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Silver: Buy weakness and enjoy the strength
It was a week like we haven't seen since the beginning of the crash in early 2008, but this time it was mostly in the commodity sector. Many stocks did get hit hard, as well as the major indices, but the real damage came in commodities, especially silver.
It's not really that it wasn't warranted, but the swift and blatant nature of the move is suspect. If I didn't know better I'd even say the move in silver qualifies as manipulation. Thank god I know that NEVER happens in markets. Sorry for the sarcasm.
I have never seen a commodity falling and still have its margins risen. It may have happened, but I don't recall ever seeing it.
Normally if the powers that be at the CME think a market is a bit too frothy they may raise margins to reduce speculation. This act just increases the amount of money a trader has to lay down initially in order to trade a contract in said commodity.
Silver has had its margins raised numerous times during this latest run that began in August 2010. Every time we've seen a correction. Mostly they've been sharp and relatively shallow before moving back into new highs.
This time however, after each correction the CME raised margins again, and again, and again, for a total of five times in only 8 trading days. The last margin increase was announced late in the week and will take effect on Monday May 9th.
If this were a fight, it wouldn't be fair. It would be like hitting your opponent with a knockout punch. Letting him fall then get to one knee before hitting him with another and another and another. The fight would have been stopped by observers after the first and certainly the second punch. But no such luck when the CME is involved.
There has been talk and questions about just how the CME determines when to raise margins, most of it revolving around some sort of calculation. It's obviously a subjective decision as nothing should ever be hit when it's down this much over and over.
I don't know who's paying the guys over there but some sort of backroom dealing is surely taking place. Will it be investigated or punished? Don't kid yourself.
In fact the talk has revolved around investigation speculators. I think investigating the CME would be the more appropriate move, but who am I to say. I just watch and trade the markets, not make them.
In fact the talk has revolved around investigation speculators. I think investigating the CME would be the more appropriate move, but who am I to say. I just watch and trade the markets, not make them.
You'd get more jail time if you robbed the old lady next door of her piggy bank while she was out of town than if you just robbed wise investors who see the merit in silver of billions of dollars in only a few days.
In the world of ultimate fighting silver has been trying to tap out for the last $10 but the referee/CME is ignoring them putting silver/the fighter in great harm. Although I'm not worried for silver's sake. Its underlying fundamentals haven't changed, it's only gone on a blowout sale, and it's likely to be very short-lived.
Make your calls and place your orders now. We may see slightly lower prices so perhaps place half your order now and the rest in a few days or a week is best, but this gift is much better than the one you'll get this coming Christmas as it will keep on giving and giving for years to come.
This is one of those rare times in market history when taking out a second mortgage and raising as much cash as possible to get into this trade is warranted. Of course I'm joking about mortgaging your home, but only just barely.
During secular bull markets, things tend to move two steps forward and one step back. While it's been extreme, this is all it has been. If I told you one year ago silver would be at $36 an ounce in a year you probably would have jumped with joy.
Ignore the volatility. Buy weakness and enjoy the strength. We have much, much further to go on the upside with both gold and silver.
Let's look at a few chats and assess the damage.
Gold fell 4.36% for the week which is a much larger move than we've become accustomed to. Rest assured though that as the secular bull market continues volatility will increase as well. Moves of well more than 4% will be seen on a daily basis. Holding the physical gold makes sitting through this volatility much easier.
As you can see gold is holding the uptrend line very well and it's also only retraced to the 38% Fibonacci level. While it was swift, it's pretty well textbook. In fact even a further move to test the 50% Fibonacci level at $1,441 would be warranted.
As I mentioned above, this would fit perfectly with the two steps forward, one step back flow of bull markets.
As I say, buy weakness and enjoy strength. This is weakness.
As for the GLD ETF which I track for volume indications, it's all out of whack, or perhaps I should say, it's whack!
Volume in the 25 million per day range used to signify tops and bottoms relatively well, but now that seems quite low as we saw this level was hit everyday this past week with Thursdays volume over 50 million. Volume isn't really telling me much right now other than Thursdays' low so far does look like a bottom with the spike touching and holding support areas and volume being absolutely massive.
Right now I feel comfortable calling a tentative bottom for this move with a potential for a spike low to the $1,441 area, likely on an intraday basis.
Silver didn't fare quite as well as gold as you know and it was hit to the simply stunning tune of 25.63% for the week. Wow!
Silver was smashed through support levels and all Fibonacci retracement levels. The only good thing is it held the 100 day moving average on a daily basis. To be honest I've been warning readers and subscribers to avoid trading silver as it was in a bit of a manic phase lately.
Thankfully subscribers did avoid the carnage as it occurred so quickly that it was nearly impossible to comprehend let alone trade.
A bottom could be in but in reality I think we may see a further move to test the $30 area where we see some real support.
I'd say you could begin to buy physical silver here with the hopes of filling your quota a bit lower but at the same time accepting that you may have to pay up.
I am not yet willing to try and trade this, nor add to my already heavy weighting of physical silver, although I may decide to convert some gold into silver in the fairly near future.
It's always a very personal choice just how much physical to own and in which ratio, in term of gold to silver. I always tell subscribers to do what makes sleep come easy.
As for the SLV ETF and its volume, its been absolutely off the charts. Nearly 300 million shares traded hands Thursday and basically 200 million or more everyday for nearly two weeks.
Thursday's spike low in price and spike high in volume could be the low, but this market is still what would be termed a falling knife. I prefer to keep my fingers at this time.
I spent last weekend in the great city of New York. Unfortunately I really only had one free day as the rest was occupied by business which I thoroughly enjoyed as well. In hindsight I should have stayed down for the whole week as the weather was warmer and the markets would have been better ignored.
I happened to be walking back to my hotel very late Sunday night, actually quite early Monday morning when I noticed a moderate crowd up to some tomfoolery in Times Square. At the time I had no idea that Bin Laden had been killed and that's what they were celebrating. I thought Bin Laden had been killed years ago!
It just strikes me as curious that they can't seem to get their story straight, won't release photos and have buried him at sea before even announcing the news. Something sounds fishy about it to me.
And really was he that big a threat nowadays anyhow?
It all just seems so convenient.
With QE2 coming to an end in under two months perhaps a good commodity spanking is due so Obama can pronounce how great things are in America since gas is cheaper, your cereal is cheaper along with your sugar and other goods, but he won't mention that the package is now smaller. And by the way America is now safe since the frail old sick Bin Laden is dead.
I can just picture his speech now rambling on about the above and stipulating a big, BUT, we just need to print a little more money…
I read an article this past week, the link to which has been lost, showing how nearly every country in the world has higher inflation than they want, except the US!
You know how I feel about words that come from the US government, especially when it concerns economic figures, all fabricated lies. That's really the only reason I am sceptical of the Bin Laden thing. I heard it from the US government!
Along with the silver capitulation, the great "i" company has also capitulated, at least to me. As many of you know my main creative computer has been in the shop now for over a month. They can't find the problem and it's been a very uncomfortable situation for myself here, working solely from my trading computer. In this latest round of excuses they finally capitulated and said they will give me a new computer, for free!
Great stuff, especially since all my old files can still be transferred to it somehow. While I would have certainly much preferred just have my old computer for the past month, there is nothing wrong with a new free top of the line computer, especially since they refreshed their computer line just very recently. They say it will be blazing fast compared to my old one so I'm looking forward to its arrival this coming week.
The thing is my old one was 24 inch and this new one is 27 inch! I may need a bigger desk.
According to some sources George Soros has taken some profits in gold along with a few other large fund managers. The media will tout this as the end of the bull market every chance they get, but ignore it. There is nothing wrong with taking some profits off the table during frothy periods and he's got plenty more gold to sell off in the years ahead. As the saying goes, you'll never go broke taking a profit.
Personally I haven't sold an ounce as the tax issues and plain hassle is not worth in for me right now. When I do decide to sell, hopefully at the top, I'll be selling at least half of it all at once, and the rest is likely to follow suit quickly.
On the other hand John Paulson remains a staunch gold bull and remains heavily long and is also calling for $4,000 gold in three to five years. Mr. Paulson became famous for making $3.7 billion in the housing collapse but he made $4.9 billion in 2010 with his gold positions! I have a strong feeling his fame is going to increase by multiples over the years to come.
The only thing I disagree with is his low target. While $4,000 gold may seem a stretch, I think it will go much higher than that, but as I've said many times, targets are for fools so who really knows. It's really all in the dollar, or whatever gold is valued in that counts.
See the demise of the Zimbabwe dollar for the most recent example of this. Gold was worth quadrillions of dollars per ounce by the time the currency was abandoned.
We had only one bank fail this past week but five the weekend before as I was gallivanting around the beautiful New York City. This brings the total to six banks that've joined this year list of biggest losers in the past two weeks.
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Missouri's Miguel Paul really looks up to his cousin, NBA superduperstar Chris Paul. He has the same number, same nickname, gets advice from him... Now, if only Chris Paul knew who the heck he was.
A story in the Columbia Missourian last fall told the inspiring tale about how freshman Tiger guard Miguel Paul met his hero and distant relative at a high school tournament in North Carolina, where Chris is from. Miguel scored 36 points in the championship game and went back to the victorious locker room to find Chris waiting for him.
They talked for a few minutes, and Chris Paul gave his cousin some advice. He told Miguel Paul to play with his head and just have fun.
Wake Forest, Chris Paul's alma mater was working hard at the time to recruit Miguel Paul, but Chris didn't try to influence Miguel's decision.
"I wanted to create my own footsteps, go my own way," Miguel Paul said.
It was Miguel Paul's play in the tournament that motivated his cousin to organize the surprise meeting.
That is a good story. Too good to check, almost. Until a Missouri student decided to go to New Orleans on assignment for Columbia's NBC-affiliate and ask Paul about his younger cousin.
As he was walking out of the Alario Center after practice, Chris said he had never heard or met Miguel.
Oh. That's unfortunate.
Like Chris, Miguel wears number 3 and teammates call him MP3, instead of CP3. (Maybe he just really likes downloading music?) But either Chris Paul has a lot of cousins and a bad memory or Miguel Paul has an active imagination. Maybe both, but that's why they call it The Show Me State.
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That's it for Deadspin today. See you tomorrow when I'm sure more hijinks will ensue. By the way, if any of my cousins call asking for money, I'm not here.


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Strawberry sugar? It might look a little like the pink powered drink mixes at the bulk store or maybe even a bit like kool-aid. Oh gosh did I ever love kool-aid as a kid, like eat it by the spoonfuls or dip your fingers in it kind of love. I would sit in this enormous chair they had in the corner with kool-aid tin in hand and watch cartoons. My mom never bought the stuff, so I would only ever have it at my Grandma's house. I swear they had an unlimited supply and I'm pretty sure my aunt still buys it to this day although I think she's given up on the red drink and has now moved on to blue.
So yes, it does look a bit like kool-aid but is near nothing of the sort. This is just two ingredients here. Freeze dried strawberries and cane sugar to pretty much do with what ever you think best. Ice cream? Muffins? Or even on cereal? I think yes!
I saw a raspberry version of this in something of Donna Hay's which I can no longer find but I know it pretty much consisted of putting the dried strawberries in a food processor which turns it to powder then is mixed into the sugar. Easy peasy.


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There's no getting around the fact that we are a prediabetic society with an obesity epidemic. While we do hate to bring these facts up in November, a month when most families give thanks over a rich meal and look forward to a lazy, indulgent holiday season. But this also happens be National Diabetes Month. And choosing the right food is crucially important to people with diabetes.
About 24 million Americans are believed to have diabetes, and nearly 6 million don't know it. Another 57 million are thought to have prediabetes, a condition that boosts risks for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. If current trends continue, 1 in 3 U.S. adults will develop diabetes by 2050.
If you don't want to become a statistic, experts say you should start making small changes to your diet and lifestyle as soon as you can. High blood sugar silently damages the body, even if you don't feel it. Having a normal, healthy weight by itself can reduced the risk of developing diabetes by 60 to 70 percent, and eating a healthier diet can slash your risk by 15 percent, says Jarad Reis, a researcher from the U.S. Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Here are some easy changes to make now:
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When you have type 2 diabetes, you need to gauge portion sizes correctly, so you know how many calories and carbohydrates you're taking in and how they will affect your blood sugar. A 2004 study of 329 overweight people found that 38% of those who practiced portion control for two years lost 5% or more of body weight, compared with 33% of participants who did not (they gained 5% or more of body weight).
Eat More Fiber
Fiber itself doesn't raise blood sugar because it can't be digested, and that's good. But even better, it can blunt the impact that carbohydrates have on blood sugar. The reason? The intestines take a bit more time to digest fiber-rich foods, and that slows the release of glucose into your bloodstream. A 2000 study of 13 patients showed that patients with diabetes who consumed 50 grams of fiber each day lowered their glucose levels 10% and insulin levels 12% more than those who consumed 24 grams of fiber a day. The problem is that 50 grams of fiber per day is a lot of fiber. Most Americans consume only 15 grams every day, according to the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association recommends that people with diabetes eat 25 to 50 grams daily.
Space Your Meals
Choosing the right kind of carbohydrates and spacing them out evenly throughout the day can keep blood sugar from rising too high, too fast (90% of the carbohydrate calories you digest end up as glucose, so they have a much bigger impact on blood sugar than fat or protein). "The goal ... is to take in enough carbohydrates to nourish ourselves, but never so much that it causes high blood sugars," says Linda Sartor, a diabetes nutrition specialist at the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Get Some C
A European study found that people with the most vitamin C in their bodies had the lowest incidence of diabetes, although the link isn't clear. Fruits and veggies like oranges, strawberries, and broccoli are the best sources of C.
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Researchers from the University of Georgia tested 24 common herbs and spices and discovered that their antioxidants could prevent inflammation associated with diabetes. Cloves and cinnamon both got high rankings.
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'Gothic II' - Screens
by Rainier on Nov. 9, 2002 @ 10:26 p.m. PST | Filed under News
The story is set in the mine valley of Khorinis. The glorious days of the once productive mines in this small seaside region are long over. Instead, the mines are now akin to a natural prison that is surrounded by an impenetrable magic barrier where slaves eked out their miserable existence.Khorinis is facing an uncertain future. Due to the farmers' decreasing production, more and more of the food deliveries are not taking place, and the stocks diminish continuously. The militia's strength ends at the town gate. Outside the town wall, nobody is safe from the bandits' armed raids. There is war in Khorinis. A civil war.


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the amputee was just weird .
The Alphabet is definitely the best, creepy shit. The Grandmother is interesting and the animation is really great, the way he shows the insemination and all that. The Lumiere bit didn't make any sense, it was like he ran out of film just as he was about to do something, and wasn't there like 5 seconds of nothing in the middle of it? Pretty crappy. Six Men Getting Sick was longer than 10 seconds, at least it felt that way. The Cowboy and the Frenchman is hilarious, isn't it weird that Harry Dean Stanton was in this and in Paris, Texas? 'Cause of the juxtaposition, it's funny to me.
Six Men Getting Sick was longer than 10 seconds, at least it felt that way.
Well wasn't it just to try out those 2 types of tape stock? I thought that bit was just about wasting tape.
Pus and oatmeal just don't mix.
It's just the ordering online thing though.....


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Mark Cuban: Why Mavericks are on track to be 'great' by end of next year
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined KESN-FM 103.3 on Saturday. Here are highlights from the interview as transcribed by ESPNDallas.
On whether any potential options have been eliminated since the end of the season
Mark Cuban: "No, not at all. Nothing has really changed. Our approach has always been to be opportunistic and explore all of our options, and that's exactly what we're going to do. We haven't closed any doors, and as far as we know, there haven't been any doors that have been closed to us. We're just going to run them all out there and see what happens."
On whether Nowitzki needs to be the second-best player on the roster next season
Mark Cuban: "We want to be a championship team. We've never said we have to be a championship team this year. We want to be a better team, a top-seed team. If we get the top free agent, that doesn't leave us a whole lot of flexibility to add a lot of players, but we have a good nucleus around them. We know we'll have a good team, but we won't know if we have a great team. If you look at this like a two-year plan, then we think we're on a track to have a great team by the end of next year. I wouldn't say necessarily this year that Dirk has to be the second-best player, but hopefully by the end of next year."
On how Dirk Nowitzki's intention to take a "significant" pay cut next summer will be incorporated into free agency sales pitches
Mark Cuban: "I'll let Dirk decide that [amount of his pay cut]. It'll just depend on how strongly he feels about who we're bringing. That dude has saved every nickel he's ever had. He's not worried about paying for his funeral. Dirk wants to win, and his heart is in the right place. He's a great guy. We get along great and we can have very open and honest conversation and we don't hold anything back. When it comes down to that time, we'll have that conversation and figure it out."
On the possibilities for the 13th overall pick in the draft, including trading it
Mark Cuban: "It depends on what kind of offers we get. Everyone talks about this being a weak draft, so it depends on who falls to No. 13. We're not going to make the decision way in advance. If we like the person at 13, we'll keep it and we'll figure something out elsewhere to free up cap space to get there, but that'll be an option for us. If our guy doesn't get there, we'll look at trading it."
On his confidence level of being able to sign one of the big fish this summer
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The Young Man's Business Model
Mini-story #1:
In my early 20's I pretty much did 2 things. Ride motorcycles and code. Oh, and given my motorcycles were always sort of junky and I beat the snot out of them, I spent plenty of time fixing motorcycles too - I guess that's 3 things then. (If you think I forgot dating or went to bars or some such - nope. We're good. 3 things).
Every now and then we needed an "old man" (like in his 40's or something) to help us fix something when it was beyond our self-taught abilities. Now when I say "old man" here and throughout this article, I don't necessarily mean "old" (and I don't necessarily mean "man") - I mean "experienced". Experienced at whatever I'm interested in at the time - or more specifically, experienced at what I wasn't experienced in at the time.
And as far as fixing motorcycles, what struck me was the way he'd go about it.
A rather common case would be something like there being one final screw holding on some engine part that we needed to replace, but it was buried deep inside the engine - i.e. you could barely see it. My first reaction was to wedge a screwdriver in there as far as I could - and see if, with luck, brute force, and karma, I could turn it enough to get it out.
The old guy on the other hand never went this route. He merely looked at it a moment, then immediately started taking off the neighboring easy-to-remove piece of the engine. Once that was off, he then effortlessly put his screwdriver in to remove the now exposed screw. Now mind you, the old-guy's way was my back-up plan - but I was betting that my brash exuberance would payoff in a slightly quicker result. Sometimes it did - sometimes it didn't - and sometimes I broke screwdrivers.
This trade-off of investment up-front versus brute-force hope became so obvious that my friends and I used it as vernacular. "Do you want to try this the 'young man' way or the 'old man' way?". It was surprising how without any further explanation we would know all the precise steps involved in both for whatever situation.
Ok. That was mini-story #1, here's mini-story #2. This is a business story but its actually surprisingly similar to the previous one whether you know it or not.
In 1997, I was writing a Java optimizer (this made a lot of sense when Java was interpreted) called DashO. Somewhere along the line I was introduced to a guy at Adobe, who (I was told) wanted exactly what I was building.
When I finally spoke to him, it turned out that the Adobe guy didn't really want Java optimization at all. What he wanted, was Java application size reduction. It had literally become a show-stopper for what he was developing. He was clear that money wasn't a problem - if I could solve his issue, he was a customer.
Wanting to please my newfound (big-time) customer I said "Sure! I can add that in!". Then I shrewdly secured the Adobe guy as a beta tester. This changed the direction that my product took and added about 2-3 months of development, but given the payoff, it seemed worth it.
About mid-way through those 2-3 months my partners and I had lunch with a veteran ("old man") business guy that for some reason seemed to like us and liked to keep tabs on our progress. As I excitedly told him the story of Adobe waiting anxiously for our product, his reaction wasn't as I expected. I thought he'd be excited for us, but instead he had a look of disappointment on his face.
Me: What? What's wrong - this is awesome - Adobe is our first customer!
Old-guy: So you spoke to Adobe. Directly to an internal guy that's a customer
Me: yeah!
Old-guy: And he has plenty of money to solve his problem.
Me: yeah, tons!
Old-guy: And how much of that money are you going to get in the best case?
Me: erm. um. We'll sell a copy.
Old-guy: Right. A copy. Maybe a few if you're lucky.
Old-guy went on to discuss how that deal should have gone. Adobe had effectively contracted me to build them a product that didn't exist (this was true). It was possible that no other customers would ever want that functionality (possible). Simply put, they had a specific business need, lots of money to solve it, and had hand-picked me to be the solver.
I should have structured the deal as a contracting agreement. Charging on a per-hour basis to develop their product using what we already had as a base. Then, give them a discount rate on the hourly rate in exchange for full-rights to further develop and sell the product as our own. This would have been a 6-figure deal which would have meant a lot at that time. What's worse is you might be thinking that I missed an opportunity to fleece a customer - but I argue you're wrong. In fact, that arrangement would have actually brought more value to the Adobe.
In the old-guy's arrangement, Adobe would have then had a hand in guiding the project and making sure all the features they wanted were in the soup. Not to mention, if I didn't build this for them, they simply would have had to hire someone else to do it - probably spending lots more.
Once in awhile, you have a fucking-duh moment - and for me, this was one. If you're thinking "well obviously" then clearly you've done this before, at that time - I hadn't.
Story 3 - a recent breakfast.
I recently had breakfast with a guy I met at an entrepreneur event. He was CTO of a pretty popular website. When he first described his site, I liked the business model a lot. His site fed him data that allowed him to refine his real product: pre-built server boxes which he sold to companies that allowed them to use his software internally.
Visions of sugar-plums and multi-million dollar deals immediately started dancing in my head. As he talked, the rolodex in my mind quickly flipped from person to person. I thought of potential customers, potential partners and even maybe people appropriate to join his team. His product was good, and not that he asked me to, but I couldn't help forming a deal network in my head.
I asked about his sales infrastructure. His answer left me wanting but I figured he was probably still fleshing it out (a very hard task). I almost rhetorically asked about the sales cycle. There wasn't one. Now I was getting confused.
As we talked more it became clear that he and his company were following what I'd call the young-man's business model.
He was basically building a (good) product, then laying it out on the web for all to see and hoping to get a million eyeballs. The viewpoint of the business is to get eyeballs, often from things like Digg or Techcrunch, and then figure out how to keep them. And then amazingly often, this really is the step where entrepreneurs have no clue what happens except they are sure the next step is "and then Profit!".
This is an extremely innocent look at business - and in some sense, its the most logical one if you simply have no other avenues.
This model isn't wrong but now to me (who has of course only recently come to rather shocking self-realization that I am... an "old-man" at how I view business) it seems like a business model without considering connections. Deciding to make connections for your business of course isn't conscious. When something happens, the first thing that pops in your head is "Boy, Fred needs to hear about this". And depending on how many Freds you know dictates how often that idea pops in your head. (and of course, the more Freds you know, the more Freds you will know).
My old-man/young-man nomenclature may not be perfect but it might be statistically correct. Its probably safe to say that on average a 30 year old has a generally more business connections than a 20 year old. From there people simply follow business plans as they occur to them.
To me, my friend at breakfast had a sure winner if he had put together a solid sales and marketing infrastructure. His product should have been selling inside 6 figure deals with several month sales cycles. Now clearly, this model doesn't apply to everything. And plenty of new Web 2.5 startups don't fit this mold - but I also think many people underestimate the idea. So far it seems the evolution of all businesses, even something so webby as Facebook eventually becomes about making deals with big partners at least as much as its about eyeballs.
It wasn't so long ago that saying your new startup was monetized by ads wasn't scary. Some companies go right from eyeballs to ads and to sell-out. Thats great work if you can get it. But the number of eyeballs is limited. Its scary to think that, but on the web, we tend to give value away and "make it up on volume". The only problem is you need a hell of a lot of volume to make up for free. And 6 billion people isn't all that many when it comes down to it.
Personally I think web businesses are growing up. The eyeball business model is getting to be like Market street in San Francisco. Everyone is pierced, shaved, screaming, or on fire. They're crying for attention and they have to keep shouting louder than everyone else to get it.
I have plenty of opinions about business models, but to me, the best business model is one that makes your customer money. I didn't say "saves" them money - big difference. Also, its better yet if that customer is a business. You need less businesses as customers to be successful than if you had individuals as customers. A common sweet-spot is BtoBtoC. Supply to businesses that supply to consumers (and of course, make them money).
If you don't have a ton of business experience, try this - think about your next great web app, then imagine the slickest (or sleaziest, your call) old-man salesperson you ever met sitting in front of you. Picture the idea that this guy is really good at persuasion and networking. He can't code, you may not like him, and he wears shoes you wouldn't wear on halloween, but he's good at what he does. Then imagine handing the old-man 5% of the company (I know its hard, try - remember, its just pretend). You need him truly on your side.
If you had access to the old-man and his imaginary immense rolodex of connections. How else could you sell this? What value could you bring to some customers that currently you can't reach?
Your real business model might be hiding like that last screw holding on part of the engine. Despite you stubbornly breaking screwdrivers, you might not get to what you need. It might just be worth asking yourself, "WWTOMD" - What would the old man do?
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Great post! As a 30-yr old pushing into entrepreneurship, I identify with nearly everything you say here.
I've started looking at things more in the old-man way as well, and not just "we'll make a better $X and then we win!"
Good Post, I am a soon to be 30 year old who has been self employed for most of his 20's. I have been a partner in businesses with multi million dollar potential and seen them fail because the "Old Men" I was involved with had completely misunderstood how to run a successful technology company. I think that there is this allure of the web and of technology and some experienced businessmen fail to see technology projects as something that needs more than a virtual presence to become a successful venture. I have found that traditional businessmen frequently have either a complete misunderstanding of how to profit though technology or they have an "If you build it they will come" attitude where they think you flip the switch on your web app and all of a sudden you have customers. With that said, I will admit that I am starting to also feel like the old man myself. I learned a lot of hard lessons early in business and I'm now finally starting to see them pay off.
- Anthony Bucci said...
Solid post.
- Adam Bard said...
Great post! As a 23-year-old pushing into entrepreneurship, I identify with practically nothing you say here. But, I'm going to try to take your advice anyhow, because it sounds like you know what you're talking about.
However, it still seems like a tough proposition to sell to the internet at large anything that's not free. How would you go about getting good, paying customers for your web app?
- Jason said...
Good post.
As a software engineer, and a motorcycle connoisseur, I've attacked things with the big screw driver and hoped for the best. In both programming, and mechanics.
I realized usually much too late, that it wasn't the best way to get to the end result.
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- stiennon said...
When I was 18 I had a job on the farm. The farm general manager was most definitely an "old man". One day, while trying to replace a front wheel on the Case tractor we broke off the stud the lug nut fit on. We took the hub in to the co-op to another old guy. He very slowly, very carefully drilled and tapped a hole in the the broken off lug. It was reverse threaded so he could then screw in a bolt to the left and as it tightened would start to remove the lug.
The GM told me to watch as this guy would apply pressure, squirt liquid wrench, and apply pressure. It took half an hour but he got it out. "This is how old guys do it, not like a brash young guy" he said.
- Kristoff said...
Thank you.
- DJN said...
GFantastic read man, thanks for the insight. I love learning from those more experienced in the different channels of life.
Excellent! great insight into the young man vs. old man model, and nice names for them. Of course, it makes me realize that I'm an old man chronologically but still a young man sometimes in the business world ;-)
- jamiequint said...
this is the best post i've read in quite a while. thanks for writing it.
Great inspiration.
I wish I had a witty comment about how this relates to me or a cool anecdote about a young man's experience but I don't unfortunately...
Anyways, well written, a touch of humor and very instructive...
Good job!
This post caught me by surprise. I almost stopped reading after the first couple paragraphs, but I'm glad I didn't.
I've been consulting for the past couple years. On a number of occasions I've been asked to become a partner or take part in some revenue sharing mechanism. These people always seems to believe in the build it (a web site) and they will come scenario.
After two years I've seen a couple sucessful ventures. However, most of the time things simply don't work out. It is either a people thing, money thing, or we build it and --Surprise-- people don't come. In all this time my sticking to my guns and getting paid for my work at the time has always worked for me.
Maybe someday when I hear and idea not based off of "The Young Man's Business Model" I will jump in and work for the big payoff at the end. However, nobody I encounter thinks about how they will make money off the Internet wihtout trying to attract as many eyeballs as they can and hope that somehow they will make a profit. As if, as you suggest, things will somehow take care of themselves at that point.
To be completely fair I haven't thought of a way to cash in either so I do what I can and make a decent living. You translated into words what I have thought but could not articulate. Thank you for the refreshing read.
- Jeff Bellamy said...
"Supply to businesses that supply to consumers"
In my years of business I have positioned and repositioned my company in the market.
At one extreme I had one company who we contracted with. This was great when their business was booming but it hurt us when they slowed down.
At the other extreme I had all end consumers which meant higher margins but also a lot of expense and running around to manage all the accounts.
Of course the best situation is to have a blend.
Some large companies to cover your overhead with their lower margins and slower pay cycles.
Some smaller companies where you get a bit more profit and a bit quicker pay.
And end customers.
Visualize it as pouring rocks in a container; big rocks and then smaller rocks to fill in the gaps and then gravel to fill in the smaller gaps.
Yours Truly
Jeff Bellamy
- Prasanna said...
Nice post..
Many practical tips for budding entrepreneurs,which is hardly available in any book...
Like you said, business is quite complex. There are so many variables that even experience provides no guarantee of our having tamed enough of them. On top of all that is this new age of the Internet, which has literally turned business models on their head.
Why most brick and mortar businesses fall under a particular format is because those revenue models here have proved to be most stable in the long run. The Net is so young and evolving at such a pace that literally no one can vouch for the stability of ANY revenue model.
To predict if a particular revenue model would turn out to be stable, we need to look a first principles. Personally I would look at multiple levels of abstraction such at those that exist in programming languages.
Some very big and stable companies need to supply the Lego blocks while the small people full of ideas try to make various objects out of them. If some particular design does not work or is ahead of its time, it can be broken and reshaped with the minimum of irreversible loss.
- Fuchs said...
This makes me remember what I know about Google history and how it started.
Page and Brin had or still have this in mind in a sense that the only important point is to create a great product and everything else will come, not sure if this is true in the Enterprise space.
Old man cases are very very common and the Google ones (and how much they are resisting) are new and breakthrough.
I'd say that at this point I'll vote for the young man. :)
- Data Entry Services said...
I'm an "old lady" but appreciate your blog about the "young man's business model." Something all business people can learn from. I have added you to my blog list. Please just leave out the F - word.
I really enjoyed this post - as a young entrepreneur myself I have faced the difficulty of even just proving to the 'old men' that I know what I'm doing and can keep up with them!
Fortunately I've had the opportunity to work with some 'old men' that have really acted as mentors for me to learn from but also trying my own things.
- Wendy Ragiste said...
So true, it's not the ideas or even the product that decides your success, it's knowing what to do with them and how to get the most out of it before someone bigger comes along and blows you out of the water.
- Sleep Deprivation Ninja said...
The young man model is totally why my startup company is out of money and looking to sell. We focused on developing a cool product and showing it to the college kids, while our competitors focused on recruiting musicians, who in turn publicized and made money for both themselves and the competition. We never worried about marketing, just thinking, it'll explode once we give it to a few thousand people. Now we have over 10K users and a meager income each month, but no tipping point has yet occurred. We haven't tapped into the market of money making customers and now it's too late for us to invest more into doing so.
- aXis said...
Awesome !! Great post. Very well written. Though I have been working only with startups till date, your post makes makes me realize am still the young man..who needs to learn a lot to be the "old man". Thanks again.
- Ryan said...
I commented on this post a long time ago and I get each post to my email and I am happy I did. It's always interesting to here everyones feeling of which man they are. I would say I'm in the process of transitioning from young to old..I think in the middle has its benefits!
- Angelo said...
Great post!
- Annuity said...
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- Sell Settlement said...
I love your analogy. I have several of the same types of stories that were running though my head when you were mentioning the screw way down deep in the engine. I think a few years ago I would have tried to brute force it, but now I would take the time to remove the easy part to get at it.
I don't know if it's laziness or maturity level, but either way, I think we all become "old men" in some sort of fashion.
Thanks for the nice read.
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I'm in the midst of creating a business model right now. It's tough ensuring you have all the Is dotted and the Ts crossed. Blah, hopefully it works out in the end.
Thanks for the write up, it definitely helps.
- Jmb in Indiana said...
"Everyone is pierced, shaved, screaming, or on fire. They're crying for attention and ..."
Classic line. Everyone of us will look back at our young man stage from our old man stage thinking only if I new then what I know now.
Great article. To me it highlights the value of networking and mentors.
- David said...
I really can relate to this article. I am getting close to 30. I have been trying to become an entrepreneur for a while now. Some success and many failures. I credit this to the fact that my thinking was not where it should have been. Great post!
- marketing consultant said...
Thanks for this writeup, it's helped me launch my new consulting business.
This post also put me on the track of finally acting on a website idea I've had for a few years.
Thanks for the inspiration.
- Bryan said...
First: I never post on blogs. I've always read the blog entry, on some thing I'm striving to achieve (usually it's a problem I need to fix), I find the solution and move on.
And here I am. I floated on here from a old cached link on FireFox from no better use of my time and started poking around.
This blog hits home, big time. I have a computer repair business. I have years of doing it, and I can fix a hell of a lot of computer crap. The issue? I have few customers, all one-offs. I don't have money to advertise so what do I do right?
Perhaps your post is inspiring me to focus a bit better. I repair, and I sell stuff. I also have good PHP skills, and I know (for a damn fact) of a niche that gives value to businesses and customers alike. And I've invested maybe 2 days back a while ago floating the development idea around...and forgot/moved on.
Thanks for the re-invigoration. I think I'll use my existing business to front my new related niche...
- horse matting said...
Great post! As a 23-year-old pushing into entrepreneurship, I identify with practically nothing you say here. But, I'm going to try to take your advice anyhow, because it sounds like you know what you're talking about.
A good post. People in Valley are lucky to exercise their entrepreneurial side and even cash it but this is not the case in other parts of the world. I worked on fewer of my ideas but couldn't promote it as I couldnt find the right audience
- Kathryn Sias said...
I'm also a 50 year old pushing a 30 year career to it's limits. The Young man's business model, indeed. I have my son who helps me think the "techie/newbie" information of the up and coming younger generation who, for the most part, understand internet marketing better than we "old traditional marketers". Kudo's to all of you.
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- CBS News, 60 Minutes, and Vanity Fair. CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Survey, March #3, 2011. ICPSR33489-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-06-01. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33489.v1
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I almost jumped ship.
Got my Hall of Fame ballot in the mail the other day, and up until then I was thinking about which way to go regarding the steroid issue. Up to now, I have not voted for those with verified connections to steroid use.
But I was getting tired of the issue and I was considering simply voting on the player's record. Looking at numbers. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, etc., you've got my vote.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that was the easy way out. That way, the vote is purely objective. There is no real judgment required.
Problem is, that's not what the Hall ballot instructions require. The instructions are very concise and clear-cut:
"Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played."
The key words there are "integrity, sportsmanship and character." I've heard many highly respected baseball writers say they were voting solely on each player's performance on the field, that they didn't want to cast "judgment" on a player's character.
I completely understand the reluctance some writers have to judge these players. As flawed human beings ourselves, what gives us the right to judge the players?
My answer to that is I'm not judging the players as human beings. I'm not going to judge a player based on things like if he cheated on his wife, was caught drinking and driving or never donated to charity despite making millions of dollars.
My judgment would be based simply on how it relates to baseball. Quite simply, cheating is not "sportsmanlike." These players did not respect the integrity of the game. They showed a lack of respect for their fellow players who were "clean" and for all the players who came before them.
They showed no concern for young fans who look up to these players as heroes. Whether they like it or not, they are role models. They are either positive role models or negative role models.
And it's important because the game is an integral part of American culture.
I've also heard the argument that the players connected to steroids are not the first to cheat, that there are players in the Hall of Fame who have cheated. Gaylord Perry threw a spitball. Many players used amphetamines and other substances that might have helped them perform better.
But bad behavior doesn't justify more bad behavior. Just because some players may have bucked the system and found a way into the Hall doesn't mean we should ignore the question we're faced with now.
Discounting the issue is the coward's way out.
Another aspect to my direction in the vote is hearing how there is a majority of players currently in the Hall who are steadfast against bringing in known steroid users into their exclusive club.
It seems they feel the honor of being in the Hall would be lessened, diluted, with the induction of the steroid-era players. It also makes me look harder at players from the era who certainly had opportunities to use but didn't, and still had remarkable careers.
I look at a player like Fred McGriff, who played from 1986-2004 without a hint of any connection to steroids. He received only 23.9 percent of the vote last year, but look at his record: 19 seasons, .284 average, 493 home runs, 1,550 RBIs, 2,490 hits, five All-Star Games, 10 seasons of 30-plus home runs, 100 or more RBIs eight times, .300 or better four times, .303 career postseason average and on and on.
A look at the long list of players on the Mitchell Report that implicated players for steroid use shows many players who never will be considered for the Hall of Fame. They used not to make the Hall, but to improve themselves as players enough to make more money and play a little longer. Fortunately for them, they are not placed under the spotlight like Bonds or Clemens, and essentially got away with it.
The pall the steroid era has cast on baseball is tangible.
There are players who never used but have to deal with questions, accusations and innuendo if they put up big numbers just because they played at a time when steroid use was rampant.
Even now, when testing is much more stringent, players who put up big numbers are looked at with suspicious eyes. The steroid era has forever tarnished the game, and the players who are known to have used should not be awarded the game's highest honor – induction to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Joe Haakenson is a former baseball writer for the Los Angeles News Group


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I'm trying to generalize one aspect of the accepted answer in: $\text{Hom}(\mathbb{F}_p G, M)$ and $H^1(G,M)$
Is the following statement correct?
- $R_1$ and $R_2$ are rings;
- $F:R_1-\text{mod}\rightarrow R_2-\text{Mod}$ is an additive functor;
- $M \in R_1-\text{Mod}$.
- $F(M)$ is a $\text{Hom}_{R_1}(M,M)$-module where
- the action of $\text{Hom}_{R_1}(M,M)$ on $F(M)$ is given by $f\cdot x=F(f)(x)$.


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This shot was taken between 1:06 and 1:34 pm (assumes June 8th)But they checked in between 2:46 and 3:30 pm on the 7th. Don't know what to make of that.
RJ, yes that was the pit stop they leave from India. The weird thing is that they are clearly not leaving 12 hours after checking in.
Does this look familiar?
Oh I love trying to figure out who gets the fast forward. Since the clue says one team helps another to secure the ff my guess is that the team does get the ff. Without seeing any promos my first guess is that the Lyns get the ff with the Cho's help.
All teams but MayDay at the Roadblock..POOR SARAH ! Evil Pecker making her do the Roadblock AGAIN ! Even the racers look disgusted
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- The S1000RR sports a 20% larger air intake for '12.
- Engineers modified the geometry of the bike for '12. We couldn't notice much of a difference on street rubber.
- Throttle response and sensitivity in Race and Slick modes is much improved making the bike easier to drive off corners.
- The chassis/suspension balance felt better as compared to the first generation bike.
- Wheelie control functionality has improved for '12 and doesn't activate as abruptly. It still needs added refinement though.
- The S1000RR's ergonomics are logical and work well for even taller riders.
- Although it's at the top of its class BMW updates its S1000RR sportbike for '12 and we test ride it in Valencia, Spain.
- The swingarm now pivots at a 4mm higher position than before.
- The 2012 BMW S1000RR is destined to be atop the superbike class for '12.
- The instrument display has a new engine rpm font along with other electronic functions.
- Heated grips are now available as a factory option.
- The S100RR's traction control settings are more refined for '12.
- An optional electronic quickshifter reduces the time and effort it takes to upshift.
- A new top clamp with reduced offset is said to improve steering response. We couldn't tell a difference.
- The S1000RR continues to offer class-leading levels of stopping power. Its optional Race ABS is also the best motorcycle ABS available on the market.
- The side panels along with the tail section received updated styling.
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8 Ways to Rev Up Your Freelance Business Before the Holidays
As we move into December with the holidays quickly approaching, your freelance work can slow down because many businesses go into vacation mode. If your workload is lighter than usual, we have a few tips for picking up new year-end business or revving up your freelance business in 2016.
1. Take Advantage of Holiday Promotions that Businesses Offer
Before and during the holidays, many B2C companies and some B2B companies are running online holiday promotions to increase revenue before the year ends. Whether you're an IT professional, writer or in design/multimedia, you'll find that many of your clients need extra help during this time to get their promotions online. Assuming you have a clientele list, contact existing and past clients and prospects to inquire whether they are in need of support during the holiday season.
2. It's Winter – Time to Cold Call
The holiday season is a great time to cold call potential clients to which you can offer services. Making personal phone calls and creating individual email messages that address pain points that these potential clients might have is a good way to get your foot in the door. If they aren't in need of your services during the month of December, they'll likely be interested when the new year begins and their 2016 budgets are approved.
3. Perform Website Housekeeping
If you're finding that your workload is a little light during the holiday season, take advantage of this time to improve your website. When you're a freelancer and you generate clients from your website, you need to ensure it is optimized for search and conversions and that it also presents a favorable first impression.
Write down your objectives and ensure your website accurately reflects your goals. Highlight and showcase your latest and best work. If your website is out of date and looking a bit tired, don't be afraid to update the theme. Ensure you utilize a responsive theme – meaning it adapts to mobile devices and functions great on any device. If you want to learn about new trends in web design, check out this great article from Search Engine Watch, "12 Good, Bad and Ugly Web Design Trends for 2016."
4. Keep in Touch with Freelance Clients Via Holiday Cards
The holiday season is a perfect time to thank your freelance clients for their business during the year. Take a look at the clients in your Contacts App or database and create custom greeting cards that thank them for their support during the year. During the holiday season, many of us are bombarded with email promotions and we tend to tune them out. A snail mail greeting card can make you stand out in a crowd.
Consider including your brand, logo and contact information (in a tasteful way) on your greeting card to help your clients and prospects keep you on top of mind. Moreover, ensure that you write a personal message on each card. Cards Direct, TinyPrints and VistaPrint provide customizable greeting cards that you can utilize for this purpose.
5. Enhance Your Social Media Presence
Social media is a fantastic way to help freelancers drum up new business. If you're already using social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter, you know that it takes a significant amount of time to post new content each day. The slower holiday season is a perfect time to focus on your social media posts and interactions to highlight your best work, present yourself as a knowledgeable expert and to reconnect with clients and build prospects.
For example, if you're a writer, highlight any articles or web copy that you created during the year on your social media channels. If you're looking for holiday work, emphasize your holiday promotional materials. In addition, if you're a graphic designer, social media is a great avenue for showing off your best visual content, especially if it's holiday themed. Of course, it's important to ensure any sharing is cleared with your clients.
6. Showcase Your Best and Newest Work Using Your Online Portfolio
If you're in a creative field and you haven't already done so, utilize this time to update, showcase and highlight your work with an online portfolio. Many companies use these sites to recruit their freelance and contract resources. Moreover, if you already have an online portfolio, the holiday season is a great time to update it with your best and latest work.
If online portfolio sites are new to you, check out the following websites:
- Coroflot: Launched in 1997, Coroflot hosts over 2 million images and over 150,000 new projects are published each month.
- Dribbble: Launched in 2009, Dribbble is described as a "show and tell" for designers. Illustrators, graphic designers and other creative professionals share small screenshots that show their work.
- Behance Network: Launched in 2006, Behance is a growing business unit of Adobe based in New York City. It allows you to create a portfolio that's connected so you can update work in one place and easily broadcast it.
- CarbonMade: Launched in 2005, CarbonMade showcases more than 950,000 portfolios for illustrators, copywriters, fashion designers, stylists and others.
7. Network, Network, Network
When you're a freelancer, it's very important to network with friends, family, colleagues and other connections especially if you're a social person – not just to gain clients, but for your happiness and well-being. The holiday season is an ideal time to reconnect with those you know over lunch, happy hours, parties or other social outlets. Keep in mind that referrals are super important for growing your freelance business. Utilize the holiday season to reconnect with past clients, ex-coworkers and friends. Explain to people in your network what you do, how you help businesses succeed or about the products that you sell.
8. Gain Recommendations and Testimonials
If you have some downtime during the holiday season, consider obtaining recommendations or testimonials from current or past clients and posting them on your website, social media accounts and online portfolio. Testimonials are equally as important as having an exceptional portfolio. Many freelancers obtain new clients from the endorsements of their current or past clients. This is why testimonials are of upmost importance when building a successful freelancing career.
An easy way to obtain recommendations is to utilize the LinkedIn "Request a Recommendation" tool. Alternatively, you can email clients or contact them via social media to request testimonials. There are also software solutions to help. Capture video testimonials with Bravo or use a product such as Boast to collect, organize and manage testimonials.
Your Turn
As a freelancer, what will you be doing to increase your success during the holiday season? Please comment and let us know.


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CHARLOTTE � Shelby�s Alvin Gentry has coached against a Charlotte NBA team every year the city has had a franchise.
But he�s always wondered what it would be like if he coached the team located 50 miles east of his hometown.
Next week, Gentry will get the chance to discuss that possibility when he interviews with top Charlotte Bobcats management for the team�s head coaching vacancy.
�I�m coming in next Thursday,� said Gentry, who has a 347-379 NBA head coaching record, including 12-9 in the playoffs, during all or parts of 12 seasons for four franchises. �I grew up there and I�ve followed the Hornets and now the Bobcats ever since they�ve been there. It would be very exciting for me to get an opportunity to coach there.�
Gentry is at least the fourth reported candidate for the vacancy created on April 23 when the Bobcats fired Mike Dunlap after he led Charlotte to a 21-61 record in his one season as head coach.
Another North Carolina native, Pembroke�s Kelvin Sampson (Houston Rockets assistant) is another potential interview candidate, along with Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Nate Tibbetts and Phoenix Suns assistant Elston Turner.
A 1973 Shelby High graduate, Gentry has been on the NBA coaching sidelines since the Charlotte Hornets� expansion season of 1988-89.
Most recently, Gentry�s longest head coaching tenure ended in January when the Phoenix Suns fired him after five seasons on the job. Gentry led the Suns to a 158-144 record, highlighted by an appearance in the 2010 Western Conference finals.
Gentry also has been a head coach for the Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers and has had assistant coaching stints with the San Antonio Spurs, Clippers, Heat, Pistons and Suns.
�Charlotte has the most visible owner in the NBA in Michael Jordan,� Gentry said. �He�s also the most competitive. To be back in the area would be special for me. I can still remember the enthusiasm that used to be there (for the Hornets) when they started. My goals would be to fill up the arena and make it exciting again because I know that community really knows basketball.�
Gentry got into coaching after a failed tryout as player with coach Larry Brown�s Denver Nuggets in the fall of 1977 � or a few months after he finished his college basketball career at Appalachian State.
Gentry spent 11 yeares as a college assistant at Colorado, Baylor and Kansas, highlighted by his final collegiate game � Kansas� 1988 NCAA championship game victory over Oklahoma.
Gentry then went with Brown to coach for the San Antonio Spurs and was part of a coaching staff that included current Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich and current Spurs general manager R.C. Buford.
Later, Gentry was on Brown�s Clippers� coaching staff, Kevin Loughery�s Heat staff, Doug Collins� Pistons� staff, Popovich�s Spurs� staff and Mike D�Antoni�s Suns� staff.
Gentry has a couple of connections to Jordan beyond simply being a coach during Jordan�s tenures as a NBA player, executive and owner.
In 2009, Gentry�s cousin, former Crest High, N.C. State and NBA star David Thompson, inducted Jordan into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
And in 2010, Gentry was a counselor for Jordan�s Las Vegas fantasy basketball camp.
�I know Michael wants to win and he�s got a lot of young players that can be successful in the NBA,� Gentry said of the current Bobcats� roster that includes rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, second-year players Kemba Walker and Bismack Biyombo and fourth-year player Gerald Henderson. �You�ve got to teach them to play hard and compete. If you do that, I know the fans there will appreciate it.�


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1900s Name: Vishnevets1900s District: Kremenets1900s Province: Volhynia1900s Country: Russian Empire
Modern: Vishnevets, UkraineModern Ukrainian: Вишневець
Modern Russian: Вишневец
1930s: Wisniowiec, Krzemieniec, Wołyń, Poland1950s: Vishnevets, Soviet Union
Other names: Vishnevets [Rus], Wisniowiec [Pol], Vishnivits [Yid], Vyshnivets [Ukr], Vishnevits, Vishniets, Vishnivitz, Vishnyovyets, Wisnievicze, Wisniowiec Nowy, Wisnowiec, VysnivecCoordinates: 49°54'N 25°45'E Mapquest
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Vishnevets data on Kremenets KehilaLinks website: The Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) collects documents and datasets for towns of the Kremenets District. Vishnevets is one of those towns. To see what KDRG has available for Vishnevets go to the Kremenets KehilaLinks website (http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/about-kremenets.html). On the Research Menu, select Concordance. The Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names is a master index of all information collected by KDRG. Please be sure to read the Introduction and Guide to the Concordance to learn how to interpret the abbreviations in the 'Source' and 'Location in Source' columns. There is a Vishnevets KehilaLinks website, but the site does not have an active 'owner'. Whenever a volunteer steps forward to resume development of the Vishnevets KehilaLinks website, links to the KDRG materials will be added. For more information contact Ron Doctor (email@example.com).
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Stephen Ashton, 22, was killed as he danced with friends at a beach bar on the popular island of Koh Phangan.
He is thought to have been caught in the crossfire when an argument between two groups of youths suddenly escalated.
Local police spokesman Lt Col Somsak Noorod said: "He was shot in the side while he was dancing on the beach."
Mr Ashton, an investment broker, was rushed to Bandon International Hospital on the neighbouring island of Koh Samui, but was later pronounced dead.
The suspect, named locally as Ekkapan Kaewkla, 26, was subsequently arrested and was found in possession of a homemade gun.
Around 300 revellers attended the Countdown party at the Zoom Bar on Haad Rin beach on Monday night.
Witnesses said that two groups of Thai youths got into an argument which escalated into a fist-fight at around 4am.
As one of the groups ran from the bar, one man turned and fired a shot back inside.
Mr Ashton, from Croydon, south London, was shot in the torso.
Sophie Harwin, a graphics editor from Surrey, had spent the evening nearby but left the area before the shooting occurred.
"I just met someone who said loads of people were trying to save him," she said. "Very sad."
The shooting marks a double tragedy for the Ashton family, following the sudden death of his father, John Ashton, from a brain tumour just over a year ago.
Mr Ashton, 51, was diagnosed with the tumour a few months after he was hit on the head by a burglar who had broken into the family's £1 million home in the leafy commuter village of Purley, where his mother Diane still lives with their daughter Emily, 20.
Neighbour Dawn Mason said: "It's so sad. I can't imagine how Diane is feeling. And for it to happen so soon after John died – it's devastating.
"Stephen was a lovely lad. He used to have a few house parties and make lots of noise, but I didn't mind. He was just a normal boy."
A friend said that Mrs Ashton, 48, a solicitor, had been told the news while away on a skiing holiday and was due to return home today.
Mr Ashton had been staying with a group of friends at Pink's Bungalows, a series of basic wooden beachside properties in the fishing village of Ban Tai, not far from Haad Rin.
He had posted a photograph of himself and two friends drinking beers in a Thai bar on Facebook on December 13.
As news of his sudden death spread yesterday, many posted tributes on his web page.
One friend, Aaron Kelly, wrote: "Horrible news. Be good up there mate."
Mr Ashton is believed to have worked for investment company CSS Partners LLP.
He had previously worked as a trader for H2O Markets, which tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the Ashton family, the world has lost another good person he was an outstanding employee of the firm".
On his arrest, Ekkapan admitted he had fought with another group of men at Zoom Bar but denied firing the fatal shot, according to the Bangkok Post.
He is expected to appear in court today.
Police Colonel Kittakarn Kramothong, said: "Stephen was not involved in the fight."
Haad Rin is famed for its monthly full moon parties, which attract thousands of revellers from across the world.
But the Foreign Office travel advisory singles out Koh Phangan as a place of concern and specifically mentions roving Thai gangs.
Many tourists have been attacked and even raped in the past and many Thais from Bangkok do not visit the Samui archipelago because of its reputation.
Three Thais were gunned down in a similar fight on Haad Rin beach in 2004.
In 2007 Israeli tourist David Kakitelashvic, 31, died after being stabbed eight knife times at the beach's Drop Inn Bar.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in Thailand on New Year's Eve. We are providing consular assistance to the family.


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A Note on Pride: GP(oz)S
From 2001 to 2003 I served as the first chair of the National Lavender Green Caucus of the Green Party of the United States. Each year, I wrote an open letter to the queer community during Pride in which I exhorted folks to engage politically and do their part to create positive social change. It was the beginning of the Bush era, 9/11 went down very shortly after I became chair (and our Caucus was the FIRST queer political organization to come out against any retaliatory war), Ralph Nader was not a joke, and no one had even heard of American Idol. I was also HIV negative.
Ten years later, Osama bin Laden is dead, there is a black man in the White House, Donald Trump was considering running for president (talk about a joke), two tsunamis have devastated large swaths of Asia, Hurricane Katrina almost killed New Orleans, cell phone signals -- it turns out -- are killing bees, and I have been living with HIV for the last eight years.
Oh the times, how they change.
I am a student of history, and history fascinates me. What fascinates me just as much is human psychology. Choose any 10-year period of history and in that 10 years the world has always radically changed, especially in the industrialized era. Imagine the world in 1960 and the world in 1970. Imagine the world in 1855 and the world in 1865. The world, and everything in it, is in a constant flux of social change. Yet, at least for me, I live my life day to day assuming that the world is pretty much a stable constant that changes incrementally, yet when looking back on the last 10 years, the world looks nothing like it did a decade ago.
How the Hell does that happen?
I should know better. My own life looks radically different every time I pass gas or wake up from a nap. But the difference that I am celebrating now, today, during this Pride season is my own personal growth over the last eight years as an out, HIV-positive individual ... my pride, if you will, in who I am ... and who I am becoming (I should have "work in progress" tattooed someplace conspicuous on my body).
It has been a rough, sometimes lonely, and sometimes hideously paved road with big old potholes, a few U-turns, a couple of almost dead ends, and more than a few stops to ask for directions along the way. For the first three years, I was driving the HIV road without a license, blindfolded, intoxicated, high, and with my hands handcuffed behind my back, in a sling, texting, and with my toes on the steering wheel. Over the last five years, I have learned to drive with my hands in the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, I signal before all turns, I consult my GPS, and I pay attention to the road signs. I am not a perfect driver, I sometimes still make slight detours or find myself questioning Google maps, but despite sometimes having to combat old feelings, old habits and old fears, I am confident that I am heading in the direction and toward the destination that was meant for me in this life. Hell if I know what that ultimate arrival point is, but I do know that when I get there, it will be with confidence and love of myself.
A work in progress indeed.
Writing for TheBody.com has been a key component in my personal growth in relationship to acceptance of my HIV status. I have received support, love and reassurance from people all over the world (some in countries that required me to pull out the Atlas and use an astrolabe to find). Each time I write, openly, about all of my struggles with HIV ... my constant struggles around disclosure, the acceptance, the rejection, the awkward moments, the mistakes, the successes ... I find myself moving closer to seeing and loving myself with all of my complications and because of my history and not in spite of it.
Thank you all for choosing to climb into this burnt-orange 1977 16-passenger van with me from time to time. Your help navigating this particular road is so very much appreciated.
Happy Pride.
Read more of Queer, Poz and Colored: The Essentials_, Brandon Lacy Campos' blog, at TheBody.com._