U lose: Cavs hold on for 24-20 upset of #22 Miami
It’s hard to get a handle on a game that saw the team that scored 19 unanswered points in the final 10:34 still lose. A five-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run by Keith Payne after UVa.’s fifth interception of the day gave the ‘Hoos a 24-0 lead, and turned out to be the decisive score in what turned out to be a 24-19 Virginia win over #22 Miami.
“I have to talk about this team being resilient regardless of what people say. In that locker room right there is a group of proud football players and coaches,” said coach Mike London, who recorded his first ACC win and his first win over a ranked team in his first season at the helm of the UVa. program.
The Cavs (4-4, 1-3 ACC) led 14-0 at the half on a 16-yard pass from Marc Verica to Colter Phillips on a fourth-and-three play and a 30-yard cutback run by Payne on a third-and-three late in the first half. Robert Randolph connected on a 32-yard field goal midway through the third to extend the lead to 17-0, and the Payne run, following the second interception of the day by Corey Mosley, sending to the exits some of the Miami faithful who had come out expecting their ‘Canes, 15-point favorites coming in, to roll to an easy victory.
U lose: Cavs hold on for 24-20 upset of #22 Miami
It’s hard to get a handle on a game that saw the team that scored 19 unanswered points in the final 10:34 still lose. A five-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run by Keith Payne after UVa.’s fifth interception of the day gave the ‘Hoos a 24-0 lead, and turned out to be the decisive score in what turned out to be a 24-19 Virginia win over #22 Miami.
“I have to talk about this team being resilient regardless of what people say. In that locker room right there is a group of proud football players and coaches,” said coach Mike London, who recorded his first ACC win and his first win over a ranked team in his first season at the helm of the UVa. program.
The Cavs (4-4, 1-3 ACC) led 14-0 at the half on a 16-yard pass from Marc Verica to Colter Phillips on a fourth-and-three play and a 30-yard cutback run by Payne on a third-and-three late in the first half. Robert Randolph connected on a 32-yard field goal midway through the third to extend the lead to 17-0, and the Payne run, following the second interception of the day by Corey Mosley, sending to the exits some of the Miami faithful who had come out expecting their ‘Canes, 15-point favorites coming in, to roll to an easy victory. Read more
Live Blog: UVa.-Miami
Editor Chris Graham will be blogging live from Scott Stadium during today’s ACC football game between Virginia (3-4, 0-3 ACC) and #22 Miami (5-2, 3-1 ACC).
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Movement toward Perriello in the Fifth?
A new SurveyUSA poll has Republican Robert Hurt ahead of Democrat Tom Perriello in the Fifth, but by a much smaller margin than previous SurveyUSA polling.
The latest SurveyUSA poll has Hurt at 51 percent and Perriello at 43 percent. A September SurveyUSA poll had Hurt ahead by a 61 percent-35 percent margin.
All other polling done in the race has had the margin consistently at two to six points.
Webb pushes financial regulatory reform
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., a member of the Joint Economic Committee, called on federal regulators to implement strong reforms to prevent high-risk investing from again endangering the national economy. Sen. Webb joined 17 other senators in submitting comments to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) yesterday to ensure that proprietary trading restrictions of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act are implemented as intended by Congress.
“After taxpayers were forced to bail out banks and other systemically significant financial companies whose proprietary trades went awry, we determined that the economy and taxpayers need strong protections against an increasingly casino-like financial system,” the senators wrote. “High-risk investing is an appropriate and legitimate activity in a free market system, but it cannot again imperil our nation’s economic well-being.”
The restrictions were added to the financial reform law to address speculative proprietary trading by bank fund managers, which creates tremendous risks for the institutions themselves and conflicts with the interests of their customers. The group of senators provided detailed guidance to regulators to help them effectively implement and enforce the statutory language. The group also provided copies of the implementation instructions to the heads of the federal agencies responsible for implementing Wall Street reform.
The FSOC is a collaborative body established as part of the financial reform legislation to monitor and address risks to financial stability. The FSOC is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury and authorized to facilitate regulatory coordination, recommend stricter standards, and break up firms that pose a “grave threat” to financial stability, among other responsibilities. The FSOC is currently requesting comments regarding the implementation of the Merkley-Levin provisions to restrict proprietary trading, also known as the “Volker Rule.” Sen. Webb cosponsored the Merkley-Levin provision during the Senate floor debate on financial reform.
“Despite having just emerged as a nation from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, powerful interests will seek to weaken the Merkley-Levin Volcker Rule protections,” the senators wrote. “We in Congress resisted those efforts and provided you with a clear mandate and broad authority to act. The American people are now relying upon you to fully carry out the law.”
Edited by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
Dominion contributes to Wayne campaign
The Dominion Resources Inc. Foundation announced its third grant to the Wayne Theatre Alliance’s Capital Campaign. The Foundation has given a total of $11,000 to the campaign to restore the 1926 Wayne Theatre in downtown Waynesboro.
“The Foundation is pleased to contribute to the ‘Count Down to Curtain Up’ campaign,” said Emmett W. Toms, External Affairs Manager for Dominion’s Central Region, who presented the Foundation’s check. “Dominion applauds the community’s effort for the Wayne Theatre project. Revitalization of the historic theatre building will continue the cultural heritage for the enhancement of the area’s quality of life.”
In accepting the check from the Dominion Resources Inc. Foundation, John Curry, Chairman of the Wayne Theatre Capital Campaign said, “I am very pleased that Dominion Resources Inc. Foundation has shown the confidence and understanding of our effort to restore the Wayne Theatre by making a generous gift to our community. We are working diligently to complete our remaining fundraising goals, so that final reconstruction can be completed.”
“Count Down to Curtain Up” was launched in May, 2010 for the purpose of raising the remaining private donations needed for final construction to commence. Please contact the Wayne Theatre Alliance if you are interested in making a new or additional donation to the Theatre at 540.943.9999 or by e-mail at director@waynetheatre.org.
Edited by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
David Reynolds: Defining moments
The phone rang. No, it was not three in the morning. It was a far more civilized hour. And a more civilized time. It was 1992. However, as far as I was concerned it was a political wake-up call.
“Dave, this is Vivian, how would like to be a Bill Clinton delegate at the Democratic State Convention in Salem?” Vivian is Vivian Watts, since 1996 a delegate to the General Assembly from Fairfax County.
Her question was most reasonable. She was a neighbor and her husband, David, and I car pooled to work. (In Washington, a car pool is as close as you can be to another person and still be dressed.) More importantly, Vivian knew my politics. We worked for Doug Wildler for governor and helped other Democrats.
It took me about ten seconds to say, “Yes!” I had never been to a political convention and it sounded like fun. However, it is not easy to have fun in Salem, unless you are at a baseball game. But this was a convention.
So, what did we do at the Salem Civic Center in ‘92? As good Democrats we looked out for ourselves. Public school teachers were there. An so were other union members. No surprise. But then came the big eye-opener.
I sat down to vote for delegates to the national convention. Two ballots were passed. One was for male candidates; the other for female candidates. The winners had to balance. Gender neutrality ruled. Equal results – not equal opportunity.
Allow me to explain. Since 1972 the Democratic National Committee has operated under what are known as the “McGovern Rules.” While George McGovern lost his bid to become president that year he was able to steer his party to the social left. One result: If it were not for two Southern governors the party would have been shut out of the White House for forty years!
The current Democratic Party — as well as many Americans — believe in categorical representation. This form of democracy infers that only those of the same social category can properly represent the interests of that group. Thus, equality is judged not on an individual basis, but on a sociological basis. The civil rights industry has its basis in categorical representation, as well as affirmative action.
Such a self-serving view of humanity clashed with everything I had been carefully taught — that race and gender do not matter. That each of us possess special and unique qualities. And that is why there was an unlimited budget to rescue 33 miners in Chile.
So I left the convention hall. And the party.
Now, fast forward to next Wednesday. That is the day when some political pundit will declare that the McGovern presidency is over. It, too, will be a defining moment. He will say that if the Democratic Party is to rise from yesterday’s ashes it must tack back to the center, that is, the fiscal center where politics will be played over the next two years. He will go on to say that it was the tea party movement that forced how the game is be played here by both Republicans and Democrats.
That is why I talked with Jeff on the poach on the Col Alto Hampton Inn. Jeff who? Jeff Vanke. Mr. Vanke is running as an Independent, a centrist, against Mr. Goodlatte. Try as I could, I could not put Jeff into an R or a D box.
Jeff Vanke believes that neither major party fully understands the public’s angry mood. Maybe a few votes for Vanke can light a fire under our nine-term congressman. But, don’t count on it. Whether you support Bob Goodlatte or not, there is a need to change how business is conducted in Washington. Or are the Republicans again going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Bob, how about no more earmarks to go along with your balanced budget amendment? Show some leadership. Otherwise why have a safe seat? A no earmarks bill can be the “No Broken Windows Bill” for the federal government. When local governments (New York City is the best example) made strong efforts to reduce serious crime they first stopped tolerating broken school windows. Crime rates went down.
Four items on my early Christmas wish list: (1) a Democratic Party like the one we had before 1972; (2) a Republican Party that takes ideas from the tea party movement, not just their votes; (3) a GOP excited about governing, not just playing pin the tail on the donkey; and (4) true independents like Jeff Vanke to be heard.
This month I had another defining moment. In Princeton, New Jersey, where Albert Einstein once lived, I bought a poster. It hangs in my garage. There was his familiar pipe, along with this and other quotations: “Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” On Tuesday our political class will have a postgraduate exam in wisdom. Many are predicted to fail.
Column by David Reynolds
Jim Bishop: Indiana wants me? Lord, I can go back there
I’m starting to write this column while moving 70 miles an hour on the Ohio Turnpike. I hope it will be a moving experience for you as well, dear readers.
This is something I’ve not done in years – heading to a professional conference. For any number of fairly valid reasons, I simply haven’t gotten away from my workplace to take part in these types of gatherings.
Some that I’ve attended proved of little help to my ongoing work; others I couldn’t relate to, listening to speakers with large support staffs and/or unlimited budgets and other resources – not all that pertinent to those of us in one-person shops.
But here I am, in my last year of gainful employment, returning to the Elkhart, Ind. area, a place that was special to my wife and me from 1967 to 1971 when we took on our first “real” jobs after college graduation. I worked as writer-editor with our Mennonite Church’s Voluntary Service program; Anna taught first grade in the Elkhart County School System. Those four years in Northern Indiana were notable for horrid weather and lack of scenery, but afforded warm and wonderful people in abundance.
I admit – a primary reason for attending the meeting is my hope to reconnect with some folks whom I haven’t seen in more than 40 years. I plan to stay an extra day following the conference in order to visit Belmont Mennonite Church, the remarkable congregation that took us in and loved us unreservedly.
The conference itself is designed for persons largely who do communications work for church and other non-profit organizations. I’m quickly reminded that another reason I don’t “do” meetings like this is my inability to sit for hours at a time and then proceed to “graze” at buffet tables laden with yummy fare.
I am meeting a host of people at this communications gathering that I’ve known in name only for some time. Most can’t believe that this is my first time to attend the annual meeting of this communications group. I feel a slight tinge of regret similar to wishing I’d somehow made special effort to attend the funeral of an old friend or relative even though it would have required considerable travel and sacrifice to do so.
The biggest temptation I’m facing, with a Wi-Fi connection available virtually everywhere – so to speak – is to flip open my laptop during the sessions and send a couple email messages that I really need to attend to, check my office and home messages and a couple web sites to see if they’ve picked up my latest news release. I feel almost a slave to this technology, like it’s controlling my life instead of the other way round. This also became a recurring theme in the conference.
At one point in our meeting today, as my mind wandered again, I sent a news release to Sheldon Good from Mennonite Weekly Review, who was seated next to me, and in a few minutes, he was reading it and indicating interest in a story on the person who would be a guest speaker on campus next week.
As I talk informally with other participants and listen to more formal presentations from these, my colleagues in communication, I have mixed feelings about being at this stage of my career. On one hand, I want to be part of the “next big thing” in this fast-changing communication technology landscape. On the other, I feel like it’s time to exit, stage right after nearly 44 years in the business, celebrating those things I was able to accomplish for the common good, acknowledging that which I simply wasn’t able to achieve and offering counsel, if wanted, to those who are just now picking up speed in this quickly-changing arena.
Back at the hotel after Friday’s sessions end, I sit at a table at the hotel’s indoor pool and send communiques to my family from my laptop while listening on-line to my “Friday Night Jukebox” 50′s music show on WEMC-FM (www.wemcradio.org), then swim laps in the indoor pool before soaking in the Jacuzzi. Life’s cares seem to evaporate for a few fleeting moments.
Sunday morning, I check out of the motel where I’ve stayed and motor directly to a church camp near Sturgis, Mich., to take in the rest of a retreat that the Belmont Mennonite Church of Elkhart is having there. It would be my first reconnection with this group since leaving Elkhart the summer of 1971. Would anyone remember me?
It felt so different being there, and why not, after 40-plus years? The majority of those present are “new” since we attended, and most had no idea who I was, and that’s okay.
Near the end of the informal worship service I had opportunity to say a few words of reflection and was surprised to find myself getting choked up as I expressed appreciation for the way we were so warmly received and nurtured. Another euphoric moment was discovering that a newsletter that I started there in 1970, Intersect, is still going strong today.
Sunday afternoon I had some free time that proved a remarkable trip down memory lane. Tony Krabill of Elkhart, a former WEMC-FM station manager, gave me a tour of WVPE-FM, public radio, where he works. I checked out Mary Feeser Elementary School just north of the Indiana Toll Road, where Anna taught first grade four years.
I stopped at 513 Garfield Avenue in Elkhart and saw the first apartment we lived in for $75 a month, including utilities and cockroaches. The present occupant was outside on a warm fall afternoon and let me view the interior, which had been completely redone and didn’t look half bad. What memories.
Sunday evening, my Belmont contact, Marian Hostetler, invited about a dozen people from the Belmont congregation who weren’t at the retreat to come together, and we spent three hallowed hours reflecting on both the transcendent and traumatic times in our lives.
Now flying the friendly skies of United somewhere over Ohio on a Monday afternoon (and knowing that this column should have been in my editor’s hands by now), I sit back, breathe a prayer of thanksgiving for the experiences of the past several days and realize anew what a fortunate son I am.
But it’s time to come back to earth . . .
Jim Bishop is public information officer at Eastern Mennonite University. He can be contacted at bishopj@emu.edu.
Retired minister walks to raise issues with death penalty
Right foot, left foot. Right foot, left foot. One step at a time, Hunter Mabry of Waynesboro is raising awareness of the inequities in the application of the death penalty in the American criminal-justice system.
“The attitude of most of us, and I’ve had it much of my life, too, is that criminals get what they deserve, and we have confidence that the system is working right, but we’ve learned that so many things are not working right. Our goal is to bring visibility to some of the issues here,” said Mabry, a 77-year-old retired United Methodist minister and member of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, who will walk 10 miles a week for the next 50 weeks in an effort to raise $5,000 for the anti-death penalty group formed in 1991.
Issues with the application of the death penalty were in the news again last month when Virginia executed Teresa Lewis for her role in the murders of her husband and stepson. Her accomplices, including the triggerman, received life sentences, while Lewis received a death sentence amid questions about her mental competency and whether she had been manipulated into participating in the plot to begin with.
“Such inequities are prevasive in the administration of the death penalty. Our capital punishment system is broken,” Mabry said.
Public awareness with issues in the application of the death penalty seems to be having an impact in one key area.
“The trend nationwide is that juries seem to be inclined to give the death penalty in fewer cases now. I think part of that is the growing awareness of the inequities in the system,” Mabry said. “I think there’s also a growing recognition that we can provide the safety and security that society wants with life imprisonment without parole. Certainly with the maximum-security prisons that we have now, it’s harder for prisoners to escape than in earlier days.”
More on Mabry’s Walk
Those interested can sponsor Mabry’s walk by following this link to the FirstGiving.com website.
Monies raised will go to Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
Story by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
The AFP on WREL: Oct. 29, 2010
AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to discuss Virginia news and politics.
The segment begins with a look ahead to next week’s congressional elections. Will Republicans make the big gains that the analysts have been projecting for months? What will it all mean once the dust settles?
The next topic is the Sixth District race, with commentary on incumbent Bob Goodlatte’s prospects going up against two third-party oppponents.
We wrap with a report from Chris on the latest in the ongoing work on Interstate 81 improvements.
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Chris Dewald: Dem bones
Posted on October 29, 2010 · 6 Comments
I think it is great for the City of Staunton to offer trick-or-treat events. What disturbs me is the apparent use of human bones bought from the local medical college in trick-or-treat displays. I am trying to verify what has been reported to that effect in the article. I sent e-mails on Thursday to various people involved in the city. I have also contacted the office of the Dean of Medicine at the University of Virginia, who in turn gave me the public-relations number.
To me, life is precious. We are only living human flesh and bones. Once we have died, some of us choose to have our lifeless bodies donated to science in the hope of studies in the medical field. Life is precious to me, and I respect the dead. When you are done with the shell, dispose of me properly. Don’t make a Halloween display out of my real bones.
I read this in the Commonwealth of Virginia VDH website: www.vdh.state.va.us/medexam/donate.htm
So now what, Batman? I had two phone calls today. One call was from the medical examiner’s office, and the other phone call was from public-relations office at University of Virginia. Both offices advised that they adhere to the set program of proper disposal of human remains.
According to public relations at UVa. (a man named David Foreman), contact was made with a employee of Parks and Recreation in Staunton, and the skeleton was described as one being from a teaching or doctor’s office. It did not have the identification from being from UVa. As of 2:24 p.m. today (Oct. 29), I have not received any form of communication from any city department despite e-mail requests.
I do want to know, What now? I want to now from the readers, What say you?
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