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Pilots fly various types of aircraft, including light planes, helicopters or airline aircraft, depending on the aircraft type they are approved to fly. They may transport passengers, mail and freight within Australia, internationally on scheduled airline and unscheduled charter services, or provide other aviation services as required.
Duties & Tasks
Pilots may perform the following tasks:
- prepare flight plans based on weather forecasts and operational information
- make sure aircraft are properly loaded for a safe and efficient flight
- check fuel requirements and fuel quantities prior to flight
- check on the maintenance status of aircraft prior to flight
- conduct checks of flight controls, instruments and aircraft engines
- fly aircraft according to established operating and safety procedures under a range of flight conditions, including extreme weather and emergency situations
- make sure that passengers are correctly informed of emergency procedures, and maintain care of passengers
- provide passengers with information and weather details
- take bookings, load aircraft and generally assist in the promotion and running of the company.
Aeromedical Pilot
An aeromedical pilot works for organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service or search and rescue helicopter services. They may have some type of medical or rescue training but this is not a requirement.
Agricultural Pilot
An agricultural pilot uses planes for crop dusting and other agricultural work, flying at low levels in rural communities.
Airline Pilot
An airline pilot holds particular certificates that allow for command of a multi-crew airline aircraft to transport passengers and cargo. They can also carry out all the roles of a Commercial Pilot for their appropriate licence status.
Commercial Pilot
A commercial pilot flies in command of single pilot aircraft carrying out charter, flying instruction and other types of aerial work, such as surveys and coastal aerial surveillance in the general aviation (light aircraft) sector of the industry. They can also act as the co-pilot of large airline aircraft if they hold both co-pilot endorsement and an instrument rating.
Flying Instructor
A flying instructor teaches others so they may obtain a pilot licence, from private through to commercial levels.
Helicopter Pilot
A helicopter pilot flies helicopters for various purposes ranging from joy rides to emergency rescue operations. With additional licences and experience, opportunities exist to fly larger twin-engine helicopters, which are commonly used in offshore mining operations.
Military Pilot
A military pilot is trained to operate a variety of combat and support aircraft. For more information on military pilots and defence force careers, see the separate entries for Air Force Officer, Army Officer and Navy Officer.
Working Conditions
Pilots' duties vary according to the size and nature of the company they work for.
Personal Requirements
- good eyesight (may be corrected)
- able to make accurate judgments quickly and remain calm in an emergency
- able to use information from various sources and make decisions
- able to speak, write and understand English.


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Emergency Call Overseas/Foreign Country Telephone Scam
September 8, 2011 Fairmont Police Department
Fairmont Police Department cautions area residents to be cautious of telephone scams from Canada, Spain and Mexico
The Fairmont Police Department is advising area residents to be cautious of "emergency" calls alleging to be from family members asking for money to be wire transferred to Foreign Country.
In the last several weeks reports to Fairmont Police Department began regarding one of the latest frauds to get money from unsuspecting residents. While the details of the scam can vary, this latest financial scam involves scam artists who pretend to be a family member supposedly involved in a traffic accident or DUI in Mexico and Spain.
The caller uses fear, sympathy, and personal attachment to family members to convince the person called to wire money to a relative in need. The callers have pretended to be a grandson and have used the correct name of the relative. The scam artist stated he was involved in an accident and needs money wire transferred quickly to pay for the rental car or damage to property or medical expenses or fines. When the grandparent recognizes that the voice of the caller doesn't sound quite like his or her grandson the caller states he has a cold or is just panicked from being involved in an accident or arrested. The caller requests an immediate wire transfer to them (ranging from $1000 to $4500) to help them. They also ask the victim not to tell his "parents" and they'll pay the grandparent back upon return to the USA. If the victim sends the money they will most likely receive another "emergency" call requesting even more money with another convincing excuse for needing the money.
Other variations of the scam include a caller claiming to be a police officer or hospital official. The caller provides the correct name of the family member to the victim and instructs them to send money for their family members bail to secure release or provides a number to call for instructions on how to send money for emergency medical expenses.
The victims have been instructed to go to the nearest Wal-mart and send the money to the "grandson" via Western Union or Money Gram. What the victim may not know is that a money wire transfer can be picked up anywhere in the world, no matter what location the sender writes on the receipt. Wal-marts are most likely chosen because they are easy to find in most areas and they offer money wire transfer services.
Investigation into these types of frauds typically cross international borders which makes prosecution unlikely and the recovery of any lost funds nearly impossible. Area residents are advised that if they receive this type of call they should not wire transfer money and law enforcement should be contacted. Independent verification of a family member's welfare and location can typically be made with a few phone calls. Take the time to think first before acting.

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Rodney has worked in international and community development, stabilization and risk reduction for US government agencies, the World Bank, and the Smithsonian Institute, in Africa and Afghanistan for over 15 years. He has a BA in Psychology, a Masters and a Doctorate in Anthropology, with specializations, and minors, in Tropical Forestry, African Studies, Pastoralism, NRM, Disaster Relief and Farming Systems Management from the University of Florida. Rod served as an Environment and Forestry volunteer for Peace Corps Niger between 1990 and 1993 (Ayorou, Tioudawa and Dosso). He has worked as a Wilderness Firefighter in California and Nevada, and as a professional photographer in NYC. After 6 years in the Gambia he fled to Afghanistan to work with USAID and the Office of Transition Initiatives.


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I usually try to wear button up shirts as well or a nice tank top under a cartigan sweater or jacket that way when I pull up to pump I am still covered on the back and sides.
I usually try to wear button up shirts as well or a nice tank top under a cartigan sweater or jacket that way when I pull up to pump I am still covered on the back and sides.
Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
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Ack, I just bought a really cute dress to wear to work without even considering that! LOL, guess that will stay in the closet until fall.
!!! You poor thing. Live and learn.
Mother - Wife - Artist - Cook - Writer - EnvironMENTAList - Cloth Diaperer (but we are soooo done with diapers) - Organic Health Nut...I'm sure there's more.
DD1 - 12/15/05 Breastfed for 16.5 months
DD2 - 8/6/07 Breastfed for 3 whole years and 3 little, extra days.
BTDT. It sucks. NIP in a shift dress!! Now that's next to impossible. Now that Em is older and my boobs are like expandostretchified I can usually sneak a nipple out the armpit hole. Tell me that's not hot!
Mother to Emily June, b. Sept 18, 2005 and Lucy Quinn, b. 1/20/2012
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My journey nursing MJ started HERE, but we got through it and she breastfed 19.5 months, self-weaned on 5/17/09
Mom to my current nursling, DS - "ME" born 10/2009 @ 10lbs 1oz, 22.25" He's 4 years old! And yup, he's still nursing.
Ask me about my successful VBAC! Click here for my birth story.
Oh my gosh I am the Minister of Music for a church and on Sundays DS comes to church with us, and I sit in the stairway to the balcony and nurse him during the sermon. I made the mistake of wearing a dress exactly once.
OK-OK-OK......... NOW------> the very minute,.... and I mean the-very-minute my boob starts coming out the armpit hole of my shirts.... that is when I think my husband will say that he has "seen enough!"
OMG, I never in a million years would have though that you could "sneak a boob" out of your arm pit hole!
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Report: Mobile home parks need helpBy STEVE ZIND
Vermont public Radio | December 16,2013MONTPELIER State officials are recommending steps to improve mobile home parks and protect them from future floods.
The recommendations are included in a report that details many of the difficulties faced by mobile home park residents in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. Park residents comprise one-third of mobile home occupants in Vermont.
Cleanup and disposal of destroyed homes, compensation for lost property, and affordable financing to purchase new mobile homes were all urgent needs post-Irene.
But mobile home owners found they were falling through cracks of existing programs, or they discovered there werent programs designed for their situation.
In response, money was raised to pay for the disposal of flooded homes, a new loan program helps with the purchase of new ones and designs for energy efficient, resilient homes were rolled out.
The Legislature also passed a bill calling for a study of the problems Irene brought to the fore. The Report On The Viability And Disaster Resilience Of Mobile Home Ownership And Parks was released Wednesday.
Among the two dozen recommendations are some that are low cost and relatively easy to implement. For example, the study finds that few towns have provisions for mobile homes in their emergency plans.
Only 13 percent of communities currently include mobile home parks and the issues particular to mobile homes in their emergency plans and we really think that could be a big benefit to the future if theyre thought about ahead of time, says Jen Hollar, deputy commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, which issued the study.
The report points out that because many mobile home owners rent lots in privately owned parks, they are both homeowners and tenants. As tenants they have little control over park conditions.
There are anecdotal reports that roads in some MHPs (mobile home parks) are consistently troublesome, the report says. Particularly those that are unpaved during mud season. Some parks have been refused mail service due to poor road conditions but no park has yet been denied emergency response due to road conditions.
The study says the state should consider requiring that park infrastructure is adequate, for example, to make sure emergency vehicles have access.
Some problems are not so easily solved. About 12 percent of homes in mobile home parks are in flood hazard areas and relocating vulnerable parks is an expensive proposition further complicated by a lack of suitable new sites.
Hollar says the state hopes to use FEMA Hazard Mitigation funds and other grant money to keep homes from being relocated in flooded areas.
Where possible were trying to pursue buyouts for those, so where they were destroyed those parks arent rebuilt and people placed back into harms way, says Hollar.
The study points out that there are FEMA programs that could have been used to better effect to help mobile home owners. It says two programs in particular went largely unknown immediately following Irene.
One, FEMAs Direct Housing Program, could help relocate a mobile home park within two months of a disaster declaration.
The study also takes a step back to look at larger issues, like the decline in the number of mobile home parks in Vermont. Since 2001, there has been a net decrease of 16 parks.
The study says one answer is the creation of more resident-owned parks and it recommends state support for that solution.
Emily Higgins, director of home ownership with Champlain Housing Trust, called the report a good analysis of the current conditions in Vermont, and says it provides some thoughtful, forward-looking recommendations for how to make manufactured home ownership more safe, equitable, attainable, and resilient in the future.
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Driver rams cop car twice; camp worker arrested for DWI
June 27, 2012 —
A 23-year-old man is accused of ramming a Sullivan County Sheriff's Office patrol car twice before the deputy in the car could bring the driver under control.
According to the sheriff's office, Deputy Joseph Gagliardo was on duty on June 23 when he clocked a pickup truck going 77 miles per hour (MPH) in the 40 MPH zone at about 2:45 a.m. on Route 17B in White Lake. Gagliardo activated his lights and siren, but the driver of the pickup truck ignored him and proceeded south on State Route 55.
Eventually, the deputy was able to pull in front of the vehicle, which was a Ford F150, and cause it to stop. But as Gagliardo was about to climb out of his patrol car, the pickup truck backed up several feet and then lurched forward, ramming the marked patrol car.
A press release from the sheriff's office said that Gagliardo was "stunned," but he put the car in park and was attempting to remove his seatbelt when the pickup backed up again and rammed into the patrol car a second time, pushing it down the roadway more than 100 feet before coming to a stop.
Gagliardo was eventually able to get out of his car and arrest the driver of the pickup truck, who was identified as Jeffrey Santiago-Pabón, 23, of Martinsburg, WV. The suspect, who was employed at a summer camp in Eldred, was charged with felony assault, felony criminal mischief, driving while intoxicated and several vehicle and traffic law violations.
Santiago-Pabón, who doesn't speak English, initially claimed to be from Puerto Rico. But at arraignment before Judge Kevin Rhyne in the Town of Bethel, the suspect admitted through a translator that he is actually from Mexico.
Rhyne committed the suspect to the Sullivan County Jail without bail. Deputies have contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to determine Santiago-Pabón's legal status in the U.S.
Gagliardo was taken to Catskill Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released. Due to his injuries, he is expected to be out of work until further notice.


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In a word, yes! According to Astin and other researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the California Pacific Medical Center:
Their review of the research finds considerable evidence of efficacy for mind-body therapies in the treatment of coronary artery disease [6], headaches [10], insomnia, incontinence, improving postsurgical outcomes, chronic low back pain [11], and disease and treatment-related symptoms of cancer [8], as well as moderate evidence of efficacy for mind-body therapies in the areas of hypertension and arthritis [12].
Many studies show great potential for improved health outcomes. For example:
The best way to find evidence is to search PubMed [15] for a specific mind-body therapy or practice.
Although mind-body research is constantly evolving, some characteristics of these therapies make them more difficult to study than, say, standard drug treatments. This can influence the attitude of the mainstream medical world towards these therapies. It also raises interesting questions about the nature and reliability of all medical research. For example, mind-body therapies and practices:
Sometimes it is also difficult for researchers to interpret outcomes from mind-body therapy research because:
You have probably heard about drug trials where some of the participants are given a new drug and some are given a placebo - a substance that looks like the drug, but has no active ingredients. The drug company is hoping that their drug will show more benefit to patients than the placebo. While it might seem obvious that the drug would show more benefit, in some cases (particularly in some cultures), the placebo effect is so strong that that the difference is slight. What this means is that the patient's expectation of a desired outcome actually causes it to occur, not the drugs.
Many mind-body therapies deliberately employ this so-called placebo effect to initiate the self-healing capacities of the individual. In this context, the placebo is not an unintended or negative outcome. Rather, it is another example of how the mind (which creates meaning) can impact the body.
In an extensive review of the clinical research, top researchers Walach and Jonas concluded that the placebo effect is real and that healthcare providers should seek to use it to benefit their patients. A 2010 meta-analysis confirmed that the placebo effect is useful for subjective measures, such as pain and nausea.
In addition to this study on stress and aging, there is much important research on the mind-body connection. The PDF available on this screen lists key studies, historical and current on the physiology of the mind-body connection. (It does not list research on specific mind-body practices.)
Click for PDF listing key studies. [17]
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/interviews/interview-matthieu-ricard-0
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/yoga
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/breathwork
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/mindful-movement
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/social-support
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/heart-disease
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/anxiety-depression
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/cancer
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term25
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/migraines
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/back-pain
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/arthritis
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/meditation
[14] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/anxiety
[15] http://takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/
[16] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term45
[17] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/Key%20Studies%20on%20Mind%20Body%20Connection_0.pdf
[18] http://www.jabfm.org/cgi/content/full/16/2/131
[19] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term24
[20] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term7
[21] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/patricia-hart-md
[22] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/sue-towey-rn-cns-ms-lp
[23] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/meditation-exercise
[24] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/shift-your-emotions
[25] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/other-relaxation-methods


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Medical marijuana dispensaries in one California city will likely soon be required to provide free pot to low-income patients.
An ordinance approved by the city council in Berkeley requires that Berkeley dispensaries give away two percent of the amount of cannabis they sell each year to low-income dispensary members, reports NBC Bay Area. The ordinance also stipulates that free pot must be the same quality as the pot that other members buy.
In order to be eligible, a person must qualify as very low income as defined by the city council. That equates to $32,000 a year for one person and $46,000 a year for a family of four.
Berkeley had three permitted dispensaries as of early 2012, but the city is looking to approve a fourth.


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Victory! We Have Victory!
Guess what?
(wow, that's a really funny picture!)
It was an amazing game, very well played by both teams. But the Padres came out on top, and that's all that matters🙂
Josh Geer and Aaron Cook worked identically. They matched each other almost pitch for pitch. Both starters went eight innings, allowing one run on five hits. But Geer only walked two and struck out three, while Cook walked three and struck out five. Geer has a lower ERA though.
They were both excellent. It was a duel all the way, and both pitchers were really mowing. Looking at the boxscore is really incredible to see how their innings mirrored each other so closely. Like, they both would got 1-2-3 in one inning, and then both face four batters in the next, and it was almost creepy!
Josh Geer definitely had the best outing of his career, and we needed it. I think he's definitely going to stick around up here for a while.
On the offensive side, we struck Cook early, and it was a good thing that we did. Brian Giles singled, David Eckstein doubled, and a few batters later, Jody Gerut sac-flied him in.
The score stayed 1-0 Padres until the eighth, when Chris Iannetta hit a solo homer to tie things up. That was Geer's only glitch. I don't really like Iannetta. He's annoying, hitting all these homers against us.
In the ninth, Heath Bell came in after not pitching for 10 days. A little rust? Not at all. Heath was pumped up, throwing 96-MPH gas and tearing down the hitters he faced. He allowed a single in the ninth with two outs, but the next batter was blown away.
In the bottom of the ninth, we got a runner on, but couldn't get him in.
Heath also pitched the tenth, and went 1-2-3. In both of his innings, he got four strikeouts. He was so sharp, it was almost unbelieveable.
To the top of the tenth…
Luis Rodriguez started the inning, making an out. Edgar Gonzalez pinch-hit for Heath Bell. This at-bat gave us the game. Edgar worked a walk on four straight pitches, putting the potential winning run on first.
Brian Giles came to the plate, with a single and two walks earlier in the night. It was a big at-bat. Gillies worked it. Four foul balls, two pickoff attempts and three balls later, Brian connected and sent the ball deep to right center field. It didn't get out, but it bounced on the warning track and into the right fielder's glove. He threw it into the infield, but it was too late. Edgar ran all the way from first to score with a slide. Padres win!!
It was such a great game! I couldn't believe we actually won! I just sat there, laughing. "Wow, that feels good!!"
And it does, man. We hadn't won since last Tuesday – a week ago! It was great to beat the Rockies and split the "series".
But best of all, all the restrictions have now been removed since my boys played hard and got a win.
The boys can now have hot showers, grow out their beards, travel in their luxury plane to Houston, maybe they should leave Jeff the Ram's Head though, eat lots of candy, have their luxury lockers back, get their money again, leave the ballpark and sleep in their own beds, and of course, no more Vegemite!
Good job, boys. See, having their special things taken away worked! It's a good thing they won though, 'cause their showers were going to be next!
I knew we were going to have small crowds this homestand, but it is kind of disappointing that no one is out there. We only had 14,000 on Monday, and only 13,000 last night. That's really sad. I know the Padres haven't been playing that great, but we need to get out there and support our team. If I could, I would be out there everyday. But I can't. Our boys played a stellar game last night, and only a few people got to see it.
I just hope we get better crowds in the next two games. Tonight Jake Peavy is pitching, so hopefully more people will come out to see them. Tomorrow is a 2-for-1 Getaway Day, so there will be a bigger crowd then. These Padres need our support. What is baseball without the fans?
Like I said, Jake Peavy is starting tonight. I expect a solid outing for Jakey, especially at home. He's going to do great, and hopefully out bats can turn on against Jon Garland.
(photo credit: padres.com)
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Always a chance when Peavy is on the mound, so you'll always have that. Hope they put up a good performance for you.
Sorry Padres fans aren't supporting the team. Once the team starts winning consistently, people will show up, although in this economy nothing is a given.
I love that picture! We finally snapped our losing streak and it feels so good. Huge credits to Brian Giles🙂 I really hope we can win against Arizona tonight 'cause Jake's pitching. Go Padres!
Great picture! It is terrible when the fans don't come out to support the team. Good luck tonight!
Good for the Padres. They did leave their mark on me!! Hope you are doing well. There are no fires out near you, is there?? I know San Diego does get it's share.
Atta way Padres!! Peavy is an amazing pitcher and you are lucky to have him. Like the Sox, I expect great things from the Padres. As Jane said, in this economy, fans will come when TICKETS PRICES ARE LOWER!!! Example, the Yankees
Yay, I stayed up late last night to watch that game! (Which is quite the ordeal when you live on the east coast, like me😉 But it was totally worth it. I have the MLB Extra Innings baseball package so I get all the games and I've been watching your Padres a lot this season. Tonight should be a good one, with Peavy on the mound🙂 Good luck the rest of the season!
Can I take credit for getting the Padres a win? Or at least partial credit? Hahaha! That was a great game, and I'm glad I decided to go. Great decision on my part.


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Here are Harry Nile's cases from December 24, 1942, to October 1950. These are full-cast audio dramatizations.
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First zombie bees identified in Vt.January 28,2014The Associated Press
ESSEX JUNCTION — Vermont beekeepers say they face mite infestations, extreme temperature swings and the possibility of colony collapse. But a San Francisco State University professor says a new threat has arrived in Vermont: zombie bees.
John Hafernik told a meeting of Vermont beekeepers on Tuesday that a fly attaches itself to the bee and injects its eggs, which grow inside the bee. Hafernik says this is presumed to cause neurological damage resulting in erratic, jerky movement and night activity, "like a zombie."
Beekeeper Anthony Cantrell says he discovered zombie bees in his hive in October. Hafernik says they're the first zombie bees identified on the East coast as well as in Vermont.
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JMO: I don't understand why they are changing the dog leg, but the variable banking is what bothers me. Phoenix is one of the few flat tracks left, and I personally like it that way. The variable banking has made some very good racing at new tracks, but good old flat tracks are good too.
Tony doesn't seem to like it too much either. I haven't seen any comments from Ryan.
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The Hand Skills Game
For a blog that purports to cover baseball and politics, we have been sadly remiss in following up on the great health care debate. Sure, we paid attention as the package finally came to a vote and at least mentioned the outcome. But what do we really think?
Well, these things take time to ponder. And considering that this debate has been going on since at least WWII, the couple weeks we took to think it through isn't so bad. It's an interesting bill especially because no one is really happy. It's the Congressional equivalent of the 2002 All-Star Game. There were triumphant moments, there were awful moments and, in the end, everyone left just kind of feeling a little empty. The left thinks it didn't go far enough and the right thinks it's Armageddon. So what's the truth?
I could try and explain the positives and negatives of the bill in my own words but Frank Rich already nailed the essence of what I could say in a column from a few weeks ago. And since there's not a whole lot I can add to that, let me just say this. Whether you like the bill or not, this is a huge victory for Obama. The Republicans can stake the 2010 midterms on their opposition to the bill and their intentions to repeal it but how are you going to explain that you want to reinstate language for pre-existing conditions into health coverage? Because, let's be honest, that's what the debate is going to boil down to.
Perhaps it would be easier if I could represent Obama's victory to you in a more visual manner. So, maybe this will help. Pretend that the guy making the video is President Obama and Enton Gill is the Congressional Republicans. Watch the video and you'll see what I mean:
I imagine the Republicans will have a similar reaction when they finally open their eyes.
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LOL!!! He got duped into kissing the pig as they turned on the lights!! Didn't he learn his lesson in college?
WHA Wha wha!
I don't know if that was the look of Anger choosing a victim to pounce on or if it was the look of someone who just had the BIG LETTER "L" branded on their forehead.
too much!
btw….Happy Jackie Robinson Day
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Where did you find that video? LOL. Too funny. As for health care, I think you're right. Frank Rich said it all.


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Officials: US drone kills Pakistani Taliban leaderAP File Photo
This 2008 file photo taken in the Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan shows Hakimullah Mehsud who had become the leader of the Pakistani Taliban faction after the death of Baitullah Mehsud.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A U.S. drone strike killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban on Friday, intelligence officials in the two countries and Taliban militants said. The death is a major blow to the group a day after the government said it started peace talks with the militants.
Hakimullah Mehsud, who is believed to have been behind a failed car bombing in New Yorks Times Square as well as brazen attacks inside Pakistan, had a reputation for being particularly ruthless.
He was widely reported to have been killed in 2010, but later resurfaced. The tribal areas where the drone attacks occur are dangerous to visit, making it difficult for journalists to independently confirm information.
A senior U.S. intelligence official said the U.S. received positive confirmation Friday morning that he had been killed. Two Pakistani intelligence officials in North Waziristan also confirmed his death as did two Taliban commanders who said they had seen the remnants of the militant commanders mangled body.
The strike killed four other suspected militants, according to the two Pakistani intelligence officials.
The Taliban commanders said at least four missiles struck just after a vehicle in which Mehsud was driving entered the compound.
All the officials and the militant commanders spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center describes Mehsud as the self-proclaimed emir of the Pakistani Taliban. Mehsud is on the FBIs most-wanted terrorist list, with a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his capture.
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Mehsud later appeared in a video alongside the Jordanian, who said he carried out the attack in retribution for the death of another former Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in an American drone strike in August 2009.
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The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to fix the situation.
This is the first paragraph of the email that Charles M. Hannum, one of the creators of the NetBSD Project and the NetBSD Foundation, posted on BSD-related mailing lists.
Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Charles (who was affected by the recent termination of some netbsd.org accounts) and discussed the evolution of the project, funds management, problems with licenses and hardware documentation, the link with vendors, past and current mistakes, and what we can learn from the Linux development process.
Could you introduce yourself?
Charles M. Hannum: I'm one of the creators of the NetBSD Project, and served as its de facto technical lead for a long time. I was also involved in creating the NetBSD Foundation, and served as its president and chairman of the board. (Note: I was never the Foundation's secretary or treasurer.)
How did the NetBSD Project start?
Charles M. Hannum: The four people who started NetBSD were Chris Demetriou, Adam Glass, Theo de Raadt, and me. At the time, Chris and Adam were attending Berkeley and close to graduating. Theo was working for a living. I was doing other things. Chris is still sort of around, but doesn't really do anything; Adam went to work at Microsoft and is now lost to us; and we all know about Theo. There is some info in the NetBSD entry on Wikipedia.
I think the most striking difference between late 1992 and today is that there really was no "web." The original software had been released, and some of us had started using it for small (non-graphical!) websites, but it was still very much a hobbyist thing. More people were getting "email accounts" of various types, but penetration of the internet into homes was still quite low. Even so, this was near the end of the NSFNet era, and there were increasing problems with the backbone being overloaded. There were also some as-yet-undiscovered problems with TCP flow control which caused additional performance problems. And lastly, nobody had started taking network security seriously.
On the open source side, you could liken it to the Stone Age. The operating systems (primarily 386BSD 0.1 and Linux 0.12) were nothing to write home about; they were buggy and incomplete. There were no "desktop" packages or "office" suites of any significance. (I actually ported Applixware to NetBSD under contract, because a certain blue company wanted it for their thin clients that ran NetBSD.) Development of X was hampered by the dissolution of the X Consortium and a vacuum of leadership there. We discovered later that GCC development was also being hampered by mismanagement (since fixed).
What I'd like to stress is that there was no Dummies Guide to Starting an Open Source Project. The term "open source" wasn't even being used yet, but that's beside the point. We were the first big collaborative project to use a version management system. (As examples, Linux used none, and most GNU software at best used "backup files" for version management.) There were no previous successes--or really even significant failures--to look at for guidance about how to organize the project. So we made it up.
I want to elaborate on the point about network security a little. Keep in
mind that, in this time frame, most people were still using
rlogin and unencrypted
telnet. Buffer overflows were
rampant. I (and other people) had already started doing experiments with
subverting web sites; we all knew it was possible then, but nobody cared. It
was several years before most people saw the writing on the wall and started
clamping down access to central repositories and whatnot. Even today, most
software distributions on the net (and this includes NetBSD) are not
The primary reason for starting NetBSD at that time, ironically enough, is that there was a perceived lack of management in 386BSD. The actual 386BSD release only ran on a handful of systems, and was quite buggy. There was a rapidly growing community around it nonetheless, and many people had contributed patches. However, 386BSD's leader simply vanished. Nobody had any idea what he was doing, or whether he was even looking at the patches or working on another release. Eventually we decided that the only answer was to make a go of it ourselves--that's right, it all started with a fork.
Would you like to talk about the fork that originated OpenBSD?
Charles M. Hannum: No.
Since it came up in the /. thread, though, I would like to make one correction. It's widely claimed that I'm "the one" who ejected Theo from the NetBSD community. That is false. At that time in NetBSD's history, Chris G. Demetriou was playing the role of alpha male, and I wasn't even given a choice. I was certain it was going to bite us in the ass. I think the question for historians is not whether it did bite us in the ass, but how many times and how hard.
Why did you focus on portability?
Charles M. Hannum: At the very beginning, this was not actually a focus. It quickly became apparent that there were a large number of people interested in NetBSD (and open source OSes in general) who were currently on non-x86 platforms. Remember that this was still the 80486 era--PC processors weren't very good. Most "workstation"-class computers were based on something else--a myriad of Motorola 68k and 88k, SPARC, POWER, etc. On the HP9000/300 and SPARC platforms, we also had the advantage of access to code already written--though in both cases the integration was complex, and the code only supported a handful of systems at first.
I was also hanging out (and occasionally doing some work) at the Free Software Foundation, where there were a lot of HP9000/300s--running MORE/BSD, which had long since been abandoned. So I set out to get NetBSD running on these machines. Just getting a cross compiler working at the time was quite a bear, but it didn't take too long before these machines were all running NetBSD.
Yes, several of the earliest NetBSD development systems were owned by the Free Software Foundation.
With working 68k support in hand, we quickly spawned Amiga and Mac development groups. I then helped Theo get the SPARC support from LBL integrated. The whole thing snowballed.
Of course, the fact that you've ported the system to tons of machines does not mean you have good portability. We were still in the days of "copy and edit"--and so, for example, although the Amiga and Mac code [was] heavily cribbed from the HP9000/300 code, they were separate and had different features and bugs. Trying to fix bugs in this environment was making me crazy--and wasting a lot of time--and eventually I just started smashing the code together at high speed and sifting out the common parts. Other developers followed ("lead by example" works sometimes), and so this led into our global thinking about portability architecture, shared device drivers, etc. Oddly enough, Microsoft was working on similar ideas at the same time, in the development of Windows NT.
How was the relationship with hardware manufacturers at that time?
Charles M. Hannum: Terrible. We rarely got documentation from anyone. I actually wrote a lot of device driver code by guessing what the device was supposed to do. (Lots of previous experience reverse-engineering code helped there, I'm sure.) We had severe problems trying to deal with things like the "programmable" Adaptec SCSI controllers that became very popular; it was so bad that I was honestly talking about staging a sit-in at Adaptec HQ, and probably should have done it.
There were some notable exceptions, though. It took a while, but NCR, and later LSI, finally came around and dropped a heaping pile of (fairly good) documentation on me for their SCSI controllers. We did eventually get some material out of BusLogic, but only for their older "heavyweight" controllers (what we call "bha"<-- should bha be in code style? -->).
Intel, for its part, has been pretty good about putting CPU and chipset documentation online for the last several years, which I applaud, but their networking documentation (both wired and wireless) has been extremely poor. The strangest part of the Intel story was when the i82559 manual became restricted, even though it was substantially identical to the i82557 manual [that] had been published in their networking databooks earlier. Most other companies producing Ethernet controllers have been decent to us, except for Broadcom and Marvell, which have [each] been a 100% loss. Wireless vendors have generally been a tremendous annoyance, generating excuses but no documentation--I think Atmel and Realtek are the only exceptions.
We got some scattered documentation from other companies--e.g. Ensoniq and Realtek--but it's sometimes been incomplete and very difficult to make sense of.
Fortunately we didn't have to deal with most of the PC video card circus ourselves; XFree86 and now X.org have taken care of that.
What type of relationship did you have with the license? Is this relationship changed during the time?
Charles M. Hannum: Most of us had a very strong distaste for the so-called "virus" clause in the GPL, and this is the primary reason we did not adopt it. There was also some thinking that CSRG (Berkeley) and the X Consortium had been successful with leaner, looser licenses, so why bother. In retrospect I think this was naive; if you look at the history, you'll see that neither CSRG nor the X Consortium were really successful in getting third parties to contribute back most of their changes--and so what we really got in both cases was a long list of derived but very different, and often incompatible, systems.
Linux has not been wholly successful in this either, and today there are myriad distributions which are subtly incompatible. However, they definitely did better.
If I were doing it again, I might very well switch to the LGPL. I'll just note that it didn't exist at the time.
How much did the (in)famous BSD lawsuit hit NetBSD code base and popularity?
Charles M. Hannum: There was a lot of FUD around this issue--some of it from Linus, actually--and it did cause us some problems. The reality is that we had a signed agreement with USL that essentially said we had to upgrade certain files from their Net/2 versions to 4.4-Lite, and not distribute some other files at all (which we never used in the first place). We were in the process of moving to a 4.4-Lite base anyway, so this had virtually no impact on development. It did, however, delay making our CVS history public--far longer than it should have--because we needed to remove some of that early history in order to meet the conditions of the agreement.
I've never seen the similar agreement between USL and FreeBSD, but my understanding from what I've heard is that it is quite different. This caused some more FUD to be generated, because apparently what we did would not have met the terms of FreeBSD's agreement.
Had Novell not bought USL when it did, it's unclear to me how this would have panned out. I've never been able to convince myself that Berkeley was in the "right." However, Novell put a swift end to the suit, the agreement is very clear, and nobody cares about that early code history any more--so this is all water under the bridge.
Have you read the legal settlement after it was recently made public? Any surprise?
Charles M. Hannum: Yes, I read it. The first thing to note is that this agreement was with Berkeley. We executed a separate agreement with USL (which has not been made public), and that is what governs our relationship. There were no surprises when we read the settlement, but it wasn't really relevant to us.
If you had a separate agreement, you were free to work on your software without problems. Do you think that the general and chaotic FUD about the lawsuit hit you even if you had already solved the problem?
Charles M. Hannum: Absolutely it hurt us. A lot of people (and I don't want to be divisive, but honestly they were mostly Linux proponents, including Linus himself) spread FUD for years about BSD systems being "unsafe"--even after the UCB/USL lawsuit was settled. The fact is that there was no danger in using NetBSD in a product, and a number of companies did so.
How was NetBSD funded during these years? Who managed these funds and how?
Charles M. Hannum: In the beginning, we just put the machines on the UCB and MIT AI lab networks, because we had access to do that and nobody minded. The server equipment was purchased by Chris Demetriou. The project per se had no "funds." Later on, colo space and machines were donated by a variety of organizations (NASA, iki.fi and hut.fi, etc.), and again no money changed hands. Later on we started collecting donations to purchase hardware; colo space was (and is) still donated, primarily by ISC now.
As far as funding marketing work, such as conference appearances and merchandise, most of that was paid for by me, d.b.a. The NetBSD Mission. A fraction of the cost of the Comdex booths was paid for by LinuxMall. Most of the other conferences gave us "free" booths--that means the conference itself didn't charge for the booth, but we (I) still had to pay for everything else (carpeting, furniture, shipping or renting equipment, union labor, etc.). Producing CDs and T-shirts to give away (we tried selling them at conferences, but that didn't go over well, especially at Comdex) was also fairly expensive; it adds up quickly.
Do you have any regret about the way NetBSD promoted the project and did advocacy at conferences around the world?
Charles M. Hannum: No. Unfortunately there is no longer a concerted effort to do this, and particularly to give away copies that people can try. Frankly I'm not sure (and wasn't even then) that giving away copies to install on a PC will impress people much anyway, given that NetBSD's installer is still very primitive compared to the Linux distros. Many reviews have focused on this and lambasted NetBSD for it.
What is your opinion about strong links with vendors? For example, NetBSD and Wasabi, or Linux and Red Hat and other commercial distros, where these Linux distros try to push in their code and favorite features, for example, file systems.
Charles M. Hannum: That one is complicated. Part of the point of the "coup" was obviously to get more Wasabi people into the new hierarchy, and there were some very strange and discouraging actions that resulted from that. Wasabi also marketed itself with the tag line "The NetBSD Company" early on, which was clear trademark infringement--but due to the influence of Wasabi people on the organization, there was nothing I could do about it at the time. Meanwhile, the Foundation was sending legal threats to other people producing T-shirts with NetBSD logos on them, alleging trademark infringement.
In addition, Wasabi actually held up a NetBSD release for more than a week, while failing to tell even the developer community why. (The main release engineer happened to be a Wasabi employee, so this was easy.) After I personally pushed the release out without them, it was finally revealed that this was because there was a secret arrangement, which only Wasabi employees and Wasabi board members knew about, to do a combined NetBSD Foundation and Wasabi press release. They were actually upset at me for preempting this.
But it gets even more incestuous than that. The new bylaws were written, also in secret, by people with an interest in Wasabi. They were presented wholesale to the developer community (even I didn't get a say in them before that, and I was one of the two Foundation board members). I repeatedly asked for a definition of what the goals were for a reorganization, and complained about certain problems (e.g. that the dissolution clause actually instructs the Foundation to do something that's illegal), and was completely ignored. In fact, all input on the proposed bylaws was either discarded or completely ignored; no changes were made.
Let me put the question out there. Is this how you think the relationship between a for-profit company and an open source group should work? Even the biggest distros don't have this kind of influence on Linux.
That said, Wasabi mostly does its own thing now, and doesn't really contribute much of its work to NetBSD. I was concerned at the time about the possibility of a "brain drain"--people going to work for Wasabi and no longer hacking on NetBSD on their own--and it turns out that this has in fact happened (and I've seen multiple complaints about it recently).
The Linux structure is set up such that Red Hat can't push things into the Linux kernel on a whim. They do sometimes keep their own changes and put them in their releases, but there is a concerted effort not to do that too much (possibly more because it would annoy the community than because they don't want to). So Red Hat has not really had an undue influence; I think their contributions have largely been positive.
This is rather unlike the current NetBSD situation, where Wasabi people can effectively do whatever they want, and there is no check and balance.
Can you elaborate on the trademark infringement?
Charles M. Hannum: You probably thought NetBSD was free--like Linux, you can download it, burn some CDs, and sell them. Or make T-shirts or bibs and sell them. Well, it used to be, but it's not any more. If you put NetBSD CDs or other merch up for sale, you can expect to get a nasty letter from the NetBSD Foundation accusing you of trademark infringement and demanding royalties. I don't know how many letters they actually sent, but we've gone from at least 6 CD vendors in the U.S. to one in the last few years.
What do you consider the biggest errors made by the NetBSD Project?
Charles M. Hannum: First, the short list:
Now, I'll explain the points in more detail:
pkgsrc (and started giving out prebuilt packages), but in a way that was too late. We had already adopted a model where the "OS" was really heavyweight and included a lot of things that probably could have been better handled by packages--e.g. GCC, UUCP,
groff, etc. Maintaining our own separate build infrastructure for these things has been a pain, and it has really slowed adoption of new versions.
What can I say? This has lost us a lot of users, because the "stable" release often just doesn't work on new hardware. The staleness was so bad that I almost singlehandedly put out two releases (1.3.2 and the "Comdex 1999 preview"), just so that I could press CDs that I considered worthy of being demoed.
Some of this is also due to poor design decisions. Remember when the P4 came out, and it was revealed that one of the CPUID values was chosen so that Windows would boot? We all laughed at Microsoft's shoddy code. I'm sorry to report that NetBSD has had similar problems far more than once. (I always railed against the idea of including CPU-specific code, rather than feature tests, myself.)
Recently NetBSD defined a set of rules and time slots to manage the release engineering process, and also a new numbering scheme. Do you think this will solve any of the problems you have just outlined?
Charles M. Hannum: Not at all. What we see now is just a mad push to release something, no matter what it is. The gold standard has moved entirely from technical excellence to the time on the clock. This isn't a good solution either, and actually it risks losing a lot of users by putting out really buggy releases. There needs to be some balance.
NetBSD is the only BSD project that kept using XFree86 after the license change in 4.4.0. What is your opinion about it?
Charles M. Hannum: This relates to something I mentioned before. The fact that X is part of the "OS," and uses a custom build process, makes it much harder to update--it's really a substantial amount of work. If it was a separate package, I think we would have seen X.org in use a long time ago--someone would have just spent the few hours to make the package and people would have started using it. It's this method that is really the core asset of the "bazaar" idea.
Do you think that we are going towards a universal package system, something like
pkgsrc or OpenPKG, or that in the end every OS/distro will develop its own?
Charles M. Hannum: Well, look at the current situation. If
you look at just the major options in the Linux community, you have
up2date and
yast. They have all converged on pretty much the same feature set, but they have different UIs, and the packages themselves are maintained by completely different communities (with their own versioning, patches, and selected options). There's no good reason that they need to have different underlying formats (.deb versus .rpm), but they do.
I think fundamentally what leads to a lot of forks in the Linux distros is NIH syndrome. There's no reason to think this won't apply to package systems.
Oddly enough, though FreeBSD ports, NetBSD
pkgsrc, and OpenBSD packages have all forked their maintenance and build structures long ago, and they are now quite dissimilar, the prebuilt package format is still quite similar. I think it would be a good idea to at least merge the format and the utilities, if for no other reason than it would enable sysadmins to learn one set of tools for all three systems. Some work on package upgrading and patching also needs to be done; all three systems handle this poorly.
What do you like in the management and code development process of other BSD projects? Which things would you define as "best practices" and would you try to repeat in the NetBSD Project?
Charles M. Hannum: As I alluded to in my original statement, I think FreeBSD has similar problems, and this is a large part of why Dragonfly was created. OpenBSD does have strong leadership, but unfortunately it's a little too strong, and that has caused a lot of people to not contribute. I don't have a guide to what works best, but I can definitely tell you a few things that do not work.
There are quite a few open source projects that I classify as successful--though what that means could be another debate. Two examples I'll give are KDE and X.org. These projects are making good progress and doing really good things.
From your point of view what are the advantages and disadvantages of the Linux development process?
Charles M. Hannum: Well, first we have to define what the "Linux development process" actually is. I think ESR got it wrong. Back then, we had different distros all doing their own thing, making their own sets of kernel patches, and integrating totally different versions of other software. Linux compatibility was terrible--it got so bad that at least one company ported NetBSD's
libc and statically linked everything so that their software would actually run on multiple distros.
However, some things have changed. Compatibility has gotten better--though there are still problems. The base Linux kernel distribution has gotten far enough, and complete enough, that there are fewer changes maintained by distros. I think this is in large part because there is a more open and effective (though sometimes seemingly arbitrary) method for getting things into the base kernel.
The thing that has not changed, and that carries through within most distros, is that the individual packages are maintained in fiefdoms. Many of those fiefdoms are impenetrable and inscrutable; it is as if the gate is down, the moat is poisoned, and they occasionally toss a cow over the wall to feed the peasants. In short, I liken the "Linux process" not to a bazaar, but to a set of independent fortresses, all doing their own thing. (BTW, I use such a metaphor only to keep in the spirit of ESR's metaphor.)
This has been a subject of some debate for many years. Back when I was hitting the conference circuit, I sat in on discussions about the problems with this model and how to fix it. The biggest complaint seemed to be the lack of transparency and accountability for upstream and package maintainers, partly because most of them used no version control system at all, or kept all the history private. Because of this, it's much more work to pinpoint bugs, and where they came from. It's also hard to decide whether the maintainer is doing a good job, and whether a fork is mandated, if you have no idea what they're doing.
(I know some people argue that "there's no point in assigning blame," but I'm not talking about blame. Sometimes it's important to understand why a change was committed in the first place; e.g., maybe it was supposed to fix a security hole, but they made a mistake. Obviously you don't want to put the security hole back in.)
In short, I don't see the Linux model as a panacea.
How should open source project leaders assign or remove the commit bit?
Charles M. Hannum: I think the first thing to do is have a firm set of commit standards, as I mentioned. Maybe schedule a particular window during the development process for committing non-functional (i.e. whitespace, function prototype, etc.) changes, so that people can merge branches around them only once rather than a zillion times. Switch to
subversion (or
git, if that's your choice of Kool-Aid) and make people batch similar commits. Be hard-nosed about removing changes that don't meet standards or break things.
The Linux kernel effectively has such standards now because everything is filtered through a small set of people with reasonable taste (and they're not totally overloaded the way Linus used to be). That's not to say I agree with all of their choices, but they seem to do a good job of enforcing their standards and principles, and I have to respect that.
NetBSD today does a very poor job of setting and meeting standards. I created the mythos of NetBSD having "clean" code, and even I don't buy it any more. By "clean," I certainly never meant "no trailing whitespace"--the idea was that changes were publicly reviewed and cooperatively developed, and we didn't do quick minimalist hacks. This isn't how things are done now; in fact, at least one major architectural change recently was developed entirely in secret and committed wholesale, with zero public review. Despite its rather different beginnings, even the Linux community is more open than that now.
I'm not the only one who was affected by the recent termination of
netbsd.org accounts. Of particular note are two other names: Lennart
Augustsson and Darren Reed. Lennart single-handedly wrote the entire USB stack
in NetBSD, and many of the device class drivers; Darren wrote
ipfilter, which
is the only fully supported firewall and NAT solution in NetBSD (though there
has been some ongoing work to integrate OpenBSD's
pf). These two have rather
obviously made significant contributions, and their termination is a major
loss for the project.
The announcement of this action also contained several factual errors.
After your email made it to the mailing lists of every BSD project (including OpenSolaris), what has happened? What do you think will happen in the near future?
Charles M. Hannum: The overwhelming majority of feedback I've gotten privately (and there has been a lot) is positive. I've heard from many former users and developers who abandoned NetBSD for reasons that I stated. Even comments from Linux and FreeBSD developers have generally been positive. It's been interesting to read. There have been quite a few people calling for a fork, and even offering help, but I'm not going to state an opinion on that at this point.
Not surprisingly, there has been quite a bit of flamage on the NetBSD mailing lists--mostly people trying to stand their ground and pretend that there is nothing wrong.
I think the most interesting part is that several users have specifically said they "didn't know anything was wrong [with the organization]." This is at least partly my fault; I stepped out for a while and waited to see how the circus proceeded without me. All I can say is that it's been an unmitigated train wreck--they've repeatedly grabbed more authority and kicked people out of various positions, made people sign Draconian agreements, done almost everything in secret, and failed to actively promote the project. I find it hard to imagine that an open source project could have worse management.
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Why? Because there are two – Michael and Avi, both doctors, man and wife.
The duo, certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, joined the clinic this month.
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The Jefferies acquired under Isiah was a totally different player compared to the one we have this season.
I thought this thread was on the last player picked in the draft-Isaiah, not the first player picked in the draft-Isiah.
Isiah Thomas is very old-old news compared to the 50+ players Walsh added to Dolan's pay roll.
back to the real Isaiah Thomas........
I dont know how so many NBA teams slept on "Isaiah Thomas" in the 2011 draft....I'm still confuse on the ROY between.....
A) Irving?
B) Knight?
C) Shumpert?
D) Isaiah?
Kyrie Irving was leading all rookies for the ROY-award untill he hit the wall with a sprained shoulder injury in 45 games....this compress 66 game season been knocking out rookies in the 3rd & 4th round.
The NBA summer league tournament for intro conditioning for rookies was missed big time for this tough schedule.
Jefferies showed to be a star-defensive-player when Jefferies have a strong defensive-leader in the lineup....on the Wizards it was Larry Hughes defensive-leadership....it was Larry Hughes Leadership again on the Knicks when the Knicks went on a win streak after the 1-9 start....this season it was Tyson Chandler defensive-leadership in the lineup with Jefferies when both Stat & Melo were out.
Notice the time frame....Jefferies has always been injured at the start of every Knicks season....Knicks started this season off as losers with rookie Harrelson as the only bigman coming off the bench, Harrellson get injured the same week Jefferies is healthy to play. After the Lin-Santy 7 game win streak era Stat return to the rotation where the Knicks would win one lose one, when Melo return from injury the Knicks went on a 6 game losing streak, during the beginning of the losing streak Harrelson becomes healthy to play, and guess who comes down with an injury? Jared Jefferies.
Isn't he responsible for Curry and Balkman too?
I hate Isiah as much as the next man but lets be accurate
Kieth Van Horn was a Scott Layden move and I think John Amaechi as well
Plus David Lee and Wilson Nate Robinson Ariza are not there and neither is then slept on player Matt Barnes!
Why are we living in the past nowadays, I opened a Marbuary appreciation thread today now and Isiah one, they personafied the worst era in Knicks basketball, we have a winning team now with promise, lets really move past it!
We released 2 PG of lastseason (Carter/Billups) to signed 3 PG this season (Bibby/Davis/Lin)....if u add combo-Shump thats 4 PG. When the Kings been trying to sell or trade their last pick...
A couple players on that list were supposed to be real good like Qyntel woods and Tskitishvili. Van Horn can at least say he had a solid career. Tim Thomas had a stretch for us where he went hard (No Amaechi), but he was still one of the more frustrating players to watch. Never lived up to his potential and was one of the worst defensive players in the NBA
Isiah Thomas Fired As FIU Head Coach
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Isiah Thomas has been relieved of his duties as head coach of Florida International.
"We want to thank Isiah Thomas for his three years here at FIU," Paul Garcia said. "However, we have decided to take the program in a different direction."
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Lol they clearly hired him for a publicity stunt. So in that regard I suppose it worked for the first year? Haven't heard of any notable recruits going there.
But FIU sucks in general, and bringing in a awful coach obviously wasn't going to change things.


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