THE Spotlight is on You ..cont’d

“Wow! I am truly humbled … and adequate words escape me to properly thank you for your accolades! I am very, deeply grateful. And really, I write mostly because of an inner compulsion to write. I guess you could say that I find it nearly impossible NOT to write! LOL Consequently, my satisfaction comes from the finished product, as well as from my wonderful readers and the knowledge that others enjoy and appreciate my work. Right now, you have given me an invaluable gift in sharing my work ~ or access to my work ~ with your own readers. And THAT is most rewarding! Thank you again, and all the best to you w/blessings!”
Very good points here, friends. The focus of the next few posts will be some informational Q and A with the bloggers. It will involve me going over their posting habits, posts and their readers.

Here is Jonathan’s answer to my question:
What drives you:
“I guess you could say that I find it nearly impossible NOT to write!” Some of us would love to be compulsive writers like you, Jonathan.  I feel the same way but it has to do with creating data related posts. Mine tend to be technical. (Also, I am a compulsive list-maker. So by the time I am done with my task list, my Sundays are gone!)
Jonathan has said so much with the statement , “Consequently, my satisfaction comes from the finished product, as well as from my wonderful readers and the knowledge that others enjoy and appreciate my work.”
While the second part is true for all of us and we are focused on our readers, gaining confidence from the finished product is so true for me. I love to examine posts that have a clear cut agenda and are very complete when they are addressing technical issues. That gives me the most satisfaction. Just like the writer I am focusing on. Very Well Put Jonathan! (While Jonathan may be able to send  more detailed answers to my questions, for now this will have to do. )
Nena of You Unfolded focuses on two areas: A regular work out routine, which is about day to day progress, and the great  journey  she has undertaken documenting this.
An answer to my own question:
How have these  two blogs affected me? ( Without this, I would not read their blog as often.)

1. Yesterday I thought about work out and hiking blogs. I decided to act on an impulse and walked at least 3 miles.
   Today I hurt, but now this blog post is helping make recover productively. My finished product has really lifted my spirits. Thank you Jonathan and Nena.  Nena hasn’t written or answers  to my queries, but she will.
2.  Jonathan’s blog has driven me to be more productive with my blog. I do all the work but most of it is for my actual work. Blogging has made me sharpen so many skills. So I am using the recovery time, as I pointed out before, to post.

The spotlight is on how two of my blog buddies are so disciplined and how they put in work EVERYDAY!
Nena has posted so many times, I have lost track. Jonathan has many many posts on fantasy fiction, and his poems are gathering fans.
Would you like your blog to be covered? I would be happy to do it. Just leave a comment here. You don’t have to be a compulsive writer like Jonathan.

THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON YOU!

STATISTICAL surveys of blogs is a tricky process.
In the past few months I have been busy looking at several blogs. They range from highly technical areas like engineering, analytics and healthcare to blogs about fashion, shopping, cooking. All these areas show many interesting trends.  Today I have some questions for you.
You have been regularly writing, taking pictures and posting. I love reading your blog entries and seeing your photos.  I have commented on many.
Now I have some questions for you.

What drives you to write?
What kind of reward do you expect?
How much time do you devote to your blog?
What awards have you won because of your blog?
What is your best post so far?
Whose blog do you follow  the most?

While I want all of my readers to answer, I was hoping to focus on two of my blog buddies, Jonathan Noble and NENA!
Johnathan Noble's blog is interesting. Please read it. His handle is noblethemes.
He never fails to post.  He would be a publisher's delight. Always something interesting. Maybe he will write the next Vampire/GoT book.

Then there's NENA!  She is so fun and smart. I admire her dedication. She is very disciplined. She posts regularly and is so pleasant. No wonder she has so many followers.
She will draw you into her life. She makes a real connection with the reader through her work-out posts.

If you would like to be a part of the spotlight let me know in the comment section. I will go over your posts, study them and write about you.

Thank you so much for reading.
#iblogstats

#Cyberbullying on Facebook

Hello all! Thank you so much for your support in the past!

Would  YOU like replies like " bloody stupid" and "bloody git" for millions to see? For your family to be hurt that you are being attacked?
Would you want Desiree Redburn to get away with this?

STOP THIS #CYBERBULLYING!

LOOK FOR PHOTOS OF THIS MISBEHAVIOR AND ABUSE THAT MARYJO HAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK.

Make Desiree Redburn Kelly Saxton Coldeway, Beth Wyndham, Julie Jones, Susan Kindregan, Lou Lachat and Jennifer Link apologize to MaryJo Lester.
Would you want Kelly Saxton Coldeaway to remove your member ship and threaten you?
An animal activist on Facebook has been abused and Harassed by members of H.O.P.E.
Desiree Redburn of Launceston Tasmania called one Animal activist  a "bloody git" and before that said " Don't be bloody stupid".

Abusing an animal activist is animal abuse because it prevents people from fighting as a team on social media.

Kelly Saxton Coldeaway is the self appointed leader who told this activist to NOT report the abuse to the authorities.

Beth Wyndham is the one that called Desiree Redburn over to  the post where this activist was attacked.
Jennifer Link seems to take Desiree's side.
Claims she was 'kicked out". Likely ha ha.. I bet those are total lies.

Desiree Redburn selectively bullies and harasses this activist. There are so many comments from her where she DOES not bully or abuse ANYONE else!

Please get onto Facebook to support this abuse activist, MaryJo Lester.

Make Kelly Saxton Coldeaway, Beth WYNDHAM , Julie Jones, Susan Kindregan, Desiree Redburn, Lou Lachat and Jennifer Link apologize to MaryJo Lester.


Desiree Redburn intentionally said these things to hurt MaryJo because she saw that Kelly was upset at MaryJo for being very independent and knowledgeable. Beth Wyndham put her up to it. With so much harassment and so many political aspects, are they supporting animals or having an ego stroking event?

HELP THE ANIMALS.  Don't attack other animal activists. Where is you integrity as a group leader? Are you even remotely literate like MJ?

In 20011,  Via Reuters, Tim Geithner summarized the effect of stolen technology on the US economy. China has been very aggressive in copying technology. If US made products were to be sold in China, they would have to be produced there.
Here is a direct quote from Tim Geithner :
"We're seeing China continue to be very, very aggressive in a strategy they started several decades ago, which goes like this: you want to sell to our country, we want you to come produce here ... if you want to come produce here, you need to transfer your technology to us," Geithner said.
The United States' trade deficit with China hit a record $273 billion in 2010. This is old news. The latest numbers are worse. Had $273 billion had been pumped into the economy, for 300 million US residents in 20011 , what do you think your life would look like? What kind of stimulus check would that be?
Who can help?
Everyone can help by buying Made in America products.
Our blogs are a microcosm and a parallel universe, where our work, a product of years of study and hard work , is being openly and blatantly stolen.
Here are some questions that I have posed to my students, colleagues and friends.
What technology has not been stolen by the Chinese?
Why?
From Harry Potter to the latest self driving models, everything is at a risk of being copied.
How can this be prevented?
It can be prevented by buying Made in USA products.( Aren't Facebook, Google and Twitter  homegrown?)
Everyone can help by buying Made in America products.
According to Matthew Aid, Humint spying is causing inventors to lose money. How about not selling to China? Not admitting the students? Being more stringent in English standards. The poor language may be OK for them , but the loss caused by them is so high that they make other countries look like friends. 
Here is a DIRECT QUOTE FROM MATTHEW AID:
  " This approach to espionage is nothing new. Other nations have used similar systems for centuries. What is unusual is the scale of the Chinese effort, and that makes a difference. Supporting it all is a Chinese intelligence bureaucracy back home that is huge, with nearly 100,000 people working just to keep track of the many Chinese overseas and what they could, or should, be trying to grab for the motherland. This is where many of the graduates of the National Intelligence College program will work.  "

The first time that I read this, I thought that it was a paranoid approach. Now I see first hand how blatant the IP theft is.
If each year, had Hundreds of Billions of dollars were not lost to China, do you think we would have faced the foreclosure crises? Would we have faced joblessness?
Everyone can help by buying Made in America products.
References:
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../timothy-geithner-china..
http://www.matthewaid.com/post/131614390416/chinese-humint-spying-in-us-and-elsewhere
http://www.ipcommission.org/report/ip_commission_report_052213.pdf

FROM THE DAILY CALLER : 8000 CHINESE STUDENTS EXPELLED FROM US SCHOOLS.

BLAKE NEFF WROTE ABOUT 8000 CHINESE STUDENTS BEING EXPELLED FROM THE US.

80% WERE EXPELLED AS A RESULT OF POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OR CHEATING!!!

THAT IS 3%. THE TRAGEDY IS THAT I SEE SOME PLAGIARISTS EVERYDAY, EVERYWHERE. THEY JUSTIFY PLAGIARIZING BY SAYING THAT I SHOULD TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT THAT MY WORK WAS WORTHY OF PLAGIARIZING!!! THEREFORE, BY THAT LOGIC, MY LOSING SALES IS A COMPLIMENT? MAY I PLEASE PLAGIARIZE THEIR WORK AND NOT PAY THEM ROYALTY?

IF 8000 IS 3%, THEN imagine how many are still here. The professors here fight a losing battle because the Chinese students pay full tuition. (As someone who has never studied without a scholarship, I would never pay tuition. My logic is very simple: unless I am very good, I wont attempt to study it. If it gets my attention, I will work hard to be in the 95th percentile. BY THE SAME LOGIC, I DON'T PLAGIARIZE.)

My Chinese dorm-mate stole from me.  As did a superior. When I filed charges, both of them said that this was a cultural difference, and that in China no one cares. Everyone takes from everyone else. I asked my dorm mate to steal from the Dean's niece who was in a room across the hall. She was caught. I did not drop the charges. As for the superior, our lab got even.

You can fight one or two people stealing your ideas. How do you fight a nation or a culture?

Don't get me wrong.  One of my best pals from NYC, who died of a glioblastoma, was half Chinese.

My thesis is that plagiarism throttles innovation and creativity. IF some kid did not share a beautiful, elegant cancer drug idea fearing patent trolls and plagiarism, should you not be angry with this culture?  Please share you plagiarism experiences. If you don't comment, I will assume that you don't mind this plagiarism.

REFERENCES:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/29/massive-numbers-of-chinese-students-expelled-from-us-schools/https://iblogstats.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/from-the-daily-caller-8000-chinese-students-expelled/

THE CHECKLIST AND WORKSHEET TO FEELING CONFIDENT WITH YOUR EXPERTISE

SOME OF MY FRIENDS  ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS, BUT THEY THINK THEY HAVE NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE. MY TRAINEES DID THE SAME. SO I CREATED A LIST OF SKILLS THEY HAD. I REMOVED THEIR NAMES FROM THEIR RESUME'S AND SENT THE RESUME' TO HR. I ASKED IF THEY CAN WORK WITH THOSE CANDIDATES. HR SAID:"YES, RIGHT NOW!"
I AM NO MAGICIAN. I CAN ONLY WORK WITH IT RESUME'S. STILL THAT  IS WHAT THEY NEVER EXPECTED.
I HAVE REQUESTED MY PALS TO BLOG AND THEIR ANSWER IS : I DON'T KNOW THAT MUCH.
FRIEND: WHAT WILL I BLOG ABOUT
ME: YOUR JOB
FRIEND : I DON'T HAVE TIME.
ME: YOU DO HAVE 15 MINUTES.
FRIEND NO ONE WILL READ!
ME: I WILL READ, TWEET AND  HELP.
FRIEND: MY JOB IS AWFUL
ME: ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT TO BLOG, ITS THERAPEUTIC!
DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BLOG ABOUT? YOU TOTALLY DO! YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR BRAND, TESTING YOUR AUDIENCE AND WORKING FROM HOME. WHAT WILL YOU GIVE TO WORK FROM HOME?
Me, I'd give a lot to work from home. I already do. I developed a worksheet and a checklist for my students who wanted to earn money on the side. This should work for you.
THE WORKSHEET:

1. Document as many instances as possible where you impressed yourself, your colleagues and bosses with your work.
2. What was your best test score and why?
3. When did you coach anyone?
4. What and how did you troubleshoot anything at work?
5. Name some un-reacheable goals at work.
6. What have you tried so far?
7. Since those methods failed what will you try?

THE CHECKLIST :

1. You picked a goal.
2. You have a deadline.
3. You have a strategy and list of smaller goals.
4. You are networking.
5. You are gathering rejection letters.
6. You are documenting your efforts
7. You are eliminating methods that don't work, polishing things that do.

AFTER 60 DAYS, YOU WILL HAVE GAINED SO MUCH.
MY FAILURE IN TRAINING: HOW I USED IT TO LEVERAGE MY NEXT TRAINING SESSION.
Teaching programming and scripting languages is tricky. I gave my trainees some work. Only 5 out of 24 got the job done.
They had material and lectures, so why the poor performance? I broke the task into tiny portions. I have 85% success. So the  trouble was that I expected them to blend some important functions and sew together 70 lines of code with new functions. Some used subroutines. I also gave them code to debug. It was some 150 lines in length and had many variables.
I told them that i will devote two sessions till everyone got it right. By the next Monday. everyone had the coding work down. It cost me two sessions, and so I failed to complete the syllabus on time.
I used that anger hurt and fear to my advantage: I began using the above worksheets and checklists.
I created a way of tracking progress and awarding bonus points to those who finished tasks on their own. I then made them demonstrate their methods to those who were lagging behind despite hard work. This symbiotic approach helped in four ways:
There was less disruption.
There was more training "ground" covered!!
Assignments were complete.
The syllabus got finished before the last class, so we reviewed all material.
YOU MAY FAIL, BUT ONLY ONCE. USE IT. USE THE ANGER. THANK YOU FOR READING. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT.

THE COST OF FIGHTING PLAGIARISM, THE BIGGEST DOWNSIDE TO THEFT.

THIS POST IS THE SUMMARY OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN OVER THE YEARS.

THE INVENTOR HAS A RIGHT TO FIGHT PLAGIARISM. WHAT IS THE PRICE OF FIGHTING IT?

COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND PATENTS BY THEMSELVES ARE EXPENSIVE, LET ALONE THE PRICE OF FIGHTING PLAGIARISM.

SCENARIO 1: An innovative intern creates a product that will save money, time and effort. His boss steals the idea and presents it to the world. The intern cannot fight the 40+ boss with friends in high places.

SCENARIO 2:

Day 0

A tyrannical dictator of a boss demands that no one leaves till their bottle neck issue with sales and the dipping numbers in production and distribution are solved. It violates so many rules, it's not even funny! A naive but brilliant employee then provides a viable solution with his outside the box thinking. 14 other employees are relived that they now have a solution and can go home.

Day 1

The area manager and the site directors congratulate the tyrannical boss for his idea. 14 witnesses commit a lie of omission and then the one who came up with the idea does not get credit. If he sues his company or so much as demands and acknowledgement for his idea and a promotion based on how he out did  14 others, while underscoring their lack of ethics, he now has a terrible future. the boss gets a promotion and is assigned two new interns he can harass.

Day 2

Law suit filed. Employee who spoke up is terminated because his desk had too many paper clips.

Day 21

Employee has applied to 9 new companies, but now has been black listed and has no references to speak of and even his best friend at work refuses to provide a testimonial to employee's brilliance , to the bosses misbehavior.

Day 31

Employee now works at Apple store.

Day 1214

Judge finds for employee-plaintiff.. He is awarded the cost of the lawsuit. Attorneys Howe Dewey and Cheatem buy a yacht.

Even the football coach who bent the rules for recruiting has a job and several endorsement deals. Brilliant Employee has a small time job and no future.

REAL world examples:

1. Jessica Shepherd covers this very well here.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/oct/30/highereducation.uk

2) Joany Chou a post doc invented the Herpes avccine, from what I understood. She said to her boss that it could be patented, He did not respond very clearly. soon after she was not allowed back in the lab (!!!!).

She then discovered that he had filed a patent and that he  had been collecting royalties.

She won the case. Now what? Do you see her proudly leading the research life that she should have? Did Harvard invite her for a short period to teach, carry out a small research project? If you know what she is doing please let me know. The sad truth that I see when students and employees stand up and fight  then they have a terrible life. They seem to be living in the shadows. Plaintiffs and whistle blowers never live an easy life. The miscreants seem to have so much power.

Read more about this here:

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=dltr

3)http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-district-court-awards-college-professor-25-million-including-attorneys-fees-for-patent-infringement-suit-75365247.html?$G1Ref

4)http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-charges-six-chinese-citizens-with-economic-espionage-1432046527

THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THEFT

A company or a startup invests everything it has and then sells a product. The 2nd month sales dwindle. Someone has copied it and is manufacturing it without paying royalties. A small startup where an entire family, with Mom, dad kids, uncles and cousins are working, has to declare bankruptcy.  They now have losses of thousands of dollars. IS IT ENOUGH THAT THEY MERELY THINK PLAGIARISM IS ACTUALLY A COMPLIMENT THAT THEIR PRODUCT IS GREAT ENOUGH TO BE STOLEN? Manufacturers need to license the technology the design and the utility patents associate with a product.

The lack of severe punishment of plagiarism and infringement causes most inventors to hide their inventions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/technology/jury-finds-apple-and-samsung-infringed-patents.html?_r=0

COMMENTS:

QUESTION: DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WHO FIGHT PLAGIARISM AND IDEA THEFT AND STAND UP TO BIG CORPORATIONS, INSTITUTIONS HAVE A GOOD LIFE AFTERWARDS? FROM WHAT I SEE  MAYBE THEY DONT!

DO YOU SEE THE COST OF FIGHTING PLAGIARISM, THE DOWNSIDE TO FIGHTING THEFT?

COMMENTS:

I TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK.  SOME OF YOU HAVE LEFT VERY INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS. I THANK NENA AND SHINEPOSITIVEPOWER, FOR THEIR  COMMENTS ON MY OTHER POSTS. THANK YOU NANSYE LEE, HEIDI!! THANK YOU  SABAHBATUL, KALLY AND NOBLETHEMES FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. YOU MAKE ME A BETTER WRITER. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT. PLEASE WAIT FOR YOUR COMMENT TO BE MODERATED. THANK YOU SO MUCH. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER PLEASE!

KALLY NOMINATED ME FOR AN AWARD, SINCE I HAVE FEWER THAN 200 FOLLOWERS. TY KALLY!

NOTE: HERE EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS HAVE THE SAME STANDING.

Wrongful ownership of ideas in the industry and the academia, Bullying.

SCENARIO 1
Two companies that competed with each other poached each others interns. One such poached intern  was working on an idea that would revolutionize plastic packaging. His internship was for the summer, and the company said that they had the sole rights to it. The other company then shared the patent. The poached and hence shamed intern was left with nothing. He at least has learned to never share his ideas without protecting them. One tough lesson.
SCENARIO 2
A man abused his spouse and she wrote about that after getting away from him. The book was a best seller for weeks and established her for life. The man , her tormentor, said he deserved half of everything because if he did not abuse her she would not have a story!!!By that math all criminals whose victims get famous have a right to compensation?
SCENARIO 3
A Phd student from Russia states that his discovery of imaginal disc related properties in the embryos of  Drosophila spp was stolen by his Professor, Dr.Larsen. Foreign students seem to be very vulnerable.
This has been my rant for some time. However, I am not depressed!
I read about a young girl who proved that an invasive species , the Lionfish, could invade freshwater as well AS SEAWATER! Her parents are in the academia. All she got was a mention from one of the professors she was working with in a publication. I would have given her her own publication or a primary author status.
After all these years I am realizing that the industry as well as the academia prey upon those who have brilliant idea. Is it any wonder that Zuckerburg, Larry Paige, Elizabeth Holmes and hundreds of other inventors are walking away from traditional schools? The Khan academy is one such place.  Check it out.
Now this is the ERA of MOOCS, Youtube and 3-d printers. I have hopes. Anyone can invent, create a prototype and sell licenses. The ones that cheat and copy will not have the brilliance to handle all problems.
In the past it was hard to get published. Now there is the internet!
With self publishing tools, we have done away with protocols involving professionals who behaved badly.
The more I read about bullied students, interns and employees, the more I am convinced that one should always hold back their best ideas. Plagiarism, theft and cheating has made me write  and present to you work that has a tenth of the effort that I normally put in.
Dear copycat: I am glad you decided to copy. I now hide my work better. It will be open to a handful AFTER I take steps.
http://www.universitytorontofraud.com/
http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2012/01/abuse-of-phd-students.html
Here is an excerpt from the site above :

"DocCraig said...
My partner also had a bad experience at the University of Leicester. Basically they treat international students like s***. Many international students are better than their corrupt mentors back home in Asia.
Yet, some are getting failed and sent back home with no degree and all the shame that comes with it. External examiners in this case had no expertise in the field and failed on the basis of the thesis not be related to Geography etc.
Most professors have no idea about how other cultures operate and how they perpetuate corruption by failing good students and allowing older corruption lecturers back home prosper. Some external examiners will only pass high-end super rich international students who were fed with English from birth.
Yet in some subject areas they pass weak Chinese students in social science fields as they generate so much money for these programmes.
This is known to happen across more than one school and education in particular has well-known cases which they brush under the carpet. External examiners are King, nobody can cross them and I would urge students to select their own external as academics seriously are flawed and don't know how to match external examiners to students.
We have had to delay having children because of the unfair decision whilst this university continues to market itself as not elitist.
UK universities offer poor vlaue for money and poor training within departments. Some international students swop subjects in order to enroll on PhD progrmames because they may have much better English than their peers, however, they struggle with the new subject content with no previous background which the university is not factoring in.
US universities provide a much better PhD training from what have heard- beware of the social science PhD in the UK. I have heard too many tales of how long it has taken people to finish.
2:28 PM"
WILL YOU EVER TRUST A PROFESSOR OR A MENTOR OR A COLLEAGUE EVER AGAIN? NO ONE SHOULD!
I KNOW NOW, THAT I WOULD NEVER EVER TRUST ANYONE WITH MY GOOD IDEAS!
DEAR READER, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT! THOSE OF YOU WHO LEAVE THE MOST MEANINGFUL , FREQUENT COMMENTS WILL GET RECOGNITION AND OF COURSE MY SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE!!
MUCH OBLIGED! :)
REF:
http://www.universitytorontofraud.com/
http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2012/01/abuse-of-phd-students.html

THE MOST POPULAR BLOG, PLAGIARISM

#iblogstats
 The point of this blog is to address statistics of blogs, vlogs, microblogs.

• The most prevalent type of blog is the food blog.
• 
  
• The average blog is discontinued in 2 months.
• The average time it takes to establish a steady readership is _____________?

I expected engineering and statistics blogs to be on the rise. While they did increase in number, that number is nowhere near what I expected. One of the strongest reasons is that people consider that work.
I spoke to an engineering student about his designs and he said he wanted to patent and publish, but that the funding came from the department, so ownership issues arise.
I asked him to blog about it. He said: My department may find out and that means I have posted information that needs to be approved first.
IS it fair that he go through all that? Nope.
He also said that there were many copycats around. I said: Hey man, electrical engineers cannot copy material that easily.
He then showed me his lab partner's submissions. Clearly this student was the first to come up with the design and concept, but the lab partner, while pretending to be nice, copied everything. We both sat down, I cancelled my one-hour workout and we both dug up information on how the original work from the electrical engineering student was plagiarized.
We submitted evidence to the Office of Academic Integrity.  We accomplished that in FOUR hours. The international student was expelled and he went back to his home country. He will continue to plagiarize. He cost the other student hours of loss of work. My point is simple: Plagiarism abounds and this is preventing good blogs from showing up. I invite my readers to provide their solutions.

My personal experience with plagiarism:
After 10+ years in the world of hardcore statistics, computing and research, I have so much material that I would never have to plagiarize. I actually find plagiarism beneath me. I ask myself: Am I not better, smarter, quicker?
Recently, I took pity on someone and they plagiarized everything from me. they started playing the game of a stalker.
They copy my work but they don't give credit and cite my work.
The strategy I use, they reword and publish IMMEDIATELY.  DISGUSTING.
NOW MULTIPLY THAT FEELING  A 100 TIMES. WHAT IF YOUR MENTOR WAS USING YOUR WORK?
I SET A TRAP. I AM GOOD LIKE THAT. ONE DAY, WHEN MY INFRINGEMENT CASE IS OVER, I WILL PUBLISH THE STORY.
I CREATED THREE WORKS THAT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITH OUT THE FACULTY MEMBER GETTING CAUGHT RED-HANDED. I LEFT THE WORKS IN MY LAB. BY 2PM, I HAD EVIDENCE OF PLAGIARISM. I THEN SENT A LOVELY EMAIL TO THE OFFICE OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY. ALL THOSE PROCEDURAL WORKS  WERE NOT FOR NOTHING!
THAT MAN IS NOW AN ADJUNCT IN A SMALL COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

IS ANYONE COPYING FROM YOUR WORK/ARTICLE/BLOG SHAMELESSLY AND POSTING THINGS ON THEIR SITE?

TIME YOU SET A TRAP!!

BLOGGERS, AUTHORS, TWITTERATI : HOW DO YOU PREVENT PALGIARISM AND IDEA THEFT ?

I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO TRAIN SOME 300 SMART PEOPLE TO DATE. SOME HAD GREAT IDEAS. I WANTED THEM TO MAKE MONEY FROM THEM. SOME HAD THEIR IDEAS STOLEN. #PATENTTROLLS #IPRI

I took many classes and also learned a great deal of software, coding and analytics by myself. I worked for a company that hired me to analyze data.
One day, a superior complained about how little email space they get. I said: Well some emails are evidence. So that is not ethical!" He submitted that idea, never gave me credit. I never shared another idea. He asked me if I was okay because I did not have a smart comment any more during meetings. I told him that I am in "Observe and report mode."

During my post graduate studies , I created a system to update information about a hypothesis without manual curating. a professor had his student put that in  his  thesis.
It was meant for my thesis.

 Whitaker of ASU accused of plagiarism.
The problem gets compounded when your idea is stolen by a superior you trust.


Now when I have an idea, I don't share it. If I am forced to, I set a trap.
I trained a kid to code in a scripting language. I knew he would copy from the  first 10 matches he would get in Google. I gave him a list of sites to not copy from. ( Also, in this kind of teaching environment, if you dont cite, you lose 30% of your grade and you should feel lucky I did not turn you in for unprofessional behavior and lack of academic integrity.) He asked for extra time and did everything on his own, 0 plagiarism. I created a smart coder.

Its harder to monitor when your audience in the social media is much larger and there are unethical people everywhere. If you are blogging, who owns your work? The hosting platform? How will you prevent the theft of your ideas? If you have pins, who owns them. Because they are public, should I be able to use them any way I want?
How will you prevent the theft of your ideas, tweets, posts and pins?

I now know 45 authors who also blog and thats the major ones making a million a year.
How do they prevent plagiarism?  How did Seamus Heany protect his beautiful imagery via the phrase " cascades of chlorophyll " ( My beer bud told me not to use this, b/c it sounds sissy. In his defense, we both had a beer or two.)

I would love to get your take on plagiarisms, incidents and prevention if plagiarism.
Please leave a comment!

GIZMODO's POLARIS Slingshot. #unblogged

No Blog about Stats, just my fave blog.

Gizmodo  is my fave. Probably because I heart all things tech.
I subscribe to their email.

I loved the Polaris Slingshot review. Many must have reviewed it, but Gizmodo has a special place in my heart.

Since Sean Posted about the Polaris Slingshot I hate my life. I will get me a life coach and try to get the Polaris Slingshot as a part of my job perk. If I were Sean, I would do a MILLION things with the Slingshot.
This is the reason for Gizmodo  being so addictive. They use enticing pictures of stuff that you will dream about.








 I would drive up to my Starbucks in the slingshot, demand a freebie b/c now I out did that gang of bikers, brought a mob of kids to the Starbucks.
I would go to the Hyatt and then park where everyone could see and then use it for publicity. I would drive up to the retirement home, pick up my nana and then  go pick up her 'scrip'.

One swanky ride can do all that? No. It opens the door to my imagination is all. I do feel its a dangerous ride.
 I wont become the drift king, but I would go in with an agenda. True what Sean did was Way cooler. Some of us have an idea of how to use this #Ubercool ride.  Sean gets EVERYTHING!!! :/

FRUGALITY AND COUPONING BLOG POPULARITY : WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS?

Hello Twitter pals!!
Did Walmart just cut hours?
Is your favorite chain closing 40 stores?
We need to live frugally. I  for one have forced myself to read frugality, DIY, money management and even couponing blogs.

The Pennyhoarder is one such blog that will teach you to Earn, save and GROW your money. I mention him here as well. The Pennyhoarder introduced me to so many new areas.




I was so inspired when I read his blog. He quit doing a 9-5 and his blog is worth more than a million.

He has a 3/10 GooglePage Rank. Kyle solves the problem of having a 9-5 job where your job may hurt more than it helps!!


Then there is Jenny Martin. I was looking for an affordable printer and my search lead me to her site.
I have not looked back since.





Her site has more than 1.2 million unique visitors, every day.
I depended on her for organic food, printer and some electronics.
There are many blogs like this. I think of all these blogs as MONEY blogs. They help you save money and earn money, usually from home.

What site do you visit to save money? Why do you like it?
Please leave a link to your blog/site and I will mention that in my blog.

IF YOU ARE AN #ANIPAL SEE THIS.

Dailykos, Foodbabe, Couponmom, Jessica Adams, Loveandlemons,

What kind of Blog do you want to start?
Food / fashion/ hobby / frugality / causes/ tech/ entertainment/political
Here are some blogs that I wanted to discuss, to inspire all of us.

Loveandlemons.com has a sizable following. It branched out to Instys, and was awarded the Best food blog. When you read it, you will get why. It is clean, simple and speaks to every one.

Foodbabe is a food blog with a cause. It has 118,426 daily visitors. It started around 7-8 years ago, and now it is a movement.

DailyKos has above 7 million visitors daily, and  Politico is a close second.


Clark Howard and Dave Ramsey can save us money. Thepennyhoarder.com started just a few years ago and now his site has tens of thousands of visitors everyday. Kyle Taylor  and Ramit Sethi will change how we think about earning money. Bradsdeals now commands the attention of so many people that businesses with e-commerce are paying very close attention.

Jenny Martin, a mom from South Carolina, started this little blog called Thesouthernsavers.com.  If she ran for office, she will likely win. Before her there was couponmom, if my numbers are right.
We all know that Perez Hilton started with a blog.


I haven't even started on the big ones yet.

Thanks to some ladies I know, I came to think of astrology very differently. there is a market for it.
Darkstarastrology has many daily visitors and does not miss a post or a big astrological event.

Jessica Adams is an astrologer, writer and has a blog and she is a globe trotter thanks to her accurate political predictions.I would not be surprised if she is on TV.

Is there a blog you want me to review?

Coming soon: The happening blog and its numbers!

Please let your friends know of this and leave comment.

VLOG AND BLOG MILLIONAIRES: THE 30 DAY BLOG CHALLENGE

Hello all!

I have used this time ever so productively.
 I could not have done this w/o my pals from social media and work.
I finished projects, gained fans and delivered 200% buyer satisfaction for my Analytics


Today, I wanted to talk about Blog stats about blog millionaires, YouTube millionaires and what you should do to work from home!

Did you know that blogs, pinterest, instys and twitter generate revenue in BILLIONS? 

Do you know #PewDiePie? http://bit.ly/1FaDlsv


I do know his work. He crossed 10 billion views recently.
If you are growing your stuff/teaching/programming, why do you not have a blog yet?
I haven't posted because I am going through what you are going through!!
I had to work over time at my job.

BLOGSTAT Research: 

IS THE AGE OF A BLOG A BIG FACTOR IN VIEWS?

ARE VIEWS PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF VISITORS AND HENCE THE REVENUE?

Not really.

Mashable reached the million visitor rank in just a few months. KISSmetrics did the same.
If I know this, why hasnt my blog exploded?
Timing.
Life.
Together, we will have a no excuses approach!

30 days from now or so? See you soon!

Use blogger( a must).

• 30 day task list/goal list:
• Start a blog
• Post OFTEN.
• Show the number of views from analytics
• Must register with me and tweet your registration in 10 days. i.e., Sept 24th !

REWARD for top 3: I will grow your #blogverse and audience by tweeting. I WILL USE METRICS FROM ANALYTICS.

 Did you know that blogging, pinterest, instys and twitter generate revenue in BILIONS?

#Humaneprofit

I am trying to list some ideas for humane profit here.

1) humane silk

2) catcafes

3) dogparks

4) vegan accessories, thanks to MeowMeow.

5) free range (verified) products

6) Diy mushroom kits

7) #dogcafes

8) safaris , with no-kill rules

9)....

How to Microblog your Blogpost : Hello to my Twitter pals!

 How to Microblog your Blog Post

Social media is built around tweets, Youtube, texts, Instys, Pinterest and to some extent, Stumbleupon.
Your blog post gives you the freedom of more words and images, infografics etc. Or does it?
Human attention span lasts for 30 minutes on a topic that they care about. Your blogpost, along with mine is never a priority.
If you live with teenagers, you know that only 3 things will make them care: Food, shelter and the iOS/ #android.

This is your chance to capitalize on 10 items or less and 140 characters or less culture. BTW, INBD tho, but FB is not very #fetch ( a nod to #meangirls ). After five years on it, TISNF, but who cares.
All we want to do is selfies and tweet our shopping. In a poor economy, nothing makes your look  er.. I am lost for adjectives and adverb-eage.
 Microblog is anything from Twitter to Stubleupon.

Social media etiquette for  microblogging  your work:

I have many people reading my posts and some of you are wonderful. Thank you so much for your support. Please tweet me if you want to featured on my blog!

• Dont be a Twitter troll.
• Dont flood the twitter space with offensive images.
• Keep pics of Lingerie to your DMs, with permission.
• Dont tag anything without formal permission, regardless of the user's settings.
• ( If I take the pic and tag your id with it, would you be happy?)
• If you did do that, delete, apologize sincerely, admit to the pettiness behind it and move on.

Last I checked people have lost millions over awful remarks.
Twitter pals are very  important, but beware the tweeter who has a following of  40K without being a subject matter expert or a media person or the like. These tweeps collect followers. After 200 followers, what schedule are  you  following to pay individual attention? Does this mean that you don't work?

 Individual attention, followed by regular group tweet acknowledging some of your good pals is the currency for a meaningful following.

The power of the Retweet, re-pin and like 

Not to mention the fave on twitter!
Yes RT is awesome, but sometime I need a "verytrue " or "Trudat" button .
A retweet is the laziest form of endorsement. Also the most ambiguous. If you are re-tweeting my '???" and were not a part of the original convo, please modify your tweet. What do you mean by a retweet of my ???. All I seek is a clear explanation for this kind of behavior!
I dont know you from Jack, so your tweets are everything. You could be a 21 yr old with an Angrybird obsesh, which is loved by pets too BTW, or a 300lb trucker who always mistypes that as thst. It happens a lot, but when you type" besutiful" 67 times in a 1 week window, I am beginning to think that it is a word in a foreign dictionary.
FYI, there are faves, RT and MT. MTs are modified tweets where you add your own words, but acknowledge that you are modifying, using via and + or "" for the body of the main tweet.

If you are nice, leave comments telling me how James Thurber my writing is, I will show you some real drunken tweeting adventures.

Misleading Titter stats: Saudis tweet a lot, Some countries have banned Twitter, so what is the likely hood of your gaining visibility by tweeting to a specific audience?  What group will get your post the highest visibility via RTs? Sadly, the 20 yr old.  The  20 something across  the world loves telling us about the "haps". My multivariate analyses show that at any given time, they are also less involved in #socialchange #socialgood, not so LOL!

VLOG stats

To my Twitter pals

A little birdie tells me that some of the moms give their kids haircuts.
Also, I see that my Twitter pals  have stayed indoors and made preserves! Kudos. I was very inspired.
If you are growing anything in your yard, I wish you would blog about it. Gardening and pet blogs are all the rage.



Spring and summer will lead to beautiful farmers' markets. Dazzle your audience with photos. Did you post a couple of pics of your biking trip: I want to know so copy and paste a pic in the comment section, I will feature you in my blog!

Some VLOG heroes:

Bethany Mota: Trendsetting teen, like I pointed out before.
Shane Dawson.

Equals Three.
The last two are comedy Vlogs.


Nearly every teen who has grown-up with Youtube, has Vlogged at some point.
There is a video on every topic you can imagine and you can subscribe to Vlog channels. Vlogs take more care and expertise if you are anything like me.

You would have to have a very thick skin, because the comments come in all shades.

How-to tutorials on Youtube

The kinds of Youtube vids that happen to be very sought after are how-to vids. I was on the road once and I needed help with some apps. I had all that I needed thanks to some nice Youtube vids.
This raises a very important topic:
Video editing software!
I know that most machines come equipped with some kind of camera associated driver and software.  You must do you own research to find what suits your needs the best.

Before you upload yourself:
If I were to post, I would probably post some tutorials.
Before you post yourself, I wish you would work on music, sound speed with a tutorial vid. then move onto your vlog of developing an app, making furniture, obeying your cat or making relishes.

Versioning your videos is very key in keeping track of some 500 videos you are about to make about aquaculture and become a star on Youtube.

Keep a recent version handy.

Example:

1. 11:15 am vid of you creating an origami dragon.
2. 12:30 pm  vid of you making an origami dragon with sound and light effects
3. 12:50 p.m.  vid of you making an origami dragon with sound and light effects and teaching your pupil.
4.  1 pm If you keep the former versions intact and make copies, then you can handle loss of footage!

Tag your videos : Even when you store them at home, tage them for easy search. Upload copies online and send yourself some messages of what is where. A few searches and you will recover just about anything!
cross referencing your vids is also very helpful, but things get a little complicated!

Compression and archiving

A few trials of compressing your vids to see how much space they take, changes in quality once they are decompressed and archiving them for easy retrieval are steps you can take to ensure a very efficient seamless upload of your work.

Here is a very useful link to file extensions, in case you were wondering.
File extensions.
 Please leave a comment about your Vlogging experience.
 Please stick to very clean content.

How to get 120+ days of free tv, surprising blogstats, mommy blogs

How to get 150 days of free TV, surprising blog stats, mommy blogs

How to get 120 days of free TV

How to get more than 120 days of free streaming

Netflix                         30 days free trial
Now TV                      30 days free trial
Redbox                       30 days free trial
hulu.com                    7 days free trial
Amazon Prime           30 days free trial

Meoble.com               (Length seems to vary from region to region)

Average cost of cable $37 .00 Total savings: more than $150.00!

Done sequentially, this is 4 months of free entertainment.
Why would I recommend this?

Recently, there was snow, sleet, rain and the weather was too "Tornado-y" for me to catch my fave events.
Satellite/cable are way too susceptible to this bad weather.
I asked for a discount for interrupted service. They refused. I said : Bye bye bye bye!



Advantages of streaming from the above services :

1. Don't have to switch view between two screens. The  computer is an automatic pause and play device, unlike a non DVR-TV. so your TV programming works around your schedule, not you around it!
2. Catch shows on your mobile device any where!
3. You save space. Your TV can now go into your bedroom/garage/toolshed : You decide!
4. You can hook up your hard disc to the 42 inch plasma when you feel like it!
5. You wont need the remote much, so forget losing and looking for it!
6. Social watch it! Ever skyped while watching ICE AGE together?? Best experience ever if young people are far away from you because you are on the road!
7. Parental controls are more programmable on the PC!
8. Watch wonderful movies and sitcoms like Mud, Intouchables, Wallander , "How to train you Dragon" without ever misplacing a single disc!

STREAMING ROCKS people!

Please go over my previous post for Deal Stacking ideas!
If you want to switch over from Cable, then you need to maximize that purchase and get more mileage out of it.
Talk to the customer service, see if they will sweeten the deal with freebies for kids, adults .. if you don't ask, you will never know.

Surprising blog stats, blog facts:

• As of now there are 6.7 million blogs!

• Video blogs, VLOGs, are on the rise.

• Bethany Mota was a bullied teen who commands thousands per day because of endorsements, has millions of fans, and she is not even 20!! She has a VLOG on fashion and shopping for teens. She is now advising Aeropostale, and only a few years ago, found she was betrayed and by her bestie! BFF may turn out to be devils, but you can become a millionaire because of them.

• Moms decide which way a product will go based on the value it gives, thanks to blogs.

• Company blogs have become mandatory, due to increased public response. 

Mommy blogs

Many women are now opting to work out of home and are blogging about baby products, preschools, organic food, grocery shopping, vacations..
Companies pay very close attention to them and the comments.
These mom are using smart phones to blog, not your clunky old PCs. Pinning, Tumblr, Instys, Flickr are are so common place that now companies hire specialists to work on their behalf.
One bad diaper bag photo and the stock will fall. One poor car seat  and there will be 60k recalls.

The hand that rocks the cradle will rocks the stock price!

So if you are a mommy, you should start your blog: Yesterday!!

I would love to hear about any technical or other issues you are having! Please leave a comment!

DEAL-STACKING:How to maximize your savings with 7

Freebies and Savings  for the blogger, activists and everyone!

Hello Twitterpals,
I appreciate your comments and quick responses.
Without you, I would not be this excited about blogging my savings and freebies.
I have been asking most of you to start a blog. If you are blogging then you are working more than one job!
You need more savings because you invest time!






DEAL-STACKING SECRETS! 
What is deal-stacking?
  The art of deal stacking is defined as using several offers with your purchase. Using a single deal on an item is a thing of the past. This is your checklist:

1. Can I add other gift cards and coupons to this deal?
2. What is the best deal in this department, compared to the one I have?
3. When does it expire?
4. What is my out of pocket expense?
5. Can my pals use it, if not me?
6. Will tweeting a pic help me get more from the company or my social media  group?
7. Will this help animals, be eco-friendly?

 HERE ARE SOME DEALS YOU MAY FIND USEFUL!!

1)Free Snack sample!

 MeowMeow's suggestion is aweso-ome!

When you stop eating chicken and eat nourishing bars like my fave twitter pal, then you are taking 500K cars off the streets ( via Sherri M via Holly Marie Combes via peta)
When you take advantage of this offer, please mention us. (@johnny20201 and a couple others!).
I always do acknowledge those who are kind to me.

2) Free H&M gift card

Use this when you shop online with a couple of other wonderful retailers and you will be saving 75% off of your fave shirt!
Giftcard+cash back from CC+ cash back from other retailers +clearance at H&M = your fave shirt for next to nothing!! Go shop now!!


3) Free Max Factor Facefinity Primer Giveaway new
A fantastic new giveaway from P&G's Supersavvyme site. Enter the giveway for a chance to win 100 full-size bottles of Max Factor Facefinity All Day Primer, a product that helps to prepare skin before foundation is added. In addition, you'll also be entered to win 30,000 product samples. Just click the "Get Yours" button to begin. Closing date: 30th April 2014.
(UK and Ireland)
If you are a man, even better, because a surprise gift to your mom will make her forgive your belated mothers day gifties.

http://bit.ly/1pr8iAb

4) Purina sample

Get this freebie and regardless of your pet ownership. Bring this to cats in shelter.
Shelters have contacts with good vets, products etc so you get a discount!!!
Dewey Readmorebooks (the library cat) would have LOVED this!
I got the shelter to give my colleague free tickets to a cat show for donating 40 lbs of cat food.

5) Gluten free  samples!! 

Livwell foods have a growing fanbase, see if you as a tweeter would recommend this to others.

6) Dog food sample

Get this freebie , regardless of your pet ownership. Feed this to dogs in shelter.
Shelters have contacts with good vets, products etc so you get a discount!!!
A volunteer I know gave away food and received tickets to a  local food fest, free drinks and all.
Dewey Readmorebooks (the library cat) would have liked this!




+++++++++++++++
7) This Mother's day, sign  someone up for Amazon Prime.

After writing, if you are tired, play games or watch the movie Intouchables, partsof it are really funny.  Or watch Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot , when you sign up for a free trial on Amazon Prime!!
I got rid of my cable becaus eI am always at the computer anyways!
I am saving $35/month! Dewey Readmorebooks (the library cat) would have liked this!

Tomorrow's post: Spring, free veggies, freebies BECAUSE you are a blogger!


Here is how you can earn money while saving an animals life!






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