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Ford is one of those few examples where the clichéd phrase "does not need an introduction" actually applies. The age-old manufacturer can pride itself by not only laying the foundation for the automobile industry, but also having revolutionized the entire way we think of transportation and the modern industrial society.
Who drives a Ford?
The driver of a Ford knows that he or she is driving a piece of American history. One can with certainty claim that Ford is one, if not the, most famous car companies – and possibly one of strongest, most recognizable brands overall. Ford is a staple in culture, ranging from the Model T, being the preferred vehicle of transport of Great Depression robbers Bonnie and Clyde to the classic yellow Deuce Coupe in American Graffiti. A seemingly endless list.
Rarity & Exclusivity
Describing Ford, the world's fourth larger carmaker with a yearly output of around five billion automobiles, as something exclusive might seem look a tough task at first glance. In fact, there is much more to Ford than silent movie-era vehicles and modern-day Mondeos. Classic muscle cars like the Mustang, Shelby and Torino, many commanding a premium price, guarantee that Ford is still a major player on the market of a conscious collector.


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LOS ANGELES — Even Doc Rivers got weary of the two-week saga of his move to the Los Angeles Clippers. He thought the unusual deal was dead several times, and he insists he really didn't mind the prospect of returning to the Boston Celtics.
"I felt like I was the only guy in all this that was in a win-win," Rivers said.
The Clippers think they've got plenty of winning in store after landing one of the NBA's most respected veteran coaches.
The Clippers formally introduced Rivers at their training complex Wednesday after dealing a first-round pick to the Celtics. Rivers was simply grateful to end his self-described "strange ordeal" ever since the Celtics floated the possibility of moving the NBA's highest-paid coach to a talented team determined to replace Vinny Del Negro with a topflight leader.
"The reason I wanted this when it was made available was because of what we have," said Rivers, who also will be the Clippers' senior vice president of basketball operations. "I clearly think this is an extremely talented basketball team. There were times last year they were the best team. I like the talent we have here."
Rivers believes the Clippers have the ingredients to be a title contender, although unrestricted free agent Chris Paul is a major part of that recipe. Rivers' arrival is widely expected to cinch a new deal for CP3 — and Rivers believes their partnership will lead to chances for championships.
"We're going for it, let there be no mistake," Clippers President Andy Roeser said. "We're going for it. We want to win, and we think Doc will help us get there."
Rivers largely sat out the negotiations about his fate over the last two weeks, staying at his offseason home in Orlando while Celtics President Danny Ainge and the Clippers' top brass hammered out details of the move. Rivers gave up on the deal multiple times, even discussing the Celtics' roster for next season with Ainge on Sunday, convinced he would return for a 10th season in Boston.
Rivers turned off his phone and watched his youngest son, Spencer, in an AAU game. When he turned it back on, he found out he might be on the move after all — and a few hours later, the deal was done.
With all of his formal clothes in Boston, Rivers couldn't even wear a suit when he headed out to the West Coast to accept his next coaching challenge.
"Things always find their path," Rivers said. "This took a long and winding path, but it found a way. ... I didn't intend it to be this way. I didn't want it to be this way. Danny and I thought it was something we would explore, and it would be quick."
But it's finally over, and Rivers has started to consider what he'll do with his new team, which won a franchise-record 56 games and its first Pacific Division title last season, only to lose to Memphis in the first round of the postseason. Rivers is eager to improve the Clippers' defense while maximizing the potential of Blake Griffin and Paul, whose return is the franchise's top offseason priority.
Paul and Griffin didn't attend the news conference, but backup big men Ronny Turiaf and Ryan Hollins showed up for a look at their new coach. Rivers said he had already spoken to most of his new players and most of the Celtics.
"Very excited about the future with Coach Rivers and his staff," Griffin tweeted. "Can't wait to get to work. Thanks for all the support clipnation!"
Rivers was understandably cagey about any conversations with Paul, who was widely thought to desire an established, veteran coach in Los Angeles. Roeser has been steadfastly confident the Clippers will hang on to CP3, and Rivers' arrival only made him more optimistic.
"I think we're just going to have to wait until he makes his decision and signs his contract, but all the indications are that he likes Doc and respects him," Roeser said of Paul.
Rivers was greeted in Playa Vista by a huge Hollywood media contingent, baffling a few longtime Clippers employees used to toiling in the glitzy Lakers' shadow. With each passing month, the Clippers are stealing the spotlight from the 16-time champions who share their hallway at Staples Center.
"I don't understand what the fuss is," Roeser said with a laugh. "It's not even the first time we gave up a first-round pick for Doc."
Roeser referred to the 1991 trade that brought the veteran point guard to the Clippers for one season in 1991-92. Rivers wore Los Angeles' No. 25 jersey that year — the same number on the ceremonial jersey he held Wednesday to herald his return.
Rivers' front-office title means he'll have a say in the Clippers' personnel moves, but Rivers clearly indicated he's only one part of a decision-making team including Roeser and Gary Sacks, their vice president of basketball operations.
"I think titles don't mean that much," Roeser said. "What matters is we're going to sit down together and find a way to make this team better."
Roeser confirmed the Clippers won't be making any player transactions with Boston in the near future, but said the Clippers "will be active in the free-agent market." A reunion between Rivers and Kevin Garnett in Los Angeles remains unlikely after the NBA banned any potential trades including both men, but Rivers seems confident the Clippers already have enough talent to be even better.
"That's the only reason I'm coaching, is to try to win titles," Rivers said. "We've got to prove we can win a series first."

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I swear
in the presence of the Almighty and before my family, my teachers and my peers that according to my ability and judgment I will keep this Oath and Stipulation.
To reckon
all who have taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents and in the same spirit and dedication to impart a knowledge of the art of medicine to others. I will continue with diligence to keep abreast of advances in medicine. I will treat without exception all who seek my ministrations, so long as the treatment of others is not compromised thereby, and I will seek the counsel of particularly skilled physicians where indicated for the benefit of my patient.
I will follow
that method of treatment which according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient and abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous. I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform the utmost respect for every human life from fertilization to natural death and reject abortion that deliberately takes a unique human life.
With purity
, holiness and beneficence I will pass my life and practice my art. Except for the prudent correction of an imminent danger, I will neither treat any patient nor carry out any research on any human being without the valid informed consent of the subject or the appropriate legal protector thereof, understanding that research must have as its purpose the furtherance of the health of that individual. Into whatever patient setting I enter, I will go for the benefit of the sick and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief or corruption and further from the seduction of any patient.
Whatever in connection
with my professional practice or not in connection with it I may see or hear in the lives of my patients which ought not be spoken abroad, I will not divulge, reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
While I continue
to keep this Oath unviolated may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art and science of medicine with the blessing of the Almighty and respected by my peers and society, but should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse by my lot.


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Are you having headaches and unusual sleep patterns? And your mind won't stop chatting and thinking, then you may have the crown chakra opening symptoms.
Listed below are some of the common crown chakra opening symptoms.
The healing process leads to changes in various behavioral patterns of a being.
Seclusion is a great symptom of the process and some obvious changes can be noted.
One tends to have a different perspective on life and things.
A change of friends circle happens i.e loss of some friends or even the creation of new friendships and relationships.
There might be certain changes in the personal lifestyle such as new interests and even new hobbies.
All this happens due to a self-learning process that one goes through in an attempt to become more self-aware.
As the saying goes; 'the more you learn, the less you speak', one might tend to have less talk or even engage in small talk with a certain urge to have meaningful conversations with people.
During the healing process, there is a constant struggle between the negative thoughts/vibrations/memories with the human brain.
The human mind is observed to be in resistance to change and therefore there is a struggle to maintain the status quo.
The deep desire to hold on to the negative thoughts, the negative ideas, and even the negative memories.
As a result, the body reacts and certain symptoms such as headaches are observed.
In addition, one might feel itchy at the top of the head as well as have some irritating sensation on the neck.
One's constant thoughts might also lead to fatigue of the brain and how does the brain respond when overwhelmed?
But all these eventually stop once one has mastered the art of the healing process and finally attained spiritual connection.
One undergoing the process might face some food behavioral changes.
The thought process which happens in the brain directly connects to the biological part of the body and one reason which can be pointed out is that the mind needs nourishment.
The process might, therefore, force one to lose his/her appetite and in addition result in certain craving of certain foods.
It may also apparently lead to some memories/thoughts of certain foods or even some food events.
The connection and healing process can really interfere with the normal sleeping cycle.
In some cases one tends to have different sleeping hours from the normal ones, for example, one might tend to start sleeping at three in the middle of the night.
In most cases, the number of sleep hours reduces from the actual 7-8 hours of average human beings. One might also end up waking up earlier than the average human being.
The reduced sleeping hours might be a result of thoughts as one tends to have, discussions, and internalization of ideas therefore one may not want to sleep that much.
In addition, one might produce a lot of sweat during sleep. However in some cases, one might tend to sleep so much as a result of fatigue due to the constant thought process, sleep brings about some level of relaxation to the mind and body as well.


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RootsTech was three weeks ago and I've not finished all the stories I wanted to write. My memory's mush, however. It's time to ketchup…
Dirk Weissleder
In the media center at RootsTech I got to meet Dirk Weissleder, National Chairman of the German Federation of Genealogical Societies. Dirk has over thirty years in genealogy and he opened the 64th Deutscher Genealogentag (German Genealogical Convention) on 31 August 2012.
DearMYRTLE had an opportunity to interview him.
If you can't see the video above, see it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BuJYiEAVLI.
Other RootsTechs
Read about the Houston RootsTech event in an article in the Cypress Creek Mirror. Interestingly, one of the local classes there was one about Google searches that was taught by a Google employee. I can see how these satellite events can tap into local talent and highlight local records and search strategies.
While I've never heard anything else from the other locations affiliated with RootsTech, I did come across a couple of pictures:
Houston: http://web.stagram.com/p/418852775163338210_290284870
Kansas City: http://web.stagram.com/p/417368225200771007_144712082
One Billion Records Indexed?
In the days leading up to RootsTech FamilySearch announced that indexers had indexed 984 million records since indexing began in September of 2006. They hoped that the billionth record would be indexed at RootsTech. There would be unspecified prizes for the indexers and the arbitrator of that billionth record.
I never heard another word.
I've gone looking and found a graphic posted on the FamilySearch Indexing Facebook page on 29 March 2013 that gives the number of records indexed as 989,999,999.
RootsTech Developer Challenge
Part of the original vision of RootsTech was to bring together technology developers with technology users. With this year's RootsTech, that goal seems to have slipped from the objectives. However, there was still a developer's day with special classes for developers.
And once again there was a developers challenge. Nearly 20 developers participated in the 2013 developer challenge by submitting projects that demonstrated technical innovations for family history. From these, a panel of judges selected six finalists.
|Project Name
|Submitted By
|Tom Auga & Chris Giesey
|Completely Relative
(MS Windows App Store)
|Benjamin Godard
|Hope Chest
|Eric Vance
|Jaehoon Lee
|Jill N. Crandell
|Tammy Hepps
When winners were announced on Friday we were told to visit http://rootstech.org/challenges/overview for full details. Unfortunately, that page hasn't been updated to show the winners. (Yes, it's true—the RootsTech website this year was never kept up to date.) According to my cryptic notes, BrowseHero and OurFamilyHealth were category winners and Treelines.com was the overall winner.
Congratulations to the developers of these new, innovative products.
That's a wrap. See you at NGS…


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Welcome to Floating Zendo, we are a Sangha practicing Soto Zen in the Bay Area since 1999 under the guidance of our teacher, Angie Boissevain, Sensei.
We offer weekly meditation on Tuesday nights 6:30-8:00 pm at the San Jose Friend's Meeting House on 1041 Morse St., with longer meditations once a month on Saturdays (also in San Jose) and an annual week-long sesshin.
Bring your own cushion, or use the pillows and chairs available. Beginners are welcome and individual instruction is provided upon request.
- For the first ten minutes, we do walking meditation (kinhin) which allows for late arrivals to remove their shoes and join the circle.
- For seated meditation (zazen) we face the wall with our eyes half-closed and maintain silence. The sound of the bell tells us when to begin and when to end.
- For the first ten minutes, we do walking meditation (kinhin) which allows for late arrivals to remove their shoes and join the circle.
On Tuesday nights after sitting meditation and a short service, Angie comments on a study text, which can be a foundational sutra, the writings of Dogen, or contemporary commentary on Buddhist literature. The nature of the self and how to know this self are recurring themes during these studies.
As a community of lay practitioners centered in San Jose, we approach the precepts practically, asking how they can be applied to our daily lives. We are very grateful to be students of a dedicated and wise teacher in the evolving lineage of American Zen Buddhism.
Although we do not maintain a permanent zendo, there are many opportunities for service and socialization in the San Jose area.
"…we are all connected to that empty circle at the top of the lineage chart, with not only all the many names that follow the red line down, but with the countless others those names stand for, including myriad women."
"Zazen practice brings us back to our only-ness, our aloneness, our oneness. It helps us face the lies and the sometimes difficult truth of how our life is going. Even when we discover mistakes and lies we've been hiding from our self, in the end there's a tremendous freshness and a great relief to be honest. ….Our only activity is to return to the present, to be this right now place. " Angie Boissevain, Seeds of Virtue, Seeds of Change… pp. 106-108
Weekly Zoom Meeting
During the coronavirus pandemic, our regular meeting place at the San Jose Friends Meeting House is not available.
We are meeting online via Zoom:
Meditation and Dharma Talk or Dharma Study Session
Tuesday evening: 5:30 to 7:00 PM via Zoom
For information and a link to the Zoom meeting, contact the Floating Zendo Secretary at: [email protected]


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For three weeks during the summer of 1998, Kobe Bryant lived in the New Jersey mansion of hip-hop record executive Steve Stoute. Bryant was there to try on the role of rap star, but since he was also training to be the next Michael Jordan, basketball consumed most of his time. Every morning, he'd drive to nearby Ramapo College and shoot 2,000 jump shots. Sometimes, Stoute would shuttle in streetball players from New York to help Bryant brush up on his defense. By sundown every day, though, he was tasked with absorbing "the lifestyle," a kind of initiation into the late-'90s world of rap royalty.
That was the idea, anyway. At the time, Stoute was president of urban music for Sony Entertainment, and he'd recently signed Bryant and his group CHEIZAW1 to the label. He'd moved Bryant from Los Angeles to New York that summer to, Stoute says, be around the gilded hip-hop industry. Stoute, a marketing whiz and big-picture specialist, was reaching unseen heights in the industry, having recently orchestrated Will Smith's comeback rap album, the nine-times platinum Big Willie Style. He thought he could do the same for Kobe Bryant. Basketball came naturally to the 20-year-old. Hip-hop was going to take some work.
But Bryant was up for it. When he wasn't playing ball, he was recording at the Hit Factory with late-'90s producers par excellence the Trackmasters and their stable of artists, which included Nas, Noreaga, Punch and Words, Nature, and a young scrapper named 50 Cent. Bryant lived it up in New York. He routinely went clubbing with Stoute2 and dined at Mr. Chow,3 the Chinese restaurant favored by the nouveau riche.
None of that impressed him, though. Bryant was in love with the purest form of hip-hop, and he wanted a challenge: to battle the pros.
He got his wish one night at the Hit Factory, when he teamed with CHEIZAW member Broady Boy to take on Punch and Words. Bryant, typically unflappable, maintained his composure at the outset. Upon entering the fray, he rapped: "I quantum leap into the future and battle myself." After a few rounds, Broady ran out of lyrics and the sparring session wound down. Kobe then chided his teammate.4 "Yo, you got to be in lyrical fitness, man," Bryant told Broady, referencing a well-known lyric by the rapper Canibus.
"You could tell he was influenced by Canibus," says Words, citing the snarling MC who was then the standard-bearer in battle rap. "Kobe had a quality of lyrics. When he got into the cipher, you didn't look at him as just Kobe. You looked at him as a dude that could rhyme and if you sleep on him, you could get embarrassed."
Blessed with talent and a maniacal drive to succeed, a rap career would seem a manageable goal. So why did Kobe Bryant fail as a rapper?
By the time Bryant's pursuit began, the trend of athletes moonlighting as musicians was losing its novelty. Shaquille O'Neal had a surprisingly competent verse on FU-Schnickens' 1993 hit "What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock?)" and followed it up with a platinum album (1993's Shaq Diesel) and a gold album (1994's Shaq-Fu: Da Return). But his latest, 1996's You Can't Stop the Reign, peaked at 82 on the Billboard 200, signaling a slowing market.
There were other signs. The compilation album B-Ball's Best Kept Secret, released in November 1994, featured songs from Gary Payton, Jason Kidd, and Cedric Ceballos. It lives on as the centerpiece of most "worst rapping athlete" listicles. The following month, Deion Sanders's Prime Time debuted at 70 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Bryant's foray into hip-hop would be just as disastrous. After his pseudo-rap fantasy camp in New York ended, he recorded intermittently. A spring 2000 release date was set for Visions, his debut album. But after the first single stalled, the album was never released. By the end of 2000, Sony had dropped Bryant from the label. Kobe Bryant has never revealed what went wrong.
Philadelphia has a rich, oft-overlooked history in hip-hop. Cool C, Three Times Dope, Schoolly D, DJ Cash Money, and, of course, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince laid the foundation in the '80s. By the time Bryant was a student at Lower Merion High School in the mid-'90s, Philly's sound mirrored what was happening just 95 miles north in New York. "All of them were on some lyrical indie hip-hop shit," says former radio DJ Bobbito Garcia, a 1984 graduate of Lower Merion.
That's where the similarities end. With the record companies located primarily in New York, the scene was still very much based on networking and nebulous connections — a cousin who knew someone in Russell Simmons's office or a friend of a friend interning at Bad Boy. Artists strove to get their demos into the right hands. Meanwhile in Philly, rappers on the cusp won exposure and credibility in a more traditional way: They battled.
Bryant was born in Philadelphia but moved when he was 6 years old, after his father Joe "Jellybean" Bryant signed with a professional basketball team in the central Italian city of Rieti. When Bryant returned to Philly at the age of 14, he met Anthony Bannister, a 16-year-old working at the Jewish community center on City Avenue where Joe Bryant was the fitness director. "Kobe was 14, skinny, wiry but passionate and determined," Bannister recalls about first meeting Kobe in 1992. They quickly bonded over basketball and beats. At first, Bannister was Bryant's rap cicerone, providing a crash course on the golden age of hip-hop Bryant had missed while living abroad. Bryant took up rhyming soon after, battling in the Lower Merion lunchroom and pounding out beats for other MCs with a pencil and eraser.
Bryant also befriended the best rapper in school, Kevin "Sandman" Sanchez, who taught him about breath control and enunciation. At the time, Bannister, who knew Sanchez from the scene, was scouting MCs with the intention of forming a group; he fancied himself a RZA-like mastermind. With Bryant and Sanchez already in the fold, Bannister added Broady Boy and Jester. The group drew its name from the Chi Sah gang in the Shaw Brothers kung fu flick The Kid With the Golden Arm; they later altered it to the acronym CHEIZAW.5
"I thought we were the best in the city at that time," Bannister says. "Kobe was nice, man. He was lyrical. I wouldn't have put him in the group if he wasn't."
Bannister, sitting on a bench in Rittenhouse Square on a cold Monday afternoon in early April, is nostalgic about those days. There are too many memories of times with friends now estranged. He remembers one night when the CHEIZAW gang left a show at Gotham, an old club on Delaware Avenue, stopped by Rittenhouse Square, and rhymed all night.
They rapped everywhere together. CHEIZAW battled at South Street, Parkside, Temple University, an underground mall called the Gallery, and Belmont Plateau, which was immortalized in DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Summertime." Bryant, who called himself The Eighth Man, often didn't battle other crews but always rhymed in what Sanchez calls the group's internal sparring sessions.
Al Price, a Philly MC from the group Black Ops, recalls one such session at Broady's apartment. "In a room full of hungry underground MCs, he was just another hungry underground MC," Price says. "Kobe liked to catch you off guard. He liked the competitive part of it. He liked to dig into the beat and flow and mess with rhythms and tone and pitches. You could tell, he wasn't dope by accident."
"Kobe was talented," Sanchez says. "I remember when the movie Solo came out with Mario Van Peebles, Kobe wrote this rhyme about him being a cyborg destroying MCs."
CHEIZAW soon added the producer Russell Howard, Sanchez's friend Sai Bey, and, at the behest of Charlie Mack, Will Smith's former bodyguard who briefly advised the group, a female MC named Akia Stone. Now a budding national celebrity thanks to his dominance at Lower Merion, Bryant announced he was bypassing college to enter the NBA draft. In June 1996, the Charlotte Hornets drafted Bryant with the 13th pick, and then, in one of the most lopsided trades in NBA history, sent his rights to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac. Everyone in CHEIZAW had big plans and Kobe was going to be their meal ticket. But things quickly went awry for the group.
It's impossible to tell the story of Kobe Bryant's rap career without telling the story of Kevin Sanchez, the man responsible for molding Bryant into an MC.
On July 27, 1996, a man concealing his face with a Stroehmann bread bag robbed the 7-Eleven on City Avenue. The clerk told police the thief was 5-foot-8 and 120 pounds, with dark eyes. Sanchez, who is 6 feet and 185 pounds and green-eyed, says he was at the Jewish community center rhyming with Bryant, Bannister, and others at the time of the crime. Still, the clerk picked him out of a lineup. Sanchez was arrested.
Sanchez remained in contact with Bryant before his September 1998 trial; Bryant helped post his bail, according to Bannister, and appeared at a preliminary hearing. Sometimes, Bryant called him asking for "some energy" before games. Sanchez would then sit in his car and rhyme over the phone to Bryant. "For some dumb reason, I thought I had something to do with him scoring 30," Sanchez says. "I was silly like that."
Sanchez's trial lasted two days. Five eyewitnesses couldn't identify him, but he was found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to five to 10 years in prison; Bryant paid for Bannister to fly in from Los Angeles to testify, but Bryant didn't appear at the trial. After the conviction, a juror told the Philadelphia Daily News that Bryant's testimony could have swayed the jury. Nearly 15 years later, Sanchez isn't bitter. "It wasn't Kobe's fault I went to jail. I don't blame him," he says. "We didn't think we'd need him. It was a false ID. There was no way we were going to lose."
Sanchez spent 15 months in prison before a judge granted his request for a new trial. Out on bail, he got his old job back working maintenance at a beauty salon, and had courtside seats waiting for him whenever the Lakers were in town. But the district attorney challenged the appeal and Sanchez returned to prison. He was released in early 2007 after serving five years. He's still a Lakers fan.
"No one can tell me nothing about my team," he says. "I ride and die for them." Kobe Bryant is his favorite player. And whenever he plays roulette in Atlantic City, he always puts his money on number 8 and number 24.
When the group signed with Sony, CHEIZAW consisted of Kobe, Broady Boy, Anthony Bannister (who went by the name Tréoz), Russell Howard, Akia Stone, and Sai Bey; unhappy with the structure of the contract, Jester refused to sign.6
Stoute and the Trackmasters signed CHEIZAW shortly after hearing Bryant rhyme one night at a studio session. Jerrod Washington, a former special teams player for the New England Patriots who eventually became his brother-in-law and music manager, brought Bryant to the studio that night. But a group project wasn't meant to be. "I just felt like, I'm going to sign the group and slowly but surely I'm sure they would all fall out and we would have a Kobe record," Stoute says. "It's a natural thing that happens with new success — friends change, things grow apart. L.A. Reid taught me that. L.A. Reid signed Toni Braxton and all her sisters just to sign Toni Braxton."
With CHEIZAW in Los Angeles and at work on new music, Sony strategized ways to make Bryant a superstar. He rhymed at a concert thrown by the legendary Los Angeles radio duo Sway and Tech7 and recorded a short verse for a remix of Brian McKnight's "Hold Me." He even appeared on a song with his frenemy Shaq-Fu.
That song, which is called "3 X's Dope," appears on O'Neal's 1998 album Respect. It features the female rapper Sonja Blade, who was writing for Shaq at the time,8 and a third rapper not listed in the credits who kicks off the track. Kobe Bryant is that rapper. Some say Bryant's name wasn't listed for label-clearance reasons (Shaq recorded for A&M). Others say the song was meant to be a surprise. It was recorded in early 1998 in Los Angeles with legendary hip-hop producer Clark Kent. At first Bryant sat quietly while Kent finished composing the song. O'Neal kept the mood light, cracking jokes and talking trash to his little bro.
"You got to come with your A-game, son. You got to come with your A-game."
Bryant didn't back down.
"Nah, I'm ready, son. I got mines."
Then he stepped into the booth. Bryant memorized his verse, but he rapped too fast, zooming past the tempo of the production. By the third take he'd nailed it. "When he laid that down, the whole studio erupted because it was like, 'This guy is not playing.' This was not A-B-C stuff," Sonja Blade says, laughing. "I couldn't listen to his verse for years."
I recently played Bryant's verse for Sonja Blade.
"You know what's funny? He sounds dope," she says afterward. "Compared to the rappers today, he's dope. He sounds like an underground backpack rapper. It don't even sound like Kobe Bryant. I would want to hear more from this kid if I didn't know who he was. That's funny. Nobody raps like that anymore. Yo, he came there to prove a point. He put thought into that. I couldn't hear it for years when everyone joked about it. Now hearing it, he doesn't sound bad."
Clark Kent has a different take on Bryant's performance. "He just seemed like one of those guys that wanted to be good so bad that he was trying to use the most intelligent [words] and have the sick vernacular. It was like, 'Calm down, duke. Just rap.' He was the lyrical-miracle-genius-type rapper."
I played the record again for Clark, too.
"Hilarious. It's just funny because knowing that we was there and he was rapping was hilarious. He was like this little basketball dude This was his second year [in the NBA] so he was dumb young. He thought he was a rapper." Kent giggles. "Oh my God, hilarious. I don't even want to talk about this anymore."
With Bryant camped out in the studio, Sony continued to emphasize the marketing campaign. The label sought ways to capitalize on his youth, NBA fame, and growing music industry ties — escorting Brandy to his prom and appearing in the Destiny's Child video for "Bug A Boo." (To secure his bona fides, Bryant was willing to take on all comers, including Toronto Raptors point guard Alvin Williams at All-Star Weekend.)9 The crux of the label's plan, however, was eliminating the group.
The project gradually shifted, from a CHEIZAW album to a Kobe Bryant featuring CHEIZAW album to a Kobe Bryant solo album. Sony also steered Bryant toward a radio-friendly pop sound. Like most battle rappers, notably his hero Canibus, Bryant struggled with the shift. He made odd choices, like attempting to rhyme over "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" from Star Wars. Sean "S-dot" Francis, a producer from Philadelphia, was brought in to provide a sleeker sound. Stoute and Jay-Z10 were fans of S-dot's work.
Meanwhile, Anthony Bannister didn't approve of the changes. He wasn't a fan of what he calls "Mickey Mouse Club music" and felt Bryant growing distant. One morning in November 1999, the two old friends had breakfast in Santa Monica. Later, while grabbing a pint of Ben & Jerry's from a grocery store, Bryant pointed to a magazine at the checkout counter.
This is where I'm headed.
Will Smith was on the cover.
Nah, Kob, you're bigger than that. You bigger than that lyrically, artistically. Don't go that pop route. Don't go the Will Smith route. Go with what you know. You know about Lodi Avenue, Parkside Avenue, your grandma is from the hood.
Bannister returned to Philadelphia a few days later.
Visions' first single needed to be special. One day in the studio, S-dot played the trumpets from the Sugar Hill Gang's 1980 single "8th Wonder" on his keyboard. Jerrod Washington quickly jotted down a chorus that matched the melody: "K-O-B-E, I L-O-V-E you / And I think you are very fine / If you give me one chance I promise to love you / And be with you forever more."
Lenny Nicholson, a Sony A&R at the time, brainstormed an idea to sweeten the song: Tyra Banks. The supermodel, seen above with S-dot, would sing the song's syrupy hook, an idea the suits at Sony were ecstatic about.11
"The marketing and promo people had everyone sold that they were going to make it a no. 1 record," says former Columbia A&R Rich Nice. "Someone said to me, 'Yo, it's going to be great for the video. It's gonna look fantastic.' It's gonna look good, but shit, it'll still sound crazy."
The single debuted in January 2000. A performance at All-Star Weekend that month — complete with Bryant in a leopard print hat and leather suit, Lakers jersey–bearing backup dancers, and Tyra warbling the chorus — was a fiasco. The blowback was brutal and the Hype Williams–directed video was banished, never to be seen by the public.12 "K.O.B.E." confirmed skeptics' worst fears: The song was a transparent gimmick, and Kobe Bryant was a novelty rap act. Suddenly, his rap career appeared doomed.13 "It got to the point where it started getting wack juice on it," Nice says. "So people [at Sony] started wiping their hands."
But Bryant was defiant.14 He retreated to the studio with Broady and returned to his roots: lyrically complex underground rap. That, of course, is not what Sony had in mind, and the album was ultimately scrapped.15 By that point, Stoute had left the company16 and Bryant's champions had all but abandoned him. So Sony did what it would have done to any other rapper bleeding red ink: Kobe Bryant was dropped.
Soon after, Bryant and Washington regrouped, forming their own independent label, Heads High Entertainment. An October 2000 press release stated its mission: "To bring feel good music and uplift [sic] message to the community through their artists' music." The roster included Bryant; Broady Boy; Sean Francis; Jerrod Washington's cousin, a rapper named Rico; a female rapper from New York named Uneek; and Da Babies, a kids act. There was a showcase at the House of Blues in Los Angeles in the summer of 2000, but a proposed "We Are the World"–style charity single tackling school violence never got off the ground. Within a year, the label folded.
Uneek, who'd moved to Los Angeles to record for Heads High, says she learned about the end of the label when she received an eviction notice. "The situation we had was that I got my advance and they would cover my rent and my car note," she says. "I bumped into Shaq at the club and I told him that I was in a bad situation. Shaq went into his pocket and gave me a few dollars. Shaq knew me from the mixtapes in New York. He was like, 'You see, you should have signed to my label. We don't treat our artists like that.'"17
Kobe Bryant's rap career was over, relegated to an unlikely footnote in his extraordinary career, like Michael Jordan's time with the Birmingham Barons. Through the Lakers media relations department, Bryant declined to be interviewed for this story, as did associates like Washington and Nicholson, who still reside within Bryant's circle. But it hasn't been so easy for the aspiring MCs in CHEIZAW to move on with no pro basketball career to fall back on. Broady Boy, who teaches and works as a part-time sound engineer, wrote via text message, "Kobe doesn't want to discuss [his rap career] right now and I respect that because of the respect he has shown me." Sanchez is also juggling two gigs, working in a Nestlé factory and, in a cruel coincidence, Bimbo Bakeries, the bread company that owns Stroehmann. He's still trying to make it in hip-hop. Now known as Tana Da Beast, Sanchez raps alongside Freeway, Reef The Lost Cauze, Jack Frost, and former Roots member Malik B, in the Beard Gang. He says the group is pursuing a deal with Duck Down Music and DJ Premier's Year Round Records. On January 30, Sanchez tweeted at Bryant, "yo bean this kev sanchez how u been? just dropping a line on u I'm thinking bout moving to La. I got sum music 4 u get at me cuz."
Bannister, who admits to falling into a depression upon returning from Los Angeles, runs the audio department at a library for the blind. He sometimes sees Kobe when the Lakers come to Philadelphia to play the Sixers. Sometimes during shootaround he'll shout, "What's good, Eighth Man?" He says his old friend nods back every time.
Bannister says it's tough for him to talk about his youth, back when he had big dreams of CHEIZAW taking over the world. But more than anything, he just wants his friend back.
"I miss him," Bannister says. "He got babies. I got babies. We had so many plans, man. I got three kids. Yup, three beautiful children and a wife who has heard all the stories. 'Yeah, right. You don't know Kobe Bryant. You weren't in L.A. Whatever, Ant, OK.'"
He says he knows Kobe still has a little bit of Lodi and Parkside Avenue left in him. "I know Kob still rhymes now," he says. "He likes to say he doesn't, but I know he still rhymes and is still writing. It's in him."
Thomas Golianopoulos (@golianopoulos) is a writer living in New York City. He has contributed to the New York Times, Wired, the New York Observer, and Spin.


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La Comisión Nacional de Lucha contra el Genocidio, en Rwanda, y el International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), en Eslovenia, están exigiendo la destitución del juez Theodor Meron, presidente del Tribunal Penal Internacional para la ex Yugoslavia y presidente de las cortes de apelaciones del Tribunal Penal Internacional para Rwanda.
Bajo la presidencia del juez Theodor Meron, los tribunales internacionales han modificado profundamente su jurisprudencia dejando así de condenar a los jefes militares por los crímenes que cometieron sus subordinados sin que ellos hiciesen nada para sancionarlos a pesar de haber tenido conocimiento de los hechos.
Los mencionados tribunales internacionales consideran ahora que para condenar a los superiores jerárquicos militares hay que demostrar su «intención directa» de cometer los crímenes.
Sin embargo, el 6 de junio de 2013. el juez Frederik Harhoff dirigió a sus colegas un email (ver el texto en inglés al final de esta información) señalando que esa modificación apareció bajo la influencia de los militares de Estados Unidos e Israel, inquietos ante la posibilidad de tener que rendir cuentas algún día.
El juez Theodor Meron, de 83 años, ha sido sucesivamente polaco, israelí y estadounidense. Fue además consejero jurídico del gobierno israelí y posteriormente embajador de Israel en Canadá y en la ONU. Adquirió entonces la nacionalidad estadounidense y se convirtió en presidente de varias asociaciones jurídicas internacionales. Su hijo, Daniel Meron, dirige el Buró de Organizaciones Internacionales en el ministerio israelí de Relaciones Exteriores.
Texto del email de denuncia del juez Frederik Harhoffs
ICTY Judge FREDERIK HARHOFFs
EMAIL to 56 CONTACTS, JUNE 6, 2013
Dear friends,
Some of you may by now have read the two articles I sent round, and I thought it only proper to add a few personal comments to what you have read. The articles are good because they focus on measures that cause deep concern both for me and among colleagues here in the corridors of the court .
In brief : Right up until autumn 2012, it has been a more or less set practice at the court that military commanders were held responsible for war crimes that their subordinates committed during the war in the former Yugoslavia from 1992- 95, when the Daytona Agreement brought an end to the war in December 1995.
The responsibility then was either normal criminal responsibility as either (1) contributing to or (2) responsibility for the top officers with command responsibilities in a military system of command authority where these failed to prevent the crime or punish the subordinates.There is nothing new in this. We had also developed an extended criminal responsibility for people (ministers, politicians, military leaders, officers and others), who had supported an overall goal to eradicate ethnic groups from certain areas through criminal violence, and which in one way or a nother contributed to the achievement of such a goal ; it is this responsibility that goes by the name of "joint criminal enterprise".
But then the court's Appeals Chamber suddenly back-tracked last autumn with the three Croatian generals and ministers in the Gotovina case. They were acquitted f or the Croatian army's war crimes while driving out Serbian forces and the Serbian people from major areas in Croatia - the so-called Krajina area in August 1995 (home to generations of Serbians).
Shortly after , the Appeals Chamber struck ag ain with the acquittal of the Serbian Commander Chief of Staff, General Perisic, when the Chamber decided that even though his military and logistical support from Serbia in the Bosnian-Serbian forces in Bosnia had contributed to the forces' crimes against Bosnian Muslims and the Bosnian Croatians in Bosnia, Perisic had "not intended " for his forces to be used to commit crimes.He provided the support, but was unaware, according to the Appeals Chamber, that the support would be and was used to commit crimes in Bosnia.This despite the media's daily coverage of the Bosnian-Serbian forces' macabre crimes against Muslims (and to a less extent Croatians) in Bosnia.
It is however very hard to believe that Perisic didn't know what the plan was in Bosnia, and what his support was actually used for.
And now follows the judgement last week that acquitted the head of the Serbian secret service, General Jovica Stanisic and his henchman Franko Simatovic, for their assistance in the Bosnian-Serbian forces ' notorious crimes in Bosnia against the Bosnian Muslims and Croatians, and with the same reason used for Perisic , that those in question were "unaware" that their efforts would be used to commit crimes.
What can we learn from this ? You would think that the military establishment in leading states (such as USA and Israel) felt that the courts in practice were getting too close to the military commanders' responsibilities. One hoped that the commanders would not be held responsible unless they had actively encouraged their subordinate forces to commit crimes. In other words: The court was heading too far in the direction of commanding officers being held responsible for every crime their subordinates committed. Thus their intention to commit crime had to be specifically proven.
But that is exactly what the commanders get paid for: They MUST ensure that in their area of responsibility no crimes are committed, and if they are they must do what they can to prosecute the guilty parties. And no one who supports the idea of ethnic eradication can deny the responsibility of, in one way or a nother, contributing to the achievement of such a goal .
However, this is no longer the case. Now apparently the commanders must have had a d irect intention to commit crimes – and not just knowledge or suspicion that the crimes were or would be committed. Well, that begs the question of how this military logic pressures the international criminal justice system ? Have any American or Israeli officials ever exerted pressure on the American presiding judge (the presiding judge for the court that is) to ensure a change of direction ?
We will probably never know. But reports of the same American presiding judge's tenacious pressure on his colleagues in the Gotovina-Perisic case makes you think he was determined to achieve an acquittal - and especially that he was lucky enough to convince the elderly Turkish judge to change his mind at the last minute. Both judgements then became majority judgements 3-2.
And so what of the latest judgement in the Stanisic-Simatovic case ? Here it was not t he Appeals Chamber that passed the judgement, but a department in a premium authority with the Dutch judge Orie as presiding judge supported by the Zimbabwean judge , but with dissent from the female French judge...? Was Orie under pressure from the American presiding judge ? It appears so ! Rumour from the corridors has it that the presiding judge demanded that the judgement against the two defendants absolutely had to be delivered last Thurs day – without the three judges in the premium authority having had time to discuss t he defence properly – so that the presiding judge's promise to the FN's security service could be met. The French judge only had 4 days to write the dissent, which was not even discussed between the three judges in the department. A rush job. I would not have believed it of Orie.
The result is now that not only has the court taken a significant step back from the lesson that commanding military leaders have to take responsibility for their subordinates' crimes (unless it can be proven that they knew nothing about it) – but a lso that the theory of responsibility under the specific "joint criminal enterprise" has now been reduced from contribution to crimes (in some way or another) to demanding a direct intention to commit crime (and so not just acceptance of the crimes being committed). Most of the cases will lead to commanding officers walking free from here on. So the American (and Israeli) military leaders can breathe a sigh of relief.
You may think this is just splitting hairs. But I am sitting here with a very uncomfortable feeling that the court has changed the direction of pressure from "the military establishments" in certain dominant countries.
In all the courts I have worked in here, I have always presumed that it was right to convict leaders for the crimes committed with their knowledge within a framework of a common goal. It all boils down to t he difference between knowing on the one hand that the crimes actually were committed or that they were going to be committed, and on the other hand planning to commit them .
That's the bottom line !
How do we now explain to the 10 000s of victims that the court is no longer able to convict the participants of the joint criminal enterprise, unless the judges can justify that the participants in their common goal actively and with direct intent contributed to the crimes ? Until now, we have convicted these participants who in one way or another had showed that they agreed with the common goal (= to eradicate the non-Serbian population from areas the Serbians had deemed "clean" ) as well as, in one way or another, had contributed to achieving the common goal – without having to specifically prove that they had a direct intention to commit every single crime to achieve it. It is almost impossible to prove...
And I always thought that was right. I have delivered my judgements in trust that those at the top could see that the plan to "eradicatethe others" from "own" areas contradicted the basic order of life, a challenge of right or wrong, and not least in a world where internationalisation and globalisation rejects any notion of someone's "natural right" to live incertain areas without the presence of others. Seventy years ago we called it Lebensraum.
However, apparently this is no longer the case. The latest judgements here have brought me before a deep professional and moral dilemma, not previously faced. The worst of it is the suspicion that some of my colleagues have been be hind a short-sighted political pressure that completely changes the premises of my work in my service to wisdom and the law.
Kind regards


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Short-term Missions: Who Decides What the Needs Are?
- David A. Livermore Global Learning Center
- 2012 6 Aug
One of the things that drove me to write a book was my concern that short-term missions just might continue to operate on the same mistakes that have been true about our mission work in the past. The assumption that we know what is most needed by people in another place is the assumption that allowed Rome, England, and Spain to say their colonialist domination was not purely self-centered. Our financial wealth, and all the amenities that accompany that, easily inclines us to think we know what these people need.
I'm often at national conventions where short-term mission organizations are exhibiting. When I walk up to talk to ministry reps from these organizations, I ask them how the national church is engaged in what they're doing. Consistently I hear, "Oh yes, we're very committed to working with the national churches there. We ask them if they want to be involved." Did you catch that? We ask them if they want to be involved. Maybe we should start by asking if we should be involved at all, and if so, how? What might it look like if nationals helped us open our eyes to the real needs? Not only is it colonialist to invite nationals' input on the back end of planning, but we often end up doing irrelevant and costly work. Local ownership means more than inviting participation or asking for input. It means letting the local churches actually direct and shape what we do in our cross-cultural efforts; they ask us if we want to be involved rather than vice versa.
Building projects are one of the most popular kinds of short-term mission endeavors—building churches, rebuilding homes after a natural disaster, building ministry centers, and so on. I've done my share of mixing cement, painting walls, and nailing in studs. Believe me, if you knew my total ineptness at any kind of "home-improvement project," you'd get a good laugh thinking about me trying to put a roof on a church building in South America.
How do the locals feel about our building pursuits on "their" behalf? As with most of these issues, the reviews are mixed. Many nationals express gratitude for seeing fair-skinned kids give up two weeks of vacation to sweat it out as they mix cement all day long, a world away from their backyard swimming pools. We've all watched the video testimonials about how life is completely different now because of the homes built, the hospital maintenance that took place, and the brand-new roof on the church.
As you would imagine, others struggle with the thought of how many locals could be employed by investing the money spent on a typical short-term building project. Local ministries see short-term groups raise money for a one-week trip that exceeds the national ministries' annual budgets. Jo Ann VanEngen, a missionary in Honduras, contends, "Short-term mission groups almost always do work that could be done (and usually done better) by people of the country they visit. The spring-break group spent their time and money painting and cleaning the orphanage in Honduras. That money could have paid two Honduran painters who desperately needed the work, with enough left over to hire four new teachers, build a new dormitory, and provide each child with new clothes."5
One Honduran bricklayer had this to say about his experience working with a building team that came down: "I found out soon enough that I was in the way. The group wanted to do things their way and made me feel like I didn't know what I was doing. I only helped the first day."6
Across the ocean in Africa, a leader in Zimbabwe asks us to remember that Africans also know how to build buildings. In talking about one of the groups visiting his community, he says, "It isn't that they didn't work hard. . . . But they must remember that we built buildings before they came, and we will build buildings after they leave. Unfortunately, while they were here, they thought they were the only ones who knew how to build buildings."7
Is it wrong to build buildings when we go? Some think so, but I don't. I think there's a place for it, but we must temper such projects with our understanding about the true needs and what we truly have to offer. We do have something to offer, but let's discover what that is through dialogue with the majority world church. A group from my church just returned from a couple weeks in Rwanda. Within their first hour in Rwanda, the local team said, "Ninety percent of your job is done. You're here. Your presence speaks volumes." One of the team members told me she thought, "Well, I don't think so. That's gracious of you, but we're here to work hard." The longer she was there, however, the more she began to see that the tasks they came to do were not what was needed most. The presence and chance for relationship together seemed to be the most pressing need for the Rwandan church beyond any menial tasks that were planned. Do the menial tasks; they teach us about serving, and we get to serve alongside our brothers and sisters. Be sure to remember, however, that painting a room for our brothers and sisters or putting in windows isn't really what it's about. It's about meeting a deeper need that's in us and in them.
This article was adapted from Serving with Eyes Wide Open by David A. Livermore. Used by permission of Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, copyright 2006. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, or mirrored at other sites without written permission from Baker Publishing Group.
David A. Livermore is executive director of the Global Learning Center at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and is cofounder of Intersect, a ministry that provides leadership training and consulting to emerging leaders in ministries around the world.


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1973 Ford Mexican Maverick Replica
The Mexican Maverick - One of Shelby's Lesser-Known Accomplishments
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Carroll Shelby was a man of many talents, and if you're reading this magazine, you're probably familiar with most of them already. A legend in the automotive world, he was an accomplished race car driver, and later, his Cobra and connection to Ford led to the Daytona Coupe, the GT40, and several high-performance Mustangs. While the G.T. 350 and G.T. 500 are well known to Mustang enthusiasts and many folks are familiar with his achievements with Chrysler and Oldsmobile, few know much about Shelby's accomplishments in Mexico.
His south-of-the-border involvement began with a chance meeting with Mexican businessman Eduardo Velasquez. Velasquez was an automotive parts distributor in Mexico and an active race fan. The Mustang notchback that he bought from Shelby in 1965 was highly successful, thanks to its G.T. 350 suspension components and Cobra 289 competition engine. The car won 10 of its first 17 starts. Since both men were well aware of the "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" adage, the business and social connection progressed quickly, eventually leading to Shelby de Mexico, which produced modified Mustangs specifically designed for the Mexican market using Shelby parts, and sold through Ford dealers in Mexico. The numbers were quite small by modern standards: 169 Mustangs in 1967, 203 in 1968, and 306 in 1969. In 1972, however, Velasquez branched out, offering a luxury version of the Galaxie called the Continental, as well as a Shelby version of the Maverick.
And, it was the Mexican Maverick that intrigued Gary Rube. A long-time Ford fan from Orlando, Florida, Gary's first car was a '72 Maverick with a high-performance Boss 302 V-8 under the hood. It was great fun, but marriage and family had a way of shifting priorities. Although the car went on to other owners, the fascination remained. Several years later when priorities were readjusted, Gary began searching for one of the rare Shelby Mavericks. Since only 300 were ever produced, it was like looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack. Luckily, the world's greatest automotive clearinghouse turned up a reasonable facsimile. Gary found a replica Mexican Maverick for sale on eBay, put in his bid, and won!
His '73 version came equipped with a fiberglass hood sporting a pair of functional scoops and hoodpins. Driving lights were mounted behind a wire mesh grille that replaced the plastic factory version, and there was an adjustable splitter below the front bumper. Shelby-style, full-width, sequential taillights, a quick-fill center gas cap, and sidescoops similar to the Mustang distinguished it from its factory counterparts.
Rube's car rolls on 15-inch American Racing rims with Dunlop 60-series, GT Qualifier rubber. Under the hood is the original 302 equipped with an Edelbrock intake and 600-cfm Edelbrock four-barrel carburetor—a performance upgrade over the standard two-barrel Maverick configuration. Hedman headers, dual exhausts, and Flowmaster mufflers add power while creating the appropriate performance sound. The car is equipped with a rebuilt C4 transmission with a Hurst Quarter Stick shifter.
Gary's authentically restored interior is a significant departure from a standard Maverick, using fabric-covered, high-back bucket seats, each equipped with a four-point racing harness. A custom headliner, modified center console with auxiliary Sun Pro gauges, wood-rimmed steering wheel, and a Sun Pro racing tach complete the changes. Gary replaced the original stereo with a JVC head unit that now controls a trunk-mounted, 800-watt auxiliary amplifier. It powers a multi-speaker setup, with mids in the kick panels, tweeters in the doors, and subs in the rear package tray. The trunk holds a fullsize spare along with the rear-mounted Duralast battery.
Gary's car is painted dark gray metallic, accented with silver center stripes and rocker panel stripes. Front and rear bumpers are painted to match, and Shelby badging throughout lets you know this is something special. The only things necessary to complete this car are the hood-mounted tachometer and the rear window louvers—items that Gary is actively searching for and hopes to find soon.
In the meantime, his Mexican Maverick, now with 94,000 miles on it, is a pleasure to own. Gary was driving the car on a daily basis, but parking lot dings convinced him to make it a weekend-only car. Now, he actively campaigns the car at shows on the South Florida circuit.
The Details
Gary Rube's '73 Ford Mexican Maverick Replica
Small-block Ford 302ci V-8
Edelbrock Victor Jr. aluminum intake manifold
600-cfm Edelbrock four-barrel carb
Shelby valve covers
C4 automatic transmission
Hurst Quarter Stick shifter
Ford 8-inch
2.73 gears
Hedman headers
2.5-inch dual exhaust
Flowmaster mufflers
Front: Coil springs, control arms, shocks rebuilt to factory specs
Rear: Leaf springs, shocks rebuilt to factory specs
Front: Ford Torino disc, 11-inch rotors, two-piston calipers
Rear: Ford Torino disc, 11-inch rotors, two-piston calipers
Front: American Racing Hopster, 15x8
Rear: American Racing Hopster, 15x8
Front: Dunlop G/T Qualifier 235-60/15
Rear: Dunlop G/T Qualifier 245-60/15
High-back bucket seats, four-point racing harnesses, custom center console with auxiliary Sun Pro gauges, wood-rimmed steering wheel, Sun Pro racing tach, JVC stereo, 800-watt Pyramid amp
Shelby-style functional, twin-scoop fiberglass hood; driving lights behind a wire mesh grille; front splitter; Shelby Mustang sidescoops; '68 Shelby sequential taillights; quick-fill center gas cap; dark gray metallic with silver center and side stripes; bumpers painted to match; Shelby badging
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Cedars-Sinai Movement Disorders Expert on International Task Force for Dystonia Treatment
Neurologist Michele Tagliati, MD, director of the Movement Disorders Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, served on an elite international task force commissioned by the Movement Disorder Society to provide insights and guidance on deep brain stimulation for dystonia, an uncommon condition that causes sustained, sometimes crippling muscle contractions.
The resulting articles, describing the data reviewed and outlining the group's conclusions, recommendations and points to be addressed in future research, published online last month in a special supplement to the journal Movement Disorders.
With members from Asia, Europe and North and South America, the task force critically reviewed, discussed and debated current practice and research before reaching consensus on issues facing treatment professionals. The group included neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists and nurses with expertise and experience in deep brain stimulation for dystonia.
Tagliati made major contributions to two articles reviewing postoperative issues: "Long-Term Management of DBS in Dystonia: Response to Stimulation, Adverse Events, Battery Changes, and Special Considerations," and "Early Postoperative Management: Programming, Medication Changes, and Evaluations." He was the only member from the United States in the group studying post-surgical management of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation.
"We reviewed the research literally paper by paper and line by line to come up with these documents," he said. "We separated credible papers from less authoritative papers and tried to extract what we could define as reliable evidence, separating solid data from that which is not as strong. Deep brain stimulation was developed in Europe and later adopted in the United States and many of the experts are in Europe because they've done it for a longer time. It was an honor for me to be assigned a leadership role in this kind of effort."
Dystonia causes muscles to contract, with the affected body part twisting involuntarily. There are several types of dystonia, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe. The Food and Drug Administration approved deep brain stimulation as a therapy for certain treatment-resistant dystonias in 2003 after approving it for essential tremor in 1997 and Parkinson's disease in 2002. The procedure recently was approved on a limited basis for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"The fantastic thing is that with a certain type of dystonia – young-onset dystonia – DBS is not just a good therapy, but it can be a miraculous therapy, and I don't hesitate to use that term," said Tagliati, who has studied deep brain stimulation for more than a decade. "We have videos that are mind-boggling because they show kids in wheelchairs, with very bad distortions, who become normal. Not 80 percent better. Normal. They go and play basketball."
The device consists of electrical leads implanted in the brain and a stimulator located near the collarbone. The stimulator is programmed with a remote, handheld controller to modulate abnormal nerve signals that cause the uncontrollable muscle contractions of dystonia. According to studies cited by the task force, the procedure provides sustained benefit for patients with dystonia for up to three years and evidence grows that positive outcomes may extend up to 10 years.
Tagliati said DBS therapy is not effective in all cases and device implantation and programming are not without risk. The mechanism and batteries themselves can be subject to failure, although newer devices and redundant power sources reduce these risks. "Our studies and the published article point out that adverse events occasionally occur with DBS, and these range from annoying to life-threatening, with speech abnormalities being the most common programming side effects. The article offers recommendations for predicting, reducing and dealing with adverse events."
Tagliati, who leads an educational course on deep brain stimulation programming every year at the American Academy of Neurology meetings, said the Movement Disorders articles define the current state of the art for this therapy for dystonia. The American Academy of Neurology is conducting a similar data review that may establish guidelines for those who treat dystonia with deep brain stimulation.
Tagliati and his counterpart at the University of California, Los Angeles – Jeff M. Bronstein, MD, PhD – recently led another panel of international experts in developing a consensus on key issues related to deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Their work, with insight and guidance for practitioners, was published in Archives of Neurology last October.
Dystonia is less common than Parkinson's disease – and has been more of a medical mystery, even among many movement disorders specialists. The principles of deep brain stimulation are similar for each disorder, but the devices are placed in slightly different locations. Proper placement and precise, individualized programming are critical to success, and Tagliati said many cases of seemingly "failed" therapy can be corrected through expert fine-tuning of the device, along with proper medication management.
"Doctors are taught how to measure electricity coming from the muscles or from the brain, but they know little about 'injecting' electricity as a therapy. With DBS, there was a clinical science that needed to be developed," said Tagliati, who became interested in the procedure while completing a fellowship in movement disorders with top experts in the field. He has devoted his career to advancing the science of programming of the stimulator.
"We're establishing at Cedars-Sinai a center of excellence where deep brain stimulation is viewed as a clinical science, with the latest standards of surgical placement, programming and medication management," he said. "We're bringing together the academic activities that will increase knowledge and understanding among treatment professionals while improving the quality of care for individual patients."
Tagliati has received honoraria for lectures from Medtronic, Inc., and consulting fees from St. Jude Medical, both of which produce deep brain stimulation technology. The task force was supported entirely by the Movement Disorder Society, an international professional society invested in the research and care of patients with movement disorders.
Citation: Movement Disorders, June 20, 2011 (online), "Long-term Management of DBS in Dystonia: Response to Stimulation, Adverse Events, Battery Changes and Special Considerations" (first author) and "Early Postoperative Management: Programming, Medication Changes, and Evaluations" (contributing author).


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US FCC ends price caps on many business data lines
- 21 April, 2017 03:06
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to deregulate the providers of the business data lines connecting broadband service to many small businesses, schools, hospitals, and ATM machines.
The deregulation of business data services, or BDS, could mean broadband price hikes for those businesses as well as for mobile phone customers, critics said. BDS provides the backhaul that connects mobile towers to the wired internet.
The commission's 2-1 party-line vote ends price caps on much of the BDS market across the U.S., while retaining price regulations in about a third of the country.
Republican commissioners argued that pricing regulations are largely outdated, with high-speed fiber and cable services beginning to compete with traditional copper-based BDS networks, sometimes called special access.
The FCC has long attempted to achieve "perfect" competition in the BDS market, but failed, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said. It's time for the agency to stop "micromanaging" the market, he said.
"For a time, the FCC drank deep of heavy-handed economic regulation of the BDS market," he said. "Price regulation ... is seductive, but in reality, price regulation threatens competition and investment. Regulators will always struggle to set the right price."
BDS generates an estimated US$45 billion-plus in revenue each year for AT&T, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink, and other providers.
The FCC's vote takes away price caps in a county when a competing BDS provider has a network within a half mile of 50 percent of the buildings served by existing providers, even if the building is now served by just one provider. The price cap would also go away if a cable broadband provider serves 75 percent of locations in the county.
Critics suggested that broadband prices for businesses who still depend on sub-50Mbps data lines could rise 25 percent or more.
Many politicians have talked in recent months "about protecting our nation's small businesses -- the backbone of the American economy," said Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat. "Yet it is these very businesses -- the mom-and-pop hardware store, the family-owned wireless provider, and the small rural hospital, that just drew the short straw."
Instead of looking out for "millions of little guys," the Republican majority at the FCC has sided with the interests of huge telecom providers, she added. Clyburn predicted "immediate price hikes," especially in rural areas.
"Just where does the buck stop? At the wallets of every American consumer," she said.
The FCC action comes after some tech-related trade groups, lawmakers, and consumer-oriented groups Public Knowledge and the Consumer Federation of America called for the FCC to delay the vote.
The FCC's recent determination that there's "intense competition present in this market" conflicts with the agency's own observation last July that an estimated 73 percent of BDS customer locations are served by just one provider, and only 3 percent have more than two providers.
The FCC's recent shift on BDS deregulation embraces "debunked theories that competition, despite high barriers to entry and more than a decade of evidence, is just around the corner," Phillip Berenbroick, senior policy counsel at Public Knowledge, said this week.
The FCC's deregulation of BDS sides with large telecom carriers "instead of the public interest and consumers," he added.


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Woolwich attack suspect Adebowale charged over soldier's killing
Police have charged a man with the murder of a British soldier in a suspected Islamic extremist attack in broad daylight.
Michael Adebowale, 22, was charged late on Wednesday by counter-terrorism officers and will appear in court on Thursday, police said. He is one of two main suspects in the killing of Lee Rigby, 25, who was struck by a car and stabbed to death last week near his barracks in southeast London's Woolwich district.
Gruesome images that emerged after the attack showed two men wielding bloody knives and meat cleavers. Both men were shot and wounded by police.
Suspect Michael Adebolajo, 28, remains in hospital in stable condition. Adebowale was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday and taken into custody. Adebowale also was charged with a firearms offence related to possessing a 9.4mm revolver with the intent "to cause persons to believe that unlawful violence would be used", police said in a statement announcing the charges.
The charges, coming just hours after police said Rigby's autopsy showed he died from "multiple incised wounds", shed further light on the frenzied attack.
Witnesses reported seeing the soldier struck by a car, then set upon by two men wielding long knives and cleavers. Adebolajo, bloodied and clutching a cleaver, was seen in a video boasting about the attack and railing against the government.
The attack has raised questions about whether Britain's intelligence services could have done more to prevent Rigby's murder. British officials said the two main suspects had been known to them for some time as part of previous investigations.
Kenyan police have said they believed Adebolajo, a British citizen, had earlier associated with a radical Kenyan Muslim cleric who tried to help him join an al-Qaeda-linked rebel group in neighbouring Somalia.
Police said an inquest on Rigby's death will open on Friday. In Britain, inquests are conducted to establish the circumstances surrounding unexpected or violent deaths.
Ten people have been arrested in the case, including the two main suspects. Two were released and several others have been set free on bail pending further inquiries.
One of the men arrested for questioning in the case released a statement through his lawyer on Wednesday proclaiming his innocence. Hayden Allen, 21, said he wanted to send his condolences to Rigby's family.
"My family are wholly uninvolved," said Allen, who has not been charged and is free on bail. "I ask that the police continue to investigate and that my family be allowed without harassment to continue their lives."
Rigby's murder has raised racial enmities in many parts of England, with far-right groups mobilising to protest. The English Defense League, a right-wing group with strong anti-Islam leanings, has held a series of protests, while Muslim community organisations have reported a surge in attacks and harassment.
One mosque in the northern England town of Grimsby was firebombed, and the word "ISLAM" was daubed in big red letters across the Royal Air Force Bomber Command memorial in London's Green Park, near Buckingham Palace.
Two people have been charged in the arson attack. It was unclear who was responsible for the graffiti.
Hackers have also posted a purported list of English Defense League leaders and supporters online. The list was at least partially genuine, according to English Defense League supporter Glen Warren, 32, whose name and phone number were among those posted.
Amid the unrest, British prison officers have been warned to be on the lookout after a hostage drama blamed on extremist Muslim inmates, British newspapers reported on Wednesday.
An e-mail to high-security prisons and young offenders' institutes warned that Sunday's incident at Full Sutton detention facility in the northern England region of Yorkshire was linked to religious extremism and warned of an increased risk of attacks at other institutions, according to several British papers, including and .
"Three Muslim prisoners took an officer hostage in an office. Their demands indicated they supported radical Islamist extremism," the letter was quoted as saying. "All staff are reminded to remain vigilant to the increased risk of potential attacks on prison officers inspired by these and last Wednesday's events."
The hostage-takers' demands have not been disclosed. Britain's Ministry of Justice declined to comment on the e-mail.


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Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif ruled mobile search trends in October-December quarter last year, mobile video and media company Vuclip said
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New Delhi: Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif ruled mobile search trends in October-December quarter last year, mobile video and media company Vuclip said.
However, Aamir Khan-starer Dhoom 3 was the most searched term on mobiles in the last quarter of 2013.
"Dhoom 3, a Bollywood blockbuster movie topped the list, surpassing sensational superstars Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan," Vuclip said in a release.
Vuclip announced that it is experiencing a rapid global adoption and popularity in mobiles and expects to reach 100 million monthly unique mobile users globally soon.
"I expect 2014 to bring even more excitement and passion from consumers around the world for mobile video. We are already starting to see tremendous shifts in the Middle East and throughout Southeast Asia," Vuclip CEO Nickhil Jakatdar said.
2013 brought a major revolution in democratising access to mobile video for the masses. While, it used to be available to only the elite few with smartphones and on high-quality networks, now innovations in technology, as well as pricing have changed the game, he added.
Emerging markets like India are at the forefront of the mobile video revolution, Jakatdar said.
Vuclip also released the trends in 2013 in India with regards to mobile video.
Strong inclination for sharing mobile videos and a preference for long form content reign as the popular trends among Indians, it said.
Sixty five per cent of Indian respondents share mobile videos compared to 53 per cent globally, Vuclip said.
Indian youth under 18 years old fuel this phenomenon with a whopping 87 per cent saying they share mobile videos regularly.
Superhero movie trailers surfaced as the most often shared trailers in India with 36 per cent of vote, also hugely popular among the under-18 crowd.
All of the statistics in this report were gathered via a series of global survey conducted in 2013 and the respondents range in number from 14,000 to 120,000.


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Sea life (Dreaming of the artist's mother)
September 1959
Wandjuk Marika
circa 1930 – 16 Jun 1987
Language group: Rirratjingu, Arnhem region
- Other Title
- Sea life - Dreaming of the Artist's mother
- Place where the work was made
North-east Arnhem Land
Northern Territory
- Date
- September 1959
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 102.9 x 62.9 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1959
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- Copyright
- © Estate of Wandjuk Marika/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
Wandjuk Marika
Works in the collection
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'Painting is very important. It's the design or symbol, power of the land.'
Wandjuk Marika was born on Dhambaliya (Bremer Island), the eldest son of Mawalan Marika. His early life was influenced by the increasing intrusion of balanda (whitefella) influence and activity in Arnhem Land. After the establishment of Yirrkala Mission in 1935, increasing numbers of academics, mining representatives, hunters, fishermen and art enthusiasts visited the region.
Marika grew up learning the skills associated with his future responsibilities as a leader of the Rirratjingu clan and Dhuwa moiety. His father taught him to hunt and his ceremonial obligations regarding the two major Dhuwa ancestral song cycles – the Djan'kawu Story and the Wawilak Sisters. Marika was also one of the first students, and later an assistant, at the Yirrkala Mission school. His facility with English enabled him to interpret Yolngu culture for visiting anthropologists and art collectors, including Charles Mountford and Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Marika started painting on bark when he was in his mid-teens, working with his father.
The beginning of the Djan'kawu song cycle is characterised by descriptions of constant paddling, the rocking of the canoe in which the Djan'kawu travelled, and numerous marine observations. Approaching Yalangbara, the Djan'kawu feel the warmth of the rising sun upon their backs. This moment is wonderfully captured in Marika's bark painting 'Djan'kawu Story (The sun rising)', 1959, which depicts the dazzling sun as it comes over the horizon.
In the painting 'Sea life (Dreaming of the artist's mother)', 1959, Marika demonstrates his association with his mother's Warramirri clan, and depicts a variety of marine species swimming over the field of miny'tji (sacred clan designs) representing the sea. The dots on the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish represent its poison buds the poison they emit is said to heat the water and calm the sea.
Throughout his life, Marika wrote letters on behalf of the eastern Arnhem Land clan leaders, including his father, to the Federal Government, protesting unsuccessfully the mining activities that were threatening Yolngu sovereignty over their lands. He travelled extensively in Australia and overseas as a member, and later chairman, of the (then) Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council (1973-79). The unauthorised reproduction of 'Djan'kawu creation story', 1959, on a tea towel disturbed him to the extent that he stopped painting for a number of years. Marika became a key advocate for the legislative protection of Indigenous intellectual property rights.
Ken Watson in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004
© Art Gallery of New South Wales
Where the work was made
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Referenced in 2 publications
Ken Watson, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, 'Poetic justice: An overview of Indigenous art', pg. 17-27, Sydney, 2007, 19 (colour illus.).
Ken Watson, Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, 'Wandjuk Marika', pg. 80, Sydney, 2004, 80, 81 (colour illus.).
Other works by Wandjuk Marika
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Koch suit vs. pranksters dismissed
A federal judge in Utah on Monday tossed Koch Industries's lawsuit against the pranksters who set up a fake website and sent out a bogus press release saying the company had found religion on climate change.
In a case being watched for First Amendment implications, Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City also said Koch can't disclose the identities of the "Youth for Climate Truth" members or use any other information obtained via subpoena from two Utah-based domain hosting companies.
The ruling is a major one as courts navigate the intersection of the First Amendment with anonymous speech and computer hacking on the Internet. Koch's claims included charges of trademark infringement, unfair competition, cybersquatting and breach of the company website's terms of use.
"This will prevent companies like Koch from using lawsuits from intimidating people on the Web," said Deepak Gupta of Public Citizen, who represents the pranksters.
Gupta called Kimball's ruling "A really thorough decision tossing the whole case out. It's a complete rejection of Koch's legal theories."
Youth for Climate Truth set up the fake website and press release in December saying Koch was changing its position on global warming and environmental policy to no longer fund climate skeptics. It was quickly outed in the press as a hoax, and Kimball noted nobody in the media was fooled.
"We assumed they would be upset about it," one of the anonymous pranksters told the New York Times in February. "But we had no guess that they would go to the level of a lawsuit. It's ridiculous and overblown. What we did is completely acceptable, as parody."
Koch communications director Melissa Cohlmia issued a limited statement: "We are disappointed by the judge's decision. We have no further comment at this time."
The company has said the lawsuit is not an effort to "silence" its critics. Owners Charles and David Koch have been under a microscope since the New Yorker ran a lengthy story about their political activities last summer.
"This is not a lawsuit about freedom of speech," the company said in a late January statement on its website. "We believe in a vigorous political debate. We are not seeking in any way to silence our critics. This lawsuit was filed because the integrity of our computer systems and our valuable intellectual property was compromised and used without permission, in violation of the Terms of Service and federal law."
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 5:00 p.m. on May 9, 2011.


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