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HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County didn't allow an offensive touchdown for the third time in the last four games and the Cavaliers exploded for 25 second-half points, rolling over Marion for a 39-0 homecoming win in a Southwest District game Friday at Tommy Thompson Field.
Carroll County (5-2 overall, 3-0 district) held the Scarlet Hurricane (3-4, 1-3) to 42 yards of total offense, including one yard on 14 first-half plays.
The Cavaliers scored off of the opening kickoff and were never threatened, taking the lead for good on Kody Alley's 46-yard run on the third snap of the game.
Jacob Mollett snagged a 4-yard scoring toss from Blake Bowman late in the opening period to widen the lead to 14-0 after Matt Combs' PAT.
Following a scoreless second quarter, Carroll County put the game away with a pair of third-quarter scores. Alley found the end zone from 14 yards away less than two minutes into the second half for a 20-0 lead, and Mollett added a 3-yard touchdown run with 3:43 left in the period. Both PAT kicks were missed, and the Cavaliers took a 26-0 lead into the fourth quarter.
Mollett scored his third touchdown of the night on a 1-yard run in the first minute of the period, and Ryne Ayers capped a big rushing night with a 46-yard run midway through the fourth.
Morgan Edwards, attempting his first extra point of the year, capped the scoring.
Ayers, Alley and Mollett each carried nine times, Ayers for a team-high 119 yards. Alley finished with 106 yards and Mollett contributed 28 and three scores.
Carroll County travels to undefeated Grundy (7-0, 3-0) Friday.
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Carroll County......14 0 12 13––39
First quarter
CC–Alley 46 run (Combs kick) 11:02
CC–Mollett 4 pass from Bowman (Combs kick) 0:57
Third quarter
CC–Alley 14 run (kick failed) 10:07
CC–Mollett 3 run (kick failed) 3:43
Fourth quarter
CC–Mollett 1 run (kick failed) 11:11
CC–Ayers 46 run (Edwards kick) 7:17
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine would impose a moratorium on virtual charter schools and require that all charter schools function as nonprofit organizations if three measures endorsed Monday by the Legislature's Education Committee become law.
The committee voted 8-4 along party lines, with Democrats in the majority, to recommend passage of three bills that Democrats said would keep the profit motive out of public education.
Virtual charter schools, in which students study nearly exclusively online, do not yet exist in Maine, although a law passed by the Republican-led Legislature in 2011 allows them. While supporters view virtual schools as a cost-effective option that could work best for some students, others see them as too far afield from traditional schools where students and teacher interact in person.
Monday's votes illustrate the wide rift on education policy between legislative Democrats and Gov. Paul LePage, who has made charter schools a cornerstone for his education reform agenda. The governor, who last week unveiled legislation that would lift the 10-school cap on public charter schools in Maine, advocates for charter schools as choices for families seeking to better meet the needs of students who struggle in traditional public schools. Democrats argue that they siphon limited funding away from public schools, creating an environment in which problems caused by underfunding of public schools become the rationale to expand charter schools in Maine.
"I do believe that virtual learning has a role in our state. I have a lot more concern when it comes to virtual public full-time charter schools," said Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-South Portland, who co-chairs the Education Committee. "I'm not sure I'm comfortable removing the child completely from the public school environment. … I really would appreciate hitting the pause button."
Millett's comments came Monday during a work session on LD 995, An Act to Establish a Moratorium on the Approval and Operation of Virtual and Public Charter Schools, which was sponsored by Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland. The bill would bar the Maine Charter School Commission from authorizing any virtual charter school until the Legislature enacts a virtual charter school law separate from the existing charter school law. Alfond also proposes in the bill that virtual charter schools would be part-time only and only for high school students.
Republicans, who in general support Maine's charter school movement, opposed Alfond's bill.
"I have a lot of confidence in our charter school commission, and I'm not prepared to ask for a moratorium at this point," said Rep. Peter Johnson, R-Greenville, who voted in the minority Monday.
A related bill, LD 481, An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Virtual Public Charter Schools, sponsored by Rep. Bruce MacDonald, D-Boothbay, the House chairman of the Education Committee, also received a party-line "ought to pass" recommendation. Originally wide-ranging, the bill was essentially gutted except for two provisions: that all part-time and full-time virtual charter school teachers must hold a valid teacher certification or acquire one within three years and that the Department of Education and the Maine Charter School Commission will determine what it cost to run a virtual charter school. MacDonald is seeking to place a limit on that number because he said online schools shouldn't cost as much as brick-and-mortar schools to run.
During public hearings on April 12, Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen testified against the bills.
"These bills are designed to stop the development of virtual charter schools …, by subjecting them to onerous regulations, and by prohibiting full-time online schooling and prohibiting elementary and middle school virtual education," he said.
A third bill, LD 671, An Act to Protect Charter Schools by Requiring Them to be Operated as Nonprofit Organizations, was sponsored by Rep. Matthea Daughtry, D-Brunswick. It would require that public charter schools and virtual public charter schools be operated as nonprofit organizations
Millett said she doesn't believe for-profit companies "have a role to play in the way education is delivered to our kids," but her Republican colleagues on the committee disagreed. Rep. Matthew Pouliot, R-Augusta, said there are hundreds of contracts between government agencies and for-profit industries.
"I can't understand why [schools] are different," he said. "I'm just wondering why it's not OK with education if the for-profit company would provide a really high-quality education to our students."
Johnson agreed.
"I don't see a good reason to discriminate against a class like this," he said.
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Afghan general says 'Americans work side by side' to build Kabul command
Soviets shaped the Afghan army that Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hashim remembers from his days as an up-and-coming officer. They tended to give the orders, as if his countrymen were working for the Russians.
The Americans assisting him today use a lighter touch as they aim to restore a different kind of army, he said.
"It used to be the other army would tell the Afghans what to do," said Hashim, who counts 31 years wearing his country's uniform. "The Americans just come up with recommendations. The Americans work side by side" with Afghan soldiers.
Hashim's U.S. advisers, including several from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, are cultivating a hands-off approach both to show their respect to distinguished Afghan officers and to instill in them a creativity they say the Soviets lacked.
They're working to build a new ground forces command for the Afghan army that will manage the daily operations of local units all over the country. The command is due to open in October, and it would represent a level between the big picture strategists at Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense and the army units out in the field fighting Taliban insurgents day in and day out.
Educated Afghan soldiers are already manning an operations center modeled after one used by NATO forces at the coalition headquarters in Kabul. It has rows of Afghan soldiers working at computers, monitoring daily incidents and feeding reports to higher-ranking officers.
The U.S. soldiers assisting the Afghans want to leave their mark, but they're not trying to recreate an American command.
Each U.S. officer partners with an Afghan soldier, and in each case the Afghan holds a significantly higher rank than the American. The rank difference alone requires the Americans to attempt to persuade instead of imposing orders.
"You need to sell it," said Col. Lapthe Flora of the Virginia-Maryland National Guard. He is advising a three-star general. "I show what we have. It's up to you to take it."
Flora is the top American officer among a small group of soldiers assigned to build up the Afghan ground forces command. The troops belong to Flora's National Guard unit and to Lewis-McChord's I Corps, which returns to the base south of Tacoma this summer.
It's an assignment that calls on U.S. soldiers to nurture tight relationships and to exercise patience as they operate within another country's customs. They drink a lot of tea with their Afghan partners as they learn more about each other's personal backgrounds.
"There's a lot of give and take," said the I Corps' Maj. Ayodele Lawson, 36, of Lacey. "You've got to build relationships."
The Americans and the Afghans have seemingly close ties after the months they've spent creating the new command.
Maj. Ian Bennett of I Corps recently teased Maj. Gen. Hashim about a planned hunting trip to Spain. It was to be Hashim's first break in two years. Hashim laughed off Bennett's suggestions that he would not like the looks of Spanish women.
Over tea, Hashim showed off his diplomas from Soviet military schools. He even kept his report cards. He graduated from an armor academy in 1975 on his way to becoming a two-star general before the Taliban's rise.
Hashim fled Afghanistan in 1996 as civil war toppled his country. He returned to the Afghan army in 2009.
"You should write a book," Bennett told him.
"It is all, sorry to say, classified," Hashim replied through his interpreter.
As with other NATO assignments in Kabul, the close relationships at the ground forces command do not prevent the Americans from keeping up their guard. At least 18 NATO soldiers have been killed by Afghan soldiers this year, and two American officers were slain in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior while performing an advising mission similar to the one taking place at the ground forces command.
Afghans are prohibited from bringing weapons into the American side of the compound. They're screened with a metal detector. At least one U.S. soldier brings a rifle whenever a party of American officers crosses the compound to the Afghan side.
Flora says his best defense is becoming as close as he can to Afghan leaders.
"If you have a good relationship, they will treat you like family, and they will do anything to protect you," he said.
Bennett finds the assignment rewarding, especially when an Afghan officer independently reaches a conclusion Bennett would have recommended. He's an Iraq war veteran who's planning to return to Lewis-McChord this summer for an assignment with the 17th Fires Brigade.
"Working with the Afghans, much like working with the Iraqis, is one of the most rewarding and difficult jobs there is to be had out here," said Bennett, a DuPont resident. "It can be supremely frustrating at times, but then you have one of those 'eureka' moments and it all clicks, and the feeling is awesome. And then the cycle begins again."
Hashim, the chief of staff for the ground forces command, is looking forward to the day when the Afghan army can confront his nation's insurgency without Western assistance.
He cites three weaknesses that must be overcome: air support to move supplies across Afghanistan's rugged terrain, artillery to pound enemy strongholds, and combat engineers to clear roads of buried bombs.
"If we have the three kinds of support we can say, 'you guys can go back home,' " Hashim said. "We'll give you flowers and say, 'We can take this responsibility.' "
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Woods spoke with the media Tuesday ahead of the British Open at Muirfield. The last of his 14 major championships came more than five years ago at the 2008 U.S. Open.
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The upstart crowd camped out on Syntagma Square in front of the Greek Parliament is like no other in Greek history. Yes, it is rough around the edges. No, it does not have solutions to the years of debt and corruption that have Greece near default. Yet since May 24, the movement organized through social media has continued to swell and turned heads as a new voice of the people, the power of the Greek powerless.
Critically, it is largely nonviolent. On Tuesday, however, the violent fringes smashed windows and drew shots of tear gas from riot police. But this protest movement has been one of baby strollers and roasting corn rather than molotov cocktails, skinheads, or communist red flags. The only flag is Greek. Trotskyites and Orthodox priests tolerate each other. The usual anarchists and fascist suspects lurk only on the margins.
By mid-June, the gathering – a crazy quilt that shares elements of a tea party caucus, the Arab Spring, an antiglobalization rally, and a Haight-Ashbury commune – had become the largest social movement in Greece since martial law in 1974. These aganaktismenoi, or so-called outraged, earned enough public credibility to nearly end the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou on June 15 as it sought €28 billion ($40 billion) in new austerity cuts.
On Tuesday, public workers began a two-day strike to protest the austerity package that Greek parliamentarians are expected to vote on tomorrow. The deal would clear the way for Greece to receive European Union and International Monetary Fund loans to avoid a default on its sovereign debt. Brussels has taken a hard line, insisting that Greece will default unless it adopts more austerity cuts, including tax hikes, spending cuts, and privatization of government services.
Other peaceful citizens' movements – called "indignants" – have emerged in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. A common theme is skepticism about elite politicians, and skepticism about European Union policies that view austerity as the only way to growth and solvency.
In Athens, on the sun-drenched square, the Greek protesters may prefigure deeper currents of disenchantment among rising populations of educated, but jobless young people who find something missing in the dream of Europe that burned brightly a decade ago. Many here speak of their protest in terms of an "awakening," or as a new effort to "find the truth."
The 'indignants'
The improbable inspiration of the movements is a 93-year-old French Nazi resistance hero, Stephane Hessel, who came out of retirement last year to write a bestseller titled "Get Indignant!" that laments the loss of ideals and idealism in Europe, arguing that young people should not accept a future predetermined to be bleak and constricted. What's unclear is where the new movements will go.
George Stefanatos, a graphic artist, has come to Syntagma Square, an acre of palm trees and evergreens, every weekday since May 24. "I'm here because there is a deeper crisis of ourselves and our society. We've been closed in our houses, sitting on our couches, watching TV. No one questioned anything; it wasn't healthy. But I think we are waking up. We have started talking with each other. That's why I am here. We are talking about the economy but really we are talking about many other things."
Loukas Tsoukalis, director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, says the dynamics date to the 2008 economic crisis: "The bursting of the economic bubble is leading to substantial changes in many countries; it is shifting the tectonic plates and we are seeing new forces. In Sweden and Finland we've had the election of nationalist parties unimaginable a few years ago. What is common is anger at political elites. In Greece we see a challenge to established parties – but which way it will go we don't know."
Teetering on edge of default
The big issue remains the deep austerity cuts, adding to last year's cuts after Greek leaders revealed public debt of $350 billion. That threw Europe into a stark moment of soul-searching and an eventual bailout or "stability fund." Greece now needs a second deal and austerity is required by the EU for Greece to receive the $12 billion loan by July 15 – or face bankruptcy.
Having tremulously survived a June 21 confidence vote, the Papandreou government, armed with a new and influential finance minister who had been the prime minister's chief rival, still faced passing austerity cuts on June 28.
The possibility of a Greek default – with untold consequences for the world economy – has suddenly and powerfully seized Europe's attention. And as the crisis continues to unfold, fingers are pointing in every direction.
European officials are gnashing their teeth, irritated that a small southern nation making up 2.5 percent of Europe's gross domestic product could trigger a genuine crisis. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called out Europe's leaders on June 21 for a lack of decisive action to quell a dangerous default at a time when global recovery is fragile. Oxford University's Timothy Garton Ash says the problem is a flagging ardor in Germany for the European project, and that Chancellor Angela Merkel must explain to a skeptical public why it is in Germany's interest to put its mighty weight behind a deal to calm the markets.
Corruption and overspending
In Athens, despite charges of collective denial in many quarters, there is a strong awareness that the nation overspent and is corrupt from top to bottom, as Mr. Papandreou has said openly. A store clerk argues, "We need to change our mentality. Those Greeks that say they can't find a job are not entirely honest. You can find a job if you try. I don't buy the excuses."
Reform-minded experts such as Takis Pappas at the University of Strasbourg in France say Europe has no option but to bail out Greece or let it default, and default is a "catastrophic option." At the same time, Mr. Pappas argues that "Greece is blackmailing the EU and I don't like this. They see there is no alternative. What we need instead is a bridge between austerity and growth."
A key conundrum is that in forming the EU after German reunification, Europe agreed to a common currency. But it did not forge a common political union, and common fiscal and banking policy that would oversee affairs. The Greek crisis is an example of the problem of what is often called a "fair weather" union that chugs along swimmingly in good times, but now faces storms.
In Greece, nearly 1 million out of a population of 11 million receive some kind of state salary. The Greek debt is a public spending debt. Yet cuts last year and economic decline have dried up the extra jobs and renowned extended Mediterranean family support.
"Last year my parents gave money to my children," says economist Leonidas Vatikiotis, a consultant on the film "Debtocracy," a popular documentary about the Greek crisis. "This year I'm giving money to my parents."
Outraged in Greece
One reason the "outrage" protesters get credence is that their rank and file are mostly outsiders – too young or too poor to have achieved any state spoils or patronage. They are seen as those carrying the burden of tax hikes and job cuts. They are not part of a sizable cohort angry about bad management and an end to a spigot of jobs, early pensions, stuffed corporate envelopes, or trade union payout. When crowds grow in the square – a group that walked from Sparta was welcomed with roars – there is a palpable upwelling of pride. ("The outrage movement has achieved such a status of virtue that everyone is afraid to criticize it," says a Greek journalist.)
Add to the mix an undercurrent of culture war with northern European states whose press often characterize Greece as feckless or lazy. Ms. Merkel said last fall that it was a mistake to have allowed Greece into the eurozone. On the square, there's a feeling of speaking to other Europeans.
"We are not animals, just people that exist to keep an economy and a finance system grinding on," says Filos, a tall 27-year-old with a Quicksilver-logo T-shirt. He claims to live in a posh suburb with a car and a job: "But I feel a need to come here in the evening. The Greeks don't just exist to consume and buy and sit around in clubs. Our politicians don't acknowledge this. The rich need to pay more taxes," he says, referring to the austerity package's unpopular across-the-board cuts.
While many in the "outrage" movement say they are ready to "leave Europe," the sentiment does not seem to be overwhelming in Greece. Vassiliki, a singer with flowing locks in a traditional Greek band says, "I want Greece to stay in Europe, but with dignity."
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A Texas high schooler is filing a Title IX complaint against her school district after her volleyball coach benched her in her first trimester. This sounds like a no-win situation for everyone involved.
Mackenzie McCollum, a 17-year-old senior at Arlington Heights HS, was looking forward to the start of the volleyball season — prime college scouting season, and McCollum had her eye on landing a scholarship. Then she went and got pregnant.
Coach Jack Warren told her she couldn't play, because it's obvious a pregnant woman shouldn't be playing sports, right? Turns out it's not necessarily so obvious.
McCollum went to an OB-GYN, who gave her medical clearance to play. She was back on the court, four months pregnant, in time for district playoffs. But she still retained a lawyer and filed a Title IX complaint against the Fort Worth school district.
Local popular opinion seems firmly against McCollum:
It's gone out of control," said Brooke Halsey, a team captain. "She's still my friend, and I don't want to bash her at all. I just want Coach Warren to be represented. He's a good guy, a great person, and he's been an awesome coach."
"Everybody who knows Coach Warren knows he was looking out for her best interest," said Gordy Halsey, Brooke's father. "Good people have been hurt in this."
The coach's supporters have set up a Facebook page titled, "I support Coach Warren and the FWISD." It had nearly 500 supporters Monday night.
No one doubts that Warren was looking out for her health, but it sounds like the school didn't do its homework. There seems to be a dearth of solid information on pregnant athletes, and even McCollum's OB-GYN relied on the discounted popular wisdom that a pregnant woman's heartrate shouldn't rise beyond 140 bpm.
At the same time, pregnant women are advised to keep their body temperatures under 103 degrees, so there's no easy answer. Either way, the school didn't consult a doctor before deciding to bench McCollum.
How about more obvious health concerns? Volleyball is an intensely physical sport. McCollum said she changed her playing style to avoid diving for balls and landing on her stomach; but how effective a player could she be without diving? The case could be made that the benching was performance-related, and not any kind of discrimination.
Then, there's the case being made that it's not health related at all.
It's extremely sexist. It's ugly," said the student's lawyer, Lara S. Kaufmann with the National Women's Law Center in Washington. "They're really attacking her for being pregnant in the first place and choosing to continue playing volleyball."
It's tough to weigh the moral judgments at work. Maybe, as one classmate says, Texas just isn't particularly keen on a pregnant 17-year-old. And maybe, as another opines, McCollum is keeping the child because she's an observant Catholic. These factors are irrelevant to Title IX.
But Title IX is supposed to cover sex-based discrimination, and is that really the case here? The coach didn't bench her because she's a girl, but because of something that can only happen to girls. I can't recall one case of Title IX applying to discrimination against one student when compared to her teammates. I suppose that's for the courts to decide.
Pregnant Athletes Don't Have To Sit Out [ESPN.com]
Pregnant Volleyball Player Serves Complaint to FWISD [NBC DFW]
Fort Worth Teen Files Civil Rights Complaint, Says Volleyball Coach Benched Her Over Pregnancy [Dallas Morning News]


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Friday, January 20, 2012
It's Time...
I've tried my best to hold on. Soap fans are nothing if not loyal, and now, I feel a bit like a traitor. But I have to do what I feel in my heart is the right thing for me. And letting it go is the right thing for me. And then, as of late, each and every time I came close to articulating it, something bizarrely AMC would happen. I was getting ready to write this post last week when a friend told me she got me the autograph of one of my fave stars from the show, Darnell Williams. Jesse Hubbard! Seriously, he's one of the main reasons I started watching AMC in the first place way back when. And so I put my thoughts on the back burner, again. And yesterday, as I sat down to write this again, what do I find in my mailbox delivered via Priority Mail? A copy of People Magazine's commemorative AMC hardcover issue signed by none other than Susan Lucci! So it keeps feeling like the forces of nature are telling me not to let it go. How does that keep happening? But when that bit of excitement about the latest autograph or bit of news or whatever fades, I still feel like it's the right time to move on.
I'm blessed. Truly. So very blessed. AMC has done wonderful things for me. I've had so many adventures. I've met so many people.... both of the celeb variety and fellow fans. I've made lifelong friends because of AMC. I've met people who I never ever would have met if we didn't have AMC in common. I've received cards, letters, gifts, and countless words of encouragement and support through the years. When my dad was sick, AMC fans were there for me. When my Grandma died, you were there for me again. You have always cared and been supportive. Yes, when I look back on my time as a Pine Valley Diva I can honestly say it has been a blessing to me.
So how does one walk away from it? Believe me, I've grappled with that thought for months. Can I do it? Can I walk away? Can I end a part of my life that has all at the same time given me joy, heartache and a weird level of fame? And the answer is always yes - now is the time to move on. Because my heart tells me that there is something else on the horizon that will bless me with all the things my AMC site has in the past. Maybe it's the book so many have been encouraging me to write. Maybe it's just living my life and being who I am. Whatever it is, I can't wait to find out!
Thank you, thank you all so much for 13 amazing years with the PVB. And thank you AMC, for 41 amazing years. This site will remain online as a history source for the show, although I will no longer be posting on it. As for the message boards, they will remain open indefinitely. xoxo
39 comments:
- Tuck Miller said...
Kathy, what can we say, but thanks. Even tho we have yet to meet, I consider you a friend. Hey, we are Facebook connected...now don't be giving that up as well, or I will just have to drive to your house and paint it in a zebra style pattern.
We have all gone thru the hills and valleys, the happiness and sorrows, the good days and the bad.
We wish you only the best. Cya on FB.
- January 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM
- knit one, knit two said...
thank you for your dedication to this site. i'll miss seeing you in my blog feed. good luck with your future endeavors!
- January 20, 2012 at 3:14 PM
- judyjj said...
Do whatever you need to do, but don't hide your light. Tks!
- January 20, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- Bellesouth said...
I just want to give you a great biggol' hug!!
I am SO glad you brought this site to us for so long, and I am honored to call you my friend!!! Love and more love and even more love. And zebras. Can't forget zebras.
- Squidly :)
- January 20, 2012 at 4:50 PM
- Joseph Crisalli said...
Kathy, many thanks for the many, many years of fun, information and community you made possible. You did it all with class and humor and your generosity will never be forgotten.
- January 20, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- Wendi said...
Thank you Kathy for the great site but I do understand your reasoning for shutting it down. AMC will be missed greatly and who knows maybe they'll figure something out and you can start this up again. Thanks again for all your hard work on the information you gave us. We are FB friends and will continue to be.
- January 20, 2012 at 5:44 PM
- sonja said...
Thank you so much for this site. It was a lot of fun to click over to. I loved your editorials best, I think!
I understand that it's time to move on though. I'm not sure what else there is to do. I wish you the best in your future adventures!
- January 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM
- Unknown said...
sniff sniff
- January 20, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Dianne NJ said...
It's been weird lately, hasn't it? I still go to check my dvr sometimes to see if anything taped. Thank you Kathy for all you've done, I'll miss reading your words.
- January 20, 2012 at 6:50 PM
- mmm said...
Thanks for all you have done over the years, Kathy. I've enjoyed celebrating AMC with you!
RIP Pine Valley Bulletin.
- January 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- AAA7353 said...
Dear Kathy,
The best thing about learning to use a pc was the fact that I could come to your wonderful AMC site. My daughter and I had the pleasure of meeting you in NYC at the Marriot Hotel luncheon. I think it was in 2002, I'll have to check my photos. You are truly talented and kept us informed. I was always "in the know". I will miss you as much as AMC. May God bless you and your family. Hopefully one day we will meet again. Best wishes and thank you so much for all your hard work. XO, Angela
Long Island, NY
- January 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- Java and Books said...
Kathy, I'm glad I have you on Facebook. I always looked forward to Sundays and I would run in to the computer to the Bulletin and read the spoilers. I am still heartbroken that AMC is gone. My heart wants AMC to come back in some form or fashion, but my head says that it will never happen. Thank you so much for ALL of the information and enthusiasim.
- January 20, 2012 at 11:33 PM
- JuJu said...
Reading your blog has been habit for me for many years. I'm so sorry that this part of your life, and mine, will be coming to an end. I wish you all the best in the future, and will see you on FB!
- January 21, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- SallyV said...
So sorry to see this go...I've been reading for years, but when it's time, it's time. All the best to you...Maybe you'll find another soap to be passionate about and start writing again!
- January 21, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Kathy said...
Thank you all so so much. I'm a little verklempt reading your messages. If a miracle occurs and AMC comes back, then yeah, maybe I will too. But until that happens, my soap watching days are over. I really don't want to watch another. I've been AMC exclusive for so many years.
Love and hugs, and come find me on Facebook if you haven't already!
- January 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Gary said...
Kathy, thank you for your website. I looked forward to reading your updates everyday through the years. You will be missed. Take care....Gary
- January 21, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- Beckey said...
Ah... I guess it's true what they say. Don't have to go home, but can't stay here. The best part of AMC for me is that it made us friends! :) That won't change even now.
- January 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM
- cookie said...
There was a scene with Stuart once. I think he was lecturing JR or Scott or someone once younger. The younger character was in a bad mood and mad at the world and giving up hope. The younger character said he didn't care about anybody anywhere. Stuart corrected him in a fatherly speech to tell him that the "greatest caring of all is to care about someone that you don't know." He was talking about the work people did at the hospital -giving passionate medical care to people they didn't know. He was saying that caring about strangers was about the highest ethical and moral ground that a person could have. I always remembered those words that the AMC writers wrote for Stuart -it was a classic AMC tear-jerker. The writing was brilliant and the speech could have been applied to any situation. "The greatest level of caring is to care about someone you don't know." We all don't know each other but share a mutual empathy that we are all going through the same heartbreak. I loved of a living, moving, classic piece of art called AMC that we were blessed to have in our lives for 40 years. I too share your pain, your mourning and the inevitable reality that we have to let go....Please Jenny, Ruth, Palmer up in heaven send us more signs that it's rally not over...
Anyone else have any favorite character quotes?
- January 21, 2012 at 8:51 PM
- Uruvia said...
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- January 21, 2012 at 8:58 PM
- Uruvia said...
Dear Kathy! Thank you so much for this site! I've been following AMC since 2000 when I first saw it in America. I was an exchange student that year and I got hooked on the show because of my favourite Marcy Walker. When I came back to my home country (Russia) I kept following all the news that I could find on the Web about AMC. And then when fans started uploading AMC episodes on YouTube I watched every single one of them. And of course I was surfing your great blog! THANK YOU!!!!
- January 21, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- Little Libby said...
Oh, Kathy, Thank you seems so little but so true. I'll see you on the otherside (F/B). Till then....
- January 22, 2012 at 2:50 AM
- moecleo said...
I have enjoyed your site. Thankyou for all of your hard work. Good luck with your future endevors and God bless.
- January 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM
- Anna said...
There are not enough words to say thank you and truly convey the enormity of the emotion. You are the epitome of above and beyond, and I am forever grateful for the community that you built. I stopped watching AMC long before the powers that be made the decision for me, but I never stopped coming to the PVB. So grateful for all it's meant to me. Thank you!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Nathan said...
Thank you Kathy for all of the work you've put into this site. I only hate that I discovered in the last couple of years.
Now, when is the first issue of True Blood Weekly going to press???
- January 22, 2012 at 6:03 PM
- Michael Dorfman said...
Sorry to see the site go!
Thanks for all you've done over the years. We'll miss you.
- January 24, 2012 at 3:16 AM
- kimbutgar said...
Thank you for this blog. I so miss AMC that I kept coming back in hopes you had news about the show.
I really appreciate the love and effort you put into this blog.
Good luck and best wished.
- January 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- Casandra said...
As I read your final post it was with a heavy heart. We all sadly knew this day was going to come it had to of course. We have had to slowly let go of the show we all so dearly loved.
Like so many I have never met you but have been reading your posts and spoilers as long has I followed to coming and goings of Pine Valley.
I wish you nothing but the best in where your life takes you next. Your love and dedication for the show will forever have my thanks and gratitude. Thank you for your years of serivce to a show we both loved so dearly.
And thank you finally for leaving this site up as resource for AMC fans. Through your site and so many other's Pine Valley will live on even if only in our memories.
Best of Luck to you.
- January 25, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- Shauna Lease said...
this message really makes me feel like its over for me. luckily i haven't seen the last month or last two weeks of the show so i still can watch those, but it officially feels like its over and i am filled with an immense sadness. i wish you the best, although i kind of want to cry right now. thank you for 13 amazing years! <3<3 xoxo
- January 26, 2012 at 3:32 AM
- j.l.o.theoriginal said...
thank you Kathy
- January 27, 2012 at 11:36 PM
- Yvonne said...
An end of an era. Though I never really posted too much; I looked at your site everyday! This was one of the first ones I found in the 90's. Thank you very much for all you did to keep us updated. I will miss this board terribly. Good luck!
- February 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Deb said...
Kathy, you have done a wonderful service to us AMC'ers for the last 13 years. You are amazing on how you found so much for us to read. We lived vicariously thru you when you went and met the stars. lol Glad we are friends on facebook, it is fun to see the person who made us laugh, cry and anger us during the end. You are awesome. See you on facebook. Take care and keep writing in your food blog.
- February 8, 2012 at 7:49 PM
- staceygal1984 said...
I hate that the show ended the way it did there's no ending to it what was the point it should at least have an ending or somewhat of an ending like they're goin off somewhere or something hopefully it'll happen
- February 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM
- cookie said...
I agree that the ending leaves us in the loop. However, I guess they wanted to leave us with the ultimate soap opera ending - the cliff hanger...It's the ultimate cliff hanger. Who got shot? Did anyone get shot? Who really fired the gun?
By the way, can we all share where the AMC alums are popping up. I saw Annie on Young and the restless and the old Scott on a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial...
- March 6, 2012 at 11:15 PM
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- April 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- sunrose said...
Kathy, I decided the same thing, that it's time. With that said, how about writing that book, make it about AMC, the stories etc. that happened & maybe solve the question of who was shot what happened after etc??? I have several AMC books that I have collected over the years and they (as far as I know) have never been updated. Maybe you could get together with Agnes Nixon & do it. That would be a real treat for all us AMC fans.... just saying.....
- April 12, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- robin10dst said...
Thank you so much for this page. I still miss AMC so much...wish they would give us a real end to the show. I wonder, did Erica get shot? I am boycotting the network, especially the noon hour that gives us the chew. I am sick of cook shows, talk shows and reality tv...drama in the afternoon was the best!
- May 13, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Nom de Plume said...
So, now that the show is coming back are there plans to revitalize the site? Is it possible you'd be interested in allowing someone else to run the site?
- January 7, 2013 at 1:01 PM
- Tony in CA said...
I, too, refused to believe in AMC's return until I saw an actual episode with my own eyes, but I just did! It was nice to see some of the old faces again. I hope that it succeeds, so that more of the old faces return.
- April 29, 2013 at 5:03 AM
- Jacquelyn said...
Happy to see AMC is back! http://pillspress.blogspot.com/2013/04/welcome-back-pine-valley.html
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Hawaiian Airlines said its operating revenue climbed more than 20 percent while it expanded capacity by 28 percent compared to the July-September quarter of last year.
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Thinking Fans Comment Update Sept. 16: James recalls shopping and dining in old Pine Valley … Kel agrees it's too soon to judge the new headwriter … Brandon opines even bad Pine Valley circa 1997 beats today's incarnation …and more. See Comments below.
By Marlena De Lacroix
All My Children was always my favorite soap, from its premiere (1970) until the time Meggie McTavish made her disastrous, gimmick-filled return (1996-97) and later when Ryan and the Fusion girls took over the show. Bimbos! I hated them — Kendall, Greenlee, etc., etc. — girls who were obsessed with make-up and wearing sundresses year-round, who giggled about men and acted like cats while they were pretending to work.
Intelligent women with real hearts and authentic female wisdom had been what AMC specialized in until then (best example: Brooke). Like so many Thinking Fans, I used to love AMC for its humor, heart and real intelligence (three qualities which actually belong to its creator and longtime headwriter, Agnes Nixon.) For the last decade, however, I've watched the dumbed [Read more…]


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Wow I should've just waited to post one more day, because our new baby boy Ethan came on Monday at 4:45 pm. I'll have to tell the story another time, because I have been getting these huge headaches from the epidural that only go away if I'm laying flat on my back. So, here are some pictures, and as soon as I can be upright for more than a few mins. I'll tell you all about it. :)
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We've been playing more than our fair-share of Rock Band 2 since we've gotten our copy, and one thing we keep noticing is that even moderate to skilled players tend to lose their multipliers when trying to activate Overdrive. You have to raise the guitar neck up and then bring it down, and if you're in the middle of a tricky solo or a fast passage, this is often more than enough to destroy your rhythm. We just found out about an awesome hack though: simply hook up a Rock Band pedal from the drum set to the bottom jack of the new Strat guitar and use that to activate Overdrive.
I first heard about this on our forums, and of course ran to try it out. No issues. Using an extra pedal to toggle Overdrive has already improved my score in a few songs. A few notes: the cable is pretty short on these pedals, so you may want to get a 1/8" extension cable to give yourself some room. Taping the pedal to the floor to make sure you're not dragging it around may also be a good idea.
You're not locked into a kick pedal either. Any on/off switch with a 1/8" jack should work. I'm sure someone out there will create something that works better than a standard Rock Band 1 or 2 drum pedal, but this is still something fun to play with. As more and more gamers begin to compete in the Battle of the Band competitions, expect to see many more little tricks like this to improve your score.
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Another Opportunity for Fords to Exercise Ecological ResponsibilityMonday, July 21st, 2008
Haverford's Committee for Environmental Responsibility continues to promote personal responsibility for protecting the environment with its latest efforts to bring PhillyCarShare to campus. PhillyCarShare gives students a chance to lighten their ecological footprints by sharing a fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle that resides on campus instead of using their own vehicles for errands, trips into the city, airport runs, etc. PhillyCarShare is an economical opportunity for the College community to do its part to reduce dependence on automobiles in and around Philadelphia.


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Today our focus was on gifts for Pinky's teachers. About a year ago, I ran across a post with the cutest handmade cards. I saved the idea, and this year we finally got around to making them! The original tutorial is here on Goody Goody Gumdrops.
Pinky made 6 cards for her teachers, and I think they turned out adorable! It was fun watching her choose each individual paper and which star sticker to use. She colored the trunk on each tree with crayon. I will have her sign her own name inside the cards.
In addition to the handmade cards, her Sunday School teachers and Spanish teachers will each get a hand written note and a gift card for a local store. Her preschool teachers asked for a donation to the classroom's free art center in lieu of individual gifts. So, in addition to their cards, they will receive a tub of foam stickers (Pinky picked them out) and a gift card to Hobby Lobby.
What is your favorite gift to give a teacher?
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Handmade Christmas Cards (by kids) and Teacher Gifts
Posted by Heather @ Camp Slop at 7:00 AM
Labels: Christmas, crafts, handmade gifts, Holidays, kid crafts, preschool activities, preschool and toddler activities, scrapbooking, toddler activities
4 comments:
- Ecommerce Features said...
Beautiful cards! Great creativity.
Thanks for such adorable post.
- December 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- Cheryl @ Sew Can Do said...
Great that they're kid-made, but not too much work. Thanks for linking to the Kids Can Craft Party!
- March 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Brooke @ Let Kids Create said...
These are great for teacher gifts. They could even be framed they're so cute. I am always stumped on what to give. Thanks for sharing your great idea on Monday Madness.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Aleacia said...
These are beautiful cards! I have a homemade Christmas card linky up on my blog right now, I'd love to see these there! http://www.dillydaliart.com/2011/11/creative-christmas-countdown-day-2.html#more
~Aleacia @ Dilly-Dali Art
- December 9, 2011 at 8:54 PM
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This information is for people who are not United Kingdom (UK) residents and want to know more about treatment for cancer in the UK.
This information is aimed at:
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