He had arrived at the seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas with his wife and one-year-old son on Friday.
Gatti was known as the ‘human highlight reel’ for his blood and guts performances that earned him fans all over the world.
He held the IBF super-featherwight and WBC light-welterweight titles and was involved in a famous trilogy with ‘Irish’ Micky Ward, winning the last two contests on points.
However, despite later picking up the WBC belt his hard fights appeared to take their toll on the ‘Thunder’, who was past his best when Floyd Mayweather Jr took the title in 2005 with a sixth round stoppage.
He fought on, losing two of his next three fights before retiring in 2007 with a record of 40-9 with 31 wins by stoppage.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
It is vital to have a trading plan when investing your hard earned capital. Many of these lessons may seem elementary, but what fascinates me is talking to fellow commodity traders over the years and finding there is still a lack of discipline.
Below you will find some common disciplines that as a Commodities trader you should abide by in most instances. Ironically this list was complied from a pamphlet printed 30 years ago entitled; “How Young Millionaires Trade Commodities” and virtually all the principles still apply. Supply and demand still rule the roost in determining pricing in commodities. Over the years the dynamics have certainly changed, but what hasn’t is human behavior, and the effects of greed and fear in the trading community. That is why principles that worked 3 decades ago still apply in today’s market.
1. Use money you can afford to lose – always trade with risk capital
2. Know yourself– be disciplined, always controlling your emotions
3. Start small – do not over commit until you learn the mechanics
4. Don’t over commit – always keep excess margin in your account
5. Isolate your trading from your desire for profit – try to eliminate “hope” from your trading plan
6. Don’t form new opinions during trading hours – do not let day to day fluctuations change your overall plan
7. Take a trading break– trading everyday may cloud your judgment
8. Don’t follow the crowd– if everyone is leaning one way it is most likely the wrong way
9. Block out other opinions – do not be influenced by others once you form an opinion
10. When you’re not sure, stand aside– it is ok to be in cash and not in the market
11. Try to avoid market orders– always using market orders to buy and sell shows a lack of discipline
12. Trade the most active option month – look for where the open interest and liquidity exists
13. Trade divergence between related commodities – large divergences within the same sector generally present an opportunity
14. Don’t trade too many commodities at once – following several markets at once is difficult and usually costly
15. Trade the opening range breakout – breaking out of the opening range generally sets the tone for the direction of the coming move
16. Trade the breakout of the previous day’s range– this helps getting in and out of positions
17. Trade the breakout of the weekly range – again like the daily breakouts use breakouts as buy and sell signals
18. Trade the breakout of the monthly range – the longer time frame the more market momentum behind your trading decision
19. Build a trading pyramid – when adding to a position add fewer contracts than your base commitment
20. Never put your entire position on at one price – let the market prove you are right
Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi testified today that as he spent more time with his beautiful girlfriend, fellow gangster James “Whitey” Bulger grew jealous.
“Bulger kind of resented the fact that I didn’t spend enough time with him,” Flemmi, 75, said during the civil bench trial in US District Court. Flemmi recalled that he began skipping some of Bulger’s secret meetings with the FBI so he could be with Debra Davis.
“He would contact me and I wouldn’t respond,” Flemmi said, noting that he shut off his pager when he got home because “I didn’t want to be bothered … [Bulger] was very upset about it.”
That anger turned deadly when Bulger learned that Flemmi had told Davis about their relationship with the FBI.
“He wanted to kill her,” Flemmi said. “He wanted me to bring her down and set her up so he could kill her.”
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Jesse James Hollywood was convicted this afternoon of first-degree murder and kidnapping for ordering the slaying of a San Fernando Valley teenager in 2000.
The Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury was given the case July 1 after a six-week trial and nine years after the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz of West Hills. Hollywood was the alleged mastermind behind the slaying.
The crime was the model for the 2007 movie “Alpha Dog.” Defense attorneys argued that the crime’s notoriety tainted the testimony of witnesses and prejudiced the public against their client.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
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It seems like everybody these days, qualified or not, is spitting out information about How to Pick up Girls. As you know, over at The G Manifesto, we are light years ahead of everyone else.
One of the biggest problems you will run into if you follow The G Manifesto to The Seventh Letter, is you will have more girls that you know what to do with. Which in turn will bog you down from swooping more girls. A classic vicious cycle.
And if you swoop 100 plus fly girls year over year (like I do), and regulate them on 3000 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheets (like I do), you will get girls that want to play you close like Nutella plays toast (like I do).
The True Art of The Game is How to Un-Pick up Girls.
Keep in mind, I said this is an “Art”. It is not about being an asshole to girls. Any regular guy from Rehab at The Hard Rock in an Affliction shirt can do that. It’s about subtly “cooling out” girls, much like the old-school Con Men did to their “Marks”.
Ideally, you want her to “break up” with you (girls are just like lawyers, you have to be one step ahead and make them think it is their idea), but you don’t want to piss the girl off so much that you can never swoop her again.
The key is being able to “back-burner” girls so you are able to swoop the girls again down the road. (And swoop her fly friends). If you can throw a fly girl on the team, she can be a gift that keeps on giving.
Here is how it is done:
Smoking Smoking cigarettes works great while initially swooping girls. However, even the most “smoke friendly” girls these days will get over you soon enough if you are constantly spracking up. Chain smoking works especially well on American Girls and specifically Southern California girls. American Girls are now hardwired to hate chain smoking from pop-culture, Hollywood, glossy magazines and status quo thinking.
Aloof Game
Again, being aloof works great during attraction stages. Nevertheless, if you continue to be aloof towards girls they will finally reach the breaking point and want to call it quits. The best part of “Aloof Game” is when you run into the same girl 6 months later and she sees you dressed in custom vines, she won’t remember why she broke it off. She will probably apologize for not keeping in touch!
Heaters I have said before that girls claim they like “Bad Boys” (girl’s language, not mine). The truth is, what girls really like is mass produced, mall purchased, corporate created Bad Boys. All but the most down girls will run the other way if you leave your Desert Eagle out on your Isamu Noguchi table with Ski Masks. Surprisingly, I have even used this on fly girls that have dated sons of famous, and I mean, historically famous Organized Crime figures. To great effect.
Mc Eiht – Straight Up Menace
Travel
This is the key. When you first meet a girl, you have to imply/tell a girl you travel a lot. For your humble author, this is easy, since I do. After you take her home that night and swoop her, tell her you have to go on a trip to Rio de Janeiro or Latvia or something. It’s the perfect “cool out”. Then call her a week and a half later and swoop her again. Rinse and Repeat. Sooner or later, she will meet some Ed Hardy shirt guy that will sponsor her and she will break up with you!
Other Girls
Always say “what up” and give other girls you run into “two kisses” greetings when you are “dating” a girl. Get other girls phone numbers in front of the girl you are “dating”. Say something like, “she is on the board of such and such charity. She is a good girl to know”. After a while, even the most confident of girls (yes, I have done this on the most self assured Flyest Girls) will get edgy. It has to be natural though. Havoc said it best; “Hav’ don’t change for no chick, and they adapt to him. Never get cool with you ni$ggaz, I end up clappin ’em”
Drugs
This one is risky, especially in The Down Economy, because a lot of fly girls love Drugs. You should only do this one on some moralistic Red State girl. The other risk, is a lot of girls “motherly” instinct will come out and they will want to “save you”. Still, heavy drug use is a classic on getting girls itchy. When you meet her down the line (so to speak) you can tell her you washed up your act and have been keeping your nose clean (so to speak). Re-swoop.
DJ Quik – Tha Bombudd
Success Stories
If you constantly tell stories about your successes, and do it with a very high degree of swagger, most girls will want to breakup with you after a while. Girls, by and large are vindictive creatures that that want to keep you down. Only the best of the best actually want you to enjoy the rosy hue of unlimited success. (Makes no sense, I know).
Never two nights in a row
One of the easiest ways to avoid getting in two deep (and I don’t mean that 90’s rap duo from Vallejo, CA either) is to never spend two nights in a row with a girl. Most cats will swoop a girl for the first time on a Friday night and take her out on Saturday night. After you swoop a girl, go on vacation. Swoop her again a week later. Keep her on that “once per week” program and sooner or later she will “want more” and cut you loose.
N2DEEP – Back To The Hotel
If all else fails:
Serial Killers
Leave biographies of Serial Killers around your crib. It doesn’t matter if it is a book about “The Stockwell Strangler”,” The Lambeth Poisoner”, “The Sunderland Strangler”, “The Acid Bath Murderer”, “The Vampire of London”, “The Camden Ripper”, “The Beast in the Night”, “The Wolf Man”, “The Sneinton Strangler”, “The Black Panther”, “Palmer the Poisoner”, “The Brides in the Bath”, “The Yorkshire Ripper”, “House of Horrors”, “The Ipswich Ripper”, “The Freeway Killer”, “The Hillside Strangler” or “The Shoe Fetish Slayer”.
But for maximum effect, biographies about Ed Gein (not the Maître d’ at Canal bar either), Son of Sam, or Ted Bundy probably work best.
If the girl doesn’t mind all the above techniques, she is probably a cool girl and you should date her.
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
