Over five thousand Icelanders have in the last 24 horus signed a petition to demand that Iceland boycott the Eurovision Song Contest which will take place in Israel in 2019 by not taking part.

The petition states that in light of the human rights violations done by Israel to the Palestinian people it is by no means defendable to take part in a glamour competition such as Eurovision in the shadow of the violence Israel subjects to its neighbours. The Israeli state has murdered dozens of people for months now for simply protesting the situation.

The Iceland-Palestine organisation has also criticsied Europe for not standing with human rights and voting for Israel on Saturday.

Daði Freyr Pétursson and his band Gagnamagnið will not be taking part next year in protest againstreally manages to sum up Joe in his own words, and include many people from his past, and create a few laughs and unknown bits about the man.

It’s mostly based around his World Service radio spots – I have 4 of these and they are GREAT listening, he was a brilliant radio DJ and an inspiration to Radio Clash, along with Mr Peel. I wish I could be as verbose and wise in my links!

Oh and as soon as the DVD is out expect loads of White Riot boots. Someone SOMEWHERE has early video of the Clash in the studio with Joe doing the vocals with no backing….which started the film. Wow. I’d love to see that video.

What I liked about it most was the message – the


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Basically, the law school was looking for a secure future. PennState was looking for a law school. The relationship soured when it became evident PennState actual ly wanted the law school on its main campus in State College. Though the uni versity offered a compromise that would keep a second, somewhat smaller law school campus in Carlisle, the law school's board of governors rejected PennState's two-campus proposal and thus went the marriage.

Now comes a plan that permits both parties to extricate themselves from their uncomfortable relationship, and from a


is the oldest law school in Pennsylvania. It was part of the college until becoming independent in 1914, but in recent years the school has fallen in the shadow of more prestigious law schools. One of PennState's big selling points for acquiring Dickinson Law was that it would make the investment necessary to make Dickinson Law a national leader.

But when it became apparent that PennState believed a law school on its main campus would serve as a stronger magnet for aspiring lawyers with specialties in other academic fields -- leaving remote Dickinson with its general law and government law programs -- the Dickinson Law interests saw themselves at a disadvantage.
An affiliated Dickinson College and Dickinson Law would establish a more substantial academic presence in Central Pennsylvania, not quiteon the scale of PennState's many branches and disciplines, but substantial and future-oriented, nonetheless.

This is not a matter to be approached haphazardly, considering it will remarkably affect the roles of both institutions, but it strikes us as a logical next step, certainly more sensible than PennState's grand plan for a two-campus law school divided by mission and miles.

Dickinsons courting a return to old days ; Law school began as a department of college in Carlisle

ELIZABETH GIBSON

Of The Patriot-News

If Dickinson College merges with The DickinsonSchoolofLaw, the law school would have to regain its academic accreditation and hire a new dean. "If an affiliation were to occur ... Dean [Philip] McConnaughay would step down to allow the college to appoint its own dean," law school spokeswoman Kelly Jones said.

American Bar


Association spokeswoman Nancy Slonin said the law school would initially operate on a provisional basis.

According to Bar Association guidelines, it would take the law school a year or two to regain its accreditation.

The university and Dickinson College announced last week they were discussing the idea of a merger between the Carlisle institutions.

But with no timeline for negotiations or process set between PennState University and Dickinson College, a Dickinson-Dickinson merger could be months or years away -- if at all.

"At this point, Dickinson law school is still a part of PennState. Officially, there are mutual loyalties," said LeRoy Zimmerman, chairman of the law school's board of governors.

Law school and college alumnus Sid Kline Jr., a college emeritus trustee and a member of the law school board of governors, said"It's totally up in the air," said Jason Evans, a student.

Evans fears that if the two Dickinson namesakes merge, PennState would likely establish its own law school and compete for the student pool.

"Nobody's going to end up happy in this," Evans said.

PennState spokesman Steve MacCarthy said the university has not ruled out that option, but has no immediate plans to establish a law school.

In 1997, when PennState announced its merger with the law school, President Graham Spanier said the acquisition filled a void. He said PennState preferred to take over a law school rather than build its own.

Last fall, PennState proposed moving the law school to State College, partly to boost its national rankings and increase academic choices for students. PennState later suggested renovating the Carlisle law campus


and opening a second law campus in University Park. If the idea failed, PennState would still improve the Carlisle campus.

The law school board of governors, which doesn't run the law school but can veto any plan to move it or change its name, last month rejected the second campus idea.

The cross-curriculum opportunities PennState wanted for law students could be offered at the smaller Dickinson College, college and PennState officials said.

The college and law school already have ties.

The law school opened as a college department and then became independent. Even after merging with PennState, the law school continued its college connections. The schools offer a program letting students earn undergraduate and law degrees in six years instead of seven.

Robert M. Frey, an alumnus of both schools, said that inwon their case in Cumberland County Court but Commonwealth Court overturned the decision. An appeal was dismissed.

UNIVERSITY PARK PennState and The DickinsonSchoolofLaw might end their relationship, following an unsuccessful attempt to expand the law school to include a University Park campus.

PennState issued a statement Friday saying the two institutions are looking into severing their seven-year-old affiliation and creating a partnership between the law school and Dickinson College, the law school's neighbor in Carlisle.

The announcement came as the PennState board of trustees met to, among other things, approve a university budget request to the state for $344.8 million, including $10 million specifically for the PennState Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

An affiliation between Dickinson College and the law school would address Carlisle residents' concerns about keeping the school in town


and would provide the law school with the benefits of a larger institution, PennState spokesman Bill Mahon said.

"It's a mutual decision, really," he said. "We think it makes some sense for Carlisle. Clearly, many of the board of governors felt it's important to have one location and have that location in Carlisle. We have seen the trend in higher legal education, clearly, overwhelmingly, is to have law schools affiliated with larger institutions so that students and faculty can get involved in interdisciplinary studies and research."

If, after examination, the affiliation is deemed sound, Dickinson College would begin negotiations with PennState, she said.

PennState and The DickinsonSchoolofLaw began the process of affiliation with PennState in 1997 and became fully affiliated three years later. Though Dickinson College and the law school arelocated next to each other and have had close ties, they have operated as separate entities for at least the past 90 years.

The law school's board of governors would have to give its approval for the change to occur. Board Chairman LeRoy S. Zimmerman said he learned of the discussions only recently and wanted more details before weighing in.

"Certainly Dickinson College has an outstanding reputation as a liberal arts college. And there is a lot of history as well as proximity that would be a positive. But there are plenty of issues to discuss before anyone wants to enter into a second marriage," Zimmerman said.

The move comes about a month after the law school's board of governors voted to table a PennState proposal to open a second law


school campus at University Park and renovate the Carlisle campus. Instead, the law school's board of governors voted to work with the university to improve the Carlisle campus at an estimated cost of $50 million. PennState had offered to pay $60 million to build a law school facility at University Park. The dual-campus proposal was put forth after an administrative proposal to move the law school to University Park and keep a satellite campus in Carlisle met with strong opposition.

University officials had argued that having a law school at University Park would improve Dickinson's rankings, help it attract top faculty and students, and address a lack of space in Carlisle.

Speaking to the board of trustees Friday, PennState President Graham Spanier said the university viewed the board of governors'the law school and Dickinson College have not been affiliated for 90 years.

The proximity of the campus and its history and commitment to the Carlisle community, however, prompted Dickinson College to consider the merger, said spokeswoman Christine Dugan.

College President William Durden referred a call to his office to Dugan. Dugan said, "It's still so preliminary that there's not really a lot of specifics that we can discuss."

Last month, the law school board of governors rejected an offer from PennState to build a second campus in State College.

A merger would be a radical change for Dickinson College, Dugan said.

"The law school would alter our identity significantly," Dugan said. "So we have to carefully consider our mission and how this opportunity fits into our mission."

LeRoy Zimmerman, chairman of the law


yesterday about the law school's decision to spurn PennState's offer to build a second campus in State College, PennState President Graham Spanier made no mention of a possible PennState-Dickinson Law School dissolution.

Instead, he spoke of the vision that the university had for a dual-campus law school. PennState wanted to create an alternative to Dickinson's general law and government law emphasis by establishing a campus in State College for law students looking for interdisciplinary course offerings, joint degrees and access to resources of a research university.
The second campus was intended to raise the law school's national rankings and enhance its appeal to top-notch students. The university offered to spend $60 million to build the second campus.

After the law school turned down that offer, the law school board passed aresolution to plan for a $50 million law school to be built in Carlisle by 2008. PennState promised to kick in up to $10 million and Gov. Ed Rendell committed $25 million, leaving the law school with $15 million to raise.

That $10 million pledge from the university was repeated during the trustees' meeting, along with a mention of coming back later with more definitive construction plans for the law school upgrade.

"We now must move forward and consider a future for the law school that will best serve future law students," Spanier told trustees.

He went on to say some law school faculty and staff were thinking about leaving their positions as a result of the law school board's decision to keep the school in its entirety in Carlisle. "I


came affiliated with PennState University in 1997 and merged with PennState three years later.

* PennState last year proposed the establishment of a second campus of the law school on the State College campus of PennState in an effort to give students more curriculum opportunities and boost Dickinson's admissions and national ranking.

* Dickinson's board of governors last month voted to defer PennState's proposal to build the State College campus. The 170-year- old school was instead to embark on a $50 million campus upgrade centered around Trickett Hall.
* Yesterday, PennState and Dickinson College officials announced they are exploring whether to turn the law school over to Dickinson College.

HARRISBURG Pennsylvania State University and Dickinson College said yesterday that they have begun negotiating a possible transfer of affiliation for DickinsonSchoolofLaw from theuniversity to the college.

Despite having the same name and a location beside each other in Carlisle, Dickinson College and DickinsonSchoolofLaw have been separate entities for at least 90 years. The 600-student law school began the process of affiliation with PennState in 1997 and became fully affiliated three years later.

Any deal would require the approval of the law school's governing board, which retained control over the name and location of the law school after the merger with PennState.

HARRISBURG PennState University said yesterday that it has begun negotiating with Dickinson College about a possible transfer of DickinsonSchoolofLaw from the university in State College to the Carlisle college.

Dickinson College and DickinsonSchoolofLaw were affiliated before the law school became independent in 1914. The law school became affiliated with PennState in 1997, a


process completed in 2000.

Earlier this year, the law school's governing board began to consider a move to State College or the prospect of operating a split campus.

Dickinson College spokeswoman Christine Dugan said discussions were in preliminary stages but the transfer offered some obvious advantages, namely "the historic affinity between the law school and the college, our proximity and our commitment to the Carlisle community."

Dugan said the college will have to determine whether operating the law school will adversely affect its function as a college, and consider the cost and funding for renovations to law school buildings.

"I know it's up in the tens of millions (of dollars)," she said. "I don't know exactly. That will obviously be part of the exercise."

PennState released a statement saying that Dickinson College couldhelp the law school establish cross-disciplinary classes and that a transfer would keep the law school in Carlisle.

Any deal would require approval by the law school's governing board. Gov. Ed Rendell has committed up to $25 million in state matching funds to renovate the law school if it stays in Carlisle, according to PennState.

Friday, September 17, 2004

PennState in talks on transferring Dickinson Law School to Dickinson College

The Associated Press

HARRISBURG PennState said today that it has begun negotiating with Dickinson College about a possible transfer of The DickinsonSchoolofLaw.

Dickinson College and The DickinsonSchoolofLaw were affiliated before the law school became independent in 1914. The law school became affiliated with PennState in 1997, a process completed in 2000.

Earlier this year, the law school's governing board began to consider a move to


of Rodriguez's album--he is the focus of the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man,an inspiring story of a man who was a huge phenomenon in South Africa during aparthied but he did not know it because so little got in and out of the country during the world wide embargo of that country for its racial policies. Meanwhile, "Sugarman" was living in poverty and obscurity in his home town of Detroit, the city where I grew up in the suburbs and where I went to college. Now that he has achieved some success after the movie, and in South Africa again, he gives much of his money away. He is a Mexican-American folk singer with songs of love and redemption. If you like Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez,worse today as the Senate Human Services committee extended the non-disclose expiration period from 10-years to upon death of the birth parent and then passed the bill through committee. It is disappointing, but what can we do now? Several people testified in Olympia, but the special interests of one birth mother who serves in the senate trumps common sense and public good. We'll keep fighting and going around the records, but it is a total pain in the ass to spend extra money and time to uncover the truth when it is available from a direct source. I write this as an open records advocate and an adoptee who is 'going around' my birth mother because she will neither acknowledge my existence nor disclose my father's identity.

Thanks for


child to use it to enroll in school, obtain a passport, and so on. The child would be entitled to a copy of his birth certificate at age 18.

Sydney,Thanks for coming in. States began issuing birth certificates in the early 20th century in order to obtain data for public health purposes. Birth certificates typically stated whether the mother was married.

Within a decade or so, State vital statistics registrars came up with the idea of creating amended birth certificates for adopted children to protect them from the stigma of illegitimacy. Initially original birth certificates were sealed to the public but open to the child and the adoptive parents. The purpose of sealing was to protect the family from the birth mother and snooping neighbors.

When adoptees began searching for theirout of the picture. Some would be adopters go to the far ends of the earth and pay large sum for children in hopes that they can excise the original families from their children's thoughts.

On the other hand, when put to a vote, 57 percent of the voters in Oregon favored allowing adult adoptees unrestricted access to their original birth certificates.

FMF does what it can to educate people about adoption. Its purpose, though, as stated on the tag line, is to be a place where first mothers can share news and opinions and vent.

FMF often receives comments from adoptive parents thanking FMF for providing information about adoption that they have not seen elsewhere. Some have asked FMF's advice on dealing with their children or their children's first parents.

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we will have disagreements. JMHO

Hi all....I shall re-write my post. And rather than chime in soley on the governments control and reasoning behind keeping the truth hidden from the world, I will take a slightly different perspective. My mother had me back in 1970 in Wisconsin. In love, but single. My birth father supposedly bailed when he was told abortion wasn't an option. When I was a few years older, she married. That man adopted me. My birth cert was amended/revised with my new last name. Nothing exists with my birth father's info. The state must have info since there were paternity tests, court case as she got money from him.But, the hide it from me. The part that has bothered me everyday of my life is notshe received welfare and your father's name would be in the state's welfare files. The state may not allow access to these files, however.

There are ways of linking up through DNA testing. We wrote about this on February 8 of this year. Using DNA to Find Family

A beautiful song from a Korean adoptee

From the New York Times

"Lorraine Dusky, a writer who relinquished a daughter as a young single mother in New York State in 1966, supports opening the records. She reported in her 2015 memoir that in the handful of states that offered women the opportunity to remove their names from original birth certificates, only a small fraction of women — fewer than 1 percent — chose to do so." --Don’t Keep Adopted People in the Dark by


I never could have imagined my first task as mayor would be to hammer out a deal to keep the team in Music City just a few years later.

I certainly didn't feel it was guaranteed that hockey was going to work in Nashville, but I felt that it was at least a great addition for our city. It put us on the map as a major-league city, which was absolutely critical.

Even then, the Predators did a great job of introducing themselves to the community, to a nontraditional hockey market. Their outreach was really strong.

In fact, I immediately went in on tickets with a gentleman that I was working with at the Public Defender's Office in Nashville. I went to games in the early part of the franchise's existence          3
probation officer that he had urinated several times that morning. Arthur further contends that
any allegations that he was verbally intimidating to other program members and objected to the
religious aspects of the program were the result of a conflict with the religious ideology
underpinning the program--a program which he requested. 1 According to Arthur, there was a
conflict with another member of the treatment group who expressed a belief that Arthur’s father,
who allegedly practiced a Native American religion, was worshiping idols. Arthur attempts to
justify his actions as a defense of his father and other family members. He does not, however,
claim that these acts were not willful or that they were beyond his control. Finally, Arthur does
not explain the attempted telephone calls


jobs, living standards and the economy first."

The ruling is a defeat for the government. Prime Minister Theresa May wanted to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017, meaning the U.K. would most likely leave the EU two years later.

The government said it was disappointed by the judgment and would appeal.

"The country voted to leave the European Union in a referendum approved by Act of Parliament. And the Government is determined to respect the result of the referendum," a government spokesperson said.

Government lawyers had argued that May could give the EU formal notice of Britain's decision to leave without consulting parliament. They said the people who brought the case -- investment manager Gina Miller and hairdresser Deir dos Santos -- were trying to overturn the result oflegendary name. It’s also where I live.

There are 20 towns in Ulster County extending from New Paltz to Marbletown, Kingston, Ulster and Saugerties. In total, less than 200,000 people live here. Many are part-timers who come up from New York City on weekends to enjoy the unspoiled mountains, recreation and laid-back atmosphere.

To the casual visitor the area looks like most hamlets on the Hudson River between Manhattan and Albany. Land stretches out far and wide. The businesses tend to be small sole proprietorships. Antique shops, art galleries, restaurants and tourist-friendly destinations abound. Once, these communities thrived when corporations like IBM employed white-collar professionals. That changed in the 1990s when IBM left, and no significant employer came in to take its place.

The economy of Ulster County is precarious. The


addict is 25-years-old, white and living in a suburban or rural locale. Further evidence of this phenomenon comes from hospitals, treatment centers and morgues in Ulster County. The incidence of overdose, hospitalization or death from heroin use has increased 12-fold from 2011. Data on heroin overdoses and deaths lag behind the current year. With this in mind, I interviewed doctors, treatment centers, law enforcement, the district attorney’s office, the fire department and the county medical examiner. I spoke to some people who requested anonymity, and others who did not. The goal was an attempt to understand the rapid spread of heroin addiction in this county and what is being done to address the problem.

Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright said, “You can be a 50-year-old accountant or 14and in the 10th grade...” Heroin addiction knows no socioeconomic or demographic borders. Then there are recent sobering statistics: in Ulster County, 70% of drug arrests were for heroin or opiates, up from 30% in 2012.

Nationally, heroin use has about doubled since 2007, going from 373,000 to 669,000 users in 2012, according to SAMHSA. Heroin overdose deaths have spiked in the northeast, increasing 211% from 2010 to 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There’s a sad irony noted by police, addiction specialists and users. Authorities leaned hard to cut down on prescription opiates making their way to the streets. Interconnected databases allowed pharmacies to see any controlled substance scripts written in the state of New York. Pharmacists partnered with local police, and violators with forged


federal gets a piece of the revenue.

Another interesting fact was mentioned by the DA’s office—some school boards and parents resist drug education programs. While that may sound counterintuitive, one must remember that the county is extremely liberal. Some parents associate these programs with the failed War on Drugs. Additionally, drug awareness seminars were traditionally delivered by law enforcement. A police presence sends a far different message than one coming from a recovering addict. While it may sound like an ideal plan to bring in such individuals, the continued stigma of drug addiction and the reaction of certain parents and board members makes this too difficult a task to accomplish.

Inside a Treatment Center

The Bridge Back To Life Center is a key recovery hub in Kingston. Its director, Al Nace,rooms for teaching and sharing purposes, and plenty of space for seating. The facility accepts clients with private insurance as well as those on Medicaid. As I left our meeting, I noticed a young girl trudging through the snow. I offered her a ride, knowing it would be a several mile walk in any direction to town. She looked like a teenager, but let me know she had three children who had been removed by Child Protective Services as a result of her drug use. She was on her way to meet with her probation officer. Even so, she was clear eyed and upbeat. She intends to regain custody of her children. Bridge Back To Life offers the kind of intensive structure, therapy and education that are helping


her to navigate the journey.

Hard Times In Ulster County

BBTLC assists average citizens of these upstate communities. The struggle of Ulster County residents reflects hard economic times. While total employment here grew 1.7% in 2012, it lags behind national numbers. According to a study by SUNY New Paltz, in Ulster County, approximately 13% of all residents, 15% of families with young children, and 47% of single-mother families with young children fell below the poverty line. In the village of Ellenville, 70.6% of all single mother families live in poverty. These figures provide a vivid picture of strife, and illustrate why a portion of the population might feel helpless and hopeless. That said, if poverty in itself was the root of addiction, the Depression of the 1930s should have producedBill Boisture, Jr. is the new chairman and chief executive officer of Hawker Beechcraft

Bill Boisture Jr., former president of NetJets, Gulfstream Aerospace, and British Aerospace Corporate Jets (a forerunner to Hawker), is the new chairman and chief executive officer of Hawker Beechcraft. He takes over from current President Jim Schuster.

“Bill is the right person at exactly the right time,” said Sanjeev Mehra, managing director of Goldman Sachs and chairman of the board of directors of Hawker Beechcraft Inc. “His proven ability to drive customer satisfaction and value has never been more important than in this challenging economic environment. I am delighted to welcome Bill to HBC.”

Boisture is the former chairman and CEO of Butler Aviation. Most recently, he was the president of Intrepid Aviation, a privately held commercial


DuPont will divest large parts of its global pesticides business, including its global research and development organization.

The unit makes herbicides for cereals, oilseed rape, sunflower, rice and pasture and insecticides for insect control for fruits and vegetables.

Dow, in turn, will sell two acid co-polymer manufacturing facilities in Spain and the United States, as well as a contract with a third party through which it buys ionomers. The company has already found a buyer in South Korea’s SK Innovation.

“The main surprises here are the inclusion of the pesticides and the exclusion of any kind of seed assets,” Bernstein analysts wrote in a note. The analysts also said they had expected EU to be concerned about the concentration of seed sales, and that they would require Dow to divest itsa deployed configuration is disclosed. In one embodiment, the portable stage includes a chassis having wheels rotatably attached thereto and a main floor panel attached to the chassis. First and second deployable floor panels are pivotally attached to the main floor panel, and a deployable canopy is attached to the chassis. The deployable canopy is stored between the first and second floor panels when the portable stage is in its transport configuration. When the stage is deployed, the main floor panel, first floor panel and second floor panel form a main stage, and the canopy is large enough to cover the main stage.
In another embodiment, the portable stage includes a chassis having wheels rotatably attached thereto and a main floor panel attached to the chassis. First and second


deployable floor panels are pivotally attached to the main floor panel, and a deployable canopy is attached to the chassis. The canopy includes a main canopy panel, a first canopy panel and a second canopy panel, wherein said first and second canopy panels are pivotally connected to the main canopy panel and wherein the first and second canopy panels respectively have first and second spring pins. The main canopy panel includes first and second canopy panel securement plates which cooperate with first and second spring pins to both lock the canopy in its transport configuration and place the canopy in a semi-deployed configuration.
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Nichols is a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Man with a Memory (2002)
Revelation (2004)
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Real Things (2007)
Old Things New (2009)
It's All Good (2011)
Crickets (2013)
Never Gets Old (2017)

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30 November 2012

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Professional Make Up Artist of the Year Paddy McGurgan and multi-award winning photographer Khara Pringle last night (29 November) celebrated an exciting collaboration as they moved into adjacent premises at a fabulous new city centre studio.

The pair welcomed clients, friends and family who turned out in style at the launch event, with sponsors Absolut Unique clearly present as an array of vibrantly coloured models embraced the floor space resembling the limited edition collection, one- of-a- kind bottles from the brand. Guests also gained a first glimpse of the sleek new space which combines a ground floor cosmetic heaven in the form of Paddy’s Make Up Pro store as well as a top floor professional photographic


will supply drinks at the event, after having created a successful collection of Guinness pints in past years. These works are among some of Justine’s most well-received pieces; some of which will feature in this exhibition.

A native of South Belfast, Justine has spent time working in England and resides in Holywood. She has studied National University of Ireland in Maynooth, where she obtained a Certificate in Youth Arts with First Class honours. She has exhibited her work both as a part of collaborations and as a solo artist, and is enjoying her re-emergence into the solo world with her most recent collection of vibrant yet personal paintings. The topics of these works, both local landscapes and the much talked about roses, make her a local artist with internationalIt's difficult to overstate what an amazing season Antonio Brown has had. Yes, statistically he's been immense: He leads all wideouts in targets (102), receptions (71), receiving yards (996) and is tied for second in TDs (8). He's on pace for a 126/1,771/14 season; that would be the second-most catches and fourth-most yards ever in a single season. But what makes Brown even more amazing is that he's doing this primarily as an outside receiver, at 5-foot-10 and 186 pounds.

That's just incredible. In an era when NFL teams routinely reach for unproven freakish size/speed/strength athletes in the first round, a pipsqueak shall lead them.

How does Brown do it? I mean, he's fast, but he's not really a blinding speed guy. He's not a weakling, but he's certainly not


an Adonis. He didn't even test all that well in the "quickness" metrics at his draft combine, though watching his NFL tape that's difficult to fathom. To my eyes, that's where Brown's improbable superiority comes from: He looks like a quickness all-timer.

Now, from a fantasy perspective it's a bit late -- or at least expensive -- to jump on the Brown bandwagon. So might it be interesting to try to find the next mighty mite before he fully breaks out? What characteristics should we look for? Speed is desirable, quickness is a must-have, but first and foremost Brown gets open, even from the outside where physical corners usually push around players his size. He accomplishes this with an elite bag of tricks:

1. He's well-nigh "unbumpable" at the line,to the point that even corners who are asked to play "press" against Brown routinely give him multiple steps. Almost nobody tries to make contact with him off the line anymore, because he's so good at making defenders whiff, and if you whiff, he's by you. Here's an example from a meeting with the Baltimore Ravens:

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Cornerback Chykie Brown gets up in Antonio Brown's business before the snap, and you can practically see Antonio rubbing his palms together. He gives a hard jab with his left foot, Chykie bites and then flails with his left hand trying to impede Antonio, but it's too late and he nearly falls down. Chykie plays catch-up through the rest of the route.

2. He can change direction with either foot and never lose momentum.


run from an outside alignment. Surely, part of this occurs because latter-day Marques Colston is basically glued to the slot, but part is that the Saints trust Cooks to get off the line out wide.

Here's a play from Week 8 against the Green Bay Packers, Cooks' best in his young NFL career. The Saints have him opposing corner Davon House, who aligns head-up with Cooks in press coverage, and is surprised by the rookie's quickness getting to his inside:

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You can see House is off balance stepping back, having made contact with Cooks but having underestimated the WR's side-step. Here's a close-up:

NFL/NBC

House is reduced to grabbing Cooks as he goes by; this was play-action and Drew Brees took a shot to the deep middle, which should've been caught bycourt, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, not less than one month, nor more than six months and by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars."
Appellant and her husband, who are Negroes, live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On February 22, 1959 they and six of their grandchildren drove about one hundred and forty miles to Shuqualak to visit relatives. The incident for which appellant was convicted occurred that afternoon, as she and her husband were preparing to return to Hattiesburg. Nelse is appellant's husband, and the affidavit charged her with attempting to intimidate or impede the sheriff in arresting him for the crime of driving a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. E.W. Farrar, sheriff at the time, was one of the


official cause of death was a blood cancer. However, he would have
been the first to tell you that the actual cause of his death was the
death of Mom some 9 1/2 months before his death. After his beloved
Louise died he didn't want to live, and constantly told us how much he
wanted to be with her.

From Mom's death, Aug. 1, 1993, Dad began to slip. He was a bit lost,
confused, less interested in life. The day of her wake he asked my
sister-in-law how one washed one's hair. For more than 50 years Lou had
washed his hair, leaning him over the kitchen sink. He didn't know how
to do it, so Lucy, my sister-in-law, leaned him over the sink and washed
it. Their life was a unit in a way that I'venever seen before. Thus
there was no surprise, and even as we waked, buried and grieved Mom, we
three sons, Tom, John and I, knew and speculated that Dad wouldn't live
long.

But in that August of Mom's death, Dad didn't look so overwhelmingly
sick. He was sharp of mind, could get around with a small four-pronged
cane, and was capable of living alone and mainly taking care of himself.
But slowly over the months he began to slip.

Dad's blood cancer prohibited his body from producing blood cells which
gave his body force. I never did learn or remember if it was the red or
white cells that weren't forthcoming, that was a detail that didn't much
interest me. But Dad's body was a machine that couldn't produce it's own
energy source, and became much like an automobile which


one must
regularly take to the gas station for refueling to keep it going. Dad
went each 3 weeks to the hospital for infusions of blood, two or three
units. After getting his new blood he would usually be a bit disoriented
that evening, but by the next morning he was about returned to normal,
and certainly a bit stronger and more alert than he had been two days before.

But, again, like an automobile, his body wasn't stagnant save for fuel.
It was slowly running down. First he lost his ability to walk outside
with his cane and we took him out in his wheelchair. Then inside the
house he switched to a two wheeled walker. Finally in January, 1994 we
had to hire a person to stay with him 24 hours a day and help himwith
everyday things.

He still had the power to bathe himself, take care of his toilet
functions and most of his dressing, perhaps needing help with his shoes
and socks. Gradually he lost some of these facilities too, and by late
March he had lost most of his ability to do these things.

He started wearing adult diapers because he couldn't at all control his
toilet functions; this was a major blow to his pride and sense of
dignity. His mind began to wander more and more and this frustrated him
to no end. He kept inquiring when would this end, when could he be with
Lou, when could he die.

When one hears stories of the dying and death of elderly people, Dad's
story is almost idyllic. He was in his own home, he was not in terrible
pain, his


three sons all lived within a few blocks and visited him
everyday, taking him out in his wheelchair for walks around the
neighborhood. His daughters-in-law were attentive and loving, his
grandchildren came often. His live-in caregiver was competent, kind and
attentive. When we walked him in the neighborhood, the neighborhood of
his birth, childhood and whole life, people all knew him, greeted him and
truly loved and cared for him. Few people ever have it this nice.

But I was watching him die by inches, knowing that he didn't want this.
He wanted to be with Lou. We all heard this so often that it became our
phrase for his inevitable death.

Finally one April when I was sitting with him and he was asking me how
long was his death going to take, and couldn't' something be done,weeks. But into the third week we could see him
begin to weaken. And it was at this point that our larger family rallied
strongly for what we knew was his death watch. We three sons visited
everyday unless there was some exceptional reason. His sole surviving
sibling, our Aunt Catherine and her husband, Jack, visited often. The
grandkids came often, and my son, Bob, became a daily regular. We feted
him, took him for walks in his wheelchair until the last two weeks of his
life. And he loved it, relished it, and came to expect it. "Where you
going?" he would inquire when you had to leave, "When you coming back?"

The Visiting Nurses provided morphine and nitroglycerine to control his
pain. Yvon, his live in caregiver, intensified her activities. We
clustered around the house to give


Migrant workers from neighboring east African countries assemble scaffolding surrounding the building. Enticed by steady work and higher pay, thousands of migrants from around East Africa left their home countries and flowed into Juba following the arrival of big construction crews like the Chinese.

An East African laborer runs up the stairs of the building to resume work after lunch while a Chinese supervisor looks on. Dozens of Chinese construction crews have swooped into Juba to build critical infrastructure.

A Chinese supervisor stands at the edge of the building. Many of the Chinese workers are similarly attracted to "hardship postings" in developing countries by substantially higher pay than what the same work would net back home.

Stevens, from Uganda, rests in bed with an abdominal injury from a fall two days(questing music)
- On the 15th of April 1918,
it rained fire here:
German Artillery fire.
I'm near the French
village of Rietz Du Vinage,
where a desperate action took place.
These were the darkest
hours of World War I.
(guns firing)
(explodes)
The Germans had just deployed
massive numbers of troops
to the Western Front during
the Spring Offensive,
and the English lines looked
like they were about to break.
(cannon fires)
But after launching a
barrage of artillery fire,
the British soldiers launched
a furious counterattack.
As the Germans returned fire,
a young 19-year-old Irish
2nd Lieutenant crept forward
with his company through the mud.
A shell exploded,
no one knows whether it
was German of British,
instantly killing his friends
and peppering the Irishman with shrapnel.
Certain that he would
die, and with shrapnel
in his chest, legs, and
arms, he crawled away
from the carnage until he was picked up
by a stretcher bearer.
He was weary, broken, burnt
out, and without


hope.
Yet just over 20 years
later, we find that same man
on the radio in London during the terror
of the Nazi Blitz in World War II
and he's bringing hope to millions.
Hope to his nation.
What information, what
message would bring hope
to a nation in its darkest hour?
And what does it take to turn
a person so completely around
from having experienced
the worst of humanity
and being without hope to
becoming a hope bringer
and a beacon a light for millions?
Well, stay with us to
find out as we journey
in the footsteps of C.S.
Lewis: The Hope Bringer.
His story will inspire you and his message
just may bring you an extra
boost of hope and peace too.
(questing music)
C.S. Lewis was one of
the intellectual giants
of the 20th Century
and one of the most
influential writers of his day.
Although he was an important academic,
lecturing at bothOxford
and Cambridge Universities,
most people know him through
the more than 30 books
that he wrote including classics like
"The Chronicles of Narnia,"
which have sold over 100 million copies
and have been turned
into three major movies.
Clive Staples Lewis was born
here to a protestant family
in East Belfast, Ireland in 1898.
His books have brought hope
and joy to generations.
Most people know C.S. Lewis today
as the author of "The
Chronicles of Narnia,"
a series of books for children
that featured talking animals.
Now that's no coincidence.
C.S. Lewis's love for
animals showed itself early
in his life.
When Jack was seven, his
family moved into this house
called Little Lea in East Belfast.
Lewis's family just love books.
Lewis later wrote...
- [Man] "There were books in the study,
"books in the dining room,
"in the great bookcase on the landing,
"books in the bedroom,
"books piled as high as
my shoulder in the attic,
"books


of all kinds."
- When his mother died
from cancer just months
before Lewis's 10th birthday,
he became even more withdrawn.
He was deeply hurt by her passing.
Lewis not only lost a
mother but his father
never fully recovered from her death.
Lewis and his brother
felt estranged from him
and their life at home
was never the same again.
Lewis's mother had given him a Bible
but her death convinced him
that the God of the Bible
was at best just a vague idea
or at worst was simply cruel.
At 15 years of age, Lewis
completely rejected Christianity
and became a staunch atheist.
His key interest became
the world of mythology.
All of his life Lewis
experienced an inner longing
for something which he later called "joy".
It was the idea that something existed
which was so much greater
and more wonderful
than anything we experienced
as part of our normal lives.
As a teenager, Lewiswas
fascinated by the ancient songs
and legends of Scandinavia.
And these intensified this
longing deep within him.
In 1916, Lewis was awarded a scholarship
at University College Oxford.
It was a big culture shock for Lewis
coming from Ireland to England,
but it was an opportunity
that was too good to refuse.
However, within months of entering Oxford,
the British Army shipped him off to France
to fight on the Western
Front in World War I.
It was a terrible war.
The most brutal and destructive conflict
the world had ever seen.
On average, roughly 6,000 men
were killed every day for the war.
Before it was over,
nearly 10 million soldiers lay dead.
Millions more were seriously wounded.
About half the British
soldiers fighting in France
became a casualty of some sort.
C.S. Lewis was one of them.
That day, here among the
trenches of Northern France,
it was precisely on his 19th birthday
that Lewis


was wounded
by an exploding shell.
Two of his close friends
were killed instantly.
He later wrote about his
experiences in the war
as someone trying to forget.
- [Man] "The horribly
smashed men still moving
"like half-crushed beetles,
"the sitting or standing corpses,
"the landscape of sheer earth
without a blade of grass,
"the boots worn day and night
till they seemed to grow
"to your feet, all this often
"seems to have happened to someone else."
- But it wasn't his horrific
experiences at the Front
that turned his life around and
pointed him to Christianity,
instead they merely
hardened him in his atheism.
During the long period
of his convalescence
from his injuries,
Lewis suffered from
depression and home sickness.
Still he later wrote
that his ideal picture
of happiness was...
- [Man] "To be always convalescent
from some small illness
"and always seated in a window
that overlooked the sea,
"there to read these poems
eight hours of each happyday."
(graceful music)
- In December 1918, Lewis
was discharged from the army
and he quickly returned and
finished his studies at Oxford.
After graduating, he
became a university tutor
at University College at Oxford.
And in 1925, he was
elected a fellow and tutor
in English Literature
here at Magdalen College,
where he worked for 29 years.
The reality is that
C.S. Lewis loved Oxford
and the friends he had here and in a sense
he never really left Oxford again.
During all this time,
Lewis was a very committed
and, at time, aggressive atheist.
He rejected the idea of God.
He thought Christianity was shallow,
and for him God didn't
exist because if He did,
He must be cruel and heartless.
His road back to faith was
a slow one over many years.
It was filled with
roadblocks that Lewis thought
would be impossible for him to overcome.
He had to deal with deeply
hurtful emotional baggage
and also


many intellectual obstacles.
However, it was precisely
because of his commitment
to rational, logical thought that Lewis
not only returned to
Christianity but became
one of its greatest defenders.
His road to fame was influenced
not only by his own reading
but also by his Christian friends.
And prominent among them was
his colleague J.R. Tolkien,
with whom he'd have
long walks and debates.
Of course Tolkien is
famous today for his works,
"The Hobbit" and "The Lord of The Rings."
Lewis really resisted
coming back to Christianity,
but in 1929 he accepted that
there was in fact a God.
But Lewis wasn't a Christian yet.
He didn't accept the
Christian God until after
a late night walk with Tolkien.
He wrote that he then
became the most reluctant
covert to Christianity in all of England.
Today we live in a largely unbelieving age
where people have turned away from God.
There were several key
factors in Lewis's conversion
thatare important and relevant.
The first factor is the
importance of reason.
For C.S. Lewis, Christianity
had to make sense first of all.
It had to be logical and reasonable.
One of the most important issues for him
was the problem of pain and suffering.
He came to see that while
it's easy to blame God
for suffering, atheism has
no answer for it at all
and that Christianity actually did.
It made more sense, was more logical,
and certainly provided more hope.
Next, he became convinced
that the evidence for Jesus
in the bible, in the Gospels
is actually very strong.
In the end, he couldn't argue against it.
In the Gospel story of Jesus,
he saw the evidence of God's grace.
Here in the life and teachings of Jesus,
he found the only true comfort.
Finally Christianity filled
his deepest needs and desires.
For Lewis, this went beyond
just intellectual arguments.
Lewis came to


experience
the joy of a faith
that satisfied and filled
the longings of his heart.
In Jesus, he found peace, hope, and joy.
Jesus filled the God-shaped
hole in his life.
Lewis was no coward when
it came to doing his duty
for his country, but his
greatest service to his nation
in those dark hours
wasn't done in uniform;
it was through the medium of radio.
After reading Lewis's book,
"The Problem of pain,"
one of the directors
of the BBC asked Lewis
to start giving talks on radio.
So from 1941 to 1943,
while London was under the
terror of the German bombs
of The Blitz, Lewis spoke hope to a nation
that desperately needed it.
(bombs exploding)
These broadcasts came from Lewis' deep
Christian convictions,
and they were appreciated
by civilians and those
in the Arm Forces alike.
As an example,
Air Chief Marshall Sir
Donald Hardman wrote...
- [Man] "The war, the whole of life,
"everything tended toseem pointless.
"We needed, many of us,
"a key to the meaning of the universe.
"Lewis provided just that."
- These wartime broadcasts by
Lewis were later written down
in his book, "Mere Christianity."
And to show you the
impact of this book down
to our day, Mere Christianity
was voted the best book
of the 20th century by
Christianity Today magazine.
In 1930, the year before he
converted to Christianity,
Lewis had moved into this
house in a village near Oxford.
It was called The Kilns,
because it had been built
on the side of a former brick works.
This was the house in
which Lewis was to live
for the rest of his life.
It was here that Lewis did his writing.
His books have reached a vast audience
and they continued to attract
new readers every year.
Lewis, as with Tolkien, wanted
to use his writing talents
to share his Christian faith
that was so


messages,
ideas, and concepts that
Lewis wanted to make
easily accessible to young readers.
Lewis believed that stories
could best convey the wonder,
the joy, the grand
concepts of Christianity
to the minds of children and
capture their imaginations.
So the Narnia Chronicles uses
symbolism to tell the story
of a great war with all
the world looking on,
a battle between the forces
of light and darkness.
And he uses Aslan, the
Noble Lion of Narnia,
as the literary Christ figure
who plays a pivotal role
in the story of Narnia,
just as Jesus is central
to the Christian faith.
He uses the story of Aslan as a retelling
of the central events in Christ's life:
His birth, death, and resurrection.
The Narnia books have sold
over 100 million copies
and have been transformed into
three major motion pictures.
They have enduring appeal,
unforgettable characters,
places and prose that stir
the imagination and the heart.
Many people are also surprised tolearn
that Lewis also wrote a
science fiction trilogy
to which he represents Christian ideas.
(graceful music)
But what most people don't know at all
is that C.S. Lewis was actually
a very important academic
in his chosen field, which
was Late Mediaeval Literature,
where the special focus
on the use allegory.
So it's no surprise that we
can see allegorical elements
throughout many of Lewis's books.
Lewis was a prolific writer
and he surrounded himself
with other writers.
In fact in 1929, he formed
an informal discussion group
among his fellow writers
which he called The Inklings.
They used to meet here at
the Eagle and Child Pub
every Tuesday morning, where
they discuss literature,
philosophy, and religion.
The reality is that C.S.
Lewis was your typical
absent-minded professor.
His trousers were usually
all creased and wrinkled.
His jackets were usually old and stained,
and his shoes were scuffed and worn.
In 1954, he described himself like this
to his young admirer.
-


[Man] "I'm tall, fat, rather bald,
"red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired,
"have a deep voice, and
wear glasses for reading."
In this way, Lewis is the perfect example
of how God can use any
of us to bless others
no matter how flawed we may be.
Sadly, Lewis was never able
to find lasting fulfilment
in his relationship with women.
They seem to be cut short by tragedy.
Remember how his mother
had died of cancer?
Well, in 1957, Lewis married Joy Davidman.
After reading Lewis's books,
she had converted from
Judaism to Christianity.
They lived together for
three year in The Kilns
until Joy died of bone
cancer three years later.
They were the happiest
years of Lewis's life.
He continued to raise Joy's
two sons after her death.
Lewis was a very famous man when he died,
however, news of his
death was over shadowed
by the dramatic death of
another even more famous man:
US President John F.Kennedy,
who had actually been
assassinated on the same day
less than an hour earlier.
C.S. Lewis was buried here
at the Holy Trinity Church in Oxford.
Even today it's common
to find flowers left here
on top of his tombstone,
but the people of the United Kingdom
did more than this for Lewis.
On the 50th anniversary
of his death in 2013,
Lewis was commemorated
together with England's
greatest writers at poet's
corner in Westminster Abbey.
There's a full stone dedicated
to the memory of C.S. Lewis
at poet's corner.
It's inscribed with words from an address
that he once gave.
- [Man] "I believe in
Christianity as I believe
"the sun has risen, not
only because I see it
"but because by it I see everything else."
- Within Christian circles,
Lewis's books are loved
in a way that transcends
denominational boundaries.
Through his writings,
Lewis has helped countless
thousands of people to find faith in God
and to keep


it in an age that hasn't been
at all friendly to Christianity.
Today secular readers
of Lewis's fiction works
are often unaware of the
Christian themes they're enjoying
but they are engrossed by
Lewis's vision of heroic battles
between good and evil, of
right choices being made
in the most difficult circumstances
and visions of another
world, a better world,
a heavenly world that breaks into our own.
In this way, C.S. Lewis's
vision reaches out
and still continues to
bring hope to millions
just as he did during the
London Blitz in World War II.
Today many people in
our society have chosen
atheism and rejected belief in God.
C.S. Lewis knew what it
was like to be an atheist.
Not just that, he was a highly intelligent
and militant atheist but
he was a man who found
no hope in life as an atheist.
And if you don't have hope,
then you haven't got anything.
The realityones, and find out about different programs and opportunities for LGBTQ and ally Jewish teens in and around the DC area! Free kosher dinner will be provided.

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The complainant was subsequently shot and
killed. The indictment against appellant included allegations that he used or
exhibited a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.  The trial court originally set appellant’s bail
at $500,000.
Appellant filed a motion to reduce
his bail.  At the hearing on his motion,
Wallace Ledet Sr., appellant’s father, testified that, prior to 2002, he, his
wife, appellant, and appellant’s younger sister lived in Louisiana and Ohio.  In 2002, the family moved to Baytown, Texas, where
appellant graduated from high school.  In
2004, the family moved to Pearland, where the family lived at the time of the alleged
offense.  Ledet Sr. worked as a business manager
and his wife worked as an insurance agent.
Appellant had previously worked with Ledet Sr. as a maintenance helper
but was not employed at the time of hisand he explained that appellant, who was twenty-five years old,
had no money and had possibly been selling scrap metal and pawning personal
possessions for money at the time of his arrest.
           At the end of the hearing, the trial court
admitted into evidence the probable cause affidavit of Brazoria County
Sherriff’s Deputy Rogers.  In his
affidavit, Rogers testified that on February 2, 2009, the Brazoria County
Sherriff’s Office was notified that the complainant had been abducted at gunpoint
from a business in Pearland.  On March 9,
2009, Nicholas Michael Edwin Jean was arrested in connection with the
complainant’s abduction, and Rogers was “directed to” appellant. During a subsequent
non-custodial interview with another deputy, appellant admitted to “participation”
in the abduction and stated that on February 2, 2009, as he drove his truck
with Jean as a passenger, Jean


of habeas corpus, seeking a bail reduction and arguing
that the $300,000 bail was excessive and oppressive.  At the hearing on his application, appellant
testified that he was twenty-six years old, he had been in custody for 250
days, and he had previously moved around Louisiana to Ohio to Texas between the
ages of 16 and 20 due to his father’s employment.  Appellant had moved to Baytown when he was
nineteen or twenty years old and graduated from high school in Baytown.  He had worked for his father’s company in
Baytown for nine months after graduation, attended two semesters at a local
community college, worked catering at a local resort while he was going to
school, and lived with his family in Pearland for five years.
          Appellant
stated that he had no savings, money, or creditcards, but he did have a truck
on which he owed $8,000.  Appellant
admitted to having received deferred adjudication for two separate misdemeanor
offenses of possession of marijuana, but he noted that he had successfully
completed community supervision for the offenses, posted bond in both cases,
and attended all court hearings and not forfeited the bonds.  Appellant agreed that he was not employed at
the time of his arrest for aggravated kidnapping and had been unemployed for two
months.  Appellant had instructed his
attorney to call two bonding companies, and had learned through these
communications that he could not post the $300,000 bond.
          On
cross-examination, appellant discussed his parents’ assets, and his testimony
was generally consistent with the testimony provided by his father at the previous
hearing.  Appellant stated he had not
spoken with his father about whether he had


Things were looking bleak for the Cleveland Cavaliers in early January. This, after all, was a team that had been built to compete for a championship. And yet here they were, losing again to a lottery-bound group. This time it was to the tanking Sixers, who had only won four games all year.

Something about the pieces just didn't fit. LeBron James looked slow, Kyrie Irving appeared lost and Kevin Love sometimes didn't appear at all. Reports emerged that first-year head coach David Blatt wasn't actually the one running the team. Anderson Varejao was out for the year with an Achilles injury and the Cavaliers' rotation was constantly fluctuating.

The loss to the Sixers dropped Cleveland to 19-16. The calendar said the NBA Finals were five months away, but forthe Cavaliers they felt even further.

The problems started on defense, where a lack of big bodies prevented Cleveland from keeping opponents away from the rim. Guards could drive at will, big men could camp out in the paint and shooters could relax knowing their man would eventually wander off to help someone else. The Cavaliers surrendered 105.4 points per 100 possessions, the eighth-worst number in the league.

It was clear that a change was needed. Meanwhile, out West, the flailing Nuggets were looking to rebuild. And they happened to have a piece that the Cavaliers coveted.

"Bringing Timo in was something we were looking at as early as this summer," says Blatt, who, as the former coach of Russia's national team, had been familiar with Timofey Mozgov. "Because of my


knowledge and experience with him, I knew he'd be a good fit for us — his pick-and-cut capability, size and ability to protect the rim."

Three days after the Sixer debacle, Cavaliers general manager David Griffin pulled the trigger on a deal. Cleveland sent two protected first-round picks to Denver in exchange for the 28-year-old Mozgov — who at the time was averaging nine points and eight rebounds and playing just under 26 minutes per game — and a second-rounder. Blatt welcomed his former player to Cleveland in a meeting in his office. "Be yourself and just do what you do," he told his center.

But not even Blatt could have foreseen what an impact this reunion would have on the rest of the club. Since his arrival, the Cavspretty clear picture. Before Mozgov came to Cleveland, the Cavaliers were scoring 105.5 points per 100 possessions. With Mozgov on the court, that number jumps to 111.5, the second-highest mark on the team.

"They call me a good roller, but I don't know, I just do what I do," Mozgov says. "I don't do anything special. You set a good screen, you'll be open."

Mozgov feeling the love in Cleveland, Photo credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports

★★★

Timofey Mozgov didn't choose basketball. As the saying goes, it chose him. Or, rather, a woman named Kira Trzheskal did.

Mozgov was sitting in school in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-biggest city, when Trzheskal, a renowned youth coach in Russia, stepped into the 9-year-old's class. She was looking for tall people. Mozgov, the son of a 6'8


father who played professional handball and a mother who ran track, raised his hand.

He was asked if he could run and jump. Mozgov ran back and forth in the hallway and jumped up and down. He was then asked if he wanted to be a basketball player. Mozgov said that his father wanted him to be one so, sure, he could be a basketball player. Come to the Admiralteyskaya sports school for a practice tonight, he was told.

That was the first time Timofey Mozgov ever stepped foot on a basketball court. That he was the only one there who had never played before didn't matter. He was hooked immediately.

A few years later, the Mozgov family -- that included his parents and his three older brothers -- moved southto Enem, a small town with a population around 18,000. Unfortunately for Timofey, it wasn't exactly a basketball hotbed. "There weren't many people who played there," he says. "The competition wasn't as great."

He got creative. The Mozgovs were a working-class family. Timofey's dad, after an injury ended his handball career, worked as a driver. His mother stayed home to raise her massive kids. They didn't have a lot of money. Their basketball court was a makeshift one.

"It wasn't even really a court," Mozgov says. "When you drove and came down, you had to be really careful [of the curb]. You could get injured every time."

Mozgov studied Kevin Garnett on TV and played outside every day. "If it snowed, we would just do shooting games without dribbling," he says.

As


he got older, Mozgov also got taller. He started dunking by age 15 after a growth spurt. Later on, he enrolled in a sports academy back in St. Petersburg and then bounced around several different Russian teams. But it wasn't until he made it over to the United States to work with a man named Fess Irvin that the NBA became a dream.

"I also knew that down the line (trading Mozgov) was going to be viewed as a mistake." -Donnie Walsh

Irvin is a former college basketball player turned trainer. He spends most of his time in Dallas, where he worked with Mozgov. Under Irvin's watchful eye, Mozgov was put through six hours of workouts per day. Footwork was emphasized. Film was studied. Yoga was mandatory. Irvin's camp alsohelped Mozgov adjust to America off the court.

Eventually, Mozgov caught the eye of a Knicks scout, Kevin Wilson, who passed the name on to Glen Grunwald, a team executive. Grunwald went to Russia to check out the neophyte. He watched him once in person and once in his Moscow hotel on TV. "Here's a young big man with good athleticism and big hands who plays hard and seems to have a good head on his shoulders," Grunwald told his boss, Donnie Walsh. The Knicks' then-president of basketball operations agreed and Mozgov was signed to a three-year, $9.7 million deal in 2010.

"He had so much size," Walsh says today. "And you could tell that he was a very willing player, that he'd do whatever it is you asked of


him from a development standpoint."

In Walsh's eyes, he had his center of the future. Including him in a trade a few months later — which he did, in order to get Carmelo Anthony — was never something he wanted to do.

"I really tried to avoid that," Walsh says. "But Denver insisted on him. I did it because I thought it was worth it to get a guy like Melo, but I also knew that down the line it was going to be viewed as a mistake."

Mozgov with the Knicks in 2010, Photo credit: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

★★★

Timofey Mozgov didn't save the Cavaliers' season. There are simply too many variables, including the acquisitions of Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith, who bolstered the team's depth on the wing. There was alsothe two-week Miami vacation LeBron James took in early January, which seemingly turned him back into the spry and explosive player who has won the league's Most Valuable Player award four times.

But what Timofey Mozgov did do for the Cavaliers' season was change its dynamic, both on and off the court. Cleveland is 33-12 since the trade, and not just because Mozgov gave the team a tall man who could stand in the paint. "He's got a great personality," Lue says. "He's funny as hell."

Sometimes Mozgov makes his teammates laugh by blurting out rap lines while sitting in the locker room. Other times it will be by cursing in Russian. Most recently it was his appearance in a couple of commercials for a local pub called Brew Garden.

In


one of the spots, Mozgov dons a jersey backward and does an Ivan Drago impression while his eyes constantly dart off camera. In the other, he's bantering with a waitress. The production value of both spots makes B-level movies look like Spielberg.

"They're the funniest commercials I've ever seen," says Lue, who added that he planned on showing them to the team during an upcoming film session. Even the most serious of quests can use a bit of levity and Lue likes that Mozgov brings that to the team.

At first, Mozgov was embarrassed. He didn't enjoy feeling like the butt of the jokes. But after some time, and some pushing from agent Andy Miller, he slowly began to embrace the spotlight. "It was his first time doing an endorsementdeal," Miller says. "I think he was kind of just shy about it."

Mozgov has had to make a lot of adjustments since coming to Cleveland. He spent his first few months in the city living out of half-unpacked suitcases in a Ritz Carlton hotel room, before his wife and son came over from Denver. "The place was a mess," Mozgov says. "There was stuff everywhere."

To help with the transition, Mozgov latched on to Vitaly Potapenko, a Ukrainian former NBA player, Russian speaker and now Cavaliers assistant coach. The two of them often go out to dinner together, especially on the road.

During practices and before games, Potapenko works with Mozgov on his post moves. The two work out so frequently, and so intensely, that Lue says the Cavaliers had


to tell him to slow down so as to not burn himself out. (Mozgov is extremely competitive. Irvin, the trainer, tells a story about the time he beat Mozgov one-one-one, only to have his pupil respond by angrily launching the ball across the court.)

Of course, Mozgov didn't get here by slowing down, which is why before games you can still see him banging with Potapenko down on the blocks. It's hard for someone who was never a star to stand out on a team full of them, but the Russian who could barely make a name for himself in his native country is the man in the middle for the favorites in the East.

Not bad for the kid from St. Petersburg who raised his hand.

★★★

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The story
begins with Edward Plumbridge (1838-1917) who had a chain of fruit shops
in London especially at train stations. In those days strawberries were
at least 24 hours old by the time they were sold in London. Edward
thought if people could only taste fresh strawberries they would no
longer want the older ones (amusing today). In 1874 he bought a piece of
land twelve miles from the City in Farnborough, bordering the High
Street. He sent his second son William (1866-1912) down to manage it.

When William’s
son, also Edward (1892-1982), always known as Nett, was a young boy he used to
get up very early on a summer’s morning and hold a candle in a bottle so
that his mother could see to pick the strawberries.

Two ponies would
then trot the strawberries up to the Plumbridge'


London shops for 9am and
another lot went up for twelve noon. This idea seems to have been
successful and Edward is supposed to have been the first person to put
strawberries together with cream!

Edward used to live at 111 Fleet Street and later had Fleetwood
built for himself. This three storey house stood on the corner
of Wellbrook Road, Farnborough Common, near the present hospital
site. It was demolished in the 1960s.

Plan of conveyence Sept
1874, note Brick Field

Edward had one of the first cars in the
neighbourhood (1897) with a chauffeur. Each weekday he would be taken to
Bromley South Station to catch the London train and oversee his business
commitments. Nett used to maintain this car along with his own motor
bike. One day Nett was repairing the car and his father William, who had
never drivena car, said “Let me drive it up to Dad and surprise him!”
He couldn’t control it, cried “Whoa, whoa” and mowed down a row of
poplar trees, thereby damaging the car all over again!

Edward
Plumbridge with his family

William died young, aged 46, when Nett was only 20 and the
farm was then run by Nett on behalf of one of his uncles
although he later inherited it in his own right. He always
called it “the grounds” due to its original description as fruit
grounds. At that time it had fruit, vegetables, chickens,
turkeys and pigs. Also there were two cart horses called Nobby
and Rufus.

Nett worked closely with Edward and learned a lot about the
Plumbridge family history through him. When Edward was young he
was very friendly with the boy who grew up to be Sir


Henry
Irving, the famous Victorian actor. In later years, Edward and
his wife, Louisa, were invited to all his first night
performances in London.

Nett went to Dulwich College and one day in about 1908, jumping onto his
homebound train at the last minute, he shared a carriage with Andrew
Carnegie, who had come to open the library in Bromley which he had
funded. Nett told his granddaughter, Celia, the story of Will Scrivens
who worked on the farm many years ago. Apparently he worked like
clockwork and could plant 1,000 cabbages an hour! In 1916 Nett married
Florence Coleby (1892-1984) and Eric (1918- 1997) was born a few years
later. They lived in Wellclose, the house (belonging to Nett’s mother’s
family) on Farnborough Common near where the laundry used to be. This
house was demolished in 2017.

Farnborough Bypass

This is theconveyancing map
dated 1939. But the OS map used shows the line of
Farnborough bypass before it was built, so the underlying map is
from before 1926.

In 1926 construction began of the bypass for Farnborough.
The map above shows that this would effectively split the farm
in two. The bypass opened in 1927.
By the 1960s continually crossing this road with tractors etc.
was becoming very tiresome, and the part of the farm nearest the
village was sold for housing. This is now the Ladycroft Estate.
To replace this more land was purchased on the further side of
the bypass.

Farnborough Bypass 1930

In both wars farming was ,of course, a reserved occupation so neither
Eric or Nett were in the forces. During the Second World War an air raid
shelter was built on the farm under a great hill of excavated


earth. As
the farm was near Biggin Hill airfield, Eric could see the battle of
Britain going on in the air above him. The shelter was later found to be
useful for storing apples as it was very cold down there!

In 1945 Eric married Barbara Munday (1921-2015) and Celia was born in
1949. There were also two boys, but unfortunately they were too premature
to survive in the 1950s. Before their daughter’s birth they moved into
Branksome Cottage which was a family house next to Fleetwood and is also
no longer standing. Celia remembers playing down at the farm and mid-
morning sandwiches with everyone sat in a circle in the barn, which can
still be seen on the Farnborough by-pass.

The Barn

Selling fruit and vegetables 1960s

There were now no more pigs or horses. She recalls Nett and
Ericbusy in the fields and Flo helping in “the wagon” - the fruit and
vegetable stall. Lots of people came to buy produce in the 1950s, 60s
and 70s. Fruit was in demand for bottling and jam making (freezers were
rare in those days) Also people liked to buy fruit, especially
strawberries and raspberries, for a day out at the coast as the farm was
on the A21 London to Hastings road. As time passed Eric took on more
responsibility although even in later years, Nett, now living in
Hastings, still liked to have a look round on his weekly visits to
Farnborough!

By the start of the 1980s the fruit trade was changing dramatically.
”Pick your own”, supermarkets and freezers altered everything. Eric, at
over 60, was probably too old to adapt. Celia was the only surviving
child, at


the time childless after seven years of marriage, living and
teaching in Somerset, thus unlikely to take over the farm. So in 1983,
after Nett had died and with, it is believed, his blessing, most of the
farm was sold. (It is now the Keniston Estate and one road, nearest the
A21, is called Brickfield Farm Gardens). It was sad - the end of four
generations of the Plumbridge family in Farnborough.

Fifteen family members are buried in St. Giles’ churchyard in Farnborough,
however they worshipped at Bromley Common Baptist Church. There
are four separate graves. The photo shows the two most
elaborate, located side by side by the footpath near the gate
that leads to open fields. The monument shown on the right
was newly erected on the occasion of the most recent burial,
that of Barbara Plumbridge in2015.

Bromley Common Baptist Church was founded by Nett’s maternal
grandfather, Mr. Thomas Nettleton. In fact three of his daughters
married three Plumbridge brothers - hence Nett’s nickname as his mother
Mary was one of that family and his name was actually Edward, William
Nettleton Plumbridge!
Celia Wojcik (nee Plumbridge) 2017

Plumbridge Cottages

The farm may now be gone, but the name Plumbridge lives on, in
the guise of Plumbridge Cottage, situated in Tye Lane in
Farnborough Village.

Tye Lane is an ancient track leading away from the village in a
south westerly direction onto open fields. However the house that
now bears the name is a recent addition - it does not appear on
either of the maps on this page and is thought to be post-war.

The land on which the house is located was not formerly owned
by the family.

Dame School

On


both of the maps on this page a building is shown in the
field opposite the church, on the site of the modern primary
school. On the earlier map this is labelled 'School'. This
was a dame school,

A dame school was an early form of a private elementary school
in England and other English-speaking countries. They were usually
taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher.to drive us since it was quite cold in the early morning!). The house is absolutely beautiful and very interesting,...

Given the amazingly low rates of the Parker House compared to those of other B & B's in the vicinity, I had some skepticism about it but couldn't pass up the opportunity to be a mere block away from friends I was in town to visit. No sooner did I step inside than my skepticism was dashed.
Although the house...

Nestled in the green belt of Clifton Heights in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Parker House Bed and Breakfast is located just two blocks south of the University of Cincinnati and one mile north of downtown. This beautifully restored Victorian mansion was originally built in the 1800s and still maintains its old-world charm


Three from S.A. picked for landmark contemporary art exhibit

:
August 31, 2014

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will host “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now.” The exhibit, which showcases the work of 102 artists from across the nation, opens Sept. 13.

Photo By San Antonio Express-News

Vincent Valdez calls "The Strangest Fruit, " a series of paintings of lynched figures, a defining mark in his career.

Photo By Courtesy Mark Menjivar

Paintings from Vincent Valdez's series “The Strangest Fruit” are part of the exhibit “State of the Art.”

San Antonio artist Chris Sauter will be part of a national survey at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Express-News file photo.

Chris Satuer's "The Whole World" will be included in the Crystal Bridges show. Photo courtesy of Mark Walley.

At 29, MichaelMenchaca is one of the youngest artists in the "State of the Art" exhibit.

Photo By Courtesy Michael Menchaca

A still from the video "Codex Heterogenous, Codex Vidiot Vidi"by Michael Menchaca, which is part of his contribution to the Crystal Bridges exhibit.

Even before the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was built, museum President Don Bacigalupi was thinking about the role of contemporary art at the institution in Bentonville, Arkansas.

"Our founder, Alice Walton, and I were talking about the hope and maybe the responsibility that the museum could, in fact, help people to engage more with contemporary art," Bacigalupi said. "In so many places that I've worked, contemporary art is often the last thing people respond to. They love to go see an exhibition of Iimpressionist paintings or Egyptian art


or Renaissance or baroque paintings, but they forget to pay attention to contemporary art made by artists who live and work in our own time."

Bacigalupi is hoping "State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now" will help change that. The survey exhibition, which runs Sept. 13 through Jan. 19, features work by 102 artists from around the country, including three from San Antonio — Chris Sauter, Vincent Valdez and Michael Menchaca.

During 2013 and 2014, Bacigalupi and assistant curator Chad Alligood traveled around the country to meet more than 900 artists selected from a preliminary list of about 8,000.They began their travels in Texas, where Bacigalupi started his career, serving first as curator of contemporary art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, then as director of the Blafferthat tell our stories,'" Bacigalupi said. "I didn't really think again about that, but when we put together the exhibition and we started looking literally at the faces of these artists and how they indeed represent the story of America in their diversity and their backgrounds and the stories they tell, it really is the American story."

Vincent Valdez

When Bacigalupi and Alligood arrived in San Antonio, Vincent Valdez was working on "The Strangest Fruit," a series of large-scale paintings inspired by the lynchings of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in Texas at the end of the 19th and early part of 20th centuries.

The works depict the contemporary figures of young Latino men in poses that suggest the violent means of their deaths. Physical bonds erased, their limp bodies hover in the


middle of an otherwise blank canvas as if rising into the ether. The title of the series is a reference to "Strange Fruit," the song by Abel Meeropol performed most famously by Billie Holiday.

In the past, the 36-year-old artist — a slight figure with short black hair and a closely cropped beard with hints of silver here and there — has worked on his meticulously detailed paintings one at a time. This time, however, he had multiple canvases going at once in his studio, a space on the near West Side he shares with fiancée Adriana Corral.

"They were really one of the few and one of the first people that got a sort of sneak peek at them," said Valdez, known for tackling socio-political themes dealing with raceand masculine identity in his work

The paintings debuted at Brown University's Bell Gallery, then returned to San Antonio for an exhibit at Artpace. Now three of the paintings are headed to Bentonville, Arkansas, for "State of the Art."

"The way in which Vincent articulated what he was about in that body of work and his ability in his whole career to convey his ideas in paint was remarkable," Bacigalupi said. "There was no question but that we would return to him to see those works finished."Valdez considers the series a "defining mark" in his career.

"I really see them as something new, something fresh that's really sharp in terms of vision, refinement of craft and skill," he said. "I feel like it's clearer than anything I've produced."The exhibition at Crystal


Bridges Museum of American Art is a chance to place his work in a broader context.

"I think most importantly for me, it's great to see that my work fits into a broader context of art, whether it's contemporary art or up-and-coming national artists working in various mediums," he said. "It will be interesting to see (the paintings) pulled out from the collection of other images and placed into an entirely new scope and perspective."

Chris Sauter

In the past, when Chris Sauter has reached milestones in his career, they haven't always jumped out at him as such — at least not at the time.This time, maybe, it's a little different. Being selected for the exhibit at Crystal Bridges is a pretty big deal, the artist acknowledged with a laugh.

"It's amilestone in that it's a national exhibition that kind of acknowledges my work as important enough to be looked at," said Sauter, boyish at 42 with a neatly trimmed blond mustache and beard and steady blue eyes. "I've had some great opportunities and I've been in some exhibitions that were pretty important, but none of them were this kind of scope."

Bacigalupi and Alligood visited Sauter at his East Side studio. A former church, it is a fitting setting for his recent work, sculpture and installation that deal with religious faith and science.

"(It was) a really inspiring conversation with an artist who is deeply engaged in communicating ideas — particularly seeing Chris in his studio and hearing him talk about his interest in the intersection or the tension between


scientific belief and our faith in these different sectors in our lives," Bacigalupi said.

At the end of July, Sauter traveled to Arkansas to install his work at the museum well ahead of the exhibition opening "because the process is kind of messy," Sauter said. "So they didn't want to have to deal with the dust on everybody else's objects."

For the piece titled "The Whole World," he built a telescope and a microscope out of material cut from a freestanding wall. The patterns left on either side of the wall evoke a microscopic slide of organisms and a constellation of stars. The piece is about the origins of humanity and the universe from micro and macro perspectives.

Sauter grew up in the Lutheran church and has a longstanding interest inscience.

"I've been interested in religion for a long time, particularly world religions and the history of religion," he said. "I'm interested in history and origins, and religion is a really good place to delve into those ideas."

Nonetheless, he got a few powerful jolts of culture shock from a handful of fellow students at Texas State University in San Marcos who casually dropped racist jokes and comments. One memorably remarked on the "dirty Mexican mustache" on a cartoon-like cat by Menchaca.

The experience was "a huge change in my life," said the artist, a lanky 29-year-old with dark, wavy hair who is currently working on a master's degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. "That's when I decided to focus on my cultural heritage, and my identity became a


the artist had an installation at Artpace in the Window Works series. They met on the sidewalk in front of the display. Though the conversation was interrupted by street sounds and punctuated by "clunks" and "boings" from the audio accompanying the installation, Menchaca made an impression.

"His ability through his work to talk about the kind of pre-Columbian traditions that he is mining and bringing them up to date in our own kind of American pop culture and talking about issues that are pertinent and present in our own lives, particularly immigration, was so rich and so inviting and kind of seductive," Bacigalupi said.

The "State of the Art" exhibit in Bentonville, Arkansas, will feature a suite of four prints and two videos by Menchaca, one of the younger artistsInternational Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO.
Before STALEY, HASTIE and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

1
In this case the National Labor Relations Board has found the International Union of Operating Engineers, certain of its officers and agents, and Engineers' Local 542 guilty of unfair labor practices.  The wrongs alleged were discriminatory refusals to refer certain union members to a contractor for employment and the inclusion and maintenance of unlawful closed-shop provisions in a collective bargaining contract.  On this petition for enforcement of the Board's order, the principal matter in dispute is the Board's requirement that all of the respondents make whole three members of Local 542, Olin Watkins, Francis McCabe and Joseph Paskert, for earnings lost because of illegal denials of referrals.  The local union and the


parent international union have been repesented by separate counsel and have taken different positions throughout this controversy.

2
The evidence before the Board was adequate to establish that the respondent William McAneny, acting as business agent for Local 542, unlawfully refused to refer each of the three workmen for employment because of the applicant's activity in factional dispute within the union.  It is also clear and not disputed that the wrongs occurred while the local was under a trusteeship imposed by the International, with respondent McAneny functioning as business agent under the control of a trustee appointed by the International President to conduct the affairs of the Local.  Although the present complaint was filed after the termination of the trusteeship, at the times in question the membership ofthe Board though the union was not named in the charges filed by two of the seven discriminatees, and the complaint of the General Counsel for the Board failed to name them as victims of the union's unfair coercion.  Here, though the International was not named in Watkins' charge, it was included in the consolidated complaint of the General Counsel.  Thus, the International was put on notice at every stage in the proceedings before the Board that it would be deemed responsible for the Watkins incident as a part of the single course of conduct alleged as an unfair labor practice.  In this setting, to hold that Watkins was improperly included in the order is to overrule our decision in Midwest Transfer.  The holding