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Gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe visited Charlottesville on Wednesday.
He and Delegate David Toscano, toured the Downtown Mall, visiting some local businesses.
"I'm running for governor on a platform of job creation, economic development and within that making sure our education systems, transportation systems work and the best way you can do that is by listening to folks," said McAuliffe. "Folks, like here in the bookstore and the other stores we've seen, who have to sell to folks everyday. They have the pulse of whats going on."
MuAuliffe is traveling around Virginia, talking with small business owners to hear their ideas on how to make the Commonwealth more attractive to businesses.
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When you're 21-1 and ranked No. 2 in the nation, I suppose the present moment represents the "worst of times" for Arizona. Starter Brandon Ashley has been lost for the season due to a foot injury, and the Wildcats just suffered their first defeat of the season. In the wake of these two unsettling events, I thought this would be a good time to take stock of Sean Miller's personnel.
And as long as I'm reviewing the Wildcats' individual levels of performance, I feel like handing out awards. Therefore, I've taken it upon myself to declare one of these guys the most valuable player at Arizona. No need to thank me, Coach Miller. This is just the kind of pro bono, drive-by evaluation the faithful readers around here have come to expect.
Here's a breakdown of Arizona's top five players this season, along with my vote for the team's MVP.
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
I know Hollis-Jefferson has started just two games this season, but don't dismiss him. Arizona is a tremendous defensive team that looked very shaky on offense during the Wildcats' recent two-game swing through Northern California to play Stanford and Cal. And for Miller's team this season, the best offense often has come via an offensive rebound.
That's where Hollis-Jefferson comes in. He sports an impressive 12.9 offensive rebound percentage this season, and the 6-foot-7 freshman is achieving even better results as the year moves along. In Pac-12 play, Hollis-Jefferson has pulled down 14.3 percent of Arizona's missed shots during his minutes. Losing Ashley is a blow, no doubt, but if it's any consolation for Wildcats fans, the sophomore's absence will free up minutes for one ferocious freshman on the offensive glass.
There are better candidates for team MVP, but Hollis-Jefferson is hereby awarded the DeJuan Blair Commemorative Trophy for Excellence in Beastly Offensive Rebounding. Well done, young man.
Kaleb Tarczewski
Tarczewski is a walking billboard for the success of Miller's recruiting. On just about any other team in the country, a blue-chip, 7-foot sophomore would be seeing a lot more touches on offense and likely would have specialized on defense by now as either a shot-blocker or a rebounder. None of the above describes Tarczewski's job description in Tucson.
Instead, the big guy supplies a little bit of everything -- including free throws. His 12-of-12 performance at the line in the loss at Cal highlights the fact that, at 82 percent, he is indeed the Wildcats' best foul shooter. That nets Tarczewski the Steve Nash Uncanny Free Throw Accuracy Award. Tarczewski and Nash -- the comparison's just too easy.
T.J. McConnell
Rather than look for his own shot on offense, McConnell functions as a classic pass-first point guard, and perhaps the best measure of his value is Arizona's performance team-wide in the area of turnovers. Last season in Pac-12 play, the Wildcats gave the ball away on 18.3 percent of their possessions, but this season that number is down to 16.1 percent. McConnell doesn't get all of the credit there, of course, but he certainly has been a big help in that department
Throughout his career -- first at Duquesne, and now at Arizona -- the junior also has posted high steal rates. I guess you could say McConnell is a one-man positive turnover margin, reminding me a little of the amazing differentials Virginia has been able to achieve as a team this season. (In ACC play, Tony Bennett's team is forcing turnovers on 22.6 percent of opponents' possessions, but giving the ball away on just 14.4 percent of its own offensive trips.) Honorary Cavalier T.J. McConnell, I salute you!
Nick Johnson
I know what you're thinking: Johnson is the obvious choice as this team's MVP. For one thing, the junior may well win the Wooden Award, and besides, there's no question that he's "the man" on offense for Arizona. During his minutes, Johnson takes 26 percent of this offense's shots, and his late 3-pointer against Stanford was instrumental in allowing the Wildcats to sneak out of Palo Alto with a 60-57 win. There's no doubt in anyone's mind who's getting the ball for Arizona in a close game, and in view of that, I'm awarding Johnson the One and Only Obvious Arizona Go-To Guy Hero-Ball commemorative cape. Wear it with pride, Nick.
I love Johnson's game, and there's no question Miller needs his featured scorer healthy and available if this team is going to make the Final Four. But I am a little worried that the Wildcats' weak performance on offense the past two games was a case of catching cold when Johnson sneezed. In those two games, the junior was just 5-of-23 from the floor.
Aaron Gordon
And now we unveil Arizona's Most Valuable Player. In naming Gordon the Wildcats' MVP, I don't want to minimize the damage done by the freshman's 45 percent foul shooting. On the contrary, I've long thought that fans, writers and possibly even coaches don't recognize just how harmful this kind of inaccuracy really is. Free throws are kind of boring to watch, but if you stop and count the points Gordon is costing his team -- well, it's considerable.
But here's the thing about Gordon (who, by the way, is Arizona's best rebounder among the starters at both ends of the floor). Take him away and, especially now that Ashley's gone, this defense becomes much less sizable and much less mobile. I just don't see Arizona having the same scary-good defense with, say, McConnell, Johnson, Gabe York, Hollis-Jefferson and Tarczewski.
Gordon's not a shot-blocker per se, but he is a crucial part of a defensive front line that simply does not allow opponents to make 2s: Pac-12 opponents have connected just 40 percent of the time inside the arc against this D. Arizona is defined by its defense, and the arrival of Gordon this season has been a big factor in pushing that D to a whole new level.
For these reasons, I'm awarding Gordon my first-ever Arizona Most Valuable Player award. Congratulations, Aaron.
Now ask Kaleb for some help on those free throws.


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He missed Ireland's tour to New Zealand in June and seems doubtful for Munster's Heineken Cup opener against Racing Metro on October 13.
"He's making progress, which is great, but there's absolutely no deadline date for him to return," Penney told the Irish Independent.
"For me, to see the guy playing at the highest level at 100 percent would be a wonderful thing, and being consistent in his ability to play at every level at 100 percent, so the pragmatic view comes on the back of those things.
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The digital EP contains a transcription of the Chinese song - "The Spring Festival Prelude", which is universally known as "the" New Year song amongst the Chinese community worldwide. To this Lang Lang adds piano arrangements of 2 songs of composer Zhi Qiang Wu "The Dance of Choral" and "The Dance of Waterweeds".
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Our team members are competitive and have a drive to succeed with a heightened focus on exceeding sales goals while finding the right gift to enhance our customer's holiday. We require high performance and that our team members hold themselves and their peers accountable for the success of the business.
With this culture in mind we are looking for a team player who values a collaborative environment and is excited to learn how to be successful each and every day at the kiosk. Having team members who are dependable and someone the entire team can rely upon to be on time and at work each and every shift is critical. Engaging customers to sample our product is a crucial key to our overall sales success.
Lastly we are looking for a leader that is solution-oriented and can create an environment where every customer experience ends with increased customer loyalty and brand recognition to be passed on from generation to generation for years to come.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must embody the team member characteristics detailed above. They must also be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
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It's pretty safe to say that Towson University has been a PR disaster of late.
From the ham-handed way it tried to cut its baseball and men's soccer teams to the knuckleheads talking about forming a White Student Union, the school's been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
So let's talk about something positive today: Towson's new 5,200-seat arena is about ready to open. And it's a beauty.
Before we go any further, I feel compelled to report that as of right now, it's being called Tiger Arena.
But the school has hired a company to troll for naming rights. So any day now, they could slap another soul-less name on the place like Verizon Wireless Arena or Taco Bell Center or whatever.
But that's the world we live in. State schools need every penny they can get. If they have to sell their souls to a corporate master to get a few bucks, they'll do it in a heartbeat.
But back to the arena. As you approach from the bottom of Auburn Drive, it looms like a glass-and-brick basketball Taj Mahal across from Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Inside, it's got all the bells and whistles you'd expect.
It's got a massive, four-sided video screen scoreboard hanging from the ceiling. It's got fancy Tiger stripes and Tiger paws painted on the court.
The seats are black and gold and the sight lines from just about anywhere are terrific. There are four luxury suites that'll have all the usual amenities: leather sofas, flat-screen TV's the size of highway billboards, wet bars, mini-fridges, etc.
It's big-league all the way and represents a new era for Towson basketball, which has seen its program rejuvenated under second-year coach Pat Skerry and wants to capitalize on that momentum.
"The big thing is, you want people to have atmosphere and experience," Skerry said Wednesday, looking around the place. "And I think you can have both here. It's going to be a pretty special place in our conference (Colonial Athletic) and the Mid-Atlantic Region.
"One thing we need to do is continue to invest in men's basketball," he continued. "We have the potential for a great return as far as broadcasting our university and what it stands for. Every day you look at schools that have success in men's basketball and it helps your university across the board. I really believe that."
Much as I absolutely hate this phrase, the "fan experience" will be a lot nice nicer in the new place than the old 5,000-seat Towson Center, where the Tigers played since dinosaurs roamed the earth.
The new arena has three big concession stands and 14 restrooms. And they're not on top of each other, either. Which means no more dueling lines of people waiting to get a hotdog or a soda intersecting with people waiting to use the men's room, like in the Towson Center.
Oh, that was a nice touch. And with the new video scoreboard and LED lighting that can darken the place and bounce colors everywhere, the Tigers will have the kind of pumped-up, spotlight-swirling player intros that have become de rigueur to get the crowd in the game from the get-go.
"It's gonna be loud," Skerry says, a big smile creasing his face. And what coach doesn't want it eardrum-shattering loud in his own building?
The Towson players themselves are going to love the new arena, too.
Their locker room will have plush carpeting, three big flat-screen TV's, leather couches, video-game capabilities, as well as two computer stations and tables and chairs for eating.
"It's a good place to build and develop chemistry," director of basketball operations Mike Swets said. And when he talks about chemistry, he's not talking about players mixing beakers over a flame and discussing the nature of organic compounds.
He's talking about a comfortable place for the players to hang out and bond.
The Ravens did the same thing — although obviously on a much larger scale — with the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills. The place is loaded with so many cool things to do — racquetball, basketball, HDTV's , pinball machines, pool tables, spinning classes — you could call in a bomb scare and the players wouldn't leave.
Skerry and Swets are going for the same thing at their new place. And with four starters and seven other players who saw extensive action returning from last year's team that finished 18-13 and 13-5 in the CAA (tied for second with Delaware), there should be plenty of bonding going on.
Tiger Arena — it has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? It'd be nice if they keep that name for a while.
But I wouldn't count on it.
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With DD1, I actually started getting embarrassed to nurse in public at 8MO This time, I was fine with it until around 14MO and I will admit, it had more to do with just not knowing what everyone around me thought. All of my friends knew I still nursed and I would tell anyone if it came up in conversation, it was just more of a self-concious thing.
At any rate, around then, I would just say, "not now" and stick to it. Now, she just knows when I say, "not now" that she doesn't need to bother asking again or throwing a fit because I won't give into it. I also offer to cuddle and she is a BIG cuddler so she always takes me up on it As far as the manners when she does ask, she is usually diving her hand down the front of my shirt