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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (99249)	3/12/2008 12:58:38 PM
From: George8	Respond to of 99280

What a great loss it is. May your soul rest in peace, the great and so respected trader - Dr. Zeev Hed.

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (99249)	3/12/2008 1:25:10 PM
From: Casaubon	Respond to of 99280

This is very sad news. He was an exceptional person. He will be missed like a family member.

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (99249)	3/12/2008 2:35:16 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 99280

So so so sad. And a shock. As with everything else he said, Zeev had me utterly convinced he was going to beat this thing. He will be deeply missed.

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (99249)	3/12/2008 3:51:48 PM
From: Peter V	Respond to of 99280

RIP Zeev.

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (99249)	3/12/2008 7:11:23 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

I can't really think of any other way to express my feelings, so I'll simply say what I said on iHub, but add a couple of things: I've had the good fortune of speaking with Ze'ev a couple of times on the telephone and the brilliance and unabashed giving of himself always shown here were but a shadow of the closer reality of him I got to experience. And I'm sure what I experienced was a wisp of what he truly was in person. He told me of a large number of his inventions, many of which I knew at the time to be things I take for granted on a daily basis, none of which I currently remember. What struck me about the way he conveyed it was that there was no bragging about it. He just was giving me information he knew I was very curious to hear. And it was also evidence of how his mind worked. Novel things were so intuitive to him that it was more like they were revealed to him than that he'd created them. Like what many say about the music of Mozart. I'll acknowledge (and we do as a company/community/family) his passing, but for the first time with anyone, I really think I'll be able to abide by the advice so often given in eulogies. I'll celebrate his having been shared with us rather than mourn his passing. What a gift he was! Bob Z. ------------------------------------------------------ The first time I spoke with Ze'ev was not long after I'd been laid off from SI. He wasn't pleased with the way I'd been treated and didn't respect the wisdom of a parent company who didn't understand their business well enough to recognize key personnel beyond their salaries and guide themselves accordingly. He said he'd love a change of venue and I asked him what he'd like in a venue and full-text search was one of the big items, so I set out to work making iHub a comfortable home for him and true to his word, he moved. I had no idea at the time what a big deal that was, as I was suddenly panicked trying to make sure the hardware could keep up with the demands suddenly increasing so dramatically. To the credit of our parent company, when I told them about the loss of Ze'ev, they saw how it hit me and not a single word of objection was raised to my (and I knew I was speaking for everyone within the companies) desire to memorialize him with part of our screen space, and a dear friend here (I'm in London) even took me to dinner to make sure I was alright. His legacy lives on in the simple fact that he, more than just about anyone else on iHub (via the enormous number of people he influenced) and among very few on SI raised our collective intelligence and wisdom about the markets. He was more enabler than ring-leader. He'll certainly be missed as he was considered a very important member of our family.