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Which Programming Language Should I Learn?
Posted by Randy in Boring Stuff, Programming, technology on November 22, 2015
This question is asked by many new aspiring programmers. There's been many different answers to this question. Some people explain that the language isn't as important as a basic understanding of algorithms and programming paradigms. I agree with this, but it's no the complete picture.
What are you going to be doing with your programming skill? Are you going to use it to obtain a full-time job? Are you going to use it to work on your own projects in your free time? Many people would answer that they have some great app idea that they want to implement. Others can't even tell you why they want to learn to program.
If you are planning to make money in some way from your new skill, you'll probably want to look into which languages are most in demand. For instance, I program in PHP and Javascript because that seems to be what I can find the most work doing. The slippery slope of this is that you eventually move into specializing in a specific language even more. If you are working with PHP as a full time job, you rarely have an opportunity to explore new languages. You're also unable to claim experience in other languages because you've spent years working with one in particular.
So, my advice is to explore other languages as often as possible. If you are starting out, pick a language that has a lot of online discussion. Something like Java or Python would do nicely. These are well supported, very commonly discussed, and are easy enough to learn. Use this first language to learn specific things about programming. You can learn the syntax of the language as you learn algorithms and paradigms. Explore the language enough to understand the concepts of programming. You don't have to become an expert in the language, but you should focus on understanding the abstract ideas used in modern programming.
I started out learning Perl and Bash scripting a long time ago. I soon changed over to VBScript and VB.NET because I was working for a Microsoft shop and needed to do some scripting and app development. I lacked a lot of the basic knowledge that I should have been working on, but I thought that I needed to learn languages.
A language is nothing more than a set of syntactical rules for structuring your thoughts. Think of learning French. You could teach someone all the words needed to speak French. You could teach them how to structure a sentence, but that isn't enough for the person to know how to communicate. Take this English sentence as an example:
You jumped over the computer.
It's a complete sentence. It has a subject, a verb, and is a complete thought. However it wouldn't make sense if you were to say that after being asked:
Are you coming over after work?
You have all the necessary skills to create a full working sentence, but you have no idea how to communicate with another human. That is similar to learning a programming language. You can write "Hello, World", but can you do something as simple as writing a recursive algorithm? Can you find more efficient ways to do things? There's a lot more to programming than the language. The language is only important later on when you need to choose a better tool for a specific task. You may need to write a website with a lot of real time interactions. NodeJS. You may want to write a game for iOS. Objective C or Swift. You may need to write an Android app. Java. You may need to write some mission critical optimized system code. C, C++, or Assembly. You may need to interface with some off the wall E-Ticket system and generate some Excel reports on a Windows-only domain. VBScript or .NET.
The point is unless you are in the same job for the rest of your life and the world doesn't change, you'll probably end up needing to know a dozen or so languages at least. An introduction to programming, should be in pure pseudocode, because I think beginning programmers get too caught up in the language and miss the more important details of programming that is being taught.
At the same time, I've had introductory to programming type classes that I look back on now and realize that the teachers had no idea what they were trying to teach. They didn't even understand the concepts themselves enough to explain them to someone else.
Why Pay for PHPStorm or Other JetBrains IDE?
Posted by Randy in Applications, Javascript, PHP, Programming, Reviews, SQL, Web Development on November 7, 2015
If you spend any amount of time working on code, you probably have a favorite text editor or IDE. Everyone has their own opinions. Everyone has applications with which they are more familiar. I've went through a few different choices over the last few years, but the one I've stayed with 95% of the time during the last two is PHPStorm from JetBrains, which is uncharacteristic of me, because if there's a free version of some category of application, I'll usually make that free version work, rather than pay for commercial software. There's a ton of free IDEs and text editors. Why would I spend money on PHPStorm? Over the next few paragraphs, I'll go into detail as to why I can no longer function at 100% efficiency in any other editor. I'll also mention some things that I wish were better in PHPStorm. When I discuss the good things about PHPStorm, remember that no single thing is the reason I use and pay for the IDE. It's the overall combination of all the features that I like. Most of these individual features are available in other editors. Where PHPStorm shines is it's ability to deliver all the features I want and need in a single application.
An IDE Needs to be Organized!
There's a lot to be said about the readability and organization of an IDE. A modern text editor needs tabs. It also needs the ability to split the active editor window to see code side-by-side. PHPStorm has both of these features. It also has project and structure views which are collapsible. It has an amazing find feature that can be used to search the entire project or within a specific directory. It can search for files or text within those files, and this search is fast. It has a built-in terminal which is also collapsible. It has complete support for working with various SQL databases directly from within the IDE. There's no need to open up a command line database interface or another app like MySQL Workbench. All of that is built into the IDE.
The IDE stays out of your way while you work.
I typically have my editor window taking up most of the screen with all the different panels collapsed. When I need those various features, they are there, but they aren't getting in my way all the time. The version control integration is nice as well, though I usually do all of that from the command line. It shows you the current branch that you have checked out in the lower right of the window, which has come in very handy at times. You can also enable an option which shows the memory usage of the IDE and allows you to click to force a garbage collection or lower this memory usage. All menus are effective and all panels stay out of your way when you don't need them.
Great Shortcuts
I mentioned that I keep most of my panels collapsed in PHPStorm. This is possible because I rarely need them. You may be used to navigating through a project and opening files by finding them in their directory structure within the project, using a project directory tree panel of some sort. PHPStorm has this view, but I rarely need it. I usually know the name of the file I'm wanting to open. The only time I need the project view is when I can't remember the name of the file I need to edit. For all other times I use one of three different shortcuts.
Ctrl + Shift + N
This shortcut searches for file names specifically within the project. The search is very smart as well. If you have a file named user-login-modal.html for instance, and you just remember that it's named something like 'loginmodal', the search is smart enough to know you want user-login-modal.html. I use this shortcut more than any other, because I'm always jumping between different files and this is the simplest/fastest way to find them. Usually I can type about three or four characters and have the correct files as my first choose in its list.
Ctrl + Shift + F
This is a super find utility. It's fast, because PHPStorm indexes your project. It allows you to find any text within all the text of your project. This is especially useful if you have some method name that you want to refactor across your entire code base and you can't remember every specific place that it's used. I use this shortcut all the time.
Double Shift
This quick shortcut is the "ultimate super search everything" feature. You just double tap the shift key. It's like a combination of the previous two shortcuts I've mentioned. So why not just use this one all the time? I honestly can't give you a good reason that I don't use this feature more often, other than to say that before I used PHPStorm I used Netbeans predominantly, and if I remember correctly, it had the same ctrl + shift + n shortcut to open files. So, I was used to using that already. I haven't switched to double shift completely because I forget it's there most of the time. I may have to focus on using it more often now that I've brought it up.
There are other shortcuts that I use but haven't mentioned, and there are probably many that I don't use but could really benefit from utilizing. Everyone should dig through their IDE to get to know all of its features.
Easy Re-factorization
PHPStorm makes it very simple to refactor code. You can refactor anything throughout your code base with just a few keystrokes. If you highlight some text within your editor and hit Shift + F6, you will see a "Rename" dialog which allows you to change the text throughout the project. You can preview the changes before you implement them. If you rename a file, the IDE will search for it's usage throughout the project and give you a preview of refactoring that it can automatically do for you as well. You can also disable these auto-refactoring if you need to. It's just great that it's there.
Multiple Cursor
This is my favorite new-ish text editor feature that has become popular on many editors. It has become essential for me. I first started using multi-cursors in SublimeText. Soon all new text editors had the feature. SublimeText may not have been the first to have this feature, but it was definitely one of the first to do it well. PHPStorm's implementation is very close to the SublimeText implementation and very usable. However, it can get a little slow if you are trying to use more than 20 or so cursors. SublimeText doesn't get slow for me until I'm using about 1500 cursors. However, I rarely need more than ten. So PHPStorm's implementation works well for most things. If I can't do it in PHPStorm, I'll open up Sublime and take it from there. This is rare.
All Other Modern IDE/text Editor Features
All of the features I've mentioned so far are important for me. There are other features that are a must for me as well, that I should also mention.
- An IDE should have code completion. PHPStorm is the best I've seen in this regard. There's no SublimeText plugin that can even get close to the intelligent code completion that PHPStorm has, or at least I've not found one.
- Syntax highlighting and good color schemes is a must. I tend to like the default PHPStorm color scheme. I spend a lot more time trying out new color schemes in all text editors than I like to admit. I prefer light color schemes in PHPStorm for some reason. Most of the time I prefer dark. The main point here is to be able to differentiate between the various different "parts of speech" in the programming language, and this works very well in PHPStorm.
- PHPStorm also has great source code auto-formatting options and makes it simple to reformat code to your preferred code style.
So, you've heard many things that I like about PHPStorm. As I said earlier, no single feature that I've listed is the reason I pay for PHPStorm. It's a huge combination of these features that makes it worth it to me. Netbeans has great code-completion, but doesn't have multi-cursor (or at least didn' the last I checked), and its white space display characters are ugly, if you are showing them. SublimeText has great multi-cursor and the text in the editor itself looks better to me, but it also doesn't have the database integration that PHPStorm has or code-completion that I consider usable. There may be plugins or packages that facilitate both of these, but I need to spend my time coding as much as possible, not digging for plugins that actually work well. PHPStorm has plugins as well, but it comes with everything you really need without adding any plugins, typically. SublimeText is a text editor first and the plugins are used to make it more like an IDE. I'd use SublimeText if I could find good plugins that facilitate most of the features that I've mentioned in this post. You'll find out more about that in a bit. Because even though I predominantly use PHPStorm, there are still times when I open SublimeText.
Why haven't I mentioned any other editors or IDEs besides Netbeans and SublimeText?
Well give me a chance and I will. Quite simply, I've tried just about every editor there is out there. I've tried most of the IDEs. I've given them all the opportunity to convince me. However, today I only use three editors/IDEs regularly. Surprisingly enough, Netbeans isn't one of them. Netbeans was my main IDE for a year or two. I still like it, but I haven't had it installed in a long time. After I switched to PHPStorm, I've not needed it. I also switched to IntelliJ for my Java dev work that I was doing on Netbeans before. Today I mainly use PHPStorm, SublimeText, and Vim.
Ah Vim! I hear some of you getting ready for an editor flame war. I love Vim. I like to use it for simple editing tasks on the command line where I don't have another editor available. You can make Vim do just about anything you want. However, I still prefer using a ready-to-go IDE like PHPStorm for every-day coding.
If PHPStorm is so great, why do I still use SublimeText Occasionally?
Here is where I give you the bad things I've found about PHPStorm and why I still use a simple text editor like SublimeText at times. It won't take long. There isn't a lot, but it would be GREAT if these were addressed by JetBrains.
Large Text Files
PHPStorm can't open up unusually large text files. It will flat out tell you that the file is too large for it to open. This occurs for me when I try to edit a 3.5GB MySQL dump file. Sublime has trouble loading it as well. Vim, however, will take it's time and chew it right up. Bravo for Vim! There is probably an option in PHPStorm to allow it to open large files, but I've not found it, and this is such an infrequent necessity for me that I haven't bothered to dig for it.
Large amount of Cursors
You can add a few hundred cursors on PHPStorm very easily, but good luck typing more than a single character ever 20 seconds or so if you do. It gets noticeable slow at multi-cursor as you add more. It takes a lot to slow down SublimeText in this regard.
I Honestly Hate Most Java Apps
I use SublimeText when I can, because I REALLY REALLY hate most Java-based applications, and I would much rather use SublimeText for this reason. PHPStorm is written in Java which brings with it some good things (like portability), but also some bad things. With enough hardware, you can overlook most of the bad, but I would much rather use a native application over one that runs on the JVM. I'm not a big fan of the look and feel of Java apps. The font rendering in Linux can be terrible, especially if you are using OpenJDK. Switching to Oracle's official JDK seems to fix most of these font-rendering issues. Java apps tend to be bloated and sluggish. There are a few things to consider about this. Java apps require little to no porting to run on different architectures. Java is a very easy language, and the easier a language is, typically, the easier it is for a bad programmer to code something in it (trust me, I know PHP has this same problem). Which leads to a higher population of un-optimized software. However, this really isn't the case with most good Java applications. They are just slower than native apps. It's nearly impossible for them not to be slower. The JVM adds a thick layer of overhead.
Finally the Main Reason I Pay for PHPStorm
It's not expensive. It's priced very reasonably. I originally purchased a personal license for $25 my first year. Renewal is around $53/yr. They just switched to a subscription model and offered two years for the price of one to current license holders. I jumped all over that. They also give their IDE away to students and open source developers...free. I've looked at KomodoIDE as well, and even though their prices have come down, it's still not where JetBrains products are. Komodo offers their full IDE which has support for most languages at $99 for a student or personal freelancer licence. However, that's a one time payment and it doesn't come with upgrades. PHPStorm's licensing gives you free upgrades during the whole year. Also, while Komodo harps on their complete package IDE's multi-language support, I tend to prefer an IDE specific to what I'm doing. PHPStorm has support for all the languages a PHP developer could be using: HTML, SQL, CSS, Javascript, XML, etc. I don't need my IDE to support Python or Java, because I don't code in either of them on a regular basis, and since I have an edu email address, I can get all of the other JetBrains products for free if I need them for personal projects. If I were to suddenly become a Python developer, I'd pay the $53 and get a year subscription to PyCharm (the JetBrains python IDE).
Also one last note... The new JetBrains subscription model isn't just available in yearly terms. There's also monthly. For a single user PHPStorm license, it's only $8.90/month for new users. You can get all of JetBrains products for $24.90/month. This is a great deal. I like to support great products, especially when they make my life easier. JetBrains lured me in two years ago with their special "half-off" offer. Now I'm hooked and gladly pay their low subscription price.
If you aren't convinced to give them a shot, know that this entire post sounds like one huge commercial for their product, and they aren't paying me or coercing me into writing it one bit. I really feel this strongly about their IDE. It makes my coding more enjoyable and more efficient. If I find something better, I'll use it. Until then, take my money JetBrains! I love your products.
Safari 9 CSS Not Rendering Correctly
Posted by Randy in Javascript, PHP, Web Development on November 2, 2015
If your code doesn't use lesshat.less, then this won't pertain to your issue probably. In my work on https://draftorpass.com, I had an issue with CSS rendering on our lobby page in the newest version of OS X and iOS. The problem only showed itself in Safari. Safari was reporting various issues with parts of the CSS, but none of that was even related to the issue. After four hours of trying various things, I decided to run our main CSS file through csslint.net. The very first error lead me straight to the root of the issue. There was an unexpected semi-colon.
Safari is way more picky than most other major browsers. Chrome, IE, and Firefox all just ignored this issue. I'm not sure how much I like this strict behavior of Safari. In the last couple of months it has caused me two issues that were hard to track down. I remember a few years ago, IE was the browser that seemed hard to get right. Now it seems that Safari is the biggest nuisance.
Front-end development is something I really try to avoid as much as possible because of these type of issues. The frond-end designer which originated this problem hasn't been working on the project in over a year. It's not really his fault. However, his use of one function from the lesshat library is what caused our site to break on all new Safari browsers. It jacked up all of the CSS just because the function added a semi-colon where it shouldn't have. I would blame the lesshat library itself, but I mainly blame Safari. Being strict about things is great usually, but not when it breaks most of the CSS on a page.
The fix? Just don't use the lesshat keyframes function in any of your less files. Avoid it if you want your site to work in Safari.
Now I'm off to see if I can create a better fix to submit to them.


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The Bengals limped home after four road trips within five games. When that stretch began, defensive stars Geno Atkins and Leon Hall, were playing. Now they are on injured reserve.
Browns writer Steve Doerschuk takes his weekly look at the next opponent, featuring key matchups that will shape Sunday's game at Cincinnati (6-4). Kickoff time is 1:02 p.m.
It's not just that the Bengals are 4-0 at home in 2013. The wins are worth bragging about. They outgained Pittsburgh 407 yards to 278 in a 20-10 win Sept. 16. They rallied from a 30-14 deficit to subdue Aaron Rodgers and the Packers 34-30 on Sept. 22. They beat New England, currently 7-2, by holding Tom Brady to an 18-of-38 passing day Oct. 6 (the final was 13-6).
Most recently, they routed the New York Jets 49-6, scoring 14 points in each of the first three quarters.
The Bengals limped home after four road trips within five games. When that stretch began, defensive stars Geno Atkins and Leon Hall, were playing. Now they are on injured reserve. Bengals starters who have missed practice this week include linebackers Rey Maualuga (knee) and Vontaze Burfict (knee), defensive tackle Brandon Thompson (ankle), cornerback Terence Newman, center Kyle Cook and right guard Kevin Zeitler.
In overtime road losses the last two weeks, the Bengals have trailed 17-3 at Miami and 17-0 at Baltimore.
ANDY AT HIS EASE vs. BROWNS' PRESSURE
Unlike Jason Campbell, whose recent history is steady play both home and road, Andy Dalton has been a much better quarterback in Cincinnati.
Dalton's passer ratings in going 4-0 at Paul Brown Stadium this year have been 81.7 (Steelers), 105.5 (Packers), 81.1 (Patriots) and 125.7 (Jets).
His three worst games, by far, have been on the road, with ratings of 58.2 at Cleveland, 55.4 at Miami and 52.2 at Baltimore.
In the Browns' 17-6 win over the Bengals on Sept. 29, Dalton got decent protection, taking just one sack, but he never quite deciphered the Browns' coverage scheme. At times, superstar wideout A.J. Green (seven catches, 51 yards) faced Joe Haden in man coverage. At times, the Browns picked up Green with well-disguised zones. Even when Dalton had men open, he seemed mentally off.
The Bengals have sprouted blocking leaks. Miami and Baltimore sacked Dalton a combined 10 times in the last two games.
It's time for rookie Barkevious Mingo to earn his keep as part of the edge-rushing group with Jabaal Sheard, fully healthy now after the bye, and Paul Kruger, who has been getting close to sacks without finishing.
MUTLISYLLABIC RBs vs. BROWNS' RUN STUFFERS
BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Giovani Bernard share Cincinnati's running load, but with wild fluctuations as to who is The Man from one game to the next. In a mid-October win at Buffalo, the 28-year-old Green-Ellis ran 18 times for 86 yards; the rookie Round 2 pick, Bernard, ran 15 times for just 28 yards. In an Oct. 31 loss at Miami, Green-Ellis ran 21 times for 72 yards; Bernard got just nine carries but delivered 79 yards.
Bernard was rewarded with more carries in the next game, Sunday's loss at Baltimore, running 14 times for 58 yards. Green-Ellis ran nine times for 36 yards.
In the first Browns-Bengals game, Bernard ran 10 times for 37 yards, Green-Ellis six times for 13 yards.
Bottom line: Both can count on an important role every week, but neither got too far against the Browns.
The Browns rank No. 6 in the NFL in run defense, but their front seven gave up meaningful yards in the most recent road games to Green Bay's Eddie Lacy and Kansas City's Jamaal Charles.
Aside from losing backup Quentin Groves, the front seven is as healthy as it has been all year, with Sheard and Billy Winn ready to excel. Groves actually missed the first Cincinnati game, in which the Browns held Bernard and Green-Ellis to a combined 50 yards (3.1 average).
JASON CAMPBELL vs. ERRATIC BENGALS SECONDARY
The Bengals can be very good, as they were in limiting Joe Flacco to 140 passing yards last Sunday (they sacked him five times and picked him twice).
Or, they can be very suspect, as they were in allowing Thaddeus Lewis to pass the Bills to a 24-all tie at the end of regulation Oct. 13.
Losing No. 1 cornerback Hall hasn't hurt the Bengals the way Haden's suspension did the Browns last year.
Campbell, though, has had two weeks to study ways to bait Pacman Jones, whose aggressive play sometimes gets him out of position. The other starter, Newman, is 35, banged up and slowing down.
Tight end Jordan Cameron made a career-best 10 catches in the first Cincinnati game, in which the Bengals paid special attention to wideout Josh Gordon but still allowed four catches for 71 yards.
Campbell supposes the Bengals will try to take away Cameron and Gordon, as Baltimore did, and is prepared to rely on wideout Greg Little and slot receiver Davone Bess.
Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is a mastermind whose schemes helped turn Atkins into a star tackle and compensate for injuries. Vincent Rey, Maualuga's replacement at linebacker last week, sacked Flacco three times.
Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton's biggest decisions will be in how much to use Haden in man coverage against Green, who has five straight 100-yard games.


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L.L. Bean duck boot booms as fashion plate
A nearly century-old hunting boot is catching on with a younger generation that sees the utilitarian footwear as hip.
L.L Bean's familiar duck boot with leather uppers and rubber soles - designed for slogging through mud and snow - has become something of a fashion statement owing to its newfound popularity on college campuses, the company said. Another reason is new styles, including something Leon Leonwood Bean surely never envisioned in 1912: bright blue and pink leather, new for spring.
Part of the success of the boot is its versatility, in barnyards or in cities, in snow or rain.
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At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Zina Huxley-Reicher of New York wears her dark brown, shearling-lined boots nearly every day, with a skirt or jeans. She has only one pair, but some classmates have several.
"They are very practical, but they've also become a fashion trend," she said. "They're simple and kind of have that rugged look that has been adopted as a fashionable thing."
Sales have grown from 150,000 pairs four years ago to about 400,000 this year, said Jack Samson, L.L. Bean senior manager for manufacturing in Brunswick. Next year, demand is projected to reach 500,000.
Defying a trend toward offshore production, the outdoors retailer is adding 125 full-time employees to its Maine manufacturing operation to keep pace with orders.
The well-known boot appears to be benefiting from a retro trend, whether it's penny loafers or Gap's 1969 series blue jeans, said Candace Corlett, president of WSL Strategic Retail in New York.
"It's sort of like the Coca-Cola bottle or the sleek silver lines of Apple. It's iconic," Corlett said. "The good news is that L.L. Bean's icon from decades ago is striking an emotional chord with people who're yearning for the good old days."
Another factor that could be helping Bean: There's been little that's new and exciting in footwear in recent years beyond Ugg boots and Crocs, said Alexander Geyman, editor of Focus on Fashion Retail. Trendy Ugg boots and the Timberland brand outstrip Bean's in sales, he said.
The duck boots carry the "Made in the USA" label, something that's hard to find these days in footwear. Nationwide, the number of shoe-manufacturing jobs dropped from more than 200,000 in the 1970s to 12,500 this year, according to the U.S. Labor Department. In Maine, shoe-manufacturing jobs peaked at more than 25,000 in the 1960s, and last year there were 1,300 jobs, according to the Maine Department of Labor.
Bean bucks the trend
Well-known Maine brands like G.H. Bass, Cole Haan, Sebago and Dexter are now made abroad. But L.L. Bean has resisted the notion of making its Bean boots overseas.
"We've made a commitment, since it's our signature product, and because of our heritage, that they'll always be made in Maine," spokeswoman Carolyn Beem said.
As the story goes, L.L. Bean created the hunting boot for himself after his feet got wet and cold on a hunting trip, and it was not an instant success. Ninety of the first 100 pairs sold in 1912 were returned after the leather separated; Bean had a satisfaction guarantee, so he returned customers' money.
These days, the original L.L. Bean Hunting Shoe is available unlined or with various linings, including Gore-Tex, Thinsulate and shearling. There are plenty of other variations, including quilted, canvas and plaid, and even bright blue and pink leather. There are low-cut versions as well.
The hunting version has a softer rubber compound that allows a hunter to tread lightly, while the "Bean Boot" has a steel shank and tougher rubber compound that holds up better on asphalt.
All of them are still made by hand. The rubber soles are made by L.L. Bean workers in Lewiston, and they're sewn to the leather uppers at an L.L. Bean plant in Brunswick.
The Brunswick factory
All told, there are 320 workers at L.L. Bean's factory in Brunswick, making boots, dog beds, canvas totes and other products.
Each Gore-Tex liner is inflated and dunked in a tank to make sure it's watertight before being dried and put in the boot.
"If you're hunting in Alaska and your feet get wet, you appreciate that," Samson said. "I don't think it's overkill. It's who we are."


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Seven Forces Of Business Mastery
Beginning using the finish in your mind, I really want you to picture consistently creating raving fans along with a raving culture for the business. Everything you do is to achieve this goal.
1. Know where you're really. Produce a business map to obtain from where you stand where you need to be.
2. Constant, Proper Innovation. All business essentially comes lower to two core things. Marketing and Innovation. Fundamental essentials only two stuff that earn money in almost any business.
3. Constant rather than Ending Improvement of World-Class Marketing and Product Promises. Your services and products must be the greatest.
4. Constant rather than Ending Improvement of Sales Mastery Systems. Would you make use of a system to achieve success?
5. Constant Anticipation for the strength of financial and legal analysis. Many people don't focus on this until it's far too late. Every effective small business advisors for legal and financial issues.
6. Constant Optimization and Maximization. Remove the knowledge your customer experiences and find out where one can increase the value for this process. Many people are unaware of advertising because we're bombarded because of it. Individuals will recall the experience they've and just how they believed after getting together with you.
7. Constantly Create Raving Fans and Culture. People are likely to keep buying and can hang in there. Remember your very best customer is the current customer.
Now think about some quality questions. Listed here are the precise questions Jobs requested his team as he revolutionized Apple.
1. What business are you currently in? Their first answer was these were within the computer business.
2. Required was, what business are you currently REALLY in? We're really in the industry of connecting individuals with their finest passion.
3. What business do we have to maintain? We're within the computer business, but we have to maintain the background music business. This is where the ipod device and iTunes were produced. The questions then brought them within the iPhone business.
Now ask these questions of yourself. Why have you enter into your company initially? The reason for inside it now? All businesses need 3 kinds of individuals to be effective.
1. Those Who Are Entrepreneur Minded
2. Managers and Leaders.
3. Artists To Apply Your Concepts
Should you personally do not have each one of these characteristics, get together with individuals that do. Implement these 7 forces, think about critical questions, watching your company flourish into that which you imagined it might be.
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Lobbyists for competing farm interest groups took opposite sides in a debate at Farm Journal Forum 2013 over a proposal to allow more cash purchases in foreign countries under the food aid program.
In making the proposal, the administration cited studies showing that buying food locally with cash instead of shipping it from the United States could get food to people in critical need three months faster, at a savings of 25-50%. The administration proposed spending up to 45% of its $1.4 billion foreign food aid budget in this fashion. The proposal, it said, would help feed an additional 800,000 undernourished men, women and children.
The House narrowly rejected the proposal in its version of the massive farm bill. The Senate approved a scaled-down version that would allow the federal government to spend up to 20% of the $1.4 billion in annual food aid locally. The two houses hope to reconcile their approaches in conference committee and produce a final bill for a January vote.
Chandler Goule, vice president of government relations for the National Farmers Union, supported a shift to more cash-based foreign aid in the Farm Journal debate. He said that local cash purchases help support farm economies in developing countries, which is key to addressing world hunger.
"You can't make one program to fit every situation," he said, noting that it's often more appropriate to ship food from the United States, especially when it's not available locally. But large U.S. shipments can also set back foreign farm economies.
Mary Kay Thatcher, director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said her organization "feels really strongly about continuing to ship the products from here. If the assistance is from the [U.S.], it ought to say that. We are not for moving toward a cash system."
Goule said he was given assurances by USAID officials that even if purchases were made in a foreign country, they would still be delivered in a bag with a USA logo. "We would still get the message out there that we are helping these countries," he said.
Tjada D'Oyen McKennna, deputy coordinator for development for the Obama administration's Feed the Future initative, strongly supported the measure in her address at the conference.
"We believe that this complements a lot of what we do at Feed the Future to build local and regional markets," she said. Having the flexibility to make cash purchases would help the agency establish local sales and delivery infrastructure. The cash purchases could also be used as leverage to ensure that local farmers meet quality and production standards. "We are very eager to see this go forward," she said.
Before making its proposal, which is widely supported by anti-hunger advocacy groups, the administration ran pilot projects to buy food closer to where it was needed. The Senate bill would expand those pilot programs by providing more money.
Some desire for reform grew out of the U.S. military's experience in Afghanistan, where USAID distributed better-quality seed that improved wheat yields, so much so that the local market became glutted. The U.S. lacked the flexibility to buy locally produced wheat, prop up prices, and distribute it to people in need.
After this experience, President George W. Bush tried repeatedly to push similar reform through Congress. In several budgets, he proposed allocating 25% of the food aid budget to local purchases.
The shift would mark a major change in U.S. food aid, which was designed 60 years ago to ship U.S. surpluses abroad as a gift from the American people. The idea was to encourage foreign taste for American foods, so that as economic conditions in needy countries improved people would buy more U.S.-produced goods.
For decades, activists have complained that some funding is wasted in shipping costs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that one quarter of foreign food aid goes to pay for transportation, logistics and sales support. A desire to spend foreign aid more efficiently is one reason why the administration's proposal enjoyed some backing by House Republicans, though not enough to get it passed.
The administration's proposal would also end so-called monetization. Some food aid is auctioned off in the county to which it is sent. The local currency generated is used by development groups to run anti-poverty programs. The administration wants to abolish the process and convert some aid appropriations to cash grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
About 80% of food aid in recent years has gone to sub-Saharan Africa, where it's used to for disaster-relief operations to feed people affected by civil wars and famines. Food aid is also used to help people in the wake of natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
The Best Song Ever: Happy Anniversary!
Interview in no more potlucks
I was recently interviewed about my art and politics for Canadian magazine no more potlucks. Thanks to Andrea Zeffiro for an excellent interview!
Sunday, September 29, 2013
The Best Song Ever #12
Coffee With Teen Me, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Wallace Says
Wallace Says, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
This is what I imagine my rabbit saying every time I approach him with my camera phone. #EndPetHarassment
The Best Song Ever #11
The Best Song Ever #10
The Best Song Ever #9
Best Song Ever #8
Best Song Ever #9, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Best Song Ever #7
Best Song Ever #7, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Starting a comic series at Bitch Magazine
TRIGGER WARNING, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Hey everyone! I'm very, very happy to announce that I've fulfilled one of my longtime goals of illustrating for Bitch! This comic is the first in a series of monthly diary comics that will be posted on Bitch Mag's website.
Via Flickr:
Featured in Bitch Magazine, 4/8/2013. bitchmagazine.org/post/comic-im-a-sexual-assault-survivor
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Best Song Ever #6
Best Song Ever #6, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Riot Grrrl Problems #12: "Do You Wanna Dance?"
Riot Grrrl Problems #12, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Friday, February 1, 2013
The Best Song Ever #4
Best Song Ever #4, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Featured in Rookie Mag, January 2013
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Best Song Ever! #3
The Best Song Ever! #3, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Posted in Rookie, 11/25/2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
"American Appropriation" (for Rookie Mag, 11/16/2012)
"American Appropriation" (for Rookie Mag, 11/16/2012), a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Drawn for "Something Borrowed," an article/discussion about cultural appropriation at Rookie Mag.
The Best Song Ever! #2
The Best Song Ever! #2, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
My November installment for my monthly comic in Rookie Mag. Enjoy!
The Best Song Ever! #1
The Best Song Ever! #1, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
The first installment of my monthly comic for Rookie Mag, posted October 2012. Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Riot Grrrl Problems #12: "Steady Diet of Nothing"
Riot Grrrl Problems #12, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
It was originally intended for Halloween, but Hurricane Sandy left me stuck in Florida without a scanner. Whoops.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Golden Grrrlz
Golden Grrrlz, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
A thing I drew for the Willie Mae Rock Camp zine in 2009. Don't even ask about Blanche's hair, it has a mind of its own.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Riot Grrrl Problems #11: "Creep"
rgp11-creep, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Creepers gonna creep.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Riot Grrrl Problems #10: Kool Thing
Introducing a new character, Nia! She's an Afro Latina punk girl who rides the bus home with Katie and occasionally checks her on her shit. Enjoy!
Monday, August 6, 2012
A poster I made for our show this week!
Shady Hawkins at ABC No Rio! 8/10 at 7pm!, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Riot Grrrl Problems #9: Memorize Your Lines
Friday, May 11, 2012
My friends host a party every month in which they write letters of solidarity to political prisoners. This month is CeCe McDonald's birthday, so I made her this birthday card. If you haven't heard about her case, CeCe is a black transwoman who survived a hate crime by white supremacists, during which she actually stabbed and killed her attacker. (Click through the photo to read more.) Stay strong, stay beautiful CeCe. <3
Kim and I had our own table, where we sold our wares. We met some loooovely folks in Western Mass, where we read our work and bartered with other zinesters for their fine writing and DIY punk swag. I put up some new patches on the Big Cartel, and also my new zine on Latin@ identity called Malcriada (sent upon personal request). I'm really into writing prose right now, but as you can see from the top photo I'm still rocking the wacky caricatures.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Kim fell asleep the other night
kim sleeps, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
And woke up with a new portrait!
I am so creepy.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Big Cartel account!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Riot Grrrl Problems: the zine
I was getting a lot of questions about RGP from people interested in purchasing it-- and it did so well at my art show that I figured I would print more and sell them online for $4. If you're interested in buying it, please leave me a comment with your email and I'll get back to you. Payments can made via Paypal through the "Donate" button on the right side of my blog. This is first issue of what I hope will be many more to come!
Suzy X
Monday, August 8, 2011
RIOT GRRRL PROBLEMS #8, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
"Our Secret"
Thursday, August 4, 2011
NOT MY COMRADES, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
A collage of despicable things said by radical men who are NOT my comrades.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
RIOT GRRRL PROBLEMS 7, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
"Nobody's Daughter"
RIOT GRRRL PROBLEMS 6, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
"Write Me Back, Fucker"
Monday, July 25, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
The yente
Having a facebook is seriously the most annoying thing ever. Everyone in my family has one, they've found me, and they've pressured me to add relatives I don't even like. Recently, my Nana's Jewish best friend/casino buddy in Miami— aka the "yente" who sends me chain letters with sparkly kitten gifs— found me on facebook and got upset that I didn't add her.
Why don't I just get rid of my internet presence and just keep my cartoon alias quietly on Blogger and Tumblr? Yeah, that's it. I'll do just that.
Friday, June 10, 2011
I love really posi fan mail from really posi folks.
paypal link on your blog not working?
it may just be my poor excuse for a laptop playing up but i am unable to click through to your paypal account via the link on your blogspot. what's the e-mail address it's linked to? i cannot pledge much but wanted to send what little i have (which will otherwise be squandered on a badly recorded hardcore band's tape or keychain depending on where the internet takes me next).
i hang out with my best friend's 12 year old sister regularly and, at her request, have slowly been exposing her to bands that have helped shape my character and explaining the reasons why.
i find, when talking about riot grrrl bands especially, your comics are a great tool to go alongside with this without confusing her with theory and big words, leaving room for her to draw her own conclusions and have fun while doing so (comics are cool!). so thank you for that. i'm bring her along to her first march tomorrow (slutwalk) and she has printed out your victim blaming comic and stuck it onto her banner :)
My response:
Hi ___!
Your message actually had me tear up a bit. I'm really, really happy that you think my work has made a difference. I am a big fan of making feminism more accessible, especially to young folks. I hope that both of you have a fuckin' rad time at Slutwalk, and I totally appreciate any kind of help you can offer! I realize the donate button on my site was actually locked, but I unlocked it and tested it so it should work now.
Thank you so much for your kind words. They really mean a lot to me. <3
In solidarity,
Suzy X
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
RIOT GRRRL PROBLEMS #3, a photo by suzy_ex on Flickr.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Leave me a message if you want access to the download-- I'm being uber-selective about who gets to see it.
At last, I get my life back. Well, at least after my three final papers. Graduation can't come soon enough.


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Army Mission
Mission of the Army
- Preserve the peace and security, and provide for the defense of the United States, the Territories, Commonwealths, and Possessions, and any areas occupied by the United States
- Support national policies
- Implement national objectives
- Overcome any nations responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace and security of the United States
The Army includes land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein. It will be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations on land. It is responsible for the preparation and sustainment of land forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war except as otherwise assigned and, according to integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of the peacetime components of the Army to meet the needs of war. The Army is a total force, comprised of both active and reserve forces.


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text: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 PTs Involved With Summer Olympics Urged to Contact APTA If you work with Olympic athletes and/or will be heading to London to serve on an Olympic team's medical staff, APTA wants to hear from you. During the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, APTA would like to spotlight member physical therapists (PTs) who have helped the nation's elite athletes prepare to compete on the world's biggest stage. Contact Erin Wendel, senior media relations specialist, by e-mail or phone at 703/706-3397 by Monday, May 28, for more details. APTA also intends to use this opportunity to promote the physical therapist's role in helping athletes of all ages and skill levels reach their goals by preventing and treating sports-specific injuries. Comments How about spotlighting the many PTs who volunteer as classifiers of physically disabled youth and adults in the many paralympic sports? This is done at the regional, national and international level. Without this classification, athletes could not compete and strive to reach the paralympics! Jeannie Senter Posted by Jeannie Senter on 5/25/2012 2:03 PM


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I pity the young children, really I do. We make "movies" about Terminators and smart AI for entertainment purposes, but in the future, with obstacle-dominating robots like HRP-2, it will be their reality.
HRP-2, you see, takes obstacles and makes them into tools; uses them to its advantage. Take this video example. In it, HRP-2 uses a table to assist with a sitting down motion. It also kicks a ball, spelling the eventual doom of pro footballers the world over.
Primitive, to be sure, but it's an important first step for future robots that will be using our stacked corpses as a platforms to steady their assault rifles. [New Scientist via Engadget]


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White 3PO Protocol Droid
Disney Star Wars Build-A-Droid Factory
Not available elsewhere ~ We get it 4 U!™
"This is the Droid your looking for"
A protocol droid is a type of droid designed to assist the different species in their relations with one another. Protocol droids were programmed mostly for etiquette, and were often used as translators between the species or between owner and computers. They were generally designed to look like the species they would be serving; for example, 3PO-series protocol droids were humanoid. They possessed knowledge about various cultures and customs, both to advise those for whom they serve, and to ensure their own behavior was diplomatic and culturally sensitive.
All different types of droids populate the Star Wars galaxy. Each droid is different with their own unique personality and colors variations. Typically a protocol droid is 1.7 meters tall, protocol droids come in many shapes and sizes, although mostly are humanoid in form. Notable models included Cybot Galactica's 3PO unit and Arakyd Industries' RA-7.
These Star Wars Protocol droid parts in these color patterns are not available elsewhere in our Galaxy. Parts are exclusive to the Build-A-Droid factory at the Star Tours attraction. For the quantity discount we combine all completed droids. All droids you create count towards your discount total, both the Build-A-Droid and Pick-A-Hat ones plus the Protocol Droids. The more you choose the more you save on each droid.
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Our Protocol Droid Factory Outlet™ Build-A-Droid Factory has a potential of 126 pieces (counting right and left arms and legs) to create the 3 ¾-inch figures! However all 126 parts have not been available so we are offering only full completed Protocol Build-A-Droids for those which are currently available. Availability of various parts and colors does change and we try to keep them current. There are literally thousands of part and color combinations which you can create as the parts are interchangeable. Check back often as we will be adding new droids to our Droid Factory Outlet™ inventory from time to time as they become available. Completed Droids come with letter stickers to name your droid and in a single blue droid factory resealable clamshell protective case for its home.
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Reading and Understanding Turnitin Originality Reports
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This presentation covers how to read and understand Turnitin Originality Reports. It will take about 15 minutes.
Note that this presentation is meant for students whose instructors require or ask them to use Turnitin. Some instructors do not, so please be sure beforehand that this presentation applies to you. Before you view this presentation, if your instructor wants you to use Turnitin, be sure that you have joined your instructor's Turnitin class and that one of your papers or assignments has been submitted to the Turnitin database. If you have not done this yet, then you need directions from your instructor. While the library has some basic directions on the Turnitin FAQ at Students: How to Get Started, your instructor still needs to give you a Turnitin Class ID and enrollment password in order to join. The library does not have this information. Work with your instructor to set up.
Once a paper or assignment is submitted to Turnitin, the text of that paper is compared with all of the material already stored in the Turnitin database. If there is any string of text that matches something already in the Turnitin database, then Turnitin will highlight the matching text in what it calls an Originality Report.
Here is a screenshot of the beginning part of an Originality Report. At the top of the page is information about the paper or assignment. This is a paper called Organizational Bias. In the left column is the text of the student paper. The text that matches something already in the Turnitin database is highlighted in various colors. In the right column is a list of the sources within the Turnitin database that match the highlighted text in the student paper.
The sources in the Turnitin database comes from 3 basic places. One, a student paper repository, i.e. a collection of student papers and assignments that have previously been submitted to Turnitin.
Two, a copy of current and archived web pages on the Internet. If a student does a web search and finds material to copy and paste into a paper or assignment, chances are that Turnitin will find the matching text in that student's paper and be able to identify where on the web it came from.
Three, a collection of published journal articles, book chapters, and other kinds of publications. Some of these include material from UMGC's collection of library research databases. If a student uses library research databases or similar tools to copy and paste text into a paper or assignment, with or without crediting the source, Turnitin may be able to identify this material as a match.
If your text matches something from any of these 3 basic sources, the Originality Report will indicate it. The matching text in your paper will be highlighted. However, and this is important: Instructors know that not every match necessarily means that plagiarism occurred. Matches may occur for a good reason, even when the text is properly cited and credited to the original source, etc.
Your instructor is interested in the reason or explanation for why there is a match. Are you quoting something from the web or other sources, but forgetting to put them in quotation marks? Turnitin may detect a match and color code your text. Or, has your research led you to the same source material that another student has also included in a paper or assignment that is already submitted to the Turnitin database? Turnitin may detect THIS as a match. Or, in your reference list or bibliography, do any of the items match the reference list or bibliography items from a paper or assignment previously submitted by another student? Turnitin may detect that as a match and color code it as well. Remember, Turnitin is only finding matches, NOT interpreting what they mean.
If you are directed by your instructor to view your Originality Reports, login to Turnitin and enter your class. Click on the class name.
Next, in your list of assignments, find the assignment for which you have submitted your paper and click Show Details.
At the next screen, on the line with Search Criteria, Turnitin will list the basic sources of text that it is checking. At the column for Originality Report, there will be a percentage and a colored square. To view your Originality Report, click the colored square. In this example, you see 12% and a green square.
The colored square indicating the overall similarity of a paper will be one of these five basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, or blue. Each color represents how much of your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database. If the colored square for your Originality Report is Red, this means that 75% - 100% of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database.
- If the colored square for your Originality Report is Orange, 50% - 74% of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database.
- If the colored square is Yellow, 25% - 49% of your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.
- A Green colored square means that 0% - 24% of your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.
- And a Blue colored square means that less than 20 words in your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.
At the top of the page will be your paper's title, in this example, Organizational Bias. To the right will be a Similarity Index (a color and and percentage.) In this example, the color green and 12% mean that 12% of your paper matches text that is already in the Turnitin database. You and your instructor will have to interpret why the match occurred. And all the way to the right is a breakout of similarity by source. In this example, 6% of the paper matches something from Internet sources, 5% matches something from Turnitin's database of publications, and 11% matches something from Turnitin's collection of student papers that have been previously submitted and stored. The same bit of text can match something from more than one source type. For example, if you happen to search on the Internet then find and use the same bit of text that another student does, then the same bit of text in your paper could match an Internet source AND text in a previously submitted paper. This explains why we are not adding 6%, 5%, and 11% to equal a total of 12% match.
When you click the colored square to view your Originality Report, a copy of your paper or assignment will load on the screen. Each instance of matching text will be highlighted in color and numbered to distinguish one match from another. Note: This is not the same color scheme discussed earlier, i.e. the color for the paper as a whole. Remember, the colors representing the percentage of match for the whole of your paper are going to be red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Within the text of an Originality Report, Turnitin uses various shades of these basic colors to highlight each string of matching text. In this instance you see two strings of matching text, one in blue and another in light green. The text in blue appears in quotation marks and has an in-text citation (Bias, 2010). It appears to be properly handled by the student. An instructor will take this into account when interpreting the meaning of the match. Remember, Turnitin is just reporting matching text, not explaining why there is a match. The explanation may be that the definition of bias is already in the Turnitin database. The text in light green is incidental or trivial. There's only one way to say Harvard Implicit Association Test, so if this string of text appears anywhere in the Turnitin database, your text will match it, but so what? It doesn't mean plagiarism occurred.
Here you see the first part of the list of matching sources. The blue text in your paper matches something from number 3, a student paper from the University of Newcastle that was previously submitted to Turnitin. This does not mean that your paper copied anything from the other student's paper. It probably means that you and a student at the University of Newcastle both independently found the same definition of bias and quoted it. This will occur sometimes and should not be a cause for concern.
This screen shows more trivial matches. This happens frequently in Turnitin.
These matches all actually come from the paper's reference list or bibliography. Even if you do your own research and end up citing the same source that another student cites, and both of your papers are in the Turnitin database, understandably there will be a match. But remember not every match necessarily means that plagiarism has occurred. You and your instructor have to interpret what each match means.
Some instructors may want students to submit a first draft to Turnitin, view their Originality Report, then edit their work and submit another draft, or even multiple drafts! It is up to the instructor. When this happens, the overall similarity rating for the paper or assignment can change. Note too that the similarity rating can change if you tell Turnitin to exclude quoted material, the reference list or bibliography, and small matches that are trivial. However, be careful if you use this function. Since it IS possible after all to plagiarize a reference list or bibliography, your instructor might be checking that portion of your paper for matches.
Once we exclude these matches, the percentage of overall similarity decreases.
Now let us look at a sample paper with more matching text in it. In this example, the colored square is orange and the percentage of match is 70%, quite high! The student clicks on the orange square to see the Originality Report.
Once again, at the top of the page will be the paper's title -- in this example, Smartphones and Social Media. To the right will be a Similarity Index (a color and percentage.) In this example, the color for the paper as a whole is orange and 70% means that 70% of this paper matches text that is already in the Turnitin database. You and your instructor will have to interpret why the match occurred and why it is such a high percentage. And all the way to the right is a breakout of similarity by source. In this example, 70% of the paper matches something from Internet sources, 32% matches something from Turnitin's database of publications, and 4% matches something from Turnitin's collection of student papers that have been previously submitted and stored.
Here you see the list of matching sources, all listed together. The 70% total match is broken down by source. One source represents 21% of the student paper. Another source represents 15% of the student paper, and so on.
On the left is a short string of text in the paper with no in-text citation crediting it to the original source. It matches something from another source that is already in the Turnitin database. The text is labeled number 8. On the right, in the list of matching sources, the origin of the matching text is number 8 in the list. The text in number 8 appears to match something on the web site of www.itseurope.org, or some other web site with the same material.
Scroll down the Originality Report to see other strings of matching text. For example, look at the text labeled number 1, which represents 21% of the paper, a high percentage!
If your assignment calls for you to edit and submit multiple drafts of a paper, you could review all your strings of matching text and edit your paper for more originality. Try excluding the quoted material and the small, trivial matches first, then work with the strings of matching text that remain. For strings of matching text that are not essential to your paper, consider deleting them and inserting more of your own original thinking and text. Remember, there should be a reason for strings of matching text. Just be sure you can explain why there are matches.
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First of all, Happy New Year everyone! Way back in 2009 when my site was just a few months old, I began the new year with a Happy New Year/Goals post much like this one. By the end of 2009 I found that I had exceeded most of my goals and fell just short of accomplishing the rest. I did the same in 2010. I set some pretty lofty goals for myself, but I have to say that I did pretty darn well! With 2011 on the horizon, I reflect back on 2010 and look forward to 2011 with another set of goals for my namesake blog!
Let's first take a look at how I did with my goals for 2010:
1. Continue to build on goals 1-5 from 2009. The goal here was to see monthly unique readership improve from 17,000 in 2009 to 25,000-30,000 unique visitors in 2010. The actual numbers say that in 2010, the average number of monthly unique visitors to the blog was 41,000, with approximately 500,000+ people visiting the blog in 2010. Awesome! Furthermore, the peak month in 2009 saw 75,000, whereas the peak month in 2010 saw over 120,000 unique visitors. In 2009 I was fluctuating between 500-600 RSS subscribers. In 2010, I saw my RSS subscriptions rise to above 1000 subscribers. Beautiful! I wanted to do about 45-50 posts a month, but it ended up being more like 30 posts per month in 2010. I did zero guest blogging in 2010, even though I aspired to guest blog at 5 other blogs. Another goal of mine was to do 12 different contests and giveaways and it looks like I also accomplished this goal! I counted 9 different giveaways on my blog and 3 more giveaways specifically for my Facebook fans. Goal pretty much accomplished!
2. Continue the tradition of the epic post. I wanted to do 12 list posts this year, a major 101 epic post every month. How'd I do? Pretty darn good. Although they weren't all 101 items long, I did do 12 of them and they were each epic in their own way (at least I think so). Goal accomplished!
101 T-Shirts for Apple Fanboys and the Mac Faithful!
101 LOST T-Shirts For The Ultimate LOST Fanatic
101 Bacon Products for Fans of the Other White Meat
SXSW 2010: A Haven for Geeky and Techie T-Shirts!
101 Nintendo T-Shirts For The Ultimate Nintendo Gamer
108 LOST T-Shirts To Celebrate The End Including 20 You Can't Buy
76 Threadless T-Shirts From Sketch To Print
NBA Championship T-Shirts From 1980-2010 + Great Finals Moments
101 T-Shirts For Social Media Gurus, Facebook Fans and Twitter Addicts
101 T-Shirts To Help You Relive The 1980′s
Massive List of Black Friday T-Shirt Deals and Steals
9 T-Shirt Top 10′s of 2010
3. Get cited by a major news source in print and on the web. So 2010 ended up being a big year for this blog getting cited in major websites. My original 101 Lost T-Shirts blog post landed on Entertainment Weekly's Twitter feed (over 1.4 million followers) and crashed my website in record time (I was able to get it back up in minutes). And then once I got the blog back up and running Carlton Cuse, one of the main writers and producers of Lost also sent out a tweet mentioning my post. This was huge. And again, our friends over at USA Today's POP Candy blog also mentioned both of my Lost posts. Oh, and as far as newspapers go, my local paper, the Honolulu Advertiser ran a lost article that also made a mention of my epic Lost post. I jumped up and cheered! Likewise, I nearly fainted when my 101 Apple T-Shirt list was posted on both Gizmodo and MacLife. I've been a subscriber to MacLife magazine (when it used to be called MacAddict) since the mid 90's, so you can imagine how excited I was. Goal accomplished!
4. Make at least 5 items go viral. Now this was a toughie, especially for a small niche blog like mine. I hit just above my mark of two 100,000 views posts, with three blog posts gaining over 100,000 pageviews. These included my 101 Science T-Shirts list (surpassed 200,000), 101 Nintendo T-Shirts list, and 101 Lost T-Shirts list. A fourth post came very close, but just missed the mark at 81,000 pageviews. I found it remarkable that in October, November, and December there was major Stumbleupon traffic to my 101 Nintendo T-Shirts list, which was published way back in April 2010. Not bad, not bad at all! Goal not accomplished.
5. Have fun. I've definitely had a LOT of fun this year with this blog, both online and offline! It's great to see the blog grow and grow with each passing month. However, some of the offline experiences that I've had with my readers have been even more rewarding. For instance, while in NYC this past summer, I was able to meet up with Carlos EasyBake of Oven Fresh Dreams, as well as Brian Shevlin from Year of the T-Shirt. Hopefully 2011 will bring even bigger and better things! Goal accomplished!
2010 turned out to be a big year for CotyGonzales.com, but what does 2011 have in store? Whatever it is, I hope that it'll be big! Let's start with some goals that I have set for this blog in 2011.
1. Updated the blog theme and add categories. I've been wanting to do this for a long time now and I think that 2011 is the year that I do it! Another thing that I want to do is implement categories. When my blog first started, it was more of a lifestream blog, in which I blogged about everything in my life (hence, the name of the domain). But then I figured out the importance of a niche. Unfortunately, since then I have been using a single category for nearly all my posts – T-Shirts. Of course, I'd have to go back through each and every posts and re-categorize each one based on T-Shirt genre (i.e. Humor, Political, Parody, etc.). It'll be a nightmare, but it's been something that I've been wanting to do in forever.
2. Implement an ad system. Firstly, don't worry, I won't have this blog overrun with ads and blinking GIFs. That's the last thing that I would want. However, I do feel that now is a perfect time to implement some kind of ad system to the blog. I've gained a loyal readership, I have nice traffic numbers, the search engines are good to me, and people have been inquiring about ads. So, why not? This will go hand-in-hand with the updated blog theme. Both are easy to talk about, but difficulty to actually implement (because of laziness), especially when you've got a site that's been working perfectly fine the last 2 years.
3. Continue to increase monthly unique readership. In 2010 the average monthly unique visitors were 41,000. I'd like to see this number jump to 50,000 – 60,000 unique monthly visitors. That would be amazing. At this point, I am not too worried about RSS subscribers. I feel as if RSS feeds are indeed a dying technology and increasingly not as important as they used to be. So, I'll still keep an eye on my RSS feed numbers, but I won't worry too much about them.
4. Continue to be social and increase Facebook fans. At present, I have 561 Facebook fans. By the end of 2011 I would love to see this number rise to 1000 Facebook fans. That would be amazing. Also, I'd love to continue with the giveaways and site related contests. Let's shoot for another 12 giveaways in 2011!
5. Make at least 5 items go viral. I wasn't satisfied with having just 3 items go viral last year (as indicated by 100,000 pageviews on a single post). I want 5. I really want 5. Not sure why, but I want it.
6. Have fun. This is my goal every year and I think that it's an important one. Once the fun aspect disappears, I worry that interest will begin to also disappear. Let's look forward to a fun and prosperous 2011!
I'll leave you now with some of my travel photos from 2010! What a great year, I can't wait for 2011!
My visit Jon Wye's boutique in New York City, August 2010.
That's me alongside the biggest dream of them all, Carlos of Oven Fresh Dreams, August 2010.
Me posing at PikaPika in JapanTown, San Francisco, in one of my favorite T-Shirts ever (Hello by Buddy Carr), March 2010.
I'm all Fuzzy Ink'd out in San Francisco, March 2010.
That's me in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia all decked out in Made With Awesome gear, March 2010.
Say hello to Mr. Brian Shevlin of Year of the T-Shirt. He wore a 365 different T-Shirts in 2010, August 2010.
Ugmonk in Central Park, August 2010.
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Smartphones have some big advantages: they offer considerable computing power in a highly-portable form, and are available at prices that allow a broad spectrum of users to get online easily. But as we reported last year, there's a big downside, too, one that's all-the-more dangerous for being invisible to most people: overblocking of sites caused by opt-out "child protection filters" applied by some mobile operators to their Internet feed.
Here's yet another worrying example of that problem, this time involving the UK operator 3UK, pointed out by Nick Rothwell. Pride's Purge is a Web site described by its creator Tom Pride as "an irreverent look at UK politics". As he recently discovered, it's also blocked by 3UK's child protection filter. He contacted the company on Twitter, pointing out that Pride's Purge was not a porn site or anything similar, and this is what it replied:
We don't just block adult websites, websites with mature content may also be censored.
So it now seems that there is a category of material called "mature content" that is distinct from "adult content", and that is also blocked by child protection filters, at least on 3UK's network. Worryingly, political satire seems to be regarded as an example of "mature content", and therefore unsuitable for children under 18. In fact, the censorship is even worse, as Pride explains:
it's not blocked for just the under-18s. It's blocked for anyone who hasn't proven to [3UK] they are over 18 -- and that means you will have to give your full identity to 3UK before they allow you to enter this site.
This very broad, default censorship is disturbing for at least two reasons. First, because many people will be unaware that this kind of "mature content" censorship is taking place at all, and therefore won't ask for it to be stopped. And secondly, even if they are aware, the fact that asking for the filter to be lifted could be seen as tantamount to wanting to access porn -- something that many will understandably be reluctant to have noted down on their Internet access record -- means that they will simply put up with a limited feed. And so the creeping, silent censorship of the mobile Internet not only continues, but probably gets worse in the absence of any significant pushback against it.
Which means 3UK now officially regard political satire as porn -- and are censoring it in exactly the same way.
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Screen violence remains a big hit with the public, despite calls for the entertainment industry to tone it down in the aftermath of the mass shootings at Aurora, Colo., Newtown, Conn, and elsewhere in the U.S. during the last 12 months. See for yourself. Here are the top 10 most popular titles at the movies, on TV and in video games during that period, with the violent films in caps:
(so far this year as of July 7)
1. "IRON MAN 3," Disney, $406.4 million: Rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America "for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout."
2. "MAN OF STEEL," Warner Bros., $271.2 million: Rated PG-13 "for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction."
3. "FAST & FURIOUS 6," Universal, $235.4 million: Rated PG-13 "for intense sequences of violence and action and mayhem throughout."
4. "Oz the Great and Powerful," Disney, $234.8 million: Rated PG.
5. "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS," Paramount, $223.1 million: Rated PG-13 "for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence."
6. "Monsters University," Disney, $216.1 million: Rated G.
7. "The Croods," $185.1 million: Rated PG.
8. "WORLD WAR Z," Paramount, $158.8 million: Rated PG-13 "for intense frightening zombie sequences, violence and disturbing images."
9. "THE GREAT GATSBY," Warner Bros., $142.5 million: Rated PG-13 "for some violent images."
10. "Despicable Me 2," Universal, $142.1 million: Rated PG.
(the 2012-2013 season, according to Nielsen)
1."Sunday Night Football," NBC, 20.93 million viewers. Bone-crunching violence, but it's all part of the game.
2."NCIS," CBS, 18.51 million. Judged unsuitable for children by the Parents Television Council for its violence. Separate episodes this season featured discoveries of a severed head and severed finger.
3."The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.57 million. Judged unsuitable for children, but for sexual innuendo and not violence.
4."NCIS: LOS ANGELES," CBS, 15.08 million. Judged unsuitable for children because of violence. Gunplay, a cyanide poisoning and discovery of bodies were all part of the mix.
5."Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.94 million.
6."PERSON OF INTEREST," CBS, 13.41 million. Judged unsuitable for children. A suicide, plutonium poisoning and the shooting of a hitman were all part of the show this year. The discovery of 32 human teeth in a furnace was a tip-off that a serial killer was on the loose.
7."American Idol," Fox, 13.38 million.
8."The Voice," NBC, 12.54 million.
9."60 Minutes," CBS, 12.12 million.
10."BLUE BLOODS," CBS, 10.54 million. The parents' group said it is not recommended for children under 14. Late-season episodes this year featured the assassination attempt of a mayor and a shootout between gang members.
(2012, according to industry tracker NPD Group)
1. "CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II," Activision Blizzard, Rated Mature by the Entertainment Software Rating Board "for blood and gore, intense violence, strong language, suggestive themes and use of drugs."
2. "Madden NFL 13," Electronic Arts, Rated Everyone.
3. "HALO 4," Microsoft, Rated Mature "for blood and violence."
4. "ASSASSIN'S CREED III," Ubisoft, Rated Mature "for blood, intense violence, sexual themes and strong language."
5. "Just Dance 4," Ubisoft, Rated Everyone 10 and Up "for comic mischief and lyrics."
6. "NBA 2K13," Take-Two Interactive Software, Rated Everyone.
7. "BORDERLANDS 2," Take-Two Interactive Software, Rated Mature "for blood and gore, intense violence, language, sexual themes and use of alcohol."
8. "CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3," Activision Blizzard, Rated Mature "for blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence and strong language."
9. "Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes," Warner Bros. Interactive, Rated Everyone 10 and Up "for comic mischief."
10. "FIFA Soccer 13," Electronic Arts, Rated Everyone.