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A new addition to the episode guides today. A page has been added to each series listing all episodes in alphabetical order, together with the season and the year the episode is set in. This is to help you and us find the season an episode is in given it's title.25 th :
In line with the more accurate idea of canon, the forcefield, tractor beam, impulse drive, transporter, navigational deflector, replicator, warp drive and holodeck pages have been recoloured. In addition various minor spelling mistakes have been fixed, and the impulse drive page has been slightly reworded to avoid a problem James Fox told me about a long, long time ago. The stuff about laser invulnerability on the navigational deflector page has also been expanded a little, although the technobabble - created by Phil Farrands random technobabble generator - remains the same.Ships
The transwarp page has also been somewhat rewritten. Firstly, I've altered the progression of speeds from one transwarp domain to the next - previously the speeds were getting a bit out of hand high up, so I've made them a bit more reasonable. Secondly, several people have asked for a table of speeds and distances similar to the one on the warp scales page so I've added both a graph and a table. The lines on the graph are a bit jagged, but you can blame Excel for that.
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The Federation class comments page has been expanded to include some discussion of the controversy surrounding the ship.
The Galaxy class specs page has been re-coloured. The comments page has been rewritten, but still doesn't say much!
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A new CGI scan of the Prometheus goes up today.Sci-tech
A new table of TNG warp speeds is going up. This is based on a better formula developed by Henning Rogge. The table also reflects the more up to date version of canon which is slowly wending its way through the site.6 th :
Today marks the beginning of what I hope will turn into a major overhaul of ALL the ship entries over the next week or so. Primarily, the colouring is being re-worked in line with the "nothing is canon except aired material" philosophy I've been using lately. Detail changes for each ship are listed below :Images
The Ambassador entry has been largely re-written. The specs and comments page now has discussion of the changes between the Enterprise-C and Yamaguchi models, largely based on the excellent Ex Astris Scientia article.
The Centaur class sizes have gone from yellow to white
The Defiant comments page now includes some discussion of the size problem this class is famous for.
As promised, a couple of pictures for the Nova class go up today. So do a couple for the Peregrine page, and two for the Klingon strategic defence stations.Battles
An entry goes up fo the final battle of the Dominion war today. Usual blurb and images.


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One of the families I am interested in is Growden, and so I was interested in this article Identity thieves prey on everyone, advocate stresses | Local News | Cumberland Times-News:
Last week, a LaVale woman arrived home from her vacation in Virginia Beach, Va., to find charges on her credit card from ITunes. She did some further research and discovered other charges from a bank overseas. Somewhere, on her otherwise restful vacation, a thief had stolen her credit card number and made fraudulent charges. The local woman became the latest victim of identity theft. It happened that quickly.
"And that woman was me," said Desiree Growden, the coordinator of the local Communities Against Senior Exploitation program. A national effort, CASE was launched in 2002 in Denver and introduced to Allegany County through the local state's attorney's office in 2009. Growden said the intent of the CASE program is to educate people on the dangers of identity theft.
Actually, "identity theft" is something of a misnomer. The danger here is not so much identity theft, as impersonation, or as it is sometimes called in criminal law, personation. To personate someone is to assume their identity with intent to deceive. To impersonate someone is a more everyday thing, and not necessarily done with criminal intent. So, for example one gets Elvis impersonators. But what is sometimes called "identity theft" is actually, in most cases, personation.
I've often read scare stories about "identity theft", and have found that it is usually a question of simple personation. Someone who has pretended to be you has bought goods in your name, so that the account goes to you. Or they have withdrawn money from your bank account, pretending to be you.
Identity theft is a lot more serious. If someone steals something from you, you no longer have the use of it. If someone steals your car, you can't drive anywhere, but have to walk. If someone steals your identity, you are no longer you, or at least no one believes you are you. This is the kind of thing that sometimes happens in science fiction or horror stories – a man goes on a journey and returns home to find that someone has stolen his identity, and is living in his house, with his wife, and his children call the stranger "daddy", and no longer recognise their real father. That is identity theft, and of course it is personation as well. But someone who personates you in order to withdraw money from your bank account has stolen your money, not your identity. You are still you.
But there are scams that involve identity theft, and they were quite common a few years ago. One was when someone personates you to take out a life insurance policy on your life. Then they get a forged death certificate, and claim on the policy. And they might try to do several other things with it. And suddenly, to a lot of people, you are no longer you, because "you" are dead. In that kind of case, your identity really has been stolen, because even if you know who you are, nobody believes you.
But whether it is simple personation, or actual identity theft, it is still nasty, and something one needs to take precautions against.
How does it affect family history?
One example is that went I moved to where I am living now, I opened a bank account at a local bank, and on the application form I had to give my mother's maiden name. They didn't say why they wanted it, but I later discovered that if someone came into the bank claiming to be me, the bank would allow them to operate my account if they could tell the bank my mother's maiden name. Now that was really stupid on the part of the bank. They thought it provided security and would make it harder for scammers to personate their clients. But family historians know the maiden names of most of the mothers in their family, and are anxious to find out the rest. So using the mother's maiden name as a security question was really stupid. I think the banks have learnt a few lessons since then, and are not quite so naive about it. But if at the time they had told me that that was why they wanted me to put my mother's maiden name on the application form, I could have told them how stupid it was.
If one is putting a family tree in a public place, like a web site, then most programs that create them allow one to avoid showing full information about living persons, and it is wise to do that, precisely because of the danger of personation.
We have a Growden family internet forum, with a mailing list, and a place to exchange files and photographs and to share information throuigh databases. But it is a "members only" forum. You have to say what your interest in the family is before you can join.
I have sometimes had requests from complete strangers, asking me to send them all the information on the Xxxx family. My response to such requests is to ask how they are linked to that family, and whether they are related, and what their relationship is. If they can show that they actually are related, then I will gladly share family history information with them, but it must be a two-way thing. I won't give my research unless they are prepared to give me theirs. The ones who simply ask for "all the information" on the Xxxx family" might be naive newbies, who pick a branch of a family that isn't really theirs, and latch on to it, or else they are scammers looking for information to try to personate someone in the family for criminal purposes. So my rule is, don't share your family information with people who aren't prepared to share theirs with you. If you take reasonable precautions like that, you are unlikely to fall victim to personation because of your family history.
The greater danger is phishing, with phony e-mails pretending to be from your bank or something, and asking for your account and password details. I got one like that yesterday.
Dear Customer,
Absa bank technical department will be carrying out a systematic
upgrade on our Network server from 7am today to 5am tomorrow morning to
avoid hackers from accessing your online account.
To take your account through this update process,
Please click on the link below
*Note. Absa Bank will not be responsible for loss of funds to online Phishers
as a result of failure to comply with this new directive.
You will also need to verify your TVN upon request.
Thank You
But hovering the cursor over the URL they asked you to click on showed this:
Now why would a South African bank (where I don't have an account anyway) have an address at a web site called "thoughtbroker.com.au"? That's a dead giveaway, and it's as phishy as hell.
And some of the phishers are even more naive, and send their bogus messages from webmail addresses like gmail or yahoo. No reputable bank would send a message from an address like that, though some of the victims of the phishers are apparently even more naive, and fall for that sort of thing.
To get back to family history: be careful, but don't be paranoid. Within the last month I've made contact with four distant cousins, in either my family or my wife's, because they discovered links either on this blog or on one of our other family web sites. And because we've agreed to share information, once we have established the links, we've learnt a lot more about hitherto unknown branches of our family, and so have they about theirs. If we'd been over-suspicious, we might have missed a lot.
But a few years ago I had a couple of strange and rather frustrating encounters with over-suspicious family history researchers. One (no names, no pack drill) complained that I had posted information about "their" family (which was mine as well) on the web, and said I ought to have informed them of this, when I hadn't even known they existed. But they themselves had posted family history queries on all sorts of web sites and magazines, without informing me, and it was in fact through one of the queries that they had posted in a magazine that I had managed to make contact with them at all, and discovered descendants of a branch of the family that connected with mine in the 1830s. They mentioned concerns about identity theft, but posting family details from the 1830s is hardly likely to help identity thieves, and they had posted more than I had. It was rather sad, because by sharing information we could probably both advance our research.
Another example was even more strange and frustrating was correspondence with someone I knew only as "visionir", and was researching the Stooke family. I mentioned which branch I was interested in, and got this reply:
I have that branch quite straight and have been in contact with the
descendants of the children Mary and Sarah.
The William I am claiming was 7, in Love Street, Clifton in 1851.
His father was Thomas age 38 born Westbury, Salop.
The Mary in question was my great grandmother, Mary Barber Stooke who married William Allen Hayes, and the Sarah was her sister. I didn't have that branch quite straight, and wasn't in contact with their descendants, and would dearly love to learn more, but "visionir" wasn't telling. In that case I don't think it was oversuspiciousness or malice, but just being rather scatty and disorganised, and assuming that everyone already knew everything that they knew. Eventually I did manage, about 10 messages later, to get out of him/her that Sarah Stooke had married someone called Charlie Parker who kept a pub in Bristol. And I wasn't able to help "visionir" much because the information he/she gave was too disconnected to make any sense of.
In neither of these cases did the people concerned use computers to keep track of their genealogy, though they did use the Internet to contact others. This led to some weird assumptions. For example the first lot took offence that my genealogy program put my contact address at the bottom of a family group sheet I sent them to show what I had on that branch of the family. They accused me of "claiming" their research. I think that is carrying the hermeneutic of suspicion too far.
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Survivor's Morgan Explains Her Mean Girls Comments: "I'm Not Ageist"
So much for not burning bridges in the Survivor universe!
Survivor: Cagayan's latest castoff, Morgan McLeod, went out in a blaze of glory pettiness Wednesday night, badmouthing fellow contestant Kass McQuillen for being "bitter," "ugly" and "40." (¡Que horror!)
Reflecting on her comments this week, McLeod stops short of saying she regrets making them, but admits that she probably should have thought twice about making some of her remarks.
"I maybe said some ageist comments," Morgan told TVGuide.com this week. "I'm not an ageist. I made some mean comments at a time where I was really, really upset. But I don't hate her."
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Check out our full exit Q&A with Morgan to get her thoughts on why she wasn't surprised to be eliminated and which player she believes is the one making the biggest moves in the game.
At a certain point, you seemed to kind of embrace the fact that some of the other tribe members weren't really taking to you. Were you surprised to get voted off?
Morgan: I really wasn't surprised. I kind of knew. That whole day, I had been preparing myself for the reality that I was possibly getting voted out that night. When it happened, I just wished Tasha good luck and I said goodbye. I made the jury. I can't regret this. I'm proud of myself.
You and Sarah are the first two members of the jury. Did you have a bonding moment?
Morgan: Sarah and I had a blast together at Ponderosa. ... We had so much fun. I was doing her makeup, we were just eating and eating. It was a full bar, so we were just having a blast together.
You guys faced some pretty tough conditions, especially in the first part of the season. Was it somewhat a relief to get voted off?
Morgan: I wasn't relieved in the sense that it was like, 'Thank God I'm off the island, it's over.' But, everyone is a little happy that they can finally eat and have some food and have a bed. Sleeping on bamboo for 22 days is the worst thing you can possibly do for your back. It is so painful. So I was just happy to have those comforts back, but of course I would have loved to stay in the game and possibly win a million dollars. But, that's how my game happened.
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You apologized on Twitter for what you called a Mean Girls moment. Were you posturing for the camera, or do you really believe some of the things you said last night, about being used to people doing things for you because of your looks?
Morgan: I feel like I said some things that were a little mean, and some people definitely did not like it. But I also said some truthful things that maybe people just don't want to admit. Like when I said that comment about, if you could choose between ugly and cute, people would choose cute. I think that that's a truthful thing, but maybe it just isn't the right thing to say and maybe not for all of America to hear. I'm getting some heat on Twitter. I had some Mean Girls moments, but I mean, that's just who I am. People who know me know that I'm not just this malicious girl, but it kind of came across that way.
You and Kass certainly clashed in particular. What was the issue between you two?
Morgan: After the merge ... we were having a blast on the beach. We were all getting along, telling stories. She told us pretty much her whole life story, which is a story in itself, and I was laughing, having a great time with everyone. And then when she flipped and Sarah got voted out, I just started to ignore her. I didn't really engage in yelling at her when we got back from Tribal. You can see Spencer was the one that was kind of in her face. I just lay down. I didn't want any part of it. I just didn't want to fight with her. I ignored her. And then, she took ignoring as being mean to her, as you can see. We kind of got into a little tiff about getting water. But yeah, I just thought, I'm mad. I'm really upset with her. I do not like her, so I'm just going to ignore her instead of causing mayhem. But ignoring her I guess made her extremely uncomfortable. And Tony and the alliance and all them, they wanted Kass to feel really comfortable and great, so I had to go.
Were you as shocked as everyone else was when Kass flipped last week?
Morgan: We were shocked. We all thought we were strong. For her to say that we ignored her and that we were mean to her, that is all in her head. We were fine. So, when she flipped, we just could not believe it. And, who would do that? You have so many people that do not like you anymore. ... I thought it was a dumb move.
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Was Sarah's elimination the most surprising to you so far?
Morgan: Oh my gosh, absolutely. We were so confident, and it was just a complete blindside. And I was so sad that she got voted out, because she was such a great player.
A lot has been said about you and some of the other ladies not pulling your weight around camp this season. Is that fair?
Morgan: For them to say that I do absolutely nothing, I think that's an exaggeration. I will admit that Jefra, Alexis and I on the Beauty tribe definitely got used to having the boys do everything. And they didn't complain. They never asked for us to do anything.
Alexis said the same thing.
Morgan: Oh yeah. The boys would wake up super early and cook rice and then wake us up. ... They never said anything and they never complained. So, I got used to it. And then, when we merged, I helped. I did. Maybe I wasn't, like, the workhorse. I wasn't the main person getting the water, cooking the rice. But I helped when people needed help.
Did you just underestimate the value of the social game?
Morgan: I think that I could have played a better social game, but when you're so hungry and you're dehydrated and you're all alone, you feel like there's no one that you can just completely trust. I kind of just wanted to be by myself at times. It was rough being around everyone 24/7. I think that if I was ever to play again, I know that I just have to suck it up and be happy-go-lucky all the time.
Were you irritated that you were chosen to sit out of certain challenges?
Morgan: That was just so annoying, because I thought I was doing well in the challenges. There was never a challenge where it was like, Morgan blew it. I always performed and I always held my own. I think when we merged, they saw my outer appearance and they're like, "Oh, Morgan, why don't you sit this one out?" I'm like, "No, you don't understand. I actually can do these challenges." But, I sat out and I don't think it really affected my game at all. What if I did blow it? Then people would hate me even more than they maybe already did. So I don't think it really hurt me.
Is there anything you would have done differently in the game?
Morgan: In my last episode, [Wednesday] night, I maybe said some ageist comments [about Kass]. "She's 40," blah blah blah. I'm not an ageist. I made some mean comments at a time where I was really, really upset. But, I don't hate her. I don't hate anyone on the tribe. I'm sorry I upset some people, but I was just telling how I feel. I don't regret anything.
Who do you think is the biggest threat in the game going forward?
Morgan: Being in the game and now getting to watch it, I didn't realize that Trish was actually making moves and playing the game. So I think Trish is a threat. I had no idea. I thought she was just a follower of Tony's, but she's doing well.
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Making The Grade
Why you may be wrong about what's right about chipping.
The Rose and the Vampire, Just Do It. These route names roll off the tongue. Each climb has a place in history, both for what it meant to the sport, but also because it has the characteristics of a climbing "classic." All are singular lines that tackle stunning features in grand positions. Yet each of these grand climbs also share a trait you many not know about, or if you do you might choose to ignore—each was deliberately chipped to go free.
Most climbers are openly hostile when expressing their opinions about chipping, maintaining a dogmatic disdain, yet hold manufacturing is a practice as old as climbing itself, and it would be an understatement to say that climbers are a bit schizophrenic on the subject. Why?
This essay presents what most climbers consider anathema—a limited defense of chipping. It was excerpted from the new book Climbing—Philosophy
for Everyone: Because It's There.
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Climbing and philosophy intersect with regard to the ethical behavior of climbers. Some of the ethical issues in climbing
involve a straightforward extension of more general moral principles. For example, it is wrong to lie about your climbing accomplishments because,
more generally, it is wrong to lie. However, other ethical issues involve factors that are unique to climbing and cannot be resolved by invoking broader
moral rules. Is it wrong, for example, to place bolts on rappel? Is it cheating to use pre-placed gear on a traditional pitch? For these sorts of questions,
broader moral rules do not apply in a straightforward way, and we must work out for ourselves what is right or wrong within the context of climbing.
When doing this, we can tailor a form of practical ethics for climbing. Traditionally, practical ethics has been the search for rational solutions to important
problems we confront like climate change. However, practical ethics can be applied to less weighty matters such as rock climbing. While each climber
needs to decide for himself which rules to abide by, it doesn't follow that anything goes or that a simple majority opinion is decisive. It is certainly
possible for climbers, just like anyone else, to embrace rules that are ill-conceived or that don't really make sense. Thus, by using practical ethics
we can ask if certain longstanding rules or attitudes should be revised or even abandoned.
Here I'm going to do this with regard to the issue of hold manufacturing. By applying some of the same strategies that are common to practical ethics,
I'll show how popular attitudes about hold manufacturing are unreasonable and out of sync with other common attitudes and practices in rock climbing.
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Practical ethics does not require an esoteric formula. Instead, like all good philosophy it simply involves thinking carefully about a topic in a critical
and coherent manner. Yet it turns out that people aren't very good at this. Instead, studies reveal that people reason in a manner that is driven
by biases, embrace beliefs that are incompatible with other beliefs, fail to think about what their views entail, and endorse fallacious arguments.
Consequently, good practical ethics can be both helpful and yet disturbing and iconoclastic, revealing how our ordinary views on a topic we thought
we understood are mistaken. Practical ethicists often serve as social critics, challenging conventional assumptions and attitudes. One of the ways
they do this is by revealing how some of our commitments conflict with other attitudes we hold. Practical ethicists often upset the applecart of
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To begin, let's reflect on the nature of the hold-manufacturing controversy. Unlike most debates, this one is not fueled by two equally outspoken camps.
With few exceptions, virtually no one openly defends hold manufacturing. In climbing literature there appears to be almost universal consensus
that any form of manufacturing is bad. Indeed, even in one of the few defenses of manufacturing, a notorious 1990 essay, the practice is described
as "fundamentally terrible" and "degrading."
So given the apparent consensus, in what sense is there a controversy? The controversy exists because despite the open expression of anti-manufacturing
sentiments, hold manufacturing occurs on many new routes. In other words, common statements are in conflict with common actions,
resulting in a deep incongruity about the way some rock climbs are developed. This odd double standard is often reflected in popular descriptions
of various routes.
Take, for example, The Nose as a free climb. It is generally known that, besides the various pin scars that make certain cracks free-climbable,
there is a section of the free variation—what is often described as the "Jardine Traverse"—where the holds used by all free climbers
have been chiseled into the granite. So, on the one hand, it is widely claimed that routes with manufactured holds are tainted and that manufacturing
should never be done. Yet, at the same time, a route that is made possible with manufactured holds is widely regarded as one of the greatest free
climbs in the world. And this is true of many routes throughout the globe, in many popular destinations. Le Rose et le Vampire at Buoux,
Bronx at Orgon, or The Crew at Rifle, to name just a few, are generally viewed as classics or groundbreaking achievements, even
though their existence depends, at least in part, on a style of route preparation that is openly deplored.
What should we make of this? One possibility is that manufacturing holds is indeed always profoundly wrong, and we often just choose to ignore this.
But I think a more plausible diagnosis is that, despite the overt indignation over manufacturing, we really aren't clear about what, exactly, is
wrong with it. Upon deeper reflection, the popular arguments against manufacturing are unconvincing and don't hold up to close scrutiny. In other
words, the reason manufacturing still occurs is because the condemnation itself is not properly justified. Indeed, if we employ practical ethics
with regard to hold manufacturing—that is, if we commit ourselves to careful and consistent reasoning—we wind up with an analysis that
suggests, at least in certain circumstances, manufacturing should be regarded as acceptable.
How would such an analysis go? Replicating a common strategy in practical ethics, the first premise would express a general normative principle that
most climbers believe about acceptable practices in route development. The second premise would claim that hold manufacturing is a legitimate application
of this principle (and thus an anti-manufacturing attitude is in conflict with the accepted principle). The conclusion would be that manufacturing
in some circumstances is an acceptable practice. Here is such an argument:
(a) There are circumstances such that, in the preparation of a route, modifying the rock to make it climbable is acceptable.
(b) The set of circumstances in which rock modification is acceptable sometimes includes the manufacturing of holds.
(c) Therefore, the manufacturing of holds is sometimes acceptable.
While (a) might initially strike some as implausible, I think it is easy to show that it is a principle that most climbers embrace. The more
controversial premise is (b). Of course, (c) follows directly from (a) and (b), so if you accept those two premises, you need to accept (c).
Before we evaluate premises (a) and (b) we need to clarify a couple of things. First, we should get a little clearer on what is meant by "hold
manufacturing." There is obviously a continuum of different rock alterations that have been described as hold manufacturing, including unintentionally
creating holds with pitons, reinforcing existing holds with glue, "comfortizing" holds or aggressive cleaning, and of course, flat-out drilling
holds in blank rock. Not much rides on how broad we make this continuum, so let's stipulate that manufacturing includes deliberately drilling
pockets to create climbing holds.
Second, we need to specify the sort of circumstances I have in mind when I claim that manufacturing is acceptable, as I certainly don't believe
it is defensible in every situation. Because so many climbers appear to have a zero-tolerance attitude, we can be fairly conservative while
remaining revisionist. It is impossible to give a detailed description of all acceptable manufacturing scenarios, but we don't need to. Instead,
we can describe the prototypical scenario and later worry about how far it is acceptable to stray from that. Let's say the archetype of acceptable
manufacturing involves preparing an unclimbed sport route in a sport-climbing area that has mostly high-quality climbable sections but also
segments of blank rock. To link the climbable sections a limited number of holds are manufactured in the blank sections. That is the paradigm
the following argument is intended to defend.
The truth of (a)—rock modification is acceptable—is easy to see once we consider general attitudes about the removal of loose rock
by the person who prepares the route. When bolting a route it is almost universally agreed that it is acceptable to remove any loose blocks,
crumbly or muddy rock, creaking flakes, and so on. Indeed, the removal of loose rock is generally treated as obligatory. Route equippers who
do not remove loose rock, especially on sport climbs, are often chastised. Since the removal of loose rock is clearly an instance of modifying
the rock to make it climbable, then modifying the rock to make it climbable is something that practically everyone finds acceptable.
Premise (b)—acceptable rock modification sometimes includes manufacturing holds—by contrast, is something that, as noted, most climbers
explicitly reject. Why should anyone accept this premise?
We know that a climbing-specific normative principle embraced by most climbers says it is OK to modify the rock to create a climbable route. The
removal of loose rock is one such type of modification, and (b) claims that the manufacturing of holds is another. Someone who rejects (b)
has the burden of presenting a compelling reason for thinking that hold manufacturing should not be treated as on a par with removing
loose rock. Simply claiming it is wrong, and leaving it at that, won't do. Below are four popular reasons that are commonly given for rejecting
Reason 1: Rock Modification is Acceptable Only for Safety Reasons
Attitudes about the removal of loose rock stem in part from the potential danger it presents, and from a broader moral principle that you should
not place others in unnecessary risk. The route preparer has an obligation not to expose subsequent climbers to unexpected hazards, and that's
why removing loose rock is acceptable. But this justification does not apply to the manufacturing of holds, and thus (it is claimed) (b) is
This initially seems like a good reason to treat hold manufacturing as different from removing loose rock. However, two points undermine the relevance
of safety. First, not all forms of acceptable removal involve material that is potentially dangerous. Included in (a) is a general attitude
that route preparers can and even should remove poor quality, flaky or dirty rock that may not pose any real hazard but that can nevertheless
make the climbing unpleasant. A similar attitude applies to dirt, vegetation, lichen and weeds that might be found on holds or in cracks. Route
preparers are described as having done a bad job if they leave obviously loose material on the route, even if the material can't really hurt
anyone. Consequently, it is widely acknowledged that acceptable modification of the climbing terrain extends beyond safety concerns.
Second, the main choice confronting the route preparer is not between ignoring a potential hazard to others and removing that hazard.
After all, if no route is established, the loose rock will pose no real danger. The real choice is between establishing a route (whatever that
requires) or simply walking away and establishing no such route. The upshot is that it really can't be claimed that modifying the rock in this
way is necessitated by safety concerns, since there are always other options available such as only establishing routes on solid rock.
Reason 2: Hold Manufacturing Violates Important Environmental Commitments
Most climbers have a perfectly legitimate concern for preserving the natural environment, at least as much as possible. Manufacturing is often
described as environmentally unsound because it alters and "disrespects" the rock. Thus, it should not be treated the same as removing loose
Respect for the environment is indeed good, but we already accept that our use of the outdoors involves changing the environment in various ways.
Trails to the cliffs, bolts in the rock, permanent anchors for rappelling, and the removal of loose rock and flora all involve a widely accepted
modification of nature so that we can go climbing. It is hard to see why an environmentally driven concern for the rock would distinguish between
the removal of loose rock and removal of solid rock to make something climbable. Moreover, it is hard to see why the removal of lichen, weeds
and grass isn't more environmentally dubious than manufacturing, given that it involves killing a living part of nature (notice that,
from an environmental perspective, killing a tree is considered more serious than smashing a rock on the ground).
Some agree that we sometimes need to alter nature for our purposes, but insist that there is a continuum and that hold manufacturing is at the
extreme end of that continuum, beyond an acceptable level of environmental impact. I have no problem with the idea that there is a continuum
of environmental impact, and that there is a line we should not cross. What I reject is the proposed ordering that places manufacturing further
down the continuum than other things we find acceptable. In comparison to trails, bolts, chain anchors, chalk and the excavation of loose material,
hold manufacturing on blank sections of rock is probably one of the least environmentally impactful aspects of rock climbing. You
might be tempted to say that hold manufacturing permanently alters the rock, whereas things like chalk are only temporary. This is
unrealistic thinking. Take a hike through Smith Rock, Eldorado Canyon, the Motherlode at the Red, or virtually any other popular cliff with
darker rock, and from the trail you will see the obvious chalk on the wall that has been there for the last 20 years, and will continue to
be there for several generations. In truth, it is easier to fill in a few drilled pockets than it is to wash all of this "temporary" chalk
off the walls.
Reason 3: Hold Manufacturing Harms Future Generations of Good Climbers
Another argument that initially seems plausible is a forward-looking argument about the future of the sport. Here, it is claimed that by manufacturing
holds to make a route possible today, preparers are robbing future generations of currently inconceivable natural lines. Had today's 5.15bs
been "chipped down" to mere 5.14s, the Sharmas and Ondras of the world would now have nothing to project.
A number of considerations undermine this reasoning. First, in our description of acceptable manufacturing, we stipulated that proper modification
only applies to truly unclimbable rock, such that no future climber could ever climb it. In discussions of this topic, there is a lot of fretting
about discerning what is and isn't unclimbable rock. Statements like "Who's to say what is unclimbable?" and "No one really knows what will
be possible in the future" are commonplace. Nonsense. While it is indeed true that people are climbing things today that were once described
by some as unclimbable, it doesn't follow that unclimbable rock is impossible to detect. Unless you are completely ignorant of physics and
human physiology, it is easy to recognize sections of rock that will never be climbed in their current form. If you think it is impossible
to recognize truly unclimbable rock, let's make a deal. I'll pick out a 20-foot section of rock on a cliff somewhere and declare it unclimbable.
If, in the next 15 years, it is actually climbed in its current form, then I will pay you $10,000. If it is not climbed in that form, then
you must pay me $10,000. Any takers?
A stronger response to this concern is to recognize that a general acceptance of hold manufacturing will significantly help, rather than hinder,
future generations of climbers. At any given point in time, including future points in time, there is a lot more unclimbable rock in the world
than just barely climbable rock. Pick whatever grade you think might be the cutting edge for some future generation. 5.17d? Okay, there is
a great, great deal more rock out there in the harder-than-5.17d range that could be converted into a 5.17d than there is rock that is
naturally 5.17d. So, if your concern is that the future 5.17d climber won't have enough routes to do, then you should endorse a pro-manufacturing
attitude. Note, this point applies to any future grade and any future generation. While I'm not suggesting that this is an
especially good argument for manufacturing, I am claiming that the concern-for-future-climbers argument is a bad argument for opposing
all hold manufacturing.
Finally, this criticism of rock modification is partly grounded in the assumption that it is always done to make the climbing easier—to bring
the rock "down" to a lesser climber's ability. In truth, there are lots of climbs where holds have been chipped off a route to make
it harder. Here again, rock modification beyond the removal of loose material actually benefits, rather than hinders, the top climbers.
Reason 4: This is a Slippery Slope; Any Acceptance of Manufacturing Will Lead to Abuses
A final argument against manufacturing (one that is also grounded in legitimate concerns) stems from the idea that any sort of tolerance of manufacturing
can lead to all sorts of abuse: the destruction of great, natural, really hard lines, or the modification of existing routes.
The problem with this argument is that it has nothing to do with the issue. Of course, most things done badly are bad. But that has nothing to
do with the propriety of the practice done responsibly. Note that few people think the existence of bad bolting entails the need to abolish
all bolting. Route preparers who engage in irresponsible and gratuitous manufacturing await the same condemnation as those who engage in irresponsible
and gratuitous bolting. Because my argument is a defense of the limited sort of manufacturing described above, the possibility of other kinds
of manufacturing is largely irrelevant. Remember that irresponsible manufacturing sometimes occurs now; our current condemnation hasn't
prevented it from happening.
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These four standard arguments for rejecting (b)—limited chipping is acceptable rock modifiation—are, upon reflection, not compelling and fail to support a case against manufacturing. The anti-manufacturing attitude does not accord with other things most rock climbers believe, like the acceptability of modifying the rock to make it climbable. Given that those latter beliefs are deeply entrenched, the former attitude should be abandoned. Our conclusion (c), the claim that the manufacturing of holds is sometimes acceptable, is the sensible view. Let me wrap up by considering a couple of other points.
First, isn't there some sense in which a non-natural route is inferior to a completely natural route? Yes, I think that, all else being equal, a purely natural climb is usually better and more appealing. In most outdoor pursuits, the more that is provided by nature, the better. As with snowboard jumps, kayak runs, mountain-bike paths, and so on, a naturally occurring medium in rock climbing is superior to one that is contrived. But it is important to understand the sense in which it is superior. A route with manufactured holds is on a par with one that has, say, poorly positioned bolts or awkward moves or wildly inconsistent difficulties. In all such cases, we do not think the route preparer was being unethical to establish such a route. We just think that the route has some features that detract from its overall quality. This is the attitude that should be applied to routes with reasonably manufactured holds.
My final point is this. No doubt many of you are reading this and getting increasingly angry about my defense of manufacturing. You may be thinking, "Some yahoo is going to use this as a license for chipping holds." But if you reflexively think that manufacturing is always bad, then you haven't been paying attention. Given the deficiencies of the anti-manufacturing outlook, you should instead be considering the possibility that your outlook is more of a bias without proper support. Indeed, given how often an anti-manufacturing attitude is defended by appeals to nothing other than tradition, or that "it just is wrong" (with heavy foot stomping), it resembles other forms of dogmatic thinking.
Consider this: if you are a serious climber who climbs relatively hard sport routes, there is a good chance that you have done a route with at least a few manufactured holds. Moreover, there is also a good chance that despite the manufacturing, climbing the route was gratifying and rewarding. Now what should the appropriate attitude be toward the route preparer, who spent time, money and energy so you could have that experience? Does it really make sense to view the preparer with condemnation and scorn? That seems unappreciative at best, and at worst incoherent. Or is it instead more sensible to recognize that it is sometimes acceptable for preparers to modify the rock so other climbers can have the sort of experience you had? The latter position, I have come to appreciate, seems far more reasonable and philosophically defensible.
Bill Ramsey teaches philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been climbing for 33 years, and while he has never chipped a hold, he has sometimes enjoyed routes on which others have.


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CLI Spells for the Raspberry Pi
This Page is a Quickstart for CLI on the Raspberry PI.--Brian 09:13, 20 April 2012 (UTC) Back to Beginners Page
- 1 Why Do I Need the CLI?
- 2 General Syntax of Commands
- 3 Task cd. Navigating the file system using "cd"
- 4 Task ls. Listing the files and Folders in a particular place
- 5 Task Chown Change Ownership of directories and files
- 6 Task $ sudo. Invoking commands as an admin user
- 7 Task $ su - Becoming the admin user
- 8 Task $ touch. Create a new empty file
- 9 Task $ mkdir. Create a new empty directory
- 10 Task $ rm. Remove a file
- 11 Task $ rm. Remove a Directory
Why Do I Need the CLI?
(CLI-Command Line Interpreter)
Raspberry Pi ships with a version of Linux. The CLI is run from the GUI by running a treminal or if there is no GUI running and the RPi is working, then the CLI is running on your screen.
The Raspberry PI ships with a GUI. Running the XServer & Windows Manager (The two bits of software that give you a GUI) takes up a lot of Processor Power and Memory. A Raspberry Pi doing some task or other may well have no screen at all and you may manage it remotely using a remote log in to a terminal. You do not want to be running a GUI unless you need it.
Windows and Mac users are generally guided away from the CLI hence this Quick start Guide.
The quick answer to "why do I need the CLI?" then, is that the CLI is going to be a very useful tool for Raspberry Pi users.
To use the CLI you need to know commands and the default command set is contained in the "shell" you are using. There are Lots of shells out there and the one on this Raspberry Pi is Bash Wikipedia Bash Entry.
To find the syntax for a command do an Internet search for the command or find a Bash Quick Reference Card. Here, each command has a link to the Wikipedia entry for that command.
If you want to know how to use commands without using the Internet then use
$ man <command> or $ info <command>
from the CLI to be sent to a page of guidance.
The guidance given by "man" is sometimes a bit formal to the point that it could be said, "if you think you know a command then go to the command's man page in order to find out that you don't really".
General Syntax of Commands
Commands take the form
<Command> | -<Switches> | <Parameters> | <Target>
<> are often used in Syntax guides to indicate that the <> surround a place for a command rather than a command. | is used to denote OR or Optional so in the line above we read that a Command can be used on its own but may be followed by Switches (single letters, preceded by a hyphen that adjust what the command does), Parameters (Things that the command needs to know in order to work) and a Target (The thing that the command will be applied to).
e.g. "ls -l /home/brian" means List in Long Format (the -l switch) the directory (target) /home/brian
mount -F smbfs //workgroup;fred:email@example.com/homes /mnt/net
Means use the username fred and password foo (parameters) to make the shared drive called homes on the Windows server at 192.168.1.99 (parameter) appear in the directory tree at the point /mnt/net (target) using the Server Message Block Filing System (the -F switch)
The file system in Linux is Hierarchical with nested directories. (Often called Folders) in a "Tree". The top of the directory structure is "/" and Directories underneath / are referred to using "Paths" just like urls in a web browser. To go to a particular place in the directory structure you use cd. e.g. cd / will take you to the top of the Directory Tree
To go to a particular place use cd followed by the location in the tree.
cd /home/brian/Documents will take you to "Brian's" home directory Documents Folder. File & Directory Names are Case Sensitive in Linux
To go one Directory "Up" the tree then do "cd .."
Task ls. Listing the files and Folders in a particular place
$ ls list all the file in the current directory. $ ls -l list all the file in the current directory and display the long version of the information about each file or directory. The output may be colour coded depending on the terminal preferences that you have set. ls -l tells you (amonst other stuff) the size, owner and security setting on each file. Other useful invocations are ls -R Recursive. i.e. list contents of sub-directories as well as this directory. ls -A Show "Hidden" Files. ie. Hidden files are file names that start with a dot which in Unix GUI file navigators are (by default) hidden.
$ ls
An_Gott_und_meine_Mutter.mid Domestic Programming Test.mid
An_Gott_und_meine_Mutter.mscz Engineering Quantum Physics Tutoring
appliances FluidR3_GM.ins School Windaz
$ ls -l
total 336
-rw-rw-r--. 1 brian brian 2429 Apr 2 20:27 An_Gott_und_meine_Mutter.mid
-rw-rw-r--. 1 brian brian 4085 Apr 2 19:52 An_Gott_und_meine_Mutter.mscz
drwxrwxr-x. 4 brian brian 4096 Apr 2 20:38 appliances
-rw-rw-r--. 1 brian brian 10919 Apr 2 19:52 brotplot.odt
drwxrwxr-x. 7 brian brian 4096 Apr 5 21:26 Consultancy
drwxrwxr-x. 2 brian brian 4096 Apr 2 19:52 Desktop
Task Chown Change Ownership of directories and files
In the Long List above, the files are owned by Brian and are alos in the Brian Group. $ chown fred brotplot.odt will result in this result in ls -l
-rw-rw-r--. 1 fred brian 10919 Apr 2 19:52 brotplot.odt
The file is still in group brian but is owned by fred
$chown foo:foo brotplot.odt will result in
-rw-rw-r--. 1 foo foo 10919 Apr 2 19:52 brotplot.odt
The group has change also. See Also chgrp
Task $ sudo. Invoking commands as an admin user
This command introduces the SuperUser or root user. Many commands are only permissible to the root user and by invoking sudo before a command, you are saying "do the following command as the root user". When you do this, you will be asked for your password and if you have system permissions (commonly called beinmg in the admin group) to be a root user then the command will be run. If you do not then a message will tell you so.
There is another way of doing things as root user and that is by using
Task $ su - Becoming the admin user
which stands for "substitute user" (or SuperUser) & as invoked here means "become the root user". From this point on, all command run as the super user. Invoking this command will cause you to be asked for the root password. Some systems do not allow this to happoen in a default install in which case you have to enable the root user. When you enter passwords in Unix like systems, you will not see asterisks or anything at the prompt but the password is being entered nevertheless. If you habitually do everything as the root user, eventually you will do something both educational and disasterous. For example, you could invoke
"rm -r -f /* " and delete all the files in the whole system.
$ rm -r -f ./* would just delete the files in the current directory. You do not usually get warnings as root user. (Other than this one).
Task $ touch. Create a new empty file
Go to where you want the file to be and invoke
$ touch <filename>
Task $ mkdir. Create a new empty directory
Go to where you want the directory to be and invoke
$ mkdir <Directory Name>
Task $ rm. Remove a file
Go to where you want the directory to be and invoke
$ rm filename
Task $ rm. Remove a Directory
Go to where you want the directory to be removed
$ rm -r -f <Directory Name>
This will remove the directory, all its contents and also any sub directories.
== Task Mount == Mount (connect to) A device or Filing System
Mount is the way in which you connect a Unix system to external devices. There is no "C" drive as in Windows. What happens in Linux (& FreeBSD/OSx) is that a device is mounted in the filing system somewhere and when you navigate to that place. The items offered by the device will appear at that point.
This is a complex command. The switches, parameters and target of the Mount command will vary according to the protocol of the system being mounted. Some things will automount. This is why, when you plug a SDcard into a modern Linux, the filing system will automatically pick it up.
Manual Mounting requires a "Mount Point". That means a directory which will be filled with the mounted device when it is mounted. Often, this is in the directory /mnt/ somewhere.
Generally, first ensure their is a mount point, if not then create a directory at the point needed. e.g. $ mkdir /mnt/netfolder
The issue Mount with the necessary switches, parameters and directories.
e.g. From above.
mount -F smbfs //workgroup;fred:email@example.com/homes /mnt/net


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One wouldn't expect the owner of a small chain of tea-centric restaurants to be particularly thrilled about Starbucks' entry into the tea market, with its purchase of the Teavana chain last year, but Jesse Jacobs, the owner of San Francisco's three Samovar Tea Lounges is surprisingly enthusiastic about it. 'It's a recognition that tea is the next big thing,' says Jacobs, who opened his first tea lounge 13 years ago. 'I see it as a good thing. It validates the growing market for tea.' And tea is trending with a capital T. A quick scan of the aisles at the grocery store provides further proof, with a mind boggling array of teas encroaching on coffee's territory, including two Bay Area produced brands: Numi Organic Teas out of Oakland and Novato-based The Republic of Tea. According to the Tea Association of the USA, the wholesale tea industry has grown from an estimated $2 billion dollars in 1990 to an estimated $10 billion in 2013, and that number is expected to almost double over the next few years.
Speaking rapidly, partly because of his passion for the subject and perhaps because he'd just spent the morning sampling 30 different varieties of tea from Nepal, Jacobs indicated the increasing demand for tea is due in part to mounting evidence of its health benefits as well as growing interest in quality artisan foods and beverages. But tea, with all its varieties – from green to black to oolong to the somewhat funky, fermented pu-erh – can be intimidating. Christopher Coccagna is a San Francisco-based tea sommelier and owner of T-We Teas, where he crafts his own tea blends. Like Jacobs, Coccagna helps customers navigate the complexities of tea, teaching them how to taste, brew and even pair teas with food. Even without access to a tea expert, there are plenty of resources for those interested in learning more about tea and food pairings. Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, the authors of 'What to Drink with What You Eat' (Bulfinch, 2006), say those who enjoy wine are likely to also enjoy tea. Pairing it with food follows similar guidelines: Lighter, green teas pair best with things like seafood and chicken, while stronger black teas go well with beef and spicy dishes.
The growing taste for tea isn't limited to just what's sold in cups, either. Trend forecasts show it's spilling over onto dinner plates, and into desserts and cocktails in particular. Andrew Freeman & Company, a San Francisco-based restaurant and hospitality consulting firm predicts that 'tea-tails' will show up on more and more beverage menus as mixologists turn to tea and tea-based liqueurs to expand their repertoire. From the Earl Grey-infused gin used in a 'Marteani' at Martin's West in Redwood City to the Lady Marmalade, a blend of Qi white tea liqueur, brandy and citrus at the The Village Pub in Woodside, tea is already proving to be a tasty addition to a tipple. Tea cocktails can be as simple as brewing a pot of tea at home. Coccagna created several winter cocktails using tea and milk for the Got Milk campaign because of the two ingredients' natural affinity. His favorite is the White Russian Caravan, a concoction of smoky Russian Caravan tea, vodka and coffee liqueur, with a milk float. Master mixologist Jim Meehan has a recipe for a party-perfect green tea and rum punch that's little more than brewed tea, rum and lime juice.
Chefs use tea leaves and brewed tea, not just because it's trendy but because the tannins in tea complement the fats in things like meat and dairy, while adding subtle flavor. Tea has long been used in dishes like the classic Sichuan tea-smoked duck and tea-leaf salad, a popular offering at Burmese restaurants in the Bay Area. At Samovar, Jacobs uses tea in rubs for fish and poultry, as well as the basis for a brothy, Japanese-style soup. Tasting menus at the Michelin-starred Baume in Menlo Park and Manresa in Los Gatos have both recently featured tea. Manresa's David Kinch serves squab with prunes in black tea, and his much-heralded first cookbook, released last year, features a few recipes using tea, including smoked salmon roe in a black tea and bonito jelly. Creamy and chocolaty desserts are a common vehicle for tea as well. Green tea ice cream is almost standard at Japanese restaurants, and green tea macarons are popular at Chantal Guillon shops in both San Francisco and Palo Alto. Bergamot-laced Earl Grey tea also makes regular dessert menu appearances, popping up in panna cotta at San Francisco's Fifth Floor and in the cr me Anglaise served with the chocolate souffle at The Village Pub. And chocolatier Julia Anderson infuses ganache with Earl Grey for one of the chocolates offered at her Los Gatos patisserie, Fleur de Cocoa. But for devotees like Jacobs and Coccagna, tea is more than an ingredient in a dish or even a drink. It's a lifestyle. 'In an era dominated by distraction and cell phones, tea helps us connect with our humanity,' says Jacobs, whose menu invites people to turn off their gadgets and spend time communicating face to face over a cup of tea. Coccagna echoes that, saying tea is about community and collaboration. 'Typically you share tea with someone,' he says. 'There's beauty in that exchange.'


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Barnett's providing as foster parents
The Hillsdale Department of Human Services would like to recognize Larry and Becky Barnett. Larry and Becky have been foster parents for three years and have had six placements in their home. The family resides in Litchfield.
Larry has worked at the Hillsdale Daily News for 13 years and Becky works at Country Living Adult Foster Care. She previously worked at the Litchfield Nursing Center until they closed. The couple has three adult children; Tonya (28), Larry Jr. (26) and Amanda (24) and four grandchildren; Ethan, Alyssa, Kiely and Audrey.
Larry and Becky began fostering as a relative caregiver for their great niece and decided to open their door to other children in need. The Barnett's have recently adopted three children; Noah (4 1/2), Rain (4) and Jayden (2 1/2). Noah is enjoying the Upward Basketball Program and Rain is involved in the Cheerleading Program. Larry and Becky try to involve the children in community activities as much as possible.
The Barnett's continue to foster because they feel that every child needs a loving family. Larry and Becky have a strong love for children and enjoy their role as foster parents and now adoptive parents. Larry and Becky hope that more Hillsdale Co. families will open their doors to help a foster child because there are a lot of children in our community that need a loving home. Thank you to Larry & Becky for all you do to help children in need in Hillsdale County.
If you would like more information on becoming a foster parent in Hillsdale County please contact Rebecca Belcher at 517-932-8801/ email@example.com. The next information meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. at DHS-40 Care Drive, Hillsdale.


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Front Runners List: Click to see list completion progress by climbers that log their climbs using Peakbagger.com.
Compare Climbers: Click to compare ascents of up to 5 climbers working on this list.
Cedron Jones is perhaps the most prolific peakbagger in the history of Montana, with over 1000 ascents of peaks in the state to his credit over many decades of exploring its huge variety of mountains. In 2011 he wrote a new guidebook, Peakbagging Montana, with climbing information for 53 of the most prominent, interesting, and representative peaks in Montana, based on his intimate knowledge of the subject.
This list, while not based on any objective criteria, has several virtues. It does not contain as many relatively flat peaks and "liners" as the Montana county high point list, it has fewer peaks than the daunting 143 on the 2000-foot prominence list for the state, and it has more geographic diversity than the 11,000-foot peak list, which is inordinately focused on the Beartooths.
There are still many stiff challenges on this list, and only skilled scramblers comfortable on Montana's notoriously crumbly rock will be able to complete it. Under ideal weather and route conditions, no peak on this list will require a rope for peakbaggers comfortable with class 3 terrain with occasional bits of class 4. Still, many peaks require multi-day expeditions and solid wilderness skills. The peaks in Glacier National Park and the Beartooths in particular can be difficult.
Thanks to Cedron Jones and Chris Cauble of Riverbend Publishing for putting together the list and the Peakbagging Montana book.
Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.
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