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To see Field Harbor Parking online go to www.fieldharborparking.com Field Harbor Parking Condominium (http://www.fieldharborparking.com ) ****************sponsorship****************** ____________________ The Scoop section: _________ UL Change process: an internal memo Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Name withheld upon request. Subject: UL Change Process To: ron@themayreport.com, miker@themayreport.com Ron, Too much change at UL? It seems that Loring Knoblauch still believes that we at UL are still a "family." Please withhold my name. Thank you. Loring Knoblauch/NBK/ULI 04/01/2004 04:51 PM To: US.Staff Subject: Change Process I have given a lot of thought to the change process underway at UL and have consulted with many of you around the company. While a lot has been accomplished in the last three years, we are coming now to the core of the change process. Change is never easy and indeed it has been, and continues to be, a stressful time for all of us at UL. The course of treatment we select is vitally important to the long-term health of this company, but that does not mean it is either easy or pleasant. I believe we need to accelerate the pace of change. While most employees are energized by change, at least in the early days, as time goes on, protracted change can be exhausting and draining. And, I am increasingly concerned about improving both the quality and the consistency of our work. So, I asked the Board for their agreement on a plan to accelerate both the Operations Optimization (O.O.)/Model Certification rollout and to move up in time the last bits of restructuring that lay ahead. To do so will require spending more dollars in 2004. To make this possible, we need to go on a "war footing" elsewhere and aggressively control costs. Cost control will be the order of the day and absolutely everything will be looked at. The good news is that the pace of change will be very significantly accelerated (we will roll out the Model Certification Process to all U.S. Divisions in 2004) so that when 2005 comes, it will be clear to all that the worst is behind us and we will see a lot of visible and encouraging progress. The bad news is that the next nine months (the rest of 2004) will be tough. Important programs will be put on hold. The organizations not yet touched by restructuring will go through that in 2004. There will be downsizing, delayering and more change. Most of the changes will be in the United States. The Model Certification rollout outside the U.S. will take place in 2005, and we think the changes outside the U.S. will be more modest. Rumors are very damaging to companies, and UL has more than its share. Most of the time they are utterly without foundation. So, to make sure you all know precisely what is happening, I will tell you that our plans for the remainder of 2004 include a reduction in staff of roughly 300 people across all of UL. I have promised to be open and direct even when the news is not what you want to hear, and I will continue to do so. Companies are like families, and that is even more true at UL. The next nine months will not be easy. Management's popularity will continue to decrease. Over the last three years, I have come to love this company very much. It troubles me deeply to inflict pain on UL and so many of its employees, and these decisions have been difficult to make. But, I know it is the right thing to do and the company will emerge better, stronger and healthier. The only way we can get through all of this essential change is to all pull together. My mission is to be sure that in treating the patient, we do no harm, preserve all of what has made UL a great company, and make it even better, even stronger. I hope you will join me in hunkering down and working our way through the last big push. Obviously, change will go on in 2005 and, indeed, on an ongoing basis. But, by early next year, we will have crested the summit of the hill we have been climbing and will be heading down the other side. Thanks in advance for your understanding, patience, support and fortitude. The companion announcement on the 401(K) match reinstatement may seem to fly in the face of this period of severe austerity that we must go through. But I believe strongly that UL must become an Employer of Choice. We have a wonderful group of passionate and caring employees at UL. We need your help and must do all we can for you in return. I fought long and hard for this reinstatement, not simply because I wanted to please our U.S. employees, but because I felt it was the right thing to do. However, we will have to work all the harder elsewhere to get our costs down, and keep them down, so we can afford to accelerate change. LWK:edw ____________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||advertisement||||||||||||||||||| If you have a computer problem, need to set up a network or have trouble with a software program or desktop, Home Computer Mechanics offers personalized service. For more details, contact kris@homecomputermechanics.com. |||||||||||||||||||||advertisement||||||||||||||||||||||||| __________________ Midwest Venture presenter: Check out management team at Profind.com Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:32:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Rhonda Sweeney Subject: Midwest Venture Presenters To: ron@themayreport.com Ron, I was looking up the presenting companies that Krauss mentionsin his article. www.profind.com takes you to peoplefilter.com. Check out the mgmt team. http://www.peoplefilter.com/company/people.asp Is mypoints still around? I should reactivate my points account! 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The big story that seems to be emerging is that "there is not a single product that is not still actively being sold and supported with customers today, just with different entities," one source told me. The "greenfields" were gone when divine interVentures became Divine. But the products still exist, although under different names. The untold story, one person told me, is that "a lot of the those businesses were within days of being out of business and are strong entities elsewhere. Like the Content Server business, that company Open Market, was within weeks of being out of business when Divine bought it. Divine actually floated [them] --- I mean that company was gone; now it's part of FatWire and that company is strong," he said. Catherine Wolanick went to Sovereign Software, which actually owns some Divine assets. Melita is now merged with Concerto Software. This was originally called eShare. In the interest of full disclosure, Concerto is an advertiser with TMR. Jeff Schultz is with Abridean and he was originally with OpinionWare at Divine before he became the CMO. Ted Collins was the founder of OpinionWare and I don't know where he ended up. Some parts of Parlano still exist. One Parlano person, Andy Carra, ended up at CME. Others went to Bank of America. Data Return was the hosting company/managed services company funded by Divine and that was spun back out. Sonny Vanderback (spelling?) headed that up. FatWire owns Content Server. Flip owns Silk Road and has those assets. There is a company called Mxxxx, something, that owns a lot of the European distributors. Flip is still focusing on collaboration and blogging. They have taken some of the assets of Divine and introduced a new product that does blogging for the enterprise. One person who is still there is Chauncey Kupferschmidt who does sales and marketing. Sorry about the incomplete or incorrect spelling here. * I heard that the Hastert reception, the so-called make-up lunch for the Coalition, only drew about fifty people. I will confirm that with Maxson when I see him tonight. If that is so, they got fewer people than The May Report's event. * Mark Glennon told me that there are many sponsors that have had input into this year's conference. But that has not stopped Glennon from talking to the Sun-Times and now an interview with Steve Lundin, his old drinking buddy from Holleb and Coff, a law firm that is no longer. But Glennon does not seem to have lost his appetite for taking the spotlight, even though there are at least twenty sponsors and supposedly at least a half dozen people who have had a significant hand in putting this together. Lundin tells me that his June event is one-third filled up already within a few hours of his first mailing today and he is toying with the idea of a special evening marketing event on July 12th and/or 13th, which would coincide with a national advertising conference here. He is in talks with other organizations to make it a multi-organizational event. * I have not had time to review the tape, but according to Dick Reck, the reason marchFIRST got its name, an idea developed in the offices of KPMG, he explained, is that by delaying the merger date of Whittman-Hart and U.S. Web/cks for a few hours from Feb. 28 to March 1, 2000, they saved $6.5MM in taxes. So, the idea was originally a tax scheme. * Good news. Mike Freud just called and Field Harbor Parking just sold three spaces through The May Report ad!! That is in addition to the five or six they sold in our last campaign. These spaces appear to be going fast. ____________________ Efoora update, by Ron May The best description I have heard about Efoora is that it is analogous to being on life support right now. We have the status quo with a fair amount of movement below the surface. Saying that it is on life support means not that it is near death, even though they have less than $1MM in cash, but rather that nothing is moving. No medication, there is no new money being raised, deals with major companies are on hold, and they are just sitting there. Let's get to the specifics: 1. Craig Rappin tells me that the Sig deal may happen as early as this week. The terms have been revised, according to Rappin, and a new proposal has been submitted based on the work of Efoora's lawyer on this, Mitch Roth of Much Shelist. Dan Caravette says flatly that he believes that the Sig deal would kill the company. "It's a poison pill," he said to me this morning on the phone. The original problem with the Sig deal was that it would allow Sig to control the firm for $5MM because it essentially makes him a creditor who can gain control if the firm defaults. Dan has not seen the terms, and other key investors have yet to see the terms, according to my sources. Other sources like one of the people who attended my TMR event last week believe that the Sig deal is viable and feel that the terms are now acceptable. Supposedly, Grosky has said that he will not go along with the Sig deal unless the major investors agree to it, but he refuses to put that promise in writing, my sources indicate. 2. The company is supposedly close to hiring a CEO. They have a candidate that they like through a headhunter and they are talking about having this person on board within three weeks. Craig Rappin told me Sunday night that Grosky has been having Kiam and Jerry Hansberger do some of the interviewing and Grosky himself has been doing much of it, but that Tom Brown, the outside consultant who is supposed to be running things, has not been involved much. 3. Dan Caravette doubts that a new CEO will actually materialize. He said that nothing Grosky says can really be believed and predicts that three weeks from now, there will be some excuse about why the new guy could not come on board. One of the issues that has supposedly been dealt with is legal liability for the new CEO. The candidate is fully aware of the problems he may be facing, according to Grosky, as Dan explained it to me, and he has no issue with the legal liability problem. The formation of a shareholder committee also depends on insurance, commonly called D&O insurance. Insurance is a key issue that has held up the formation of a shareholder committee. 4. According to Rappin, Grosky has no intention of leaving. He has a new employment contract drafted by the lawyer at Saul Ewing, Tim Hoeffner, and Rappin told me that the contract gives Grosky a percentage, I believe 10%, of profits. Furthermore, Rappin believes that Hoeffner approaches criminal liability for his conduct in representing the firm. The idea that Saul Ewing is representing the shareholders is a charade, Rappin and other key investors have told me. 5. Grosky is hanging on to the possibility that he will step aside as CEO, but remain as Chairman and have a position with Prion Developmental Labs. Grosky does not want to sit at home, Caravette told me, and he does not want to vacate the premises, I have heard from others. 6. Rappin made it clear to me that he does not want a management role in the company in the future, either directly or through Sig. He resents that he has been sidelined when his "crimes" are no greater than Grosky's, he says. He has repeatedly said that he ran the firm and built the business while Grosky engaged in all the shenanigans in raising money. Caravette reminded me that Rappin stole from the firm, the original $350K was taken by Rappin, not borrowed. Then, when it was discovered, Grosky helped Rappin cover it up by turning it into a loan. But Rappin made it clear to me that all the turncoats in the company who never called him to say "Hi" or tell him how they still supported him would be gone if he, Rappin, ever came back to power. Then he backed off of that statement and said that they would not be promoted. Translation: they would be fired. By the way, several people seem to think that the person who gave Wolinsky info. on Rappin was Brian Borkin, a guy who had some real estate dealings with Craig. 7. Grosky maintains falsely, Caravette points out, that the company owes him $1.5MM. Caravette explained to me why this is false, but it was a bit complicated. Apparently, Grosky was selling his own stock because the firm supposedly could not sell it directly. The money was treated as a loan to the company. The problem with that is that it converted Grosky from shareholder to creditor which would put Grosky at the head of the line in the event of a bankruptcy, Caravette explained. Grosky was, after all, a bankruptcy lawyer, so he should know how to play that game, Caravette and I agreed. 8. Going to the authorities at this time would be a mistake, Caravette believes. He explained to me that it could shut down the sale of stock and the ability of the firm to raise money. 9. The best approach, and the one Caravette and others have chosen, is to force a shareholder meeting. They have envelopes prepared to go out soon. Meanwhile, Caravette and others are continuing the process of politicking and educating investors on why Grosky must go. There are several groups of key investors: in Philadelphia, California and, I believe, Florida. Dan is planning to meet with the Philly investors either this weekend or next and wants to set up a meeting with those investors and Grosky. He is also working the California investors who are in many instances doctors. The Philly investors control about 20% of the shares collectively. According to Dan, they vacillate on the issue of Grosky's departure. They generally recognize that David should step down as CEO, but sometimes they shift back and forth and show hesitation. Grosky has convinced some of them that he wants to leave but that he needs to insure that the right person is put in as CEO first. There appear to be doubts about whether Kiam is the right person to be an interim CEO. Kiam is generally recognized as person of high integrity and the people who visited me at the TMR event felt that his business acumen is as great or greater than Grosky's is, but some have questioned his ability to cut deals. My information is that Mort threatened to quit if Kiam becomes CEO. 10. There is a tendency for investors to believe what Grosky tells them, and Grosky is good at representing himself as a victim who is trying sincerely to do the right thing, Dan explained. He added that Grosky is good at schmoozing investors who don't know a lot of intimate detail and that he is good at what one might call sincere b.s. An example is the issue of the return of the 37 million shares. Have the shares actually been returned? Grosky is saying that he has returned them, but Dan has yet to see documentation of it. Craig Rappin is equally cagey on the subject. Craig said to me that the shares are in the hands of his lawyer, but that does not mean they have actually been returned. Grosky has an incredible ability to tap dance around key issues, Dan told me. 11. We discussed the sale of stock to unsophisticated investors like Lynn Vanzant in Tennessee. Dan explained to me that most investors these days are unsophisticated and they don't do the kind of research they did thirty or forty years ago. He said that the key thing is whether the person selling the stock is lying to them. I raised the issue of whether Grosky had been the one to promise the 15% interest to Vanzant or whether it was the finder, Lonnie Layne, who made the promises. Dan said that it makes no difference, if Grosky confirms the commitments made by a finder when the shareholder calls him, and that is something that Grosky does not seem to understand, Dan told me. It really does not matter if Grosky said it first or confirmed it later, and Dan pointed out that many things are stated in black and white in the business plans and PPMs that they send out. Apparently some document says that they will go public in 2005, but you can't tell a prospective investor that the stock will be $50 a share, Dan told me. His view is that investors should know what they are getting into, although many Efoora investors are under the impression that their 100,000 shares will be worth a million dollars. 12. Dan told me that according to Mort Alzana, the person behind the development of the HIV-1 lateral flow test, the approval could come as early as June. He told me that Fran White, the consultant who has been shepherding the process with the FDA, needed a kick in the you-know-what. He said that she had not shown the initiative that was needed to get the approval through. Dan has mixed feelings about the approval because he believes that it might entrench Grosky even further and make it harder to get him out. 13. I have observed that many of the Grosky supporters are people who have a large number of shares, but they were given those shares by Grosky for bringing in other investors. Al Soboj is one such person. And there are others. I will use first names: Allan, Terry, etc. Grosky was in effect paying commissions to people for bringing in other investors and he paid the commissions in stock and he probably violated every SEC regulation in doing so since those commissions exceeded the amount allowed by law. A number of people feel that they "owe" loyalty to David Grosky because he helped them out in a moment of need. He helped their brother-in-law or whomever. So, there is a great deal of personal loyalty to Grosky, their leader, and it has not escaped my attention that the whole thing bears a resemblance to a cult with Grosky as the cult leader. Grosky is also a master at appearing to be moving in a certain direction. The wheels are moving, but they are often standing in place even though they are spinning. My information is that in the last week, a key investor whom I will refer to only as Allen, has shifted back into the Grosky camp. 14. Lastly, I have been challenged on my terminological inexactitude. I said that Efoora was a ponzi scheme a few weeks back. That is not true since a ponzi scheme involves replacing old money with new money. I said it was a scam and that too is not really accurate. There have been irregularities in the sale of stock, but it is not swamp land in Florida. There is a company, there is what appears to be legitimate IP. I think that pretty much sums up where things stand at the moment. One investor told me that choosing between Grosky and Rappin is like deciding whether you want esophogial or pancreatic cancer. The same investor told me that the top three reasons that Grosky has to go are, just like in real estate they say three things matter --- location, location, location --- the top three reasons are: he can't be CEO, he can't be CEO, he can't be CEO. All the nonsense in selling stock and theft of stock aside, the big problem with Grosky is that he could never take the firm to the next level and could never attract legitimate venture money. That leaves the firm in the weak position of accepting a bad deal from a guy like Sig who has been described to me as a classic vulture capitalist. The big problem with the Sig deal is that it would extinguish the rights of the shareholders, I have been told by people who feel they understand the deal well enough to draw that conclusion. +++++++++++++++++++ Here is a letter I received earlier today from Craig Rappin. I called him because it surprised me that with such glowing comments made about him from Mort, the putative author of the letter, Rappin would view Mort as an enemy. But Rappin told me that Mort has been a turncoat. Craig believes that the letter was never actually sent. Mort gave him a copy of it. Nonetheless, Mort was a big supporter of Craig's but has been one of those turncoats that Craig was telling me about. Craig understands that the power has shifted. Other turncoats, Craig says, are Tom Harr and Kiam. Craig has set up his own website that will be operating in the next 48 hours called www.efoorainvestor.com, so he says watch for it. He has many documents that he is posting on the site, including letters from Grosky. Note the date of the letter from Mort. It was a week before the Wolinsky article that torpedoed Rappin. So, Mort must have known that something was up. From: "Craig Rappin" To: Cc: "'Jerry Hansberger'" , , , "'David Grosky'" , , "'Jennifer Rozga'" , "'Larry Irwin'" , , Subject: letter Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:10:14 -0500 This is something that I have not sent to anyone out of respect for someone I thought was my friend, MORT, but now know he is not. February 24, 2004 Mr. Howard Wolinsky Chicago Sun Times Dear Mr. Wolinsky: I am writing this letter to help bring some light on a subject that has been of concern for you and your paper. Specifically, as I understand it, Craig Rappin’s qualifications as a leader for Efoora has come to question. My information regarding Craig Rappin comes from my professional relationship with him. I have been employed by Efoora since early 1998. Since then, I have been involved and have personally witnessed the growth of the company from a small office to what you have seen today. I have been professionally involved with Craig since 1998 when he hired me to develop the rapid HIV test that you reported. Being the first employee at Efoora/Virotek, and not an Officer, Managing Member, or Principal Partner, I feel that I am the most qualified to comment on Mr. Rappin’s involvement and contributions to the Company. I clearly feel that Mr. Rappin, without any doubt in my mind or in the minds of any other employees here at Efoora, is the Company’s true visionary. Craig Rappin’s inherent knowledge, either through formal training or via self education, has been one of the keys to our growth and success as a diagnostic developer and manufacturer. Since 1998, Craig Rappin has directed the design of all our automated manufacturing systems. He has a clear understanding of the engineering involved as well as the abilities of current and cutting edge technology. Craig Rappin has continually lead each “brainstorming” session in regard to the methods of manufacturing for any and all of our products, as well as those products that we have been solicited to manufacture by other companies. During an interview with any of the Company’s engineers, I think you would find that Craig Rappin’s name would be at the top of the list in terms of directing and participating in the over all design process. His innovation and creativity is well recognized and respected by all engineers and scientists. Craig Rappin’s involvement in design goes beyond only manufacturing. This is evident in the Company’s PRIMOS platform. This platform, currently being utilized for our blood glucose system, involves as much ingenuity in engineering as it does in biological or chemical science. As you can see from the issued patents as well as the pending patents, Craig Rappin is the lead inventor. He has earned that right by his innovation, contribution, and leadership. It was his concept of creating a diagnostic test platform that utilizes overmolding of metal electrodes to create a sensor in which chemistry can then be added. Thus the acronym PRecision Injection Molding Of Sensors (PRIMOS). This resulting sensor becomes the platform to create a multitude of biodiagnostic assays. This innovative concept (now a reality) is based upon Craig Rappin’s self taught knowledge and understanding of injection molding coupled with his knowledge of engineering and then fused with his passion for technology. If one word describes Craig Rappin, it would be technophile. Beyond his innovative ideas, I have known Craig Rappin to be instrumental in showcasing much of our technology to major pharmaceutical/diagnostic companies. Mr. Rappin, for many years, has functioned to serve as the Company’s Director of Business Development. It is his involvement in this area that has resulted in many of the diagnostic industry leaders to call upon and become involved with such a small company. It is his involvement in this area that has resulted in the collaborations for distribution of our products by these companies. Craig Rappin’s ability to get the attention of these large companies and then involved with Efoora has and will continue to be a major contribution to the Company’s success. In regard to Craig Rappin’s professional past, I do not have any knowledge. My knowledge of Craig Rappin as an innovator, manager, entrepreneur, and person begins with my employment since 1998. In regard to the questions being raised relating to his past, specifically past business ventures, I feel any issues or concerns in regard to those past events clearly has not influenced nor dictated his contribution and involvement in the Company, nor have they in any way affected his leadership role in Efoora. Craig Rappin has functioned and will continue to function in the best interest of the Company and I feel that any issues in terms of past failed ventures, have not proven to have any bearing on the achievements that he has garnered while involved with Efoora nor have they proven to have any bearing on his contributions as an innovator. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at (847) 634-4500, ext. 224 or via e-mail at mta@virotek.com. Kindest Regards, Mortimer T. Alzona ________________________ 1. READER COMMENTS AND RESPONSES 1a. Efoora mail (2 messages) _______ #1: From: "Lynn Vanzant" To: ron@themayreport.com Subject: A FARMER Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:14:14 -0500 RON/GLAD YOU ARE TRYING TO HELP US.DO YOU INTEND TO TRY AND HELP? RON DON'T GIVE UP ON A BUNCH OF SUCKERS.LET ME KNOW IF THEY ARE TRYING TO CLOSE YOU DOWN. A FRIEND LYNN VANZANT +++++++++++++++++ #2: Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:58:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "T. Mc." Subject: Efoora & unsophisticated investors To: ron@themayreport.com Ron, Greetings from downstate. I read something on the Efoora BBS about "unsophisticated investors" contacting you. I'm curious, what defines an "unsophisticated investor"? Was there any restriction that should have kept this from occurring? My wife and I bought some shares and I'd hardly call us "sophisticated investors". Drop me a line sometime. Thanks! Tom Mc. ____________________ 1b. Miscellaneous mail (2 messages) __________ #1: Subj: Re: The May Report: 4/27/2004: Gene Express to present at Midwest Venture Summit; KACS and an interesting Tech Day afternoon; letters, events and a newsletter from Michigan Date: 4/27/2004 6:15:28 PM Central Daylight Time From: jbynsdorp@bynsdorpconsulting.com (J Bynsdorp) To: owner-mayreport@list.themayreport.com Thank you! -Jackie +++++++++++++++++ #2: Subj: RE: The May Report: 4/27/2004: Gene Express to present at Midwest Venture Summit; KACS and an interesting Tech Day afternoon; letters, events and a newsletter from Michigan Date: 4/27/2004 6:44:56 PM Central Daylight Time From: eugenebreger@excite.com (eugene breger) Reply-to: eugenebreger@excite.com To: owner-mayreport@list.themayreport.com Ron - thanks for dinner the other evening at Costa's. It was a fun time and I enjoyed meeting you and Darcy in person. You are both even better 'live' than in print.I am going to look into the offering from parking lot folks who co-sponsored your evening. The May Report.... It Pays to Read.regards,Gene BregerThere is no security in the world, only opportunity.-General Douglas McArthur __________________ 2. OTHER (Events) 2a. Thursday, May 6: Growingco.com From: To: ron@themayreport.com Reply-To: ben@growingco.com Subject: GrowingCo Invitation - 6May 7:30AM - Chicago Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:50:08 -0500 Mark your calendar! Please join us for early morning networking and coffee at 247 S. State Street, Chicago in the lower level conference room on May6 from 7:30 AM to 9AM. No RSVP necessary. No cost to attend either. NOTES: 1) please tell 10 people to attend this meeting. Simply register at www.growingco.org to receive future invitations. 2) We're trying to improve the quality of our networking. Please take this survey below if you'd like to be matched with peers or with people with similiar interests. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?A=31302892E1750 3) Next Naperville meeting is May 20. Stay tuned for details about speaker and topic. Thanks for your participation, Ben Bradley GrowingCo, Inc. ben@growingco.com www.growingco.com www.growingco.org (for information about meetings) Please note: If do not wish to receive further emails from us, please click the link below, and you will be automatically removed from our mailing list. http://www.surveymonkey.com/r.asp?A=31302892E1750 ______________________ The May Report Ron May: editor, reporter, commentator, and publisher. 773-525-3944. E-mails for Ron: ron@themayreport.com. Unless otherwise requested by the sender, all correspondence addressed to Ron May and/or The May Report is subject to publication in the newsletter and on the website. 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