Serial Entrepreneur who brings players & projects together Usually Projects that are unimaginable to others and always under financed

Gold Star Companies is a worldwide conglomerate of interrelated companies involved in renewable and sustainable fuels. This includes biodiesel, ethanol, gasification, digesters, and generating electricity using many different fuel sources, Jatropha, palm oil, soybean, coconut oil, and allege just to name a few. Gold Star Companies are working toward zero emission industries.

Ships African food products to the U.S.

CAYCO (Diamond Mine)The second oldest diamond mine in Ghana founded in 1928 (then the Gold Coast) with a wonderful history which involves the Queen of England – intrigue – deception – the little man wins and much more. Some of the diamonds from this mine are in the crown jewels in London. The U.S. Bureau of mines in Washington DC has quite a lot of this mines history. The mine shall soon be turned into a tourist attraction with hotel and winnowing of diamonds by the guest who will be allowed to keep what they find.

A simple import export operation between West Africa and the United States

(NCN) National Cable Network The first cable network set up during the shaky period of the cable era when the FCC announced that cable stations with 3,000 subscribers or more would have to do local programming. This forced all the then big cable franchisors, like tel-e-prompter, Cable Com General, Daniels and others, to build TV studios in their local stations with 3,000 or more subscribers. NCN offered programming to these franchisors which allowed them to air programming without having to build complete studios. This was before satellite TV making it necessary to dub many tapes of the same program and bicycle the tapes from station to station. The dates are a little hazy on this one but as best remembered 1970 to 1974. In any event this company died as a result of the FCC ruling that local origination could be the scanning of the time – temperature – wind speed and wind direction. No longer a need to pay for programming.

Associated Broadcasting Systems Inc. A television station network for original programming produced by ABS. It had a station line up of mostly independent stations. ABS had stations in 50 of the top 100 markets and in all of the top 20 markets. ABS had a lineup of shows that went from morning housewife programs, teenage dance party, children’s shows and sports programs. ABS put boxing back on television after eight and one half years of NO boxing with Western Fight of the week from the San Diego Coliseum with Mickey Davies as the ringside announcer and Ringside from the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas a casino owned by Howard Hughes. ABS signed the first soccer contract with the North American Soccer League and aired the first televised soccer game in the U.S. in 1972. Covering ten away games of the then new expansion team “the LA Aztecs” Mario Machado did play by play in both English and Spanish while providing his own color commentary.

College campus magazine addressing current issues of the time. With stories by such people as Ken Kensey, Jack Kerouac and others of the 60’s

First Commercial Translator operation in the World. Added local origination to a TV Translator by interrupting Broadcasting signal from network stations and inserting local programming. Later evolved into low power TV stations.

(weekly newspaper)

Office Equipment & Stationary company with offices in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Salt Lake City Utah.

Aided local business in reducing NSF and bad checks nationwide the first such business in the nation