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Vitamin A, also known as retinol, has several important functions.
These include:
- helping your body's natural defence against illness and infection (the immune system) work properly
- helping vision in dim light
- keeping skin and the lining of some parts of the body, such as the nose, healthy
Good sources of vitamin A
Good sources of vitamin A include:
- cheese
- eggs
- oily fish
- fortified low-fat spreads
- milk and yoghurt
- liver and liver products such as liver pâté – this is a particularly rich source of vitamin A, so you may be at risk of having too much vitamin A if you have it more than once a week (this is particularly important if you're pregnant)
You can get vitamin A by including good sources of beta-carotene in your diet, as the body can change this into vitamin A.
The main food sources of beta-carotene are:
- yellow, red and green (leafy) vegetables, such as spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes and red peppers
- yellow fruit, such as mango, papaya and apricots
How much vitamin A do I need?
The amount of vitamin A adults aged 19 to 64 need is:
- 0.7mg a day for men
- 0.6mg a day for women
You should be able to get all the vitamin A you need from your diet.
Any vitamin A your body doesn't need immediately is stored for future use. This means you don't need it every day.
See the full government dietary recommendations (PDF, 148kb) for levels for children and older adults.
What happens if I take too much vitamin A?
According to some research, having more than an average of 1.5mg a day of vitamin A over many years may affect your bones, making them more likely to fracture when you're older.
This is particularly important for older people, especially women, who are already at risk of osteoporosis, a condition that weakens bones.
If you eat liver or liver pâté more than once a week, you may be getting too much vitamin A.
Many multivitamins contain vitamin A. Other supplements, such as fish liver oil, are also high in vitamin A.
If you take supplements containing vitamin A, make sure your daily intake from food and supplements doesn't exceed 1.5mg.
If you eat liver every week, don't take supplements that contain vitamin A.
If you're pregnant
Having large amounts of vitamin A can harm your unborn baby. So if you're pregnant or thinking about having a baby, don't eat liver or liver products, such as pâté, because these are very high in vitamin A.
Also avoid taking supplements that contain vitamin A. Speak to your GP or midwife if you would like more information.
What does the Department of Health and Social Care advise?
You should be able to get all the vitamin A you need by eating a varied and balanced diet.
If you take a supplement that contains vitamin A, don't take too much because this could be harmful.
Liver is a very rich source of vitamin A. Don't eat liver or liver products, such as pâté, more than once a week.
You should also be aware of how much vitamin A there is in any supplements you take.
If you're pregnant or thinking of having a baby:
- avoid taking supplements containing vitamin A, including fish liver oil, unless advised to by your GP
- avoid liver or liver products, such as pâté, as these are very high in vitamin A
Women who have been through the menopause and older men, who are more at risk of osteoporosis, should avoid having more than 1.5mg of vitamin A a day from food and supplements.
This means:
- not eating liver or liver products, such as pâté, more than once a week, or having smaller portions of these
- taking no more than 1.5mg of vitamin A a day in supplements (including fish liver oil) if you don't eat liver or liver products
- not taking any supplements containing vitamin A (including fish liver oil) if you eat liver once a week
Having an average of 1.5mg a day or less of vitamin A from diet and supplements combined is unlikely to cause any harm.
Page last reviewed: 3 March 2017
Next review due: 3 March 2020


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Who are we? We're Team NPF. We're on a mission: to raise awareness and money. We're going to make the world understand psoriatic disease and help scientists find a cure.
How do we do that? Hello? Did you miss those blue boxes at the top of the page? We walk, run, ride our bikes and raise our paddles! If we can't find an event near us, we create our own. When we decide to do something, we do it.
The people of Team NPF come in all ages and sizes. Some of us have psoriatic disease and some of us don't. One thing we all have in common: We want to crush this disease and turn it into a footnote!
Since 2007, we've raised more than $10 million. We're not done yet either. There's no better time to crash this party and help NPF celebrate.
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Belleville: Where Business Comes to Grow!
The beautiful City of Belleville, Canada is located in the Province of Ontario on the Great Lakes water system. Known for its natural beauty, strategic location and its' business efficiency, Belleville is a progressive and growing community.
With a population of approximately 50,000, it serves as the business, cultural, medical, government service and commercial centre for a region totalling over 210,000 people.
Located on the shores of the beautiful Bay of Quinte and the mighty Moira River, Belleville boasts the best combination of lifestyle and business growth and sustainability.
Our community features rolling landscapes, green vibrant open spaces, bustling commercial districts, a historic, unique downtown, dazzling waterfront, fresh farm fields and a clean, efficient industrial sector featuring many of the worlds top producers.
Industrial Areas
With a variety of industrial areas, Belleville has strategically positioned itself to accommodate new growth and development. The current expansion of the North-East Industrial Park combined with the existing Bell Blvd. Business Park, positions Belleville to attract and maintain new investment.
Commercial Areas
Downtown Belleville
Belleville's historic city centre offers a nostalgic shopping experience and boutique retail environment for business. Old brick buildings and modern architecture offer up the ideal location for any business. The Moira River winds its way through the downtown, adjacent to the main strip, with the Riverfront Trail alongside. The downtown hosts small retail shops, fine dining experiences, cafes, theatres and administrative services such as banks, law offices and medical clinics. The Belleville Downtown Improvement Area supports the businesses within the downtown core. For more information visit: www.downtownbelleville.ca.
Bell Boulevard
Strategically located just off Highway 401, this commercial district is characterized by a large regional shopping centre, the Quinte Mall, and several big-box retailers, mini plazas, department stores, automotive service centres and supermarkets. Considerable development potential remains in this growing commercial district.
North Front Street/Highway 62
Belleville's growth and expansion can be tracked along this corridor, now extending north of Highway 401. Fast food outlets, automotive dealerships, big box retailers and many retail and service outlets have established here. There is great development and re-development potential that exists along this central corridor.
Dundas Street East
This area is characterized by its medical and health services, Belleville General Hospital, commercial plazas, grocery stores and other services established to meet the demands of this growing community. Located on Belleville's bayshore, it is sure to be favoured for future development.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 n.11 Cape Town Nov. 2010
FASD - De Aar mums get beyond the 'tippling point'
When most of the low-income folk in the 'ghost train' town of De Aar began remonstrating with any pregnant mother who was boozing, excited campaigners thought they'd broken through the 'tippling point'.
However, their research colleagues proved they'd gone even further - the dedicated local platoon of social workers, nurses, therapists and volunteers had in three short years reduced the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) by 30%. This is in a town with the worst recorded FASD prevalence of any single community in the world, where 120 out of every 1 000 residents suffer from FASD (12%).
From the mid-1990s, when the South African Railways moved its repair and manufacturing yards from De Aar (the country's most central town) to the major capitals, the community's social fabric slowly crumpled. Joblessness has now reached 80% and alcohol abuse is rife. According to available data, the only other sites (also South African) that come anywhere close to the town's FASD prevalence are: Wellington (88 per 1 000), Witzenberg (73), Upington (69) and Johannesburg (27), with the next worse prevalence recorded in certain sectors of the American Indian population (8) and in Sweden (1.33). This remarkable local achievement, recognised in a slew of appreciative awards by the Northern Cape government,1 is testimony to a holistic, multi-pronged intervention by the Cape Town-based Foundation for Alcohol-Related Research (FARR).
Sustained grassroots campaigning
Chairman of FARR, Professor Denis Viljoen, and the CEO, Ms Leana Olivier, believe the years of intense grassroots campaigning about the dangers of alcohol abuse conducted in the former railway hub of South Africa will soon bear even greater fruit.
The demographics of the area have the majority of the population living on the 'wrong side of the tracks' in the coloured township. However, for FARR this actually means the 'right side' of the tracks because that's where they've erected their multipurpose community centre, loved and known by all as Die Pienk Huis.
'With all the provincial clinics and Department of Social Development staff on board in our Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby programme we now have 90% of the women of child-bearing age in the community enrolled,' said Olivier. She believes a major reason their comprehensive programme will drop FASD prevalence even further is that their multi-disciplinary platoon has access to all local antenatal clinics and the district hospital and is expanding its activities monthly. Underpinning all this, FARR has trained local people who have been working in the community at risk for nearly a decade. 'They're known and trusted and that's probably the greatest single factor that's swung things around for us,' adds Olivier, a former maternal, child and woman's health manager for the Western Cape.
De Aar has a population of 30 000. At last count there were more than 100 shebeens in the local townships. Take away the better-off minority 'white' community and you're left with fewer than 300 people keeping a single shebeen in business. That's a lot of drinking. So it didn't take much arithmetic - or 'ghost busting' - to single out De Aar as the site most worthy of research and intervention as FARR's inception and growth in the Western Cape tracked in inverse proportion to the town's decline.
Data alarmed retired medical geneticist
Viljoen, a retired medical geneticist and former deputy head of the discipline at the University of Cape Town and later head at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the crying need for a body such as FARR, at least in the Western Cape, became obvious in 1996.
'At first there was anecdotal evidence that one in four women attending antenatal clinics in this province were drinking. Then I found out that one in ten kids being referred to the genetic clinic at Red Cross Children's Hospital in Rondebosch had FASD. And when we audited kids attending schools for the mentally disabled, one in four had FASD.' With a funding grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the USA and an urgent appeal from the Northern Cape provincial government in 2000, the then mainly research-based body took strength from a pilot FASD prevalence study in Wellington. Once the prevalences in De Aar and Upington were known, it became obvious that a highly focused intervention should be targeted at the hardest hit former railway hub. The first cohort comprised local children born in the past year and evaluated for FASD, followed by those born to women who had previously had children with FASD (in the second year), and finally those born with FASD in the third year were tallied. Preceding this, then running concurrently and expanding, was the FASD intervention programme, radiating outwards from Die Pienk Huis (aka the Joan Wertheim Centre).
Die Pienk Huis echoes with the cries of infants and the excited shrieks of children right up to 15 as they partake in after-school activities, sports, music groups, nutrition schemes, clothes washing or a range of therapies including speech, occupational and physiotherapy. Mother-child bonding workshops and an early childhood development stimulation programme are vital additional tools. The centre is the new hub of De Aar, providing the stability, support and education so vital to begin turning a community around. Now all the town needs is an economic boost that will provide jobs beyond the current meager pickings in domestic, farm or construction work, the latter two categories often seasonal or temporary.
Beating the environmental odds
Says Viljoen, who began his career as a paediatrician, 'their circumstances are not changing, so it can only mean that women are taking responsibility for their behaviour change. The anecdotal evidence is that the community has changed so much that they now berate any pregnant mums who drink, especially those who've already had FASD babies. They don't want others to make the same mistakes they did.' Very few mums intentionally harm their babies, a premise on which FARR builds all its efforts. Adds Viljoen, 'once you empower her with the knowledge of what her drinking could do, she inevitably starts to act out positively'. Olivier pens a local front page article in the local weekly newspaper, the Echo, centred on whatever's happening in the local community but with an educational FASD spin (she's also a seasoned contributor to the mass circulation yellow press Die Son newspaper). Her biggest contribution however is in training lay people in the prevention, awareness, identification and referral of alcohol abuse and FASD while teaching medical undergraduates and professionals diagnosis and management skills. FARR's two-year-old training academy has accreditation with the Health and Welfare Services SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority) and is fast becoming popular with all categories of students.
Chris Bateman
1. The Premier's Silver Award for Service Excellence, regional and provincial winners of Community Builder of the Year (Department of Social Development), the latter going through to the finals of the national Social Services Department, to be adjudicated later this year.


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Upon Koetsu's founding by Yoshiaki Sugano the current standard for a true high-end phono cartridge was yet to be discovered. A polymath trained in sword making, boxing and calligraphy he next sought to master the subtleties of analog sound.
Having built a reputation purely on the impeccably natural sound created, Koetsu surpasses the need for advertising or exorbitant marketing. Once you hear one, going back to any other moving coil pickup will be challenging, to say the least. Many of the pickups contain over 99.9% pure copper for the coil windings, and some models can be fitted with a one-piece diamond stylus tip and cantilever. They will only get more precise, natural and aesthetically beautiful as you ascend the range.
Providing an exceptionally organic listening experience, a Koetsu will go beyond what you thought possible from a cartridge.
"The music seems to 'happen' between your loudspeakers; voices and instruments materialize before your very ears." – Jimmy Hughes, HiFi+
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The high-end world of fashion, full of elaborate couture creations and luxe lifestyles, may seem like an unlikely place in which to look for the next great rapper, but that's exactly what Sean "Diddy" Combs did for his upcoming album "Last Train to Paris."
The rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy (and Puffy and P. Diddy), invited several fashion bigwigs, including the famously icy Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour herself to be part of the record, according to Vogue editor André Leon Talley's article on Vogue's website.
Wintour, according to the Daily News, is heard at the start of the second track introducing the song, saying "This is Anna Wintour from Vogue magazine, you are now listening to the Last Train to Paris."
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"This album features the voices of some of the most influential fashion personalities, including Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, and Tommy Hilfiger, their voices in between songs," writes Talley. "For my part, I recited words by James Baldwin, and Diddy respected it enough to leave it intact.
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Though she may be single, Amanda Seyfried has her priorities straight.
"I can't wait to have kids," she gushed last night to Jay Leno, adding, that she has to keep herself in check.
"I'm not having a baby anytime soon."
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The 25-year-old star of "In Time" then added some detail to the practicality of having a child. "I don't even have a boyfriend, so it's not going to happen."
But Seyfried remains optimistic. "I love spending time with babies and daydreaming what it's going to be like for me," she told Leno.
Seyfried added that she's not looking to date someone famous right now, telling Glamour magazine that intense attention probably played a factor into how brief her relationship with Ryan Phillipe was.
She also dated Dominic Cooper, her co-star from "Mama Mia!"
For the moment, the blonde beauty is happy mothering her dog Finn. "I treat him like a child!" she said.
"I think that's easier for now."
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Arrowhead® Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water Hydrates Bay Area Runners as the Official Bottled Water Sponsor of the Inaugural Transamerica Rock 'n' Roll San Francisco Half Marathon
Local Brand Teams up with Elite Runner Josh Cox to Inspire Runners to Perform at their Best on Sunday, April 7
Arrowhead® Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water will hydrate runners at the inaugural Transamerica Rock 'n' Roll San Francisco Half Marathon as the event's official bottled water sponsor and ultimate training partner. The brand is teaming up with elite marathon runner Josh Cox to inspire first-time and seasoned runners to perform at their best.
Cox will join Arrowhead at the Health & Fitness Expo on April 5 and 6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Cox, the American record holder in the 50K, four-time U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier and three-time U.S. National Team member, will be at the Arrowhead Brand booth sharing his hydration tips and expert training advice.
"When it comes to performing at your best, hydration is essential," says Cox. "As a professional athlete and full-time runner, Arrowhead is an important part of my workout routine in California." Cox will encourage runners to share their personal stories on running bibs at the Arrowhead Brand booth to serve as inspiration for Sunday's race and will invite them to ask questions about improving their own personal running journeys.
Arrowhead Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water recently introduced its new .5L ReBornTM bottle made with 50% recycled plastic (rPET). The brand, which sources its water from carefully selected mountain springs, has supported various running events for more than 12 years, is excited to now be the official bottled water sponsor of the upcoming Transamerica Rock 'n' Roll San Francisco Half Marathon on Sunday, April 7.
"Arrowhead shares in the runners' passion to be their very best and we're proud to be supporting them as they cross the finish line in San Francisco and celebrate their accomplishment," says Angela Barile, Arrowhead Brand Marketing Manager. "We are excited to be teaming up with the Transamerica Rock 'n' Roll San Francisco Half Marathon to be a running partner for all participating athletes in the race."
Arrowhead will supply water at both the start and finish lines and along the course at official hydration stations. To learn more information about Arrowhead and share your inspirational running stories, please visit the brand on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/arrowheadwater.
About Nestlé Waters North America
With 36 years of experience providing refreshment in the bottled water segment, Nestlé Waters North America is the nation's leading bottled water company. The company produces six regional natural spring water brands in the U.S., distributes three international brands, produces Nestle® Pure Life®, its nationally distributed purified bottled water, and most recently, added ready-to-drink iced teas. The company's dedication to quality products, employee development, bringing shared value to communities, and its commitment to environmental stewardship, especially in the areas of water use, energy and packaging, has led Nestlé Waters North America to be third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S.


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NEA Statement on Market Fairness Act
April 25, 2012
Submitted to the Committee on Finance
United States Senate
Chairman Baucus and Members of the Finance Committee. On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association (NEA), we thank you for the opportunity to submit these comments in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act for the record in conjunction with the hearing on "Tax Reform: What It Means for State and Local Tax and Fiscal Policy."NEA strongly supports the Marketplace Fairness Act. This bipartisan legislation would remedy a long-standing inequity and finally allow states and local governments to collect sales tax from remote sellers. In so doing, it would help states stop the erosion of their tax base and provide needed resources for education and other critical priorities.
States face an unprecedented fiscal crisis worsened because they have limited authority to collect taxes on sales into their states. As a result, schools, police, firefighters, health care, emergency responders, roads, public transportation, and parks are being deprived of critical revenues. These uncollected revenues could help offset growing budget gaps in almost every state – over $27 billion in much needed revenues is not being collected.
In most states, brick and mortar stores are placed at a competitive disadvantage because they must collect sales taxes while sellers located outside their states do not. The U.S. Supreme Court (Quill Corp. v. North Dakota) said that Congress has the authority to allow states to require remote sellers (a retailer that does not have a physical presence in a state) to collect taxes. Small businesses have historically always been one of the main engines of job creation. In fact, during the past decade, small businesses created more than 60 percent of net private-sector jobs. We need to ensure that they not only survive, but thrive and help rebuild the economy.
The Marketplace Fairness Act will also help provide an alternate source of local revenue to counter dramatic losses from the housing crisis. Local property tax revenues, which account for 40 percent of public education funding, continue to suffer from the foreclosure crisis. Combined with federal and state spending cuts, these losses have resulted in substantial reductions in core education programs and services. The Marketplace Fairness Act will help offset these losses.
The bill will not impact the Internet Tax Freedom Act, nor will it create new taxes or increase existing taxes. It does not require any state to collect sales and use tax. Consumers are required under existing state laws to pay sales and use taxes on the goods they purchase. Consumers can be audited and charged with penalties for failing to pay sales and use taxes, but too often states are unable to enforce this requirement.
The Marketplace Fairness Act will allow the forty-four states and the District of Columbia that collect sales tax to better address fiscal shortfalls. The bill will help ensure desperately needed resources for education. We encourage your support for this important legislation.
Thank you for your consideration of these comments.


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A recent flurry of news articles have reported on a recent study that showed that treatment of pancreatic cancer cells with fructose increased cell proliferation - uncontrolled proliferation is a hallmark of cancer. This follows on the heels of another study that linked fructose consumption from added sugars to elevated blood pressure. The bad press on fructose is making people question the safety of the ubiquitous commercial sweetener, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Due to the introduction of HFCS, fructose intake has increased dramatically in the U.S. since the 1970s. Between 1970 and 2000, HFCS intake increased by 100-fold, and total fructose intake increased by 30%.1
Fructose makes up half of the sucrose molecule (with glucose), but may also be present in "free" form. Abosrption of fructose and glucose, and the differences between fructose in natural foods and fructose in HFCS are explained here.
These authors investigated whether cancer cells could use fructose for energy, because they are known to use glucose - cancer cells are known to have a greater number of glucose transporters and metabolize glucose more rapidly than normal cells because their rapid proliferation requires greater amounts of energy.2
Although different transport mechanisms are used to get fructose and glucose into cells, their metabolism is thought to be similar once they enter cells. However, these scientists found that in human pancreatic tumor cells, metabolism of fructose and glucose occurs via different pathways, both leading to cell proliferation. Keep in mind that both sugars led to increased cell proliferation at similar rates - that is, this study did not show that fructose is "worse" than glucose, just that they stimulate proliferation by different mechanisms. Glucose was used by the cancer cells for energy production, whereas fructose was used to generate nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). This study was the first to show that cancer cells could differentiate between fructose and glucose, and that they could use fructose as efficiently as glucose to fuel cell growth.3,4
Sucrose intake, fructose intake, and high glycemic load have all been associated with pancreatic cancer in epidemiological studies, and diabetes also increases risk.5,6
The message of this study and others on the negative effects of fructose is that added sugars, abundant in the Western diet, are detrimental to health and should be minimized, but sadly this is not the message that is getting through to the public.
With the recent media frenzy around HFCS, the conventional wisdom seems to have become that sugar is superior to HFCS because it is more 'natural' - prompting many companies to switch from HFCS to sugar for sweetening their products. Meanwhile, the high fructose, low glycemic index sweetener agave nectar, once elevated to health food status, is now being doubted because of the negative press on fructose.
Comparing sweetener to sweetener is missing the point. All sweeteners have negative health effects, regardless of their relative quantities of fructose, glucose, and sucrose.
Some sweeteners spike blood glucose, others raise triglycerides and form advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and all provide excess calories and are devoid of nutrients. This is not a question of which sweeteners are healthy and which are unhealthy. None are healthy. All are merely concentrated sugars - contributing to obesity and all its consequences - and therefore should all be minimized or completely avoided in a health-promoting diet.
1. Bray GA, Nielsen SJ, Popkin BM. Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup in beverages may play a role in the epidemic of obesity. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Apr;79(4):537-43.
2. Medina RA, Owen GI. Glucose transporters: expression, regulation and cancer. Biol Res. 2002;35(1):9-26.
3. Liu H, Huang D, McArthur DL, et al. Fructose induces transketolase flux to promote pancreatic cancer growth. Cancer Res. 2010 Aug 1;70(15):6368-76.
4. EurekAlert! Pancreatic cancers use fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth. August 2, 2010
American Institute for Cancer Research Blog. Glucose, Fructose, and the Alarming Pancreatic Cancer News. August 4, 2010. http://www.aicrblog.org/2010/08/04/glucose-fructose-and-the-alarming-pancreatic-cancer-news/
5. Nöthlings U, Murphy SP, Wilkens LR, et al. Dietary glycemic load, added sugars, and carbohydrates as risk factors for pancreatic cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Nov;86(5):1495-501.
6. Michaud DS, Liu S, Giovannucci E, et al. Dietary sugar, glycemic load, and pancreatic cancer risk in a prospective study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2002 Sep 4;94(17):1293-300.


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Objective of the game
Objective of the game:
Be the first player to place all your tiles on the table in different sets to win the game. Sets can consist of runs (three or more consecutive numbers of the same color) or groups (three or four tiles of the same number with a different color).
Important: when you have too many tiles on your rack, you will get a second rack. Click on the arrows underneath the sorting buttons to go to the other page.
Basic rules of the game:
1. Each player receives 14 tiles. The remaining tiles will be stored in the RummyClub bag. The game consists of a total of 110 tiles.
2. The player can sort the tiles on his rack by color and number.
3. Players can make sets that consist of groups and/or runs on the table.
4. A group is a set of three or four tiles of the same number with a different color.
5. A run is a set of three or more consecutive numbers with the same color.
6. The initial move of a player must consist of sets that add up to a total of 30 points or more. You can switch off this option if you wish.
7. If a player is unable to make a move, the player must click the "Pass" button and will be dealt an extra tile.
8. Next to making sets, a player can manipulate existing sets on the table by rearranging or adding tiles.
9. A Joker can be used as any number of any color to complete any set. At the start of the game the creator can choose to play with 4, 6 or 8 Jokers.
10. A Joker can be used to start an initial move representing the same amount of points as the tile it replaces.
11. The player that empties their rack of tiles first , wins the game.
12. The time each player has per turn can be selected when creating the game. You can choose between 30 seconds, 60 seconds and 3 minutes.
Tips and tricks:
1. Playing groups or runs when you can is not always the best strategy. Try to hold back tiles early on in the game and let other players lay down tiles to create a good playing field for you.
2. It can be useful to hold back a fourth tile from a group or run so you can place that tile on your next turn instead of having to draw a new one. Of course you then do have the risk that your opponent beats you to it.


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Gush of guilt: Holiday cheer brings water fear
It dawned on me that I've become a bit too obsessive about water usage at home when we hosted out-of-town guests recently. I found myself cringing each time our friends needlessly flushed the toilet or ran water while brushing their teeth. I didn't even offer bath towels for their kids, figuring a few days of dirty build-up on them would go unnoticed.
In the desperate hope of saving water, I cleverly provided Pert combination shampoo/conditioner in the guest shower, trying to eliminate one rinse cycle in their bathing process. I lamented that our friends didn't understand that the timer on the bathroom sink set for three minutes was to monitor the length of their showers.
This got me thinking about the upcoming holiday party season, and the water-wasting minefield potential of hosting a large group of liquid-consuming adults for several hours. After all, with 100 guests, assuming you'll get at least one four-gallon flush per person, their doing what comes naturally could push me over that magical 4,000 gallon limit in no time flat.
I'm as sociable as the next person, but I'm not ready to sacrifice my water allotment in the name of holiday cheer. So just in time for the entertaining season, I've come up with some drought-edition holiday invitation ideas that will let your guests know that they're welcome at your home while ensuring that they hold their bladders till they get back to their own:
HO! HO! HO! It's that time of year. Please come to our house to share holiday cheer. We ask you, respectfully, to not use our john, cause come mid-December, we want our water still turned on.
Or how about:
'Tis the season to be jolly. Join us in some holiday folly. Come eat and drink and be of good cheer, you just can't use our bathroom this year.
Another party ditty:
The party's at our house, the food will be hot. So come and enjoy; just don't use our pot.
Here's my favorite:
Jingle bells, jingle bells, it's party time for you. Come to our house for cocktails, just please don't use the loo!
Or perhaps as a party favor, handed out as guests arrive, we could distribute Depends undergarments. Ask people to kindly don them at once (don we now our gay apparel?), to preclude the real need for using and hence flushing the toilets for the next several hours. Would that be subtle enough?
Another solution would be to line up buckets full of residual shower water, and ask any guests brazen enough to dare use the toilet to self-flush by filling the toilet bowl with the funky water from the bucket. Kind of gross, but desperate situations call for desperate measures.
The variations on holiday themes bemoaning our water woes are endless. No doubt once those holiday tunes are penetrating the airwaves, this variation will come to mind:
All I want for Christmas is to flush my wee, to flush my wee, yes to flush my wee.
And this twist to an old holiday favorite:
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a toilet was flushing, thanks to this miserable drought.
I know, the rhyme is kinda bad.
Anyhow, in our current climate of extreme conservation, I'm thinking ahead as much as possible. Lucky for us, we live in a neighborhood with lots of new construction. We've been banking on the sale of the lot next door, in the hope that construction will commence soon and we can use the lovely porta-john that will sit smack in front of the property for the next year. After all, if the first view of our home as you drive down the street is obstructed by an outdoor toilet, at the very least we ought to be able to take advantage of its function while it's there. By eliminating the use of our indoor facilities, maybe we'll get our water bill use down to 1,000 gallons a month.
I have noticed that lately an actual bathroom-using strategy is creeping into my mind, and I don't like it. We all obviously have to go a certain number of times per day. Sometimes this is at home, and sometimes it's when we're out. I hate to admit it, but I've actually given thought to when and where I am using the bathroom, and how it will affect that locale.
For example, I'm in town and can't make it back home without extreme discomfort. Gotta choose a public spot. Do I dare go to a business that I frequent, where I know the owners and staff, and take advantage of their minimal water supply, knowing I could become the object of their wrath? Or do I choose a place that I don't patronize, caring not whether they are penalized for my flushing?
Perhaps I should stop at a local hotel or gas station, where transient bathroom usage is expected? Who could have predicted that such moral dilemmas would one day be mine? But then again, neither did I ever think that flushing a toilet would become a luxury (or a vice) in my little world.
I suppose that even here in sub-Saharan central Virginia, some day our drought will end. I'll no longer have need for the camel I'm thinking of buying. I won't find my sleeping hours filled with dreams of heavy precipitation. The sound of liquid coursing through pipes won't send me running to turn off the faucets. But I will be left with fond memories of my water-free holiday gathering. And I know that someday, when I sing along to "Let It Snow," I won't be feeling a sense of impending doom if it doesn't actually happen.
Jenny Gardiner is a writer and a mom who lives in Keswick. Throwing caution to the wind, she intends to plunge ahead with her holiday entertainment plans, drought be damned.


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Leesman endures short outing in first start
Left-hander allows six runs on nine hits over 2 2/3; Abreu, Dunn homer
DETROIT -- The following statement is meant as no offense to Charlie Leesman, the White Sox spot-starter who lasted just 2 2/3 innings during Detroit's 8-6 victory Tuesday at a chilly Comerica Park.
But replacing Chris Sale qualifies as an almost impossible task, and it's a task that Tigers hitters certainly were glad the White Sox had to execute for the second of this four-game series.
"I'm sure on the other side when they saw that, no offense to Charlie, but when they saw Chris was scratched, I imagine they were pretty excited about it, and they didn't care who was pitching," said White Sox designated hitter Adam Dunn of the rotation change brought about by Sale's first trip to the disabled list. "Charlie had one bad inning."
"Everybody expects the Sale/[Justin] Verlander matchup and then they see this: 'Who's Leesman?'" said Leesman with a resigned smile. "But I go into it as serious as anything else."
Leesman (0-1) came to the Majors with a 1.59 ERA over three starts for Triple-A Charlotte. Very few pitchers even at the Major League level can match Sale, who is one of the best starters in the game.
Until at least the first weekend of May, when Sale is eligible to come off the disabled list, where he landed Tuesday with a flexor muscle strain in his left arm, the White Sox will have to try their best to capably fill that sizeable void. Substitute No. 1 didn't go particularly well.
"It was short," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of Leesman's outing. "You'd like him to go a little further, but they were hitting him around pretty good. He was just up in the zone, and they were swinging it."
"I felt good going out," Leesman said. "Usually, my problem is walking people. But I was throwing a good amount of strikes. I need to get the ball down. They are a great hitting team. Rough third inning took me out."
Five straight Detroit batters opened that five-run third by hitting safely, producing four runs. Ian Kinsler's double off of third baseman Marcus Semien's glove and Miguel Cabrera's home run to right each accounted for two runs. When Alex Avila singled to left after Nick Castellanos' sacrifice fly, Leesman's day was done. Zach Putnam, who resides in nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., replaced Leesman and set a career high with four strikeouts over his two innings of relief.
In his second Major League start, Leesman allowed six runs on nine hits, while walking one and not striking out anyone. General manager Rick Hahn would not commit to anything past Tuesday's start for Leesman, and Ventura basically said the same postgame, so Sunday's White Sox starter against the Rays remains uncertain.
Jose Abreu's first-inning homer off Verlander (3-1) gave the White Sox (10-11) an early lead. Verlander didn't retire the side in order during any of his seven innings, yielding eight hits, but also knew he was working with a fairly comfortable advantage.
"Once he gets a lead like that, he really goes into power-save mode," said Ventura. "He wasn't really cranking it up and letting it fly. He was just kind of controlling with offspeed stuff and getting guys out in front. He wasn't reaching back trying to blow anybody away. He was just trying to conserve, and it's just smart. He's a smart pitcher."
Al Alburquerque, Phil Coke and a late charge by the White Sox offense actually turned an 8-1 deficit through five into an 8-6 Tigers lead in the ninth. Alexei Ramirez represented the tying run at the plate against Joba Chamberlain (first save), after Dayan Viciedo drew a two-out walk to go with his career-high four hits.
Ramirez's liner to left-center was caught by J.D. Martinez, ending a three-run rally that included Adam Dunn's prodigious two-run clout to right and Paul Konerko's run-scoring single. Konerko stands one short of 2,300 career hits and broke an 0-for-17 slump with his single to center.
"They keep going up there and grinding away," said Ventura of his offense. "That's a good sign for us."
"It was like I threw an incidental two-seamer," said Coke of the pitch Dunn crushed. "No, it was an incident, because he hit that a long way. Somebody almost died. That was an incident in the outfield seats. Seriously. I'm being totally honest, because he tattooed that ball. He really did."
Luckily for the White Sox, their two-time All-Star and rotation stalwart shouldn't be out of action for too long. At least that's the hope as of April 22.
For the short term, though, the White Sox will have to roll with the latest injury punch.
"That's part of the plan," Ventura said. "You have to have guys be able to fill in, and tonight wasn't the night."


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BERLIN – If you think defined benefit plans are only for big businesses, take another look. An increasing number of small and midsize businesses are considering these plans as an alternative to the 401(k) or other more conventional retirement savings tools — although under current regulations, they can also be used very well in conjunction with a 401(k).
But unlike a 401(k) plan or other defined contribution plan, defined benefit plans promise retired employees — including owners themselves—a predefined benefit when they retire that's based on age, earnings and years of service. Principals of sole proprietorships, limited partnerships, and C or S corporations are now using defined benefits to rapidly accumulate significant retirement funds — sometimes in just a few years.
Based on their design, their vesting schedule and means of calculating benefits, defined benefit plans typically work well where an employer is seeking the largest business deduction and the company's key employees are older and longer tenured. Often a defined benefit plan, in conjunction with a 401(k) plan, can benefit both the higher-earning owners as well as provide a sound benefit for rank-and-file employees.
And the plus side of the equation grows with these other advantages of defined benefit plans:
(BULLET)Useful at tax time. "Defined benefit plans let small-business owners defer taxes and make a much larger contribution than they could with a 401(k), an Individual Retirement Account or SEP," says Cynthia Hayes, a Managing Director in the Merrill Lynch Retirement Group. The numbers for defined benefit plan members are impressive: In 2007, the maximum deduction with a SEP is $45,000.
(BULLET)Boon to late bloomers. Hefty deductions make defined benefit plans attractive to business owners who are behind on their retirement planning — particularly those in their mid-40s and up.
Defined benefit plans do have some downsides. For example, Hayes points out that a business owner must fund the plan consistently — whether or not the business is profitable. Also, companies that default face federal penalties. "And if the plan balance is reduced due to investment losses resulting from market declines, the employer may need to increase contributions to meet funding level requirements," said Hayes.
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... he learned beautiful places are only a wish away.
Grayson is amazed at the shell-covered beach and his wish come true. He walks along asking strangers "So …what's your wish?"
Since the moment Grayson was born, he's been fighting for his life. Diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome at birth, he had his first open-heart surgery at 11 days old. Throughout his young life, he has endured surgery after surgery.
Grayson's mother, Carrie, says it's been extremely hard on the entire family.
So it came as quite a miraculous relief when Grayson and his family discussed the possibility of a wish with Make-A-Wish® Kansas volunteers.
Four-year-old Grayson told wish granters he wanted to fly on an airplane and see the "big water." He wanted to go look for seashells, sea turtles and dolphins. He was mesmerized by pictures of Sanibel Island, Florida. But it just seemed too good to be true, too much to hope for amid all the grueling treatments and surgeries, tests and hospital visits.
When Grayson receives news of his wish coming true he looks at his four older siblings and says, "I'm takin' you to Sanibel!" Their first true family vacation, since Grayson is finally healthy enough to travel.
The family visits the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum where they enjoy a private "Shell Walk" that helps Grayson find the best shells on the island. The museum staff then presents Grayson with gifts, including a stuffed squid and shell books.
Volunteers escort the family to the beach to search for seashells with experts.
A Sanibel police officer rides by on his beach motorcycle and invites Grayson to hop on, presenting him with a junior deputy badge.
His parents love watching their kids playing and spending time together – with Grayson just being a kid.
Carrie maintains a web site about Grayson's progress for family and friends. It features photos of the family trip to Sanibel Island. A heart transplant may be in Grayson's future, but for now, he learned beautiful places are only a wish away.
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We've created a new experimental API that aims to prevent DOM-Based Cross Site Scripting in modern web applications.
Cross-Site Scripting
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is the most prevalent vulnerability affecting web applications. We see this reflected both in our own data, and throughout the industry. Practice shows that maintaining an XSS-free application is still a difficult challenge, especially if the application is complex. While solutions for preventing server-side XSS are well known, DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (DOM XSS) is a growing problem. For example, in Google's Vulnerability Reward Program DOM XSS is already the most common variant.
Why is that? We think it's caused by two separate issues:
XSS is easy to introduce
DOM XSS occurs when one of injection sinks in DOM or other browser APIs is called with user-controlled data. For example, consider this snippet that intends to load a stylesheet for a given UI template the application uses:
const templateId = location.hash.match(/tplid=([^;&]*)/)[1];
// ...
document.head.innerHTML += `<link rel="stylesheet" href="./templates/${templateId}/style.css">`
This code introduces DOM XSS by linking the attacker-controlled source
location.hash) with the injection sink (
innerHTML). The attacker can
exploit this bug by tricking their victim into visiting the following URL:
https://example.com#tplid="><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>
It's easy to make this mistake in code, especially if the code changes often.
For example, maybe
templateId was once generated and validated on the server,
so this value used to be trustworthy? When assigning to
innerHTML, all we know
is that the value is a string, but should it be trusted? Where does it really
come from?
Additionally, the problem is not limited to just
innerHTML. In a typical
browser environment, there are over 60 sink functions or properties that require
this caution. The DOM API is insecure by default and requires special
treatment to prevent XSS.
XSS is difficult to detect
The code above is just an example, so it's trivial to see the bug. In practice, the sources and the sinks are often accessed in completely different application parts. The data from the source is passed around, and eventually reaches the sink. There are some functions that sanitize and verify the data. But was the right function called?
Looking at the source code alone, it's difficult to know if it introduces a DOM
XSS. It's not enough to grep the
.js files for sensitive patterns. For one,
the sensitive functions are often used through various wrappers and real-world
vulnerabilities look more like
Sometimes it's not even possible to tell if a codebase is vulnerable by only looking at it.
obj[prop] = templateID
obj points to the
Location object, and
prop value is
"href", this is
very likely a DOM XSS, but one can only find that out when executing the code.
As any part of your application can potentially hit a DOM sink, all of the code
should undergo a manual security review to be sure - and the reviewer has to be
extra careful to spot the bug. That's unlikely to happen.
Trusted Types
Trusted Types is the new browser API that might help address the above problems at the root cause - and in practice help obliterate DOM XSS.
Trusted Types allow you to lock down the dangerous injection sinks - they stop being insecure by default, and cannot be called with strings. You can enable this enforcement by setting a special value in the Content Security Policy HTTP response header:
Content-Security-Policy: trusted-types *
Then, in the document you can no longer use strings with the injection sinks:
const templateId = location.hash.match(/tplid=([^;&]*)/)[1];
// typeof templateId == "string"
document.head.innerHTML += templateId // Throws a TypeError.
To interact with those functions, you create special typed objects - Trusted Types. Those objects can be created only by certain functions in your application called Trusted Type Policies. The exemplary code "fixed" with Trusted Types would look like this:
const templatePolicy = TrustedTypes.createPolicy('template', { createHTML: (templateId) => { const tpl = templateId; if (/^[0-9a-z-]$/.test(tpl)) { return `<link rel="stylesheet" href="./templates/${tpl}/style.css">`; } throw new TypeError(); }
}); const html = templatePolicy.createHTML(location.hash.match(/tplid=([^;&]*)/)[1]);
// html instanceof TrustedHTML
document.head.innerHTML += html;
Here, we create a
template policy that verifies the passed template ID
parameter and creates the resulting HTML. The policy object
create* function
calls into a respective user-defined function, and wraps the result in a Trusted
Type object. In this case,
templatePolicy.createHTML calls the provided templateId
validation function, and returns a
TrustedHTML with the
<link ...> snippet.
The browser allows
TrustedHTML to be used with an injection sink that expects
HTML - like
It might seem that the only improvement is in adding the following check:
if (/^[0-9a-z-]$/.test(tpl)) { /* allow the tplId */ }
Indeed, this line is necessary to fix XSS. However, the real change is more
profound. With Trusted Types enforcement, the only code that could introduce a
DOM XSS vulnerability is the code of the policies. No other code can produce a
value that the sink functions accept. As such, only the policies need to be
reviewed for security issues. In our example, it doesn't really matter where the
templateId value comes from, as the policy makes sure it's correctly validated
first - the output of this particular policy does not introduce XSS.
Limiting policies
Did you notice the
* value that we used in the
header? It indicates that the application can create arbitrary number of
policies, provided each of them has a unique name. If applications can freely
create a large number of policies, preventing DOM XSS in practice would be
However, we can further limit this by specifying a whitelist of policy names like so:
Content-Security-Policy: trusted-types template
This assures that only a single policy with a name
template can be created.
That policy is then easy to identify in a source code, and can be effectively
reviewed. With this, we can be certain that the application is free from DOM
XSS. Nice job!
In practice, modern web applications need only a small number of policies. The rule of thumb is to create a policy where the client-side code produces HTML or URLs - in script loaders, HTML templating libraries or HTML sanitizers. All the numerous dependencies that do not interact with the DOM, do not need the policies. Trusted Types assures that they can't be the cause of the XSS.
Get started
This is just a short overview of the API. We are working on providing more code examples, guides and documentation on how to migrate applications to Trusted Types. We feel this is the right moment for the web developer community to start experimenting with it.
To get this new behavior on your site, you need to be signed up for the "Trusted Types" Origin Trial (in Chrome 73 through 76). If you just want to try it out locally, starting from Chrome 73 the experiment can be enabled on the command line:
chrome --enable-blink-features=TrustedDOMTypes
chrome --enable-experimental-web-platform-features
Alternatively, visit
and enable the feature. All of those options enable the feature globally in
Chrome for the current session.
We have also created a polyfill that enables you to test Trusted Types in other browsers.
As always, let us know what you think. You can reach us on the trusted-types Google group or file issues on GitHub.


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The 'New York Times' Searches for the Perfect Burger
The New York Times' Oliver Schwaner-Albright weighs in on three burgers for under $25 in New York City, two that use beef from Pat La Frieda—Flip and City Burger—and one—Black Iron Burger—that used to but has now switched to "a less vaunted supplier." His findings are closely aligned with ours here at AHT.
He found City Burger at its best to be "bloody, juicy and rich. It was a porterhouse in a bun," he says, but notes that on a subsequent visit it was over cooked, mirroring the inconsistency that I noted in my City Burger review. He liked Black Iron Burger far more than I did but still found it "maddeningly inconsistent" and notes the burgers can be underseasoned. As for Flip, Schwaner-Albright finds it pricey, as did our own Robyn Lee, but is more concerned with the tyranny of choices. My advice? Keep it simple—the point of the article was at least partially that the "meat is the star." Why am I not surprised that "Japanese-beef blend on a cherry pepper and asiago bun with pesto and mozzarella" failed to impress?
One particular point of interest raised in the piece is an important distinction between the Black Label served at Minetta Tavern and what is now called the City Black Blend served at City burger. I placed a late night call to Pat La Frieda Jr. who confirmed that the Minetta Tavern blend uses rib-eye as the dry aged component as opposed to the New York strip used in the City Black.
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Context Team Member Loading Performance Enhancements
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New Objects, Actions, and Abilities in Windows Explorer for Windchill Desktop Integration
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Search Page Layout Enhancements
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Security Labels and Values Displayed on Object Information Pages and in Tables
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Microsoft Office Enhancements for PTC Windchill Desktop Integration
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PTC Windchill Business Reporting Powered by Cognos 10.1
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PTC Windchill Desktop Integration Client Application Enhancements
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Participant Status Improvements
PTC Windchill 10.2 provides increased visibility to participant status with the introduction of a new Status attribute and status icons.
Sharing Usability Improvements in Projects
PTC Windchill 10.2 provides the option to apply a filter to manage PDM objects shared to projects.
Support for SQL Server High Availability Clusters
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Type and Attribute Management Enhancements
PTC Windchill 10.2 offers multiple enhancements to the Type and Attribute Management functionality, including enhancements to attribute layouts, constraints, calculated attributes, and support for languages added after installation.
Windows Explorer Enhancements for PTC Windchill Desktop Integration
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Iowa State loses 108-96 in OT to No. 6 Kansas
Iowa State still has a decent shot at a second straight trip to the NCAA tournament.
But if the Cyclones wind up in the NIT instead, they will have only themselves to blame.
Kansas' Elijah Johnson scored a career-high 39 points - including eight in the final 29 seconds of regulation and 12 in overtime - and No. 6 Kansas rallied to beat Iowa State 108-96 on Monday night, Kansas coach Bill Self's 500th win.
Travis Releford added 19 points for the Jayhawks (24-4, 12-3 Big 12), who snapped Iowa State's 22-game home winning streak and kept pace with No. 13 Kansas State atop the Big 12.
Iowa State has lost three overtime Big 12 games - including two heartbreakers to Kansas. Throw in a last-second loss at Oklahoma State, and a Cyclones team that could have competed for the Big 12 title is now scrambling for its postseason life.
Iowa State wraps up at Oklahoma, against Oklahoma State at home and at West Virginia. None of those figure to be easy.
"Hopefully we have a lot of season left. We've got to bounce back with these last three and hopefully beyond that," Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said. "I love our guys. They're going to continue to fight back, and I'm very confident in them."
The Cyclones have had trouble defensively in the closing moments of key games.
They simply had no answer for Johnson down the stretch.
Johnson hit two 3s and made two free throws with 4.9 seconds left in regulation to tie the game at 90-all. He and Releford buried 3s to put Kansas ahead 100-92 with 2:03 left, and Johnson drilled a 30-footer with 54 seconds left that deflated a sellout crowd.
Korie Lucious scored 23 points and Tyrus McGee had 22 for the Cyclones (19-9, 9-6), who lost despite hitting a school-record 17 3-pointers.
"I thought we defended better late this game. It was a kid making a couple of great plays," Hoiberg said of Johnson.
After the game a handful of those in the student section hurled small plastic megaphones at the Jayhawks as they ran back to their locker room.
The anger seemed to be directed at Johnson's dunk with 2 seconds left and the game well in hand. Johnson opened the post-game news conference by apologizing to Hoiberg, saying he simply got caught up in the moment.
"I shouldn't have dunked that ball," Johnson said. "I should have dribbled that ball out."
For all the talk concerning Self's quest for win No. 500, this game seemed destined to hinge upon whether Iowa State, one of the nation's best offenses, could score enough on the stingy Jayhawks, the nation's leader in field goal percentage defense entering play.
As it turned out, both teams had little trouble making shots until overtime.
That's when the Cyclones lost their touch.
Freshman Georges Niang beat the shot clock with a 3, Iowa State's 17th of the game, to give the Cyclones an 87-82 lead with 44.5 seconds left. But Johnson answered, and the Jayhawks went 6 of 7 from the field in overtime while Iowa State went 1 of 9.
"We just couldn't get stops at the end of the game," Lucious said. "It's hard. We feel like we had the game won."
For Iowa State, this loss was painfully similar to the one in Lawrence on Jan. 9.
Ben McLemore banked in a late 3 to force overtime of a game the Cyclones had controlled throughout. The Jayhawks prevailed, and though the Cyclones bounced back they certainly didn't forget their lost night in Lawrence.
But with March just around the corner, Iowa State and the rest of the league is chasing the Jayhawks - again.
"We've played this team two times to overtime, a top 5 team in the country. It's unfortunate that we walk away with zero wins against them," Hoiberg said.
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Charger chord blues
Charger chord blues
Sounds like you may be getting surges or brownouts. Basically, the amount of power coming out the socket varies, in some places it varies a lot, and it may be causing your charger grief.
Not sure if there's much you can do about it, it that is the problem.
Yeah, likely it's just detecting too much variation in the supply voltage.
Hm. It's "cord", not "chord", btw.
Perhaps the AC is wobbly -- not exactly 60 Hz? Or getting spikes? They would be much more potent on a 220 circuit.
What else runs on that 220 circuit at work? Is it overloaded, or passing cross-surges/drops from other equipment switching on and off?
There likely are variances in the 110 circuit, but they aren't as noticeable because the range is lower (110 usually varies between 100v and 130v, where the 220 will wander from 175v to 275v)
Bart, I don't know anything about that issue, so this may or may not be helpful for you. If the air condition turns on at the same time when the fault light comes up and the car stops charging, all of this could be due to the same cause. Maybe the car detects a surge and decides it is unsafe to continue charging, as has been speculated above. Maybe the car is designed to turn on the A/C when it detects in surge, in addition to cutting power, possibly just to be sure that the batteries can get rid of excess heat that may already have built up due to the surge.
That's pure speculation. All I'm saying is that from a strictly logical perspective, assuming that an external surge triggers the car to stop charging does not imply that the A/C turning on at the same time is purely coincidence.
Just a guess, charging at high speed. Will produce heat, turning on ac will also produce heat, maybe the car is getting to hot and it deside to turn off ac and charging until safe tempreature is again pressent.
have you tried at night, when temp is low...
When the A/C turns on, the car suddenly draws more current. This often causes a momentary drop in voltage. (Ever seen your house lights dim when the house A/C starts up?) If the voltage was already near the low end of the range, it might drop enough to trigger a fault.
Wait, is this the cars A/C or another A/C unit on the same circuit?
I guess I was a bit unclear. I was just saying that even the car A/C would draw more power and possibly drop the voltage. I compared it to lights dimming when house A/C kicked in. Sorry for any confusion.
Oooh, if it has dropped the current to 12 amps, it thinks it is only seeing 110v. I think you need to get your wiring checked.
Maybe tesla could bring another model s to try fo charge .then you would have your answer in 5 minutes.
Just a thought
It might be that there is load one of your phases caused by something else in your home that in turn causes voltage drop so big that there is phase shift (and zero is no longer zero) that mobile connector gets confused and doesn't do pure 3-phase anymore. Then when A/C kicks in and tries to draw more power it loses sync completely, and just throws in a towel.
I'd actually suggest upping the amps. If there's enough coming in via the charger, then the surge from the AC activation wouldn't be enough to trip the alarm.
This is a guess though.
To complete the science experiment, try charging someone else's car with your UMC!
I'm seeing the exact same problem. Except it's on a Roadster 2.5 with a MC240 UMC (220v, 32A). The charger worked fine for the past year until last night, when the car won't charge for more than 15 minutes and the UMC started blinking 4 reds.
Errors shown on the car are exactly the same as yours. I have a meter that shows line voltage attached to the charging conduit and it shows 220V +/- 1.5V while charging. The conduit is dedicated for the Tesla and goes straight to the main line so there should be no interference. As with your case, charging with the spare charger (13A in my case) works, but slow (30'C here in HK).
I've contacted Tesla and will borrow a spare UMC on Monday for testing.
This is a bit frustrating, the charger is only 1 year old. As a car's key component, I had a higher expectation in terms of life expectancy and failure rate.
And I am seeing the identical problem. The UMC worked perfectly for months, then started failing every couple of days, and now it can only go about 15-20 minutes before failing. 120V adapter works perfectly every time. It's independent of whether I ask for 12 amps or 40 amps from the 50-amp 240 volt wall socket. There have been no electrical changes in my home, and Tesla could not reproduce the problem at their Fremont service center.
ChargePoint connectors are at least intelligent enough to wait a few seconds and then automatically try to restart. Since all it takes to get it going again is pulling the plug from the wall outlet and putting it back, the failures are obviously intermittent and spurious, not the sign that something's about to catch on fire.
My biggest worry is that Tesla will not let me swap connectors, leaving me only to ask the power company to see if they can reduce the occurrence of spikes on my power line... I doubt I'll get very far with that. The UMC needs to be more fault-tolerant and have automatic recovery.
As my cord was just under a year old (still under warranty), Tesla took care of it by replacing the UMC. Their service is great -- speedy and professional.
In my case, it appeared to be a bad contact between the UMC and its short adapter cord. In some instances, gently nudging the cable was enough to stop the charge (blinks 4 red on the UMC). In other cases, charging just stops by itself.
The ranger twisted the connector real hard and it charged normally for a while, but they didn't want to take the risk and just replaced the cable. The cable got really hot to the touch as well, especially at the adapter/umc connector.
It's not official from Tesla, but I suspect the contact points were degraded over time.
I had not see this problem until I brought our 2011 Roadster 2.5s back home from its first annual service. Since then, any time I drive the car more than 10 miles and then plug it in, it charges for a few minutes and then displays the same symptoms documented by Bart in his August 16, 2012 post. As noted by others, there is no apparent correlation with the voltage at house, or with the charging amperage, which are both monitored and logged. I tried connecting and reconnecting the short NEMA 14-50 adapter cable on the UMC, but that had no obvious effect. The UMC cable stays cool. The expanded "paddle" part of the cable with diodes and test and reset buttons gets a little warm, but not unusually hot.
Because these symptoms started just after I got the car back from the Tesla service center, I had wondered if this behavior could be due to a software update. I will be bringing the car back in within the next month, and had planned to ask that question. Given the discussion above, I will also bring in the UMC to test it there.
I just brought my Model S home a few days ago. Was charging fine on my NEMA 14-50. However, when I plugged it in today I got an error message "Cycle Wall Power" I tried plugging it in to a few 110 outlets in the garage but got the same error message so it is apparently not the outlet. Any thoughts? Thanks.


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Book Review: No One Would Listen (2010) by Harry Markopolos.
What would morally outrage you more: a person robbing a bank or a security guard (who was tipped off) slumbering through it?
As one flows from nefarious intent and the other from incompetence or inertia, one would typically argue for the bank robber.
But author Harry Markopolos is not typical. Just ask him. He seems to relish being "wildly eccentric". (p. 251.)
Perhaps reflecting this eccentricity, Markopolos' book reserves most of its moral outrage for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), instead of the man it failed to stop: Bernie Madoff, despite Markopolos' repeated warnings.
Nobody Would Listen chronicles Markopolos' somewhat quixotic campaign to stop Madoff's ponzi scheme, years before it collapsed in 2008 (through no effort of the SEC). Anyone believing in federal government regulation of financial markets will have his or her faith stripped to agnosticism or atheism after reading this sad and sobering tale. That's not to say that the book doesn't have its funny moments too--the breathtaking audacity of Madoff as well as the SEC can sometimes only be read as comedic.
Despite a healthy dollop of needless lawyer-bashing (e.g, "Most lawyers couldn't recognize a Ponzi scheme if they were having dinner with Charles Ponzi." [268]), the book is a fascinating instruction manual of how not to deal with a "whistleblower" if you are a government official tasked with supervising capital markets.
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Ariana Grande Explores Space + Kicks Alien Butt in Her New Video 'Break Free'
Ariana Grande is a kickass, alien-fighting space princess that shoots rockets from her tatas in her new video for 'Break Free' feat. Zedd — and that's just the beginning!
The 21-year-old pop star went for a literal interpretation of her song for her new vid, which kicks off with Ariana kicking ugly alien butt to break her fellow humans out of barred cages. She uses a few martial arts moves and a laser gun — and her breast rockets, let's not forget those — to take out her enemies.
Also, there's an evil overlord that attempts to sacrifice Ariana before she breaks free and escapes to her spaceship to throw a starry-skied rager that's DJed by Zedd. Yes, really!
Though 'Break Free' is pretty different from other videos we've seen from her, there are a few details that we've learned to expect from the 'Problem' singer. There's her high ponytail, of course; her now iconic white knee-high platform boots; and a few scenes of her lying on the floor with her hair fanned out behind her as she stares sultrily into the camera, except this time she's on a ship hurtling through space.
Overall, 'Break Free' is not a video to be missed. Check out Ariana's latest above!
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