Plagiarism Update: Sent Report To WordPress

Plagiarism Update: Sent Report To WordPress

I have just sent a report on this evil thief’s activities to WordPress. I urge anyone with the sewing related WordPress blog to look at the thief’s blog and see if your posts are being stolen. If they are, please send a report to WordPress as well. If there is a way to identify this plager and send them to jail, let me know, because I will pursue that course of action. As an author I take plagiarism very seriously, and so should you. Well, at least they chose the right name for their blog: Scum Bag Clothing. I can’t think of anything that makes a person more of a scumbag than being a thief.

Here is a copy of the letter I sent to WordPress:

Posts off of more than 30 different WordPress blogs (all sewing topics) are being copied and posted word for word, picture for picture, on someone else’s blog!

I use CopyScape on my posts, and CopyScape notified me that my posts were being copied and distributed on someone else’s blog without my permission, so I went to their blog to check and CopyScape was right. They copied everything, word for word, picture for picture… even the CopyScape plagiarizing warning gif!

Because they are copying posts off of my sewing blog, so I started checking all the other posts on their blog, and they’ve plagiarized every single post on their blog, by stealing posts and pictures off of other people’s blogs! I’ve only checked the posts for Jun so far, but so far I’ve counted over 30 different WordPress blogs from which they are stealing posts and hotlinking images from!

Here is their blog link:

http://www.scumbagclothing.com/category/dressmaking/

I don’t know how to stop them. I’ve been trying to find a way to notify their blog host, but so far have not had any luck. If you know of a way to stop them from stealing the posts off of our blogs, please let me know, cause I don’t like them claiming that they wrote the articles I wrote. They are even displaying my drawings on their blog and claiming they drew them!

Sorry for the rant, but I thought you’d want to know that they’ve been stealing posts and passing them off as theirs.

This is so frustrating. I put so much work into writing my articles and drawing my artwork, and I know other folks do as well. It’d be one thing if they were linking back to our blogs with a review or something, but they are claiming that they wrote all of these posts and drew all of the art and took all of the photos themselves!

Is there a law enforcement agency I can contact about this? I was told that the FBI had an identity theft division that handles online predators that steal other peoples identities. Should I contact the FBI about this? I mean who ever is running this blog is claiming to be me, by saying they wrote those articles, so that’s identity theft as far as I can tell.

What should I do?

Is there anything that you can do about it, since they are stealing posts off of WordPress blogs?

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orange

orange is my color: my car is orange, my room is orange, my bookshelves are orange, most of my clothes are orange, my recliner chair is orange, my blankets are orange, my atv is orange metalflake… I even have an orange cat

See more progress on: have a signature color

Gothic clothes hard to find in stores…

most goths sew because there are very few stores that carry cloths from the Gothic, Victorian, Edwardian, or Empire eras

See more progress on: go gothic and not care what people think

National TV-Turnoff Week, April 23-29

Today is the first day of  National TV-Turn Off Week, April 23-29

I have decided to write a list of 101 things for you to do during this week of no TV, should you decide to take on the challange.

1. Go for a walk on the beach.
2. Read a book.
3. Write a book in 7 days.
4. Volunteer at the local  animal shelter.
5. Do a crossword puzzle.
6. Dress up like a pirate.
7. Buy a camera and use it.
8. Play an hours-long game of Monopoly.
9. Grow a crystal garden.
10. Catalog your book collection useing the Dewey Decimal System.
11. Plan a family budget.
12. Go on a camping trip.
13. Plant a vegetable garden.
14. Watch the stars.
15. Sew, knit, or crochet a blanket for a cause (Snuggles, Linus Foundation, etc.)
16. Raise a family of sea monkeys.
17. Answer all those unread emails.
18. Pay your bills.
19. Start a petition.
20. Take your family out to a fancy resturant.
21. Look for BigFoot.
22. Take in a foster pet.
23. Spend a few hours browsing in your local library.
24. Donate pet food to a local shelter.
25. Take a walk around the block.
26. Have a chat with your mom or dad.
27. Go fishing.
28. Organize your DVD collection.
29. Build a personal website.
30. Write a short story for a fiction magazine.
31. Volunteer at the local  soup kitchen.
32. Go sight-seeing.
33. Put the pictures into the photo albums.
34. Throw a “Just-As-You-Are” party.
35. Attempt to prove aliens are real.
36. Visit a local museum.
37. Take your family to an all you can eat buffet.
38. Invent something new.
39. Start to tackle the list of projects that has been getting longer.
40. Head to an amusment park.
41. Take a cruise.
42. Sew a new dress.
43. Get a family photo taken.
44. Take a child to the zoo.
45. Write a letter to someone you haven’t seen in a while.
46. Attend an art show.
47. Vacuum the car.
48. Refinish an old piece of furniture.
49. Write an article for a non-fiction magazine.
50. Go boating.
51. Start a blog.
52. Attend a book reading.
53. Solve a mystery: play a game of Clue.
54. Visit with someone in a nursing home.
55. Go to the circus.
56. Head to your local swamp to pick fiddleheads.
57. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
58. Take a hike in the woods.
59. Visit an art gallery.
60. Open an online store (Zazzle, CafePress, etc.).
61. Take swimming lessons.
62. Quit smoking.
63. Plant a tree.
64. Cook a gourmet dinner.
65. Help your child with his/her homework.
66. Play a game of basketball.
67. Go birdwatching.
68. Wash the windows.
69. Get a makeover.
70. See a play.
71. Repaint your living room.
72. Read a story to a child.
73. Paint a masterpiece.
74. Go on a picnic.
75. Read a comic book.
76. Start a new career.
77. Organize a family reunion.
78. Study up on your family history.
79. Go on a diet.
80. Sing a song.
81. Write a poem.
82. Bake a cake.
83. Go horseback riding.
84. Set up an aquarium.
85. Write a letter to a prisoner.
86. Take up a new hobby, such as stamp collecting.
87. Spend the week looking for UFO’s.
88. Go rock climbing.
89. Dye your hair blue.
90. Wax your car.
91. Redecorate your bedroom.
92. Play video games with your child.
93. Write a business plan for your dream job.
94. Take dance lessons.
95. See a ballet.
96. Buy a box of crayons and draw.
97. Design your dream-house.
98. Make home-made ice-cream.
99. Dress-up and go to the opera.
100. Take you family out to a movie.
101. Visit a haunted house.
102. Write a list of a 101 things you can do.

Quote: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” —Groucho Marx 

Rant: When Did Gothic Go To Hell?

What happened to Gothic? Where did it go? And who are the black clothed demons that took it’s place? There are times when I get totally pissed over little things. This is one of them. I have been a fan of Gothic since the mid 1970′s. My entire life has been built around Gothic. I wear 13th century gowns of rose velvet. Haunted houses are more than a hobby, they are the core of my existance. Top hats and frock coats are part of my daily wardrobe. I wear burnoose and houplandres and cockscombs. Men I love are romantic owners of haunted house dressed ala Vincent Price. At age 9 my favorite book was Jane Eyre. Gothic flows through my viens. More than half of my fiction books are Gothics written from the 1850′s through the 1970′s.

So what brings on this rant? I just did a Google search for Gothic fiction, because a search on Harlequin’s website revealed that they no longer sell Gothic fiction. You know what I got back as results? Vampires. Death. Sex fetish cloths and weapons. Death. Black leather. Death. Demons. Death. Grim Reapers. Death. Blood lust. Death. Suicide. Death. Depression. Death. More Death. And, well death again. Not one single book. No romance. No haunted houses. No 13th century fashions. In other words, not one single solitary thing that is Gothic.

From what I can tell of Google search, the Gothic of today is nothing like the Gothic I grew up with as a child. Where is the romance? Where are the castles? Where are the handom men in poet blouses and frock coats? When did Gothic die and go to hell? When did Gothic raise from the depths of hell and return as a pit of demonic blackness of suicide and depression? When did Gothic stop being Gothic and start being Satanic?

Where has Gothic gone, and what is this grim blackness that claims to be Gothic today?

~~EK

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New Design Available From Copper Cockeral: Purple Easter Cross

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 New from Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts:

 Purple Easter Cross

Just in time for Easter! These products feature a Victorian Easter cross in a lovely  lilac purple adored with spring flowers. We only have space to show a few of the more than 80 products available with this design on them. To see all products available, CLiCK HERE. 

Church VS Christian

I was just out chatting on another forum, and came across a discution about being a Christian and going to church or not. Well of course, you know me, I just had to join in a give my 2 cents worth right? Well, I got to thinking… It’s a good topic, why not have it on my forum as well?So, here it is: The original post that started the other topic on the other forum, and my answer to it. Add what ever you feel needs adding.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sept 18, 2006, 6:07am, pulse2 wrote:

Ok, I am a christian, I portray christianity in my life, I harm no one (Mainly because I’m pretty peaceful and avoid fights, just use words, usually more harmfull ), I don’t steal, I have never injured let alone murdered someone, I don’t go around lying and cursing people, I respect anyone and everyone, I love my family and pretty much everything needed to be a christian, however, I don’t go to church as often as a lot of Christians who go every Sunday, I’m just too busy, people say I can’t be a real christian if I don’t go to church every Sunday, huh?Do I need to? Its not as if I have never been before, I make and effort to go when I can, honestly? But how is it that many that do go to church can cheat on thier partner, betray someone, kill someone (Not likely but still happens), maybe rape or rob or even commit some other kind of sin, not once, but maybe several times and still be classed as more of a christian then me? I find that kind of hypocritical.Does this happen to any of you? Can you answer it? Does it happen to any other religeons?

I am a Christian. I grew up in a very strict Christian home.

When I say strict, I mean VERY: not only were the things you mentioned grave sins, but so to were the following:

women were forbidden to:

• cut their hair
• wear pants
• wear skirts above the knee
• wear short sleeves
• wear makeup
• wear jewelry
• be over 16 years of age and not be married
• be over 18 years of age and not have at least 4 children
• work or get jobs

things forbidden to all, both men and women included:

• drinking
• smoking
• coffee
• tea
• soda
• swearing (and you’s be surprised the things that are considered a swear!)
• public school
• meat

Those are just the major biggie sins, there are lots of little ones as well, stupid ritual like things… hand washings, wearing special underwear you have to wear, and stuff like that

giant sins like adultery, rape, murder, divorce, etc… those things you can’t be forgiven for EVER.

at least accourding to my family….

me, today, as an adult… I look at them and think… they are nuts!

today, I am still a Christian, I stll wear long dresses, I have long hair, and I don’t eat meat, but beyound that, I do not believe the same things my family does… I do not believe that the idiosicesies and rituals make you a Christian

today, my family shuns me, I am “the evi one”l, “the child of satan”, “the fallen one”, and other such titles they have given me. Why?

Because:

• I drink tea
• I drink soda
• I am 31 and not yet married
• I am 31 and have no children
• at age 31 I am trying to get a job and finding it very difficult as no one well hire a women age 31 with no schooling or prviouse job experiance
• I do not attend church
• I do not attend temple
• I do not wear special underwear

What is a Christian? By deffanition, a Christian is one who obeies the practices of Christ.

What did Christ do?

• He heal the sick
• he helped the poor
• he preached love thy neighbor
• he taught AGAINST eye for an eye
• he said to pray to The Father
• he did not wear fancy clothes
• he was condemded for working on Sabbth
• he made a whip and beat people in church
• he not only drank wine, he turned water into it

there are a whole list of things that Chriist taught, said, and did, he rarely went to church on the Sabbeth and was constantly ridiculed for it, by the Pharasies and the Saducies

I believe that a Christian does the things that Christ did…

I have known men and women who go to church every Sunday (or Saterday, depending on their faith), and I have known those same men and women to lie, cheat, steal, swear, drink, commit adultry, 3 went to prison for rape, a few were excumunicated for child abuse, and one even went to prison for murder.

All of them claimed to be Christian, all of them never missed the Sabbath.

I have meet many people who were not Christian. Where I live the Jewish faith is quite strong, there is even a synagog a mile from my house, and another 2 towns away. Musliums are becoming quite common here latly as well. There is a hindu community 40 mins away, and several Asia communities, with tradition relgions, that I do not understand or know the names of. After the Jews, Wiccans are prob’ly the largest non-Christian religion in the area. I’ve known MANY of them.

Than there are those who believe nothing, atheists and agnostics. My best friend’s dad is one of these.

Well, the point is, these non-Christian, live their lives quite peacefully, they go about their daily business, they do not try to convert people to their faith, they just go about their daily lives….

• in spite of the Christian groups who organize protests and camp out on their front lawns or business steps,
• in spite of the Christians who smash car windshield and storefront plate glass…
• in spite of the Christians who spray paint swatica’s on front doors of homes and synagogs….
• in spite of Christians who throw pigs heads in synagogs and mousques and drip pig’s blood and pig fat on car door handles. (yeah… I live Maine, right near the one that’s been on international news all summer, the pig head incedent that everyone was talking about on national news, it was local news here for months before the media got ahold of it… the one they had to call the FBI in on, because the Christians are so uptight against Jews and Muslums around here)

My question is…

• wasn’t Jesus a Jew?
• and when did Jesus do things like this to other faiths?
• how are these “good Christians” condoning this as something Jesus would do?
• and how can they sit in church each Sunday knowing what they did?

In answer to your question, I have this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

i think the average Christian (of which I am) is okay… they are living by what they believe in and are overall good people…it’s the fanitics that bug me, you know, the type that say “You go to my church or I’ll kill you.” those type. They bug me cause, that wasn’t Jesus way. He gave people the freedom to choice or not, he didn’t force people to follow him against their will.

Today’s featured design from Copper Cockeral: Let’s Rock

Today’s featured design from the Copper Cockeral:

As seen on {March 12, 2007}   Tiddledeewinks Blog:

Let’s Rock

 

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*** These designs by Johnny E. Allen

New Design: Ying Yang Swirl

New Addition to Copper Cockeral 

{March 12, 2007}   New Design: Ying Yang Swirl

Ying Yang Swirl

 

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*** These designs by Jeannie Oke

Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

As posted on Xaveir’s Nest: Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

 

New from Copper Cockeral

Doggie Biscuits ***

Doggie Biscuits Black ***

Hand over the doggie buscuits and no one gets peed on!

 

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*** These designs by J.J. Voldy’s Assistant

Product Review: BremanTown Musicians

As posted on Xavier’s Nest:

Copper Cockeral’s newest design is Bremen Town Musicians featuring 4 of EelKat’s pets: Thunder Puff the wild pony, Junior the Bearded Collie, Utopia the Albino Siamese Cat, and Spot the White Crested Black Polish Rooster.

Copper Cockeral Introduces it’s New Blog: Xavier’s Nest

The following is an introductory quote from Xavier’s Nest:

Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts began in November of 2003 when I got this computer I ue today and the free printer that came with it. I had the printer set up in less than an hour and by the end of the day I had gone through 2 reams of paper and card stock, after printing up hundreds of sample designs for cards, stationary, and what not. The printer being also a scanner, ment that I had set out to scanning all of my paintings into the computer as well. One of those paintings I call, The Copper Cockeral. It’s a close up of a rooster’s head, painted an aged copper green-blue. I shrunk it down to a tiny logo and printed it on the back of everything I printed up. A month later I was printing up Christmas cards for paper carriers to hand out o their customers, as task which I continued to do for the next 3 years. And so began Copper Cockeral’s early days as poor quality printed off a free printer. I was happy that I had gotten this business off and running, but I was very displeased with the quality. I went on to test out the quality of four more printers and every type of paper I could find, but still none meet my standerds of perfection.

In the meantime however, I discovered an online printer called Zazzle, who would take my designs and put them on thier products, allowing me to build a website to sell them on. I was intreged and quickly set up my own Zazzle Gallery. In those days Zazle offered 3 products: cards, plain white t-shirts, and posters. Today Zazzle has expanded their line to include buttons, bumper stickers, silk ties, t-shirts in every color imaginable, US Postage stamps, keyrings, posters, framed prints, mugs, hats, totebags, and lots more. As they expand their line, so too does Copper Cockeral.

My income with Zazzle has been hit and miss, mostly due to the fact that they do nothing to promot your line. It’s up to you to do that, marketing and advertising was not something I was interested in, I was more interested in creating the products than promoting them, and back than, the Space Dock 13 Network did not yet exist.

Displeased with the slow sale of Zazzle (and still not marketing on my own) I set out in search of another printer. This time I found CafePress. CafePress, at the time, only had 14 products; today they have 90. Compareing CafePress’s 14 products to Zazzle’s 3, I realized that there was so much room for me to expand the Copper Cockeral line. CafePress not oonly had cards and t-shirts, but they also had clockes, cups, and ceramic tile jewerly boxes. Copper Cockeral expanded.

Today Copper Cockeral embraces both Zazzle and CafePress, offering over 60 designs each on more than 150 products. While most of the line is still designed by me (Wendy C. Allen / EelKat), there are 4 others also creating designs: my three brothers and our mom.

Starting on February 16, 2007, Copper Cockeral now has it’s own web site, still under construction as I type this, but online and taking orders.

This site which you are reading right now, is the blog for Copper Cockeral, named Xavier’s Nest, in memory of the long line of real copper cockerals all named Xavier that have lived on our farm over the years. The original Xavier was Xavier Logan, a character out of my Twighlight Manor series: a wild rock star from planet Flame, most noted for his long firey-red hair and his neon yellow clothes trimmed in pink. In 1989, our farm expanded to include a flock of 25 bantam roosters, which saddly got lost in the mail, and shipped to us 3 days late, with all but one having died. That one went on to become my first Xavier, the first of many. Xavier roosters are always green-eyed Partrige Cochins, a rare mutation, with brilliant green eyes and bright firey red feathers, that oddly resemble Xavier Logan, for whom they are named.

Product Review: Pink Cherub Heart

 Pink Cherub Heart is the newest addition to Copper Cockeral. It features a cherub and dove outlined by a pink heart. Shown here are a few of the more than 80 products available in this design. 

                 

   

EK’s Zazzle Gallery

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Colors

my fave color changes with my mood, but more than not it turns out to be orange… why? not sure really, it’s an odd color, you don’t see it very often… no body but me and Etoile wear it, I’m the only person in my area that has an orange (and metal flake too) car, plus I own an orange MudBug… my walls are pained a pale orange creme with lemon chiffon yellow trim, I have orange and yellow curtains… I just seem to surround myself with orange things, because it’s such a cheerful and happy color that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

when I’m not in love with orange, my fave color sometimes changes to red, in the brightest, bloodest shades… most of my cloths ae red, my fave gown is made of bright eye popping red velvet, in the winter, my favoe color always seems to become various shades of blue, that’s when I usualy start wearing my blue stripe empire gown with bell sleeves and train, and my royal blue velvet burnoose (a huge long trained cape with volumptuous hood).… these 3 are the colors that always remain my faves, I just keep going back and forth between them, but once in a great while a forth one shows up: olivine or peridot green… it’s so nice and peaceful… when I’m tense or stressed out, I tend to surround myself with olivine greens which bring comfort and tranquility and peace of mind