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I have Twitter and that’s all I need. If you want to get rid of Google Buzz for ever, keep reading…
Go into your Gmail and go to the very bottom of the page. You will see this:
Do you see where it says “turn off buzz” right in the middle in the line that starts with “Gmail view:”? Click it! It will remove Google Buzz form your Gmail. You can always go back to the same location and turn Google Buzz back on if you wish.
Have fun de-Buzzing!
You might know Adrianne Curry (model, reality TV star, scifi geek) from VH1’s fourth season of The Surreal Life & that she married Christopher Knight (Peter Brady from The Brady Bunch) who also appeared on the show. I follow her on Twitter because she’s actually very interesting, and very hot.
A few minutes ago, she tweeted that she was booted from Facebook for the 5th time for no apparent reason.
facebook just deleted me! this is the 5th time! when I first signed up, they deleted me 4 times in a row. I am so angry!
WOW. What the hell is Facebook doing? Booting celebrities from their site? What’s up with that?
She also said that there is no way to email Facebook and with no proof they’ll just “leave you out to dry”. When did the Nazi’s start running Facebook? Or is it the Christian Moral Majority? That’s pretty funny because of all of the college girls that post pictures of themselves & friends all drunk at parties… Remember the breasting feeding picture debacle they had last year or so?
So, I told Adrianne that she should start writing to the social media web sites like Mashable.com & Techcrunch.com and get her story out and see if Facebook takes notice. It all starts with one voice…
I hope this helps Adrianne.
UPDATE: It appears shortly after this post started getting retweeted on Twitter, Facebook re-enabled Adrianne’s account.
I’m back! Why was my account disabled, and then magically pop back up? Why ask why? I’m just grateful!
Will Adrianne give me credit for helping? I don’t know. 
Maybe Facebook knows that they can’t win against @The_BORG. I’m just glad that Adrianne is back on Facebook.
After the success of getting the Christina School District to amend their code of conduct and let Zachary Christie back into school, another victim of the school district’s zero tolerance policy came to attention. 13 year old Kyle Hebert was bullied and tormented (even had a florescent light smashed over his head) all last school year. When he went to school staff to complain he was told to fight back, to lie about what happened, not to tattle tale, and other crap that the teachers & administration at the George V. Kirk Middle School in Newark, Delaware thought it was fine to tell Kyle- trying to bury the issue and have it forgotten (this is against school/district policy & Delaware’s anti-bullying law of 2007). One day after some bullying, one of the cruel bullies dropped a pocket knife into Kyle’s lap and shout something like “Kyle has a knife!”. Let’s read that sentence again. One day after some bullying, one of the cruel bullies dropped a pocket knife into Kyle’s lap and shout something like “Kyle has a knife!”. Guess what happened? Kyle got suspended and was told that he must attend one of Delaware’s “alternative” schools (this are reform schools for actual juvenile delinquents). His mother, Dodi Hebert, started to home-school Kyle instead, refusing to let her son go to an alternative school. She also plans to pull her younger son out of school at the end of this school year. Dodi has lost all faith in the Christina School District. She even has EVIDENCE that her son Kyle was framed. So far school district officials and the School Board have not helped Dodi Hebert one bit. They sit there with the most dumbfounded looks on their face everytime they hear this, as I witnessed last night at the School Board meeting at Porter Road Elementary School when Dodi addressed the School Board members. At the time of the incident with Kyle, she did not reach out to media to get her son’s story out. Now with the national media coverage and outrage that Zachary Christie’s case got, Dodi is now looking to make some noise.
Now, to say that this is rare would be not right. The Christina School District’s zero tolerance policy has also made other children victims of it. How about the girl that brought the birthday cake to school and the cake knife. The teacher cut the cake with it and then went to the principal. The little girl got suspended. Another little girl brought an exacto/X-Acto knife to school to help her with an art project. Suspended.
The state of Delaware has even passed legislation telling the schools & school districts that they need to look at each case individually and determine what to do from there. Did Christina School District or the School Board even bother to THINK with an open mind instead of following the policy to the letter? NO. They ALL need to be held accountable for the injustices brought against all of these children.
Get involved. Make noise. Question the schools & districts. Talk to your legislature. Talk to the media! Talk on the Internet!
These problems must be fixed!
Here are my pics from tonight at the Christina School Board meeting. I was there in support of Zachary Christie. The school board had already planned to amend the code of conduct & made it retroactive for the school year. It was a great thing that happened, but should have never been allowed to come to this. Zero tolerance policies do not work!
Will be reposting the pictures soon.
Tornoe cartoon: School Districts and their Silly ‘No Tolerance’ Policies (originally from communitypub.com)
Hockessin, Del. — Rob Tornoe’s latest cartoon on school districts and their no tolerance policies, highlighted this week by the story of Zachary Christie, a 6 year-old student in the Christina school district who was suspended for bringing camping utensils to school and faces 45 days in reform school.
To HELP Zachary and for more info on the situation go to http://www.helpzachary.com or visit the previous post.
Everyone once in a while you hear about a zero tolerance policy somewhere that has gone wrong. Now it’s happened in my area. Six-year old Zachary is (or more like ‘was’) a first grader at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Delaware. He plays Little League Baseball, is a Cub Scout, studies martial arts, is actively involved in his church youth group, and is actively involved in school activities. Last year he participated in the school talent show, the science fair, and the PTA “Reflections” Art Contest, for which he won first place in the State of Delaware for his film, “What Is My Job?” Zachary reads above grade level and has very advanced math skills as well. Sounds like a great kid! Right?
Well, at the end of last month, Zachary brought a camping utensil (spoon, fork, bottle opener, and knife) to school to eat lunch with. A teacher sees it and busts him right away. When asked what it was for he straight up told the teacher it was to eat lunch with. Well, the principal was notified and suspended Zachary since the Christina School District (in which Downes Elementary School is located) has a zero tolerance policy on weapons.