Tuesday, July 18, 2006

re: 12Dailypro

July 18, 2006

Re: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Charis Johnson,
LifeClicks, LLC, and 12Daily Pro; USDC, Central Dist. of CA, Case No.
CV 06-01018-NM(PLAx)

This letter is being sent to you to provide information
about this case. On April 21, 2006, and May 20, 2006, Thomas F.
Lennon, the United States District Court appointed Receiver sent
e-mail letters to a large number of e-mail addresses derived from 12
DailyPro and StormPay databases. The Receiver has now recovered
additional e-mail addresses and is using them, as well as all the
previous e-mail addresses, to send this e-mail. The previous letters
as well as this document can be viewed at
www.tlennonfor12dailypro.com. In addition, the Receiver's website
contains his e-mail address and a list of Frequently Asked Questions
with recent updates along with other case information.

As previously noted in the letters sent to
investors/members, investors who used credit cards for a credit
transaction are not prohibited from initiating a charge back through
their credit card issuer. Investors that used checks, electronic fund
transfers and debit cards are prohibited from initiating a charge back
by the Orders issued by the Court. The Orders are also posted on the
web site. Please note that in many situations the period within which
you could have initiated a charge back may have passed. The rules of
the credit card issuer determine the time allowed. The rights of
consumers to dispute electronic transfers are limited to unauthorized
debits or errors in the amount of debits, but do not provide a right
to reverse a transfer because the consumer has discovered that the
recipient was perpetrating a fraud. Moreover, all investors and
creditors are enjoined from initiating any legal action against
12Daily Pro, LifeClicks or Charis Johnson.

The Receiver realizes that the investors have many
questions and concerns. The web site referenced above and the FAQ will
answer many of those questions in more detail, but some of the answers
to your questions can be summarized as follows:

All investors, foreign and domestic will be treated
equally under the law. Investors who used EMO and E-Gold as payment
processors will be treated the same as investors that used StormPay.
Any distribution plan proposed by the Receiver will be done on an
equitable basis. The length of time an investor was invested in the
program will not be a considered in distributions. If you received
this e-mail or the first e-mail sent on April 21, 2006, or the second
e-mail sent on May 20, 2006, you are on the investors list. The
Receiver will be providing the Court and all interested parties
Reports on the status of the case as required and when otherwise
appropriate. These Reports will be posted on the Receiver's web site.
While queries to the Receiver by phone and e-mail will continue to
receive a response, it is not the Receiver's practice to provide
updates to individual investors because of the prohibitive costs
associated with trying to communicate with thousands of investors on
an individual basis. Please minimize these costs by checking the
website and the FAQ before calling or e-mailing the Receiver. The
Receiver realizes that this is an extremely frustrating situation for
investors, but please understand that he is working as diligently as
possible to reach a fair and equitable result. Please check the
website for updates and further information including answers to
Frequently Asked Questions.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

reaching out ...

The last half of 2006 will be a transition from what I have been used to the last four years. Whether I will relocate out of Central Oregon or stay remains to be seen.

I am free to go, while others are not ...

Today I reached out through kiva.org to someone not "free to go" and in that way I hope I will be helping someone to prosper.

By contributing the last $100 needed, I hope Abraham will be enabled to help others in his community have shoes they need, and that his four children will have enough to eat.

As I receive updates from kiva I will share them here.
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Location: Mbale, Uganda
Activity: Retail
Loan Amount: $1000.00
Loan Use: Buying leather materials.
Loan Repayment Term Range: 6-13 months
Start Date: Aug 07, 2006
Status: loan has been raised
Partner Rep: Kevin Abago, Abbo Yedidah
Partner: Women Initiative to Eradicate Poverty


Abraham is a married man with four (4) Children. He started as ripes hawker, after, became a shoe hawker, now he has got a stall at the market, where by he got a loan of $200 from WITEP at first, next got a loan of $300. Uganda is among the third world country with poorest of the poor people.

It is very difficult for these poor people to go out to buy expensive shoes from the shoe dealers.

For this reason, this business stands a very high opportunity to sell cheap shoes to the people of the community. He has customers all around him who wants to be different by wearing shoes.

He is capable to increase his stock to meet the high demand of shoes in the community.

He has been faithful in paying back. When given a loan of $1000 it will help him have a large stock and generate enough money as well to improve the standard of living.


- http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=500

Monday, July 03, 2006

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on net neutrality ...

These are the people legislating technology...

By Mauricio Freitas, in , posted: 4-JUL-2006 10:51
Just behind our own New Zealand parliament showing the need of an update in technology matters, here comes the American Senate, as reported by Wired. This is the speech by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska):

" There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

But this service isn't going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.

We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [...]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

[...]

Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.

It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me. "

- http://www.geekzone.co.nz/blog.asp?blogid=1&postid=782