Signal boost concerning the theft of stories from FFN

For those of you concerned about the Spamdex theft of FFN, I got permission from dawn_felagund to crosspost her post (on a Yahoo! email group) on the progress being made on getting the last of the mirror sites taken down:

Hi, everyone,

I have just heard back from Cloudflare with an abuse contact for the host of Talkfictions.com:

abuse AT quasinetworks DOT com

Replace the ats and dots ... you know the drill. :)

When contacting these folks, make sure that you identify that you are reporting copyright infringement of your content on a site that they are hosting, Talkfictions.com. I would suggest including a link to your profile on Talkfictions (copy it from Google if you are not comfortable visiting the site; please remember that multiple users have reported malware and viruses on this site) and a link to your profile on FanFiction.net and/or FictionPress.com.

I have just sent my email. If I hear anything back that is of interest to the group, I will of course report it right away.

Thank you, everyone, who is taking the time and effort to chip away at this site. We WILL get them gone! :)

​Dawn and others have been working hard on this, and it looks like they are succeeding. If you wish to register a complaint, this is a safe way to do so. Apparently everyone's reports have managed to get all of the other sites down, so we just need to keep it up until this one goes too.

She would like to spread the word, so feel free to make your own crossposts with this information.

Lent, Feb. 22, 2016

I found this lovely poem for today's Lenten post.

Oh, to know the peace of God,
to slip to sleep upon its crest
to wade into its soft caress
and find my perfect rest.

To wait for the calming relief,
from the years of eroding pain
to find its ebbing tranquility
releasing all my earthly strain.

Oh, to calm the rushing roar,
that rages through my mind
peace asleep upon the shore
waves to me to come and find.

Peace, peace why do you flee,
from the head on which I lie
flood me with your quietness
abide with me until I die.

Oh, how I long to obtain,
a stillness – too still to hear
and then, oh then, my Lord . . .
I’ll be kept safe and near!

~~~~~

Psalm 4:8

“I will both lay me down in peace,
and sleep: for thou, Lord,
only makest me dwell in safety.”

King James Version
by Public Domain

Copyright 2015
Deborah Ann Belka


More of the poet's work may be found here: https://poetrybydeborahann.wordpress.com/

Meme--baa! baa!

Well, a lot of people on my flist have been doing this, so of course, I have to do it, too!
baranduin added a question, so I will too!

1. Do you live a house, a condo, or some kind of apartment?
House

2. Do you rent or own?
Own

3. What’s one thing that you would change about it if you could?
Add a little more square footage to each room, a second bathroom, and remodel the kitchen. Only the last one may happen one day, unless we either win Publisher's Clearing House or the lottery.

4. Would you like to move?
NO! Moving is a lot of hard work, stressful and painful and things get broken or lost. Besides we are finally getting to get the garden the way we want it, and you can't move gardens.

5. Do you read the answers of others before answering yourself?
Yes, most of the time.

This question was added by baranduin
6. How do you eat Oreos?
Fill a glass with ice cold milk. Crush 2 or 3 Double Stuffed Oreos into it. When they have mostly sunk to the bottom, fish them out with an ice tea spoon and enjoy! (Regular Oreos work too, but I like the double stuffed best.)

And here is MY question:
7: What household chore do you actually enjoy doing?
Folding laundry. There is something soothing in reducing a pile of assorted items into orderly squares and rectangles and rolls that will fit nicely into drawers and cupboards. I am very particular about the way certain things are folded; it's the one chore my DH doesn't do (except in an emergency) because he knows I will re-do it. Since I've been sick, he's caught up all the dirty laundry, but now I have a pile of clean I haven't been able to finish yet. Maybe tomorrow. I love folding napkins...and rolling up washcloths...and using that new method of folding T-shirts so they will stand up in the drawer...