v3.19.3

Commitments and Contingencies (Details) - USD ($)		1 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Commitments and Contingencies (Details) - USD ($)	Oct. 20, 2009	May 18, 2018	Sep. 30, 2019
Purchase Commitment, Excluding Long-term Commitment [Line Items]
Options granted			5,000
Consulting Agreement with Boxwood Associates, Inc. [Member]
Purchase Commitment, Excluding Long-term Commitment [Line Items]
Monthly fee under agreement	$ 2,000
Notice period to terminate the agreement	30 days
Letter agreement with Mr. Edward S. Vittoria [Member] \| Chief Executive Officer [Member]
Purchase Commitment, Excluding Long-term Commitment [Line Items]
Annual base salary		$ 200,000
Options granted		6,500,000
Cash portion of payment		$ 50,000

The notice period to terminate the agreement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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- Definition

Cash portion of obligated payment amount.

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- Definition

The monthly amount as of the balance sheet date that the entity must expend to satisfy the terms of disclosed arrangements (excluding long-term commitments) in which the entity has agreed to expend funds to procure goods or services from one or more suppliers, other than under a long-term purchase commitment or an unconditional purchase obligation.

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- Definition

Amount of expense for salary and wage arising from service rendered by officer. Excludes allocated cost, labor-related nonsalary expense, and direct and overhead labor cost included in cost of good and service sold.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 220
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(4))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=116634182&loc=SL114868664-224227

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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