Live Blog | The Chick-fil-A Bowl
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Join ACCVirginia.com in a Live Blog during the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl featuring Virginia Tech (9-3) and Tennessee (7-5).
The game is being broadcast nationally on ESPN at 7:30 p.m.
Editor Chris Graham will offer commentary and analysis during the game. Please feel free to join in with your thoughts and observations.
London adds another ex-UR staffer
Atkinson becomes fourth to follow coach to UVa.
Staff Report
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Virginia head football coach Mike London has added Steve Atkinson to his staff as the director of player development. Atkinson rejoins London after spending the last two seasons as the director of football operations at Richmond.
“I have been lucky to spend the past two seasons with Steve and he will be bringing a lot of practical experience to UVa,” said London. “He has a vast knowledge of the areas that impact our student-athletes and will be an excellent off-the-field resource for them to maximize their total experience at UVa. He will be a tremendous benefit to the program.”
Atkinson directed the day-to-day operations of the Richmond football office as the Spiders won the FCS National Championship in 2008 and most recently, a CAA co-championship in 2009. Prior to Richmond, Atkinson was the defensive coordinator at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and served the same role for the varsity club team at George Mason over a four-year span. Atkinson served as the webmaster for the George Mason varsity club football site, recruiting coordinator and camp director. Read more
Focus | From the Queen City to Oxford
Staunton native named Rhodes Scholar
Story by Chris Graham
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Many, one would assume, do it for the prestige. Tyler Spencer applied for a Rhodes Scholarship as a matter of practicality.
“I have wanted to get a masters to strengthen my nonprofit work, but I have been frustrated by how much most good programs cost,” said Spencer, a 2008 University of Virginia graduate and Staunton native who in November was named a Rhodes Scholar.
Spencer, 23, a graduate of R.E. Lee High School in Staunton, settled after his graduation from UVa. in Washington, D.C., where he founded and directs a nonprofit, Athletes United for Social Justice, that trains college athletes to be HIV/AIDS educators. That part of his life came about as a result of work he did in Africa training pro soccer players to be mentors to youths. Read more
The Queen has left the throne, Long Live the Queen
Column by Jim Bishop
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A ceramic pitcher with a Stangl design, sketched by my brother, J. Eric Bishop, appeared on the cover of the memorial service program above the Scripture verse, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her” (Prov. 31:29).
The image and words befit the late Ann Dayton Bishop, 88, whose life we gathered to commemorate. All five of her children have Stangl dinnerware in their homes. Anna and I have used Stangl plates, side dishes and coffee cups nearly every day over our 43 years of marriage. Read more
For New Year 2010, resolve to be a smarter consumer
Column by Todd Haymore
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As you’re kicking off your New Year’s resolutions, here’s something to put at the top of your list: remember that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In my two-and-a-half years as Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, that is something our staff members in the Office of Consumer Affairs have drilled into my head. Let me say it again: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Read more
Dominion Power rates to drop – slightly – effective Jan. 1
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Rates for Dominion Virginia Power customers will be reduced on Jan. 1, 2010, in accordance with changes approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). For the typical residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, the net result is a decrease in the monthly electric bill of 87 cents, or 0.8 percent, from $109.23 to $108.36.
The SCC ordered Dec. 16 that the interim fuel factor be reduced to 2.927 cents per kWh, which translates to a reduction of $3.83 per month for the typical residential customer. The reduction was based on data the company submitted on the continuing declines in prices for coal, natural gas and other fuel used to generate electricity.
The fuel factor also was reduced in July and October 2009. The three adjustments result in reducing the typical residential customer’s bill by a total of $9.66 per month. Read more
Staying bought
Posted December 31, 2009
Column by David Reynolds
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So keep the bubbly on ice. Don’t pop any corks. The parties are far from over. The Republicans and Democrats are fighting a life and death struggle. The outcome will not only determine your life, but, more importantly, as life is viewed in our Nation’s Capital, which party will whither away and die. Read more
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