I am taking part in Mondays Finish the Story, which is a flash fiction challenge that provides a photo prompt and the opening sentence to your story. The rules indicate that the story you come up with must be between 100-150 words, not including the opening line… Are you ready for my story?
“Racing down into the atmosphere, the unidentified object crashed, leaving behind one heck of a huge crater and a plume of smoke that could be seen from miles around.”
Inside the craft, the crew recovered. “What the heck Charlie! I told you to bank right, not left!” said Jack.
“Sorry about that,” Charlie replied.
Getting on the com, Jack asked the crew to respond if there were any casualties. All responded. There were only bumps and bruises. “At least this is not as bad as it was in Roswell, New Mexico.”
“Smitty,” said Charlie, “take a team and check the exterior. There’s a lot smoke. Report any damage.”
Smitty and his team headed to the transporter room where Vic was at the ready. Looking at the team, he saw that all were in place. Turning towards Vic he said, “Energize.”
Once outside the craft, they began their inspection. Rounding one bend of the ship stood a team of planet natives with guns pointed at them. “Oh no, please tell me it is not you again!” exclaimed General McAdams.
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I hope that you enjoyed my short story today! You too can take part in this challenge by clicking on Mondays Finish the Story!
Have a magnificent Monday, and thank you for stopping by! Be well! ^..^
Life in the Foothills 
Content Theft
Posted in Commentary, tagged Blog, Blogging, Content theft, GoDaddy, History, Life, Politics, Stealing, Travel, Unified Layer on January 10, 2015| 28 Comments »
There are folks out there who like to steal your content with the excuse that they can take it and use it freely because of the RSS feed that we have on our WordPress Blogs.
Recently, twice in the last few months, I have had blogs swiped without permission. My copyright notice on my blog indicates that you need written permission to use any of my content. And anyone who does use my content without my written permission is stealing from me.
What these thieves look for on your blog are commonly used tags. My “Stuck in the Clouds” blog had travel as a tag. My other blog about the “2nd Amendment…” had a politics as a tag.
These folks try to fool you with their disclaimer. Here is the link to the thieves website regarding copyright…Destinary.com Copyright BS. Your copyright still holds, and if you indicate that they need your permission, they have to get it first or they are stealing your content.
Both times my content was stolen by folks who use the web host Unified Layer. I discovered this information by using a site called: WhoIsHostingThis.com. Going to this site to see who they are hosted by, only because I cannot get any information on Unified Layer, indicates that they are hosted by GoDaddy. There is information on WordPress with regard to copyright infringement. This page is useful too. Content Theft – What to Do
People and sites that steal your content have nothing better to do than steal other peoples copyrighted items. Why? It is because they have no imagination, no creative abilities, no morals, no talent. They set up a computer at their location which uses an automated software that looks for certain words in your tags and pull those posts that have those tags.
The problem with these folks, is that they are hard to find and track.
I am pulling my post from today. Their site will give them a 404 error that the content cannot be found.
As a group of bloggers is there anything we can do worldwide to block these lazy a**es that have nothing better to do than steal? Maybe a worldwide protest of companies that host these folks? Suggestions anyone?
Oh, by the way, any use of the content in this email without express written permission will lead to prosecution as can be done as dictated by worldwide copyright law.
Can you afford to do this? Think twice before you do.
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