"On January 1, 1991, U S WEST consolidated Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell operations into those of Mountain Bell, renaming it US WEST Communications, Inc., "


LA JOLLA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001
New Technology Gives Utilities 24/7 Monitoring Capability
To Detect Equipment Performance Problems,
Monitor Remote Facilities and Improve Security
Graviton, Inc., today introduced innovative wireless monitoring services that give utilities unprecedented ability to remotely and continuously monitor the status and maintain the security of their transmission and distribution assets.
the Central Intelligence Agency are both known for their strong interest in managing information.
So it should come as no surprise that longtime Bell veteran Sol Trujillo is joining a CIA-funded wireless networks company, La Jolla, Calif.-based Graviton, as its chief executive.
The small start-up was among the first to receive funding from the CIA's new venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, which has a name that the United States' top spy agency admits is designed to invoke the memory of James Bond's favorite tinkerer, Q.
Trujillo, 48, was recruited by Graviton director Brook Byers of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, another Graviton partner. Other investors include Qualcomm, Siemens and Sun Microsystems.
Graviton is developing a wireless data networking system that will incorporate sensors notifying users of useful information. The company says the technology, which incorporates Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), has multiple commercial purposes.
For example, Coca-Cola has partnered with Graviton to equip soft drink machines that measure flow levels and adjust the syrup mix. Siemens hopes Graviton can improve security systems for commercial and residential buildings. Other partners hope to better monitor manufacturing and construction machinery, utilities equipment and even consumer appliances such as gas ovens.
In-Q-Tel is a bit more coy regarding how it might use a wireless data network. The company doesn't discuss the specific nature of the projects it funds, but insists that the research not only works to solve the agency's most vexing problems but also leads to commercial advancements.
"He demonstrated by his outbursts that he had lost faith in him and gave him no chance to re-establish the trust and confidence which would recreate the 'faith'.
'Deep-rooted problems'
"His solution seems to have been to frighten the claimant into performing according to the standards he required and to make it plain that any contrary view which questioned his authority would not be tolerated."
Outside court Mr Horkulak said: "I launched this action so that Lee Amaitis and Cantor Fitzgerald would be held accountable for what they had done to me.
"The court has said whatever the environment, however rich and powerful the boss, whatever the rewards, there are standards below which no employer should go."
Mr. Amaitis played a key role in the recovery of Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed after the devastation on September 11, 2001 and in the re-building of its voice brokerage business, which became BGC and was separated from Cantor Fitzgerald in 2004.
Mr. Amaitis is a strong supporter of various charities around the world and is actively involved with a number of fund raising events. Mr. Amaitis recently became a Trustee on the Board of the St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation, a charity that raises funds for, and make grants to, the Cathedral for its maintenance, restoration, repair and conservation and the furtherance of its educational and musical work.In the United States, he is on the board of the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a charity devoted to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis, and has involved the Wall Street community in the Foundation's fund raising events. Mr. Amaitis is also an ambassador for The Shane Warne Foundation in Australia, which distributes monies to a number of registered charities worldwide.
When Cantor Fitzgerald spun off its trading technology company, eSpeed in an initial public offering in December 1999, Mr. Amaitis became Executive Managing Director of eSpeed's international operations. Mr. Amaitis served as eSpeed's Vice Chairman, until its merger with BGC Partners in 2008.

eSpeed lost 180 of its employees and its global headquarters in downtown New York City in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Two days later, eSpeed handled the majority of the volume when bond trading resumed in the U.S.
He guided the rebuilding of Cantor following the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 658 of the company’s 960 New York-based employees.
He is a member of the board of managers of Haverford College, the board of directors of the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Rockefeller University, the executive committee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, the board of directors of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and the board of trustees of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum Foundation.
He received the Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor granted by the Navy to non-military personnel.
According to Howard W. Lutnick, Cantor's chairman, about 900,000 of the 4.9 million will be used to provide health insurance to families, fianc?s and fianc?es, and longtime partners. Checks for the rest, about 6,000 for each family, will be sent out Feb. 26, he said. ''That is just the way we said it would work,'' Mr. Lutnick said yesterday.
An additional 4 million will be distributed, as one-time gifts, to the families of the 128 employees of Cantor's equity division who died in the attacks, said Philip Marber, president and chief executive of that unit.
He's embarrassed, but wants to show me to the next room, in which he has created a shrine to his brother. There are huge color photos of Howard and happy-go-lucky Gary, arms around each other's shoulders, horsing around. There's a plaque on the wall of a 1998 Westchester golf tournament, with a photo of Howard and Gary and Stuart Fraser and Doug Gardner. "Two out of four," he says. "Two out of four of us are dead."
Howard Lutnick began that morning playing with his two sons, turning his shaving ritual into a giggling, messy spectator sport with shaving cream all over the bathroom. Instead of going straight to work, he and Allison were taking Kyle to his first day of kindergarten.
Meanwhile, out in Queens, his secretary, Maryann Burns, the world's most punctual woman, drove to the Bayside train station and couldn't find a space to park. She ran for her train and missed it by a minute.
Stuart Fraser had cut back on his work week earlier in the year, coming in to the World Trade Center only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Those mornings, he always joined his brother-in-law Eric Sand at 7:30 a.m. at his desk on the 105th floor for a bagel and coffee. But an Australian investor, flying in to discuss a personal project involving canoe camps, had asked to switch their September 10 meeting to September 11, and to do it out of the office. So Fraser was at home in Armonk that morning, waiting to go to his appointment.
Dave Kravette was at his desk on the 105th floor at 7:30 a.m., preparing for the arrival of clients scheduled to come up at 8 a.m. When they called to say they were running late, he reminded them they needed photo I.D. to get into the building -- the rule since the 1993 terrorist attack -- so he was not amused when security rang shortly before 8:40 a.m. to say that one of the guys hadn't brought a license and needed an escort.
"I take the elevator down, take 30 steps towards the guys waiting at the desk, and say, 'Which one of you knuckleheads forgot his I.D.?' and then I hear this high, screaming sound -- the elevators are crashing. I see this huge fireball. It's the jet fuel on fire, coming right at me. People are being absorbed and incinerated by it. I think I'm dying, I can't move. And then it suddenly sucked back in itself. All I felt was a heat wave. Then we started running."
Kravette , a 10-year company veteran, Managing Director at eSpeed , was in the lobby of the Trade Center's north tower with customers when the first plane hit below his 105th-floor office.He chokes up when discussing his near-death experience, and remembering those who weren't as lucky.
It just might be that the Americans most able to move on from the events of September 11 are the men and women of Cantor Fitzgerald who lived through them.
Virginia Samaras Bauer is the Senior Vice President of Development for Covenant House International. Ms. Bauer leads all development from major gifts, corporations, and grants.

On September 11, 2001, Ms. Bauer lost her husband, David Bauer, the head of global sales for Cantor Fitzgerald, in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. She became a key activist on behalf of the families of the 9/11 victims, working closely with Congressional leaders and the White House toward the successful enactment of 9/11 victim legislation in 2002.
In 2007, Ms. Bauer was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine to serve on the Board of Commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Ms. Bauer is a former financial planning and account management executive with Merrill Lynch. From 2004 until 2007, Ms. Bauer served as Commerce Secretary for the State of New Jersey.
Bauer remarried in October 2007; her husband is Donald A. Steckroth (b. 1947), a widower and a judge in the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Donald Steckroth lost his wife GERALDINE "DEANIE" F. STECKROTH January 17, 2003. "She is survived by her husband, Donald Steckroth of Little Silver; two daughters and a son-in-law". Memorial donations may be made to The Yellow Rose Foundation, 3 Holly Drive, Little Silver 07739.
After graduation, Lutnick joined Cantor, one of the world's largest bond-trading firms. Friends and co-workers became his surrogate family. Lutnick was named president at 29 and became known on Wall Street for being outspoken and not afraid to play hardball. Five years later, as founder B. Gerald Cantor lay dying in a hospital, Lutnick sought to have him declared mentally incompetent. Lutnick took control of the firm after a nasty court battle with the founder's wife, who refused to let Lutnick come to her husband's funeral.


Stephen Merkel was on a different elevator on the lobby level when the plane hit. Merkel was physically unharmed but recognizes how close he came to a different outcome. "What I learned was that I had the capacity to shut down emotionally and just work, and that might not be the best trait for a husband, a father, or a friend, but for what we had to do, it was necessary."

Waizer was in an elevator high in the North Tower when the plane struck. Flames ignited inside the car and he was badly burned on his body and face and in his throat. Now he's back at the firm working three days a week for General Counsel Stephen Merkel's legal team.
"It just might be that the Americans most able to move on from the events of September 11 are the men and women of Cantor Fitzgerald who lived through them."
Is it OK for the hardest-hit corporate victim of Sept. 11 to create an ad campaign around the tragedy?
Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond trading firm that lost 658 employees at the World Trade Center, finds out starting Tuesday as it launches its first major ad campaign since the attacks.
The TV and print ads -- featuring real employees relating their Sept. 11 stories -- are designed to boost business at Cantor and eSpeed, drive visitors to a new company Web site and pay tribute to dead colleagues.
All of them tell stories of changing the channel or leaving a room when 9/11 gets brought up. Sometimes it feels as if there's no escape.
hoi.polloi 4 Apr 10 2010, 06:36 AM wrote:
I have listed the groups ... who are therefore guilty at the very least of perjury and at the worst, war crimes against humanity for forwarding traitorous disinformation resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in foreign countries.
Make no mistake; these companies are not innocent until proven guilty - the people inside are. But corporations themselves do not and should not have human rights.
On a sidenote, Rothchild was named Bauer earlier - so she might be in the "bloodline". ...?
eSpeed lost 180 of its employees and its global headquarters in downtown New York City in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Two days later, eSpeed handled the majority of the volume when bond trading resumed in the U.S.

Though we only worked for a short while when we both worked for Merill Lynch, I admired your expertise in your field. We met up again when I was working for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter about 6 or 7 years ago. Thank you for acknowledging me as I spotted you in the executive floor; you were interviewing for a position. You will be missed.
Rescorla recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan. Office space and labor costs were lower in New Jersey, and the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building. However, this recommendation was not followed as the company's lease at the World Trade Center did not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla's insistence, all employees, including senior executives, then practiced emergency evacuations every three months.[citation needed]

Notable RAND participants
Over the last 60 years, more than 30 Nobel Prize winners have been involved or associated with the RAND Corporation at some point in their careers.
(my personal selection of 'notable' RAND folks):
Henry H. Arnold -- General, United States Air Force -- RAND founder
Harold L. Brode -- physicist, leading nuclear weapons effects expert
Bernard Brodie -- Military strategist and nuclear architect
Samuel Cohen -- inventor of the neutron bomb in 1958
James F. Digby -- American Military Strategist, author of first treatise on precision guided munitions 1949 - 2007
Stephen H Dole -- Author of the pivotal book Habitable Planets for Man"
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. -- President, Douglas Aircraft Company -- RAND founder
Daniel Ellsberg -- leaker of the Pentagon Papers
Francis Fukuyama -- academic and author of The End of History and the Last Man
Brian Michael Jenkins -- terrorism expert, Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation, and author of Unconquerable Nation
Herman Kahn -- theorist on nuclear war and one of the founders of scenario planning
Henry Kissinger-- United States Secretary of State (1973?1977); National Security Advisor (1969?1975); Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1973)
Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff
Andrew W. Marshall -- military strategist, director of the US DoD Office of Net Assessment
Douglas Merrill -- Former Google CIO & President of EMI's digital music division
Condoleezza Rice -- former intern, former trustee (1991?1997), and former Secretary of State for the United States
Donald Rumsfeld -- Chairman of Board from 1981?1986; 1995?1996 and Secretary of Defense for the United States from 1975 to 1977 and 2001 to 2006.
James Schlesinger -- former Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of Energy
James Steinberg -- Deputy National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton
Albert Wohlstetter -- Mathematician and Cold-War Strategist
Roberta Wohlstetter -- Policy analyst and military historian
Governance
Former members of the RAND board include: Walter Mondale, Condoleezza Rice, Brent Scowcroft, Carl Bildt, Donald Rumsfeld, ...etc
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