Exhibit 3.1(a)

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
EQUISHARE DEVELOPMENT CORP.

A Nevada Corporation

I

The name of the corporation is: EQUISHARE DEVELOPMENT CORP.:

II

The principal office of the corporation in the County of CLARK, 216 South Fourth St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89101.

III

The corporation shall have perpetual existence.

IV

The corporation may engage in any lawful activity, subject to express limitations, if any. A principal business activity of the corporation is real estate development.

V

The total authorized capital of the corporation is Fifty Million Shares (50,000,000) of common stock, valued at (.01 cent) each share; for a total capital of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00).

VI

The corporation is comprised of Five Directors. The number of Directors may be changed by the Board of Directors.

VII

The liability of the Directors of the corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under Nevada Law. (Nevada Rev. Stat. 78.037)

VIII

The first Director of the corporation: Robert W. Ball; 3284 Broadmoor Blvd., San Bernardino, CA 92404.

IX

The original incorporator is: Jeanne Johnson; 8344 Melrose Ave. #23, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

X

The registered agent of this corporation in the State of Nevada is: Dean Breeze.

XI

The Board of Directors shall have the power to make, alter, amend or repeal the by-laws of the corporation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and executed the ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION, this 30^th day of May, 1990.

On the 30^th day of May, 1990, personally appeared before me, L. H. Joseph Jr., a Notary Public, in and for the said County of Los Angeles, State of California, JEANNE JOHNSON known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing Articles of Incorporation, who acknowledged to me that executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes therein stated.

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