So, I got an email this morning.

So, I got this email this morning;

Dear Tiffany   :

In accordance with the law of the state of Connecticut, I hereby demand that you cease and desist the false and defamatory statements that you are making about me in your e-mail postings and on Twitter, Facebook, Internet blogs, and in other public places.  You made them maliciously to injure me and cause harm to my business relationships.  I hereby demand that you publish a retraction of these false and defamatory statements in all the same places that you published your defamatory statements about me, and that your retraction and correction be accompanied by a specific repudiation of your libelous statements.Your Twitter, Facebook, Internet blogs, and other public postings and conduct also constitute tortuous interference with my business and contractual relationships. As such, they are actionable and expose you to the imposition of compensatory as well as punitive damages.Among other things, you have publicly accused me of: (1) stealing money; (2) using money donated to help special needs children for my own personal expenses; (3) being a computer “hacker”; (4) committing adultery; and other similar statements that are completely false.Many of these false statements have been previously brought to your attention. Your failure to correct your erroneous and false statements and their repetition after notice of their falsehood constitutes further publication of libel. It also confirms your malicious intent.
Your attempts to spread libelous and defamatory material about me have caused serious and irreparable injury to me, my reputation, and negatively affected by business relationships.  I will not stand by and allow this misconduct to continue.I have no interest in restricting legitimate free speech, and I believe that the Internet is an important medium for dissemination of accurate and truthful information and for fair comment on issues of interest.  Your activities, however, unlawfully encroach upon my rights.I hereby demand that you:
1.              Immediately remove from Twitter, Facebook, and any/all of your blogs, websites and other public places on the Internet and elsewhere any and all defamatory and disparaging remarks regarding me made by you.
2.              Immediately cease and desist publishing further defamatory statements about me, whether such statements are made by you or third parties.

The statements made in reference to me are utterly false and without merit, and they are defamation per se in that they depict me as engaging in fraudulent activity that violates civil and criminal law.

If you fail to comply with this demand by January 31, 2012, I will have no choice but to turn this matter over to legal counsel, and direct that they pursue all legal causes of action, including the filing of a lawsuit to protect my interests.  I will pursue both damages and attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by me as a result of your actions.

I look forward to your public retraction.

Sincerely

Gary James

Now... am I crazy or did I name a Gary James? I've mentioned an a4cwsn (a FACEBOOK page), no Gary James. 
I also said nothing related to fraud in my previous blog post or adultery. Or maybe I'm just blind?  Seems like someone is a little upset that he cannot silence us special needs parents who see his bullying for what it is.   I will never cease and desist in posting what I believe to be true and factual things. 


Link to previous Blog post regarding Cyber-Bullying

so, I haven't blogged in forever, but I need to get this out.

I'm so sad to report, that no longer can I support a4cwsn.

Unfortunately there has been a lot of online bullying recently :(
This bullying has been personally directed at myself and others. My personal email account has been posted on facebook AND twitter, and the cell phone number of another now ex-member of a4cwsn.

Let me explain, you see, some of us longer standing members, and biggest supporters started to ask questions regarding transparency. Instead of answering those questions, a4cwsn became defensive and rude. We were banned from the page. Posts would go up calling us to post, but of course we couldn't reply.

Then there was a "blacklist" ? I guess posted. Where again, my email was posted. Please note, that the emails that apparently I sent? They don't exist. Along with these posts, it was posted that everyone who followed the page should block, report and watch out for those of us who made the list for SCAMS!

Now again, on twitter today, another LIST has been created. If you search his handle, its under his lists. I'm sure you can all find it, and don't need me to post pictures.

Now, I don't know about you, but I've always been under the impression that if there is nothing to hide, why be scared to share?

On top of all of this, I have suddenly had my computer hacked twice. My personal email account, and have had multiple failed tries for someone to get into my facebook account. (My security is high, and I get a text message when someone tries to login!)

It's odd how us parents of special needs kiddos are always there advocating and protecting our children.  Never do we think within our special community would we come across such outrageous actions, and bullying.  We need to remember that while yes, we would do everything for our children, we would fly to the moon and back if we could, that we need to protect ourselves, and our friends and family within this community.  Unfotunately, though we do not like to admit it, we are a vulnerable bunch.  When something is dangled in front of our faces that we so desperately want for our children, we would do just about anything.  We need to remember to think rationally, and question. And hey, who knows better than to question, question and question some more than us?

We're a smart group of folks, us special needs parents.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So first let's start off by sending a big huge Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

We took the monkey's apple picking yesterday and it was great! (Well, minus the bees! Monkey dad ended up getting stung. Booo!).
The monkeys had fun though, and we ended up with 15lbs of apples. Can you say Apple Crisp and Apple Pie? YUM YUM!


And, in other news, we're on the hunt again. Sigh. I hate house hunting, but this place just isn't working for us.

Our property manager is just a tad on the crazy side, and there is no doubt mold here that they don't want to repair.

It sucks, because really, this place would be a great house if they would just fix it up and the owner would get a non crazy property manager.

In other, other news, Monkey 1 had an epic meltdown last night. He bit Monkey 3 because he wasn't doing what he wanted him to do. Sigh. He broke skin on one bite, and almost did on another. Poor dude was SORE.

Mobile Education Store

I recently blogged about Kyle Tomson from the Mobile Education Store (here)

He's the Founder and President and a special needs parent himself.
Personally, we have his following apps :

Language Builder
Conversation Builder
Speech Journal
Sentence Builder

He also has created other wonderful applications, which you can find linked above.

Kyle has been a huge supporter of A4CWSN (along with a host of other fantastic developers) and Personally, I cannot WAIT to use all of his apps on our new to us iPad that will be coming.
This weekend I was able to quickly use and check out some of his apps on A's borrowed ipad (which I hooked her up with all of the above mentioned apps as well), and I just can't hardly wait to really give them a go and use them. Not just with Monkey#1, but all of our monnkeys.
Speech Journal, especially seems like it will be a great fit for our monkeys.
I will for sure also be getting all of the other apps that Mobile Education Store has to offer.

Have you used any of Mobile Education Store's apps? If so, which ones? What's your favourite app? Why?

WOW!

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!

And no, I'm not talking about World of Warcraft.. lol

Just simply amazed. And feel SO full of LOVE!

In a previous post, I invited you all for the App Party. Tonight at said App party, my family won an iPad for our boys. <3 This weekend, we have also been fortunate enough to borrow an iPad from A. It's amazing to me what my guys can do with it! <3 I'm still at a loss for words. Thank you A4CWSN!