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It's always fun when a basketball team's bench takes on an identity of its own. Getting to watch a group of guys who are not quite good enough to be starters gel into a cohesive unit of their own adds another layer of excitement to the game, and so it's no surprise people often want to give cool nicknames to such bench units. The Bulls' "Bench Mob" from last season is a perfect example.
But now the Los Angeles Clippers have gone and ruined the whole practice of nicknaming bench units, because their group of talented subs is now known as "A Tribe Called Bench." From ESPN:
Dan Woike of the Orange County Register threw out "Mob Deep," but he found out the New York Knicks had used that nickname last year. Woike then got a tweet from a San Francisco Bay Area follower with the handle @squidwai and "A Tribe Called Bench" was born.
Over the past three games, the Clippers have started to play highlights of the second unit to A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario" and the #ATribeCalledBench hashtag has started trending on Twitter in Los Angeles during Clippers games.
That is the dumbest nickname of all time. The worst. It's awful. It's just the name of a popular rap group with the word "bench" inserted into it. It could just as easily be "Cash Bench Millionaires" or "The Beastie Bench." Actually, I kind of like "The Beastie Bench." The Clips should use that instead.

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Heinrich Maschke
Born: 24 October 1853 in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland)
Died: 1 March 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Heinrich Maschke's father was an important medical man. Heinrich attended the Gymnasium in Breslau where he showed great ability. He entered the University of Heidelberg in 1872, studying there under Königsberger.
Military service was required at that time so Maschke spent a year in the army before he continued his studies at the University of Berlin. At Berlin he was taught by some outstanding mathematical teachers including Weierstrass, Kummer and Kronecker. He took the examinations to become a secondary school teacher in 1878 but he was aiming higher than this for he wanted to become a university teacher. In common with the standard practice of the time he moved around different German universities, next going to Göttingen from where he received his doctorate in 1880. Realising that it would be almost impossible to obtain a university position, Maschke decided to take up secondary school teaching.
His first teaching post was in the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin. However he found both the long hours teaching and the elementary nature of the mathematics he was having to teach made him feel that he was in the wrong profession. This said, he was by all accounts a very good school teacher. He was given a sabbatical year and returned to Göttingen for the year 1886-87, working there with Klein. He had become a close friend of Bolza's while the two studied together at Berlin, and they were now together again at Göttingen both working with Klein. Maschke found working with Klein in his home in the evenings very rewarding and was fascinated with Klein's ideas on using group theory to solve algebraic equations. Due to Klein's encouragement, Maschke published his first paper in 1887, namely Über die quaternäre endliche, lineare Substitutionsgruppe der Borchardt'schen Moduln Ⓣ. Hermite, Kronecker and Brioschi had, in 1858, discovered how to solve the quintic equation by means of elliptic functions. In 1888 Maschke proved that a particular sixth-degree equation could be solved by using hyperelliptic functions and Brioschi showed that any sixth-degree algebraic equation could be reduced to Maschke's equation and therefore solved in the same way.
Maschke had returned to the Gymnasium in Berlin before he wrote the paper we just mentioned but, as is evident, he was not teaching in a secondary school yet concentrating on research. However, he wrote to Klein on 8 December 1888:-
... everyone here works in isolation and can hardly be moved to talk about his research.By 1889 he had made a definite decision to give up school teaching. In this year Bolza, who was by now in the United States, was working at Johns Hopkins University where he had been given a temporary short-term appointment, and he had already accepted an appointment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Maschke decided that the best course of action for him was to follow Bolza to the United States but Bolza warned him that it was not easy to get academic positions there. Maschke thought he had better have qualifications to enter some other profession otherwise he might emigrate to the United States and end up there as a school teacher - the profession he had now decided to give up. Keeping his teaching post, he began part-time study of electrotechnics at the Polytechnicum in Charlottenburg in 1889-90. In 1890 he resigned his teaching post and took up full-time technical training in Darmstadt.
In 1891 Maschke emigrated to the United States and worked for a year with the Western Electrical Instrument Company, Newark, New Jersey. In 1892 the University of Chicago opened and the head of the mathematics department, Eliakim Moore, began building up a strong unit. Bolza joined the University of Chicago in 1892 and then he persuaded Moore to appoint Maschke to Chicago. The three were highly influential in building up a strong mathematics research school in Chicago. R C Archibald writes:-
These three men supplemented one another remarkably. Moore was a fiery enthusiast, brilliant, and keenly interested in the popular mathematical research movements of the day; Bolza, a product of the meticulous German school of analysis led by Weierstrass, was an able, and widely read research scholar; Maschke was more deliberate than the other two, sagacious, brilliant in research, and a most delightful lecturer in geometry. During the period 1892-1908 the University of Chicago was unsurpassed in America as an institution for the study of higher mathematics.Between 1892 and 1910 the mathematics department was outstandingly successful with thirty-nine students graduating with doctorates (but only five of them were students of Maschke). Maschke was promoted to associate professor in 1896 and then to full professor in 1907.
Under Klein's inspiration while at Göttingen, Maschke had worked in group theory, in particular working on finite groups of linear transformations. He is best known today for Maschke's theorem, which he published in 1899, which states that if the order of the finite group G is not divisible by the characteristic of the field K, then the (finite-dimensional) K-representations of G are completely reducible. A closer look at events surrounding this provide an interesting insight into the interplay between various mathematicians. Maschke proved a special case of his theorem in the paper Über den arithmetischen Charakter der Coefficienten der Substitutionen endlicher linearer Substitutionsgruppen Ⓣ published in 1898. The general result appeared in the following year in Beweiss des Satzes, dass diejenigen endlichen linearen Substitutionesgruppen, in welchen einige durchgehends verschwindende Coefficienten auftenen intransitiv sind Ⓣ. In his proof Maschke used a theorem by Moore which he had announced to the Mathematics Club at the University of Chicago on 10 July 1896. He had subsequently written it up in a paper which he submitted to Klein for publication in Mathematische Annalen. Klein reported to Moore that Alfred Loewy had stated the result without proof in an article he published in 1896. Moore's paper appeared in Mathematische Annalen two years later and the Loewy-Moore theorem provided Maschke with a critical step in the proof of his own theorem.
Maschke's second area of work was on differential geometry in particular the theory of quadratic differential quantics. In this area, which he started to work in after 1900, he led the symbolic treatment of the subject.
At Chicago, together with Moore, Maschke was responsible for the rapid rise to eminence of the University in mathematics research. David Smith writing in [8] says:-
He devoted the remainder of his life to the training of mathematicians and to assisting in building up and maintaining a strong department in that university. He was a teacher of great ability and his courses were made more valuable by his all-round culture, by his originality of thought, and by his personal interest in the large numbers of young mathematicians who attended his lectures.Among the papers he published while at Chicago are: On systems of six points lying in three ways in involution (1896), Note on the unilateral surface of Möbius (1900), A new method of determining the differential parameters and invariants of quadratic differential quantics (1900), On superosculating quadric surfaces (1902), A symbolic treatment of the theory of invariants of quadratic differential quantics of n variables (1903), Differential parameters of the first order (1906); The Kronecker-Gaussian curvature of hyperspace (1906) and A geometrical problem connected with the continuation of a power-series (1906). Six of these papers were published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Maschke played a large role in getting the American Mathematical Society established, being a founder member of the Chicago Section of the Society in 1897. Maschke served on the Council of the American Mathematical Society from 1902 to 1905 and was vice president of the Society in 1907.
Eliakim Moore recognised the influence of Klein, through Bolza and Maschke, on his leading American research university and wrote to him in 1904 saying [7]:-
Certainly in the domain of mathematics German scholars in general and yourself in particular have played, by way of example and counsel and direct and indirect inspiration, quite a leading role in the development of creative mathematicians in this country ...At the end of February 1908 Maschke entered hospital to undergo emergency surgery. He died following complications.
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In a football backdrop that has adhered to tradition —the Rosebowl—things have been unexpected on many levels. For one, Texas Christian was not the preferred team among commissioners and more conventional sports fans. But the Horned Frogs of the Mountain West Conference proved their strength against Wisconsin and emerged the winners, leading 21-19.
TCU is the first school from a non-automatic qualifying conference to play in the Rose Bowl since the advent of the BCS, and the Frogs were right at home.
"All the critics don't feel like the non-AQ teams should have a shot," said Carder, the defensive MVP. "But I feel that TCU has proven that we can play with the best of them. Definitely taking this win back to Fort Worth ... I feel like we came in here and made a statement today."
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Either Auburn or Oregon will win the national title after they meet in the BCS championship game in nine days. These ferocious Frogs still proved they can play with anybody on college football's biggest stages.
"The way the system is, it didn't give us the opportunity to play in the (title) game, but we did everything we were capable of doing," said Dalton, who passed for 219 yards. "All we could do is control what we could control. I guess it's just the way the system is, but in my time here at TCU, we never thought we would have a chance to play in the Rose Bowl, and we got that opportunity today, and got a big win."
TCU lost last year's Fiesta Bowl to Boise State by a touchdown, but that's still the only loss of the past two seasons for the improbable power built deep in the heart of football-crazy Texas by coach Gary Patterson.
The non-AQ schools improved to 5-2 in BCS bowls with the Frogs' triumph - 4-1 vs. the leagues with automatic bids. Fans can debate where TCU's win in Pasadena ranks with Boise State's thrilling one-point win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl or Utah's upset of Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl, but the Frogs will always be the first back-to-back BCS busters, even after they head to the Big East in 2012.
Montee Ball rushed for 132 yards and a late score for the Big Ten co-champion Badgers (11-2), whose loss capped a nightmare New Year's Day for their conference. The Big Ten went 0-5 in bowl games Saturday, and the Badgers fell just short of a late rally when Carder made a defensive play that will live forever in TCU lore.
"Hopefully the scar that we're going to take from this game can get us back here sooner than later," Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said. "This game wasn't decided on one play or two plays. It was probably an accumulation of about 10 or 12 plays that we failed to execute, and they did."
"We know how much this means to everybody involved," Wisconsin defensive end J.J. Watt said through tears. "We work 365 days for this, and then we come out here and don't execute."
Patterson stopped his players from dumping a Gatorade bucket on him before time ran out, lecturing them with a smile on his face. When the final seconds ticked off, the Frogs ran about the field in a frenzy, eventually collecting near the TCU band and the quarter of the Rose Bowl stands filled with purple-clad fans.
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July 01, 2008
I work for Neighborhood and Community Services in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Minor Home Repair and Weatherization program. I have worked in weatherization since 1986, and performed energy audits prior to that in Fairbanks, Alaska. Robert T. Jackson has administered the program in Kansas City for more than 25 years. He has secured grants from the state of Missouri (DOE), the local electric company (Kansas City Power and Light), the local natural gas company (Missouri Gas and Energy), and several other smaller utilities. Our programs in Kansas City replace between 50 and 100 water heaters a year for our low-income clients. As these pictures show, some of these water heaters are very dangerous. These are all real situations, and all of these bad units were replaced. All of these pictures were taken by City of Kansas City, Missouri, employees Stephen Boniello, Rockie Henry, Richard Smith, Thomas Andrews, and myself. John Quimby works at Neighborhood and Community Services in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Minor Home Repair and Weatherization program. Contact him at email@example.com.
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Man fatally shot his girlfriend, her parents
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A jury on Sunday sentenced a Memphis man to death for killing his girlfriend and her parents in a shooting rampage in a home more than two years ago.
Jurors deliberated for two hours before handing down the death sentence for Sedrick Clayton, 31. They also could have sentenced Clayton to life in prison, with or without the possibility of parole.
The same 12-person jury convicted Clayton of first degree murder Saturday for the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, 23-year-old Pashea Fisher, and her parents in the Fishers' home on January 19, 2012.
Clayton got into an argument with his girlfriend before shooting her parents, Arithio and Patricia Fisher, in their bedroom. Clayton then shot his girlfriend at close range near the front door.
Clayton fired 12 shots, hitting the victims nine times. Jurors heard a chaotic emergency call in which Pashea Fisher begged Clayton not to kill her parents.
Clayton's and Pashea Fisher's 4-year-old daughter Joydin was in the house at the time, and he took her with him before turning himself in. The girl, now 6, was a key trial witness, saying that her father shot her mother and grandparents.
"Three wonderful people lost their life in a single morning for absolutely no reason," prosecutor Jennifer Nichols said. Later, she added, "He could have left (the house) at any time. He chose not to."
Clayton did not testify or make any statements during the sentencing hearing.
Outside the courtroom, members of the Fisher family softly sang, "His Eye is on the Sparrow."
No less than 20 of the Fishers' friends and relatives attended each day of the seven-day trial. On one day they dressed in red tops, blue jeans and pearls, because Pashea Fisher's favorite color was red, her father often wore blue jeans, and her mother liked to wear pearls.
The Fishers also shared food with the Clayton family as they waited during jury deliberations.
Defense attorney Gerald Skahan asked the jury to spare Clayton's life and sentence him to life in prison for several reasons, including the pain his execution would cause his family and the fact Clayton had no prior adult criminal record other than traffic violations.
Clayton turned himself in after the shooting and confessed in a typed statement taken by police the same day. In the statement, Clayton said he started shooting out of fear, after Arithio Fisher kicked him in the chest while Clayton and his girlfriend argued about her possible infidelity. Skahan proposed the shootings were in self-defense.
Before the trial, Clayton offered to plead guilty in return for serving three consecutive life sentences without parole. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich rejected the offer.
Nichols, the prosecutor, told jurors that Clayton deserved the death penalty because he committed mass murder, which she defined as the killing of three or more people during a single criminal episode or during a 48-month period.
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It's easy to think gluttony is a uniquely human trait, that animals ruled by their baser instincts are at least equipped with an innate sense of just how much is too much. But one recently discovered pike begs to differ.
The fish was found by Rene Spaargaren in the waters near his Dutch home. More accurately, he didn't discover this one fish, but rather two — inside the dead pike's mouth was a zander of almost equal size, which the pike had been futilely attempting to swallow. According to Spaargaren, the pike measured just over three feet, while the zander was about two and a half feet long. And yet, for reasons probably not even known to the now dead pike, the pike still tried to devour the zander in a single bite.
While such masticatory feats are possible in certain species like snakes that can unhinge their jaws, the pike is not among them. Indeed, according to a BBC interview with angling expert Charles Jardine, the pike is even less suited than most animals to try such a feat:
"What on Earth possessed the pike to take on prey that size? Gluttony just killed that fish. A pike is not an alligator or a python - it will not accommodate similar-sized food. Because the teeth on a pike go backward, it would have been unable to release its grip on the zander. It was a death grip for the fish."
Jardine added that there are in fact Victorian illustrations of fish attempting to swallow similarly sized prey, but until now he had assumed these drawings were simply an example of artistic license. Now it seems that the animal kingdom is once again more awesome and — at least in the case of the pike — more stupid than we ever imagined.
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Marin County wetlands rise again in Hamilton airfield restoration
Water flows across runway in Novato as restoration brings back marsh habitat
A cheer went up as salt water from San Pablo Bay poured through a breached levee Friday and flooded old, abandoned Hamilton Field in Novato, a landmark moment in the effort to restore Bay Area marshland habitat.
The levee breach was the last, biggest step in nearly two decades of work by conservationists to reconnect 648 acres - about 1 square mile - of wetlands to the bay and to restore tideland habitat for shorebirds, waterfowl, fish and wildlife.
The flooding of the runway at the former Air Force base, which was closed starting in 1973, is part of a regional effort to restore 100,000 acres of former wetlands around San Francisco Bay, according to conservationists. The Hamilton area was diked off around the turn of the 19th century, cutting off a primary landing spot for thousands of migrating waterfowl along the Pacific Flyway. It had remained dry until Friday, when a backhoe dug out the remaining mud barrier.
"It's actually very emotional for me to see this piece of land that has been disconnected from the bay for at least a century connected again," said Sam Schuchat, the executive officer for the California State Coastal Conservancy, which is jointly handling the project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "Now, as the years go by, as the seasons go by, we'll be able to watch this landscape change."
The bay water began seeping through as the last chunk of mud was pushed out of the way during high tide Friday. Within seconds, water was rushing through the breach, flowing like a river through the man-made channel onto a portion of the airfield already covered with water from recent rains and runoff that was deliberately pumped in. The wetlands will fill up and recede with the tides, said Tom Gandesbery, the project manager, but it will take 10 or 20 years for it to become a salt marsh. The trick now, he said, is to wait and watch the marsh vegetation grow.
Creating the new tidal marsh, which cost $107 million over 10 years, involved more than just letting in the water, Schuchat said. Draining the land had caused it to subside, he said, so 5.6 million cubic yards of dredged mud had to be brought in to raise the land to its natural height. Volunteers and students planted native vegetation and grew tens of thousands of plants on the imported material, three quarters of which came from dredging at the Port of Oakland.
Habitat for many species
Schuchat said the area was engineered in a manner that would create different habitats, including tidal marshland and brackish and freshwater wetlands. The restored area, which includes a 3-mile section of the Bay Trail, will provide crucial habitat for endangered and threatened species, including steelhead trout, salmon, California clapper rail, black rail, brown pelican and salt marsh harvest mouse, Schuchat said.
"This was designed with sea-level rise, climate change and ecological resiliency in mind," said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael. "This is also a model project for reuse of our resources."
Hundreds of thousands of acres of marshland once lined San Francisco Bay and the delta, but about 85 percent of the historic habitat was drained, dried out for farmland or paved over for urban development. The airstrip in Novato was built on the dried-out wetlands in the 1920s and was named Hamilton Field in 1932.
The first planes at Hamilton were B-10 and B-12 bombers. Later came the big bomber known as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The site became an Army Air Corps fighter base in 1940. Fighters were sent from Hamilton to Oahu to defend Americans during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, triggering the United States' entry into World War II. The Enola Gay bomber is said to have made a stop at Hamilton on its way to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945.
Long cleanup process
The Air Force curtailed activities at the base in 1973, but units were still housed there until 1976, when base operations ended. The Army and Navy conveyed the property to the Coastal Conservancy, and the old base has been transformed over the past decade into a large community with homes and businesses in restored military buildings. Restoration of the land, which included cleanup of fuel, methane, and other toxic substances on the airfield and around the base, has been going on since 1996.
Schuchat said the conservancy will now turn its attention toward restoring 1,850 acres north of the airfield, including a large portion of Bel Marin Keys, an unincorporated community in Marin County. It is part of what he called a "renaissance" of bay wetlands restoration going on right now, including 900 acres at Sears Point in Sonoma County, 600 acres in Vallejo, 10,000 acres of former salt ponds in the Napa-Sonoma Marsh and 15,000 acres of salt ponds in the South Bay.
Ambitious goal
Conservationists are well on their way to meeting the 100,000-acre wetlands goal, which Schuchat said will ultimately cost $1.5 billion to complete.
"It's good to see the first big phase of wetlands restoration done," Gandesbery said. "This was a harder one to do because this was a closed military base, so they had to clean it up first."
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The incoming president and CEO of the U.S. Apple Association was chosen for his leadership ability but he also has some experience in handling issues involving genetically modified crops.
James Bair noted that biotechnology has been a modern tool in row crops for more than 15 years. As vice president of the North American Millers' Association — representing millers of wheat, corn, oats and rye in the U.S. and Canada — he's been involved in some controversial issues, including the detection of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an Oregon field earlier this year, he said.
"I have some learnings in that area that may be useful," he said. "I worked closely with growers and bakers to share information and provide a calming and reassuring message to the marketplace and consumers."
The U.S. Apple Association is opposed to a British Columbia apple grower's effort to gain USDA approval of a genetically modified, non-browning apple for U.S. production and sales next year. The association supports technology that improves the benefits of apples in substantive ways like quality, flavor, pest resistance and enhanced nutrition but believes non-browning is insufficient to risk possible market disruption from people opposed to GM products, Wendy Brannen, U.S. Apple Association spokeswoman has said.
Bair said he's talked with association board members about GM apples, food safety, immigration and other issues.
"Apples are highly recognized as a nutritious and wholesome food. The industry has a great story to tell and we will make sure people hear it," he said.
Bair has good leadership and communication skills and is a person who can lead the association for years to come, said Chris Britton, U.S. Apple board chairman.
Bair was "a standout as a capable and dynamic leader" among five finalists interviewed out of 50 or 60 applicants, said Mike Wade, general manager of Columbia Fruit Packers in Wenatchee, Wash., who chaired a selection committee.
"We see him as a natural fit and are excited to see him as part of the team," Wade said.
Diane Kurrle, interim president, will return to her role as vice president of public affairs and governmental relations, he said. Nancy Foster, the previous president, left in August.
Bair, 53, was raised on a farm near Odebolt, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's degree in agronomy in 1982. He was marketing director of the Kansas Wheat Commission and was a White House appointee of the USDA's Federal Grain Inspection Service before spending 25 years with the Millers' Association, first as director of government relations but mostly as vice president.
He was the association's spokesman with media, government and industry groups and represented member companies on trade, quality, environmental and biotechnology issues.
U.S. Apple Association in Vienna, Va., represents all segments of the apple industry and 40 state and regional apple associations representing 7,500 growers and more than 400 companies.


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PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's Princess Cristina was questioned by a judge on Saturday in a corruption case that has deepened public anger over graft among the ruling class and discontent with the royal family.
It was the first time that a Spanish royal has been summoned in a criminal proceeding since the monarchy was restored in 1975 after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
Streets away from the courthouse, in Palma de Mallorca, capital of the Balearic Islands, hundreds of protesters shouted slogans calling for a republic and an end to institutional corruption at a time of financial crisis.
"I'm a monarchist, but if they have done wrong they should return what they stole and be exposed just like the rest of us," said Angel Rodriguez, an 80-year-old pensioner passing by the court.
Cristina, the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos and seventh in line to the throne, is facing preliminary charges of tax fraud and money laundering linked to her use of income from a shell company she owned with her husband Inaki Urdangarin.
Both the princess and Urdangarin - who have not represented the Crown at official events since 2011 - have denied any wrong-doing.
Reporters were not allowed into the closed hearing.
"Her testimony was extensive and exhaustive," said one of Princess Cristina's lawyers, Miguel Roca, outside the court. "We are fully confident that today could not be a better day for the princess... We are all equal before the law."
Manuel Delgado, a lawyer for one of the two civil groups that first brought charges against the princess, told journalists during a break: "Most of her answers have been 'I don't know', 'I don't remember' and 'I fully trusted my husband'."
Protesters cheered and applauded Judge Jose Castro as he drove past on his motorbike at the end of the hearing.
With Spain emerging slowly from a deep economic and financial crisis which has left 26 percent unemployed, judges are looking into hundreds of corruption cases left over from a property boom that ended abruptly in 2008.
Widespread hardship and high unemployment have fuelled popular resentment of the wealthy and powerful, and data show that Spain's crisis has widened a gulf between rich and poor.
The princess, dressed soberly in a white shirt, black jacket and trousers, had been given special permission to be driven to the courthouse door for security reasons.
That meant she did not have to walk down a long ramp under the glare of hundreds of cameras, unlike her husband, a commoner, when he testified in the case in 2012. The contrast underlined the perception among many Spaniards that the royal family has been given favourable judicial treatment.
Urdangarin is charged with crimes including the embezzlement of 6 million euros ($8.17 million) of public money at a charitable foundation he ran where the princess was a board member.
The former Olympic handball player, is accused of using his royal connections to win generous no-bid contracts from the regional Balearic Islands government to put on sports and marketing events before a 2008 property market crash, when local governments were awash with cash.
Judge Castro is investigating accusations that Urdangarin overcharged and charged for services never provided, and that the proceeds went to a shell company without the appropriate tax being paid.
The couple co-owned the shell company and used it for personal expenses including work on their Barcelona mansion, according to court documents.
The scandal has hastened a decline in the popularity of the once-revered King Juan Carlos, who has already been embarrassed by a series of gaffes - including his decision to go on lavish elephant hunting trip at a time of particularly harsh cuts.
An opinion poll released last month put the king's popularity at a record low, with almost two thirds of Spaniards wanting him to abdicate and hand the crown to his son.
"Support for the king plummeted when, in a situation of great economic and social difficulty, he projected an image of frivolity, of having neglected his obligations," said Ignacio Torres Muro, professor of constitutional law at Madrid's Complutense University.
After Saturday's hearing, Castro could formalise the charges and move to trial, or he could drop them or allow the princess to plead to lesser charges.
Castro brought the preliminary charges, based on the accusations from the civil groups, against the princess in January in a 227-page ruling. Last year he brought charges of aiding and abetting, only to have them thrown out by a higher court. The investigation began four years ago.
The princess has stuck by her husband, but last year moved with their four children to Switzerland to escape media attention. She works for a charitable foundation there.
Writing and additional reporting by Elisabeth O'Leary; Editing by Andrew Heavens


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When Troy ages up—in this case, I forced him to because I was bored of waiting—I get an alert that due to Seth and Holly's awesome parenting skills, he gets a third trait! Had I just sat on my hands and let him age up without learning how to walk and talk, he would have still gotten a trait, but it would have been assigned at random. I gave Troy the Hot-Headed trait… I guess he's a frustrated genius! Troy also gets to start using wishes and promises, although that's a feature of being a child rather than any effect of Seth and Holly's parenting skills.
The first thing Holly does when Troy ages up is buy him a bed, a lamp, and a couple accessories for the second bedroom. Troy is too old for the crib at this point, though she keeps it and the rest of the children's toys, as she and Seth will soon start the process of having another child.
As far as Troy goes, he now has to attend school on weekdays. A bus will arrive in the morning to ferry him off, and he is able to choose a strategy while there, just like Seth can do at work. Troy chooses to Meet New Friends to help out his social meter for the first day, and will Talk To Friends for the others.
Troy will bring back homework every day. His homework is in his inventory, and he can give the Do Homework command from there. Homework is stressful for all Sims, even Troy with the Genius trait, so he asks for homework help from the newly pregnant Holly. If Troy doesn't do the homework at all, his grade (which Seth and Holly can see on the Career Panel) will start to fall.
Troy gets a break from school on the weekends, just like real-life. However, Sunset Valley has a curfew in effect, so Troy can't be out running around after 10pm. If he is, he automatically comes back home, and will presently cancel any orders to the contrary. Part of me wishes that the children could cause some mayhem late at night, but hey: at least this means they're nice and safe.
Depending on your trait choices, children can start thinking about the future as well. If the combination of traits is a certain way, you might see a Lifetime Wish appear as a wish option. Unlike standard wishes however, if I promise this, I have no way of changing it unless I buy the rather expensive Change Lifetime Wish superpower. The game gives me a confirmation dialogue here, just to make sure.
Troy doesn't see his until he's a teenager, which I'll get into in a second. He gets the possible wish to become Super Popular—that is, be friends with 20 Sims simultaneously. Troy isn't yet sure what he wants out of life, like most teenagers, so he doesn't commit just yet.


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If you had the chance to watch (or were even one of the lucky attendees at) the Google I/O 2012 opening keynote, you may recall the exciting moment when Sergey Brin proclaimed the arrival of the Google Glass prototypes to the attendees. Alas, Glass prototype pre-orders cost a cool $1,500 for some future delivery date. This led many developers, including me, to reassess their desire to build an Android-centric, HUD-based application.
But for the astute developers attending the remainder of the conference or watching the real-time streams of the various sessions, all was not entirely lost. Of the announcements being made, one company offered developers a competitively priced Android-based heads-up display (HUD) system that was ready and open for business. Canadian-based Recon Instruments created the first release of their MOD Live system to be predominantly used by high-tech skiers and snowboarding enthusiasts.
Recon Instruments was co-founded in 2008 by four students at the University of British Columbia. One of those students is the company's CEO, Dan Eisenhardt. Being a competitive swimmer, his initial plan was to develop a HUD for swimmers. However, due to the complexities and potential damage of electronic components in water, he refocused the company's efforts on snow sports instead.
Figure 1: MODLive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) remote.
By tucking their 428x240 pixel WQVGA heads-up display in the lower right corner of ski goggles, Recon has effectively created an unobtrusive HUD with a decent 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor running Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). Network connections can be made via a Bluetooth-paired Android smartphone running Recon's MOD Live application. The app also provides the ability to answer phone calls, receive and read SMS messages, control audio playback, and map and store GPS coordinates for ski run playback and review.
Figure 2: Inside the MODLive Goggles with the Heads-Up Display (HUD) in the lower right corner.
MOD Live's interface is manipulated via a 4-way directional wireless Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) remote. This remote can be strapped on like a wrist watch, and is water resistant to withstand being wrapped around the outside sleeve of a ski jacket. The BLE remote houses the temperature sensor, and the control buttons are easy enough to find and press even while wearing thick gloves. In general, the whole system is intended to withstand a rugged, snowy outdoor excursion. And yet, because it can have its processor housing and LCD display inconspicuously seated in Recon-ready snow goggles like the Briko Veloce, developers can obtain MOD Live today and immediately start building the HUD apps of their dreams.
Figure 3: A close-up of the Recon Instruments MODLive water resistant remote.
Note that MOD Live isn't intended to replicate the Google Glass experience. Unlike Glass, MOD Live does not sport an integrated webcam (though a Contour+ Bluetooth video streaming camera can be added if you're willing to spend an additional $500 for the privilege). It also doesn't have any on-board audio device and instead relies on a paired Bluetooth phone for controlled audio output. MOD Live also does not have any WiFi or cellular radios on board. Instead, network connections need to proxy through a Bluetooth connection and rely upon the paired Android smartphone to perform network handshakes and data retrieval.
Given its small, lightweight size and the unlikely scenario of a WiFi access point in range of a swiftly moving outdoor snow sport enthusiast, these restrictions are understandable. Still, after reviewing the Android-based WIMM One watch and witnessing how power-efficient the WiFi chip was in that small wearable product, the addition of such a radio in the MOD Live would have certainly made developing apps for the MOD Live platform a little easier.
Figure 4: A view of the MODLive Dashboard icon.
Developing a MOD Live App
After getting acquainted with the MOD Live hardware, I started dreaming up useful applications that would effectively leverage the platform while utilizing the variety of functions available in the MOD Live SDK. While the primary use case for the device is intended for snow sports requiring goggles, I thought about an app that could be used in skiing, snowboarding, motocross, snowmobiling, and other long-distance outdoor events that make wearing goggles nearly mandatory.
Having recalled a time when I unknowingly ventured out into the snow shortly before the onset of a blizzard, I would have greatly benefited from that knowledge with an app telling me that a snowstorm was coming straight for me and would hit in half an hour. Sure, I could repeatedly scrape the national weather forecast website for current conditions, but that would have been expensive in terms of both battery and bandwidth.
Fortunately, iOS app developer The Dark Sky Company has already done all the hard work of weather data collection and statistical analysis and packaged it in a tidy JSON-based Web service. Their app for iOS, called "Dark Sky," uses this SDK and it works surprisingly well. I have been using it for months, and it still amazes me how uncannily accurate it has been in predicting when rainfall will start and stop in my area within minutes of the real-world event.
The developers of Dark Sky offer free API keys to interested developers for testing and development purposes. Of course, the hope is that you will incorporate their Web service into your app and ultimately offer a percentage of your apps sales as a result. But in the meantime, all you need to do to obtain an API key is visit their developer site and submit your name, email address, and account password so they can send you an API key. You can revoke and request new keys at any time by logging in with your Dark Sky account credentials.
Coding the App
Similar to my experiences developing for other Android embedded hardware like the WIMM One watch or the Parrot Asteroid car radio, I had to recalibrate my application expectations when writing an Android application for the MOD Live platform.
I first had to create a Android Virtual Device (AVD) that matched MOD Live's 428x240 pixel context. Recon Instruments notes that a MOD Live emulator is one of the SDK items on their to-do list, but for now, Android developers will need to either attempt to simulate the MOD Live display via a custom AVD or push and debug the app on to the MOD Live hardware itself.
Figure 5: Coding the MODLive Dark Sky API assisted application.
In addition to limited network connectivity, power and storage constraints, Recon Instruments have extended the Android UI classes to account for the small viewing surface of the HUD. Fortunately, these custom classes go a long way toward improving the user experience, especially when it comes to reading numerical values. In my case, I needed to convey the probability of adverse weather conditions within a 60 minute timeframe based on the MOD Live's GPS latitude and longitude coordinates.
The Dark Sky API also supplies several other values, including current temperature, weather conditions (clear, rain, sleet, snow), a concise 24-hour forecast, and a stream of probabilities of inclement weather occurring over the next couple hours. Since the MOD Live BLE remote has a temperature sensor embedded in it, I opted to use that data source rather than the value being supplied by Dark Sky. I also narrowed the forecast results to the next hour, since that would be most appropriate for those already outdoors and on the slopes or race circuit to determine if they have enough time to get that last run in before bad weather hits.
After studying the nicely documented sample Recon SDK Application, I sketched the layout of the single screen UI of the program. Next, I launched Eclipse and created a new Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread API Level 9) application. Then, in addition to the usual Android app, content, OS, and widget libraries, I imported Recon's SDK and custom Web API libraries:
import com.reconinstruments.ReconSDK.*; import com.reconinstruments.webapi.SDKWebService; import com.reconinstruments.webapi.SDKWebService.ResponseListener; import com.reconinstruments.webapi.WebRequestMessage.WebMethod; import com.reconinstruments.webapi.WebRequestMessage.WebRequestBundle;
The first call I made to the
ReconSDK was to poll the remote's on-board temperature sensor from the SDK's
onReceiveCompleted event. Being in the U.S., where we have to be different from the rest of the world that uses the Celsius scale for temperature, I had to convert the value to Fahrenheit for the display value:
public void onReceiveCompleted(int status, ReconDataResult result) { // check status first if (status != ReconSDKManager.STATUS_OK) { Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "Communication Failure with Transcend Service", Toast.LENGTH_LONG); toast.show(); return; } // Grab on-board temperature sensor reading and convert to Fahrenheit ReconTemperature temp = (ReconTemperature)result.arrItems.get(0); the_current_temp = String.format(" %.2f", (temp.GetTemperature() * 1.8) + 32 ); mCurrentTemp.setText("Currently: " + the_current_temp + "F"); }
I also needed to capture the current latitude and longitude GPS coordinates from the MOD Live wrist remote so I could pass these values to the Dark Sky API for the current weather forecast information:
LocationManager locationManager; String context = Context.LOCATION_SERVICE; locationManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(context); Criteria mycriteria = new Criteria(); mycriteria.setAccuracy(Criteria.ACCURACY_FINE); mycriteria.setAltitudeRequired(false); mycriteria.setBearingRequired(false); mycriteria.setCostAllowed(true); mycriteria.setPowerRequirement(Criteria.POWER_LOW); String provider = locationManager.getBestProvider(mycriteria, true); Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(provider); updateWithNewLocation(location); locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, 1000, 0, locationListener);


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On Wednesday, manufacturing giant GE announced a partnership with Tendril, a company that provides smart grid software and services. The agreement will see see GE work to incorporate monitoring and reporting capabilities into its consumer appliances and ensure that they communicate properly with Tendril's software. Tendril will focus on ensuring that the data the devices provide is communicated back to utilities. The two companies will also cooperate in developing load management algorithms that can help utilities remotely adjust the appliance's performance based on demand and available electric resources.
The promise of a smart grid depends on the degree of sophistication of the hardware and software involved. In its simpler form, a smart meter can provide consumers with a basic outline of their electricity use, which can help identify activities that draw the most power. More sophisticated versions involve having individual pieces of consumer hardware participate in a local network, allowing fine-grained analysis of power use.
At their most sophisticated, these kinds of appliances will enable two-way communications in order to provide demand response management. Utilities can provide a signal when electricity supplies are getting tight; consumers can set their appliances to respond accordingly, by temporarily shutting off the hot water heater or raising the thermostat slightly on hot days. The consumer will get lower electric rates for their participation, while the utility gets to avoid activating its oldest and least efficient plants.
To get all of that to work, however, you need the right hardware in place; a dumb refrigerator won't contribute much to the smart grid. Although there are a number of third-party products that can endow a mundane appliance with the networking and usage monitoring abilities required for smart grid applications, these don't provide the sort of sophisticated management capabilities that would be available if the monitoring and reporting portion of things actually knew what sort of hardware it was working with. The external attachments either force consumers to pay retail for the privilege of going smart, or they shift the burden to utilities.
So there's an obvious appeal to endowing appliances with smarts during manufacturing. Many appliances already have embedded controllers, so the additional costs should be low, especially at the economies of scale available to manufacturers. That's why getting GE on board is a big step; according to Tendril, the company makes up to one-third of the appliances sold in the US, and the announcement of the agreement specifically mentions demand response appliances.
It's also a major step for Tendril. So far, the company's most prominent successes have come through its consumer-level software, which provides customers with a dynamic analysis of their power use, either through a Web interface or via custom apps that run on smartphones. The new agreement would establish Tendril as a provider of the middleware that mediates communications between utilities and their end users. The joint development of management algorithms will also ensure that Tendril can provide an entire software stack for the smart grid.
Because many companies operating in the smart grid market have embraced open standards (including Tendril itself), it has been possible for traditional IT companies, including Cisco, Google, and Microsoft, to quickly enter the market. The partnership with GE clearly provides Tendril with the sort of credibility that may help it with utilities.
Regardless of what it means for Tendril, however, the key feature of this deal is that sophisticated energy management abilities should start reaching consumer-level appliances within the next several years. Hopefully, the grid will be ready to talk to them.


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The Rose Bowl kicks off tomorrow at 2pm PST and I'll be watching it all the way from Hawaii. I've got chips and dip ready and I've convinced Stanford and non-Stanford friends to come join me in my living room. My friend and her family plan to bring their TV out to their garage to watch. They've already warned their neighbors. I hope the rest of you are just as excited as we are! Here's another infographic to help you prepare for tomorrow's game:
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Ryan pulls out of Classic
Blue Jays closer B.J. Ryan has pulled himself out of the World Baseball Classic due to concerns about the current state of his mechanics. Ryan labored through his first two spring outings for Toronto and has decided that remaining in camp with his own club was the best way to sort through the issues.
Ryan was scheduled to pitch for the United States in an exhibition against the Blue Jays on Wednesday at Dunedin Stadium, but the left-hander will be replaced on Team USA's roster. Ryan, who chose not to take part in the Classic in 2006 after just signing a long-term contract with Toronto, was looking forward to participating in the unique event this year.
"This was an especially tough decision because of the honor of playing for my country," Ryan said in a statement released by Team USA. "But I feel it is the best interest of Team USA and the Toronto Blue Jays organization to not participate. I do not see it as being fair to my USA teammates, my Blue Jay teammates or myself to try to compete when my mechanics and delivery are not where they need to be in order to perform at the highest level."
In his first two Grapefruit League appearances, Ryan allowed four runs on four hits with three walks and no strikeouts over one inning.
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Personally, I was surprised when Ryan announced he'd attend the Classic.
Recovering from Tommy John, I felt he probably needed the entire training camp to be ready for the season and hopefully back to 2006 performance level.
After all, we do pay this guy 10 million US per season and as far as I'm concerned it's "team first"..


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Note: The Rain Bird Design Service is available in the US and Canada only.
Additional fees may apply in certain states/provinces.
1. To start the process you will need to fill out the following form. The first page is for your technical and personal information, the second page is graph paper to draw a sketch of your yard.
Homeowner Sprinkler System Design Request (PDF: 882 KB)
Solicitud de diseño para los propietarios de casa (PDF: 903 KB)
You can also drop by your local home center or do-it-yourself retailer to pick up
Rain Bird's Sprinkler System Design brochure and graph paper.
2. Gather the information requested below in steps 1 through 5 and complete the request form and drawing as instructed. Gathering this information determines the number and types of sprinkler heads you can operate on each valve zone.
IMPORTANT: accurate information = accurate system design.
Upon completion, mail or fax the completed questionnaire and drawing to
Rain Bird. Once you receive your design, follow the instructions in the Installation Guide to complete your project.
You'll need a pressure gauge (see your Rain Bird dealer), string and a pencil or pen, a 5 gallon bucket and a tape measure.
Screw a pressure gauge onto an unregulated outside faucet. Make sure no water is running anywhere inside or outside your house. Turn on the faucet with the gauge attached. The gauge shows your water pressure in pounds per square inch (psi).
Record: Pounds per square inch (psi) on the worksheet.
The meter size ( 5/8",3/4" or 1") is usually stamped on the outside of the meter. If you can't find the size, just call the water utility company and ask for that information.
Record: Write the meter size (5/8",3/4" or 1") on your worksheet.
On A Well?
Check with your pump owner's manual to determine its pressure and flow capacity. Or consult a well pump dealer / installer for this information.
Find the pipe that runs from the water meter to your house. Wrap a piece of string around the pipe, mark it, then measure how much string it took to go around the pipe. Check your string length on the table below to find your service line size.
Record: 3/4", 1" or 1 1/4" on your worksheet
For example, if your string measures 4" and you have galvanized pipe, your service line is 1 inch.
|Length of String
|2 3/4"
|3 1/4"
|3 1/2"
|4 3/8"
|Size of Copper
|1 1/4"
|Size of Galvanized
|1 1/4"
|Size of Sch. 40 PVC
|1 1/4"
Get a measurable container, like a 5 gallon bucket, make sure no other water is running in or outside the house, turn the faucet on all the way and time how long it takes to fill the container.
Record: Gallons per minute (GPM) on your worksheet.
Determine gallons per minute (GPM) with the following formula:
Important: retest if less than 7 GPM. Are the two test results different?
Call 1-800-426-7782 to discuss next steps.
Tip: Use scratch paper first then transfer your final drawing to the enclosed graph paper. Use bold, black lines only, no shading.
Divide your lot into sections such as front lawn, side lawn, flower beds, slopes, etc., and label all those areas you want watered. Also be sure to include the house, driveway and sidewalks in proper scale. If you have special watering preference such as bubblers in planting beds or a drip irrigation zone, note that on your drawing as well. Group similar types of plants such as shrubs and ground covers together in the sections. If you have big differences in the amount of sun different areas get, you may want to group those for watering efficiency and indicate "separate valve" on your drawing.
Rain Bird Sprinkler Design Service
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San Diego, CA 92154USA
Fax: 800-862-4927
The Rain Bird Sprinkler Design Service is for homeowners only and only for their place of residence. Please do not request designs for commercial or institutional property. These design requests will be rejected and not processed or returned.
Rain Bird offers this design service as a guideline. No guarantee of accuracy of design, system installation, or operation of system is implied.
IMPORTANT: The computerized plan you receive will only be as accurate as your drawing. Be sure to scale your drawing using one of the following ratios: 1"=10' or 1"=20' or 1"=30'. Maximum yard size for a Rain Bird computerized design is 240 x 300 feet.
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JDO requires that implementations support the persistence of java.lang.Object as first class objects (FCO's). DataNucleus provides this capability and also provides that java.lang.Object can be stored as serialised. It follows the same general process as for Interfaces since both interfaces and java.lang.Object are basically references to some persistable object.
java.lang.Object cannot be used to persist non-persistable types with fixed schema datastore (e.g RDBMS). Think of how you would expect it to be stored if you think it ought to
JDO doesn't define how an object FCO is persisted in the datastore. Obviously there can be many "implementations" and so no obvious solution. DataNucleus allows the following
The user controls which one of these is to be used by specifying the extension mapping-strategy on the field containing the interface. The default is "per-implementation"
Let's suppose you have a field in a class and you have a selection of possible persistable class that could be stored there, so you decide to make the field a java.lang.Object. So let's take an example. We have the following class
public class ParkingSpace { String location; Object occupier; }
So we have a space in a car park, and in that space we have an occupier of the space. We have some legacy data and so can't make the type of this "occupier" an interface type, so we just use java.lang.Object. Now we know that we can only have particular types of objects stored there (since there are only a few types of vehicle that can enter the car park). So we define our MetaData like this
<package name="mydomain.samples.object"> <class name="ParkingSpace"> <field name="location"/> <field name="occupier" persistence-modifier="persistent" field-type="mydomain.samples.vehicles.Car, mydomain.samples.vehicles.Motorbike"/> </field> </class>
or using annotations
@Persistent(types={mydomain.samples.vehicles.Car.class, mydomain.samples.vehicles.Motorbike.class}) Object occupier;
This will result in the following database schema.
So DataNucleus adds foreign keys from the ParkingSpace table to all of the possible implementation tables for the occupier field.
In conclusion, when using "per-implementation" mapping for any java.lang.Object field in a class to be persisted (as non-serialised), you must define the possible "implementation" classes that can be stored there.
If we use mapping-strategy of "identity" then we get a different datastore schema.
<class name="ParkingSpace"> <field name="location"/> <field name="occupier" persistence-modifier="persistent"> <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="mapping-strategy" value="identity"/> </field> </class>
and the datastore schema becomes
and the column "OCCUPIER" will contain strings such as com.mydomain.samples.object.Car:1 allowing retrieval of the related implementation object.
You can have a Collection/Map containing elements of java.lang.Object. You specify this in the same way as you would any Collection/Map. DataNucleus supports having a Collection of references with multiple implementation types as long as you use a join table relation.
By default a field of type java.lang.Object is stored as an instance of the underlying persistable in the table of that object. If either your Object field represents non-persistable objects or you simply wish to serialise the Object into the same table as the owning object, you need to specify the "serialized" attribute, like this
<class name="MyClass"> <field name="myObject" serialized="true"/> </class>
Similarly, where you have a collection of Objects using a join table, the objects are, by default, stored in the table of the persistable instance. If instead you want them to occupy a single BLOB column of the join table, you should specify the "embedded-element" attribute of <collection> like this
<class name="MyClass"> <field name="myCollection"> <collection element-type="java.lang.Object" serialized-element="true"/> <join/> </field> </class>
Please refer to the serialised fields guide for more details of storing objects in this way.


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The Joint Base Lewis-McChord flight nurses in the air over the Northwest on Sunday had unbelievably bad luck during their training scenario inside a C-17 Globemaster III jet.
A series of imaginary in-flight fires, patient heart attacks, fuel leaks and crash landings tested the nurses from the 446th Reserve Airlift Wing's aeromedical evacuation squadron.
All they needed were snakes in the cockpit, and the absurdly troubled flight might have been fit for Hollywood.
"This is like the (worst) airplane ever," Capt. Stephen Smith laughed as his mission trainer called out the fake news that their aircraft was leaking fuel somewhere over Oregon.
"Now we've got an alternate landing," he said, using a euphemism for "crash."
Thankfully, the nurses have never known such a disastrous flight on their real-life missions taking ill, injured and wounded troops from the battlefield to military hospitals around the world.
They crammed the unfortunate events into their monthly training to make the most of limited time in the air. Recent restrictions on military spending mean the Air Force has fewer training flights than it's had in past years, airmen said.
This time, the wing stretched its training dollars by doubling the number of medical teams in the jet and incorporating work on the ground from a sister unit, called the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron.
All told, about 50 airmen between the ground and air squadrons got valuable training time from a single four-hour flight. More than 30 of them were aboard the jet.
Normally, the crews consist of five in-flight medics, a pilot, a co-pilot and a loadmaster who manages the back of McChord's cargo jets.
"Resources and funds are so limited now that when we fly a four-hour local mission, we're looking at trying to get the best bang for our buck," said Senior Master Sgt. J.P. Wirth, a 30-year Air Force veteran who evaluated the airmen on the weekend flight.
Airmen in the wing have deployed continually to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 12 years, usually in small groups rather than an entire squadron. Their job is to keep wounded and ill service members stable while moving to care facilities in the war zone and then on their way home to the states.
The evacuation and staging squadrons have intertwined missions. Airmen in the staging squadron check patients to make sure they're ready to fly, then escort them onto planes or divert them to further care on the ground. The nurses in the evacuation squadron take over once the patients get on the plane.
But the two groups only recently started training together at Lewis-McChord. At past training events, each squadron would pretend that someone else did the sister unit's mission.
"We've been talking about it for years, and it just clicked," said Senior Master Sgt. Jonathan Lapham, a member of the staging squadron.
This time, the airmen on the ground got a good look around the jets they'd see on a deployment.
"I've never seen a plane this full," said Capt. Ryan Garabrandt.
The storyline for the weekend exercise simulated a flight from a military hospital in Germany to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. It's a common flight representing a leg of the journey for wounded soldiers from Afghanistan on their way to care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
That basic mission quickly devolved when trainers started putting the nurses under stress, evaluating their responses to fictitious disasters.
Airmen had to use their imaginations to work through the drills. They fought fires and stabilized mannequins that represented burned patients only to face more obstacles.
In some cases, tasks were especially difficult because the challenges were not real. Medics had to look at the mannequin, respond to verbal descriptions of the patient's ailments and then decide how to act.
That slowed the nurses because they could not respond instinctively to a patient's distress.
"When you're deployed, you don't have to think, You see the patient. It's visible," said Maj. Shana Weber, 37, who in her other life works a nurse at Tacoma General Hospital.
One of the trainers was nurse Capt. Noel Carroll. She joined the Air Force in 2009 after her brother, Air Force combat controller Staff Sgt. Timothy Davis, was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan.
On Sunday, she called out one disaster after another to a team of medics. In real life, Carroll, 31, said nurses face many challenges caring for troops, but "you don't have these emergencies back to back to back."
She deployed to Afghanistan for the first time in the summer and fall of 2012. Her calling to join the military hit home when she visited a gym at Bagram Air Field named after her fallen brother. She exercised there as much as she could.
She's ready to go back if she gets the chance. Her assignment caring for wounded troops on the battlefield gave her a feeling that "you are actually making a difference."


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MLB: A's-Indians replay ruling to stand
Torre says 'improper call was made' by crew chief Hernandez
Major League Baseball issued a statement Thursday regarding the disputed instant-replay ruling in the ninth inning of Wednesday's A's-Indians game, acknowledging the call was "improper," but saying it will stand as final.
In the wake of what appeared to be a game-tying homer but ruled a double, leading to the ejection of A's manager Bob Melvin before the Indians held on for a 4-3 victory, MLB executive vice president for baseball operations Joe Torre said via a statement:
"By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief. In the opinion of Angel Hernandez, who was last night's crew chief, there was not clear and convincing evidence to overturn the decision on the field. It was a judgment call, and as such, it stands as final.
"Home and away broadcast feeds are available for all uses of instant replay, and they were available to the crew last night. Given what we saw, we recognize that an improper call was made. Perfection is an impossible standard in any endeavor, but our goal is always to get the calls right. Earlier this morning, we began the process of speaking with the crew to thoroughly review all the circumstances surrounding last night's decision."
The disputed play occurred when Oakland's Adam Rosales hit a long drive to left-center field for what appeared to be a game-tying home run with two outs in the ninth, but it was called in play on the field and Rosales reached second base. Numerous replays appeared to show the ball clearing the yellow line atop the fence at Progressive Field, caroming off a railing.
But after the umpiring crew viewed the replay, Hernandez emerged from beneath the stands and ruled that Rosales would have to stay at second base, drawing an angry reaction from Melvin, who then was ejected. The A's loaded the bases before a Seth Smith groundout ended the game.