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A phase discriminator was a device used in many different types of technologies, including transporters, photon torpedos, and sensor arrays.
In 2151, when Malcolm Reed attempted to beam Crewman Ethan Novakovich up from the surface of a planet during a powerful windstorm, Novakovich rematerialized with debris embedded in his skin, due to the transporter's phase discriminator's inability to isolate the debris from the matter stream. (ENT: "Strange New World")
In 2152, Reed was able to use a phase discriminator to decloak a device placed on the hull of one of Enterprise NX-01's shuttlepods designed to generate a plasma stream. (ENT: "Shockwave")
Data's brain was outfitted with a type R phase discriminating amplifier. Lore, however, used a type L. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")
In 2368, most of the command crew of the USS Enterprise-D were able to use a phase discriminator, in conjunction with a subspace force field, to phase-shift into the time continuum of the Devidians, aliens who were using a synchronic distortion with a positive displacement of .004 percent to conceal themselves. Later, they outfitted photon torpedoes with phase discriminators to re-phase the force of the explosions into the time continuum of the Devidians. (TNG: "Time's Arrow", "Time's Arrow, Part II")
The next year, Captain Picard, Lieutenant Commander Data, Lieutenant Commander La Forge, and Counselor Troi utilized the same procedure, using the type-seven phase discriminators contained in emergency transporter armbands, to protect themselves from becoming integrated into the timeframe of a temporal fragment in which the Enterprise had become trapped. (TNG: "Timescape")
In 2370, as the Enterprise crew was testing a new photon torpedo guidance system designed by Lieutenant Worf, a radial imbalance in the phase discriminator of one of the torpedo's primary guidance module caused it to go off course. (TNG: "Genesis")
A biospectral phase discriminator was a standard component of a runabout's sensor array. In 2372, Doctor Julian Bashir ordered Chief Miles O'Brien to remove the discriminator for the Rubicon, as he required the device to further his investigation into developing a means whereby he could cure a group of rogue Jem'Hadar from their addiction to ketracel-white. O'Brien, however, used the opportunity to utilize the runabout's transporter to escape from the Jem'Hadar who was guarding him. (DS9: "Hippocratic Oath")
Later that year, after the USS Voyager had been duplicated by a subspace divergence field, the crew rigged a portable phase discriminator which could protect anyone passing through a spatial rift which linked the two ships from the deleterious effects of the spatial transition. (VOY: "Deadlock")


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Is good teaching like pornography in that we know it when we experience it, but we struggle to define it? This post considers teaching evaluation and prods (well, maybe more like fumbles around) the topic of classroom excellence.
My first thought, working in publishing, is peer review. Alexander Sidorkin writes in the introductory issue of Syllabus,
"[t]his journal is an attempt to recognize teaching by publishing the best syllabi, those that often go unrecognized."
The journal peer reviews syllabus and its first Table of Contents include seven from across the humanities and liberal arts. The American Sociological
Association has also launched Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, a peer-reviewed database of activities and syllabi.
My next thought turns to how students see the evaluation, indeed the educational, project. Naturally anthropologists have answers: They have studied the evaluation (as
Alicia Blum-Ross does in her article on "Teaching Evaluation") and the undergraduate student, as done by Michael Moffatt in Coming of Age in New Jersey and Peter Magolda in "Life as I Don't Know It." These anthropologists describe how students view learning and campus life and how professors might engage students in evaluation experiences beyond the fleeting RateMyProfessor soundbyte.
A last lens of excellence might be prizes. The AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the SMA MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award both honor teaching. Probably closer to home, most colleges and universities have several teaching awards and probably most anthropologists do not think to pursue
these badges, but probably they should.
The AAA's Resource Development Committee raised the funds to build a Teaching Materials Exchange to help anthropologists locate new ideas about readings, assignments, and topics to keep their students' interest in anthropology piqued and their classrooms vibrant. Add your materials to the discipline pool our best knowledge and ideas. Collective learning might comprise another dimension of teaching excellence.

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The Ferris State University men's and women's indoor track and field teams combined for seven first-place finishes during the annual Saginaw Valley State Collegiate Classic held Friday (Jan. 29) evening inside the Ryder Center in Univ. Center, Mich.
The non-scoring event included competitors from schools such as FSU, SVSU, Davenport, Lake Superior State along with various unattached athletes.
Senior Emily Cross won the 60-meter hurdles (9.22) and finished third in the high jump (1.61m) for the Bulldog women.
Senior Tina Muir placed first in the 3,000 meters (9:48.55) and freshman Alyssa Osika was victorious in the 800 meters (2:22.67) as the Bulldog women won three individual events.
Freshman Shelby Janutol claimed runner-up honors in the 800 meters (2:22.90), freshman Anna Rudd placed second in the 3,000 meters (10:18.37) and senior Megan Josey took fourth place in the 3,000 meters (10:52.85).
Junior Sarah Creed finished seventh overall in the 800 meters (2:36.04), sophomore Andrea Fogle was seventh in the weight throw (12.56m) and freshman Felicia Peacock was eighth in the 3,000 meters (11:19.21).
FSU also won the women's distance medley relay (13:01.77) and was second in the 4x400-meter relay (4:22.32).
The Bulldog men also had three first-place individual performances in the meet.
Senior Mike Mangieri finished first in the 800 meters (1:57.55), sophomore Tyler Crossman took first in the 3,000 meters (8:51.78) and sophomore Justin Price claimed first place in the 400 meters (52.78). Price was also fifth in the 200 meters (23.94).
Redshirt freshman Keith Curtis was fourth in the 400 meters (53.46) and sixth in the 200 meters (24.35) for the Bulldogs.
Senior Brian Reynolds claimed fourth place in the 3,000 meters (9:07.49) and junior Derek Childs finished fifth in the 3,000 meters (9:11.34).
Sophomore J.J. Vandenburg placed fourth in the shot put (12.91m) and fifth in the weight throw (14.32m), sophomore Jake Page took sixth place in the 400 meters (54.85), freshman Ryan Chute wound up seventh in the 800 meters (2:03.51) while freshman Gary Atkins placed eighth in both the 60 meters (7.51) and the 200 meters (24.47).
The Bulldog men also took both second (11:01.86) and third (11:15.67) in the distance medley relay along with fifth in the 4x400-meter relay (3:45.25).
In addition to the SVSU meet, the Bulldogs also sent a team of pole vaulters to the Grand Valley State Open on Friday (Jan. 29) evening in Allendale. Senior Greg Burns placed second overall in a field of 18 men's vaulters with a national provisional qualifying performance of 15-9 while sophomore Jessica Schewe came in third overall (10-0) for FSU in the women's competition.
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While we were impressed with the Radeon HD 7970's overall performance, which was a clear winner when pitted against NVIDIA's at-the-time flagship model, the GTX 580, since then, NVIDIA has retaliated with the release of their own 28nm GPU, the 'Kepler'-based GeForce GTX 680.
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And, while NVIDIA's GTX 680 is the best reference card we've tested, it didn't completely obliterate the HD 7970, which was close enough, especially on more taxing benchmarks that we could theoretically see it making up lost ground in an overclocked scenario. That is, of course, if the Radoen HD 7970 overclocks better than the GTX 680.
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As a side note, MSI's Lightning Edition Radeon HD 7970 was originally scheduled to appear as the third entrant in this duel (Mexican Standoff?), but our review unit was faulty, so we'll be revisiting that one when we have a proper working replacement unit.
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Just saying the name "fair" conjures sights, sounds and even smells of years gone by and fun days to come. On Wednesday, the 174th Erie County Fair opens at the Hamburg Fairgrounds with all of the usual delights that keep us coming back for more.
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NEW YORK (AP) — With Jimmy Fallon doing so well as "Tonight" show host, NBC's boss expressed no fear Monday about who will replace David Letterman upon the late-night comic's planned retirement from CBS sometime next year.
Fallon "is the best and no matter who CBS puts in that place, I think he'll still be the best," NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke said.
The NBC chief said he didn't think Tina Fey or Jay Leno, two people with NBC ties who have been mentioned as potential Letterman replacements, would be in the running. Fey seems happy making movies and shows for NBC, Burke said. Fey, who made and starred in "30 Rock," has a production deal with NBC.
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Fallon has topped the late-night ratings since taking over for Leno in February, and is particularly strong among the young audience NBC seeks. While the network was always confident in Fallon, Burke said the new host has easily exceeded expectations, and is even bringing viewers back to the 11:30 p.m. time slot.
"He has turned out to be, I think, exactly what America is looking for," Burke said.
Burke said he and his wife had dinner with Fallon during the Vancouver Olympics four years ago and left telling his wife that Fallon was someone who would be running the "Tonight" show someday. And as CEO at NBC Universal, Burke was in the position to make it happen.
"He is very unique," he said. "Whoever ends up doing the job at CBS, we wish them well. We think we'll do fine."
CBS was not talking Monday about candidates to replace Letterman, which have ranged from Stephen Colbert to Conan O'Brien to Neil Patrick Harris. The network isn't giving a timetable for when a selection will be made, and a day hasn't been for Letterman's last show, either.
Harris, an actor in the just-concluded CBS show "How I Met Your Mother" and a Tony Awards host for CBS, said Monday he hasn't had any talks about filling Letterman's chair. He is preparing for a return to Broadway in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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In rural southern New Jersey, GA seems to be going one way and high-end sports car racing another. Interestingly, they both do it at the airport.
The old Millville Army Air Field is some 40 miles west of Atlantic City. There, things mirror the long-troubled local economy. Big, beautiful World War II runways are underutilized. Famed jet engine over-hauler Airwork is long gone.
But now, there's N.J. Motorsports Park (NJMP). It's a winner! Depressed Millville was never known for swells driving Porches — until now. We arrived one October weekend to count some 20 high-end sports cars circulating downtown, many with race numbers on their doors. New hotels and restaurants have followed.
NJMP occupies 700 acres of the airport's substantial footprint south and east of its runways. Racers of any legal age can drive two road courses, the 2.25-mile, 14-turn "Thunderbolt" and 1.9-mile "Lightning," plus a 1.1-mile karting track. There are excellent paddock facilities, a driver's club and restaurant, plus trackside townhouse "Villas" rentable as "VIP Suites." A hotel and more amenities are planned, including a future ATV track and NASCAR-style Tri-Oval off airport property.
Millville was a World War II gunnery training base for P-47 ground attack operations, the ultimate best use of Republic Aviation's powerful but heavy "Thunderbolt." While the little Millville Army Air Force Museum there recalls how P-47 drivers practiced their strafing on old lighthouses in nearby Delaware Bay, it's race cars making the noise at KMIV today. Pilots chuckle over the irony; airport neighbors now complain about racing engines, not airplanes.
NJMP has grown fast, although locals say things have slowed recently. Yet sports car owners come from all over to enjoy their steeds, which are otherwise hemmed in by urban speed limits and congested roads in the Northeast. They gladly pay a $2,400 annual membership fee to enjoy the full potential of their cars.
Aside from the airport's annual air show, N.J. Motorsports Park is "what's happening" at KMIV. A fancy new FBO for the business jet crowd folded recently, although Boeing will do helicopter rework there. The Millville Flight Service Station left (pre-consolidation) after the air conditioning equipment fell though its ancient roof. For now, the Delaware River Basin Authority solicits local and non-aviation businesses to occupy base facilities while they lease open airport land for activities where outside money is still flowing – namely, motorsports.
The barrier between today's GA and this active, well-healed motorsports crowd may be more than the fence separating KMIV's quiet runways from NJMP's busy and colorful race courses. I hope at least a few of those Porsche drivers fly to the track.
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For many years, the professional con artist and charlatan Mark Goldes has relentlessly targeted the readers of Huffington Post and many other sites by posting thousands of spam comments advertising his fraudulent so-called "AESOP Institute." He obtains loans from gullible people by falsely pretending that his non-existent make-believe "breakthoughs" could solve the problem of climate change. The loans are never repaid.
Goldes' sham "AESOP Institute" has been his instrument to defraud and swindle people with false and empty claims of make-believe "breakthroughs" for many years. Mark Goldes has no "out-of-the-box new science" or "revolutionary technology," and is not "prototyping" anything at all – all he has is the same old fraudcraft he's been deceiving people with for decades – first at MPI, and then at Chava Energy LLC and his so-called "AESOP Institute." He does not have any "breakthrough technologies" or any engine that could run on the single heat reservoir of ambient atmospheric heat. Every heat engine requires two heat reservoirs at different temperatures in order to do any work. That is why Goldes' pretended "fuel-free piston engine" concept is not worth a nickel, as he knows very well. He has no "fuel-free engine" that could work at all. During his 46-year career in fraudcraft Goldes has never produced a single "proof of concept" for a single one of his countless fraudulent "concepts." He has deceived and defrauded gullible people for decades with his endless empty claims of make-believe "breakthroughs," by persuading them to give him loans, which he never repays.
Mark Goldes' so-called "AESOP Institute" is merely the latest elaborate fraud, in a long series of elaborate frauds operated by Goldes over the past forty years. Having abandoned several worn-out packs of fraudcraft used in previous years – such as his make-believe water-fueled "SPICE" engine, his "Virtual Photon Flux" generator, and his ludicrous horn-powered "POWERGENIE" generator – Goldes now concentrates his swindling efforts on just three remaining swindles: his "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE" swindle, his "FUEL-FREE TURBINE" swindle, and his "ULTRACONDUCTOR" swindle. Although the three swindles make use of three different packs of fraudcraft, they all consist in soliciting and obtaining loans and donations by means of false and fraudulent claims and pretenses.
Mark Goldes' skills as an Revolutionary Breakthrough con artist did not go unnoticed by Walt Jenkins, the CEO of H2 Global LLC, whose ludicrous "Water-Fueled Engine" fraudcraft is just as farcical as anything ever presented by Goldes. So Jenkins has recently made Goldes the Chief Promoter of Jenkins' fraudulent Water-Fueled Bus Tour "Climate Change Solution" fundraising campaign on GoFundMe.
Anyone who has donated any money to either Aesop Institute or H2 Global LLC should demand their money back, and also submit a complaint to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, which may be done online at www.ic3.gov.
1. Introduction.
1.1 Mark Goldes deceives and swindles gullible people by obtaining loans from them in a fraudulent manner, making use of false and empty pretenses that his so-called "Aesop Institute" is making "revolutionary breakthroughs" based on "astonishing new science." In fact, "Aesop Institute" is simply an elaborate fraud – just like Goldes' previous companies, Magnetic Power Inc and Chava Energy LLC.
Since Goldes has no "new science" and is certainly not making any "revolutionary breakthroughs," he has no way to repay any loans except by obtaining new loans. If the loans were ever actually repaid, Goldes' practice would be a Ponzi scheme. In the vast majority of cases, however, the loans are simply never repaid at all.
1.2 The professional charlatan Mark Goldes, starting in the mid-seventies, engaged for several years in the pretense that his company SunWind Ltd was developing a nearly production-ready, freeway-capable, wind-powered "windmobile," based on the windmobile created by James Amick; and that therefore SunWind would be a wonderful investment opportunity.
After SunWind "dried up" in 1983, Goldes embarked on the long-running pretense that his company Room Temperature Superconductors Inc was developing room-temperature superconductors; and that therefore Room Temperature Superconductors Inc would be a wonderful investment opportunity. He continues the pretense that the company developed something useful, even to this day.
And then Goldes embarked on the pretense that his company Magnetic Power Inc was developing "NO FUEL ENGINES" based on "Virtual Photon Flux;" and then, on the pretense that MPI was developing horn-powered "NO FUEL ENGINES" based on the resonance of magnetized tuning-rods; and then, on the pretense that his and Hagen Ruff's company Chava Energy LLC was developing water-fueled engines based on "collapsing hydrogen orbits" (which are ruled out by quantum physics); and then, on the pretense that his so-called "Aesop Institute" was developing strictly-ambient-heat-powered "NO FUEL ENGINES" (which are ruled out by the Second Law of Thermodynamics).
But of course, the laws of physics always make an exception for the make-believe pretenses of Mark Goldes.
Goldes' forty-year career of "revolutionary breakthrough" pretense has nothing to do with science, but only with pseudoscience, pseudophysics, and relentless flimflam, in pursuit of loans and donations from gullible people who never mastered physics very well.
Mark Goldes' "Aesop Institute" has engaged for many years in the very dishonest and unscrupulous practice of soliciting loans and donations under an endless series of false pretenses, that it is developing and even "prototyping" various "revolutionary breakthroughs," such as "NO FUEL ENGINES" that run on ambient heat alone – or run on "Virtual Photon Flux" – or on "Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits" – or even on the acoustic energy of sound from a horn.
Aesop Institute's make-believe strictly ambient heat engine is ruled out by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This has been understood by physicists for at least 180 years. There is no "new science" that has ever determined such an engine to be possible.
Aesop Institute's make-believe "Virtual Photon Flux" engine is based on the idea that accessible electric power "is everywhere present in unlimited quantities" – which we know to be false.
Aesop Institute's make-believe "Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits" engine is based on Randell Mills' theory of "hydrino" hydrogen, which every scientist knows to be false.
Aesop Institute's make-believe horn-powered engine is based on the pretense that a magnetized tuning rod could somehow "multiply energy" – a ludicrous notion, which is obviously ruled out by the law of conservation of energy.
Aesop Institute's very latest make-believe engine is a perpetual motion machine in the form of a self-powered air compressor, which proposes to use a turbine to compress air to spin the turbine to compress air to spin the turbine.
Aesop Institute has never offered the slightest shadow of evidence that it is actually developing or "prototyping" any of these make-believe physics-defying "revolutionary breakthroughs." All it has ever offered are mere declarations that it is doing so – unsupported by any proof whatever, of any kind whatever.
There are no "revolutionary breakthroughs" to be found on Goldes' fraudulent "Aesop Institute" website. There is only pseudoscience, relentless flimflam, and empty claims of engines that are ruled out by the laws of physics.
After founding Magnetic Power Inc in the mid-eighties, Mark Goldes and MPI soon developed most of the fraudcraftings which would serve as Goldes' offerings in fraudcraft for the next thirty years, not only at MPI, but also at Chava Energy LLC, and at his so-called "Aesop Institute." Goldes' partnership with Hagen Ruff, the other Co-founder (as well as CEO) of Chava Energy LLC, gave the Goldes-MPI fraudcraft a new lease on life, and accordingly it may be most properly termed the "Goldes-Ruff Fraudcraft." For the past five years or more, while serving as a Co-founder and a Chief Officer of Chava Energy LLC, Goldes used his chavaenergy.com email address as his Aesop Institute email address as well, at least until his very recent ejection from Chava Energy. In practice, Goldes made continual use of Aesop Institute to bring investors to Chava Energy, which for five years has based its pretenses on nearly all the same fraudcraft used by Goldes at Aesop Institute. The common fraudcraft has included the same fraudcraftings of water-fueled "Fractional Hydrogen" engines, generators powered by Zero Point Energy, "Ultraconductor" wire, "Ultraconductor" energy storage systems, and strictly ambient heat engines – along with the same false claims that "prototypes" of all these concepts were being developed, and would soon provide wonderful alternatives to fossil fuels.
1.3 Recently, after peddling the same old "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE," "FUEL-FREE TURBINE," and "ULTRACONDUCTOR" scams for many years, Goldes added a whole new scam to his line-up, by becoming Chief Swindle Promoter at Walt Jenkins' upscale swindling corporation, H2 HOGWASH LLC – sorry, we meant to say H2 GLOBAL LLC. (But HOGWASH is their specialty, you see; they have even developed a machine to produce it!) In fact, Jenkins' flagship scam – his ludicrous "Water-Fueled Engine" system – might even be Goldes' favorite swindle at the moment. So, let's take Walt Jenkins' "Water-Fueled Engine" system (a.k.a. the Hogwash-Fueled Engine System) as the first one to discuss.
2. "Give Me Money, And Be Part Of Hogwash History!" ALL ABOARD The First HOGWASH-FUELED RV!
On May 28, 2019, Walt Jenkins, the CEO of H2 Global LCC, posted a Fundraising Campaign on GoFundMe, entitled "Climate Change Solution," with a stated goal of almost 300,000 dollars. Jenkins indicates that your donations will fund a cross-country "Water Bus Tour" using an RV powered entirely by a "new breakthrough clean-energy fuel" – which, we are told, is actually a new form of water, which Jenkins claims can be made from ordinary water – even seawater – in H2 Global LLC's magic "Black Box." As of 7/6/2019, four people have made donations to this campaign. They ought to demand their money back from GoFundMe, on the grounds that Jenkins' claims are false and fraudulent – which they certainly are.
Jenkins started H2 Hogwash – sorry, H2 Global – in 2008, making the same silly claims he makes today. After eleven years, he still has offered precisely ZERO evidence to the world that he has ever created any new form of water. He has also provided no scientifically useful information at all about this "burnable water," beyond a few vague claims, which amount to nothing more than pseudoscientific gibberish. Of course, it is laughable to imagine that Jenkins was able create this mysterious water with just a small amount of electric power, yet tens of millions of chemists during countless millions of experiments of every kind have somehow never happened to produce or detect it – even though Jenkins describes it as "very explosive!"
But let's pretend, for a moment, that Jenkins really has created a new form of water, just as he says. We're very sorry to mention it, but there's still a big problem with his engine system. It's known as the Conservation of Energy.
Jenkins tells us that his "burnable water" can take the place of gasoline. He also declares fervently that the combustion of this water in his engine does NOT involve electrolysis, and that most of the energy released during combustion does NOT come from burning hydrogen or oxygen. Now, we know that when gasoline is burned, energy is released by the replacement of high-energy CH bonds with low-energy CO bonds. But the "burnable water" has no carbon, and no CH bonds; and Jenkins tells us that most of his combustion energy does NOT come from burning hydrogen or oxygen. Therefore, most of the energy released in his water-fueled engine can only come from the difference in stored energy between ordinary water and his "burnable water." But we are told that his magic "Black Box" can turn one form of water into the other with only a very small amount of electrical power. Therefore, the difference in energy between the two forms of water must be very small, compared to the very large amount of energy that would need to be released for the "burnable water" to take the place of gasoline. So instead of respecting the Conservation of Energy, Jenkins is offering us a system in which a great amount of energy magically appears from nowhere.
It is somewhat surprising that even during eleven years, Jenkins could not come up with a name for his wonderful new form of water, which (he tells us) will surely save the world from climate change, and bring billions of dollars to H2 Global LLC. Well, Mr. Jenkins, we have a suggestion for you! We have a name for your "burnable water." We suggest that you call it H2 Hogwash.
Anyone who has donated to Jenkins' fraudulent "Climate Change Solution" fundraising campaign on GoFundMe should demand their money back from GoFundMe,
[This Section still under construction, as of 7/2/2019 – please check back later!]
3. Three More Swindles To Choose From!
In addition to Walt Jenkins' Hogwash-Fueled Engine System, Mark Goldes is currently offering, at his Aesop "Institute," no less than three other swindles, of which you may take your choice!
And here they are:
* The "No Fuel Piston Engine" Ambient Heat Engine Swindle
Mark Goldes' "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the elaborate set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "No Fuel Piston Engine" fraudcraft, which includes a worthless and ludicrous pretended "engine" concept shamelessly presented by Kenneth M. Rauen.
* The "Fuel-Free Turbine" Perpetual Motion Swindle
Mark Goldes' "FUEL-FREE TURBINE" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "Fuel-Free Turbine" fraudcraft, which includes a worthless and ludicrous pretended turbine engine concept described in a patent application submitted by Boris Kondrashov. The application was rejected, quite appropriately.
* The "Ultraconductor" Room Temperature Superconductor Swindle
Mark Goldes' "ULTRACONDUCTOR" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "Ultraconductor" fraudcraft.
Now let us inspect these three swindles in greater detail.
4. The "No Fuel Piston Engine" Ambient Heat Engine Swindle
Mark Goldes' "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the elaborate set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "No Fuel Piston Engine" fraudcraft, which includes a worthless and ludicrous pretended "engine" concept shamelessly presented by Kenneth M. Rauen.
Mark Goldes claims that "Patent pending desktop piston engines that will run 24/7 on the thermal energy in atmospheric heat are being prototyped."
In fact, the worthless ambient heat engine concept at the center of Goldes' flimflam is a certain utterly ludicrous exercise in silliness, produced by Kenneth Rauen, that does not have any "patent pending" and never will. It consists of nothing more than several cylinders containing pistons connected to a crankshaft, with various open channels between some of the cylinders. There is nothing to make the pistons move or the crankshaft turn. Rauen has written many pages of tedious nonsense attempting to argue that the engine would work. It certainly will not work, and Rauen certainly knows that it will not work, and so does Goldes.
At any given time and place, the atmosphere only provides a single heat reservoir at a single temperature. In order for a cyclic heat engine to do any work, it must be provided not merely with a single heat reservoir, but with two heat reservoirs, at different temperatures. This is an inescapable consequence of one of the most well-established principles in all of physics: the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
To people who have never studied thermodynamics, it might seem that nothing more should be needed to power a heat engine than a reservoir of heat. However, that is not so. In order to do any work, a cyclic heat engine must utilize not just one, but two heat reservoirs, at different temperatures. This has been understood at least since 1824, when Sadi Carnot presented an equation relating the maximum possible efficiency of a heat engine to the temperatures of the two reservoirs. When the two reservoirs are both at the same temperature, the maximum possible efficiency is zero percent: the engine can do no work at all.
Goldes falsely claims that "Two decades of physics research indicate not only that this [single-reservoir atmospheric heat engine] may be possible, but that there exist exploitable exceptions to the current interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics."
This false and baseless flimflam comes from the very same person who has actually spent the last two decades claiming year after year that his make-believe "room temperature superconductors" would be validated "next year," that his make-believe "Virtual Photon Flux" engine would be validated "next year," that his make-believe energy-multiplying horn-powered-tuning-rod "POWERGENIE" engine would be validated "next year," and that his make-believe "Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits" "fractional hydrogen" engine would be validated "next year" – not to mention various other make-believe marvels. In fact, after a forty-year career in flimflam, Goldes has presented and validated a grand total of zero fulfillments of his endless claims regarding his make-believe "revolutionary breakthroughs."
There is no "new science" in any of Goldes' "revolutionary breakthroughs." There is only pseudoscience and pretense – and nothing new, at all.
Mark Goldes' proofless claims regarding his make-believe strictly ambient heat engine do not represent any new technology, or even a new pretense – they merely represent a rather old pretense.
"Before the establishment of the Second Law, many people who were interested in inventing a perpetual motion machine had tried to circumvent the restrictions of First Law of Thermodynamics by extracting the massive internal energy of the environment as the power of the machine. Such a machine is called a "perpetual motion machine of the second kind". The second law declared the impossibility of such machines."
"A perpetual motion machine of the second kind is a machine which spontaneously converts thermal energy into mechanical work. When the thermal energy is equivalent to the work done, this does not violate the law of conservation of energy. However it does violate the more subtle second law of thermodynamics (see also entropy). The signature of a perpetual motion machine of the second kind is that there is only one heat reservoir involved… This conversion of heat into useful work, without any side effect, is impossible, according to the second law of thermodynamics."
Goldes' make-believe strictly ambient heat engine would be a perpetual motion machine of the second kind, as defined above. Goldes is not developing any such engine; he is merely developing a pretense – as usual.
The Kelvin-Planck formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics may be stated as follows:
"No cyclic process driven simply by heat can accomplish the absorption of the heat from a reservoir and the conversion of such heat into work – without any other result (such as a transfer of heat to a cooler reservoir)."
Now, as you will see, the Clausius formulation of the Second Law may be stated with fewer words:
"No process is possible whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a cooler to a hotter body."
In fact, we can show that the Kelvin-Planck formulation may be deduced from that of Clausius. In the words of Enrico Fermi:
"Suppose that Kelvin's postulate were not valid. Then we could perform a transformation whose only final result would be to transform completely into work a definite amount of heat taken from a single source at the temperature t1. By means of friction we could then transform this work into heat again and with this heat raise the temperature of a given body, regardless of what its initial temperature, t2, may have been. In particular, we could take t2 to be higher than t1. Thus, the only final result of this process would be the transfer of heat from one body (the source at temperature t1) to another body at a higher temperature, t2. This would be a violation of the Clausius postulate."
Can anyone make a teapot that boils water by absorbing heat from blocks of ice?
Max Planck, in his "Treatise On Thermodynamics," explains how the Second Law of Thermodynamics "may be deduced from a single simple law of experience about which there is no doubt." Here is the "single simple law of experience" he proposes:
"It is impossible to construct an engine which will work in a complete cycle, and produce no effect except the raising of a weight and the cooling of a heat-reservoir."
This "law of experience" is very similar to a principle suggested by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin):
"It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects."
The "simple law of experience" offered by Planck is therefore commonly known as the "Kelvin-Planck statement" of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. But we see from Planck's "Treatise" that Planck himself did not quite regard it as a statement of the Second Law, but rather as a "starting point" or postulate from which the Second Law may be deduced.
Here is Planck's rendition of the Second Law itself:
"The second law of thermodynamics states that there exists in nature for each system of bodies a quantity, which by all changes of the system either remains constant (in reversible processes) or increases in value (in irreversible processes). This quantity is called, following Clausius, the entropy of the system."
The Second Law of Thermodynamics rules out strictly ambient heat engines.
Expecting an ambient heat engine to do any work, with only one heat reservoir, is exactly equivalent to expecting a teapot to boil water by absorbing heat from a block of ice.
Both processes are ruled out by the very same law – the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
"It is impossible for any device operating on a cycle to produce net work from a single temperature reservoir; the production of net work requires flow of heat from a higher temperature reservoir to a colder reservoir."
In a strictly ambient heat engine there are not two heat reservoirs at different temperatures; no reservoir would be available at any temperature other than the ambient temperature. Therefore the engine would have to DECREASE the total entropy – and therefore we know for certain that the engine will disappoint us. It will never be able to do any work.
Flow of heat from a block of ice to lukewarm water would also result in a DECREASE of the total entropy.
Once again: Expecting an ambient heat engine to do any work, with only one heat reservoir, is exactly equivalent to expecting a teapot to boil water by absorbing heat from a block of ice. Anyone who claims to be developing a "prototype" of such an engine is only developing a pretense, and nothing more.
For more information related to this swindle, see Section 12.1 Notes On Goldes' "No Fuel Piston Engine Swindle."
5. The "Fuel-Free Turbine" Perpetual Motion Swindle
Mark Goldes' "FUEL-FREE TURBINE" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "Fuel-Free Turbine" fraudcraft, which includes a worthless and ludicrous pretended turbine engine concept described in a patent application submitted by Boris Kondrashov in 2003. The application was rejected, quite appropriately.
In this swindle, Goldes declare that a "FUEL-FREE TURBINE invented by a Russian scientist runs on atmospheric pressure."
But when we read the patent application, we find that actually the turbine does NOT run on atmospheric pressure – it requires compressed air. This is clearly indicated even in the article by Kondrashov posted by Goldes on his flimflam website. Kondrashov says:
"To create a sample of such an engine, you can use ready-made devices, such as a load-bearing element – a low-power turbine module turboshaft turbine engine, and to compress the air… any type of compressor…"
Kondrashov filed his patent application in 2003. No patent was awarded.
Mark Goldes assures us in his note prefacing Kondrashov's article that "We understand the science behind this jet engine." But since he incorrectly describes it as an engine powered by "atmospheric pressure" – which it certainly is not – in fact he shows that he doesn't even understand that the engine requires a supply of compressed air in order to spin at all.
Although Kondrashov does pretend in some of his statements that the turbine will be powered by "atmospheric pressure," in fact it is evident from his application that the proposed turbine is made to spin only by the use of compressed air.
In his patent application, Kondrashov states:
"To set the above engine in operation, it is necessary to create pressure of working medium (e.g. air) in pneumatic accumulator 18. The compressed air is fed through check valve 19 and/or 20."
Thus, Kondrashov indicates that an external compressor must be used to fill the turbine's compressed air tank before the turbine can be started. But he tries to pretend that once the turbine starts to spin, there will be no further reliance on the external compressor – the spinning turbine itself will compress the air that is making the turbine spin. So despite his own false description of the turbine as making use of "low-grade atmospheric energy," what Kondrashov actually presents in his patent application is a perpetual motion machine in the form of a self-powered air compressor. This is probably the reason why no patent was awarded. It is exactly analogous to trying to use a generator to power a motor to spin the generator to power the motor to spin the generator. It doesn't work.
The application was filed in 2003, and rejected by the US patent office. A link to the application may be found below in Section 12.2 Notes On Goldes' "Fuel-Free Turbine" Swindle.
Let's look at the application. Under "Claims 1″ we are told:
"…kinetic energy of the obtained joined jet mass is used for creating a moment of rotation on the power shaft, characterized in that the working medium is presented by external gaseous masses, which before being fed to the jet device for forming an active jet are compressed in a compressor to the calculated level of pressure sufficient for creating rarefaction in the adding device…"
Somewhere else Kondrashov says:
"To set the above engine in operation, it is necessary to create pressure of working medium (e.g. air) in pneumatic accumulator 18. The compressed air is fed through check valve 19 and/or 20. On the calculated pressure level being reached, valve 21 is switched in use, which provides a calculated duration of flowing of compressed air out of the jet nozzle with a preset periodicity."
"…compressed gases instead of combustion products are used as the working medium…"
There are many other statements that make it plain that neither "atmospheric pressure" nor "atmospheric heat" power the engine – despite Kondrashov's claims, which are contradicted by his own description of the engine. In one section of the patent he mentions incorporating a heat pump, without ever describing or explaining what will power the heat pump. In other sections of the patent he seems to forget about the heat pump entirely. With or without the heat pump, he is presenting the idea of a compressed-air powered air compressor which would compress its own air, once it got started. We are never going to see that happen.
6. The "Ultraconductor" Room Temperature Superconductor Swindle
Mark Goldes' "ULTRACONDUCTOR" swindle consists of soliciting and obtaining loans and donations in a blatantly fraudulent manner, making use in particular of the set of false pretenses, false statements, false claims and empty promises to be found in his "Ultraconductor" fraudcraft.
The great high points of Mark Goldes' career in fraudcraft were the obtaining of four Small Business Innovative Research grants from the Unites States Air Force, which cost taxpayers roughly a half million dollars. In the fourteen years since the conclusion of the fourth project, Goldes' companies have evidently made no further progress in this area, at all – but that has not stopped Goldes from pretending that Magnetic Power Inc, or Chava Energy LLC, or "Aesop Institute" will be making Revolutionary Breakthroughs involving "Ultraconductors" as soon as you give them your money. In fact, MPI's own reports on the Ultraconductor grant projects consist of a succession of rosy and wonderful claims and predictions which went entirely unfulfilled by following projects, and remain unfulfilled today.
It is important to understand that the "Ultraconductor" film was only ever claimed to be "ultraconductive" to current across the thin dimension of the film – and not along the extensive dimensions. Therefore a strip cut from the film could not function as an "ultraconductive" wire. But MPI's great claim for years was that they would nonetheless somehow develop a way to to make "ultraconductive" wire. They never did so. MPI asserted that they would develop a way make the thin "ultraconductive" film thicker – and never did so. MPI asserted that their enrichment method would become the key to making thicker film and wire – but the method never did so. MPI asserted that their "Ultraconductor" film would surely prove wonderfully useful for making thermoelectric devices – but once again, the rosy claims went unfulfilled. MPI asserted that they would obtain "ultraconductivity" along the plane of the film, instead of merely across the thin dimension, by repositioning the supposedly "ultraconductive" channels. They never did so.
The USAF never "validated" Goldes' so-called "Ultraconductors" at all, and the USAF never gave Goldes any procurement contract for any "Ultraconductors" at all. The four research grants that Goldes obtained from the USAF were a waste of taxpayer money which never resulted in the development of anything of any value. Goldes' degree of honesty in the matter of the "Ultraconductor" grants is just the same as his degree of honesty regarding all of his other make-believe "breakthroughs." It is zero. Zero honesty. Zero "breakthroughs." Zero fulfilment of his endless empty claims – as usual.
Chava Energy's "Ultraconductor" fraudcraft was fraudulent first of all because Chava Energy has never done any development work with the so-called "Ultraconductor" film and therefore has never "continued to develop" the film at all, even though they pretended otherwise for five years. Just as Goldes had done at MPI, Chava Energy misrepresented the true prospects of the "Ultraconductor" material, which had never been found or made useful for any purpose, despite the substantial research funding that MPI had received in the nineties.
Mark Goldes was ejected from Chava Energy LLC during the fall of 2014 by Chava Energy's other co-founder, Hagen Ruff; and all the rosy fraudcraft regarding "Ultraconductors" and "Ultraconductor Magnetic Energy Storage" was suddenly removed from the Chava Energy website. Hagen Ruff had chosen to drop the fraudulent empty pretense of ongoing "Ultraconductor" development that he and Goldes had carried on at Chava Energy for five years – along with several other fraudulent empty pretenses.
But although the partnership ended, the fraud still continues – at Mark Goldes' so-called "AESOP Institute," where it is still one of Mark Goldes' three favorite frauds – along with his pretended "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE" and his equally worthless "FUEL-FREE TURBINE."
The reports themselves show that the so-called "Ultraconductors" are not "equivalent" to superconductors, since they do not show zero electrical resistance. That is why Goldes had to invent the name "Ultraconductor" in the first place.
As co-founder and "Chief Marketing Research Officer" at Chava Energy LLC, Goldes carried on the very same pretense he now continues at AESOP Institute: that "Ultraconductor" development "is resuming." After Goldes was ejected from Chava Energy in July 2014, all mention of the "Ultraconductor" pretense was suddenly removed from the Chava Energy website. It was nothing but a pretense, since no work at all on "Ultraconductors" was ever done at Chava Energy. Ultraconductor "development" never resumed at Chava Energy during the five years Goldes pretended otherwise, and Ultraconductor development will not be resuming at Aesop Institute, either. It is only a pretense and nothing more – just as Goldes' "Fractional Hydrogen" "ECHO" engine was only a pretense and nothing more; just as Goldes' "POWERGENIE" generator was only a pretense and nothing more; just as Goldes' "Virtual Photon Flux" generator was only a pretense and nothing more; just as Goldes' "NO FUEL PISTON ENGINE" is only a pretense and nothing more; and just as Goldes' "FUEL-FREE TURBINE" is only a pretense and nothing more.
There is no need to contact Mark Goldes to get the four SBIR grant reports written by Goldes' company MPI. A link to the four reports can be found below in Section 12.3 Notes On The ULTRACONDUCTOR Swindle.
7. Swindle Memory Lane
Several swindles offered in previous years by Mark Goldes' so-called "AESOP Institute" seem to have played out, and he longer mentions them in the comment-advertisements for "AESOP Institute" that we have found him posting almost every day on Huffington Post. His comments no longer ever mention, for example, the imaginary "Fractional Hydrogen" "SPICE" Engine which he claimed would take a car 1,000 miles on a gallon of water. His comments no longer ever mention the wonderful "POWERGENIE" horn-powered tuning-rod engine which wouldn't even need the gallon of water – it would be powered by sound energy from its own horn! (The tuning-rod would "multiply" the sound energy, don't you see.) Nor do his comments any longer ever mention the "MagGen" "Virtual Photon Flux Generator," or the amazing Ambient Temperature Thermionic Converter. Those swindles have played out, you see. But they they show the character of Mark Goldes very clearly – so let us inspect them in detail.
8. The "POWERGENIE" Horn-Powered Tuning-Rod Generator Swindle
In appreciation of its entertainment value, let's look at another example of Mark Goldes' wonderful offerings in "revolutionary new technology:"
The amazing "POWERGENIE!"
One of the most laughable of Mark Goldes' many pseudotypes is his "POWERGENIE" horn-powered generator. The brilliant idea of this revolutionary breakthrough is to blow a horn at a magnetized tuning rod, designed to resonate at the frequency of the horn, and then collect the electromotive energy produced by the vibrations of the rod.
We're not making this up.
POWERGENIE tuning rod engine explained – from the patent:
[The device incorporates] "an energy transfer and multiplier element being constructed of a ferromagnetic substance… having a natural resonance, due to a physical structure whose dimensions are directly proportional to the wavelength of the resonance frequency…
"In this resonant condition, the rod material functions as a tuned waveguide, or longitudinal resonator, for acoustic energy…
"Ferrite rod 800 is driven to acoustic resonance at the second harmonic of its fundamental resonant frequency by acoustic horn 811…"
– But the patent doesn't tell us who will volunteer to blow the horn at the rod all day. Perhaps it will come with an elephant.
Mark Goldes claimed in 2008 that this wonderful triumph of human genius would bring his company, Magnetic Power Inc, one billion dollars in annual revenue by 2012. Magnetic Power is now defunct, having never produced any "Magnetic Power Modules" – just as Goldes' company called "Room Temperature Superconductors Inc" is also now defunct, having never produced any "room temperature superconductors."
9. The "Fractional Hydrogen" "ECHO" "SPICE" Engine Swindle
Mark Goldes' make-believe "water-fueled engine" supposedly involving "Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits" is nothing more than copy-cat flimflam based on Randell Mills' bogus theory of "Classical Quantum Mechanics" (CQM) and "hydrino" hydrogen.
2009: Goldes seeks investors with fraudulent claims that his latest company, Chava Energy, "has been developing enhanced theoretical and practical paths that lead towards commercialization of energy conversion systems that utilize hydrinos."
Goldes has never stopped claiming to be "developing a Self Powered Internal Combustion Engine – SPICE(tm) powered by hydrinos."
Here is what the physicist Andreas Rathke has to say about Mills' theory of "Classical Quantum Mechanics," on which both Mills' "hydrinos" and Goldes' "fractional hydrogen" are supposedly based:
"In this paper, we have considered the theoretical foundations of the hydrino hypothesis, both within the theoretical framework of CQM, in which hydrinos were originally suggested, and within standard quantum mechanics. We found that CQM is inconsistent and has several serious deficiencies. Amongst these are the failure to reproduce the energy levels of the excited states of the hydrogen atom, and the absence of Lorentz invariance. Most importantly, we found that CQM does not predict the existence of hydrino states! Also, standard quantum mechanics cannot encompass hydrino states, with the properties currently attributed to them. Hence there remains no theoretical support of the hydrino hypothesis."
In other words, not only has Randell Mills' theory of "Classical Quantum Mechanics" been shown beyond doubt to be false , but it does not even support Mills' theory of "hydrino" hydrogen states, as Mills would have us believe. There are no "hydrino" states, or "Fractional Hydrogen" states as Goldes has called them. The whole idea is nothing more than a heap of flimflam, that a charlatan may use to swindle nitwits.
In fact, neither "AESOP Institute" not any of Goldes' other companies have ever done any actual work in this direction, at all. They have merely claimed and pretended to be doing so – just as they have falsely claimed and pretended to be working on various other worthless concepts.
10. The "Virtual Photon Flux" "MagGen" Generator Swindle
The make-believe "Virtual Photon Flux" engine is merely another exercise in flimflam, which Goldes has evidently judged to be played out, since he hardly mentions it any more. For more information, please see section 9.1 under "Notes" below.
11. Use of Pseudoscience And Pseudophysics.
12. Exploiting Concerns Over Climate Change.
An "MPI Overview And Summary" produced by MPI in late 2008 actually lists Hagen Ruff as the Chief Executive Officer of MPI, as well as a Director of MPI; Mark Goldes, who had been the CEO of MPI for two decades, is listed only as Chairman. This document also shows that a major component 0f the Goldes-Ruff Fraudcraft was already well developed in 2008: namely, the fraudulent pretense that the worthless "revolutionary breakthroughs" claimed by Goldes and Ruff could provide alternatives to fossil fuels and thereby shift the global economy "from one dependent on fossil fuels to one that exists on clean, fuel-free, distributed power" and thereby "help offset the consequences of global warming."
At the time when Hagen Ruff, as CEO of MPI, allowed this and many similar statements to be included in the 2008 "MPI Overview," MPI was claiming among its "breakthroughs" all but one of the seven fraudcraftings – all but Kondrashov's self-powered air compressor, which Goldes discovered in 2013. Ruff and Goldes knew perfectly well that not one of MPI's six claimed "breakthroughs" represented anything more than an empty pretense. They also knew that Randell Mills at Blacklight Power had obtained millions of dollars from foolish investors by means of his "hydrino" fraudcraft – and they saw no reason why MPI couldn't do the very same.
But Ruff's position as CEO of MPI could only have lasted a few months. Ruff and Goldes soon began calling themselves the Co-founders of a new company, Chava Energy, and the chavaenergy website was up and running by mid-April 2009.
13. Conclusion.
Mark Goldes' 46-year career of "revolutionary breakthrough" pretense has nothing to do with science, but only with pseudoscience, pseudophysics, and relentless flimflam, in pursuit of investments, loans and donations from gullible people who never mastered physics very well.
The relentless and pervasive dishonesty, fraudulence, and unscrupulousness, that characterized Mark Goldes' use of his company Magnetic Power Inc for over twenty years prior to the founding of Chava Energy LLC, has also characterized Mark Goldes' and Hagen Ruff's use of Chava Energy LLC and Aesop Institute since 2009.
Using the internet to obtain loans, investments or donations by making false and fraudulent claims is a federal crime. Anyone who has made loans or donations to Aesop "Institute" or H2 Global LLC should demand their money back, and also submit a complaint to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, which may be done online at www.ic3.gov.
14. Notes
14.1 Notes On Goldes' "No Fuel Piston Engine" Swindle
2008: Mark Goldes Claims MPI's "Patent Pending" Ambient Heat Engine Has Already Powered A Car For 4800 Miles; Claims MPI Will Earn One Billion Dollars Annually By 2012
In his "Executive Summary" for MPI of June 2, 2008, Goldes states:
"The company is now involved with a revolutionary, patent pending, technology, which converts ambient heat into electricity. This non-magnetic breakthrough has the potential to go to production in the near future. The system has proven capability to recharge batteries from heat extracted from the air; an alternative to the need to plug-in…
"Prototypes of the non-magnetic [ambient heat engine] system have been in operation for more that one year and successfully run an electric car for more than 4,800 miles with no need to plug-in."
In the same "Executive Summary" for MPI, Goldes claims that MPI's array of imaginary engines will earn the company one billion dollars annually by 2012:
"Revenues from licenses and Joint Ventures are conservatively projected to exceed $1 billion annually by 2012.
"2008: $25 million; 2009: $100 million; 2010: $300 million; 2011: $600 million, 2012: $1 b[illion].
14.2 Notes On Goldes' "Fuel-Free Turbine" Swindle
Here is the Patent Application that was filed ten years ago for Boris Kondrashov's perpetual air compressor, which Mark Goldes now calls a "FUEL-FREE TURBINE:"
14.3 Notes On Goldes' "Ultraconductor" Swindle
There is no need to contact Mark Goldes to get the four SBIR grant reports written by Goldes' company MPI – we have posted all four of them right here:
14.4 Notes On Goldes' "POWERGENIE" or "Genie" Swindle.
2007: Mark Goldes Claims He Will Demonstrate His Imaginary One-Kilowatt Horn-Powered Tuning-Rod "GENIE" Engine (aka "POWERGENIE") Within One Year; Hundred-Kilowatt "GENIE" Might Take Two Years
"A revolutionary breakthrough by Magnetic Power Inc., called GENIE™ (Generating Electricity by Nondestructive Interference of Energy) will make possible the elimination of the need for batteries of every variety. GENIE generators are expected to replace the need to plug-in a plug-in hybrid. 2 kW is all the power that can be taken from a typical wall socket. A pair of 1 kW GENIE generators are expected to demonstrate a compact, inexpensive, capability to end the need to plug-in, prior to the end of 2008.
"If the development of GENIE generators is put on a 24/7 footing, it may be possible to provide 100 kW systems that will fit in the space of a typical gas tank, on a prototype basis in perhaps two years."
– Goldes never mentions that the "GENIE" was actually to be powered by a horn.
14.5 Notes On Goldes' "Fractional Hydrogen" "ECHO" "SPICE" Engine Swindle
Here is a link to Andreas Rathke's paper, "A critical analysis of the hydrino model:"
And here is some more information:
And here is Randell Mills' hydrino-power patent application 6024935, "Hydrogen atoms and cells for energy extraction:"
14.6 Notes On Goldes' "Virtual Photon Flux" "MagGen" Generator Swindle
2005: Mark Goldes Claims His Flimflam-Powered "Virtual Photon Flux" Magnetic Power Modules Will Earn MPI (His Now-Defunct Company) 335 Million Dollars By 2010
For over twenty years, beginning in 1987, Mark Goldes' company "Magnetic Power Inc" (MPI) declared year after year that prototypes of its current pretended "revolutionary breakthroughs" would be presented for validation "next year." Not a single one of these countless claims were ever fulfilled before the worthless company was finally disbanded.
Here is an excerpt from a typical example of a fraudulent "Executive Summary" from MPI, falsely pretending to have already created a working generator powered by "Virtual Photon Flux:"
Executive Summary [November 14, 2005]
"MPI's mission is to supply the world with clean, abundant, and inexpensive electricity.
"The company is developing technology it calls Magnetic Power Modules(TM). Based upon breakthrough discoveries in MPI's labs, Magnetic Power Modules are being designed that operate continuously, without fuel, extracting electricity by converting abundant, renewable, Virtual Photon Flux (VPF), an energy source that exists everywhere in the universe. The process will create no pollution. The cost of electricity is estimated to be less than 1 cent/Kwh, significantly less than any competing form of power generation today or in the foreseeable future.
"Magnetic Power Modules will be scaled to a wide range of applications. They appear suitable for the relatively small power needs of consumer devices up through the massive needs of power generation plants.
"Revenues from licenses of Magnetic Power Modules are conservatively projected to exceed $200 million annually by 2009:
"2006: $10 million; 2007: $25 million; 2008: $75 million; 2009: $225 million"
"Following the VPF research in private laboratories around the world, and based on recent breakthroughs in MPI laboratories, prototypes are currently being built that the Company expects will soon receive external validation. The first in a substantial series of patent applications was filed in January, 2005. A plug-in hybrid car may be modified, to become a prototype powered by VPF for local driving, during 2006.
"The commercial potential of Magnetic Power Modules is huge, with applications throughout the roughly $1.8 trillion worldwide market for energy. The Company forecasts rapidly growing revenues and profits, with revenues beginning in 2006…
"Revenues from licenses of Magnetic Power Modules are conservatively projected to exceed $200 million annually by 2009:
"2006: $10 million; 2007: $25 million; 2008: $75 million; 2009: $225 million"
– Mark Goldes' MPI, November 14, 2005


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FORT WORTH, Texas–The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has recently received generous grants from The Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation and the Erwin E. Smith Foundation.
With a $25,000 grant, the King Foundation is supporting the museum's educator programs, which include interactive workshops that explore the museum's collection and special exhibitions, training sessions tailored to individual districts, programs for pre-service teachers, and materials related to American art available for free loan to educators through the Teaching Resource Center.
"Supporting education is one of the foundation's top priorities," says Michelle D. Monse, president of the King Foundation. "We are proud to help fund the Amon Carter Museum's extensive education programs, as they magnify the impact of the museum's collection and enrich the community."
"Last year, the Amon Carter Museum reached more than 4,500 educators," says Stacy Fuller, head of education at the Carter. "The King Foundation grant will allow the museum to not only increase the number of local teachers served but also provide additional classroom resources."
The Erwin E. Smith Foundation grant of $10,000 will allow the museum to broadcast Cowboy Close-Up, an interactive student videoconference. With the grant, the museum can provide a free broadcast for 40 schools, as well as provide participating schools with copies of the children's book Cowboy with a Camera: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer and other classroom resources.
The Erwin E. Smith Foundation, which works to foster an appreciation for Smith's photography and advance the understanding of the history of the open-range cattle industry in the Southwest, has been a generous supporter of the Amon Carter Museum for several years. The Foundation previously funded the development of the Cowboy Close-Up videoconference, as well as online collection and teaching guides. Approximately 7,500 students have been reached through the Erwin Smith-focused videoconferences since 2008, according to Fuller.
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Thomas University graduates students in the fall, summer, and spring semesters. Only ONE commencement ceremony is conducted for the academic year and takes place at the end of the spring semester. The 2019 Commencement will take place on Saturday, May 11, 2019.
Students who intend to graduate must complete the Application for Graduation by the stated deadlines the semester BEFORE they intend to graduate. Students who graduate in the fall are eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony the following spring. The deadlines for turning in this form to the Registrar's Office are:
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"With the FBI on board, Total Information Awareness will be able to implement its e-voyeurism on a much grander - and more intrusive -- scale," said Katie Corrigan, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "This undermines the wall between the military and domestic law enforcement, which in the past has resulted in real Americans getting hurt."
The ACLU's remarks come on the heels of reports that the Defense Department's Inspector General admitted in preliminary responses to questions from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that the FBI was working on a memorandum of understanding with the Pentagon "for possible experimentation" with the Total Information Awareness program.
Yesterday, Grassley sent a separate letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding further information about the program. In it, Sen. Grassley accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of being "less than forthright" in their lack of disclosures about possible law enforcement involvement in Total Information Awareness. Total Information Awareness had been billed as a military project designed to gather intelligence about Americans without prior suspicion of criminal activity. To transplant such an approach into traditional law enforcement would be an utter disaster for privacy rights and civil liberties, the ACLU said.
Sen. Grassley's remarks today echoed concerns expressed last week by Senators Russell Feingold (D-WI), John Corzine (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), all of whom support legislation that would put a hold on the development of Total Information Awareness.


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Master's in Design (MDES), Middlesex University, The UK
Leslie Speer is a designer and educator with more than twenty five years of experience in the design world. She received her BSID from California State University at Long Beach, did graduate studies at ENSCI in Paris, and received a Master's in Design from Middlesex University in London. She has worked for companies and clients in the USA, Europe and Mexico including E.I. Dupont de Nemours, Phillips NV, Praxis Product Design, Sun Microsystems, frog design, Case de Cultura (Tenancingo), and Banomex, among others. She has worked for over a decade with artisans in small villages in Mexico, Costa Rica, Cameroon, and China, helping them to create viable products for the world market. Her current work focuses on social entrepreneurship and on developing strategies for applying more inclusive participatory design methods to emerging markets in developing regions of the world. She was the Assistant Program Head of the ID program at California College of the Arts for 7 years, has taught a multidisciplinary course with UC Berkeley, and CCA for over a decade, and has just entered her 7th year at SJSU. She is founder and current Vice Chair of the IDSA Design for the Majority Professional Interest Section.


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Sunday, 27 September 2009
Saki - Episode 25 (Completed)
With that in mind, of course there's plenty of fan service (with lots of room for even more fan service on the DVD) on offer here, as all of the show's main characters gathered together in the name of getting naked in a bath. Oh, and to help Kiyosumi practice for the national championships as well. I almost forgot about that part.
It turns out that having all of these other top players from the qualifiers is going to do Kiyosumi a great deal of good, with Yumi Kajiki stepping up with some detailed statistics on many of the players who will be attending the nationals, while some of the girls who made it to last year's tournament also share their thoughts on who are the girls to watch. This leads to a mention of one Teru Miyanaga - Saki's sister, of course, which brings out some mixed feelings on her part which are only assuaged by Nodoka and the two girl's deepening friendship.
As if all the fan service wasn't enough of a tease, we're then taken right to the bring of the national tournament, and even given a few tantalising glimpses of Kiyosumi's opponents in action and the like, before having it swiftly snatched away from us by the end of the episode, and thus this series. As the graphics at the end says however, "we're just getting started!". Indeed we are.... Let's just hope Gonzo survives for long enough to deliver what looks to be the inevitable second season of the show.
Overall, I have to give it to Saki for absolutely exceeding my expectations - My early opinion of it was far from positive, with the show seeming to be a bit daft from beginning to end, but once the actual mahjong tournament started it had me in its claws from the moment on - Who knew that a simple game delivered via the medium of anime could be so compelling and generate so much edge-of-the-seat tension? But deliver it did, to the point where even those crazy mahjong "superpowers" seemed cool, and I ended up enjoying every second of the competition segments of the show. Even at the half-way point of this series I didn't think I'd be clamouring for a second season of Saki... Now it simply can't come soon enough.
4 comments:
- tripperdan99 said...
I concur whole heartily with your summary of Saki and would really love to see a second season. For them to bait us like this and not make a second season is rather cruel. Though I'm not a huge yuri fan, I really enjoyed the overall relationships and how the anime handled them. And I had no idea that a game could be made so thrilling! LOL
- 28 September 2009 at 15:22
- Wooster0001 said...
Actually if you checked out Hikaru no Go or even gambling anime (Akagi, Kaiji, One outs) you'll see the power of bullcrap come through :P.
- 30 September 2009 at 23:31
Well it was nice watching.... TILL IT ENDED!!!!
But I really enjoyed it.
The main character wasn't cool or betchy...(pardon my words) like they usually are. The "ending saki when it was the nationals" ploy wasn't appreciated. The storyline was REALLY appreciated.. By me.
So all I can say Is that I'm waiting for season 2 with HUGE knots in my stomach. So please..!!!! Make it worthwhile like the first season.
- 1 October 2009 at 01:33
i agree that a 2nd season is needed, i don't want another anime like this go to waste. like air gear 2nd season or the promise of a 2nd season of outlaw star that we never got =/
- 10 October 2009 at 08:00