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A Little Bit of History
Domino's Pizza was founded in 1960 in Ann Arbor Michigan. Today, it is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States (second to Pizza Hut) and has more than 9,000 established franchised stores in the world. An incorporation with a successful foothold in 60 countries has a lot of power over the pizza industry's reputation and the expectations of consumers with respect to the quality of service that a reputable pizza store should meet.
Domino's has a history of being the first of its industry to adapt certain unique marketing techniques. For example, in 1973 Domino's started advertising their 30 minute guarantee to customers. If Domino's couldn't deliver the pizza within 30 minutes of ordering, your pizza was free. This was the very first pizza delivery company to employ "free pizza" as a marketing technique. In the 1980s the offer went from a free pizza to $3 off due to political and legal pressures. Consumers began to speak out about the dangers of the 30 minute guarantee, expressing that it caused the delivery people to engage in unsafe driving. Eventually the 30 minute guarantee advertising campaign was dropped due to political and legal pressures.
What does this history have to do with the new gluten free pizza crust? Domino's has a history of being the first to use certain market techniques. Iroincally, the marketing campaigns employed by Domino's seem to have a domino effect: once Domino's does it, all of the other chains begin to follow suit. If history is to repeat itself, I wouldn't be surprised if more pizza chains not only start offering gluten free crusts but also follow Domino's lead with regard to how they offer this new product.
Domino's Gluten Free Pizza
As most people in the GF and Celiac community know, Domino's started offering a gluten free pizza crust on May 7, 2012. Ironically announced during Celiac Awareness Month, the pizza is explicitly stated not to be for people with Celiacs. The pizza crust, in a vacuum, is gluten free. What is the catch? Domino's hasn't taken any of the necessary precautions to prevent cross contamination. In fact, on their website they state "While the Gluten Free Crust is certified to be free of gluten, the pizzas made with the Gluten Free Crust use the same ingredients and utensils as all of our other pizzas." Here is a video that Domino's made to help get the word out about their new product. Their disclaimer starts off by saying "Because we are honest people, here is a disclaimer." For the record, a more accurate beginning to their disclaimer would state "Because we are lazy people, here is a disclaimer." It would simply take a bit more education, training and effort to provide a fairly safe GF option. If you watch the video you will see the disclaimer is followed by a narrator saying "Ok, enough already with the disclaimers we are really excited to tell you about our new gluten free crust…" Not only is the crust not actually gluten free but Domino's goes so far as to dismiss their disclaimer as if it is an irrelevant formality. In actuality, their disclaimer is the only part of their ad that is not (most likely) guilty of false advertising.
Issue #1: Gluten Free Labeling Laws
The FDA is close to formally establishing the legal requirements necessary to label a product as gluten free. Despite being on the books as an issue needing regulation for several years, it isn't until now that the pressure from the public is finally being recognized and responded to. I know that the FDA only regulates food products and not the restaurant industry but I wonder why we are ok with this. Government entities like the USDA and FDA protect the US populating by regulating highly distributed, manufactured food products and agricultural food products. This is important to prevent public health catastrophes related to contaminated food products. In general, it would not make sense to allocate government resources for regulating restaurants on a federal level because, for the most part, if a restaurant has contaminated products or unsafe practices it won't affect enough people for it to be considered a federal issue thus, the state and local levels are more appropriate to deal with such issues. Unfortuantely, this idea that restaurants are limited in terms of impact on the country as a whole is not true anymore. Specifically, we are talking about a pizza company that is located in every single state in this country with over 5,000 individual restaurant locations. The kitchen ingredients used by Domino's can affect a large part of the US population and, more relevantly, their institutionalized kitchen protocol can affect people on a population level as well.
If Domino's wants to offer a gluten free crust they should be subject to some form of regulation since their reach is so wide. If Domino's had a kitchen protocol that had all their chains set the ovens to a temperature that consistently undercooked meat, resulting in food poisoning, we would have a national health crisis on out hands. I don't know why we are turning a blind eye when it comes to gluten free protocol in the kitchen.
Furthermore, calling their pizza "gluten free" should be considered false advertisement, if not fraud. To me, their appeal to the gluten free market is abhorrent. The GF market base is depression-proof and has been consistently and substantially growing for the past 10 years. You should not be able to con your way into this market. If you take a chicken breast and dredge it lightly in flour before frying it, is this entree gluten free? NO. Is the chicken breast itself gluten free? YES. Similarly, if you have a gluten free pizza crust it is no longer gluten free if you cross contaminate it with gluten products (similar to a light dredging, if you will).
Issue #2 Corporate Precent
One of the main reasons that I find Domino's actions completely unacceptable is because of, what I consider to be, corporate precedent. California Pizza Kitchen sarted offering a gluten free pizza crust before doing their homework. They developed a crust but did not research cross contamination protocol. As a result, customers complained. Did CPK slap a disclaimer on their menu and call it a day? No. CPK pulled the pizza from their menu and started with the Gluten Intolerance Group to develop a strategy to make their kitchen safe for GF pizza cooking. Domino's justifies their lack of concern for cross contamination by saying that the crust is for gluten intolerant or gluten sensitive consumers. Interestingly, although Domino's argued that they are catering towards the gluten sensitive population, the Gluten Intolerance Group is the organization that stepped up to help CPK prevent cross contamination. I really enjoyed this post by Linda who points out that, of all the gluten sensitive people she knows, none of them have "mild" senstiives" and they do not appreciate a contaminated pizza!
Domino's has stated that they simply don't have the kitchen capacity to make a truly gluten free pizza. It seems reasonable that it might be hard to make a profit if they had to change their kitchen set up for this product. But then I think about PF Changs. Another nationally represented corporate restaurant chain that has successfully created a gluten free menu and has changed their kitchen set up to accommodate safe food preparation.
Before Domino's the precedents set up by various corporations trying to go gluten free has been in favor of trying to prevent cross contamination. I literally fear for the gluten free future of the restaurant industry now that such a large and financially successful company has started saying that it is ok to take the easy way out.
The Bigger Picture
Supply and demand: a fundamental concept in economics. If consumers demand a certain product, the market will supply it. Cost and availability are intricately related to this. What happens when the supply and demands get muddled and confused? Poor products. In response to perceived consumer demands restaurants and food companies are responding by creating gluten free products. The problem is that the market is not understanding the true nature of the current demand.
Supply is not the issue right now. There are so many gluten free products on the market. If current product supply were the issue I would pick up some frozen pizza crusts at Whole Foods, go to Domino's and ask them to heat it up for me. What is in need, the demand, is education and awareness. I don't need Domino's to create and produce a tasty recipe for a pizza crust. Udi's, among other companies, has awesome pizza crust already. What is needed is a safe place to dine.
I just want to remind my readers that CPK stopped offering their gluten free pizza until they could establish a safe kitchen environment in response to a letter by a customer. If you want Domino's to take accountability then send them a letter (or write them an email) explaining why taking the GF pizza one step further could make a huge difference in your life and in the lives of many other people with Celiacs or gluten sensitivity.
Here is their mailing address:
Domino's Pizza LLC
30 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
(734) 930-3030
Check out my posts on the importance of writing letters and letter writing tips for advice.
Check out their letter from Alice Bast discussing their involvement with Domino's Pizza. NFCA has taken a lot of heat for seemingly endorsing Domino's. Domino's reached out to NFCA to consult about their new gluten free product. NFCA informed Domino's that the pizza is not safe for Celiacs and reviewed their ingredient lists and kitchen practices to draw this conclusion. Although the Amber designation is fairly controversial, it is better than Domino's advertising their pizza as gluten free without a disclaimer. Check out this post by Linda from theglutenfreehomemaker.com about why the amber designation may be a huge step back for the Celiac Community. Without NFCA Domino's might have simply not let consumers know about the serious cross contamination risks.


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In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer presided over a launch event in Redmond for partners and customers. Though the event was not streamed live, Microsoft plans to broadcast a recorded version on Thursday.
The release is a major new version of Microsoft's CRM platform but is also noteworthy because it is the first Microsoft cloud-based product to mirror the features of its premises-based counterpart. Microsoft is actually making available the online version in advance of the software, which will be released to manufacturing on Feb. 28.
Dynamics CRM 2011 looks to erase much of the objections to earlier versions of the product addressed by competitive offerings. It will have support for improved data visualizations, real-time dashboards and cloud development. Microsoft is releasing Dynamics CRM 2011 globally in 40 markets and 41 languages.
The company has not announced pricing for the premises-based version (it plans to do so around the time of RTM) but is offering an introductory price for the online version of $34 per user per month, a $10 discount available though June 30 for a 12-month period. Company officials argue that is vastly less expensive than comparable offerings from Salesforce.com and Oracle.
Despite their market lead, Microsoft could give the two companies a run for their money, said Forrester analyst William Band. "Oracle and Salesforce have strong CRM solutions, but the aggressive pricing from Microsoft will cause buyers to give Dynamics CRM 2011 a serious look," Band said in an e-mail.
"What we are delivering is full CRM, a better user experience, really simple and agile customization with .NET and ultimately a lower cost for our customers as well," said Bill Patterson, Microsoft's director of product management for Dynamics CRM. "We are excited about what this release means for not just Microsoft but for the CRM market as a whole."
The new Dynamics CRM offering will feature an online marketplace that will let partners and customers find, download and implement custom and packaged extensions. More than 650 partners are listed on the marketplace with over 740 professional services offerings listed. "Every partner and ISV I talk to right now is very excited about taking their assets and sticking them into the marketplace for distribution," Patterson said.
Microsoft said 11,500 customers and 2,000 partners have tested the beta. "What they are telling us is this is one of the most transformative releases they have seen not only from Microsoft's Dynamics CRM but from Microsoft," Patterson said.
Making it so called transformative is the fact that users can get a rich view of their sales, marketing and service data in a common view, through Outlook, a browser and mobile devices that can be personalized by users. On the mobile front, it will support Windows Phone 7, Google Android and Apple iPhones, Patterson said.
In addition to the real-time dashboards, Dynamics CRM 2011 offers business intelligence capability for both performance and goal management. Dynamics CRM 2011 runs on Windows Azure and supports connectivity to SharePoint. "This is really where we start to see the power of productivity kick in, and this is the last mile that a lot of business application vendors have failed to focus on," Patterson said.
One Salesforce.com customer that has switched to Dynamics CRM Online is electronic design automation software company Magna Design Automation, which preferred the way Microsoft offers reporting, the flexibility of its change process and the cost, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft intends to aggressively pursue Salesforce.com and Oracle customers and is offering customers who switch through June 30, $200 per user to apply toward services to migrate data or for customization.
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Jeffrey Schwartz is editor of Redmond magazine and also covers cloud computing for Virtualization Review's Cloud Report. In addition, he writes the Channeling the Cloud column for Redmond Channel Partner. Follow him on Twitter @JeffreySchwartz.
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Well Vishal, I was surprised to know u are aware about Aptify CRM for Association Management.We enjoy the CRM very much as there is no need to have a .net professional to customize the software. Not even for adding columns on the forms. We do not have to even touch the database to add additional coulmns on the forms. The software is intelligent enough to do that all on its own. In most of the cases people need to have programming professionals to have these changes done for example in case of MS Dynamic CRM there will be a need for .net professional.
Microsoft is gunning into the air for nothing. First and foremost thing is MS Dynamic CRM is not targetted towards any specific domain. The MS Dynamic CRM wont hurt any product significantly. The reason is very simple, it is a core CRM product and not focussed on specific areas. For example products like www.aptify.com or www.avectra.com are specially created taking into consideration Association Management, www.salesforce.com is created for Sales Force Automation apart from core CRM features. Apart from that MS Dynamic CRM is not very flexibile when it comes to customizations. Where as all the above mentioned products like www.aptify.com or www.salesforce.com provide huge potential for customers to customize the product as per their wish without involving many technicians. Just by reducing price huge customerbase could not be achieved. Also the established products like www.salesforce.com could not be targetted.
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St. Louis Community Stewardship Grant Program
Got a habitat problem in your community? Get help solving it. MDC's Community Stewardship Grant program supports urban wildlife habitat improvement, encourages organizational partnerships for land stewardship and engages urban residents in community conservation through volunteering.
Eligible Groups
Program funding is available to non-profit organizations, parks departments and other land-management entities and volunteer groups within the St. Louis metropolitan area. Eligible areas include St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. Charles County and Jefferson County, and incorporated areas (in municipalities or townships) of Franklin, Lincoln and Warren Counties.
Projects Involving Cost-Share or In-Kind Contributions Preferred
Projects eligible for funding include (but aren't limited to) stream restoration, prairie or native warm-season grass reconstruction, or exotic species control and replanting. Grant requests should not exceed $15,000, and preference will be given to projects that involve cost-share or in-kind contributions.
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We were stomping down the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum, full of art and fashion, when we smacked into a guy wearing a sandwich board. Never a good look.
It read: "Going out of business," which didn't surprise me. It read: "Betsey Johnson," which did.
I thought Betsey Johnson, she of the short hemlines and tight bustiers, was eternal. Not that I belong to the Betsey Johnson cohort. But I remember those days fondly.
I sized up my traveling companions: teen girl, who might take an interest. Teen boy, who might not. We marched to Betsey's. It was fur-upholstered, loud, floral, sweet-and-sassy. Retro, in a good way. My Betsey-to-be tried on short this and tight that. I tried distracting the short-on-patience sort.
Soon I evacuated him down the block to E.A.T., the eternally delicious cafe run by the eternal Eli Zabar. Everything at E.A.T. is over-the-top, especially the lemon-meringue cake.
Which is lemon-meringue pie, only better. It offers contrast: sweet white cake and sassy lemon curd under a thick cloud of fluff. It's burnished into a triumph of curls and swirls. Retro, in a good way.
Betsey finished shopping. She brought news: Betsey Johnson was shutting down her store, not her brand. We all had at a massive wedge of cake. We praised art, and fashion and the eternal appeal of over-the-top fluff.
Lemon meringue cake
Prep: 2 hours
Bake: 25 minutes
Makes: 1 9-inch cake
Meyer lemon curd
1 cup lemon juice (squeezed from about 8 Meyer lemons)
3/4 cup sugar
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
8 egg yolks
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Whisk over medium heat until thick, about 10 minutes. Strain into a clean glass jar. Cool. Cover. Chill.
White cake
3 cups sifted cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Beat butter and sugar fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each. Add flour and milk (mixed with vanilla) in alternating doses, beating just until combined. Scrape batter into 3 buttered and floured 9-inch cake pans. Slide into a 350-degree oven and bake until a toothpick poked in the center comes out clean, about 20-25 minutes. Cool.
8 egg whites
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Combine all ingredients in the stand mixer's bowl. Set bowl over a pan of simmering water. Whisk until hot, about 5 minutes. Snap bowl into mixer and whisk on high until thick, fluffy and cool, about 5 minutes.
To assemble:
Stack up cake layers, sandwiching lemon curd between. Slather with swirls of meringue. If you've got a kitchen torch, brown lightly. Enjoy.
Inspired by E.A.T. in NYC.
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Daniel F. Mitchell, 53, was bitten by a rattlesnake Sept. 20 in Salem, a Cherokee County community near the Georgia state line, said Phillip Winkles, chief of the Piedmont Rescue Squad. The rescue squad responded to a call from Mitchell's home in the Pleasant Gap community on Cherokee County Road 8 at 5:19 p.m. A friend had driven Mitchell home, and the ambulance picked him up there, Winkles said.
Winkles said the ambulance took Mitchell to Regional Medical Center Jacksonville, but that during the trip he went into cardiac arrest.
Mitchell was resuscitated after he received antivenin for the bite, but he was unresponsive, Winkles said. Piedmont Rescue returned to the Jacksonville hospital less than three hours later to transfer Mitchell to the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center in Anniston, Winkles said. Mitchell died on Tuesday.
Efforts to reach Mitchell's family on Friday were unsuccessful.
RMC emergency room physician Dr. Vinit Patel said when snakebite victims come in, the hospital calls the Poison Control Center in Birmingham for protocols on how to treat the bite. Depending on the type of snake, the center gives instructions for the treatment, Patel said.
The Regional Poison Control Center at Children's of Alabama has a record of just one death from a snake bite in Alabama in the last five years, a spokeswoman for the hospital said. The spokeswoman was unsure whether the recorded death was Mitchell's.
Deaths resulting from snake bites are very rare in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are between 7,000 and 8,000 venomous-snake bites across the nation each year, but only about five deaths, according to the website.
Whit Gibbons, a retired professor at the University of Georgia and author of "Snakes of the Southeast," said there are probably more like five to 10 deaths each year.
The deaths are rare in the United States for a couple of reasons, Gibbons said. First, the vast majority of bites are from copperheads, the venom of which is relatively mild, Gibbons said.
"It hurts a lot, but fatalities are very rare," he said.
In addition, snakes in the wild need their venom to survive. They use the venom to kill prey they want to eat; but snakes don't eat people, he said. If a person approaches a snake, it tries to warn them off with a "dry" bite or a bite with very little venom, Gibbons said.
"It's a threat display, not an effort to kill something," he said.
If someone dies from a snake bite, it's usually from a pet snake, Gibbons said.
Pet snakes don't have to hunt to eat. They have a lot of venom and may mistake their owner's hand as food and give it the full-force bite, Gibbons said.
The most common venomous snakes in Calhoun County are copperheads and timber rattlesnakes, Gibbons said.
Staff writer Laura Camper: 256-235-3545. On Twitter @LCamper_Star.


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Archive for the 'rogue anti-spyware' tag
How to get rid of spyware, viruses, phishing, adware, etc.
Let's start with some terminology for those that may not know these terms:
SPYWARE: Spyware is software that downloads itself to your computer without you even knowing it. It can be automatically downloaded by a website owner that has gotten paid to install it on your computer, or just by visiting a site you can get infected. Sometimes it is installed on your PC when you install another piece of software. Spyware will change your system configurations, monitor your on-line activity and broadcast the information back to an outside party (usually advertisers.) It will collect your personal information, user names, passwords, account numbers, driver's license number, social security numbers, etc. Spyware is not a virus.
SPYWARE INFECTION: Usually carried by freeware or shareware programs that can be downloaded from media-supported sites and worms its way into your computer to monitor and report what you are doing. This additional tracking software on your system, is continuously "calling home", using your Internet connection and reporting statistical data to the "mothership" (a company or person you do not know).
ADWARE: Adware is a type of software that collects information about the user in order to display targeted advertisements to the user. (Advertising Supported software) This is the way for shareware authors to make money from a product, other than selling it to the users. There are several large media companies that offer them to place banner ads in their products in exchange for a portion of the revenue from banner sales. This way you don't have to pay for the software and the developers are still getting paid. If the banners are annoying to you, there is usually an option to remove them by paying a regular licensing fee.
MALWARE: Malware is malicious software that has been designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system and includes, computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, most root kits, spy ware, dishonest adware, crimeware, and other unwanted and malicious software. Malware is also known as a computer contaminant.
CRIMEWARE: A computer program or a set of computer programs designed to facilitate illegal activity online. Many spyware programs, browser hijackers, and keyloggers can be considered crimeware. A phishing kit is a common type of crimeware.
SPYWARE TROJANS, REMOTE ACCESS TROJANS (RATs), TROJAN HORSE: Malicious programs that run on your computer, permitting an intruder (cyber criminal) remote access to your computer. Trojans are the first stage of an attack and their primary purpose is to stay hidden in your computer while downloading and installing a stronger threat – such as a BOT. Trojans cannot spread by themselves like a virus or a worm can; they are usually delivered to a victim through an email message, coming through as an image or a joke, or a malicious website, which installs the Trojan horse on your computer through vulnerabilities in web browser software such as Microsoft Explorer. Once it is installed, the Trojan horse will lurk silently, invisibly carrying out it misdeeds, such as downloading spyware.
STALKING HORSES: Spyware that is generally bundled into many programs and can also be presented in the installation as desirable additions to the main software, the Trojan horse that you are installing.
BOTS, INTERNET BOTS, WEB ROBOTS, WWW BOTS, BOTNETS: Software applications that run automated tasks over the internet; performing at high rates and used mostly in web spidering. BOTS take control of your computer and make it participate in networks called BOTNETS that harness massive computing power and Internet bandwidth to relay spam, attack web servers, infect more computers, etc.
WEB SPIDERING: The use of bots, for fetching and analyzing files information from web servers.
BROWSER HELPER OBJECTS (BHOs): A plug-in designed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer to help developers customize and control the browser and improve it with new features. Most BHO's are helpful but they can also be exploited to install features or functions that are malicious. To view the BHO's that are currently installed in Internet Explorer click on TOOLS, then MANAGE ADD-ONS. BHODemon can be used to detect and remove malicious BHO's. If you are worried about BHO's, you can switch to Firefox which BHO's cannot impact.
KEYLOGGERS, KEYBOARD LOGGERS: A keylogger is a program that logs all the activity of your keyboard and reports this information back to a remote computer. This information is used to steal passwords, bank information, etc. This program runs in the background and records every keystroke. The attacker then peruses them carefully hoping to find passwords, or other personal information that can be used against your computer or you. Some keyloggers capture screens instead of keystrokes. Keyloggers are also used as a surveillance tool by employers to ensure employees use work computers for business purposes only.
MODEM HIJACKER, PHONE DIALER: This is an application that changes the phone number dialed when using a dial-up internet connection so charges are incurred on your phone bill.
IDENTITY THEFT: Identity theft is a crime involving fraud when someone pretends to be someone else in order to steal money or other things from another by wrongfully obtaining and using another person's data – Social Security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands.
HIJACKERS, BROWSER HIJACKERS: A form of malware or spyware that replaces your existing internet browser home page, error page, or search page with its own. Usually you are forced to a particular site for advertising or marketing purposes. You can do a search in Google and instead of getting the results back from Google, your search request is hijacked and sent to another search engine.
BACKDOORS, BACKDOOR SANTAS: These are programs that you can download off the internet and contain valid uses, but they do collect information and statistics on the sites you visit, the type of hardware, etc. and this information is transmitted back to the servers. They usually do not work with adware products.
ROGUE ANTI-SPYWARE: Software that is mostly used by those that are running Microsoft Windows to detect and remove spyware. Many anti-spyware programs are fake alerts and false promises that trick you into buying the software. Antivirus System PRO can install itself on your computer without your permission through trojans and browser security holes. It configures itself to run automatically every time your computer starts, scanning your computer and listing a lot of threats to trick you into buying the paid version of the rogue. The threats are all fake – you can ignore them. This is the display you may see:
Windows Security alert
Windows reports that computer is infected. Antivirus software
helps to protect your computer against viruses and other
security threats. Click here for the scan your computer. Your
system might be at risk now.
Antivirus System PRO will also install an Internet Explorer BHO module (iehelper.dll) that will hijack Internet Explorer and randomly shows a message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. Needed Powerful PC Protection" and uses a fake address (security.Microsoft.com) instead of the site you are trying to browse to:
Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Most likely causes:
The website contains exploits that can launch a malicious code on your computer
Suspicious network activity detected
There might be an active spyware running on your computer
What you can try:
- Purchase Antivirus System PRO for secure Internet surfing (Recommended).
- Check your computer for viruses and malware.
- More information
Once again the warning is fake and should be ignored.
You can uninstall Antivirus System Pro from your computer.
VIRUS: A computer virus is a program that reproduces itself. It can attach to other programs or create copies of itself; it can damage or corrupt files and data, change data, etc.
A BOOT SECTOR COMPUTER VIRUS: Your computer will not successfully boot, the virus stays in memory and infects floppies and other media when they are written to the infected computer; becoming less common now that floppy disks have become rarer.
MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) COMPUTER VIRUS: Similar to boot viruses, except they infect the MBR (Master Boot Record) instead of the boot sector.
FILE INFECTOR VIRUSES: Infect files that have executable codes such as .EXE and .COM files.
MACRO VIRUSES: Infect certain types of data files such as Microsoft Office files, word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Power Point Presentations, and Access Databases – usually using the Visual Basic macro language built into Microsoft Applications.
MULTI-PARTITE VIRUSES: These share the characteristics of more than one virus type, possibly infecting both the boot record and program files.
WORM, COMPUTER WORM: Malicious software applications designed to spread through computer networks. They are one form of malware associated with viruses and Trojans. Worms are usually sent through email attachments or messages that contain executable scripts. They can penetrate most firewalls because they are embedded inside everyday network software and they spontaneously generate additional messages containing copies of the worm.
BADWARE: Software that disregards a user's choice regarding how your computer will be used. Badware can be spyware, malware, or deceptive adware. One common example of badware includes free screensavers that generate advertisements, malicious web browser toolbars that take over your computer. In general, badware is the term that includes all spyware, phishing, botnet, and other related terms.
ROUTES OF INFECTION: The source of infection is primarily when the spyware downloads itself from the Internet. The Internet is the route of contamination. Storage devices and local area networks can also contribute to this. We would never knowingly download spyware into our computers and they know it. That is why spyware needs to deceive us by loading itself into the computer by attaching itself to other software programs.
STEALWARE: Stealware is a new name given to products that modify affiliate tracking codes in order to change the person to which the payment is due. You've worked hard on developing a site that generates a modest revenue from cost per action referrals to other sites. You get the traffic, the visitors to the site follow the link you've set up to other sites and purchase things – and you receive a referral fee. And someone else resets the tracking codes to their own and get the payments due to you.
BROWSER COOKIES, TRACKER COOKIES: Cookies are small text files (.txt) that will not hurt your computer. Every website your visit, on every visit will give you more cookies. Delete them today and return to the site again tomorrow and they will be back. Cookies will not slow up your computer, are not a virus, are not spy ware, etc. They are third party cookies from advertising servers – tracking your movements around the web to send you specific advertising that you would be interested in. If you feel that these cookies are a threat to your privacy, and you are using Internet Explorer, you can permanently block all third party (tracking) cookies by going to TOOLS, INTERNET OPTIONS, PRIVACY, ADVANCED, and check mark OVERRIDE AUTOMATIC COOKIE HANDLING, THIRD PARTY COOKIES, BLOCK, OKAY.
UNWANTED SOFTWARE: Unwanted software is the spyware, adware, malware, etc. that you do not want in your computer.
PHISHING: Phishing is sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. Usually the e-mail will direct the user to visit a website where they will be asked to update personal information, including passwords, account numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. The legitimate organization already has this information – the website you just visited to update your personal information is bogus and is only set up to steal your information.
POPUPS, POPUP ADS: This is a form of on-line advertising used to attract web traffic or capture e-mail addresses. Certain websites will open a new web browser window to display advertisements. If you have a popup blocker and you are still seeing popups, then the web developers have found a new way to get around your popup blocker.
There are five known types of popups that you might see even with a popup blocker enabled:
1 – Popup ads from adware. If you see popups promoting explicit web sites, you most likely have some web site or program that has installed adware on your system.
2 – JavaScript debugger windows – usually showing you a run-time error and asking if you want to debug. Don't respond to this.
3 – Windows messaging service – these popups are "messages" for advertisements. Don't respond to this.
4 – User-requested popups cannot be blocked. If you click on a link and that link is supposed to open a new window, your popup blocker assumes that since you clicked on the link, you wanted the popup.
5 – Yahoo! Feature tips – That purple and gray panel that is sliding down from the top of your Internet Explorer window, is not a popup. It's a feature tip from Yahoo! You can disable them.
FIREWALL: A firewall is software or hardware that checks information coming from the Internet or a network, and then blocks it or allows it to pass through to your computer, depending on your firewall settings. It's design is to block any unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets.
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EXTRANETS: An extension to intranets, opens to provide controlled access to outsiders.
Spyware and your computer is a very serious thing! Spyware can cause much damage to your computer and the data that is stored on it. It can be just sitting there right now, disrupting your data, and possibly even stealing your identity. It can be a part of various programs or it is hidden in another program. It hides itself very well. And even if you have removed the program or the virus it could still be there.
Spyware is so sneaky – installing itself so secretly so that it can take over your computer without your consent. These programs collect all types of information from you, personal, business, every site you have visited while interfering with your user control in other ways, such as installing additional software, redirecting Web browser activity, accessing websites at random that will cause more harmful viruses, and even passing all your information onto a third party - usually advertisers. It can change your computer settings, slow down your connection speeds, change your home pages, make you lose your internet or other programs. It can download porn on your computer as well. It will also load adware and viruses. The new term for it is "privacy-invasive software."
Trojan horses are especially bad. They get into your computer and steal things like passwords. Stealing a password to a site you visit regularly isn't as bad as the Trojan horse being able to collect the information you need to give when logging in to your bank account and then transferring it to whoever created the Trojan so they can steal your bank account details. A Trojan horse accounts for a large part of identity theft.
How would you know you have spy ware infecting your computer? Your internet connection begins to slow down, popup windows appear in unexpected places, and your computer may be crashing regularly. You can still be infected without any of these happening. You will need a quality spyware remover that is reliable. Check various product reviews to see what others have said about it. Once you find a spyware remover that you feel comfortable with, download it and run it. Be sure to keep up with updates, those that write these spyware programs find ways of breaking through anything they can. If at any point you do not like it, remove it and get another one.
It may be to your advantage to use two different spyware removers. The new spyware programs find the sneakiest ways of infecting your computer and are even better at hiding. No one program can remove all spyware. There are just too many different types of malware for just one company to be able to deal with all the time.
For added protection, have an anti-virus and a firewall. No matter how careful you are at what you are downloading into your computer, you can never be 100% sure. Get a reliable spyware remover that will also remove infections and get a second one to remove anything the first program may have missed.
Do this on a regular basis and keep up with all updates to be safe.
If you don't know the source that is sending you an attachment – do not open it.
By doing all the above you will keep your computer safe.
Do not worry about having spyware or adware on your computer – and if you are running Windows, you have at least one malicious program on your computer right now. It can be removed, and there are even free downloads available for your use.
With spyware reading your documents, tracking your internet use, reading your address book, and returning all this over to a malicious third party, malware – including adware – makes popup advertisements appear out of nowhere. One thing you should not do is download any spyware removal program that is advertised in a popup ad – it won't be spyware removal that you are downloading!
Type "spyware removal software" in your internet browser and search. Download the software and install – then scan your computer for spyware doing a full scan. This may take 30 minutes or more depending on the number of files on your hard drive. Restart your computer and run the spyware removal program again. If the program detects spyware once again do an internet search of "spybot search and destroy". Download and install. Spybot will scan your computer and remove any spybots that are detected. Reboot your computer IN SAFE MODE and run Spybot a second time. To do this, restart your computer and as the computer is turning on repeatedly press F8 (function key 8). Choose SAFE MODE from the DOS menu – press ENTER. Run Spybot in safe mode; then run the Spybot software again and remove any spyware that is found. When finished, restart your computer and run both programs again. You should now have a computer that is spyware free!
The companies that distribute spyware do not want to give you the option of uninstalling it making it almost impossible to get rid of. You don't know when it is installed.
Maybe you have downloaded some free software – like the Weatherbug or Kazaa and you didn't notice that in the terms and conditions you were allowing "free" software to install extra "helper" applications which may change your home page, search page, add a toolbar on Internet Explorer, popup ads at odd times, or cover up your favorite web page with a big ad.
Maybe you clicked on a popup add or "Yes" to a dialog box while surfing the web. Maybe it was a warning of error message, but in fact it was false advertising luring you to install some adware.
If it's a "free" download of "free" software from the Internet, be sure to read all license agreements thoroughly before downloading. For instance, you may sign up for a free music service, but "pay" for the service by agreeing to receive targeted ads. You understand the terms and agree to them. You may have also agreed to let the company track your online activities to determine which ads to show you.
Always be sure to read disclosures, including the license agreement and privacy statement. Sometimes the inclusion of unwanted software is a given software installation is documented, but it may appear at the end of a license agreement or privacy statement.
Always back up your data – anything that is important to you – that you would want to save if your computer should crash. Do this on a regular basis.
If you do not want to be a victim of identity theft, stop all banking, shopping, etc. online that involves user names, passwords, social security numbers, account numbers, driver's license numbers, etc.
Of you computer has spyware the FTC wants to know. You can file a complaint with the FTC:
For cross-border scams file a complaint at econsumer.gov
To report identity theft file a complaint at ftc.gov/idtheft
To report any unsolicited email offers go to firstname.lastname@example.com
If your computer gets infected with malware, notify your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and file a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
If you've been a victim of online investment fraud, send your complain to the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission, using the agency's online complaint center.
For online shopping fraud, contact the Attorney general in your state, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and the FTC.
Forward spam that is phishing to email@example.com and also firstname.lastname@example.com
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A brain trust of educators, philanthropists and business leaders convened in San Diego to discuss how science, technology, engineering and math – STEM subjects – are taught in California schools.
The summit wrapped up Tuesday afternoon - but not before honoring a dozen "Leading Women in STEM", all of whom work in science and technology-driven fields. Including LA's own, Rachel Bondi, Chief of Mobile Innovations for the talent agency, CAA.
The other big reveal: a $25,000 grant that partners Google with the California State University System, and the California STEM Learning Network – the nonprofit that hosted the conference.
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Thumb sucking is one of the most common habits of children. The habit starts early in life, with 90 percent of newborns showing some form of hand sucking by two hours of age.
Thumb sucking is normal in infants and young children and should cause no permanent problems if it is not continued past the age of 5. Likewise, it is generally harmless for infants to use pacifiers.
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry states that most children stop thumb sucking on their own between the ages of 2 and 4. The Academy states there is no reason to be concerned until the front teeth start erupting. At this point, some problems may occur, including bite problems, or protruding front teeth. Other problems that may occur with thumb sucking are sore thumbs, infections, and calluses on the thumb.
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The BSC includes the Student Government Association and a variety of other student groups. It is also the central hub for major student media organizations KSLU (SLU radio), SLUTV, the University News and One World magazine.
Various meeting rooms and lounges offer ideal areas for meetings, studying or just hanging out. If you'd like to reserve any of the available spaces please contact Event Services on the third floor of the BSC. There is also The Billiken Club on the lower level, which offers Salsarita's Restaurant and is the place to be for concerts on campus.
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During its meeting on March 5, Montrose City Councilors received a bid tabulation sheet that included a rough outline of what the six companies would charge to provide the city services. Those companies included Bruin Waste of Naturita, Waste Management of Montrose, Mountain Rolloff of Carbondale, CRS of Grand Junction, Red River Service Company of Dripping Springs, Tex., and the City of Montrose.
The tabulation sheet showed that two companies – Waste Management and Maintain Rolloff – could provide "residential base level of service" for less than the city, even after a 95 cent administration charge is added to their bids.
The details of each proposal will be reviewed by a committee that includes a member of the city's citizen recycling group, the city administration, and City Manager Bill Bell. That committee is expected to make a recommendation to the city council by its March 20 regular meeting.
Bell said each committee member will review the proposals, reading through every detail and plotting the criteria. They will then meet to compare each other's notes to make a recommendation.
"I'm very impressed by the level of information that each organization provided. … I think we got a good response," Councilor Carol McDermott said.
The city has been considering privatization of its sanitation department since it was forced to cut its curbside recycling program due to budget restraints and a lack of support for a fee-based program.
The city asked for information from organizations several months ago, but responses were vague. Council then decided to put out a request for proposal and had the city also bid so that the proposals could be compared against what the city currently offers.
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The Goldies are silver! The San Francisco Bay Guardian celebrates the 25th annual Goldies — if you're new here, that stands for Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Awards — with a special issue celebrating nine emerging Bay Area artists and groups who're producing exciting, intelligent, provocative work. Gazing into our glittery crystal ball, we predict great things ahead for their careers. And that's not all: We also honor one veteran performer whose wide-reaching influence has been a beacon of inspiration for over three decades.
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The AESOP Institute Of Make-Believe Energy has been established with a very well-defined make-believe goal: to develop the revolutionary new make-believe technologies that will enable us to harness the power of Make-Believe Energy for the make-believe benefit of all mankind.
It should come as no surprise that Make-Believe Energy can only be harnessed by make-believe engines.
That is why the AESOP Institute Of Make-Believe Energy is indeed currently prototyping an amazing array of make-believe engines which in fact are now scheduled to be validated TOMORROW.
All varieties of make-believe energy will fall into one of the following categories:
1) Energy that is ruled out by the Law of Conservation of Energy.
2) Energy that is ruled out by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
3) Energy that perhaps is not ruled out directly by the fundamental laws of physics, but is nonetheless ruled out by facts of nature.
Here at the AESOP Institute Of Make-Believe Energy, we are pleased to announce that we are currently prototyping various make-believe engines that harness various forms of make-believe energy, in all three of the categories defined above! Indeed, our prototyping work has actually advanced to the point that we are now scheduled to validate each of these make-believe engines no later than tomorrow!!
Posted by AESOP Institute Of Make-Believe Energy on Feb. 23, 2014 @ 10:10 am
Mark Goldes' "Aesop Institute" is simply an elaborate fraud.
I. Overview.
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, road-worthy, wind-powered "windmobile," based on the windmobile invented 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 company Chava LLC (aka "Chava Energy") was developing water-fueled engines based on "collapsing hydrogen orbits" (which are ruled out by quantum physics); and then, on the pretense that he 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.
II. Goldes' "POWERGENIE" Horn-Powered Tuning-Rod Engine Flimflam
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."
III. Goldes' Strictly Ambient Heat Engine Flimflam
In Mark Goldes' patent application for his ludicrous "POWERGENIE" horn-powered tuning-rod engine, he described the tuning-rod as "an energy transfer and multiplier element."
But of course, for the tuning-rod to "multiply" energy, it would need to disprove the law of conservation of energy.
Goldes' use of the term "energy multiplier element" reflected his pretense that the "revolutionary breakthrough" of the amazing "POWERGENIE" could disprove the law of conservation of energy, by presenting the world with a working "energy multiplier."
Goldes even claimed in 2008 that the POWERGENIE had been demonstrated already in an electric car, driven 4800 miles by his energy-multiplying horn-powered tuning-rod.
But it seems that most people, for some reason, had difficulty accepting the notion that the law of conservation of energy could be proven false.
And Goldes no doubt noticed that the Second Law of Thermodynamics – that "the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase with time and can never decrease" – is much less clear to most people than the conservation of energy.
So now, after leaving aside the pretense that he could somehow "multiply energy" with a magnetized tuning-rod, Goldes has chosen to focus, instead, on the pretense that he can disprove the Second Law with an engine powered only by ambient heat.
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.
IV. Mark Goldes' "FUEL-FREE TURBINE" Flimflam
Mark Goldes' latest adventure in flimflam is to 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.
V. Goldes' "Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits" Hydrino Engine Flimflam
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.
"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."
VI. Goldes' "Virtual Photon Flux" Engine Flimflam
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.
VII. Conclusion.
Mark 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 investments, loans and donations from gullible people who never mastered physics very well.
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I am so sore and tired and can't believe I was affected this way. i have done workouts like this before. Is it because I am in Week 8? I don't understand why I am so wiped out today...I even gave in and had a bit of cheese and some pasta as I was so ravenous I could hardly stand it.
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Congrats, good for you. This is my 3rd week and my muffin tops are also disappearing... abit, but I can tell it's getting smaller around my waist... .but of course still a long way to go. I'm very tired too. I haven't done much of weight machine, mostly squad, lunges and plie at home with weights up to 12lb only. You seem to use really heavy weights.
I am starting my third week, 7th day challenge.
And, yes, I am eating the 6 meals a day, and find around 6 to 7 pm - I am famished.
I found it hard to stick to my portion size - so will cheat w/ the protein portion.
Sticking to the portion sizes will allow the stomach to shrink, which is good motivation to be good.
I played racquetball today, and upper abs. I will be doing spinning class for my aerobic day after tomorrow.
I do abs every day, but work upper abs one day, lower abs the next, and right and left obliques the following day - then rest abs for a day.
You may be building some muscle mass right now.
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Thanks for the responses, everyone! As I was falling asleep last night, I suddenly realized one reason I was extra famished last night: I had carried 20 boxes of children's books to my car!!
Yes, I sell Usborne children's books and took down a 'book fair' from a preschool. Normally, I use a small dolly but I felt so strong and the boxes weren't 'that heavy' so I just carried them from the school to my van, parked outside. Not a big deal at all... But maybe I used up my cardio fuel!!
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Congrats on doing so well on your challenge!! I'm (somewhat) in the same boat as you today is C2W1D2! My first weight workout was yesterday and I am hurting today! Thats a good thing right? Means you worked out hard I think. Good luck with those weights!
Squats with 80 pound weights??? Man, am I slacking!!! I can do 2 20# weights, but I really need to "get in there"!
Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Stacy, what week are you in? I am in week 8. I was doing those leg presses where I push the weights away from me but I am changing things up so my muscles will be confused. They are more than confused; they are ANGRY! They are complaining and talking back and chattering all the live-long day! Man oh man! They really should be more respectful of what I am trying to do for them!
They are just acting like immature children. They don't understand that what I am doing is in their best interest. Ah! they are teenagers! Yes... this is why they mouth off all the time! They think they know more than I do! hmmm Well... I don't need to explain anything to them. They will learn with time.
I did lunges this morning. I am in week 3, day 3. Lunges always wipe me out. Plus, upping the weight probably shocked your body, in a good way. I would say get extra rest tonight if you can and move on to that wonderful cardio tomorrow. I'm sure you will feel better in the am. :)
haha! Yes, would you believe I am STILL feeling the results of that LBWO and the cardio the next day? AND TODAY, I had a killer UBWO so my WHOLE BODY is sore! I can only imagine what it is building inside!! Measurements Sunday or Monday and can hardly wait... C1W8D3 today. May 16th, here I come...
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