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It is a personal blog from a non-stereotypical small town girl who tries to put her adventures in an interesting narrative, questions the unjust / weird societal norms & also tries to write something creative (shirt stories, commentary, poems).
Eagerly looking forward to hearing from your team!
Thanks for doing what you do!
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Torque Earnest
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I'm sorry to say, but some of your content seems to have been just an act of plagiarism. One may need to research a bit more to prove it, but what caught my attention was the following posted on 28th July:
http://thegravitygate.com/2014/07/28/hawaiian-flower-names-a-z/
The above is word-by-word and picture-by-picture copy of the following posted on 09th July (which I had read earlier and that's why immediately recognized):
http://oldpageant8665.blog.com/2014/07/09/hawaiian-flower-names/
and the same is again an act of plagiarism and lifted from:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/hawaiian-flower-names.html
For me, key to a successful blog is to write your own content and pics. To see this coming from a person with so much of knowledge and varied interest (yes I read your profile and all) is a bit disappointing. Hope you'd do something about it.
Ah! Just noticed that the buzzle post is also your's so the source has to be the oldpageant8665 blog. Is that your's too?
And now this leaves me more confused.. the images are all referenced from buzzle.com. If that is the case, I should assume that all of them are your posts.
Then why at so many places?? 
Confusion !!!
Hello Mr. Yayawar! Thanks for peering into my posts with such keen attention :) Now, for some answers & much needed clarification:
1. Definition of Plagiarism: Any written matter is NOT considered plagiarised IF you give the source/credit to the original writer or creator. The end of my 'copied' post does that.
2. FYI: The post in question originally has this link as its address (URL, i.e. Universal Resource Locater) http://gravitygate.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/hawaiian-flower-names-a-z/ Now, haven't you missed that altogether... :)
3. Who's copied Whom: oldpageant8665.blog.com posted on July 09, 2014 and my Buzzle profile has last updated (different from the 'publishing' date) it on May 20, 2013. I don't own Buzzle.com but was an Author with them. Don't own Oldpageant8665 either. So, the source is... :)
4. My post is at so many places to reach my own followers of my blog :) Buzzle's PR (Page Rank) had dropped down big time because of some technical updates whereas my blog has been doing fine, thankfully. It only made sense to share my efforts at a better platform. Do check the link for the official information.
5. Buzzle tweaked the coding of the post to improvise the look of the article & I do not have the earlier code that 'I did originally' because of their norms of working with them. So, I picked up my own article & gave credit as well along with the company's name.
Hope that satisfies all your queries :) If it doesn't, am right here...
Earnest regards,
Torque Earnest
P.S. I take that acknowledgement of my limited knowledge as a compliment. Thank you!
Thanks for clarifying.. in fact if you see the subsequent posts as I went on discovering, you'd understand that I too gathered the facts the way you've put up. The only confusion was about oldpageant8665.blog.com since it has referenced all the images from buzzle and probably qualifies as an act of plagiarism! I believe you should ask the author of that blog/post to take that down or at least give you the credit.
And yes, the acknowledgement of your varied knowledge was indeed an appreciation. This is the reason I was wondering and ended up confused. :D
Keep on the good work!
No worries! Just thought of giving little more information on the same. And yes, I should mail the other fellow!
Thank you! 