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March 31, 2009
BERKELEY -- With the mortgage market and subprime loans taking the blame for much of the global financial crisis, the publication of a joint Berkeley-UCLA symposium held October 2008, "The Mortgage Meltdown, the Economy and Public Policy," is timely indeed. The far-reaching economic and social consequences of the ongoing housing crisis require nothing less than the wholesale evaluation and redesign of housing policy, regulation, and finance systems.
The symposium, published in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy includes articles and discussion by leading financial scholars from academia and government, such as Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Robert Shiller. Topics include the future of the housing finance system, policy responses necessary to alleviate current financial damage, the demography of foreclosures, and financial market dysfunction.
"The goal of the symposium was to identify the lessons of the current crisis with the hope that improved understanding of outcomes will lead to regulatory and policy decisions that prevent similar crises in the future," said Stuart Gabriel, director of the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA. "And indeed, the papers presented brought forward important ideas, some of which have been adopted by the Obama Administration in confronting the housing and mortgage crisis."
"We have tried to mix two kinds of expertise for this published volume: senior people with real experience inside government and financial institutions; and the best academic thinking on the magnitude of the crisis, the alternatives available for action, and the lessons to be learned," said John Quigley, a UC Berkeley economist and director of its Program on Housing and Urban Policy.
- Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke on "The Future of Mortgage Finance in the United States"
- San Francisco Federal Reserve President (and UC Berkeley emeritus professor of economics) Janet Yellen on "The Mortgage Meltdown, Financial Markets, and the Economy"
- Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist and author of The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It (2008), on "Policies to Deal with the Implosion in the Mortgage Market"
- Edward Leamer, a UCLA economist who heads the Anderson Forecast, on "Homes and Cars: Why are the Cycles in Homes and Consumer Durables so Similar?"
- Dwight Jaffee, a Berkeley economist who chairs its Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, on "Monoline Regulations to Control the Systemic Risk Created by Investment Banks and GSEs"
Please visit the symposium page for these pieces, and others by Brad DeLong, Glenn Hubbard, Diana Hancock, and others.
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Zealong Tea Estate
Discover tea at Zealong Tea Estate, the only commercial tea plantation in New Zealand, producing 100% pure New Zealand tea.
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Zealong: an amazing story that started in 1996 with a single Camellia tree.
Flowering, lush and green, a Camellia grew in Tzu Chen's neighbour's garden, in Hamilton, Waikato. The tea plant is a type of Camellia: to Mr Chen, this meant New Zealand was not just pure and clean, it was also the perfect environment to grow one of the world's best teas.
In 1996, Mr Chen and his son Vincent imported 1500 tea plants from Taiwan, of which only 130 remained after a rigorous quarantine from New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture. But after careful propagation and care, Zealong now boasts over 1.2 million lush, sweet tea plants that spread over 50 hectares.
At Zealong, things are left to nature, not to chance. This is why Zealong is the world's only tea company fully certified to the world's highest food safety standard: ISO 22000 HACCP. That includes traceability of every pack of tea, back to the day and block of pick. Zealong's commitment to the highest quality means it is grown organically, without chemical sprays and fertilisers, and it is processed to the highest standards. Combining pristine environment with the best traditional knowledge to produce the world's purest tea, here in New Zealand.
Camellia Tea House
The restaurant at Zealong Tea Estate offers delicious home-baked pastries, great light lunch options that have been designed to complement the teas, and various high tea options: a Classic High Tea or the stunning Zealong Signature High Tea. Grab a seat indoor or book and ask for a table out on the deck, with stunning views over the plantation. Groups, private and corporate functions are welcome, and can be hosted in the tea house or in The Pavilion.
Camellia tea House opens Tuesday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm.
Discover tea tours
So, you think you know tea?
The Zealong Tea Estate runs amazing "Discover Tea" tours. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the fascinating story behind Zealong, see how tea is made, experience a traditional tea ceremony, explore tea's rich history and culture, pose for a souvenir photo in traditional tea picking garb, sample some of our best teas, enjoy high tea and just relax over a cup of the world's purest tea.
Booking is essential for these tours, which usually run twice a day, Tuesday to Sunday.

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That's the height of tax season for me. So I would probably go at the end of April. Or in February. I love the Canyon in the winter.azbackpackr wrote:Al, I have done New Hance to Grandview, am thinking of putting in for Grandview to SK in March, I have not hiked that section of Tonto. BUT I would consider Tanner-Beamer or New-Hance-Escalante-Tanner. If you are interested...dates would be right about March 19 to 23 or thereabouts--about 4 nights. Also, I sent you a PM.
From National Park websiteAl_HikesAZ wrote:Anyone with a Backcountry Pass from Hermits TH gets the code to the gate. But I thought they changed the code monthly. The gate is open from Nov 1(?) to March 31(?).
Hermit Road
During 2008, Grand Canyon National Park repaved and improved the seven-mile long historic Hermit Road, located on the South Rim between Grand Canyon Village and Hermits Rest.
Busy Season: Road Closed to Private Vehicles (March 1, through November 30)
Free shuttle bus service and commercial tours provide the transportation along the scenic Hermit Road. Vehicles with accessibility permits are permitted.
Winter: Road Open to All Vehicles (December 1, through February 28)The free shuttle buses do not run during the winter months.
Great book. http://hikearizona.com/books.php?REV=1&ID=964 I own it but I haven't written a review for HAZ yet.Canyonram wrote:Wayne Tomasi has good Rim hike trail descriptions in "Grand Canyon Hiking Adventures." He covers all of the South Rim routes in the Inner Canyon as well.


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Clinic | 23/08/12
Good news everyone! The wonderful Clinic are set to release their seventh album Free Reign on 12th November. Produced by the band themselves in their hometown of Liverpool and mixed with the assistance of Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Free Reign is an extremely apt title for a particularly bold and assured new transmission from planet Clinic.
In the fifteen years since the release of the irrepressible band's debut EP, Ade Blackburn and co. have essentially delivered an exquisite masterclass in fearless singularity. The junkshop-trawling analogue fetishism of the warm, smoky instrumentation that gives their songs such a vividly placeable sense of mood and atmosphere; the surrealist bent of Blackburn's lyrics - so steeped in their own personal mythology - and the band's over-riding commitment to never straying into the realm of the obvious or complacent are all long-standing elements of Clinic's work that are furthered, perfected even, on Free Reign.
Free Reign neither turns its back on the direction of its predecessor, Bubblegum, nor seeks to revisit it verbatim, instead incorporating the simple, childlike melodies and spacious nature of the former whilst being at the same time as powerful, visceral and rhythmically charged as anything the band have ever recorded.
Free Reign will not only be available on the usual formats - CD, LP and digital download - but also on limited edition UFO format, in the form of an exclusive, glow-in-the-dark, cosmic flying disc which comes with the album download code (ie, a pretty nifty Frisbee). PRE ORDER THE ALBUM HERE!
The tracklisting for Free Reign is as follows:
- Misty
- See Saw
- Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC2 10pm (rpt)
- Cosmic Radiation
- Miss You
- For the Season
- King Kong
- You
- Sun and the Moon
Stay tuned for details of the first single and live dates - they're on the way soon!


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- Ulivo, a casual and cozy neighborhood restaurant opened just a few years ago and is owned by the Olive Tree Marketplace, located right next to the eatery on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. At Ulivo, the portions are large, the wine is plentiful and the pizza options are many. Guests can build their own pizza or choose from a list of signatures like the Veggie Rustica with grilled eggplant, zucchini and mushrooms, or the Tuscany with spicy Italian sausage and caramelized onions.
- Located just a couple yards from the sand and surf with an open patio, giving guests a perfect view of Ocean Beach Pier, Newport Pizza and Ale House on Newport Avenue is probably the best place to sit with a "David Hasselhoff" (garlic, basil, ricotta and tomato) slice to watch the sunset. There's also the "Big Kahuna" which is ham and pineapple, the "Happy Hippie" with bell pepper, onion, mushroom, black olives and tomato, and the "Donald Trump" with the works, just to name a few.
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach on Santa Monica Avenue has the whole fluffy crust concept down to an art form. Doubling as a brewery, this parlor's grub is as good as their grog. The BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza is on the "Anti-Wimpy" menu and is topped with meatballs, bacon and tangy BBQ sauce. There's also the Meet Extreme Meat pizza, which goes great with any of Pizza Port's craft beers. Just find a seat at one of their indoor picnic tables and dig in.
- Family founded in the '60s, the glittering white lights and country-style ambience gives The Venetian more the feel of a winery located in the middle of a vineyard rather than an Italian restaurant located on Voltaire Street. The unconventional theme doesn't stop there. Their Genovese pizza includes caramelized scallops with pine nuts and the Sicilian pizza contains bits of anchovy with spicy sausage. This is a place for adventurous taste buds.
- Officine Buona Forchetta at Liberty Station is the epitome of style and class. There's stacks of books at the entrance between an old Coca-Cola machine and a red moped parked above the bar. Airplane models hang from the ceilings and on the back wall hangs a massive painting of an Italian gentleman smoking a cigarette. The best part of the restaurant is the red vintage Fiat where guests can sit to scarf down an artisanal pizza cooked in gold-tiled stone ovens.
- Who knew it was even possible to serve pizza without tomato sauce? Pummaro has seven "without sauce" pizza options ranging from smoked buffalo to four cheese blends of mozzarella, ricotta, gorgonzola and parmesan. Of course, there's also pizzas that classically include sauce like the Sole with cherry tomatoes, grilled zucchini and stracchino cheese. There's also the famous Point Loma pizza topped with tomato, garlic and assorted seafood.
- For those who have passed by the painted black walls of Hoboken Pizza & Beer on Garnet Avenue and thought it to be a tattoo parlor, the only color you'll get on your skin here is red from the scrumptious sauce of their thin-crusted pizza. Founded 16 years ago, this eatery is not only famous for the thousands of signed dollar bills and Frank Sinatra photos that encapsulate the walls, but also for their popular pepperoni and sausage slices.
- With red and white flannel table cloths to match the red wines, red sauce and white cheeses of their pizza, Filippis Pizza Grotto on Garnet Avenue doesn't hold back when it comes to their traditional Italian décor. The wines actually hang from the ceiling in straw bottle holders. Founded in 1950 by Vincent DePhilippis and his wife, the family restaurant invites guests to enjoy 67-year-old family recipes and pizza topped with everything from Canadian bacon to artichokes and Cajun spice.
- There are few things that go better with Italian cuisine than red wine, and pizza is no exception. Mamma Mia's Italian restaurant on Balboa Avenue masquerades as a small home-style cottage but inside smells of baked cheese and pesto. Some of the more original pizzas on this their menu include the Cotto E Funghi Pizza with ham and mushrooms, the Polpette Pizza with meat sauce, meatballs and provolone cheese along with the Ligure Piza with pesto, mozzarella cheese and sautéed shrimp.
- It might surprise most people to hear that a slice of pizza at Luigi's At The Beach on Mission Boulevard is $6.50. But it's even more surprising to be presented with a slice of pizza that's bigger than your torso. While it might induce a food coma, the oven-baked pizza, made from scratch, is worth every penny. There's very little grease and the crust is fresh and fluffy. Whether it's a regular cheese slice or topped with anchovies and broccoli, one slice of this mission bay delicacy could feed a family for a week.
- Located just across from Belmont Park, with a perfect view of the Giant Dipper roller coaster from the outdoor patio, ZoZo's Pizza Mission Beach on Ventura Place is famous for their NYC-style thin crust pies and giant slices. For 10 years, this beachfront counter has served starved surfers and famished sunbathers with their specialty pizzas such as the ZoZo's Deluxe topped with garlic, pepperoni, onion, sausage, green peppers, black olives and mushrooms. They also serve gluten-free pizza and vegetarian options.
- It's hard to miss the fluorescent blue building and the bright red patio awnings of Rosaria Pizza on Mission Boulevard. The parlor has a more modern feel to it but what makes this pizza place most unique is the names of their pizzas. The "NAM" pizza includes Vietnamese sweet and spicy sauce, Vietnamese BBQ Pork and Vietnamese Sausage. The "Say Cheez!" pizza is all about the parmesan flakes, ricotta and mozzarella. Then there's the Maui Wowi, with ham, pineapple, bacon and red onions.
- It might be located in a coastal town, but inside Pizza on Pearl looks like it belongs in the heart of the Big Apple. There's NYC graffiti on the red brick walls and yellow "dough throwing" warning signs, likely because the pizza makers spin the dough right in front of customers. The parlor on Pearl Street sells pizzas of every kind like the BCR with bacon, chicken and caramelized onion and ranch, along with their Pear pizza topped with ham, spinach, pear and Gorgonzola.
- For high-class pizza dining, the Lupi Vino Cucina on La Jolla Boulevard is the way to go. Awarded with the gold medal for best dinner in La Jolla for the last five years, executive chef Luigi Tornatore opened the restaurant in 2003 and focuses primarily on roman-style cuisine. The pizzas here are more health conscious, with their signature Capricciosa pizza made with tomato, mozzarella, ham, mushrooms and artichokes. All of the ingredients are fresh and made on location every day.
- With locations in both La Jolla and Little Italy, Isola Pizza Bar on Girard Avenue has made a quick name for itself in San Diego. Specializing in wood-fired pizza, antipasti and a wide selection of beer, wine and desserts, Isola has options for both carnivorous and herbivore cravings. One of the key features of this place is the pie – baked to perfection in a classically-designed wood-fueled oven. Choose from a vast array of cured meats, fresh vegetables and authentic Italian dairy.
Other pizza places on the Peninsula
Alfredos Pizzeria
3022 Cañon St.
Old Venice Restaurant
2910 Cañon St.
Pummaro Pizza
1101 Scott Street
Pomodoro Ristorante
2833 Avenida De Portugal
Pizza Nova
5050 N Harbor Drive
Oggi's Sports/ Brewhouse
2562 Laning Road
Solare Ristorante
2820 Roosevelt Road
Buona Forchette
2865 Sims Road
The Venetian Restaurant
3663 Voltaire St.
Giant New York Pizza
3704 Voltaire St.
Newport Pizza
5050 Newport Ave.
Pizza Port
1956 Bacon St.
Rosaria's Pizza
4719 Point Loma Ave.
Ulivo Restaurant
1776 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.
Pepe's Italian
1830 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.
Poma's Italian Deli
1846 Bacon St.
Surf Rider Pizza
2163 Abbott St.


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Matthew sure keeps us on our toes. On Christmas Eve, we managed to start yet another adventure with our little man. He managed to crawl, undetected, all the way over to the glass covered fireplace and place his right hand on the hot glass. It was so sad listening to him crying. It happened as we were preparing to leave, and he ended up extending our stay for an extra hour and a half while he screamed and cried over the pain of the burn. It was 9pm, on Friday night (not to mention Christmas Eve) so we knew there was no doctor's office still open. I called my pediatrician's office (our pediatrician happened to be the doctor on call), and asked him what we should do. We told him that his hand was blistered and that he had been crying for over an hour, and he told me (this is almost word for word), "If you can't get him to stop crying by the time you get home, I would get him in to the ER so they can give him something for the pain. You might also want to get him in to be looked at sometime early next week." I told him that we were leaving early (like 5am) Monday morning to take a family trip, and that we wouldn't be back until Thursday night. He said to keep an eye on his hand, make sure it stays clean and wrapped, especially if the blisters pop, and to play it by ear. Soooo... that's what we did!
He eventually stopped crying once we gave him Tylenol and put his coat on him. His coat is a size 18mos, so it was VERY large on him and kinda made it so he couldn't move his hand or arm... When we got home that night, rather than take his coat off, I just let him sleep in it. On Christmas morning, we wrapped his hand up with a little bacitracin on the already popped blisters, and continued with our celebratory events... I did manage to snap a picture before the bandages went on.
Each finger had a blister on it's tip as well. Poor little guy. He wasn't too fussy, and it didn't seem to bother him much, but I kept him doped up on Motrin and Tylenol. We had a great Christmas day, and once again, he fell asleep with his coat covering his hand, so we left him in it to sleep that night. The day after Christmas was Sunday, and once again- no doctors offices were open. I ended up having to take a trip to the store to buy more gauze and bacitracin for his hand. I figured, while I was out I ought to see about getting his hand looked at, so I checked the instacare on the way by. It was closed as well. I really wasn't interested in taking a second trip to the ER in two weeks, so we just kept doing the same thing. Cleaning it, and wrapping it up with bacitracin.
Monday morning we left for Disneyland, and once again, his hand was fine and didn't seem to be bothering him. At this point we weren't even giving him anything for the pain. He wasn't bothered much at all. We drove all day, and had a fantastic dinner at Medieval Times, and got to our hotel, checked in and went to bed. Matthew had a rough night and just kept waking up. I gave him some Motrin, and let him sleep in our bed with us for part of the night, but he just never settled in and slept well.
Tuesday we headed in to Disneyland and Matthew was just being fussy. By around 2pm Matthew was not doing well. His hand was really warm to the touch and had started to smell kinda funny, so Joe and I talked about it, and Joe decided to take him to a local instacare in Anaheim. He left the park and took him in. They instacare doc's took one look at his hand and said, "That needs to be treated at the ER." They sent him to a children's hospital nearby, and Joe spent the next three hours winding his way through three triage rooms, before finally having an ER doc look at his hand and refuse to treat it. He referred us to a burn specialist in the area, an then started RIPPING into Joe about how bad his burn was and how we should have taken him directly to the ER when it happened. He told us it was at the very least a severe 2nd degree burn, maybe 3rd degree, and that because it had been 4 days since it happened, Matthew might have permanent nerve and tissue damage to his hand. He went on about how we may need skin grafts and he will need physical therapy for weeks, etc. And that it was infected. Needless to say, Joe and I felt AWFUL! It takes a lot to get under Joe's skin, and this doc did a great job of it! Joe felt terrible for waiting so long (as did I). It doesn't help that hey were talking to him as though he was a negligent idiot. Talk about awful bedside manner! So- they rewrapped Matthew's hand and sent us with a phone number to a burn center, and strict instructions to call first thing the next morning. They also gave us a prescription for an antibiotic to fight off his infection.
Wednesday was SUPER rainy so we opted to extend our trip by a day and spent the day NOT in the park. Joe took the girls to see Tangled, while I took Matthew in to the burn specialist. I told them the whole story, including what the ER doc said to Joe, and I could see the alarm on the specialist's face. But, once he saw Matthew's hand, he was very nice, and very reassuring. They removed the blister on his palm, and took a good look at it. Yes- it is a second degree burn. Yes it's pretty severe, but no there was no nerve damage, and most likely no tissue damage. He told us that we did a good job keeping it clean and there was no sign of infection (so either the ER doc was wrong, or the infection was cleared up after a single dose of his antibiotic). He then took me through the steps to care for his hand. We had to leave his dressings on until Friday, but then could change them when we thought it necessary. He really wanted me to come back Friday morning to be seen at the burn center there, but when I told him that was when we were leaving for home, he said we could leave as long as we got Matthew in to the doctor (or if necessary, the ER) to have it looked at as soon as we got home. He also suggested that we find a local burn center to get him checked out at early the next week. They wrapped his hand up so much that I had a hard time getting his shirt off that night! Boy does he look bothered, huh? :)
I ended up cutting the sleeve of his pajamas so that I could get him dressed for bed!
We finished our trip to Disneyland without event (unless you count Matthew managing to swing that club clean off his arm- he swung his arm and the dressing came off and flew about 15 feet!).
The drive home on Friday was longer than we intended due to weather and traffic, and we didn't get home until about 9pm. When we got home I dropped Joe and the girls off and took Matthew in to the ER to have his hand checked out. Luckily, it was a slow night. The ER doctor unwrapped, checked it, and re-wrapped his hand, Gave me further instructions on caring for his hand- they told me to change the dressings every day, and I was finally given permission to BATHE my son! He had been bath free since the day of the accident (so it had been 7 days). Until it is fully healed, I can only give him showers since they don't want his hand resting in standing (bacteria filled) water, but I will take it! After giving me the local burn center's info they sent me on my way home. Matthew may still need some skin grafts, and they are going to check for tissue damage, but his hand is doing SO MUCH better! (I know- the picture looks awful, but trust me, that looks good!)
They "re-clubbed" his hand and Matthew has since learned the trick to getting his arm out of "the club" (running his arm along any rough surface will eventually pull the club off his arm), so we had to scale back his wrappings to only cover his hand so he couldn't get it off...
We now have an appointment to have Matthew's hand checked Wednesday morning. I will be sure to keep you posted!


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How Adobe Drives Infringement Of Its Products Through Incompatibility
from the you're-not-helping deptAdobe is one of the key backers of the BSA, which is famous for its, at times, highly questionable tactics in "raiding" companies and accusing them of having infringing software and forcing them to pay up. And, yet, at the same time, its own actions may be one of the biggest causes of infringement of its software. Part of it is pricing. Adobe's products have become something of a standard in the design world, and because of that, there's something of a monopoly tax (though, some new entrants really are trying to break that). But, as Joe Karaganis pointed out a few weeks ago (yes, this one's old, but I'm catching up), Adobe seems to go to ridiculous lengths to make things worse for paying customers by not making some of its products backwards compatible. That's fine if only you are using the product. But when -- as is almost always the case in design -- there are collaborative efforts where files need to be shared, it's deathly. And Adobe seems to have perfected death by incompatibility:
Like a lot of publishing projects, the production of MPEE was a small scale collaboration involving free lance help for book layout, maps, and proofing. Once the text is laid out in publishing software (for us, InDesign), all of these stages are most easily done in InDesign. Here, we learned a painful lesson. Adobe has released 3 versions of InDesign in 4 years. All of them break compatibility with the previous versions. So when our layout designer (CS3) handed the doc off to our map illustrator (CS4), the document saved up and was no longer readable by the former. We bought CS5 in our Columbia U office (via a not-ridiculously-priced academic license at $300), but the original layout had used Mac fonts, which the PC rendered differently. Ultimately, everyone had to upgrade to the trial version of CS5, and then the clock was ticking and we had 1 month to finish.Adobe's response to all of this is, effectively, "well, buy a copy of all versions." Easier said than done, of course, and that's where it helps drive unauthorized infringement. Many people will buy one version, but feel that it's somewhat extortionate to force people to buy the latest version just to open files.
Now, some may point out that this is Adobe's way of doing implicit price discrimination. If it's not really enforcing copyright on most players, then those who are able to afford the upgrades do, and those who can't, don't (but likely get unauthorized versions). And that would work if there wasn't such a huge risk in doing so. When the BSA actively urges employees to "rat out" their employers, and seems, at times, to relish going after small businesses, this creates serious chilling effects.
Of course, it also seems like it should be an opportunity for others in the market. To date, it's definitely been difficult for others to get into the market -- and part of that is the proprietary nature of the way Adobe saves files. Opening that up would definitely drive significantly more competition (which is why Adobe doesn't want to do it). So how do people break that cycle? When the "lock-in" from the user base is pretty strong, how is it possible to get people to move to solutions that aren't so anti-consumer? Alternatively, how could Adobe itself adjust, so that it's more reasonable?
I would argue that even if Adobe's lock-in position is dominant today, it won't always be, and pissing off consumers with ridiculous stunts like this won't help. If Adobe's smart, it'll head off competitors not by continuing this sort of anti-consumer behavior, but by focusing on continuing to add more value to the products, while making them more consumer friendly. Many people are happy to buy Adobe products. But forcing them to buy multiple versions makes them a lot less happy. That may be good for the bottom line in the short run, but it's really risky in the long run.
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Even for media observers who do Rupert Murdoch a favor by asking the press baron to clear an impossibly low bar of corporate behavior, recent revelations must have some wondering if there are any lows Murdoch and his lieutenants haven't yet stooped to.
Britain's epic phone hacking scandal that's destroyed Murdoch's reputation is now being used as a wedge to open a very dark door and provide a disturbing look into a media empire that seems to operate for long periods without a moral compass.
The new, first-person accusations now tumbling out against Murdoch and his minions (on two different continents) are astonishing considering Murdoch is supposed to be overseeing a news organization, not a criminal enterprise. What's been emerging in recent days has been an ugly portrait of a larger corporate culture where rules don't apply.
Instead, media properties are allegedly used in Nixonian fashion to carry out petty vendettas against Murdoch's enemies, or used as carrots to promise friendly coverage to would-be allies. (i.e. Otherwise known as bribes.) It's amoral behavior either way and it's a complete corruption of the press' role in a free society.
For years, many in the media adopted an it's-just-Rupert-being-Rupert attitude when covering Murdoch's blatant transgressions. Whether kowtowing to China's communist government or assigning New York Post reporters to help his lawyers depose a rival CEO, Murdoch has always operated outside the realm of responsible (recognizable?) journalism. And he's been able to get away with it.
It seemed no matter how many stumbles, Murdoch would become the subject of more glossy magazine, Master-of-the-Universe profiles. The transgressions only bolstered his media reputation as a renegade. (I doubt the owners of The New York Times or The Washington Post, for instance, would have been toasted in the press after bounding across so many ethical boundaries.)
Those admiring profiles are now gone forever though, and Murdoch's status will not be restored in his lifetime.
Before the phone hacking scandal blew open in July, victims of Murdoch media wrath were often afraid to come forward because they feared the abuse would only intensify. But now with Murdoch crippled and many of his top executives jettisoned, the veil of intimidation has been lifted and we're starting to better understand what kind of crooked operation Murdoch has been running all these years.
A "protection racket." That's how British actor Steve Coogan last week described Murdoch's newspaper properties, claiming they use threats to ensure it's allowed to "conduct business unencumbered by scrutiny or regulation." (Coogan is suing Murdoch's company for allegedly hacking into his mobile phone messages.)
The most recent allegations of corporate misconduct, if true, are indefensible. But what's been telling is the continued obedient disinterest from the right-wing media in America.
Remember, Rupert Murdoch is their godfather. His aggressively unethical stamp permeates not only Fox News, but also AM talk radio and the far-right blogosphere where all practitioners seem to have taken an oath to uphold no oath at all. Many conservative media outlets not only won't condemn Murdoch's abysmal corporate behavior but remain reluctant to dwell on the unfolding car-wreck of a story.
Can you blame them? Look at the most recent lowlights.
A former Australian senator said Friday that Rupert Murdoch's eldest son was present when a News Corp. executive allegedly offered him favorable newspaper coverage and "a special relationship" in return for voting against government legislation.
The former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has been told by the Metropolitan police that they are investigating evidence that his computer, and those of senior Northern Ireland civil servants and intelligence agents, may have been hacked by private detectives working for [Murdoch's] News International.
Singer Charlotte Church gave damning testimony against the British press at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics on Monday. In it, she claimed that she sang for free at Rupert Murdoch's wedding in exchange for favorable press coverage.
Rupert Murdoch ordered his editors to "go after" TV presenter Anne Diamond after she accused the media mogul's papers of ruining people's lives, she said today.
For context, if any other global news organization had been confronted with just one of those allegations this year, the fall-out would have been dramatic and widespread. Murdoch's spiraling empire though, was hit with all those stunning charges in just a four-day span.
Let's take a detailed look at one specific claim involving Murdoch's newspaper and how it was allegedly used as a battering ram to punish an enemy by relentlessly printing abusive and increasingly intrusive trash about that person, and her family. That's the case of former British morning anchor Anne Diamond, who told her story in public this week.
She claims that because she once confronted Murdoch about the reckless behavior of his tabloids and demanded to know why they were allowed to ruin people's lives, Murdoch declared open season on her and her family at his tabloids.
There's certainly no doubt that after pressing Murdoch about his tabloids Diamond became the target of relentlessly vicious coverage from his Sun newspaper.
From Diamond's submitted testimony this week:
[T]hree weeks after my exchange with Mr Murdoch, my romantic relationship with the man who was to become my husband for 10 years and father of our five children (Mike Hollingsworth) was exposed by the Sun. Thus started the incessant intrusion into my private family life. The next 20 years were marked with one horrible, unnecessary and upsetting story after another.
That may be an understatement.
In late 1986 I became pregnant for the first time, but before I had told even my parents, I suffered an emergency and had to undergo an ultrasound scan to determine whether or not the pregnancy was still intact. I was told that it was touch-and--go, and that I should go home and get bed rest. Within hours of the scan, a journalist from [Murdoch's] News of the World called me and said "We're going to run a story in tomorrow's paper that you are pregnant - do you confirm or deny?"
I was not ready to tell the world. I had not yet told my parents. A "no comment" would have been interpreted as a license to print whatever they wanted. So I "chose" to deny. The News of the World printed the storyanyway - and when I later was indeed pregnant, they chose to call me a liar for many months afterwards.
And this, after Diamond's baby son died:
We wrote personally to every Fleet Street editor begging them to stay away from the small, private family funeral. Despite our express wishes at this most sensitive time, one photographer attended, whom we later learned was a freelance. The Sun subsequently bought and ran the picture of myself, my husband and our son's coffin, all over its front page the next day. This seemed to us to be a very great violation of privacy and a gross intrusion into private grief.
All of this and more, Diamond claimed, because she made the mistake of standing up to Murdoch and his "protection racket."
Based on his spectacular, slow motion fall from grace now progressing in Britain, Murdoch's racket has been busted. And all the mangled pieces are now on public display.


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LOS ANGELES -- Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado's defense in the first inning Sunday afternoon was highlight-worthy, but it's come to be expected. Maybe now pitching like Sunday's outing by left-hander Jorge De La Rosa should fall into the same category.
Finally pitching like the staff leader the Rockies wanted when they christened him to start on Opening Day, De La Rosa held the Dodgers to four hits and forced 13 ground-ball outs in seven innings of a 6-1 victory at Dodger Stadium in front of a sellout crowd of 52,359.View Full Game Coverage
LOS ANGELES -- Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado's defense in the first inning Sunday afternoon was highlight-worthy, but it's come to be expected. Maybe now pitching like Sunday's outing by left-hander Jorge De La Rosa should fall into the same category.
Finally pitching like the staff leader the Rockies wanted when they christened him to start on Opening Day, De La Rosa held the Dodgers to four hits and forced 13 ground-ball outs in seven innings of a 6-1 victory at Dodger Stadium in front of a sellout crowd of 52,359.View Full Game Coverage
"I knew that was coming," said De La Rosa (2-2), who has won his last two starts, but on Sunday put together a performance reminiscent of last season, when he went 16-6 with a 3.49 ERA and was one of the most effective lefties in the National League. "Games like this, I've had before."
The Rockies (14-12) took 2-of-3 at Chavez Ravine, which improved their road record within the NL West to 5-5, with three games at Arizona starting Monday. Yes, it's only late April, but by dominating at home and being competitive on the road, it is a good formula for surprise contention after two straight last-place finishes. The defending NL West champion Dodgers (14-12) finished the homestand at 4-6.
Late April is as good a time as any for De La Rosa (2-2) to find his form. After pitching an unacceptable 4 1/3 innings in the first three starts, then having some good sequences but not total efficiency in his next two.
"He was efficient and he used his changeup really well and I thought his two-seamer was good," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "And he used his cutter inside. So it was his cutter, two-seamer and changeup that allowed him to get through their lineup multiple times."
That was more than enough for an offense that is formidable even though it received little in the series from stars Troy Tulowitzki (1-for-12) and Carlos Gonzalez (1-for-14). Sunday's 0-for-5 performance ran Gonzalez's slump to 7-for-53 (.130) in his last 13 games.
Brandon Barnes had a two-run, second inning single off Hyun-Jin Ryu (3-2) during a three-hit game, Charlie Blackmon went 2-for-4 with a double to lift his Major League-leading batting average to .402 and alertly scored a run in the fifth when Barnes enticed a rundown, and Josh Rutledge parked a three-run homer in the sixth.
"I try to think out of the box sometimes, and that run could have been huge there," Barnes said.
Additionally, Arenado had two hits while extending the Majors' longest hit streak this season to 17 games and Justin Morneau doubled twice while running his streak to 11 games.
"No doubt, you look at the stats -- me and CarGo were hitless today and we still put up some runs," Tulowitzki said. "It was huge."
Dodgers leadoff man Dee Gordon bunted for a single to open the bottom of the first. Arenado barehanded Yasiel Puig's bunt attempt to prevent another hit.
Gordon stole third, but Arenado temporarily kept him there when he fielded Matt Kemp's hard grounder and made enough of a move toward Gordon to keep him from advancing before throwing to first. Adrian Gonzalez's single gave the Dodgers a 1-0 lead.
Arenado made his signature play in the second, diving at the back corner of the infield dirt, then popping up to throw out second-inning leadoff man Scott Van Slyke.
"I told Nolan that that play was one of the top three that we have seen, and that's saying something, because there is a pretty good collection. But I've said it all year that he's as good as I have seen. He's changed several games this year with his defense."
It was the culmination of an outstanding two-way series for Arenado, a Los Angeles-area product who went 4-for-11 in the series and is 24-for-69 (.348) during his streak. The defensive work, especially the dive against Van Slyke, left lasting impressions.
"I love making plays," Arenado said. "I love helping the team out. It helps even more when we win."
After yielding two hits in the second, the only runners to reach against De La Rosa came when he hit Puig to open the second (before he was erased on a double play) and two walks. No runner reached scoring position after the second.
Even with last year's success, the Rockies pushed De La Rosa to pitch inside to right-handed hitters, noting that his 2-8 record and 5.88 ERA in 16 career games against the Dodgers was attributable to the fact their righty batters sold out for De La Rosa's outside changeup and sinking fastball.
De La Rosa never was comfortable with a "front-hip" sinker, which sometimes rode back over the plate and was crushed during the spring and early in the regular year. But De La Rosa has found comfort with a cut fastball that stayed up and in Sunday.
It added just enough of a mix so De La Rosa could put away hitters quickly. His last start, he won at home against the Giants, but needed 102 pitches to make five innings.
"I have trouble throwing inside sometimes," he said. "That really helps me a lot."
Rutledge chased Ryu (five-plus innings, nine hits, six runs) with his first homer of the year, after a Morneau double and an Arenado single to open the sixth.
"I was just hoping to get a pitch up and rive it for a sac fly, and it happened to work out for us," Rutledge said.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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The goofy, absurd horror-comedy "Bad Milo!" is a cult classic in the making. Its lo-fi charms — the cutesy-scary monster design, earnest family values and Danny Elfman-esque soundtrack — make the film feel like an '80s throwback in a way that justifies the nostalgia. But enjoyment of the film will depend on one's delight in endless jokes about one man's behind.
In an early scene, married couple Duncan (Ken Marino) and Sara (Gillian Jacobs) stare intensely at an ultrasound screen, impatient for the news that'll change their lives. "You got a thing in your butt … a little trooper in your pooper," announces Duncan's doctor. It should disappear, though, if he manages his stress.
"Bad Milo" review: A review of the film "Bad Milo" in the Oct. 4 Calendar section misidentified the Highsmith character as being played by Toby Huss. He is played by Peter Stormare.
But the "little trooper" turns out to be a feral monster, a miniature E.T. with ink-black eyes both innocent and hollow. When Duncan suffers a humiliation at work or the proctologist's office, "Milo" exits his colon to tear apart the person responsible. With the help of a therapist (Toby Huss), Duncan gradually learns to control his gremlin by treating it like a maniacal puppy — with loving coos and infuriated yelling.
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Bel Brands Presents Five New Varieties of Laughing Cow Cream Cheese
Elk Grove, Ill.-based Bel Brands USA, known for its portion controlled cheeses, rolls out The Laughing Cow Smooth Sensations Cream Cheese Spread in five creamy varieties: Classic Cream 1/3 Less Fat, Strawberries & Cream 1/3 Less Fat, Garden Vegetable 1/3 Less Fat, Cinnamon Cream 1/3 Less Fat, and Classic Cream.
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The future will show who is right, but it is very encouraging that despite the very strong move up in Gold there is still record bearishness towards this sector among investors. This is how all Bull markets have started and this New Gold Bull Leg will be no different.
Gold is pushing $1230 level today and Silver is looking at the $22.00 level. US dollar is dangerously close to 80.00 level again, which supposed to be protected. Peter Schiff: "Janet Yellen said that she wants more inflation - she will get it."
Gold And Silver Break Crucial Levels Causing Massive Short Squeeze TNR.v MUX GDX GLD SLV RGLD SWC
"As we have mentioned before, Gold and Silver has broken to the upside causing massive short squeeze. The big boyz are loaded on Gold now and we will monitor today how the mass media will be picking up the Gold story again. It will be nothing more than the info fed for crowd indicator, but it is important to watch the change in the investing public outlook. We will provide the digest of the most interesting articles from industry insiders as well this weekend updating this entry, stay tuned.
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"Koos Jansen reports on continued unprecedented appetite from China for Gold, according to his information, after the unprecedented demand of 2,181 tons of Gold from China in 2013 Chinese Gold demand hits All-Time record of 247 tons in January. Now Gold today's breakout above $1,322 level can be put in another perspective."
"We are following Toby Connor with his very interesting concept of The Great Inflation in 2014. Gold was in a breakout mood this week and finally has broken to the upside from $1270 level with intraday high on Friday at $1,322 and close at $1,319. We have now the massive short squeeze in action in Gold and Silver. Silver has broken to the upside as well on Friday closing at $21.51. Gold mining shares are making the very good progress as well.
On the chart above you can see that Gold has crossed the very important level on daily chart and moved above its 200MA at $1,309. It will bring a lot of attention of traders and shorts will be running to the exit now. Mass media will be picking up the Gold story as well now. CNBC is talking about Gold and Miners already and Jim Cramer advises to watch GDX - Gold miners ETF. Next levels in Gold to watch is $1,360 and $1,420 to complete Double Bottom Reversal pattern on weekly chart.
Silver had its massive breakout as well following the Gold footsteps this week. Next levels to watch here are $22.75 and $25 to confirm its Double Bottom Reversal pattern on weekly chart. The most important here that Silver has broken to the upside above its 200MA at $21.13 and closed above it at $21.49."
Gold Breaks 1,320: The Mother Of Short Squeeze Has Arrived TNR.v MUX GDX GLD SLV RGLD ABX GG"Gold is sending its Happy Valentines to all Gold Bugs today and breaks $1320 on the massive short squeeze. Gold shorts will have their Blood Friday now. The real reason for this move is the realisation of the groundbreaking shift in the structure of the Gold market with the unprecedented demand of 2,181 tons of Gold from China in 2013.
Janet Yellen testimony has opened the possibility To Taper The Taper and James Rickards is calling for the Taper Pause in June. US dollar is going down very close to 80.00 level again. This level will be protected, but should the US Dollar break down below 80.00 Gold and Silver will go vertical towards $1,500 and $25 respectively.
Our short Squeeze watch includes McEwen Mining and TNR Gold. McEwen Mining had 26.8 million shares sold short or 8.6 days to cover, according to NASDAQ. MUX.to has rocketed from December low of CAD1.80 to CAD3.27 close yesterday. Gold breakout will push shorts into the corner, but explosive move in Silver will have even more effect on this company.
TNR Gold is still day dreaming, but move in McEwen Mining should pull out this junior out of its misery. Los Azules Copper development will be next to watch on the back of recent M&A activity in the sector and CRB - commodity index breakout to the upside."


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What's the best workflow for managing hundreds of passwords and accounts? - David P.
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- When saving new sites, click the "Group" field to choose an existing group or create a new one
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Every moving component in a slackline tensioning system provides some mechanical resistance by friction. Pulley axles provide friction at the sheave connection point. Ropes create friction when they are forced to bend over a sheave. Mechanical brakes such as a GriGri will create friction when the rope is run through it. There are two ways to overcome this friction and add tension to your line: use more efficient equipment and increase the mechanical advantage of your pulley system. We will compare and contrast individual pulleys and their effect on total system performance. We will also discuss the fundamentals of what limits a tensioning systems performance and how to overcome these limitations.
Experimental Platform and Error Rate
The testing platform consists of a 110 of Mantra MKII webbing terminated to a variable base system interchanged between a 5:1, 6:1 and a 7:1 throughout the test (I will let you know when I change it). I chose a longer line because short lines provide less repeatability in testing results. A line of this length is sufficiently long enough to allow for a repeatability value of +/-20lbf for short-term retests (60sec) and +/-10lbf for long-term retests (5min), which is good enough for our purposes. With the exception of the static rope versus dynamic rope testing platform, all tests are of the short-term retest category. The pulley efficiency segment of this study has a testing equipment and methods imposed inaccuracy rate of +/-2% with a repeatability value of +/-2% @ 300lbf. However, because of the unique nature of pulleys, the quoted error rate of the pulley efficiency test is only applicable to this unique platform. This means that a pulley that scored 85% in my test may score 90% in your specific application.
IMPORTANT: Except for the pulley efficiency test, I terminated every test when I reached 100lbf on the pull strand. Consequently, the load values expressed in this study may appear to be relatively low for the system I am using. If you are thinking they are low, you are correct. My standard 7:1 base with a GriGri can allow me to subject 2,500lbf to my slackline even though it only shows that I got to around 1,000lbf in this study. However, yanking on the line until it is as tight as I can get it will provide hugely inaccurate test results because as tight as I can get it is not a repeatable value. However, stopping at 100lbf is very repeatable and therefore will allow me to compare every test under an apples to apples scenario.
The following photos demonstrate the base testing platform and the method used to capture and create the testing data found in this study.
Basic Theory
Pulleys have two primary functions: to create (negative or positive) mechanical advantage and to redirect the travel of a rope. To calculate mechanical advantage we count the number of strands supporting the load. The key word here is supporting the load. If a strand is not directly holding the load, it is not counted toward mechanical advantage. If the pulley is not directly holding the load, it is redirecting the load, which puts it into the redirect use category. Also you can also calculate the mechanical advantage by comparing the stroke length of the load against the stroke length of the pull rope. In other words, if it takes 10 feet of rope from you pulling on your tensioning system to tension the slackline 1 foot, you have a mechanical advantage value of 10:1 (minus friction). When multiple pulley systems are stacked on each other in parallel they form a complex pulley system. When this happens we multiply the advantage of all systems for the final mechanical advantage value.
Below we see a 4:1 base system with a standard pulley and GriGri multiplier setup. The total mechanical advantage of this system is 12:1 because the multiplier and brake form a 3:1 (3x4=12).
Okay, enough high school mechanics let us move on.
Pulley Efficiency
Pulleys naturally create friction and provide resistance because the sheave of the pulley is in physical contact with the axle. Manufacturers have two main ways to combat this issue and increase the efficiency of the pulley: use a larger sheave and use low friction material, such as a ball bearing system, to connect the sheave to the axle. The idea behind using larger sheaves is the pulley will provide more local mechanical advantage to overcome the friction imposed at the axle. Think of trying to turn a big steering wheel versus a very little one.
Calculating pulley efficiency can be tricky because the efficiency of a pulley varies depending on the load. So I chose two loads value to test, 100lbf and 300lbf. Note that these values are the load subjected on the pull strand, so the load on the pulley is approximately double, so 200lbf and 600lbf. I chose these values because a standard 5:1 base longlining pulley system will see approximately 300lbf per strand when tensioned for a shorter longline (1,500lbf total tension). The 100lbf tension value represents a slackline (as opposed to a longline) where the total tension is approximately 500lbf.
Clearly pulleys with ball bearings are generally superior to pulleys with bushings. However, it seems a large sheave can make a larger bushing pulley comparable in efficiency to a midsize bearing pulley. I added a standard oval carabiner in the testing mix to compare primitive systems to systems that use a legitimate pulley system. The GriGri efficiency test will play a key role later.
Rope Choice and Brake Efficiency
Most slackliners use static rope in their base system. There is good reason to use static rope; it will make the line easier to tension. However, does using dynamic rope actually decrease the efficiency of your pulley system? Note that the function of this test is NOT to determine the maximum amount tension you can obtain by yourself. The function of this test is to compare the systems total efficiency when using static and dynamic rope. The idea is that smaller ropes bend easier than thicker ropes and therefore will produce less friction when forced to bend around a sheave. I performed this test performed on a 7:1 base system; the exact system shown in the photos at the beginning of this study.
As you can see, dynamic rope does not appear to reduce the efficiency of the pulley system. However, it WILL make the line harder to tension because it will absorb some force when you yank on the line. So for that reason and a few others, use static rope if you can.
The secondary function of this chart is to show the differences between using a GriGri or other mechanical brake (ID, Eddy, ect) and using a compound pulley for a brake (MPD, Pro-Traxion, ect).
Using a compound pulley such as an MPD will have a HUGE effect on your ability to tension your line. Switching from a GriGri to a Pro-Traxion yielded a 20% gain in system efficiency, and the line was much easier to tension. This is because the brake functions as a pulley in your base multiplier system. Remember before how I mentioned that complex pulley systems are multiplied to calculate total mechanical advantage? Well, let us create an example. We know that the efficiency of the GriGri is about 50% at 300lbf and the efficiency of the SMC 2 (my multiplier) is about 91%. That gives a multiplier system efficiency of about 70.5%. That means our 3:1 multiplier is actually more like 2.12:1. We multiply that into a 5:1 base system, and we get 10.6:1. Next let us compare that value to a compound brake pulley system. With the Pro-Traxion we have a multiplier system efficiency of 91%. That makes our 3:1 a 2.73:1. We multiply that into the 5:1 base, and we get a total of 13.65:1. So 10.6:1 or 13.65:1. Of course the real-world values will be lower because I did not account for the friction of the base system, but you get the concept.
Total System Efficiency
In this test I will compare three base systems against three pull methods: 5:1, 6:1, 7:1 and no multiplier, multiplier with GriGri, and multiplier with Pro-Traxion. On the below graph you can see the total force subjected to the slackline as compared on the primary chart axis with the actual mechanical advantage as listed on the secondary axis. The theoretical mechanical advantage is listed below the test name. As you can see there is a direct correlation with the number of pulleys in a system and the efficiency of the system. Adding more pulleys will gain more mechanical advantage, but it will also decrease the efficiency of the system. Accordingly, I would not recommend creating a base system larger than 9:1 otherwise you are mostly just wasting your money buying more pulleys that wont add much to the system.
On this graph you can see the efficiency values of each system.
Again, this test was terminated once I reached 100lbf on the pull strand. The actual system efficiency will likely be slightly higher at greater tensions.
Brake Choice
In this final test I want to place additional emphasis on the importance of efficiennt multiplier equipment. In this test I examined four options: a base 5:1 with no multiplier, a 5:1 with a true 2:1 multiplier with no brake, a standard 5:1 base with a GriGri, and a standard 5:1 with a Pro-Traxion brake.
If you are keen you may notice that adding a 2:1 multiplier actually more than doubled the force I could subject to the line (295lbf vs 649), which should be impossible in theory because I am only doubling the mechanical advantage. This illustrates how the pulley efficiency test shown earlier transfers over to the real world. As you will recall almost every pulley I tested was more efficient at 300lbf than 100. The addition of the 2:1 multiplier increased the tension on the pulleys, which increased their efficiency.
Static ropes will increase your ability to pull a line tight, but they do not appear to increase the base efficiency of the system when compared to dynamic rope, at least not directly. Pulleys are less efficient at lower tensions than at higher tensions. Using an efficient multiplier and brake is critical to maximizing your tensioning systems performance. Upgrading to an MPD or other compound pulley should yield a fairly large increase in efficiency, at least 20%.
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What kind of difference is their between static and kinetic friction in these systems?
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What kind of difference is their between static and kinetic friction in these systems?
I have not tested this personally; however, others have. The study I saw showed that the pulleys were more efficient at slightly faster speeds of about 4FPS. I kept the rope travel speed fairly slow because that is most relevant to slacklining.
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