Showing posts with label IAmA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IAmA. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

I designed a Network of Optimized Sustainable Energy Generation Systems and released my proprietary rights into the public domain. AMA. IAmA

Update: Since my last post, I have made the following improvements to the technical document/algorithm:

  • Incorporated a simplified model of self-discharge losses and efficiency degradation effects into the algorithm.
  • Described how SEGSs can be the building blocks to achieve 100% renewable energy in the electric sector.
  • Increased the size of the example from a building to the size of an electric utility to show the scalability of the design.
  • Included a description of how over a year the optimal SEGS can generate over twice the required energy which can be used to power standby devices such as atmospheric carbon dioxide extraction systems.

My story: While completing my MSEE degree, I got an idea for how to design SEGSs. To give some context, the electric power system delivers electricity to homes and buildings to power televisions, refrigerators, computers, and every other device that plugs into an outlet. A SEGS is an off-grid (stand-alone) electric power system that independently provides reliable electric power to end users from 100% renewable energy resources. Renewable energy resources and energy storage systems are the major components of SEGSs, and the main challenge for designing SEGSs is determining how much renewable energy and how much energy storage are required to reliably supply power year-round.

I pioneered an algorithm to find the most cost-effective design for SEGSs using PV. By considering oversized PV, the algorithm approximated the energy storage requirements for increasingly oversized PV. The result was a graph showing all possible configurations of PV and energy storage. Here is an animation of what this looks like from a different example.

The previous graph shows an inverse relationship between PV and energy storage; this property is important to optimize for the cheapest system. Since PV and energy storage have different costs, the algorithm computes the price of each configuration and determines the most cost-effective system shown by the red “x”.

After graduating, I founded an organization called OffGrid to design SEGSs. My responsibilities involved working on the design, submitting a patent application, and seeking funding opportunities. Unfortunately, I was unable to secure funding for this organization and found a job a few months later. I uploaded the algorithm on GitHub and released all potential proprietary rights, pertaining to the system, into the public domain.

My Proof is a technical document describing the network of optimized SEGSs and a link to the algorithm. AMA.



Submitted January 24, 2018 at 12:18AM by LiveWithEarth http://ift.tt/2Gb0pd4 IAmA

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

I discovered a novel design for Sustainable Energy Generations Systems and released my proprietary rights into the public domain. AMA! IAmA

While completing my MSEE degree, I got an idea for how to design sustainable energy generation systems. To give some background, the electric power system delivers electricity to homes and buildings to power televisions, refrigerators, computers, and every other device that plugs into an outlet. A sustainable energy generation system is an off-grid (stand-alone) electric power system that can independently provide reliable electric power to a home/building from renewable energy resources. The main challenge in designing sustainable energy generation systems, i.e. solar and battery storage, is determining how much solar and how much storage are required to reliably supply power year-round.

By considering oversized PV, I pioneered an algorithm that approximates the energy storage requirements for increasingly oversized PV. The result was a graph of all possible configurations of oversized PV and storage, and I found an inverse relationship between PV and storage. Here is an animation of what this looks like.

This relationship is important to optimize for the cheapest system. Since PV and energy storage have different costs, the algorithm computes the price for each system and determines the most cost-effective configuration shown by the red “x”. This data represents the results for a residential home; however, this solution is scalable to any size.

After graduating, I founded OffGrid, an organization to design sustainable energy generation systems. My work involved working on the design, patent application, and funding opportunities. Unfortunately, I was unable to secure funding for this organization and found a job a few months after. I uploaded the algorithm on GitHub and released all potential proprietary rights, pertaining to the system, into the public domain. AMA

My Proof is a technical document with more information about the system and a link to the algorithm.



Submitted October 11, 2017 at 07:42PM by LiveWithEarth http://ift.tt/2gcEiet IAmA

I discovered a novel design for Sustainable Energy Generations Systems and released my proprietary rights into the public domain. AMA! IAmA

While completing my MSEE degree, I got an idea for how to design sustainable energy generation systems. To give some background, the electric power system delivers electricity to homes and buildings to power televisions, refrigerators, computers, and every other device that plugs into an outlet. A sustainable energy generation system is an off-grid (stand-alone) electric power system that can independently provide reliable electric power to a home/building from renewable energy resources. The main challenge in designing sustainable energy generation systems, i.e. solar and battery storage, is determining how much solar and how much storage are required to reliably supply power year-round.

By considering oversized PV, I pioneered an algorithm that approximates the energy storage requirements for increasingly oversized PV. The result was a graph of all possible configurations of oversized PV and storage, and I found an inverse relationship between PV and storage. Here is an animation of what this looks like.

This relationship is important to optimize for the cheapest system. Since PV and energy storage have different costs, the algorithm computes the price for each system and determines the most cost-effective configuration shown by the red “x”. This data represents the results for a residential home; however, this solution is scalable to any size.

After graduating, I founded OffGrid, an organization to design sustainable energy generation systems. My work involved working on the design, patent application, and funding opportunities. Unfortunately, I was unable to secure funding for this organization and found a job a few months after. I uploaded the algorithm on GitHub and released all potential proprietary rights, pertaining to the system, into the public domain. AMA

My Proof is a technical document with more information about the system and a link to the algorithm.



Submitted October 11, 2017 at 07:42PM by LiveWithEarth http://ift.tt/2gcEiet IAmA

Friday, September 29, 2017

I'm Doug Mack, an author who traveled 30,000 miles to visit all five U.S territories. I'm here to answer questions about barbecue on Guam, “Made in USA” factories in the Northern Mariana Islands, why Americans in 1900 knew more about the territories than we do today, and more. AMA! IAmA

Short bio: Hi, Reddit. I’m Doug Mack, travel writer and author of two books, most recently The Not-Quite States of America, about the USA’s territories: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands (with guest appearances by the eleven Minor Outlying Islands and three freely associated states). I worked on the book for more than two years, covering 30,000 miles as I visited each territory (plus the Marshall Islands), and spent months researching their histories, their roles in the broader American story, and the complicated legal matters surrounding them (including the newly infamous Jones Act).

My book mixes travelogue, history, and political commentary, and I welcome your questions about everything: Where to eat ice cream in Saint Croix, hiking in American Samoa, why American Samoans aren’t citizens, the Puerto Rican independence movement, beer-drinking pigs, how the “Imperial Moment” formed the basis for the American Century (what the Imperial Moment is …), traditional sea navigation in the Northern Mariana Islands, colonialism, manifest destiny … and so on.

So…Ask me anything. I may not know all the answers—and I’ll be honest when that’s the case—but my book is the most comprehensive examination at the U.S. territories in more than a century, so I like to think I know a pretty solid amount.

See more details at my book website (and the official one with Norton, my publisher). Here’s a video I made about the territories, in which I hand-draw the entire USA while explaining the history of national expansion. You can also always find me on Twitter, @douglasmack.

Here's proof!

I’ll start answering questions around 2pm Central today (Friday, September 29), and go for at least two hours. There will be a short break at some while my new refrigerator is being delivered, and if you’d like insightful commentary on that topic, just ask.



Submitted September 29, 2017 at 08:32PM by DougMackAuthor http://ift.tt/2ycxrZI IAmA

Friday, August 11, 2017

IamA Building Automation Programmer AMA! IAmA

My short bio: My name is Bob, I work in the building automation field. I program in a language called Niagara written and sold under license to a number of different companies. My company works pretty heavily with Honeywell.

Five years ago in October I was working out of a garage repairing PCs and Laptops having just graduated with a BS in Marketing. Unfortunately when I graduated it was into one of the worst recessions since the great depression. I couldn't get hired anywhere.

Now I bring buildings to life, and help companies save massive amounts of money. I control and program HVAC systems, lighting systems, and security systems with RFID building access. I'm currently integrating half a dozen schools into one interface, but I have worked on something as small as monitoring a customers refrigerator remotely to monitor for power outages that cause spoilage. I don't want to give details on the buildings I've worked on as some of my customers are very concerned about security. I will give you any abstracts about any project I've done.

My proof is my AX certification. I am also BACnet certified, Niagara N4 certified, and Vykon Pro Certified.

The second photo is just some schedules I was putting into a school system. If curious It's a 32" LG TV I work on.

My Proof: AX cert N4 Workbench



Submitted August 12, 2017 at 12:38AM by thesunscreen http://ift.tt/2vuPC8S IAmA

Thursday, March 23, 2017

We're Lara Heintz and Brian Anderson, two reporters at Motherboard, VICE's technology site. Let's talk about smart guns and whether or not there is a high-tech solution to curbing gun violence. Ask Us Anything IAmA

Hey internet, Lara and Brian here. We co-produced A Smarter Gun, Motherboard's new feature documentary on the decades-long struggle to create what's come to be known as a "smart gun," which would only fire in the hands of an approved users. Proponents of smart guns see the technology as a potential failsafe against unauthorized gun usage, yet the players behind the movement to develop and market a viable smart gun face a legacy of opposition from pro-gun lobbying groups, policymakers, and everyday gun owners.

But first, a bit more about us: We have both been with Motherboard since 2011. In that time, the site's gun coverage on video and editorial fronts has been a core beat in the Motherboard worldview. A profile we ran in 2012, of a twentysomething law student named Cody Wilson, brought the 3D-printed gun movement (and its public face) to public consciousness. Two years later, we went to Texas to see about a high-end robo-rifle that promised to allow even a novice shooter like Motherboard's executive editor-at-large, Derek Mead, hit a target at 1,000 yards with single-shot accuracy. In 2016, we spent time with a biohacker who built the world's first implant-activated smart gun in his garage outside Seattle, and who we'd visit again a few months later to see his prototype gun test fire for the first time. This scene is featured in A Smarter Gun, but, no spoilers.

Back to the doc: A Smarter Gun was shot and cut over roughly two years. Along the way, before we revisited the garage biohacker, the two of us toured the ATF's massive gun reference vault and test range in West Virginia, where among 19,000 some-odd items from around the world, including pretty much every kind of firearm one could think of, you won't find a single smart gun. The trip also took us to Washington DC, where a legendary Austrian firearm designer who could be called a godfather of the smart gun, granted us a rare on-camera interview; to MIT, where a 19-year-old freshman runs a biosecure smart gun startup out of his dorm room; to a cemetery in upstate New York with the grieving mother of an 12-year-old boy who was accidentally shot and killed by a friend in 2010. We stopped by a traditional gun store elsewhere in New York, to hear from the owner, a staunchly anti-smart gun gun purist, and finally to meet two leading public health experts at Harvard who take a data-driven approach to studying gun violence.

The film tells the story of what happens when we try marrying a time-tested analog mechanical technology with electromagnetic or digital activation platforms and why integrating the two is a deep point of contention when it comes to guns. The question is: In a world where seeming everything else is high-tech, from teddy bears to refrigerators, why aren't we working toward a safer, "smarter" type of gun?

We want to know: what do you think? We'll be around for the next few hours, taking your questions about the making of the film and really anything having to do with guns and technology and where it's all going in the future. The floor is open.

You can find us both on Twitter @laragheintz @thebanderson

[While we've got you, do check out (and subscribe to!) pluspluspodcast, a Motherboard show about the people and machines that are building our future.]

Proof: http://ift.tt/2mx9yXm



Submitted March 24, 2017 at 12:36AM by brianMB http://ift.tt/2nWdLko IAmA

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

I’m an investigative reporter who spent 18 months investigating the National Guard’s toxic armories. AMA IAmA

I spent 18 months investigating National Guard armories across the country, finding that hundreds have been contaminated by lead dust from indoor shooting ranges. Lead spread almost everywhere imaginable in armories — inspectors found lead on ice machines, refrigerators, a coffee machine, boxing bag, floors and shelves where kids’ toys were stored. Even a deli meat slicer. It contaminated offices, classrooms, assembly halls and entire HVAC systems.

Armories are a part of the fabric of America. They're community gathering halls that not only house our citizen-soldiers for monthly drill weekends but also baby showers, weddings, scout meetings, banquets and sleepovers.

Even after testing showed Oregon’s armories were grossly contaminated with lead, my reporting found that elementary school kids from an Oregon town were allowed to sleep on a floor where inspectors once found lead at levels 650 times higher than the U.S. EPA considers safe for young kids. Inspectors had just surveyed the armory the previous month, finding lead in every sample they took.

Since our story published online last Friday, we’ve already seen lawmakers in two states call for more disclosure from their state Guard units. More reporters across the country are working on stories using the thousands of pages of records we published along with my report.

You can read my article here: http://ift.tt/2gVfwLI

Proof: http://ift.tt/2h6WkuG



Submitted December 08, 2016 at 01:03AM by robdaviswrites http://ift.tt/2h3Y9rw IAmA

Friday, October 23, 2015

We are the authors and editors of Object Lessons, books about the hidden lives of everyday things. Ask Us Anything! IAmA

We are Ian Bogost (objectlessons-editor) and Christopher Schaberg (airplanereading), founders & co-editors of a book and essay series about objects. This month we released six new books in the series, by six authors who have also joined us today:

HOTEL by Joanna Walsh (Badaude) GLASS by John Garrison (Garrison_Glass) REFRIGERATOR by Jonathan Rees (Rees_Refrigerator) PHONE BOOTH by Ariana Kelly (Object_Lessons_Booth) WASTE by Brian Thill (Brian_Thill) SILENCE by John Biguenet (Biguenet_Silence)

Ask us anything.

Learn more here: http://ift.tt/14cTFlG

My Proof: http://ift.tt/1KtSPUl



Submitted October 23, 2015 at 09:21PM by airplanereading http://ift.tt/1KtSSzg IAmA

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

We are professional IoT hackers and researchers at Rapid7 (not Rapid9) and just published a paper on baby monitor security. GO! IAmA

Who we are

We're Mark Stanislav (/u/mstanisl) & Tod Beardsley (/u/todbatx), security researchers (or colloquially, hackers) at Rapid7. We're here to talk about the security of Internet of Things devices, as well as the IoT baby monitor security research we released last week.

What's the IoT (Internet of Things) and why do we care about IoT security?

Almost daily we see a new "smart," Internet-connected device on the market, created in the hopes of making simple tasks more convenient and our lives easier -- from smart thermostats and refrigerators, to medical devices like insulin pumps. These Internet-connected things are collectively known as the IoT.

Most of these IoT devices are extremely easy for criminals to break in to and manipulate for their own gain. Why would someone want to do this? Stealing data, compromising a home network, or causing mayhem and distress are common motives.

The IoT represents an increasing risk to the general public, so that's why we hack IoT devices. We hope to find security flaws before the bad guys do, inform the vendor, and inform the public, all in the hope of baking better security into these devices before they hit the Internet.

Baby monitors...?

Last week, we released a paper on the security of Internet-connected baby monitors and disclosed ten newly discovered vulnerabilities found in popular brands on the market, kicking off a bigger conversation about the safety of the Internet of Things, what consumers can do to be aware of the risks, and what manufacturers can do to make their devices safer. You can read our research here: http://ift.tt/1Lkc17S

Proof

Here are the tweets and Keybase identities, and a link to our AMA annoucement.

Tod: Twitter || Keybase

Mark: Twitter || Keybase

We are not affiliated with Rapid9, as that is a fictional company.



Submitted September 10, 2015 at 12:24AM by todbatx http://ift.tt/1L2iR6f IAmA

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

IamA ( john) AMA! and i'm running a on-line store for all restaurant equipment. IAmA


My short bio: I have wide selection of restaurant & cooking equipment like Refrigerators, Supplies, Refrigeration, Cooking Equipment, Small Appliances and many more. Here you can get more information about quailty products and brands.


My Proof: http://ift.tt/1zngZhR







Submitted December 09, 2014 at 04:48PM by ChefsFirst http://ift.tt/1znh2tP IAmA

Friday, October 31, 2014

IamA JUSTICE AMA! IAmA


What you are about to read is an expose of events involving graft, corruption, incompetence, immorality, greed and sheer stupidity. My longtime girlfriend, Sherry Fersko, filed two lawsuits in Brooklyn Supreme Court in the year 2007, Index numbers 42880/07 and 42884/07. 42880/07 was Sherry Fersko v. Robert Palmer, Robert Palmer MGT., Manhattan Beach Estates, LP, Jordan Davis, and Juan Fernandez. Case No. 42884/07 was Sherry Fersko V. P.C. Richard and Son. The first case against Robert Palmer, a landlord, his companies, partner, and superintendent of the building she lived in. This landlord, Robert Palmer, premeditatively orchestrated illegal acts under his direct supervision with the help of the building super, Juan Fernandez. Here is a brief list: Shut off the water in Ms. Fersko’s apartment when no one else’s water in our building was shut off. This was done on numerous occasions. Turned off her electricity without warning or just cause. Cut telephone wires Placed phony phone calls at all hours of the day and night. Had someone puncture a hole in Ms. Fersko’s passenger rear tire while her car was parked in her parking space in front of her apartment building. Rang downstairs doorbell late at night and early in the morning. Someone rang the front doorbell on a Sunday saying they were from the post office delivering a package for apartment 5D, which was not Ms. Fersko’s apartment, trying to get her daughter Lisa to open up the door for him. This person left without ringing anyone else’s bell to leave the package. Coupled with all of the other harassments going on, if this person was just trying to get into the apartment, then it is quite obvious the landlord wanted something very bad to happen. In August of 2007 an intruder entered the Fersko apartment following Ms. Fersko’s mother, Lillian Fersko who was returning from throwing out the garbage. The granddaughter Lisa screamed as he entered the dark hallway, although she couldn’t see his face she did see that he was wearing a winter jacket and cap although it was summer and hot. This is another instance perpetrated by the landlord to instill fear at the very least. Someone broke into Ms. Fersko’s car while it was parked in the enclosed parking lot overnight and urinated in the car. The importance of these events show the viciousness of this landlord, Robert Palmer, the Managing Agent and serve as the beginning foundation of the lawsuit that Sherry Fersko filed in November of 2007. Although this lawsuit was filed civilly, Ms. Fersko could have pursued criminal prosecution if her civil case prevailed. Ms. Fersko was suing this landlord Robert Palmer and his partner Jordan Davis for millions in punitive damages for negligence, gross negligence, conspiracy, chain conspiracy, collusion, joint negligence, and wanton and reckless behaviour. I have been in court for seven years with my girlfriend, not as a party in the case, but strictly as an observer accompanying Ms. Fersko to court every time. This is what I have observed: The first judge on the case against the landlords, was Michael A. Ambrosio, this judge verbally told me she had no case. This statement was quite improper to be made verbally by a judge as I am not a party to the case. Ms Fersko filed an order to show cause with T.R.O (Temporary Restraining Order) in Civil Action. Although the judge did not grant the relief Ms. Fersko was seeking, to stop her landlord Robert Palmer, from committing more harassing behavior, he did sign the order. Nothing happened in this case with this judge avoiding any discussion of the merits of Ms. Fersko’s case. Ms. Fersko’s case revolved around the actions that this landlord perpetrated against her and her family after a fire in her apartment caused her and her family to be homeless living in a motel, refusing to fix their apartment in a timely manner and perpetrating these illegal actions to drive her and her family out of their apartment.


The second case, index no. 42884/07, against P.C. Richard and Son involves the selling of an electric G.E. stove to my girlfriend Sherry Fersko and the subsequent improper installation of the of the stove by P.C. Richard employees who delivered the stove to her apartment.This improper installation caused combustion in the electrical wiring in the west wall of the kitchen causing a fire four months later. Thereafter the landlord Robert Palmer conspired with P.C. Richard to have Ms. Fersko’s cases thrown out before it ever reached a jury trial. This is what the plan was: Find fault with the original service of papers in one case. consolidate both cases, making sure that the index number of the case that remains is the same case in which service is questioned, so that both plaintiff’s cases will be thrown out at the same time. Before any consolidation proceeding were to commence, defendant Robert Palmer ‘s attorneys filed papers requesting a hearing to determine if the process server correctly served the papers for Ms. Fersko the plaintiff. This hearing is called a Traverse of J.H.O. hearing. At that time Ms. Fersko and myself did not realize that Ms. Fersko’s Process Server, Bernard Holder and his boss William Singler were under investigation for “Sewer Service”, a scam in which supposed debtors are not served with a notice of the pending legal case against them, as required by law, and so they do not show up in courts for hearings. When Mr. Bernard Holder appeared in this Traverse or J.H.O. hearing he brought no process server papers with him and answered questions in such a manner as to make it appear he didn’t serve the papers correctly so that Ms. Fersko’s case would be thrown out.


The next judge on Ms. Fersko’s case was Karen B. Rothenberg and she quickly ruled against Ms. Fersko’s re-argument motion and reply affidavits. In Rothenberg’s decision dated February 25th, 2010, she states that the court reviewed the transcript of the Traverse Hearing. If this were true and this judge personally read the transcript then she would have seen that the process server’s behavior, including not bringing in the process server papers, whis is the usual procedure, should have raised a red flag to the court. This judge has a Law Secretary by the name of Jennifer Rapaport, Esq., Principal Law Clerk. I called the Judge’s chambers and spoke to Ms. Rapaport. She was very brusque and abrupt not allowing me to even finish a sentence. I tried to explain to her that the only reason for my call was to inform her that Ms. Fersko had new information to give the court and that the paperwork would be forthcoming promptly to Hon. Justice Rothenberg, her reply to me, in a very nasty was was “I don’t know if we’ll accept the paperwork.” At that moment Ms. Fersko and myself sensed that there was going to be a problem. The paperwork that this Jennifer Rapaport refused to accept and sent back to Ms. Fersko, was a letter and newspaper clippings, indicting the Process Server’s boss William Singler and copies of his felony complaint which included an indictment of the process server Bernard Holder. Ms. Rapaport should be arrested for committing an act of deliberate malice, to commit a wrongful act with a reckless disregard of the law or of Ms. Fersko’s legal right resulting in great emotion and financial harm as a result of Judge Rothenberg’s ruling to throw out Ms. Fersko’s case against the landlord for millions of dollars in punitive damages, would have been re-instated had this information been made public by the court, due to the fraudulent actions of all defendants in both cases especially P.C. Richard and Son. The suspicion is great that Ms. Rapaport receive a great deal of money from defendants P.C. Richard and son for these actions, although I can’t prove it. When Judge Rothenberg was informed verbally by Ms. Fersko about Singler and his Process Server Bernard Holder and that she had papers to prove Singler’s indictment and arrest, this Judge ignored Ms. Fersko’s testimony. This makes me believe that this judge knew about Singer and Holder and was also being compensated by the defendants. On June 24th, 2010, Ms. Fersko verbally informed Judge Rothenberg that the defendant’s in the Palmer case were served their originial summons and complaint papers twice and that the Traverse Hearing only addressed the First Service. At this point it was too late for the Palmer Defendants Lawyer to file a motion stating the service wasn’t correct so at this point this Judge Rothenberg should have re-instated the Palmer case, because she apparently was already committed to the Defendants in both cases, probably by payoff, but here again I can’t prove it, this judge ordered a second Traverse Hearing knowing that the process server was dirty, but most importantly the second service was never disputed and this judge should have done the right legal thing, reinstatement of the case. At this point this Judge Rothenberg has proven her great incompetence and a great stupidity for ordering a second Traverse Hearing when none was warranted. Ms. Fersko may be pro-se but she is not an idiot and knows when something is not right. On March 18, 2012 Ms. Fersko writes a letter to Judge Rothenberg to re-instate the P.C. Richardd case which she mistakenly dismissed on 2/10/11 together with the Palmer case. This was the original plan of defendants Palmer and P.C. Richard, to have both cases thrown out together because they were both under one index number. This Judge re-instated the P.C. Richard case and incorporated the Second Traverse Hearing which should never have been and which Ms. Fersko had no reason to attend was decided against Ms. Fersko. The re-instatement of the case was on March 22, 2012. On September 13, 2012 Ms. Fersko returned to court after an absence due to undergoing breast cancer surgery and radiation treatment. Ms. Fersko was still weak and not fully recovered from the radiation treatment. The actions of this Judge Rothenberg on this day against the plaintiff, Sherry Fersko, prove beyond any reasonable doubt that this Judge is so incompetent that she should be stopped immediately and suspended from any further legal activity. This Judge thought that there would be no repercussions from her behaviour towards Ms. Fersko on that date in open court witnessed by many lawyers and litigants. She could only dare to do this in a legal system in Brooklyn Supreme Court that has run amok allowing Judges to act in highly improper demeanor disrespecting the black robes they wear. I will now relate the events I personally witnessed which sickened me to see and hear a Judge so far out of control. This Judge started screaming at Ms. Fersko stating that she was going to hold Ms. Fersko in Contempt on the basis of Ex-parte letters written to the court by the second P.C. Richard Defendant attorney Ms. Maura V. Laffan attacking Ms. Fersko and myself in our attempts to settle this case. Because copies of these letters were not sent to Ms. Fersko, the court had no right to recognize these communications. The ranting and raving of this Judge continued stating that she would also put me in contempt and check our telephone records, all based on letters containing many falsehoods made to put Ms. Fersko and myself in a bad light. This Judge thoroughly abused Ms. Fersko’s legal rights as well as mine, me not even being a party in this case. Judge Rothenberg, used her position as a judge, to commit an abuse of discretion, not exercising sound, reasonable, or even legal decision for this ten minute outburst based on an illegal foundation, also, no person can be legally held in contempt on the basis of hearsay.


Ms. Fersko and myself spoke to numerous lawyers over the years about representation without success, we feel that the reason no lawyer would touch these cases was P.C. Richard and Son, although they used other reasons to mask the truth. I believe that P.C. Richard “owns” all the courts due to their great financial wealth and political influence. P.C. Richard and Son tries to portray an outward appearance of benevolence but in reality they have built their business by cheating customers in many different ways such as putting old used parts into appliances and billing them as new. Selling customer extended warranties and not making good on them when the customer comes back or has to call the store on numerous occasions without success. Just go on your computer to http://ift.tt/1G44yKN. As of March 2, 2013 there were 149 complaints, I’m sure there are quite a few more as of September 2014. Also, P.C. Richard employs salesmen who work mostly on commission, so when a consumer comes in to buy something the salesman concentrates on selling a higher priced item so he can make more money. That is exactly what this salesman did to us when we came in to buy a stove and because he sold us an electric stove for hundreds of dollars more so he could make a more lucrative commission, the eventual outcome of that decision resulted in a fire in Ms. Fersko’s apartment due to faulty installation of an electrical stove when there would have been no problem with a non-electric stove. This salesman had no caring what his actions would cause, just as P.C. Richard and Sons, the Richard Family, have no caring about how they do business, engaging in unethical practices and deceiving the public wherever they can, to generate more income. I hope that anyone reading this will think twice before entering a P.C. Richard Store! To gauge the viciousness of this P.C. Richard family they kept Ms. Fersko and her family, as well as myself in court for seven years until now and the case isn’t even over, paying thousands and thousands of dollars in graft as well as political favors, when they could have won the case years ago, but they would rather see Ms. Fersko and her family, 93 year old mother and 40 year old daughter, who are all disabled and on fixed incomes, suffer both financially and cause great emotional distress due to the orchestrated events perpetrated by the Richard Family who are without any compassion or decency whatsoever. I hope that anyone who reads this will avenge the harm that the P.C. Richard family has done to us taking seven years out of our lives, and no one can put a price on that, by never shopping in a P.C. Richard store! Ms. Fersko and myself were not aware that our process server Bernard Holder and his boss William Singler were under investigation by Sandra Migaj, and investigator with the New York State Attorney General's office involved in a scheme constituting a systematic ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud ten or more persons and to obtain property from ten or more persons by false and fraudulent pretenses between on or about January 1, 2008 and on or about October 8, 2008. This investigation wasn’t revealed until an article was published in Newsday by Robert E. Kessler in October of 2009. Ms. Fersko and myself spoke personally to Cyndey Kelly who was an Assistant Attorney General to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and she mailed me a complaint form. Ms. Fersko and myself filled out the complaint form containing a seven page notarized letter by myself and Ms. Fersko detailing the events in Brooklyn Supreme Court and what happened in the J.H.O. Traverse Hearing involving Singler and Holder, the Process Server. Ms. Kelly went through the motions and arranged for an investigator to meet with us in Mineola on Old Country Rd. in an office. This investigator was not at all helpful and tried to warn us against pursuing this any further. At this point we realized the fix was in, Singler was going to receive a plea bargain agreement, in exchange for not naming any of the more than 30 law firms that employed him to commit illegal actions, receiving minimal jail time and minimal monetary fine for his felony crimes. What happened to the more than 30 law firms involved in Mr. Singler’s crimes? Ms. Fersko and myself think that Andrew M. Cuomo who was Attorney General and is now the Governor of New York State should answer that question. After that news article on Singler nothing more was heard about this case involving many law firms. This lawsuit was filed by Cuomo in State Supreme Court in Buffalo on behalf of Ann Pfau, the Chief Administrative Judge of the New York State Unified Court System, “to correct improperly obtained default judgements against 100,000 consumers.” Did these people get their money back? If these people did get their money back, where di the money come from? Was it tax payer’s money or did those law firms pay it? It looks like Governor Cuomo has a lot of explaining to do. Ms. Fersko and myself also wrote a detailed letter to supervising judge of the Tenth Judicial District-Nassau County, Christopher G. Quinn seeking restitution from Singler for his illegal actions perpetrated against Ms. Fersko in Brooklyn Supreme Court. This letter was then mailed to Cydney Kelley, who ignored it. At this point the graft and corruption in this Singler case was quite clear, the Attorney General’s office didn’t care that a multi-million Dollar supreme court case was thrown out due to illegal actions. Ms. Fersko and myself tried many ways to seek representation in this case approaching all types of legal aid agencies without success. After Ms. Fersko’s breast cancer surgery and treatment of radiation, Ms. Fersko called five breast cancer organizations to speak to their legal department for help on this supreme court case and all refused, it seems that all these breast cancer organizations are only about the monetary contributions they receive from the public, especially the breast cancer survivors who they call after these women have had their surgeries. These organization are one-way streets, always receiving but never giving. I would question what percentage of that money actually goes for research and what percentage goes to salaried, building rent, utility cost, and all the other miscellaneous costs.


People involved in graft, corruption, incompetence, engaged in illegal, illicit, and immoral Behavior some how benefiting from these actions which undermine the integrity of legal court system. Judge Michael A. Ambrosio- first judge on the case, did nothing to examine the merits of the case and wasted the court’s time and Ms. Fersko’s time. Spoke to Ms. Fersko and myself in a highly improper manner, and because he wasn’t conducting this case in a proper manner, it appears that he was putting this case on hold until the J.H.O Hearing and consolidation was done in the other case against P.C. Richard by Judge Knipel. Because of these very transparent action he probably benefitted in some way acting towards in a corrupt manner probably being paid off by the Defendants, at the very least this Judge should be impeached from being a Supreme Court Judge and he should lose his license. These actions were all committed in open court in full view of other litigants and lawyers in the room who witnessed this judges actions of inaction certainly noticing that he wasn’t moving the case along in a timely manner. Judge Lawrence Knipel- this is the judge who originally presided over the Fersko v. P.C. Richard case. I personally had a chance to observe this judge’s behavior with respect to how he handled cases in front of him on the bench between lawyers. He would allow these lawyers oral argument to state the merits of the case, the plaintiff would state his side and the defendant would state theirs. This judge didn’t allow Ms. Fersko to state her case and discuss the merits of her case. This judge gave the “appearance” of impropriety in his behavior on the bench when Ms. Fersko was before him. All of this was done in open court in full view of other litigants and lawyers. This judge needs to be impeached from his position of being the administrative law judge of Brooklyn Supreme Court, stripped of his black robes which he disrespects with impunity, when he engages in the actions he did against Ms. Fersko. True justice would be for him to lose his livelihood completely and be proven the disgrace that he is, a man who will subvert the law for personal gain. His law license needs to be revoked permanently, never to be able to practice law again. Judge Karen B. Rothenberg- this is the third judge in Ms. Fersko’s case. As stated before this judge made so many mistakes in this case, throwing out the case against Palmer in spite of Ms. Fersko’s presentation of proof that there was criminality of action by the process server in the J.H.O. hearing, ordering a second J.H.O. hearing after Ms. Fersko presented proof of a second service of the original summons and complaint papers which were not addressed at the J.H.O. Hearing and could not be refuted by the Defendant Attorney at this time making the second service stand and legally obligating the court to reinstate the Fersko v. Palmer case. This is the only judge who allowed Ms. Fersko to present evidence of the Merits of the case against P.C. Richard. The judge viewed pictures of the fire, pictures of the improper installation of the electrical stove, connecting the stove to the refrigerator via extension cords running along the walls of the kitchen, this caused combustion in the wiring in the walls causing a fire four months later. This judge needs to be indicted for ignoring the evidentiary proof that she received in person from the plaintiff, Ms. Fersko in open court, and then dismissing Ms. Fersko’s partial summary motion, ordering the case to immediately go to trial. An investigation of this judge’s actions, and they are all there, in black and white, show that she had to be paid off by the defendants to purposely ignore all the evidentiary proof that she was presented with by Ms. Fersko. Karen Rothenberg need to be impeached from being a judge and also lose her license to practice law forever. She is a loose cannon that needs to be stopped. Judge Kenneth P. Sherman is a judge in the Jury Coordinating Part, he proved his illegal and illicit behavior on August 8th, 2013. Ms. Fersko had a notice of motion before this court. The following events attached to this motion were made in such a dramatic way that it seems that this fiasco, and I would have to call it that, happened this way. Ms. Fersko and the Defendant Attorney Maura Laffan were summoned by the blonde haired Law Secretary and Ms. Fersko was complaining that Ms. Laffan’s behavior was quite improper always stating personal insults about Ms. Fersko, myself, Ms. Fersko’s 92 year old mother, and Ms. Fersko’s daughter. This law secretary immediately called for a court reporter who appeared very quickly trying to give Ms. Fersko the idea that her complaints would be dealt with in a proper and fair manner, this was all a ruse intended to deceive Ms. Fersko and bring the proceedings in front of the judge in chambers so that no one could view the proceedings. Ms. Fersko entered the chambers, accompanying her was the court clerk, Mr. McGill, the guard on duty, the Judge Kenneth P. Sherman, the blonde haired law secretary, and the defendant attorney Maura Laffan. In chambers Ms. Fersko was not allowed to speak about her complaints about the Defendant’s Attorney, getting her in there was just a trick by the law secretary who probably was instructed by the judge to get Ms. Fersko in chambers. The transcript by Lisa Calvano-Fragapane is misleading and slanting, giving the impression that Ms. Fersko was allowed to speak freely which she wasn’t. The judge did not allow Ms. Fersko to lodge a formal complaint against the defendant attorney Maura Laffan, instead Ms. Laffan was allowed to speak and complain about Ms. Fersko and myself. It appears that the judge and the law secretary wanted to turn the situation around by having Ms. Laffan complain about us so that the judge would deflect her complaint and not address Ms. Fersko’s which included myself. The decision, dated August 8th, 2013, was written haphazardly stating order to show cause which it was not, it was a notice of motion and this judge used this chamber situation to throw out Ms. Fersko’s motion and have it recorded in the transcript. Supreme Court Judges normally do not make decisions immediately on a notice of motion for re-argument. After Ms. Fersko stated in writing that this whole scenario seemed to be rehearsed, this judge wanted to quickly dispose of this case and send it to trial. This judge needs to be investigated because his actions were incomplete and this blonde haired law secretary also need to be investigated. These actions give the appearance of impropriety. Was the law secretary and the judge paid off? If one compares the two decisions supposedly made by this Judge Sherman there are discrepancies in the paperwork. In the decision of August 8th, it states that the motion was an order to show cause, it wasn’t, it was a notice of motion. The reason that it was written up was an order to show cause, it wasn’t, it was a notice of motion. The reason that it was written up as an order to show cause was to cover up the fact that this motion was a notice of motion requiring Judges to then read the papers making a decision within approximately sixty pays. An order to show cause forces the judge to make a quicker decision. Due to the fact that judges do not read motions before the motion date, it is highly improbable that this judge read the motion papers before he made his decision. This Judge Sherman needs to be thorougly investigated including his two law secretaries. They both acted improperly towars Ms. Fersko. This judge needs to be impeached and removed from the bench in order to stop him from abusing any more litigants in a court of law. He also needs to have his license to practice law revoked permanently. Although I can’t prove he took a payoff from the defendants, his actions speak for themselves and are of such a magnitude that the probability is great. J.H.O. Judge Maxine L. Archer should be relieved of her duties as a J.H.O. Judge. She is completely incompetent and the question of whether she was paid off is one which has to be investigated. I can answer that question. This judge had to know that the reason for a second J.H.O. Hearing involved a second service of the original summons and complaint. Her ruling at that point should have been to reinstate the case even if Ms. Fersko was not present, this judge knew that the first J.H.O. Hearing just addressed one service, the first one, not the second one which never was addressed. The fact that this judge allowed a Process Server to continue with this J.H.O. Hearing when it was established that he didn’t bring any paperwork immediately after the hearing began, which would lead any normally intelligent person, especially a competent judge, to stop the proceedings immediately and tell the process server to go back to his office and bring back the necessary documents, adjourning the hearing to that afternoon. Its really very simple if this judge is that incompetent she has to be removed from her position, but, on the other hand, if these actions were committed with illegal intent, and she was paid off by the defendants, then not only must she be removed from her position of being a J.H.O Hearing Judge, but she must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, as well as losing her law license permanently. At that point Ms. Fersko’s should be immediately reinstated in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Chief Judge Johnathan Lippman- the legal system today has no oversight committee to properly investigate internal legal corruption perpetrated in an ongoing pattern involving many individuals who are lawyers, judges, law secretaries, clerks, and court stenographers and guards. I personally wrote to the Chief Judge appealing to him about court situations which involved graft, corruption, greed, incompetence, and the only thing I received were letters from his chief counsel, Mary C. Mone, telling me and Ms. Fersko that Chief Judge Johnathan Lippman has no authority to investigate the complaints of alleged judicial misconduct. The only remedy seem to either file legal papers to the appellate division, write to the New York State Commision on Judicial conduct. People are getting screwed in the courts everyday, and if you are pro-se there is a good chance that you may not know hot to file the appropriate appellate papers. The reason that our present day legal system will always be full of corruption is that there is no non-legal commission consisting of intelligent citizens who are not lawyers, judges, or related in any way to the legal profession. The legal system wants to police itself and that is not acceptable. Cyndey Kelley, who was in charge of the william Singler Criminal Case received a seven page notarized letter from Ms. Fersko and myself describing in great and specific detail what William HOlder did to sabotage Ms. Fersko’s Brooklyn Supreme Court Case. Knowing that Bernard Holder worked for William Singler and that there already was an ongoing criminal case since 2008, Ms. Kelley ignored the contents of our letter. It seems that the Deal Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo made with Mr. Singler to keep quiet and not involve the many law firm’s Singler worked for and committed “sewer service” was more important than charging Mr. Singler and his process server Mr. Bernard Holder. Ms. Cyndey Kelley is guilty of obstruction of justice, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The excuse that she was following Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s orders doesn’t exonerate her. In Mr. Singler’s plea agreement it states on page 4, Item number 10B, the “Attorney General may further prosecute Singler for any crimes he may have committed. This authority is not limited by paragraphs 2 or 4 above.” The failure of Ms. Cyndey Kelley to prosecute Singler and Holder after she became aware of the facts of what they had done to Ms. Fersko’s case was a failure of her fiduciary responsibility as an appointed civil servant in the Attorney General’s office representing the citizens of New York and taken a sworn oath to do that. Furthermore Ms. Kelley had to be aware of the contents of the plea agreement. This is also further proof that the corruption of these individuals in Brooklyn Supreme Court extended far beyond the court involving political corruption straight to the Attorney General’s office and Andrew M. Cuomo. The then New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed a lawsuit against American Legal Process, owned by William Singler, and more than 30 law firms. This was reported in Newsday by Robert E. Kessler. I find it very odd that nothing more about this case was reported in this paper. The more than thirty law firms were never mentioned by name and the real outcome of this case involving these law firms was never divulged. I believe a thorough investigation of the case should be made, the names of these law firms should be made public knowledge. I think Mr. Cuomo, who is not the Governor of New York, should reveal to the public how much money was refunded by each law firm and to whom to prove that the $100,000 people who were duped, really id get their money back. Then Mr Cuomo should explain why Cyndey Kelley ignored us, representing the Attorney General’s office and not prosecuting Mr. Singler and his employee Bernard Holder, for sabotaging Ms. Fersko’s Brooklyn Supreme court case, also a constituent of New York who had every right to be protected in the clearly criminal actions of Bernard Holder who worked for and represented William Singler, who at that time your office was prosecuting. No one should be exempt from prosecution, especially politicians who are entrusted with protecting the interests of the citizens they are representing. Judge Donald Scott Kurtz, will the graft and corruption ever stop? This judge’s arrogant behaviour, who is the last judge to appear in this case and who presumably didn’t know anything about the case was trying very hard to throw out our case. His demeanor and condescending manner coupled with a very aggressive tone, lead me to suspect that he could also be on the defendant’s payroll as if he had a certain predetermined agenda. I think he proved my suspicions when he transferred Ms. Fersko’s case to a lower civil court. Ms. Fersko and myself vehemently object to this treatment, already spending seven years in Brooklyn Supreme Court, expecting to go to trial in this same court, not a lower one. This judge at no time showed the least compassion for Ms. Fersko when I appeared before him and told him that Ms. Fersko was involved in a motor vehicle accident and was injured. This complete lack of humanity shows the demeanor of a person who has no business wearing judicial robes because this demeanor of great impropriety disrespects the legal profession and that at the very least, is why he should be removed from the bench, lose the great privilege of being a Supreme Court Judge and lose his license to practice law, because he is a disgrace to the profession. Whether this Judge was or wasn’t paid off, he had no judicial right to treat us in that manner and he should pay a dear price for doing that and lose his livelihood! Jennifer Rapaport is the Principal Law Clerk for Judge Karen Rothenberg. Right from the beginning when Ms. Fersko appeared in front of Judge Karen Rothenberg, the third Judge in this case, Ms. Fersko and myself encountered aggressive and negative behaviour towards us from Jennifer Rapaport. The only way we could make sense in understanding her behaviour and subsequent actions is that Ms. Rapaport was being paid off by the defendants to try to sabotage our case and that there was a definite benefit to her in acting this way. Having Power of Attorney for Ms. Fersko, I wrote a seven page letter of complaint to the Administrative Judge at that time for civil matters, in Supreme Court Kings County, Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix. This judge swept my letter of compaint under a rug and dismissed it. This is another example that the legal system has no oversight committee to police themselves, just legal mechanisms such as appeal which are costly if you have to hire a lawyer or beyond one’s scope of expertise if you are pro-se and have no knowledge of the appeal process. Again, the same response was the administrative Judge cannot interfere in a pending matter. The fact is Jennifer Rapaport lied and purposely took steps to stop the Judge, Judge Rothenberg, from receiving important pertinant information. Ms. Rapaport’s continued evasive behaiour culminated in receiving ex=parte letters from Defendant Attorney Maura Laffan. The contents of these letters were explained by Ms. Rapaport to her Judge, Judge Karen Rothenberg, in a way to paint a dark picture aobut Ms. Fersko and myself, with Ms. Rapaport repeating ourtight lies to this judge. Regardless, of whether Ms. Rapaport did this or not, simply the fact atht she allowed this judge to rant and rave to Ms. Fersko and myself in open court, with Ms. Rapaport knowing that this was an ex-parte letter and should not have been addressed by the court, that is the proof that she was bought and paid for by defendnats, P.C. Richard and Son, The P.C. Richard family. As further proof of her deception is a letter dated January 22, 2010, it states “your ex-parte correspondence is being returned to you opened but unread by the judge.” This is absolute proof that this law secretary is “dirty”. The ex-parte letter by Defendant Attorney Maura Laffan is dated February 26, 2013- two pages-note the second page has no cc notation that a copy was sent to Ms. Fersko of this communication. Also it appears that another letter was sent to this court, also ex-parte, and I quote the first line of the letter, “we are again forced to contact you concerning the extraordinarily improper behaviour of the Plaintiff, Sherry Fersko.” Ms. Jennifer Rapaport needs to be immediately suspended from her job as Principal Law Clerk, lose that job, have her law license revoked permanently and be prosecuted for her illegal actions for subverting due process of law, deliberately trying to sabotage the legal case, withholding information from the court and collusion with the defendants for personal gain. This collusion could very well involve other court employees. Maura Laffan is the second attorney for P.C. Richard and Son office at 221 Mineola Boulevard, Mineola, New York 11501. Right from the beginning that she entered this case she has waged a verbal and written war of words against Ms. Fersko and myself. She has used her legal papers as a conveyance to insult, degrade, defame, and make fun of myself, Ms. Fersko, and her family, mother and daughter. Ms. Fersko filed a motion with the court to dismiss Ms. Laffan from this case as well as her law firm Although this is a very serious motion which questions why this court should allow a lawyer to prosecute a case in such an unprofessional manner trying to use lies and outright deception before Judges Rothenberg and Kenneth P. Sherman who were both familiar with the case. The fact that these judges allowed this type of behavior is further proof that they are “dirty”. These judges are both aware of the proper way in which lawyers are supposed to act. Everyday lawyers come before them in a respectful manner not engaging in malicious action either in verbal or written form. The fact that these judges allowed this behaviour is despicable. When this motion came before this court, in the Jury Coordinating Part, on September 8th, 2014, Judge Lawrence Knipel, denied this motion without reading it. Again, I reiterate, the fix was in, and that explains why Ms. Laffan could act that way and get away with her actions. Ms. Laffan needs to lose her license to practice law Just because she was able to act in a corrupt manner apparently in a corrupt environment, Ms. Laffan has to be held accountable as well as the corrupt judges.


In conclusion, I am appealing to the public for help in righting the wrongs that have been perpetrated and accomplished against Ms. Sherry Fersko, her family, mother and daughter, and myself, Martin Kornfeld. The persons I have written about will deny everything and try to paint a picture that Ms. Fersko and myself are totally unbalanced people and that we are imagining everything that happened in the case. They will say these are all random events that are not connected, but anyone who knows anything about the legal system knows that lawyers, judges, and all court personnel have a written code of conduct that they are supposed to abide by. This code incorporates a strict ethical and moral basis with zero tolerance. This is the help we need; We need the public to step forward, contact us and appear with us in court as witnesses. We need that moral support to show the court and the world that injustice, especially in the form of graft and corruption, will not be tolerated by the good people of this country. We need legal help in the form of representation by lawyers who abhor the illegal actions that have been made against us. I realize that what I have written and made public may very well put myself, Ms. Fersko, and her family in grave danger. Robert Palmer, the landlord, and the P.C. Richard family are vicious people and have the capability of doing us harm. We are also asking for protection against these people.


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Submitted November 01, 2014 at 06:06AM by martinkornfeld24 http://ift.tt/1tpPmCL IAmA