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This is an excellent replay of my interview with Henry Gerris. Today, my guest is Henry Gerris, and Henry is a criminal defense attorney near Bakersfield, CA who has had an interesting journey, transitioning from family law, to eventually doing criminal defense work. It is an interesting story how he attributes his success to the fact that he is a huge fan of Kobe Bryant and has learned a lot from Kobe and how Kobe has spent his life preparing and understanding all the nuances. contacted in What was he facing? Henry has taken that approach and applied it to his law practice. It’s a wonderful tribute to someone who meant so much to them and I think you can see it in what you do for your community. In this episode, Neil and Henry discuss:
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Henry transitions from family law attorney to criminal defense attorney. How Kobe Bryant influenced Henry’s career path and life. Challenges of being a solo or small firm businessman. Useful tool in the practice of Henry’s law. key takeaways:
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Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of where they are from and their walk of life. There is no need to panic if you are prepared to the best of your ability. You don’t need to be great at everything. There are many other professionals on hand to help you run your firm. As with everything, break it down into its smallest components and take it one piece at a time. “I like to think of branding as who we represent. I think empathy, especially in a criminal defense setting, is the missing ingredient in the legal profession. And so we have a slogan, and register it It’s the Customer-Centered Care Council™. And it’s what we stand for. It’s what we do every day. -Henry Gerris
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[Animal News]Don’s paparazzi “Kobe” who went missing in Wan Chai 3 days ago returned home safely. The smart Kobe did not go far, but hid in Lee Tung Street where he usually walks and plays. At about 1:00 am today, when a dog friend took his dog to Lee Tung Street, his dog found and recognized Kobe, so he kept going. Barking, the dog friend also recognized Kobe, and immediately contacted the dog owner Jeremy to recognize him. Jeremy came and yelled Kobe’s name, and Kobe ran to him, and the dog and man reunited safely. Kobe was only about 10 months old. He got lost off his dog leash while walking at 8:30 pm on March 17. At that time, he was hit by a taxi and ran down the Kennedy Road with fright and injuries. Jeremy, a foreign dog owner, and a group of dog friends have been looking for Kobe everywhere these days. At 1:30 this morning, when a dog friend took his dog for a walk on Lee Tung Street, the dog suddenly kept barking. It turned out that the dog was a friend who often played with Kobe, because he found Kobe hiding in Lee Tung Street. Although Kobe was frightened and lost, he did not run around. Instead, he knew how to return to Lee Tung Street where he usually walks, which is only one street away from Jeremy’s house. The dog friend recognized Kobe and immediately contacted Jeremy. Jeremy ran to the scene. When he called Kobe’s name, Kobe ran to him. Jeremy reported his safety on social media, saying that he immediately took the dog to a 24-hour veterinary clinic for examination. Fortunately, the dog was fine except for a few scratches. His weight dropped by 1.3 kg. It is estimated that he has been starving and has no food for the past few days. After returning home, he quickly ate up the meat given by the dog owner, but he dismissed the dog food. Jeremy said with a smile that this is Kobe’s usual style. He also said that he will take good care of Kobe. Related reports:
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Kobe, who got lost a few days ago, ran back to the place where he usually walked with the dog owner, but was finally found by the dog friend and returned home safely. Although Kobe was hit by a car, he was fortunately not seriously injured, only a few bruises. Kobe lost a lot of weight for a few days, and ate all the meat after returning home. The post Know how to run back to the usual walking place The lost puppy came home safely appeared first on Hong Kong Animal Post.

Know how to run back to the usual walking place The lost puppy returned home safely

Former NBA star Kobe Bryant has received a stamp of honor in Hollywood. Vanessa Bryant and her daughters Natalia, 20; Bianka, 6; and Capri, 3, attended an unveiling of her late husband’s foot and handprints on March 13, outside the TCL Chinese Theatre. According to  E! News , the permanent installment of Kobe’s imprints, which were made back in 2011, is the first cement engraving of an athlete at the famous theatre. Following the unveiling, Natalia honored her father with a speech. “Being his daughter is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I hope to continue to embody and cherish the many lessons he has taught me.”
Reportedly, celebrities whose imprints are installed outside the iconic location are normally replaced with another, due to limited space, but Kobe’s will remain. “As you visit here for years to come, I encourage you to place your hands in his and take a moment to stand in his shoes,” Natalia said in her speech commemorating the occasion. “This day symbolizes the impact he had on a city he loved and cared for.”
Commemorations for Kobe have continued since his memorial in 2020. Recently, Vanessa revisited the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to celebrate the retirement of Kobe’s teammate Pau Gasol, as the Lakers hung his jersey next to the legend’s. “I miss him so much like many of us do,” Pau said about Kobe, who he considered a brother, adding, he “elevated me, inspired me, challenged me to be a better player, just to be a better man overall.”
“Pau was special to Kobe as a teammate, as a man, and as a friend,” Vanessa said in an introductory video . “Pablo, Kobe predicted you and he would be together in the rafters.”
As previously reported by BLACK ENTERPRISE, Kobe died in January 2020 in a private helicopter crash in Calabasas, CA. Vanessa and Kobe’s daughter Gianna also lost her life as a passenger aboard the aircraft.

Vanessa Bryant Honors Late Kobe Bryant at Handprint Unveiling in LA

Former Lakers star Pau Gasol speaks to fans as his jersey No. 16 is retired in a halftime ceremony during the Lakers’ game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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LOS ANGELES — Kobe, we missed you Tuesday. Kobe, you were well represented. 16 jersey, hanging it in the rafters of Crytpo.com Arena, beside Kobe Bryant’s Nos. 8 and 24 – those men indelibly linked, their numbers symmetrically ordered, perfect companions still. Teammates, friends, hermanos. The Black Mamba and Black Swan, luminaries in the Lakers’ kingdom, complementary forces who worked together for NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. Kobe earmarked that space in those rafters for Gasol, of course. Back in 2018, he told an interviewer at an Oscars event: “Pau, when he retires, he will have his number in the rafters next to mine. Reality is, I don’t win those championships without Pau. The city of L.A. doesn’t have those two championships without Pau Gasol. We know that, everybody knows that. “And I really look forward to the day when he’s there giving his speech at center court, in front of all the fans who supported him over the years.”
They showed that video at halftime Tuesday, when fans gathered to offer, on behalf of a city, a heartfelt and lasting thank you to the 42-year-old Spaniard who was always such a class act, such a gracious and game warrior on the court for seven seasons with the Lakers. To cheer him and to cry with him as he paid tribute to Bryant, who died along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in January 2020. His cheeks wet with tears, Gasol described Bryant as “the brother who elevated me, inspired me and challenged me to be a better player, just to be a better overall human.”
Tears. Pau’s. His fans’. pic.twitter.com/JKElmxRsMy
The sellout crowd punctuated his sentiments with a roar, chanting “Ko-be! Ko-be!”
And Gasol responded like a friend, a friend commiserating with friends: “I miss him so much,” he said. “I love him. I wish he was here with GiGi, I really do. But I think he’ll be proud.”
If you’re a Lakers fan, the odds are you remember where you were on Feb. 1, 2008, when the team acquired Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies. It was that monumental a moment, such a proud moment in the franchise’s history, a steal of a deal that resulted in three consecutive NBA Finals appearances, including the two titles. “He’s a high-IQ basketball player, extremely versatile, very talented,” Bryant told broadcaster John Ireland that night in a postgame interview on KCAL-TV. “It says a lot about the organization … and the commitment that they make to winning.”
He spelled that out for Gasol soon after, knocking on his new teammate’s hotel room door at 1:30 a.m.
“I found out,” Gasol later recalled in a Sports Illustrated piece , “that Kobe doesn’t sleep much.”
Gasol’s memories of that conversation remained vivid even in 2016, on the event of Bryant’s retirement: “I sat on the bed, and he sat on the table next to the TV. He welcomed me to the team, and then he told me it was ‘go’ time. It was winning time. He felt I could take him to the top again, and he wanted to make sure I knew that. ‘This is our chance,’ he said. It was powerful and meaningful.”
And it was the first of many very early morning communications. “There’s been times where I texted him at 3 in the morning: ‘Be ready to play tomorrow,’” Bryant said after the Lakers’ series-clinching victory over Denver in the 2009 Western Conference finals. “And then he’ll send a text right back so I know we’re on the same wavelength.”
What it was: A beautiful partnership. Gasol joined forces with a superstar whose bag – about 1,000 leagues deep – included an encyclopedia of moves and a multitude of languages, too. Italian, Gasol’s native Spanish, the universal language of basketball – and the much more exclusive and sometimes severe dialect of winning. “He definitely inspired me and showed me what it took to be the best player that he could be,” Gasol said before the Lakers’ tipped off against Memphis, the team with which he played his first seven NBA seasons. “The work ethic, the dedication, the mindset going into it. He challenged me to get better with his actions, with his work, and also with … he was very intentional with his actions. I was in. I was all the way in. I would go as far as he would want me to go. I wanted to win.”
And, Gasol reasoned: “We didn’t win those championships, we wouldn’t be sitting here.”
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But, as Bryant told us, without Gasol, the Lakers wouldn’t have those championships. Can’t discuss Gasol the basketball champion without mentioning Gasol, the champion of humanity. A philanthropist and a role model, he spent Monday at Lafayette Park Recreation Center in L.A. , at one of his foundation’s children’s wellness programs. And he closed his remarks Tuesday by promising to keep doing good. “To those who much is given, much is expected,” Gasol said. “I’ll continue giving my life to impacting others, to making a difference, to inspiring, to helping others. To making this world a healthier and better place.”
That includes close to home, with his devotion to Bryant’s family, to Kobe’s widow, Vanessa, and to the Bryant children, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, who know Gasol as “Uncle Pau.”
You could feel the appreciation for that too Tuesday, when the “Ko-be” chants gave way to another rousing refrain, for the other half of an exquisite pairing, a winning one. “Pau Gasol!” they chanted. “Pau Gasol!”
Pau Gasol's full jersey retirement ceremony speech 💜💛 #GraciasPau pic.twitter.com/RDIN0M3rzw

Swanson: Paying tribute to Pau Gasol – and Kobe Bryant, too

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) (9988.HK) is a business-to-business internet service provider for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to trade within China or export to other countries. It aims to build next-generation infrastructure for businesses applying carbon-free measures. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Hangzhou, China.

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Andrea Fairchild , President of Kobe Inc. commented : `` As Kobe Inc. looks to expand in China , the partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Sina will help us reach a vast number of Chinese youth who are looking to reach their full potential and be inspired by others .

Kobe Bryant creating Kobe-branded products, social media site in China – LSI Media

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These companies offer tech-enabled solutions to connect influencers with advertisers, facilitate the creation and management of influencer campaigns, as well as provide tools and services to the influencer community.

Influencer & Content Creator Tech

Companies that are a subset of e-commerce that introduce social elements into the online purchasing experience. This includes peer-to-peer selling, group buying, influencer networks (including influencer marketing agencies), and technology that enables social selling. 

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Kobe is an AI-driven platform connecting brands with influencers. Businesses outline the results they want from social media users, the platform uses an algorithm to match them with influencers, and businesses can accept or reject campaigns. Influencers are compensated.

Date	Round	Amount	Investors	Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model.	Revenue	Sources
10/25/2017	Incubator/Accelerator - II		Unilever Foundry		0 FY undefined	1
7/4/2017	Incubator/Accelerator		Subscribe to see more		0 FY undefined	10

Date	10/25/2017	7/4/2017
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Investors	Unilever Foundry	Subscribe to see more
Valuation
Revenue	0 FY undefined	0 FY undefined
Sources	1	10

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10/25/2017	10/25/2017	Unilever Foundry	1 Incubator/Accelerator - II		Incubator/Accelerator	United Kingdom
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Investor	Unilever Foundry	MaGIC Global Accelerator Programme
Rounds	1 Incubator/Accelerator - II	Subscribe to see more
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Type	Incubator/Accelerator	Incubator/Accelerator
Location	United Kingdom	Malaysia

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