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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.5

         CONFIDENTIALITY, NON-COMPETITION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGREEMENT

         THIS AGREEMENT made as of the 15th day of May, 2000.

         BETWEEN:

                  RTICA Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the
                  Province of Ontario and having its head office at 999 Barton
                  Street, Stoney Creek, L8E 5H4

                  (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation")

                                                            OF THE FIRST PART,

                                    -- And B

                  Warren Arseneau, 639 Montego Cr., Burlington, ON L7N 2Y9, in
                  the town of Burlington, in the Province of Ontario,

                  (hereinafter referred to as the "Consultant")

                                                           OF THE SECOND PART.

         WHEREAS the Corporation carries on a business consisting principally
of the development, marketing, and promotion of high performance insulation
made from recycled plastics (the "Business");

         AND WHEREAS the Corporation is desirous of retaining the Consultant to
provide labour or other services in connection with the Business of the
Corporation;

         AND WHEREAS the Consultant is desirous of providing such services to
the Corporation, on the terms and subject to the conditions of a consulting
agreement with Flat Rock Management dated May 15, 2000 (the "Consulting
Agreement");

         NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that in consideration of good
and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged by each of the parties hereto) it is agreed as follows:

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               ARTICLE ONE -- CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-COMPETITION

1.1      CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. The Consultant covenants and agrees that he
shall not disclose to anyone any confidential information with respect to the
business or affairs of the Corporation except as may be necessary or desirable
to further the business interests of the Corporation. This obligation shall
survive the expiry or termination of both this Agreement and the Consulting
Agreement.

1.2      RETURN OF PROPERTY. Upon expiry or termination of the Consulting
Agreement the Consultant shall return to the Corporation any property,
documentation, or confidential information which is the property of the
Corporation.

1.3      PROMOTION OF CORPORATION'S INTERESTS. The Consultant shall and will
faithfully serve and use his best efforts to promote the interests of the
Corporation, shall not use any information he may acquire with respect to the
business and affairs of the Corporation or its affiliates for his own purposes
or for any purposes other than those of the Corporation or its affiliates.

1.4      NON-COMPETITION. The Consultant acknowledges to the Corporation that
he may well be able to utilize knowledge and expertise gained during his
consulting service with the Corporation after termination of the Consulting
Agreement to the serious detriment of the Corporation in the event that the
Consultant should elect to solicit business on his own behalf or on behalf of a
competitor of the Corporation from the Corporation's customers, or interfere
with suppliers to the Corporation. Accordingly, for a period of 36 months after
the termination of his or her consulting services with the Corporation,
however, and for whatever reason the termination occurs, the Consultant agrees
that he will not within Canada and the United States of America engage in the
manufacture, supply or distribution of goods or materials in Business similar
to the Corporation, or provide assistance by way of labour or advice in such
Business to any party.

1.5      CORPORATION ENTITLED TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The Consultant agrees that
in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Consultant of any of the
provisions of this Agreememt or the Consulting Agreement, the Corporation, in
addition to and not in limitation of any other rights, remedies or damages
available to the Corporation at law or in equity, shall be entitled to an
injunction in order to prevent or to restrain any breach by the Consultant, or
by any or all of the Consultant's partners, co-venturers, employers,
consultants, servants, agents, representatives and any and all persons directly
or indirectly acting for, on behalf of, or with the Consultant.

             ARTICLE TWO -- DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

2.       RIGHTS TO ACCRUE TO CORPORATION. In view of the fact that the
Consultant may acquire knowledge of apparatus or of process used by the
Corporation or affiliated companies, and that the Consultant may devote time
and services to invention and discovery or improvement of products, apparatus
or processes the Consultant agrees and contracts with the Corporation as
follows:

2.1      The Consultant will advise the Corporation of any inventions,
discoveries and improvements made by him or while working with others, at any
time, during the term of this Agreement, and any discoveries and improvements
shall be held by the Consultant for the benefit of the Corporation and shall be
the exclusive property of the Corporation.

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2.2      The Consultant will execute, at the Corporation's request, any
instruments the Corporation considers necessary to assign to its Consultant's
entire right and title to any inventions, processes, discoveries or
improvements, and the Consultant agrees that this obligation will continue
after the termination of this Agreement. All notes and records kept by the
Consultant in connection with his services under this Agreement shall be the
exclusive property of the Corporation. The Consultant, on leaving the service
of the Corporation shall deliver all such notes and records to the Corporation.
The Consultant agrees that he will not disclose or use, during or after his
employment, any confidential information obtained by the Consultant in the
course of his employment by the Corporation, without permission of the
Corporation.

2.3      The Consultant agrees that the renumeration received from the
Corporation pursuant to the Consulting Agreement shall be full consideration
and compensation for services performed by him for all inventions, discoveries
and improvements and for assignments of the same to the Corporation. The
Consultant's renumeration may be changed without affecting any provision of
this agreement. On termination of the Consulting Agreement the obligation of
the Corporation to pay the Consultant any further renumeration shall terminate.

                  ARTICLE THREE --- GENERAL CONTRACT PROVISIONS

3.1      NOTICES. All notices, requests, demands or other communications
(collectively, "Notices") by the terms hereof required or permitted to be given
by one party to any other party, or to any other person shall be given in
writing by personal delivery or by registered mail, postage prepaid, or by
facsimile transmission to such other party as follows:

         (a)      To the Corporation at:    999 Barton Street, Stoney Creek,
                                                    Ontario L8E2D 5H4
                                                     Fax (905) 643-1442

         (b)      To the Consultant at:     639 Montego Cr., Burlington ON,
                                                        L7N 2Y9
                                                     Fax (905) 333-0560

or at such other address as may be given by such person to the other parties
hereto in writing from time to time.

         All such Notices shall be deemed to have been received when delivered
or transmitted, or, if mailed, 48 hours after 12:01 a.m. on the day following
the day of the mailing thereof. If any Notice shall have been mailed and if
regular mail service shall be interrupted by strikes or other irregularities,
such Notice shall be deemed to have been received 48 hours after 12:01 a.m. on
the day following the resumption of normal mail service, provided that during
the period that regular mail service shall be interrupted all Notices shall be
given by personal delivery or by facsimile transmission.

3.2      ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS. The parties shall sign such further and other
documents, cause such meetings to be held, resolutions passed and by-laws
enacted, exercise their vote and influence, do and perform and cause to be done
and performed such further and other acts and things as may be necessary or
desirable in order to give full effect to this Agreement and every part thereof.

3.3      COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts,
each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original and such
counterparts together shall be but one and the same instrument.

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3.4      TIME OF THE ESSENCE. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement
and of every part hereof and no extension or variation of this Agreement shall
operate as a waiver of this provision.

3.5      AGREEMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONSULTING AGREEMENT. This Agreement
is necessary and conditional to a valid Consulting Agreement between the
parties, and supercedes any provisions in the Consulting Agreement with respect
to all of the matters herein and its execution has not been induced by, nor do
any of the parties rely upon or regard as material, any representations or
writings whatever not incorporated herein and made a part hereof and may not be
amended or modified in any respect except by written instrument signed by the
parties hereto. Any schedules referred to herein are incorporated herein by
reference and form part of the Agreement.

3.6      ENUREMENT. This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding
upon the parties and their respective legal personal representatives, heirs,
executors, administrators or successors.

3.7      ASSIGNMENT. This Agreement is personal to the Consultant and may not
be assigned by the Consultant without the consent of the Corporation.

3.8      CURRENCY. Unless otherwise provided for herein, all monetary amounts
referred to herein shall refer to the lawful money of Canada.

3.9      HEADINGS FOR CONVENIENCE ONLY. The division of this Agreement into
articles and sections is for convenience of reference only and shall not affect
the interpretation or construction of this Agreement.

3.10     GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of
Canada applicable therein and each of the parties hereto agrees irrevocably to
conform to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of such Province.

3.11     GENDER. In this Agreement, words importing the singular number shall
include the plural and vice versa, and words importing the use of any gender
shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the word "person"
shall include an individual, a trust, a partnership, a body corporate, an
association or other incorporated or unincorporated organization or entity.

3.12     CALCULATION OF TIME. When calculating the period of time within which
or following which any act is to be done or step taken pursuant to this
Agreement, the date which is the reference date in calculating such period
shall be excluded. If the last day of such period is not a Business Day, then
the time period in question shall end on the first business day following such
non-business day.

3.13     LEGISLATION REFERENCES. Any references in this Agreement to any law,
by-law, rule, regulation, order or act of any government, governmental body or
other regulatory body shall be construed as a reference thereto as amended or
re-enacted from time to time or as a reference to any successor thereto.

3.14     SEVERABILITY. If any Article, Section or any portion of any Section of
this Agreement is determined to be unenforceable or invalid for any reason
whatsoever that unenforceability or invalidity shall not affect the
enforceability or validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement and such
unenforceable or invalid Article, Section or portion thereof shall be severed
from the remainder of this Agreement.

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3.15     TRANSMISSION BY FACSIMILE. The parties hereto agree that this
Agreement may be transmitted by facsimile or such similar device and that the
reproduction of signatures by facsimile or such similar device will be treated
as binding as if originals and each party hereto undertakes to provide each and
every other party hereto with a copy of the Agreement bearing original
signatures forthwith upon demand.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have duly executed this Consulting
Agreement as of the 15th day of May 2000.

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED
in the presence of

                                             /s/ Warren Arseneau
                                             ---------------------------------
                                             Warren Arseneau
                                             President, Flat Rock Management

                                             /s/ Robert Stikeman
                                             ---------------------------------
                                             Robert Stikeman, Secretary
                                             RTICA Inc.

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.6

                                 SECURITIES ACT
                                ESCROW AGREEMENT

         THIS AGREEMENT made this 18th day of September, 1997.

AMONG:

                  INZECO HOLDINGS INC., a body corporate pursuant to the laws of
                  the Province of Alberta

                                (hereinafter called the "Issuer")

                                            - and -

                  MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA, a body corporate authorized
                  to carry on business as a trust company in the Province of
                  Alberta

                                (hereinafter called the "Trustee")

                                            - and -

                  Those parties who execute and deliver this Escrow Agreement as
                  Security Holders

                            (hereinafter called the "Security Holders")

         WHEREAS in order to comply with the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Security Holders are desirous of depositing in escrow certain
securities in the Issuer owned by them and have for that purpose delivered to
the Trustee the security certificates described in Schedule "A", the receipt of
which certificates the Trustee hereby acknowledges;

         AND WHEREAS the Trustee has agreed to undertake and perform its duties
according to the terms and conditions hereof;

         NOW THEREFORE this Agreement witnesseth that, in consideration of the
sum of One Dollar ($1.00) paid by the parties to each other, receipt of this
sum being acknowledged by each of the parties, the Security Holders jointly and
severally covenant and agree with the Issuer and with the Trustee, and the
Issuer and the Trustee covenant and agree each with the other and with the
Security Holders jointly and severally, as follows:

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         1.       In this Escrow Agreement:

                  (a)      "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of
                           Securities Administration of the Alberta Securities
                           Commission Agency;

                  (b)      "Common Shares" means fully paid and non-assessable
                           Common Shares of the Issuer;

                  (c)      "Control Person" means a Control Person as that term
                           is defined in Alberta Securities Commission Policy
                           4.11, as amended from time to time, being any person
                           or company that holds or is one of a combination of
                           persons or companies that holds:

                           (i)      a sufficient number of securities of the
                                    Issuer so as to affect materially control of
                                    the issuer; or
                           (ii)     more than 20% of the outstanding voting
                                    securities of the Issuer except where there
                                    is evidence showing that the holding of
                                    these securities does not affect materially
                                    control of the Issuer;

                  (d)      "Major Transaction" means a Major Transaction as that
                           term is used and defined in Alberta Securities
                           Commission Policy 4.11, and includes a transaction
                           whereby:

                           (i)      the issuer issues more than 25% of its
                                    issued and outstanding securities prior to
                                    the completion of a Major Transaction to
                                    acquire assets (other than cash) or
                                    securities of another issuer;

                           (ii)     the Issuer enters into an arrangement,
                                    amalgamation, merger or reorganization (all
                                    or any one of which are hereinafter referred
                                    to as a "Reorganization") with another
                                    issuer whereby the ratio of securities which
                                    are distributed to the two sets of security
                                    holders results in the security holders of
                                    the other issuer acquiring control of the
                                    entity arising from the Reorganization;

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                           (iii)    the Issuer acquires significant assets
                                    (other than cash) or a business in any way
                                    other than as set out in (i) and (ii) above;
                                    or

                           (iv)     the Issuer issues more than 25% of its
                                    issued and outstanding securities prior to
                                    the completion of a Major Transaction for
                                    cash;

                  (e)      "Private Placement" means a Major Transaction
                           referred to in paragraph 1(d)(iv) hereof;

                  (f)      "Prospectus" means the prospects of the Issuer,
                           approved, signed and certified in accordance with the
                           Securities Act (Alberta) and relating to the offering
                           of Common Shares in Alberta by the Issuer;

                  (g)      "Related Party" means a person or company that is a
                           promoter, officer, director or other insider of the
                           Issuer, or an associate or affiliate of these persons
                           or companies.

         2.       Each of the Security Holders hereby places and deposits in
escrow with the Trustee those of his securities in the Issuer which are
represented by the certificates described in Schedule "A" and the Trustee
hereby acknowledges receipt of those certificates. Each of the Security Holders
agrees to deposit in escrow any further certificates representing securities in
the Issuer which he may receive as a stock dividend on securities hereby
escrowed, and to deliver to the Trustee immediately on receipt thereof the
certificates for any such further securities and any replacement certificates
which may at any time be issued for any escrowed securities.

         3.       Each of the Security Holders shall be entitled to a letter or
receipt from the Trustee stating the number of securities represented by
certificates held for him by the Trustee subject to the terms of this
Agreement. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that
such letter or receipt shall not be assignable.

         4.       Each of the Security Holders hereby undertakes and agrees to
deposit in escrow any securities of the Issuer watch he may acquire in any of
the following ways:

                  (a)      pursuant to the distribution under the Prospectus;

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                  (b)      pursuant to the exercise, prior to the completion of
                           a Major Transaction, of any option granted to him by
                           the Issuer;

                  (c)      in the secondary market, prior to the completion of a
                           Major Transaction, if the Security Holder is a
                           Control Person.

         5.       The securities deposited in escrow as aforesaid shall remain
in escrow and shall be released only on the written consent of the Executive
Director given to the Trustee. Any such release may be either total or partial;
a partial release shall release from escrow only the securities as may from
time to time remain in escrow until all the escrowed securities have been
either released on the written consent of the Executive Director or cancelled
pursuant to paragraph 14 hereof.

         6.       Except with the written consent of the Executive Director,
the securities held in escrow under this Agreement and the beneficial ownership
or interest in them and the certificates representing them (including any
replacement certificates) shall not be sold, assigned in hypothecated,
transferred within escrow or otherwise dealt with in any manner and the Trustee
shall not acknowledge or implement any of the foregoing. In the event of
bankruptcy or death of a Security Holder, the Trustee, on written notification
to the Executive Director, may transmit the Security Holder's securities by
operation of law to the trustee in bankruptcy, personal representative, or
surviving joint tenant as the case may be but, notwithstanding such
transmission, the securities shall remain in escrow subject to this Agreement.

         7.       Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 5 hereof,
securities deposited with the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement shall be
released with the written consent of the Executive Director, upon the Issuer
completing a Major Transaction (other than a Private Placement) as to one-third
(1/3) of the original number on each of the first, second and third
anniversaries of the completion of the Major Transaction. The Executive
Director, in his discretion, may consent to the release of securities on the
second and third anniversaries of the completion of the Major Transaction when
consent is granted for the release of securities on the occasion of the first
anniversary.

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         8.       The Executive Director may consent in writing to the transfer
or hypothecation within escrow of any of the escrowed securities, subject to
the transferee or mortgagee agreeing in writing under seal to be bound by this
Agreement and subject also to such other terms and conditions as the Executive
Director may impose, and the Trustee, on receipt of the written consent of the
Executive Director and of the agreement of the transferee or mortgagee as
aforesaid, may permit such transfer or hypothecation within escrow.

         9.       Any Security Holder applying to the Executive Director for a
consent for a release from escrow or to a transfer or hypothecation within
escrow shall, before applying, give reasonable notice in writing of his
intention to the Issuer and the Trustee.

         10.      All voting rights attached to the escrowed securities shall
at all times be exercised by the respective registered owners thereof.

         11.      The Security Holders hereby renounce and release any right to
receive payment of any dividend (other than a stock dividend) wech may be
pavable on any securities heid in escrow pursuant to this Agreement with the
intent that the dividend shall not be paid on securities which are in escrow on
the record date set for the dividend.

         12.      The Security Holders agree that, while any of their
securities are held in escrow under this Agreement, they will not, without the
prior written consent of the Executive Director, vote any of their securities
(whether escrowed or not) in support of any arrangement that would result in a
repayment of capital being made on escrowed securities prior to the
commencement of the winding up of the Issuer.

         13.      If the Issuer is wound up and any securities remain in escrow
under this Agreement at the time when a distribution of assets to holders of
securities is made by the liquidator, the Security Holders do hereby assign
their right to receive that part of the distribution which is attributable to
the escrowed securities to the Trustee, for the benefit of, and in trust for
the persons and companies who are then holders of securities in the Issuer
which securities are not subject to this escrow agreement, ratably in
proportion to their holdings.

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         14.      (a)      Any securities not released from the escrow hereby
                           created before the expiration of ten years from the
                           date of this Agreement shall be canceled forthwith
                           and the Issuer and the Trustee hereby agree to take
                           all actions as necessary to expeditiously effect
                           cancellation.

                  (b)      For the purposes of effecting cancellation of
                           securities pursuant to paragraph 14(a), the Security
                           Holders hereby irrevocably appoint the Trustee their
                           attorney for the purpose of canceling the securities,
                           with authority to substitute one or more persons with
                           the like full power.

         15.      The Trustee accepts the responsibilities placed on it by this
Agreement and agrees to perform them in accordance with the terms hereof and
with the applicable consents, orders or directions of the Executive Director.

         16.      The Issuer hereby acknowledges the terms and conditions of
this Agreement and agrees to take all reasonable steps to facilitate its
performance and to pay the Trustee's proper charges for its services as trustee
of this escrow.

         17.      This Agreement may be executed in several parts in the same
form and the parts as so executed shall together constitute one original
agreement, and the parts, if more than one, shall be read and construed as if
all the signing parties hereto had executed one copy of this Agreement.

         18.      The Issuer and the Security Holder hereby jointly and
severally agree to and do hereby release and indemnify and save harmless the
Trustee from and against all claims, suits, demands, costs, damages and
expenses which may be occasioned by reason of the Trustee's compliance in good
faith with the terms hereof.

         19.      If the Trustee should wish to retire, the Trustee shall
provide ninety (90) days notice to the Issuer, upon which the Issuer may, with
the written consent of the Executive Director, by writing appoint another
Trustee in its place and such appointment shall be binding on the Security
Holders, and the new Trustee shall assume and be bound by the obligation of the
Trustee hereunder.

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         20.      The covenants of the Security Holder with the Issuer in this
Agreement are made with the Issuer both in its own right and as trustee for the
holders from time to time of free securities in the issuer, and may be enforced
not only by the Issuer but also by any holder of free securities.

         21.      In this Agreement, the expression "the Security Holders"
shall include their respective permitted transferees within escrow and any
person to whom the interest of a Security Holder may be transmitted by
operation of law as provided in paragraph 6, and the expression "the Trustee"
shall include a new trustee appointed under paragraph 19, and wherever the
singular or masculine is used, the same shall be construed to include the
plural or feminine or neuter where the context so requires.

         22.      This Agreement may be amended upon agreement of the Issuer,
the Trustee and the Security Holders and upon the written consent having been
obtained form the Executive Director.

         23.      The written consent of the Executive Director as to a release
form of all or part of the escrowed securities shall terminate this Agreement
only in respect to those securities so released. For greater certainty this
paragraph does not apply to securities transferred within escrow.

         24.      This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding
on the parties to this Agreement and each of their heirs, executors,
administrators, successors and assigns.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Issuer and the Trustee have caused their
respective corporate seals to be hereto affixed and the Security Holders have
hereto set their respective hands and seals.

                             INZECO HOLDINGS, INC.

                             Per:     /s/ Warren Arseneau
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                                                                          (c/s)

                             MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA

                             Per:     /s/ name of signatory illegible
                                      -----------------------------------------
                                                                          (c/s)

                             Per:     /s/
                                      -----------------------------------------

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         SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED by the respective Security Holders whose
names are subscribed in the right-hand column below in the presence of the
respective persons whose names are subscribed in the left-hand column.

                              Security Holders

                              /s/ Martin H. Beck
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                              Martin H. Beck

                              /s/ Sheila M. Finn
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                              Sheila M. Finn

                              /s/ Doug W. Lammle
                              ------------------------------
                              Doug W. Lammle

                              /s/ William R. Beavers
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                              William R. Beavers

                              /s/Roger J. Short
                              ------------------------------
                              Roger J. Short

                              /s/Barry W. Lammle
                              ------------------------------
                              Barry W. Lammle

                              /s/Rob Griesdale
                              ------------------------------
                              Rob Griesdale

                              /s/Ken Unger
                              ------------------------------
                              Ken Unger

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                                  SCHEDULE "A"

TO THE AGREEMENT DATED EFFECTIVE THE 18TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1997.

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NAME OF                                                           NUMBER OF
SECURITY HOLDER                    TYPE OF SECURITIES            SECURITIES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                <C>                           <C>
Martin H. Beck                      Common Shares                 300,000
Sheila M. Finn                      Common Shares                 250,000
Doug W. Lammle                      Common Shares                 250,000
William R. Beavers                  Common Shares                 200,000
Roger J. Short                      Common Shares                  50,000
Barry W. Lammle                     Common Shares                 100,000
Rob Griesdale                       Common Shares                 100,000
Ken Unger                           Common Shares                 100,000

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