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We completely fell head over heels in love with the UK after buying our first VW Transporter 7 years ago. Admittedly and a little shamefully, before we found #vanlife I thought I needed to be abroad with my life in a back pack for it to be a real adventure, how WRONG was I! I’m so grateful our little Vdub allowed us to start exploring our very own country that holds so many hidden gems.
Our preferred type of camping is mostly getting lost, driving down an unknown dirt track and ending up next to some wonderful lake or coastline.
That said, it can be a bit trickier in the UK so we’re always on the look out for secret little campsites that allow you to feel off grid. Since starting up our Instagram account it’s crazy and wonderful how many like minded souls we have found and, for that reason, we thought we would share with you a few real treasures we’ve found on our road trips in the UK. I’m sorry for it is a bit south-west heavy, that’s not because we don’t love other areas, it’s simply been the fact that living in this region has meant a lot of “jump in the van and go” trips have been within it, and of course, its got the best surfing anyone could want!
SOUTH PENQUITE FARM (Bodmin Moor)
High up on the moor one of the reviews refer to this place as “a little slice of life” and I couldn’t put it better myself – what a wonderful place to get back to nature. It’s a fully organic farm with lots of animals including geese, ponies and sheep. There are no pitch allocations so you are free to space out as you like, a wonderfully clean toilet block with fantastic showers all heated by solar and best of all campfires are allowed! You can find out more here
CERENETY ECO CAMPSITE (Bude)
Located close to Bude beach down a beautiful country lane, you will find Cerenaty, with the quaintest little entrance and set in several acres of fields there’s plenty of room to set up a camp, campfire and all. This place really does have the friendliest owners, you can even pick your own salad from their veg patch! It’s extremely eco friendly with solar powered showers and compost toilets and there’s a even a cute little caravan serving coffee and breakfast. You can find out more here
GWITHIAN FARM (Hayle)
Located right by my most favourite beach in the entire world this lovely little family campsite is set on the edge of the dunes with large pitches. Although this is more of a “campsite” there’s nothing not to love about the friendly vibe here. The luxury shower blocks are clean and warm and there’s a shower room for families too. There’s a pub right across the road called the Red River Inn and one further along too called the Rock Pool which we can definitely recommend. The area is outstandingly beautiful, it’s a 10 minute walk through the stunning dunes to a 3 mile stretch of beach with waves, rock pools and caves galore. A perfect place to watch the sun setting over Godrevy Lighthouse and St Ives Bay. This is my happy happy place and you can find out more here
HOLLANDS WOOD (New Forest)
You want wild camping in the forest then this is it! When you arrive at the park they will give you a map and tell you to park up where you like! We chose to go in between the trees close to a big opening in the forest where ponies roam freely. It was magical waking up in the morning and opening our doors to pure nature… (a little pony even came up to say hello). As with most places in the forest there are plenty of walks and bike routes near by and there’s also a river next to the camp where you can sun bathe on the banks after a river dip. The showers blocks are fantastic and there’s even a huge purpose built sink for bathing babies. You can find out more about it here
ESKDALE CAMPSITE (Lake District)
We pulled up at this campsite in the pouring rain; we were starving and it was pitch black. We grabbed a torch, a brolly and headed to a nearby pub called the Boot Inn, oh my word there was an open fire, the best pub food ever and delicious wine! We didn’t want to leave, but eventually we headed back to our little van and woke the next morning to glorious sunshine. Now we could really appreciate just how isolated and picturesque this place really was. After coffee we were ready to explore what was essentially on our doorstop… rivers, waterfalls, woods and crags there’s a reason this is part of the National Trust. You can find out more here
LLYN GWYNANT CAMPSITE (Snowden)
Rocking up at this campsite after dark was our first experience of North Wales and boy what a treat! Waking up in the morning was like Christmas, arriving as we did in the dark, we didn’t have a clue that we were surrounded by mountains. This place is a no frills campsite, perfectly located to explore Snowdonia and climb Snowden. It’s next to a huge lake, perfect for swimming and kayaking too. There are hot showers and you are also allowed to have campfires here which is always a winner for me. We went in October and pretty much had the place to ourselves. You can find out more here
TOLLGATE FARM (Perranporth)
This was another little place we found by accident after spending the whole day on Perranporth beach and falling in love with it. We found this little family run site on the edge of the dunes with the most amazing views of the sand dunes and coast. After pulling up and having a BBQ, all accompanied by herbs picked from their herb garden for guests. We walked through the dunes to watch the sunset and then down to the beach for a few drinks at the infamous thewateringhole.co.uk Ive never seen a bar actually right on the beach in the UK, its definitely one to check out! You can find out more here
TRILL FARM (Axminster)
A real GEM hidden down the most gorgeous (but very tiny) country lanes in Axminster. This ones for tent lovers only but don’t let that put you off as this is truly Devon’s best kept secret, I almost didn’t want to share!
Upon arrival you park your van/car in the allocated area and a tractor will arrive to take all your luggage up to the camp which is a short walk away, hidden from view. From the minute we arrived it just kept getting better and better. There is an outdoor building with a kitchen area and separate seating area where fairy lights hug the beams. In the middle there is a huge canopy with a fire pit and logs to sit on. The fire shed next to it is fully stoked so no need to bring your own wood either. Then you get to this tiny little opening that leads you onto a huge field with stunning views of the countryside which is where we set up camp. There are outdoor solar showers with a sink, all stocked with the farm’s homemade hand soap and shower gel; the toilets are separate and fully compostable. From the campground you can walk for miles through country and woodland and also wander on down to the farm which holds an array of food courses and farm lunches, you can book to make sure you get a place. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the sourdough bread! (you can pre order and they will have it delivered fresh on arrival for you). In fact you can pre-order just about anything made on the farm, bread, salad and or vegetable boxes as well as meats. We hired the camp between 15 of us for the weekend but you only need a minimum of 10 to hire it out. We didn’t leave the farm at all, just spent the whole weekend wandering the countryside, watching the kids run free, telling stories round the fire pit and enjoying clear starry night skies. You can find out more here
EWLEAZE FARM (Osmington, Dorset)
Only open for 4 weeks of the year during Summer, this is one not to miss out on. With outrageous views over Weymouth Bay this place is a real sanctuary for all tents and vans but also hires out bell tents too.
The site is huge, covering several large fields so plenty of room for kids to roam free, and you won’t need to leave with so much to do on site. There’s a gorgeous private beach, fossil hunting, Turkish Bath House, Shepherds hut, Sauna, hay bale play areas, farm animals (children are even allowed to pet them), kids crafts and dog walks with the farm collies to name but a few.
There is also a central area with lots of mini catering including a bakery, farm shop, pizza van, ice cream and coffee shop, a juice and crepe bar and there’s also a candlelit barn where you can dine too.
Theres so much I could say about this place but you can find out more here oh and you guessed it… campfires are allowed too!
I hope this helps with a little inspiration. Have you been to any of these sites? Do you have any gems you have found in the UK? We would love to find some more, so please do get in touch with your camping site favourites.
Here’s to hoping we will all be back on the road soon.

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Congress refused for over a decade to make the Estate and Gift Tax law changes. They only passed a last-minute 2 year extension in December. The Internal Revenue Code was last overhauled in 1986 in the Reagan era attempt toward simplification. Since then, more than 20,000 amendments and additions have been made. The result is a patchwork mess which is filled with “tricks” and “gottchas” making the Tax Code incomprehensible.
THe other issue is the high tax rates and the taxation of worldwide income. Most developed countries, including those in the European Union, only tax income earned in their own country. This worldwide taxation puts US companies and citizens at a big disadvantage. This hurts jobs and the economy. See WSJ article.

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“A spellbinding, heart-stopping adventure.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure.” —New York Times Book Review
In the stand-alone companion to the New York Times–bestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca whale must lead her brother on a tumultuous journey to be reunited with their pod. This gorgeously illustrated animal adventure novel explores family bonds, survival, global warming, and a changing seascape. Includes information about orcas and their habitats.
For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader she’s destined to be?
A Whale of the Wild weaves a heart-stopping tale of survival with impeccable research on a delicate ecosystem and threats to marine life. New York Times-bestselling author Rosanne Parry’s fluid writing and Lindsay Moore’s stunning artwork bring the Salish Sea and its inhabitants to vivid life. An excellent read-aloud and read-alone, this companion to A Wolf Called Wander will captivate fans of The One and Only Ivan and Pax.
Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout, a map, and extensive backmatter about orcas and their habitats.
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The Labour leader was spotted on Saturday at Hull City’s KC Stadium, where he was guest of owner Assem Allam, to see them draw 2-2 with Ipswich Town.
Mr Miliband, a fan of Hull City’s Yorkshire rivals Leeds United, took his seat in the chairman’s suite in time for the 3pm kick-off.
He had previously been due to address health professionals and union activists at a 12 noon rally in Hull against Government NHS reforms.
But his appearance at the rally was called off on Friday due to illness, leading to the whole event being cancelled.
Aides said Mr Miliband had not been sure if he would be well enough to travel to Yorkshire and did not want to disappoint people going to the rally. In the event he felt well enough to go to Hull – too late for the rally but in time for the match – a long-standing engagement with Labour-supporting multi-millionaire Mr Allam.
Ed Miliband joked it was the first time he had been accused of preferring football to politics.
“He would much rather have been at the rally. He was disappointed it couldn’t happen,” said one source.
Quizzed about the incident, Mr Miliband joked it was the first time he had been accused of preferring football to politics.
“I wasn’t well on Friday so we said I wasn’t going to be at the rally. The rally was then cancelled,” he said.

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Opioids crisis: Criminal charges against former Rochester drug company execs first in nation
A Rochester, New York-based pharmaceutical distribution company helped propel the deadly opioid epidemic by closing its eyes to pharmacy customers that wantonly and excessively pushed prescription painkillers, federal authorities say.
The federal criminal and civil investigations into the operations of Rochester Drug Cooperative Inc. on Tuesday led to the first criminal charges against "drug company executives for diversion of opioids," federal prosecutors said.
Rochester Drug Cooperative, or RDC, agreed to a $20 million settlement to partly resolve the accusations against it. RDC, now based in Gates, New York, just west of Rochester,also agreed to a strenuous monitoring program designed to ensure that it does not retreat into the lax oversight that has apparently plagued the company operations in recent years.
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The investigation, first reported on in August 2018, has been ongoing since 2017.
This is the second time in four years that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA,found significant problems with the RDC monitoring system. In 2015 RDC settled a civil lawsuit from the U.S. Attorney's Office by paying$360,000 in penalties, after admitting that it did not, as required, report "thousands of purchase orders from RDC" to DEA through an electronic reporting system.
“We made mistakes, and RDC understands that these mistakes, directed by former management, have serious consequences," RDC spokesman Jeff Eller said in a statement Tuesday.
Two former RDC officials –Laurence F. Doud III, who had served as chief executive, and William Pietruszewski, the former chief of compliance– were criminally charged as part of the investigation.
Pietruszewski has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with authorities.
The indictment against Doud alleges that, for at least five years, RDC distributed highly addictive substances to pharmacies and senior management, including Doud, knew those substances were being “sold and used illicitly.”
Though largely unknown locally, RDC has swelled into the sixth largest pharmaceutical distributor in the country. Founded in 1905, the company has a large distribution operation in New Jersey, closer to the New York City region that is home to many of RDC's pharmacy customers.
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Estimates of RDC annual revenue run between $1 billion and $2 billion. The company is a cooperative of pharmacies, meaning its members are its very customers– a relationship that some authorities maintain can be dangerously incestuous and encourage the negligent oversight.
RDC sells pharmaceuticals and other health-related products to about 1,300 pharmacies.
What the court documents say
According to court papers, RDC:
• Several of RDC's largest pharmacy customers exhibited patterns indicating that they were illegally diverting opioids— disproportionate cash purchases and high percentage of sales consisting of oxycodone and fentanyl, for example— but did not alert DEA, as required.
• Issues were occasionally raised by RDC compliance specialists— one who wrote of a "staggering" number of opioid purchases "which makes my stomach sick"— yet federal authorities were not notified.
• Routinely raised threshold number of opioid prescriptions for "high-volume" customers, in turn "maximizing its sales and revenues above complying with its own policies and DEA reporting requirements."
RDC "made the deliberate decision not to investigate, monitor, and report to the DEA pharmacy customers that it knew were diverting controlled substances for illegitimate
use," according to court papers.
"Because it knew that reporting these pharmacies would likely result in the DEA investigating and shutting down its customers, Rochester Drug Cooperative's senior management directed the company’s compliance department not to report them, and instead to continue supplying those customers with dangerous controlled substances that the company knew were being dispensed and used for illicit purposes," authorities said in court papers.
"Why did they do it? The answer is greed," said Berman.
The criminal charges against former CEO Doud and former compliance officer Pietruszewski could be a precedent-setting move with the prosecution of drug company executives. To date, state and federal authorities have sought civil actions to try to slow the opioid crisis.
Last month, for instance, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against major opioid manufacturers and distributors, including RDC.
Last year Doud, who had been ousted from the company, sued RDC. He claimed he was being scapegoated for the DEA investigation.
That suit is still pending in federal court in Rochester.
A popular industry publication shows that in 2016 pharmaceutical distributors were responsible for the handling of almost 96% of drugs on the market.
That same publication, from the Healthcare Distribution Alliance Research Foundation, says that U.S. pharmaceutical sales from distributors grew from $305 billion in 2013 to $408 billion in 2016— a 34% increase.
“Our country is in midst of a persecution drug abuse epidemic," said Berman Tuesday. "Our office will do everything in its power to bring to justice anyone responsible for unlawfully fueling this epidemic, and that includes executives who illegally distribute drugs from their boardrooms."
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This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Opioids crisis: Criminal charges against former Rochester drug company execs first in nation

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Many life insurance policies require a medical exam before you are approved for coverage, but there are some options if you prefer not to take a medical exam. Maybe you’re worried you won’t qualify. Maybe you don’t feel like taking the exam. Whatever your reason, you have options.
You may have heard that in order to qualify for life insurance you need to first take a medical exam. This isn’t always true. In fact, a variety of life insurance policies (e.g. term and whole life) that require no medical exam.1 Both term and whole life insurance policies are designed to provide coverage for the insured, but their death benefits may differ.
As mentioned, several different types of life insurance do not require medical exams, including guaranteed issue life insurance, simplified issue life insurance, instant-approval term life insurance using accelerated underwriting, and employer-paid group life insurance.2 To summarize the above mentioned policies in a few words:
Guaranteed issue life insurance policies
are typically small, whole life insurance policies marketed to older people and may have additional benefit waiting periods than other life insurance products
Simplified issue life insurance
policies don’t often require a medical exam but may ask several health related questions on the application – and approval isn’t guaranteed
Instant-approval term life insurance with accelerated underwriting
can be offered as both term and whole life, and often includes health questions where the insurer gathers third-party-data about the applicant and algorithms determine the coverage qualification and rates
Group life insurance
usually offered through work, does not typically require a medical exam or the completion of health questions to qualify, and rates are often set for the closed group rather than the individual
A financial advisor or a licensed insurance agent can help you determine your life insurance needs. You should consider your finances, your future plans and needs, and your health and other personal circumstances when considering what kind of life insurance you should look into, and whether a policy that does or does not require a medical exam is right for you.
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The top two teams in the CSHL met for the chance to claim the title of Hurster Cup champions. The Dubuque Thunderbirds took an early lead, just :52 seconds into the period when Michael Fazio found Ryan Bachman breaking to the net. Bachman made no mistake, burying the pass on a one-time shot.
Early in the second period, St. Louis would quickly tie the game. Sean Gammage would throw the puck to the net and Tony Giacin got the re-direct goal, scoring his first CSHL goal.
The tie would be short-lived as David Russ scored on the powerplay to give Dubuque the one goal lead for the second time in the game. He fired a shot past St. Louis goaltender Josh Hillegas, who was screened on the shot.
Just two minutes later, Chris Hutton would win an offensive zone face-off cleanly to Nick Saracino who beat Dubuque\’s goaltender Bradley Makowski over the glove to tie the game.
Early in the third period, Erik Boning would poke home the game winner during a scramble in front of the net, giving St. Louis a lead they would not give up. After a lengthy delay for an issue with the glass, Kyle Everett buried an insurance goal as a powerplay expired.
Both teams head to Boston for the Tier III Jr. A Nationals next weekend.


Volvo wants a larger share of the tracked excavator market and it reckons the new B series machines will help it achieve that goal. Geoff Ashcroft took a 29-tonne EC290B to Ennstone Breedon's Ling Hall quarry in Warwickshire to see how the machine performs and independent operator John Woodward gives his View from the Cab (below)
WHEN Volvo Construction Equipment first put its name to the Samsung excavator range, many in the industry accused the Scandinavian maker of simply carrying out a badging exercise.
But that was before the firm took its B series to the drawing board. Although the range is still built in Korea, it is all Volvo.
There are currently six models, ranging from the 14-tonne EC140B to the 46-tonne EC460B. All offer more power, greater productivity and improved operator comfort over the models they replace.
We tested the 29-tonne EC290B. It is a machine that should appeal to hirers, muck-shifters and small-scale quarry operators, so we start with a detailed look at its specification.
The EC290B is a whole new entity from the ground up. Its track frame and undercarriage have been beefed up to give a longer working life and it now carries Volvo branded components - an indication of added quality built in. Volvo says the undercarriage is 140 per cent stronger than that used on the A series.
Track options remain the same, with 600, 700, 800 and 900 mm triple grousers; though grease lubricated, sealed track pin and bushings are now used. A sloping top plate with cut-outs help to get rid of muck by dropping it off the top rollers.
Turning to the upper structure, the biggest change can be found in the cab. A totally new design, it offers more internal space, more glass area for improved visibility and includes an electronic ventilation system that puts the cab under a positive pressure for a cleaner working environment.
The cab comes with anti-vandal guard brackets and better use of shock-reducing mounts. Sound insulation has led to a further reduction of in-cab noise. Flat glass panes, says Volvo, will be cheaper to replace than the curved glass used on previous Volvo excavators. John Woodward, Construction News's independent machine operator, reports below in more detail on how the cab has evolved.
Volvo has replaced the former Cummins C series 8.3-litre engine with its own low-emission D7D EAE2 model in the EC290B. The new six-cylinder turbo motor is slightly smaller in capacity at 7 litres and it delivers 192 hp against the Cummins engine's 200 hp.
But Volvo reckons the addition of electronic management and the use of an engine developed specifically for the excavator means most operators will only notice a difference each time the fuel pump is activated.
With lower working speeds - maximum rpm is 1,900 revs - and electronic unit injectors with computer management, Volvo believes the EC290B should appeal to those who are looking to trim back on diesel fuel consumption.
At the digging end, little has changed. The machine comes with a 6.2 m, one-piece main boom and dipper options are 2.55 m, 3.05 m and 4 m.
The hydraulic system does offer more flow and uses two 250 litre/min variable displacement axial piston pumps. Complementing the system are a servocontrolled changeover for the hammer/shear circuit, which avoids having to swap valves manually - a requirement of the previous generation of excavator.
There's even dampening of the slew rebound and an optimised flow control system for the best performance in each of its working modes - all part of Volvo's Contronics system, which integrates electronic management with mechanical components to provide an advanced mode control system.
The system controls four hydraulic power modes with nine specific engine rpm settings, plus Power Max and a one-touch power boost function. The latter increases digging and lifting forces for a period of nine seconds.
Power Max sets the engine and hydraulic system output to 100 per cent. All other permutations offer a compromise between productivity and fuel economy.
In line with its upgrading of maintenance throughout its heavy machinery range, Volvo has paid particular attention to service requirements on the excavator. The engine oil only needs dropping every 500 hours, and lubrication intervals for the boom can also be extended to 500 hours if the customer is willing to pay for the optional long-life oil-impregnated bushings.
Around the rear of the machine, side-hinged panels now provide easier access to the engine and hydraulic system's radiators, air filter and hydraulic pumps, while up top, a large hinged engine cover makes daily checks a straightforward affair.
It looks like the EC290B provides a greatly improved package over the previous machine but, to see how the changes stack up in test conditions, we travelled to Ennstone Breedon's Ling Hall quarry in Warwickshire.
Volvo EC290B LC
Boom: 6.20 m one-piece boom
Dipper options: 2.55 m, 3.05 m, 4 m
Max bucket: 2 cu m
Engine: 250 hp Volvo D7D 6-cylinder turbo diesel
Track options: 600, 700, 800 and 900 mm triple grousers
Track drive: Two-speed hydrostatic 3.3 km/h, 5.2 km/h
Fuel tank capacity: 470 litres
Vision clearly set on top performance
VIEW FROM THE CAB: BY JOHN WOODWARD
LIKE the majority of modern excavators on the market, Volvo's EC290B LC is an attractively styled machine with useful features that make it comfortable to live with.
The recently revised cab is easy to access through a wide door. Once seated, it's easy to appreciate the generous legroom and it seems as though Volvo designers have made the best possible use of the interior space.
There's plenty of storage space for site clothing, along with pockets and compartments for the many things that operators seem to accumulate.
With large areas of flat glass and slimline cab pillars, all-round vision is excellent - in particular through the right-hand side window, which is now a one-piece affair from the front to the back of the cab.
The windscreen wiper's parallel action ensures the main front glass is wiped. The lower screen can be removed and stored in the lower half of the door - it's more convenient than trying to manoeuvre the glass to a safe area at the back of the cab.
Seat adjustment covers a vast range of movements and even the most rotund of operator should be able to get comfortable. The seat also moves independently of the armrests and control levers.
When operating in dusty or cold conditions, and the front screen is kept firmly closed, the cab takes on a pressurised character. And with 13 ventilation outlets and climate control, there's plenty of cooling, heating and demisting capacity without fear of the working environment making its way into the cab.
From an operator's perspective, I found the EC290B a pleasure to operate. It is quiet and controllable, although I would have been happier with a little less movement on the control levers.
All-round performance was more than adequate in the H (heavy-duty) mode, and this improved further when P (Power Max) mode was selected.
Although P mode only raises engine speed by a modest 100 rpm, the electronic management alters engine and pump characteristics to provide a noticeable improvement in performance.
Unfortunately, we were unable to accurately quantify this improvement in our productivity testing because on-site weighing facilities were limited. This aside, the excavator coped easily with the tasks we set and only broke into a sweat on the final trenching exercise in P mode, in extremely wet, heavy going.
But on lighter duties and backfilling tasks the machine felt slow and on more than one occasion I seemed to be waiting for the dipper and bucket to complete the cycle.
Service access through large inspection doors at ground level is excellent and the whole component layout is tidy - sealed wiring and electronic controls will no doubt be appreciated.
Standard bushings offered on UKsupplied machines require greasing at 50-hour intervals and bucket pivot pins, every 10 hours.
All grease points are easy to reach and an automatic, central lubrication system is optional. But on a machine of this size and quality and with so much additional gadgetry fitted as standard, I would have expected not to have to pay extra for central lubrication.
In a touch of commonsense design, the refuelling pump has been located away from the tool box to avoid an unpleasant, oily mess penetrating the operator's tool box. Its pumping capacity is a generous 50 litres/min and it includes a clever auto shut-off device that avoids spillage when the tank is full.
Electronic monitoring and management records machine performance in perpetuity for the benefit of the user, service engineer and dealer.
In addition to simplifying fault diagnosis, it can record hours worked with a breaker, hours run at tickover, hot shut-downs and any system malfunctions. All can be downloaded and analysed on Volvo's Matris PCbased service and diagnostic system.
Given the design and quality of this excavator, it should last a lifetime, but since Volvo says 98 per cent of the EC290B is recyclable, even that is no longer a problem.
AT ENNSTONE Breedon's Ling Hall quarry near Rugby, Warwickshire, we tested the EC290B LC on a variety of excavating tasks, including trenching and truck loading from a bench. Our test machine, a standard 29-tonner, was equipped with a 3.05 m dipper arm and a 2 cu m bucket - the latter measuring 1.67 m in width.
All measuring and recording equipment was supplied and supervised by Construction News, with Volvo providing fuel consumption recording equipment and an ADT, while the quarry supplied a wheeled loader with weighing equipment for spot checking of bucket capacities.
Construction News would like to thank quarry manager Harry Pendleton and Volvo Construction Equipment's Mark Gunns, Bob Simms and their colleagues for all their help during this test.
Test method: The EC290B was used to load an A30D hauler with a clay/soil mix of overburden. It was established that five passes would provide a full load and four truck loads would provide a consistent productivity assessment and fuel consumption figure.
But because the A30D wouldn't fit on the quarry's weighbridge, bucket payloads were spot checked using a wheeled loader. Material density was estimated at 1,602 kg per loose cu m. This loading test was run twice over: first in H (heavy duty) mode, then in P (Power Max) mode.
SPOT WORK RATE: H mode
ADT loading times: 1 min 16 sec, 1 min 26 sec, 1 min 21 sec, 1 min 33 sec
Time taken to fill four ADTs: 5 min 36 sec
Total weight excavated: 71,660 kg
Fuel used: 2.44 litres
Total number of cycles: 20 Loose cu m loaded: 44.22 cu m
HOURLY RATE: H mode Output potential - loose cu m: 473.60 cu m
Output potential - weight excavated: 767.48 tonnes
Fuel used: 26.13 litres
Amount excavated per litre of fuel used: 29.37 tonnes
SPOT WORK RATE: P mode
ADT loading times: 1 min 17 sec, 1 min 20 sec, 1 min 20 sec, 1 min 29 sec
Time taken to fill four ADTs: 5 min 26 sec
Total weight excavated: 71,660 kg
Fuel used: 2.94 litres
Total number of cycles: 20 Loose cu m loaded: 44.22 cu m
HOURLY RATE: P mode
Output potential - loose cu m: 488.18 cu m
Output potential - weight excavated: 791.13 tonnes
Fuel used: 32.46 litres
Amount excavated per litre of fuel used: 24.37 tonnes
Trenching Test method: The sand/gravel ground conditions meant we could comfortably continue operating with the 2 cu m, 1.67 mwide bucket. So we set the EC290 to excavate a 2.5 m-deep trench to the width of the bucket. The test was carried out over a 15minute period with the machine first operating in H mode and all soil was discharged alongside the trench. The test was then repeated, but in P mode, to establish what gains could be made by working at maximum settings. The soil density was estimated at 2,225 kg/bank cu m, 2,017 kg/loose cu m, and the swell factor was 10 per cent.
SPOT WORK RATE: H mode Trench length: 26.2 m Volume of material excavated: 111.35 bank cu m, 122.49 loose cu m Weight of material excavated: 247.06 tonnes Fuel used: 7.31 litres HOURLY RATE: H mode Output potential - distance trenched: 104.80 m Output potential - volume excavated: 445.40 bank cu m, 489.96 loose cu m Output potential - weight excavated:
991.02 tonnes Fuel used: 29.24 litres Amount excavated per litre of fuel used:
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NAGPUR: Statistical highlights on day two of the third cricket Test between India and South Africa here today. # Imran Tahir (5/38) has produced... ...http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/south-africa-in-india/top-stories/Statistical-Highlist-India-vs-South-Africa-3rd-Test-Day-2/articleshow/49939098.cms
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READING MY POETRY IN TOKYO.
READING MY POETRY IN TOKYO
( MY POEMS TRANSLATED INTO JAPANESE)
I was in Tokyo from 30 Jun to 6 July 2014 for a Poetry Session held in conjunction with TOKYO INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR, It was held at Tokyo Big Sight, a huge convention and exhibition centre in Tokyo City. The poems read are from my book FAcing The Harbour translated into Japanes language . It was a happy and memorable event.
Arriving at Narita Airport
Poetry Reading at Malaysian Pavilion

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Volts to kilowatts calculator
Convert voltage in volts (V) to power in kilowatts (kW). Ideal for understanding the power consumption or generation in electrical systems. Obtain an estimation of kilowatts from volts using this practical online tool.
What is Volts to kilowatts calculator
To convert volts (V) to kilowatts (kW), you need to know the current (I) flowing through the circuit as well as the power factor (PF) of the load. The formula for converting volts to kilowatts is:
kW = (Volts (V) x Current (I) x Power Factor (PF)) / 1000
Multiply the voltage, current, and power factor together, and then divide by 1000 to obtain the power in kilowatts.
For example, if you have a circuit with a voltage of 240 volts (V), a current of 10 amps (A), and a power factor of 0.9, you can calculate the power in kilowatts as follows:
kW = (240 V x 10 A x 0.9) / 1000 kW = 2.16 kW
In this example, the power consumption in the circuit would be approximately 2.16 kilowatts.
It's important to note that the power factor represents the efficiency or quality of power utilization in the electrical system. If the power factor is not provided, you can assume a default value of 1 (unity power factor) for resistive loads where voltage and current are in phase. However, for loads with reactive components such as inductive or capacitive elements, the power factor may be lower than 1, and additional considerations may be required to accurately determine the power in kilowatts.
DC volts to kilowatts calculation formula
The power P in kilowatts (kW) is equal to the voltage V in volts (V), times the current I in amps (A) divided by 1000:
P(kW) = V(V) × I(A) / 1000
AC single phase volts to kilowatts calculation formula
The power P in kilowatts (kW) is equal to the power factor PF times the current I in amps (A), times the voltage V in volts (V) divided by 1000:
P(kW) = PF × I(A) × V(V) / 1000
AC three phase volts to kilowatts calculation formula
The power P in kilowatts (kW) is equal to square root of 3 times the power factor PF times the current I in amps (A), times the line to line RMS voltage VL-L in volts (V) divided by 1000:
P(kW) = √3 × PF × I(A) × VL-L(V) / 1000
≈ 1.732 × PF × I(A) × VL-L(V) / 1000
Volts to kilowatts calculator Example
|Voltage (V)||Resistance (R)||Current (I)||Power (kW)|
To convert watts (W) to kilowatts (kW), you divide the power value by 1000, since there are 1000 watts in a kilowatt.
For example, if you have a power rating of 36W, to convert it to kilowatts, you would calculate:
Power (kW) = 36W / 1000 Power (kW) = 0.036 kW
So, for the given power rating of 36W, the equivalent power is 0.036 kW.
This table provides examples of different voltage, current, and power combinations in kilowatts. You can use the same conversion method mentioned above to convert other power values from watts to kilowatts using the table as a reference.


SOCK! POW! ZOK! There’s never been a television show like the 1966 Batman. We delve into the history of this fabulously entertaining series and also revisit the unique and magical children’s TV series Catweazle. Many of our readers will also have happy memories of Lion comic, and willl be roaring with delight when they read our feature on this! Other fab features include an interview with actress Judy Matheson, a look at the world of Karel Zeman and space hijinks with Starfleet, Japan’s answer to Thunderbirds!


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Coral Gables Hospital recently recognized more than 80 hospital staff members who have been working at the hospital for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years. Each of these employees was recognized by hospital administration during an award ceremony for their dedication to serving the community and always putting the patients’ needs first.
Special recognition was given to Dolores (Dee) Tatar, who celebrates 41 years with Coral Gables Hospital this year. Tatar, a registered nurse, has spent the past 41 years of her career caring for post-surgical patients in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit.
“Dee has consistently provided quality care to her patients throughout the years,” said Jeffrey Welch, Coral Gables Hospital CEO. “We are honored to have her and so many other long-term employees such as Geraldine Jackson who has been with the hospital for 35 years, as part of the Coral Gables Hospital family.”
Coral Gables Hospital is a 245-bed acute care hospital located at 3100 Douglas Road in the heart of historic Coral Gables, Florida.
To learn more about Coral Gables Hospital, visit <www.coralgables hospital.com>.


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Out-Law News | 03 Feb 2010 | 5:47 pm | 3 min. read
Trade body the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has said it will create an icon that would alert UK web users every time their web surfing is used to decide what adverts they see. Current IAB guidelines say that giving notice of behavioural tracking is optional.
Web users are rarely aware that they are being tracked, though, and 84% of them (27-page PDF) recently said that they objected to the activity.
Consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched an investigation last October into whether or not behavioural advertising breaches consumer protection laws, and a group of MPs and Lords has called for the law to change to make it illegal to engage in behavioural advertising without web users' consent.
A group of trade bodies in the US has launched a graphic that will indicate that behavioural targeting has taken place and that the advertiser adheres to a set of industry-set self-regulatory rules. That group of bodies includes the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the Council for Better Business Bureaus (BBB), and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
The IAB in the UK said that it is also working on a similar scheme. IAB UK's head of regulatory affairs Nick Stringer said that it would not be a part of the current US plan but is working on rolling out a global icon.
"The IAB welcomes the [US] icon as a way of offering internet users greater transparency and choice over data collection and use in providing more relevant advertising," he said. "We are working towards a global icon and believe this is in the best interests of internet users."
"The icon is currently a US initiative for the US market. The IAB will be working with our US members and with European colleagues to move towards a consistent icon for the UK and EU market," he said.
Current IAB policy is that the labelling of ads should be optional. Its guidance on behavioural advertising says that "[organisations] may provide a link alongside advertisements served to contracted partners or on their own site to information about the collection and use of data to provide OBA [online behavioural advertising] and how to decline OBA".
The US scheme is based on research conducted by Washington privacy think tank the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) which found that certain phrases were effective in attracting users' attention to behavioual ad notices.
"The two phrases that performed significantly better than others in the 2600 internet user panel were, 'Why did I get this ad?' and 'Interest based ads'. 'AdChoice', a phrase which is currently being used by eBay in its notice program, was a favourite of earlier focus group participants, particularly with less experienced internet users," said a blog posting about its results from the FPF. "Overall the notices research showed which phrases and icons were more effective than others, but it also indicated that an educational effort will be necessary to fully ensure that users comprehend behavioral advertising practices."
The announcement of the scheme said that those words would be associated with the graphic.
"Participating companies will use this wording and link/icon when engaged in online behavioural advertising to indicate their adherence to the [self-regulatory] principles and as the link that provides consumers with easily accessible disclosures about data collection and use practices associated with online behavioural advertising," it said.
Editor's note 04/02/2010: Nick Stringer has been in touch to say that we misinterpreted his comments, which we received by email. We understood that the IAB would be developing something different in the UK and across the EU. This is not the case, he says. "We think this would be counterproductive," writes Nick. "As I say, we’ll be working with US members (who have been involved in developing the icon in the US) and with EU colleagues to rollout a consistent and global icon." We apologise for the misinterpretation.


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Chicken whole (70%) (muscle meat, bones, offal), vegetables (20%) (lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, parsley, ginger, spinach, sweet potato, endive), fruits (5%) (apple, peach, blueberry, cranberry), yoghurt, egg, salmon oil, kefir, mountain tea, coconut.

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Heritage trees being sought
Campbell’s Historic Preservation Board is looking for heritage trees. Heritage trees are unique, important to the community, an outstanding specimen, and have age or girth. These trees embody cultural and educational, economic or agricultural, social or indigenous traits or have historic value to the city.
If you have a tree that represents any of these characteristics, contact Steve Prosser, associate planner for the city, at 408.866.2142.
City streets to see repairs
Campbell’s public works department has hired VSS International Inc from West Sacramento to provide preventative pavement measures to 67 residential and collector streets in the city. These measures include asphalt concrete overlay, rubber cape seal and slurry seal. The work began June 24 and will be completed in early September.
The project also will repair uplifted/sunken/broken concrete curb and gutters on streets to be overlaid. It will install accessibility ramps on streets to be overlaid. Severe pavement failure areas are to be repaired on streets that are to be cape sealed and/or overlaid.
Cracks will be cleared of debris and vegetation and filled/sealed with a crack sealant on slurry sealed streets. Utility paraphernalia will be adjusted to finish grades on all streets, which will also be restriped with permanent striping, pavement markings and markers.


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"On the street, one with an accordion and people nearby" - Igor Rasteryaev in your birthday
On August 10, his birthday, on the roof of the roof of the Place Igor Rasteryaev gave an interview Mesika.
Was widely discussed questions of differentiation of the lyrical hero and the author of emotion and aggression to the songs, and most importantly, about the traditions of celebrating a birthday.
Interview by: Anton Prokofiev
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In conversation with Dale Lawrence
South African artist, Dale Lawrence, has returned to SMITH with ‘Another Helping’ – a critical investigation into the numerous, and perhaps humorous, complexities of producing art.
Drawing on the notion that artists face a pressure to produce identical work to prior exhibitions, yet concede to a set of ideas and a preferred means by which to communicate them, they find themselves bound to create a body of work quite similar to that of their previous work – producing, in other words, another helping.
ART AFRICA spoke to Dale Lawrence about ‘Another Helping’, the comparison of food to art, and the influences he’s had along the way.
Dale Lawrence, Garnish for the Salad, 2017. Monotype on paper, 100 x 50cm. Courtesy of SMITH Studios.
ART AFRICA: In an interview with Matthew Freemantle, you claimed that a notable similarity between food and art is their ability to communicate – yet food is arguably far better at communicating as a cultural and social tool than art. How did you come to the comparison with food for your exhibition, ‘Another Helping’, currently up at SMITH Gallery, and why was it important for you to explore it?
Dale Lawrence: I think people often think of the consumer culture as referring to the consumption of objects and experiences, but it’s possible that it more accurately relates to the consumption of ideas and messages via object and experiences. This is where one can see the similarity between art and food.
Any meal contains within it the obvious nutritional value, but equally importantly it has sensory (taste/aesthetic) value, and abstract values (care, skill, effort, novelty, ethics, etc.). The meal is a vessel for communication just as art is, only art is mystified to the point where most people claim not to have the tools to understand it at all. When faced with a plate of food, one is likely to ask oneself ‘what am I eating? What are the ingredients?’. People should have the same approach to viewing art, or buying shoes or watching a movie, for that matter.
Equally important is the comparison in the other direction—to think of everyday things, like food, as similar to art. Anything can be engaged in and understood as communication. Everything has, written into its fabric, messages of its makers’ intentions and beliefs. From the most obvious—religious or tribal clothing—to the most subtle—like ‘functional’ design objects that claim to have no message at all. If you are aware of what makes up the meal in front of you, you’re in a better position to decide if you want to eat it.
‘Another Helping’ comes after your critically acclaimed solo show ‘Look Busy’, where you have reworked previous ideas, methods and completed unfinished works in attempt at better understanding the ‘shifting moment of novelty’. Can you tell us exactly what you mean by the ‘shifting moment of novelty’?
If I have a new idea or develop a new technique, there’s a moment where the aspect that is new is truly new. That moment can be captured or realised in an artwork (or any object or experience). But what was truly new in the last work I made won’t be new the next time I do it. It may still be valid and worth making, but it cannot be ‘new’ in the same way. It is in a sense a reproduction of the original moment.
Looking at the example of Jackson Pollock’s discovery/invention of drip painting in 1946, when he made that very first painting it was something truly novel. After that, from one perspective, he went on to explore all the possible outcomes of this new form of art. From another perspective, he reenacted that one moment for the rest of his career.
What I wanted to do with the work in this exhibition is reposition those aspects of an artwork that are responsible for its perceived value—like novelty in this example—with the hope of making the ‘ingredients’ of the work more visible, hence making new artworks by cannibalising/recycling old ones.
Playing with the two driving contradictory mechanisms within the art industry – artists are expected to be both experimental, because new things create new ideas, and do more of the same, because it needs to be sustainable economically – you have created a new body of work from old linocuts and defaced plates. Do you think this issue is exclusive to the South African art scene, considering the poor support for the arts from government, or would you say it’s a symptom of the art world, globally?
I think it is an acute example of a global phenomenon that is not limited to art. There is a tension between the two forces that drive the production of anything—that of satisfying needs (the ostensible ‘purpose’), and that of generating income. The one force strives toward deep and meaningful engagement, the other ruthlessly champions efficiency.
Organised funding can work to alleviate financial pressure in the short term, but ultimately commerce is the most stable system of distribution in the world today in all industries, so figuring out how to balance these two opposing elements would be the most beneficial in the long run.
Ideally, what becomes the consistent ‘product’ is honest insight and new forms of expression that suit the times (i.e. real contemporary art), so that becomes what people expect. John Berger describes another form of art, which he terms ‘cynical’ art, where the pressure to make a sale or complete a commission is greater than the internal impetus to make the work. If an audience can tell the difference between these two, artists and galleries are rewarded for keeping art relevant and meaningful to the people whose lives it is intended to reflect. If the audience can’t, then both the valid and the invalid are rewarded indiscriminately, which only serves to further confuse the issue.
Dale Lawrence, Acquisition, 2017. Acrylic on paper, 120 x 80cm. Courtesy of SMITH Studios.
“The fact that work is in a gallery to start with elevates its status from everyday object to significant object. By placing the work on the walls in a gallery you’re suggesting that this work has something to say or that it is worth being contemplated. The more space it is given the more it is loaded with that – therefore the more intimidating but also the more attention it demands. So, the idea of breaking the gallery up was both to create a quietening by having fewer artworks visible at a time. You address what’s in front of you – it’s not a buffet.” – Whilst ‘Another Helping’ critically considers the gallery space, and still makes use of it, would you not suggest that it is better to do away with the gallery space completely? How would you suggest we ‘demote’ the status of art to better match the consumption and inclusivity of food?
The focused nature of a gallery (its sole purpose at any given time being the presentation of the work it is currently showing) means that it is an incredibly powerful and moving environment when used well. Keeping with the food analogy, suggesting we should do away with galleries entirely might be comparable to getting rid of restaurants. Perhaps the answer is that galleries shouldn’t be the only place to ‘fill up’.
There’s a social aspect to food that’s often missing in art. One can share a meal with friends and enjoy it in a casual and candid manner. Art should be approached in the same way. It speaks to you or it doesn’t. You like the taste or you don’t.
I think if we can recognise art as a form of communication on par with food and clothing and advertising and TV, then people will know how to engage it, thereby increasing the scope and relevance of formalised (or ‘fine’) art in people’s lives.
Dale Lawrence, Waste Management, 2017. Linocut on paper, monotype on paper, 76 x 56 x 6cm. Courtesy of SMITH Studios.
You mention Jackson Pollock’s discovery/invention of drip painting in 1946, and John Berger’s notion of ‘cynical’ art, where the pressure to make a sale or complete a commission became greater than the internal impetus to make work. Would you say that these two pioneers in the art world have had a great impact on your work, and who else do you look to for inspiration?
I think they have, along with countless others. It would be difficult to acknowledge everyone’s influence. That said, here are a few that come to mind:
John Ruskin’s preference of the amateur over the professional (he suggests that amateurs are more likely to make great discoveries because training is, by definition, conservative).
Jean Baudrillard’s observation that humans use objects largely in symbolic or communicative ways, over their obvious practical functions.
John Berger’s suggestion that advertising is the truest art form today, relating it to the roles played in society by premodern art forms.
Jared Ginsburg’s theory that people are like Lurpak cows—you have to be in a good space to produce something good.
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup series.
Ghanaian Asafo flags.
Carl Andre’s poems.
Leonard Cohen’s honesty.
Bob Dylan’s lies.
John Muafangejo’s linocuts.
Laurie Anderson’s Big Science.
Bob Thompson’s paintings.
Yoko Ono’s instructions.
David Shrigley’s drawings.
Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
Dale Lawrence, After Ghirlandaio, upon a Flash of Inspiration, 2017. Oil on canvas, 60 x 40cm. Courtesy of SMITH Studio.


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Jurgen Klopp reacts as Liverpool confirm THREE players out of Newcastle United match with suspected COVID-19
Liverpool confirmed three suspected COVID-19 cases ahead of Thursday night’s Premier League match against Newcastle United.
Fabinho, Curtis Jones and Virgil van Dijk all missed the match after registering ‘suspected positive tests’ for coronavirus.
The news came just after it was confirmed that five Premier League matches have been postponed this weekend due to the virus as it stands.
A Liverpool club statement read: “Fabinho, Curtis Jones and Virgil van Dijk will miss tonight's Premier League fixture against Newcastle United after registering suspected positive tests for COVID-19.
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"The three players are now isolating. As a result, the entire Reds’ set-up, including all players and staff, were tested for COVID-19 again today with no further positive cases being detected.”
Despite the absentees, Liverpool were still able to name a strong starting line-up: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Konate, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Thiago, Henderson, Mane, Salah, Jota.
Following the news, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told BT Sport: “[We found out] this morning and yes, of course it's a blow, it's clear, but this is the situation we’re in.
"Getting the jab doesn't make sure that people don't get [COVID-19], it just helps you through the time with no symptoms or lesser symptoms or whatever, that's why it's important.
“But of course, we're not all very happy when we got the news but that's the time for all of us and we had to react to it.”
When asked if there was a chance to postpone the match, Klopp added: “I think at one point we have to make clear what exactly the rules are but of course even with three players out of the squad we wouldn’t have asked not to play a football game.
“It's just you don't know anything about any other club. Newcastle had no idea we had cases, I think, and we have no idea if they have any cases.
“I think all this kind information we could have and we don’t have to name the players or anything like that.
"Getting that information I think that would help but for us in the moment, of course, we didn’t think about that.”

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- Report: De Rossi, Roma nearing renewal
- Ag. Emerson: “He can still grow. He has reached only 75% of his potential.”
- Ag. Manolas: “He’s a Roma player.”
- Pallotta, Spalletti dine together
- Pres. Sevilla: “We will see what will happen with Monchi.”
- Roma, Atletico Madrid tracking Muriel
- Roma eyeing summer move for Darmian
Pallotta holding several meetings today
- Updated: March 20, 2017
After winning against Sassuolo, Roma number one James Pallotta is now turning his attention to matters off of the field. The American-Italian, who is in Rome for the week, is holding meetings today with the Giallorossi directors at Studio Tonucci. This morning, Pallotta met with sporting director Ricky Massara and Mauro Baldissoni. Afterwards, Pallotta met with Raptor CEO Robert Needham and Kaitlyn Colligan, the director of global business development.
It was initially thought Pallotta would meet with Spalletti but the manager returned to Florence today as the team had a day off.


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Coastal Dullegil of Homi Peninsula, coastal walking trail
It is the trekking road stretching 58km along the coastal line toward the east and includes Yeongil Bay in the tail area of the Korean peninsula which is compared to the image of a tiger. Visitors can find fantastically shaped cliffs including Haseondae which is the place in a myth where angels visited to play, the aster habitat, and the sound of the waves while walking along the coast offering beautiful sunrise and sunset.
Address700m section between Seonbau in Ipam-ri and Masan-ri Open
It is a forest trail that crosses Wonhyo Bridge, the suspension bridge, and continues to the left, and the whole course of Oeoji Dullegil stretching 7km can be easily enjoyed by anyone from senior citizens, women, and challenged people with the waterfront landscape.
AddressWhole area of Oeoji, Hangsa-ri, Ocheon-eup, Nam-gu, Pohang
Jigok Yeongildae & Cheongsongdae Forest Trail
It is a trail filled with cherry blossom and crape myrtle stretching 1.6km developed by POSCO, and flowers bloom from spring to fall to create a fantastic flowery trail. It is also a healing road where 20 or more wild flowers blooming along the deck road including pink, pungjicho, and bellflower and 40 or more richly grown trees including the cypress.
AddressHaengbok-gil 75-beongil, Nam-gu, Pohang-si
Inland harbor, Dong Bin Inner Harbor, which is hard to find in the whole country! This place, where the Hyeongsan River and Yeongilman Sea used to meet, which flowed through five islands including Songdo, Jukdo, and Haedo, is a harbor proud of the Pohang people since ancient times. In the 1970s, it was transformed into a residential area after the landfill due to the urbanization process. However, it was reborn as a waterway of life through the Pohang Canal in 2013, and there are various leisure facilities such as waterfront park, Business Hotels, Theme parks etc, will be constructed into a remarkable Pohang Tourism Infastructures. We are currently operating a cruise along the Pohang Canal, so you can enjoy the beautiful view of Pohang.
Address1040 Danji (Songdo-dong), Huimang Road, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongbuk, Korea
TimeApproximately one hour (Pohang canal) It takes about 40 minutes for the Yeonorangho and Se-onyuhho, and about 30 minutes for the River Cruise (Pohang Cruise)
The 12.8km-long Hyeongsan River Sangsang-ro, along with the Hyeongsan River, is expected to become a place of communication, healing and meeting among the two residents of Pohang and Gyeongju as it has many cultural heritage such as the world heritage Yangdong Village and etc with the spectacular view of the nature.
AddressYugang-ri, Yeonil-eup, Pohang-si ~ Yugeum-ri, Gangdong-myeon, Gyeongju-si (Youngildae Beach - Pohang Canal- Hyeongsan River - Can ride to Yangdong Village(7.8km), Cannot ride inside the village)
Railway site city forest
From Pohang Station to Hyoja Station, trails, bicycle roads and forest plazas will be created to create a relaxing and leisure space for Pohang citizens as the 'oxygen supply plant'.


If you were a Toronto Maple Leafs’ fan, it was the kind of game you could hope for but not one you might have expected.
The stars seemed to align for a difficult night on the ice. Your leading scorer was out with a wrist injury. Your starting goalie was injured and replaced with a backup goalie who hadn’t played in more than a month.
But sometimes the stars are hard to read correctly. The best happened, and not the worst. The Maple Leafs responded with one of their best games of the season – perhaps one of their best defensive games in a long time.
It was, from the Maple Leafs’ perspective, joyful. From the Oilers’ perspective, it had to be frustrating.
In this edition of Maple Leafs’ News & Rumors, I’ll look at the events of the game and comment about who played well and what that might mean as the team moves forward.
Item One: Jack Campbell Tosses Shutout at the Oilers
The Oilers came at Jack Campbell early, but unsuccessfully. He stopped everything, turning away all 30 shots he faced during Saturday’s 4-0 road victory. Campbell simply stoned Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Tyson Barrie and company in his return from an injury.
It was Campbell’s first game since Jan. 24 because of his leg injury and he seemed to do every part of his job well – he saw the puck well; he stopped it when it came his way; he didn’t allow rebounds; and he simply played with the kind of confidence that had to reassure his Maple Leafs’ teammates.
The whole team seemed to respond to Campbell’s play. As a result, it’s probably correct to say that this was Campbell’s first shutout as a Maple Leafs’ goalie and the third shutout of his NHL career. However, it might be more correct to say that it was the team’s first shutout in front of Campbell.
Interestingly, when you think of it, Campbell hasn’t yet played 10 games with the team – he has nine. But he’s certainly impressed this season. He’s perfect, with a 3-0 record, a goals-against-average of 1.33 and a save percentage of .951. That’s good in anyone’s book.
Campbell was on top of his game last night, and that’s impressive considering that he was coming back from a leg injury and being on the long-term injured reserve list. Although I have a sense that Frederik Andersen, who’s traveling with the team, might be close to a return, the backup tandem of Campbell and Michael Hutchinson has done its job in relief.
There haven’t been many games this season when I thought the goalie play was what lost the game for the Maple Leafs.
Item Two: John Tavares Plays Strong Game with Mitch Marner
With Auston Matthews out day-to-day with his wrist injury, John Tavares moved to the top line and was reunited with his former line-mate Mitch Marner. That line worked. Tavares and Marner have always played well together and that play picked up right where it left off.
However, this season the Maple Leafs split the two and made Marner and Matthews the featured offensive pairing. That match has also worked amazingly well, which one can see by looking at the NHL scoring leader board where Marner is third with 32 points and Matthews is tied for fourth with Patrick Kane with 31.
Might we have a dilemma brewing with the Maple Leafs’ lineup? Is Marner, as the New York Yankees’ Reggie Jackson was quoted as saying back in the day (1977 to be exact), the “straw that stirs the drink?” (from “Reggie Jackson tries to set record straight on Thurman Munson quote,” Dan Loumena, The Los Angeles Times, 05/10/13).
Teammate Matthews is having a stellar season with Marner on his wing, and last night’s reunion between Tavares and Marner paid instant dividends.
Tavares ended the game after playing well and registering two assists in the 4-0 win over the Oilers. He also had a team-high five shots, won 13 of 18 faceoffs, and ended the game with more than a single point for only the second game in his last 12. He now has a four-game point-scoring streak against the Oilers and he scored a goal and five assists (for six points) in five games against Edmonton during the 2020-21 season.
Although Tavares has scored 19 points in 22 games this season, one wonders if that total might rise if he were permanently reunited with Marner. Could happen.
Item Three: Mitch Marner Leads His Team Offensively
Marner scored a goal and an assist against the Oilers. That scoring ended the first two-game scoring mini-drought of his season. However, interestingly it was his third multiple-point game in this last five and the 10th multiple-point game of his season.
Right now, Marner’s scoring stands at 10 goals and 22 assists (for 32 points) in the 22 games he’s played. As I noted when speaking of his reunion with Tavares, the twosome created some magic on the ice. Both Marner and Tavares played as if the puck was a yo-yo – it just kept coming back to them.
It short, Marner seems to play well with either Tavares or Matthews. It’s just a question of what head coach Sheldon Keefe decides in the end.
What’s Next for the Maple Leafs?
The Oilers had won five straight games until the Maple Leafs came to town. As Oilers’ forward Leon Draisaitl noted after the game, “We just didn’t deserve to win. They just out battled us.”
Now the question is, how will the Oilers respond? We’ll soon see because the two teams also will play Monday and Wednesday nights. It will be interesting to see how each team responds – the Maple Leafs to what might have been one of the team’s best games of the season – and the Oilers’ to what must have been totally frustrating.
The Old Prof (Jim Parsons, Sr.) taught for more than 40 years in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. He’s a Canadian boy, who has two degrees from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate from the University of Texas. He is now retired on Vancouver Island, where he lives with his family. His hobbies include playing with his hockey cards and simply being a sports fan – hockey, the Toronto Raptors, and CFL football (thinks Ricky Ray personifies how a professional athlete should act).
If you wonder why he doesn’t use his real name, it’s because his son – who’s also Jim Parsons – wrote for The Hockey Writers first and asked Jim Sr. to use another name so readers wouldn’t confuse their work.
Because Jim Sr. had worked in China, he adopted the Mandarin word for teacher (老師). The first character lǎo (老) means “old,” and the second character shī (師) means “teacher.” The literal translation of lǎoshī is “old teacher.” That became his pen name. Today, other than writing for The Hockey Writers, he teaches graduate students research design at several Canadian universities.
He looks forward to sharing his insights about the Toronto Maple Leafs and about how sports engages life more fully. His Twitter address is https://twitter.com/TheOldProf


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Enter the app “Monitor File & Directory Changes”.
show directories where more than X files were deleted within a 1 hour period
show directories where more than X files were added within a 1 hour period
show deleted directories
show files whose size has decreased more than X MB (or X percent?)
show files with file size 0 B
The view would be just like the view for the server log, and it would refresh automatically, and show you the most recent events, and if you scroll down you see older events.
I am actually surprised I cannot find desktop apps that do this. There is qdirstat which goes in that direction, but I would have to write scripts to work with it’s output, and I can’t do that.
The problem is that Nextcloud is a software for collaborative work. Users can intentionally or unintentionally modify files and folders based on their access rights. Mechanisms such as the recycle bin try to address some of these errors.
I could imagine that within statistic tools certain evaluations are conceivable. But I think that your wishes go too far. It is at least for me normal that I move whole directories into the trash from time to time and delete them afterwards.
As a tip I would like to recommend the app Group folders. Here you can prevent the deletion of files and folders through limited user rights.
Maybe you can use tools outside of Nextcloud. But far more important are backups
I don’t want to remove write access or prevent the deletion of folders, because often, the user action is intentional/correct/necessary. I just want a way to monitor big changes, without looking at all changes in the activities app.
Maybe it’s also an idea to have a sidebar entry “big/unusual changes” in the activities app?
The same problem used to exist with network drives. It also happens that someone accidentally deletes or moves something. There are probably no better solutions than the backup from the day before. Since errors are often detected late, it is also necessary to keep older backups on hand.


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Restart the Digital Health Revolution by Making Healthcare Delivery Easy
This chat we had with Martin from Think Research touched on the broader concept of Analytics for Good. As luck would have it, on July 19, 2019 for the ABD 2019 Conference we’ll be bringing in experts from across the healthcare and analytics industry to explore this topic even further. Get your tickets today!
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The digital health revolution was inspired by increased connectivity from wearables, which are now virtually inseparable from us, and the rise of a spectrum of virtual care services from eConsultations, eReferrals to remote monitoring; not to mention, the invention of precision medicine and data-driven treatment which allowed us to reimagine the entire patient experience and treatment journey. Though, as much as we would like to think that Ontario is the perfect launchpad in Canada to start this revolution, digital health has not taken off as rapidly as we thought.
For one, the “iterate fast and release often” philosophy does not apply in health tech given the higher than normal barrier in regulatory oversight. The research-practice gap is also notoriously wide in the healthcare industry which hasn’t changed as drastically as expected despite recent Digital and AI disruptions. Patient privacy, regulatory adherence, and the lack of strong technology infrastructure are roadblocks that continue to plague the industry. Martin Persaud, Associate Vice President of Business Development at Think Research in Toronto, shares some of these sentiments but also believes the sluggish adoption of digital health in Ontario might be due to more deep rooted issues.
Starting late in the game
Digitization undoubtedly eliminated operational inefficiencies by introducing the ability to organize, store and share Electronic Medical Records (EMR). However, ever since the dawn of EMR in the 1990s, physicians in Canada were not inclined to digital adoption due to the upfront financial investment and disruption to the existing clinical workflow. To compensate for the late adoption, healthcare providers and organizations accelerated their migration to EMR with separately developed IT systems, which eventually gave rise to data silos and incompatible data sharing. Despite hefty efforts in EMR integration that quickly followed in the 2000s, only 58% of clinicians could access interoperable patient data by 2016.
Martin claimed that, even today, aggregated data is hard to obtain for health tech companies, making it difficult to maintain a single patient record and effectively track patient outcomes while improving clinician workflows. He attributed the barrier in open data sharing to continued issues in EMR interoperability, growing privacy requirements (PIPEDA, HIPAA), and more fundamentally, the inability to fully digitize patient information without burdening clinicians with administrative overhead. Martin learned that many physicians do not feel well served by the new wave of technology and believe their time is better spent on actual patient interaction instead of data entry in front of a computer. Without clinician buy-in, there is no data feedback loop to or from analytics systems, and ultimately, any insights on patient outcomes or treatment effectiveness are forever lost.
Learning from the EMR fiasco in the past, policymakers are now learning to balance between overall cost reduction, upfront investment in technological progress, and quality patient care. This is not an easy undertaking—how can we invest in making virtual services ubiquitous in Canada and transform this archaic one-size-fits-all healthcare system to one that’s more personalized, all while keeping costs low?
Martin thinks we have to start from the fundamentals, especially when we are already late to the EMR game. He believes that we should first start by serving the needs of clinicians who continue to face burnout due to a growing amount of ancillary technology and administrative tasks.
In parallel, there needs to be a drastic reform in our healthcare payment policies to ensure providers are incentivized to integrate digital solutions into traditional clinical practices.
Closing the research-practice gap for clinicians
Having to deal with such high volumes of patients, particularly in primary care, physicians often have to quickly extrapolate from their experience to determine the best possible treatment for patients at the point of care. While there is nothing wrong with relying on experience, it is becoming extremely difficult to do with mounting expectations for physicians to constantly keep abreast of new research-proven treatments, and integrate novel clinical practices into their services.
We are certainly getting more health literate and better-informed with online access to loads of diagnostic and disease information at our fingertips. With wearables growing approximately 4% year over year and a user base of 3 million (2019) in Canada, there are clear indications that Canadians are becoming more health-conscious and are expecting their healthcare providers to be equally up-to-date and well-informed.
At the same time, policymakers like the European Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) are putting heavier focus on patient empowerment in response to the rise of chronic diseases in world demographics—chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes attribute to an alarming 86% of deaths in Europe in 2017. Empowerment encourages patients to play a larger role in their treatment journey, working alongside their healthcare providers towards personalized and self-managed care. Digital solutions and services are seen as enablers in this shift from provider-driven to patient-centric care. Everything considered, there is an unavoidable need for clinicians to catch up with both technological and medical trends in order to satisfy growing demands.
Physicians, however, cannot possibly stay on top of all of today’s clinical and research trends especially with such rapid advances in genomics, precision medicine and other computation-powered research. It is also unrealistic for clinicians to have to manually and continuously modernize their workflow just to keep up. This is precisely where health tech firms like Think Research add value.
Think Research’s digital order sets, for instance, alleviate the burden of on-the-spot decision making by providing analytics-driven and evidence-based checklists that are designed by condition, disease or procedure. For instance, “when a patient is admitted for a kidney transplant, their medical tests, treatments and medications must occur in a specific order. Routine blood work and the administering of antibiotics and antiviral medications all require precise considerations for specific circumstances.” Order sets help streamline this process by delivering standardized guidelines for clinicians at the point of care.
Traditionally, it could take up to 17 years to translate medical knowledge into practice and for best practices to reach the point of care. Today, digital and data platforms allow a network of healthcare providers to collaboratively share insights from patient outcomes and local order set implementations. This accelerated the feedback loop of learnings that allowed for quicker iterations of order set improvements, ultimately, making treatments more accurate and comprehensive.
This type of data-fueled learning is still maturing and there is a ways to go to fully automate the clinical pathway for all disease types. Martin believes we might still be at least a decade away from AI intelligence that can serve this purpose, at least in the Canadian market.
Throwing virtual care into the mix
Federal and provincial governments are making more concrete investments to widen the reach of virtual services especially to rural and remote communities where physical access to health services is more difficult. In response to this push, there is a multitude of eVisit services (e.g. Maple) available today that offer patients self-paid and on-demand telemedicine services. Patients can easily select their symptoms, add past medical records, and quickly get 1-on-1 time with the next available doctor.
Though it definitely is a great step forward, Martin thinks this next-available pairing might not gel with the traditional doctor-patient relationship in the Ontario health care system. Ontarians are very much attached to their primary care physicians and have learned to rely on them for “illness prevention, health promotion, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation and counselling”. In most cases, patients view their primary care physician as a personal expert of their medical history and a trusted advisor of their health and lifestyle decisions. With convenient virtual services in the mix, there is a need to find alternative ways to facilitate this connection between patients and their general practitioners (GPs). This is especially true for chronic care and mental health conditions where personal and long-term understanding of the patient and the patient’s family history play a critical part.
In contrast to the on-demand and next-available offering for treating low-maintenance conditions, some health tech companies offer providers a suite of virtual services across the “care continuum”—primary, acute, long term care—that foster long-term doctor-patient relationships. An example is Think Research’s multi-channel messaging platform which allows doctors to connect with multiple patients at the same time. It enables physicians to parallelize routine appointments like prescription renewals and referrals online while physically attending to patients.
Virtual care platforms not only streamline the physician workflow by alleviating administrative overhead (with eReferrals and digital progress notes), these systems also ensure that the utilization of the physician’s time is optimized between routine and monitoring services that can be virtualized, and high-touch services that require physical attention.
He thinks it is healthier to view virtual care technology as an enabler, increasing both access and quality of care, rather than another service that clinicians must juggle along with their current workload.
On top of which, virtual care is still new in Canada. The proposition of using mHealth, virtualization, and predictive analytics in areas like early detection and chronic disease management is still far from common. Today, data and analytics for and from virtual services are still very basic and largely focused on operational optimization, mostly activity-type data such as the number of patients visited. Martin is uncertain how impactful advanced analytics features would be at the moment. However, he believes the growing reach and expansion of virtual services (in home care and patient support programs) would open the gateway to new data dimensions and accelerate the growth of insight-rich data needed for advanced analytics.
Are our healthcare payment policies working against us?
It’s not always known to Ontarians, but GPs actually suffer monetary loss whenever a patient receives care outside of their clinic—in a nearby walk-in for instance. In fact, primary care physicians in Ontario traditionally operate under either a capitation-based or fee-for-service (FFS) payment model with added premiums based on the comprehensiveness of care offered to their roster of patients, such as after-hours services. In the case of walk-in’s, the province will have to compensate the walk-in doctor by clawing back these bonuses from the patient’s GP. Under these rigid payment policies, physicians can even choose to terminate care by de-rostering patients that often seek healthcare elsewhere.
Accounting for 21% of all health spending in Canada in 2016, physician remuneration is the second-largest source of public expenditures. Traditional capitation-based and FFS models had their fair share of drawbacks and are seen to be increasingly obsolete, especially with the rise of digital health and patient centricity. Bean counting mechanisms like FFS, for example, can be abused by prescribing an excessive amount of services which may not necessarily add value in terms of quality of care. It also encourages territorial behaviour among providers since clinicians can only bill for services they provide. Under capitation, there is running risk that physicians avoid complex cases, commonly seen in older patient groups, because they are not incentivized to take on the risk.
In the future world of digital-led and patient-first healthcare, some believe that a value-based remuneration model can help put quality of care and improved patient outcomes back in focus. Ontario healthcare policymakers have already begun the incremental shift to blended payment models in primary care. The blended capitation model, for instance, now takes into account the age and sex of the enrolled patient for a pre-set bundle of primary care services. There is also a monthly comprehensive-care capitation payment model to better incentivize chronic disease management programs. Despite this progress, there is still a lot of ambiguity on where and how digital health services fit within these models.
It may not be realistic yet for drastic reform towards value-based and pay-for-performance structures as the industry continues the debate on what ‘value’ actually means. University of Utah Health’s “The State of Value in U.S. Health Care” survey in 2018 revealed that there are still diverging definitions of ‘value’ across quality, service, and cost depending on who is setting the agenda—patients, physicians, employers who provide medical benefits, etc.
Martin believes it is a fundamental problem that warrants heavy and long-term attention from policymakers, especially as digital offerings for both consumers and healthcare providers continue its ascending growth.
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Wen Jiabao has warned that the ruinous turmoil that engulfed China in the past could re-emerge unless the country tackles political reforms.
In a three-hour news conference, the Premier renewed a call for unspecified political reforms, particularly of the Communist Party leadership, saying without them China's hard-won prosperity might be lost.
The news conference was his last scheduled briefing before he steps down after a decade in office.
Mr Wen, 69, said he was "seized by a strong sense of responsibility" to speak out. Corruption, the gap between rich and poor and plummeting credibility of the government required institutional changes, he said.
"Without successful political reform, it is impossible for us to fully institute economic system reform. The gains we have made in this area may also be lost," he told reporters in the Great Hall of the People. "New problems that have cropped up in China's society will not be fundamentally resolved and such historical tragedies as the Cultural Revolution may happen again."
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