooms, messaging, news,
search, browsing, and shopping services, said it
signed a definitive agreement to acquire ChinaRen.com,
a Chinese community Web site, for an undisclosed
amount. The companies said they expected to close
the deal in the fourth quarter. SOHU.com said the
deal will extend its reach as a pure Internet brand
aimed exclusively at the Chinese market. The three
founders of ChinaRen.com will join SOHU.com's management
team, while the workforce of the two companies will
be combined. Goldman Sachs is the lead institutional
investor in ChinaRen.com. Other backers include
KKR and Joho Capital.
http://www.chinaren.com/
http://www.sohu.com/
_____________________________________________

o Elderly Care Manager CareGuide Buys Senior Care Review

SAN FRANCISCO -- CareGuide, a provider of elderly
care management services through an integrated Internet,
telephony, and wireless communications platform,
said it has acquired Senior Care Review, another
care management company which provides assessments
and quality monitoring of facilities that care for
the elderly, for an undisclosed amount. The combined
company will deliver services to assist family members
in planing, evaluating, and selecting home care
or a care facility. CareGuide recently secured $10.6
million in its third round of funding led by Pequot
Capital Management and Nob Hill Capital Management.
CareGuide has raised $15 million to date.
http://www.careguide.com/

======= New Directors =======

o Redback Vice Chairman Named Chairman of Telenisus

CHICAGO -- Telenisus, which provides businesses
with managed Internet Infrastructure services such
as security, virtual private networks, and Web hosting,
said it has appointed Dennis Barsema as chairman
of its board of directors. Mr. Barsema was chief
executive officer of Redback Networks and is presently
the vice-chairman of Redback. Before joining Redback,
Mr. Barsema was vice senior vice president and general
manager of Centigram, a telecommunications company.
Telenisus is backed by Alta Communications, Bay
Partners, ABN AMRO Private Equity, BancBoston Ventures,
Metropolis Venture Partners, and Maroon Bells Capital
Partners.
http://www.telenisus.com/
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o Education Service Provider LearnSomething Adds Two to Board

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- LearnSomething.com, an online
educational services provider, said Paul D. Eurek,
former founder and CEO/President of Compris Technologies,
and Anne-Lee Verville, author of "What Business
Wants from Higher Education" and former general
manager of IBM's Global Education Industry, have
joined its board. This brings the total number of
directors to eight. Investors in LearnSomething.com
include individual investors and Noro-Moseley Partners
of Atlanta.
http://www.learnsomething.com/
_____________________________________________

o Two Board Members Join Directory Assistance Firm, infoUSA

FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- infoUSA.com, online provider
of white and yellow page directory assistance services,
said it named Robert J. Korzeniewski, chief financial
officer of Network Solutions, and Larry Kramer,
founder, chairman and CEO of MarketWatch.com, to
its board of directors. infoUSA.com is majority
owned by publicly traded  infoUSA and has received
backing from meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I,
GM Capital Investment Management, Trident Capital,
and Yahoo.
http://www.infousa.com/
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o Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Fan Site Fandom Elects Board Member

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Fandom, an online site providing
science fiction, fantasy, and horror entertainment
content, said that Sam Fernandez, the senior vice
president and general counsel for the Los Angeles
Dodgers, has joined its board of directors. Mr.
Fernandez also has been on the board of directors
of Major League Baseball properties and Major League
Baseball Enterprises. Mr. Fernandez joins current
Fandom board members Jeff Sagansky of PAX TV, Brad
Jones of Redpoint Ventures, James D. Robinson IV
of RRE Ventures, Gary Adelson of East/West Ventures,
and Fandom CEO Mark Young.
http://www.fandom.com/

======= New People =======

o Wireless Multimedia Firm ShareWave Names CEO and President

EL DORADO, Calif. -- ShareWave, which provides technology
for wireless multimedia home networking, said it
has appointed E. Jock Ochiltree as its president
and CEO. ShareWave's acting president and CEO, Bob
Bennet, a co-founder of the company, will now serve
as vice president of corporate marketing and business
development. Before joining ShareWave Mr. Ochiltree
was president and COO of Information Storage Devices
(ISD), a global supplier of integrated circuits
for communications and consumer applications. ShareWave
is privately-held and backed by a number of investors
including APV Technology Partners, Cisco Systems,
Draper Richards, Intel Corporation, Kyushu Matsushita
Electric, Microsoft, Philips Electronics, SBC Communications,
Softbank Technology Ventures, Vulcan Ventures, and
individual investors.
http://www.sharewave.com/
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o E-Commerce Company MarketMile Hires New President and CEO

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- MarketMile, a business-to-business
e-commerce company, said it has appointed Gayle
Sheppard as president and CEO. Ms. Sheppard spent
the past nine years at J.D. Edwards & Company, a
supplier of business software services and products,
at a number of positions. Before her tenure with
J.D. Edwards, Ms. Sheppard served in sales and consulting
management roles in the technology industry. MarketMile
is backed by American Express and Ventro Corporation.
http://www.marketmile.com/
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o Former CFO of Buystream Joins Linux IT Firm Nitrosoft as CEO

OTTAWA -- Nitrosoft Linux, an IT Infrastructure
management company, said it has appointed Mark Scott,
as its chief executive officer. He will replace
Larry Poirier, who has been promoted to chairman
of the board. Mr. Scott was CFO and COO of Buystream
and a founding partner of Non-Linear Ventures.
Individual investors back Nitrosoft Linux, which
raised $1 million in its first round of funding.
The company said it is currently seeking institutional
investments.
http://www.nitrosoft.com/

======= VC Fund News =======

o Consultant Summa Technologies Forms Summa VentureWorks

PITTSBURGH -- Summa Technologies, which provides
technology consulting services for companies building
large-scale Internet and intranet-based applications,
announced the formation of Summa VentureWorks, its
venture capital investment arm. The company said
it plans to invest in high-tech startups and people
or companies that have an idea for a technology
or product but may unsure of how to apply it. Summa
said it will provide its portfolio companies with
consulting services as well. Summa also announced
it made its first investment for an undisclosed
amount in Laminar Software, a developer of e-commerce
performance monitoring tools.
http://www.summa.com/
_____________________________________________

o Lattitude Partners Closes $60 Million Technology Fund

TORONTO -- Latitude Partners, a financial firm focused
on the technology, Internet and communications sectors,
said it has closed its $60 million Longitude Fund
Limited Partnership, a merchant-banking fund dedicated
to the technology, Internet, and communications
sectors. OMERS, the Canadian Medical Protective
Association, Celtic House, and several large institutions
and individuals provided funding. The fund will
undertake proactive, merchant-banking style investments
such as refinancings, buyouts, spinouts, privatizations,
acquisition financings, and strategic investments
in both private and public technology firms in Canada
and the U.S. The fund will invest anywhere from
$5 million to $10 million in these companies.
http://www.latitudepartners.com/

======= VC Personnel =======

o Former Lucent Optical Group Head Joins Clarity Partners

LOS ANGELES -- Clarity Partners, a private equity
firm, said it has named Harry Bosco as partner.
Mr. Bosco was most recently the president of Lucent
Technologies' optical networking group. Prior to
Lucent's spinoff from AT&T, Mr. Bosco occupied a
number of executive positions at Bell Labs and AT&T
Networking Systems. Clarity Partners invests in
communications, emerging media, and related technologies.
 http://www.claritypartners.net/

======= VW Corrections =======

o Daedalus Venture Group

NEW YORK -- A story in yesterday's VentureWire on
the Daedalus Venture Group  incorrectly listed the
firm's URL. The correct URL is http://www.daedalusventuregroup.com.

_____________________________________________

o MinorityInterest Network

NEW YORK -- Due to incorrect information provided
by the company, an item in the September 12 edition
of VentureWire regarding the launch of MinorityInterest
Network incorrectly cited CEA Latin America as an
investor in the company. An individual from CEA
Latin America, not the firm itself, made an investment
in MinorityInterest Network.

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