Broken Ground (The Jay Porter Series)

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Broken Ground (The Jay Porter Series)

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Jay Porter is a content creator who his known for his hilarious personality and passion for making entertaining videos. Alongside his fiancé Poppy Hollins, the pair like to play pranks on each other as well as vlog trips away and have amassed an incredible following across a number of social media channels. Porter Jr. earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in his final season at Penn State. He had a career-high 11 pass breakups and his 3.7 opponents' yards per attempt thrown in his direction was tied for fourth best in the FBS. It would apparently be wrong to read too much into Berliner’s return, or to delve too deeply into Morrison’s affection for his playing. “Well, he’s just a genius. You know?” he says. “I mean what else, what other reason?” But where and how does that genius show itself? Where does it hit him? Morrison stares at me. “It’s just what he does,” he says bluntly.

Jay feels bound to Pleasantville because so many of the residents are his clients and he knows the family of the girl who was killed. Then the nephew of one of the mayoral candidates (the former police chief) who was deeply involved in the campaign is arrested for the murder and the whole thing begins to smell like a political hit job. The family wants Jay to defend the young man. He feels an obligation to look into the matter and he and his team of a private investigator, the former reporter, and his office assistant get to work to try to find a way of proving their client didn't do this heinous crime. The Stoic—As he fought the disease that eventually ended his life, Jay remained the happy warrior, glass half full. He told me that work sustained him. We met in Boston for a client briefing. I told him that I admired his courage, that I had beaten cancer and that he would too. He gave me a hug, a famous Jay P smile, and said, “You bet, boss.” For a moment I consider telling him to grow up. But I am chastened by the presence of his managers. Instead I look him in the eye and tell him that I am not trying to psychoanalyse him, that his music has simply meant more to me than any other throughout my life. There is something that moves across his face but I could not name it. “Aehhh,” he breathes.Somehow I thought this book was a mystery. But the real mystery is Jay Porter...why he doesn't connect with his wife whom he loves, who loves him, and on whom he hangs his whole future.

It's really simple: Professional football is less of a mystery for them," coach Tomlin said. "It's less of a dream for them when someone in your close proximity is living that out, be it a older sibling or a parent. Jay’s life and that of his 2 children become endangered when the environmental case runs headlong into ongoing Mayoral politics, the mysterious disappearance of a young campaign worker in the community which resembles that of two earlier unsolved murders, and the trial of the grandson of one of PV ‘s most prestigious founders. Houston, Texas in 1981. Jay Porter is an attorney who's scraping by, with clients comping him in favors rather than paying his legal fees. Determined to do something nicer for his wife Bernie on her birthday than buying her a bathrobe, Jay arranges for a moonlit cruise on Buffalo Bayou. The brown waterway is too putrid to have ever been developed and the raggedy boat they're on can't even turn around in it. Just as Bernie, pregnant with the couple's first child, begins to appreciate Jay's thought, they hear two gunshots and a woman's scream. When a white woman crashes through the brush and sinks into the murk, Jay rescues her.

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Jay was a brilliant writer and had a joyful wit. He was never at a loss for words, and always knew the perfect thing to say, whether to reassure someone in doubt or express his absolute joy at the births of nieces and nephews. In Jay’s home office, there is a small plaque that reads “Words tend to be inadequate.” Never has that been more true than at this moment. You see it, you know what it's about, you understand it. There's less dreaming about it and more planning and taking action to create that end result. And I just think that that creates a higher potential floor and makes the acquisition less mystical." What to know for the 2023 NFL draft Jay was the bright center of a loving family. As the eldest of fourteen grandchildren, he spent his early years traveling throughout the country with his beloved grandparents. At a very young age, he started honing his perfect etiquette, his passion for travel, and his insatiable love of the written word. His parents have a treasure trove of stories about his precociousness, his kindness, and his empathy. He became a big brother at age seven, a role he was born to play. His generosity knew absolutely no bounds, and the three siblings would spend the rest of Jay’s life traversing the country to be together. His adoring parents spent most of the last year of his life at his side, and will forever be grateful for these precious and tender memories. Shaan_adam on tik tok. Wow she is a horrid woman. She keeps accusing creators of bullying her. This is the third creator. Creative at the Core—When he ran the Chicago office, Jay pioneered the use of creatives on all clients, from brand to corporate. He persisted in the revolution, which delivered big ideas to Dairy Management, Kellogg’s and Wolverine. He saw the future of Edelman as a communications firm competing with the ad agencies and digital firms as well as in classic PR. He mentored so many young Edelman executives who have gone on to glory whether at our firm or in other venues. They absorbed his obsession with excellence, his dedication to the big idea and his insistence that the work somehow improve society.

Among those connected people is Houston's mayor, the white woman whom Jay believes sold him out to the FBI when he was in college because of his political organizing. (He was also dating her, double trouble.) He almost went to prison then, and the scars from the experience never fully healed. So as we follow Jay in the present, we also learn about what happened *then* and the interconnections. Jay is able to get his brother released from the county jail and Chris goes missing into the night. While Jay starts to look for him, he gets pulled into a cauldron of old secrets and ugly lies that may tear his tiny hometown apart and threaten the Jay’s life as well as everyone’s that he holds dear. Some powerful forces come into play that are willing to stop at nothing until Chris is finally dead and the info he has is destroyed. He's brought up probably every meeting I've been in," Porter Jr. said with a wide grin at the combine. "Just, 'How'd you grow up with him? How was it? Was he in your corner?' Simple stuff I was just asked today. He's brought up a lot. No big deal." I am excited to finally read something by this author whose books have all won numerous awards including ones honoring Ernest Gaines and Dennis Lehane.Pleasantville is a historical neighborhood in Houston, Texas, “a planned community…built specifically for Negro families of means and class” in the wake of World War II, and one of its favorite sons, Axel Hathorne, has just entered a runoff election for mayor of Houston. The same night, someone is watching Alicia Nowell, a teenage girl who had been handing out leaflets door-to-door for the election as she stands on a street corner waiting for her ride, “still wanting to believe a way out was possible, but already knowing, with a creeping certainty, that this this night had turned on her, that her disappearing had already begun.” How’s that for a hook? For Porter Jr. and the other legacy players, joining the family business is a double-edged sword, because for as many advantages that come with growing up around the game, there's also the inevitable pressure of living up to a name dripping with preconceived expectations. Porter’s floundering without his wife is touchingly conveyed. “There are things she knew about her family, not secrets so much as hard-earned intimacies, that she inadvertently took with her, leaving the rest of them to fend for themselves in this new, foreign land, daily meeting at the kitchen table, or passing in the hallway, without their shared interpreter.” Just seen Randy a week before he passed w/ a big smile & always a good thing to say about anyone that was part of his circle. ... Read more I will truly miss talking & laughing w/Randy, you are loved my Friend & will always be in our hearts. The people from F & C Door Read less Porter Jr. has more than handled expectations. He's navigated a journey of immeasurable pressure, and he might've gotten help from his dad to get here, but he's undeniably his own individual.



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