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SIUE Love Connection - Tom & Shelley Niedernhofer
Tom (Thomas) R. Niedernhofer - 1980 BSE - Civil Engineering HR Urban Search & Rescue Program Manager - US Army Corp of Engineers
Shelley (Mary) Niedernhofer (Wells) - 1983 BSE - Civil Engineering Design & Construction Program Manager - National Park Service Currently living in Oakland, California
Q. Tell me about your experience at SIUE.
Tom: I started attending the fall of 1975. I lived in Alton so I commuted for three years, and I moved into the Esic apartments my last year. I was one of a group of four who commuted-my brother Paul Niedernhofer ('77 BSE Civil Engineering), Mark Wakeford ('81 BS Mass Comm) and Bill (William) Cassiday ('79 BS Business Admin/Accounting). I went to junior high and high school with Mark and Bill. Starting out, I knew that I wanted to major in engineering. I grew up from day one in an engineering family. My dad drew me to the field. He had a career in engineering, and it seemed like the right kind of organized life for me. I started in the electrical engineering field. After two quarters, I transferred over to civil engineering along with a friend of mine and I got into structural engineering. The transfer put me a couple of quarters off, so I graduated in March of 1980.
Shelley: I started in the fall of 1978. I graduated from high school at an early age, I was only 16. I started at Belleville Area College at the age of 17, and I was studying psychology. I only attended one year. I wasn't emotionally ready at the time to be attending college or studying psychology, so I took a year off. I started in SIUE in 1978 and, after my experience at Belleville, I wasn't interested in studying psychology again. I was always good at math and science, so I decided to give engineering a try. There aren't any engineers in my family so it was completely new to me. Tom was a good influence because he was studying the field, too, and we had other similar interests. I had a good experience on campus overall. Compared to my first school experience, I thought the university setting was better. It was a lot more diverse and the curriculum was better suited for me. The level of instruction was very good, and a lot of the classes challenged me. After graduating in '83, I felt like I had a pretty good start as an engineer. Compared to other engineers, I thought I had a better fundamental background, and I could pick up projects better.
Q. Why did you choose SIUE?
Tom: Proximity and cost. My dad was going to pay for tuition if I maintained a B or better which meant that I could never get a C in a class. I blew that in the first quarter. When I started at SIUE, tuition was $168.70 per quarter. I could rent my books, gas was cheap, and it was only a 35 minute drive from Alton. There was a lot going on in the Edwardsville area. It was a friendly campus, it was a small campus, it was a great school and it wasn't easy. SIUE was a good school with a great reputation. The engineering professors were great. Those guys were really tough. I mostly remember Dr. Alfred Korn (retired) and Dr. Harry Duffey (retired). They were both tremendous individuals, they were hard and they would not cut you any slack. For those reasons, they made us turnout the way we did-they prepared us for the engineering field.
Shelley: I lived with my parents in Highland and commuted back and forth. I had to pay for college and worked full-time while I attended. Going to SIUE was the only way I could afford to go, and I'm glad I did it. I was one of the very few females in the engineering department at the time-there was maybe one to two percent at the time. Dr. Korn and Dr. Duffey would kind of ride my butt. I was a pretty strong B or C student. I could have been an A student if I didn't have to work outside of school. But, I never felt like I got a break from these guys. At the end, Dr, Korn said, "You know we gave you a hard time, but you had a really good attitude so you'll do great." In hindsight, I'm really grateful for that because, in the engineering industry, women weren't accepted as much back then like they are today. Those teachers were preparing me for that. Now that I've experienced it, I'm really grateful for that. Not only did they teach me the principles of engineering, but they were also teaching me very valuable lessons about my future career.
Q. How did you first meet?
Tom: I first met Shelley in 1978. I saw her one day walking through the rec center. Back in those days there was a national craze in foozeball. Some of the older students were really serious about it and the school used to host national tournaments. These guys were jaw dropping players. You could go over to the rec center during break and watch them play, and that's where I saw Shelley for the first time. I went and got my guys and said, "Hey, you have to see this girl."
Shelley: I grew up with foozeball after living in Germany, so I was just watching them play. After we met, we realized we had very similar interests. Tom is really into restoring old Porsche cars, and I used to live up the street from the Porsche factory in Germany. When we met, he was telling me about his cars, and I could respond quite a bit. So, we had common interests and become good friends.
Tom: While we were at SIUE, we hung out and did stuff together, but we mostly hung out as friends. We went on a few dates after I graduated, but then I moved out of the area in June of 1982. After graduation, I had gotten a job in Belleville at IDOT, but I wasn't getting to do the kind of structural engineering that I wanted to do. So, I took a job down in Fort Meyers, Florida, at a structural design firm. We worked on buildings with one to 20 stories. There was no way that we were going to be able to date long distance, so that's the circumstance that made us take different paths.
Shelley: We were good buddies for a long time. I didn't hear from Tom after he moved away. We were so young back then. When I graduated, I got married and moved to England for a little while. Then, I came back to the States with my husband and lived in Denver. I worked at a large waste water treatment plant in Denver. I then switched jobs to the National Park Service. I got divorced in 1995 and met Tom again in 1996. I was visiting some old girlfriends.
Tom: It was in 1997. I had moved back to the area in 1986 because I got a job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. They had a big office in St. Louis, and they were looking for structural engineers. A friend of mine contacted me and got me back to the area. Shelley came back for her twenty-year high school reunion. She tried to get some of her SIUE buddies together to play golf, so I met up with her during the Fireman's Picnic on Main Street in Lebanon.
Shelley: We had these reasons to keep communicating, and our friendship just started to re-grow. We sort of stayed in touch through work stuff. It was weird how we kept crossing paths. We had a mutual friend, Holly Stone, who worked in the search and rescue area and worked with Tom. Through that, it seemed like we kept reconnecting a lot. We later found out that we had traveled to all of the same places for work-we even stayed in the hotel in San Francisco and didn't know it. I later took a job with the Grand Canyon and managed their design program. I moved to Flagstaff in 2001. Tom ran into Holly Stone again around that time, and she encouraged him to visit me in Flagstaff.
Tom: That was around October of 2002. Shelley ran triathlons for fun, so I went to Flagstaff to watch her. Holly was still in contact with her at the time and told me to look her (Shelley) up, so I did.
Shelley: After that, we talked frequently through email and phone calls…just stayed in touch.
Q. Tell me about the proposal. - engaged in December 25, 2002
Shelley: When he came out in November, it was as if we were back in our college days. It didn't seem like time had passed. Tom was on a temporary assignment in San Francisco and asked me if I would come out for Christmas. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco - sunny, no fog. The shuttle dropped me off in the square by the fountain (of Tom's apartment building) and Tom came down to meet me. We went up to his apartment, and we were talking. When he proposed, it wasn't as if he got down on one knee like a knight in shining armor. He did it the Tom way which was the perfect way. He looked at me and said, "What if we got married?" I said, "Are you asking me?" He said, "Not yet, we're just talking." It's just like Tom to want to make sure things are in perfect order before you move forward. So, he waited a little later and asked, "Will you marry me?" And, I said "yes!" Later we went to dinner at the beautiful Italian restaurant and sat on the balcony. Then I had to figure out what to do about a job. I was blessed to transfer with the National Park Service. I called the people in the regional office and told them I was getting married and moving to the area. They created a position and hired me. It was sort of like it was meant to be.
Q. Tell me about the wedding.
Tom: We got married in March of 2003 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It's a quaint little town that has a European flair to it. It seemed like everything just lined up perfectly. I don't know why life takes the path that it does. When we reconnected that Thanksgiving, I had never been married before. Not that I didn't try, I just didn't try hard enough. Things were never right. This seemed right. It seemed like we picked back up from SIUE. Of course, now, she gives me too much work to do around the house. She's such a good person.
Shelley: I knew back in college days that we should have been married but we were way to young back then. You don't always see stuff as clearly as when you're older. We have so much in common. We couldn't figure out where to get married. Tom was from St. Louis and I had lived in Denver. A lot of my friends and family lived there and more lived in Flagstaff. Neither of us wanted a big wedding. So, we decided to get married in a beautiful place. We invited our close friends and family. We were married in the gazebo in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and it was really beautiful. It was the first day of spring, so the flowers were beautiful…the calla lilies, the daisies…just beautiful. And, it's been beautiful every since. We spent our honeymoon in Germany. Tom had a friend who lived in Denmark, and he let us borrow a 356 1959 silver Porsche coupe and drive it around. We put 2,000 miles on it!
Tom - Work History
When I graduated in 1980 and went to Florida in '82, I was designing buildings one story up to twenty stories. It was great work, but we didn't get a lot of time off. I also knew that I wouldn't be able to buy into the company. So, I thought that I would try something else and ended up with the Corps of Engineers in St. Louis. They had a tremendous structural engineering branch in the St. Louis office. And, they do great work up there. I've also worked on a lot of other jobs that come on with emergencies around the country.
Do you remember the earthquake in '89, in Loma Prieta, California, when part of the Bay Bridge fell down? The federal government asked the Corps to send engineers out to do post-damage structural assessment. That earthquake created the first need for urban search and rescue in that area. I was so intrigued by how much damage the earthquake had caused that I kept coming back to those types of disasters. When you would volunteer to do response work, your regular job stops. You might be out 14 days or 30 days and then eventually return to your other job. When these national disasters happen, government agencies are responsible for the repair work or damage assessment. In 2002, I was asked to come out and manage the urban search and rescue program for the Corps of Engineers. Prior to 2002, I worked as a volunteer with the program.
When I came out to help set up the position in San Francisco, they asked me to write a job description and position description at the end of my assignment. They then asked me if I was going to apply for the job. They convinced me to take a chance and try something different in life. So, that's what got us to California. I moved to San Francisco, proposed to Shelley and she relocated with me.
Tom has also worked on rescue response for Hurricane Andrews, Northridge earthquake and other disasters. He was the leader engineer for the night shift at the Oklahoma City bombing. He also worked after the 9-11 World Trade Center disaster.
Q. What advice would you give to current engineering students or recent graduates?
Tom: Dr. Duffey was probably the one guy who gave me the best advice. At the end of my sophomore year, we had a heart-to-heart talk. I used to work to pay for school, and I also spent a lot of time working on my cars, so school was slipping away. Harry said, "You made it this far, you need to buckle down and finish this up, because you'll never regret it." I would say the same thing to current students: work hard. If you're at SIUE, you're already at a great school. Take it and run with it for all it's worth. It's just a tremendous school, and I've been so lucky in my career. I never thought that I would work for the Army Corps of Engineers, but I do. I've gotten to travel all over the world, and I'm not done. It's amazing what you can do with an engineering degree. What you do at SIUE is the foundation for the rest of your life.
Shelley: I'd give the same advice as Tom. Just don't quit when it seems really tough. Push through it, and finish your degree. Engineering curriculum is really rigorous. I can remember working and trying to finish my homework late at night, and it seemed really trying. But just push through it. Also, I find my work at the National Park Service to be really rewarding. My career has taken me on a path I could have never planned. So, I would tell students to not discount public service. Some of the facilities that I've worked on will be enjoyed by millions of people from all over the world. I'm not doing any of the things that I thought I would do. But, I guess that goes to show that life happens when you're busy planning it. I try to put myself back to where students are now. It was all about survival back then, getting to the goal, making enough money so you can pay for college. After that, life is an empty palette. You can make it whatever you want it to be. At the time, I would have never expected life to turn out the way it did. A lot of it has to do with SIUE and the opportunities that it provided for me. I think that's a big message to the students who are as we were, struggling to make it through the curriculum.
Tom: Shelley worked with Jimmy Carter-she helped build a facility in Plains, Georgia and got to meet Jimmy and Rosalynn. You never know where public service will put you. Where else would you get that experience?
Shelley: I've been in same room as George W. Bush, and I've met many of the Secretaries of the Interior several times. I've been places where people normally spent a lot of money to vacation there, and I've been there for work. I've hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim several times. I've flown over Lake Meade. The list goes on. While doing all of that, I've been involved in an effort to build these facilities for the public to enjoy. I've help build places where people can find peace and refuge from their everyday lives. As soon as I started working for the National Park Service, I feel in love with the agency. Our uniforms are green and gray, so we like to joke that your blood starts to flow green. When you have a bad day at work, it's never bad enough to make you want to leave the service. So, I would say, don't discount public service because your work can be far more rewarding than the money you earn. It can be more important to have an impact on our nation than to have a really, really high salary.
Tom: A few months after I graduated, I was still working for this guy who had a tremendous restoration shop-he worked on antique Mercedes. Dr. Dan Coty (retired) stopped by and my brother was in the shop at the time. He said, "You guys are new graduates, and you want everything right now. You have to be patient because it will come." He was right. We did expect everything right now. We wanted all of the money, the great jobs, everything, right away. We wanted everything that life would eventually bring us after time and hard work. The friends that we've made at SIUE are still our good friends. We all have the same memories, same common goals. The friends you make in college are your friends for life.
Tom and Shelley attended the SIUE Alumni Networking Reception in San Francisco in September of 2009.
Tom: We didn't know any of the other attendees, but we realized that we had common friends and acquaintances. We all had the same foundation, because we all attended SIUE.


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Curry School Grad Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
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Jenné Vanessa Nurse of Richmond, who graduated in 2017 with an undergraduate degree in psychology from the College of Arts & Sciences and a graduate degree in elementary education from the Curry School of Education, is one of 16 University of Virginia scholars who will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year – a record number for UVA, which recently was cited among the top producers of Fulbright recipients in the nation. She will be an English teaching assistant in South Africa.
She said her interest in South Africa blossomed when she was in elementary school.
"Growing up, my world view was limited to the corner store bodegas and backyard barbeques typical of Queens, New York," she said. "But my perspective drastically changed when I met my childhood best friend. Originally from South Africa, she tapped into my imagination with stories of her home country.
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"Children are the carriers of truth and legacy; by exposing them to such diplomacy through one-on-one interactions, we ensure that the premise of the Fulbright program lives on, outside of the traditional sense, for generations to come."
At UVA, Nurse received the Image Awards Outstanding Mentor Award, the Curry School's Caitlin R. Folan Graduate Fellowship, the Ladies in Leadership Award, the Community Foundation of Central Virginia Scholarship, the UVA Harambee Academic Award and the University of Richmond National Pan-Hellenic Council Alumnae Book Award. She was president of the UVA chapter of the NAACP, a Class of 2016 trustee, a senior peer adviser for the Office of African American Affairs Peer Advising Program and a member of SABLE, a secret society on Grounds.
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Q: How to disable Android Studio network activity after pressing the run button Every time I press the run app button while connected to the internet Android Studio is sending or fetching something from the internet casing delay while building/compiling the APK file before the app is installed in the device. If I disconnected  the internet while its doing this the app will run immediately. Gradle auto sync is disabled and I press Sync every time after editing dependencies.
Now, writing and testing code in Android Studio is considerably slower while connected to internet. Is there a way to disable this in Version 3.3.1

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A: Go to: Settings(CTRL+ALT+S) -> "Build, Execution, Deployment" -> Gradle -> Offline work

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BARSTOW, Calif. (VVNG.com) — Mercy Air, a division of Air Methods announced the opening of a new base that will provide air medical services to the Barstow Community.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 11 – Mobile commerce firm Copia has launched its e-commerce website in Kenya that will allow customers to purchase and have their goods delivered outside of Nairobi.
The e-commerce platform, copia.co.ke, will facilitate the delivery of products like household goods, electronics, farming tools and construction materials in Central Kenya, parts of Rift Valley and soon to Western Kenya.
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There are other issues for me in attending a church in which a variety show has taken precedence over the gifts and moving of the Holy Spirit, and the fact that what is coming from the pulpit is not preparing anyone for much of anything except a guilty reach for their wallets and some compulsory service for something that parallels the local Jaycees efforts.
This got me to thinking about the question: Why attend a church where the gifts aren't recognized?
All here should know what I mean by "the gifts"... I'm talking about the supernatural ones mentioned in 1Cor 12 and elsewhere.
I can certainly understand the leadership limiting the gifts under certain circumstances, but to become yoked to a church that doesn't provide an atmosphere that would allow tongues, interpretation, etc., would seem an exercise in futility. What is to be gained by attending that type of church?
Can anyone truly say that the mere attendance trumps not attending under those circumstances?
What would be the minimum requirements that would constitute a God-ordained Church?
I agree. If they dont believe Christ manifests himself to his people theres no point. In ideal circumstances the minimal for a Church to be recognized is they have the full foundation doctrine. That is extremley hard to find right now.
Aren't you missing the point of true "Body Ministry"? Aren't we told in Eph 4 that the purpose of apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors and teachers was to equip the saints (you and me) for the work of building up the Body of Christ? Isn't it time for us to be teachers of the Word, and not to just be looking for a cookie cutter church like Faith Assembly was in it's day?
How is it you can have "body ministry" without the gifts? Do we define the church, as such, by the presence of one or more of the teaching gifts? Secondly, it is a stretch for one to use the appellation of "teacher" if their curricula doesn't encourage the biblical exercise of the gifts.
Speaking of stretching definitions, using "cookie cutter" cannot in any way describe FA unless we can routinely redefine words to mean whatever we want... e.g. a "baker's dozen" is computed by subtracting thirteen.
Here is an article I saw out of the Kalamazoo Gazette – date July 6,2008. With some of the discussions it would seem some might find it Really interesting.
A survey of 35,000 people by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released June 23 indicates that more are taking a nondogmatic approach to faith, believing there is more than one way to salvation and multiple ways to interpret the teachings of their faith traditions.
One way or many ways?
The survey findings pose a particular challenge to conservative religious bodies, such as evangelical Christian churches, that present Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation and eternal life. That is a challenge the Rev. Larry Kiser, pastor of Richland Bible Church, is more than eager to take on.
``I agree that there is a movement away from dogmatism and away from denominationalism. In the past few decades, the movement of church growth among interdenominational and nondenominational churches is astounding,'' Kiser said.
Seven in 10 survey respondents said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life, a view expressed by a majority of every religious affiliation except Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon groups.
Don Van Hoeven, of Montague, who served as a Reformed Church in America campus pastor at Western Michigan University from 1967 to 1994, expressed this inclusive view in a 1996 Gazette Viewpoints essay. The essay led to disciplinary action by the denomination.
``I was admonished and rebuked because I was speaking to the experience that now 70 percent of persons within the Christian community believe,'' Van Hoeven said.
The survey showed that the United States has a widely diverse religious landscape, with affiliations of every kind. The largest groups included evangelical Protestants (26.3 percent), Roman Catholics (23.9), mainline Protestants (18.1) and unaffiliated (16.1).
``Muslim identification may be the biggest surprise, especially in view of large conversion claims; just six-tenths of 1 percent of the population,'' said Paul Maier, a professor of history at Western Michigan University who has studied and written extensively on religion.
The increasing diversity has not yet wiped out the regional dominance of particular affiliations, such as the strong Reformed influence in West Michigan, the Lutheran accent in the Upper Midwest and Mormon prevalence in Utah and neighboring states. Kiser said West Michigan may be slightly more conservative than the rest of the country is, but he said it is not as conservative as the South, where he was a pastor for 20 years.
The Pew study found that more than half of Americans regard religion as very important in their lives, regularly attend religious services and pray every day.
These results, along with the high levels of affiliation, are a stark contrast to the religious climate in Europe, Maier said.
``Active churchgoers are minuscule in number -- so much so that some predict that Europe will be the first agnostic civilization in history,'' he said.
Van Hoeven said he hopes the survey results signal an America that is becoming more pluralistic and accepting of people who hold different religious beliefs.
``What Pew is saying for me is that there is less acceptance of making people who are not like us in their religious views into second-class people. Churches who expound that are going to be more marginalized, limited and shrinking,'' he said.
To Kiser, the survey suggests a future American Christianity with sharper dividing lines between exclusive and inclusive views of salvation through Christ alone.
``That line of demarcation will probably become even more clear. I still believe with all of my heart that because Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, was crucified and rose again, that this sets him apart from all other religious leaders.
Sometimes God uses unexpected ways to show us His love and grace. Last night I recieved an e-mail that after listening to for an hour or so and having been blessed greatly, I was reminded of one of the things I really miss about attending church, WORSHIP OF JESUS with fellow believers. Yes we can worship wherever we are,yet there's nothing like anointed praise and worship.
Maybe I was just dry and in need of something to remind me of who He is and just who I am, but I was blessed and thought maybe it would bless others. It's music by Casting Crowns and the video is on youtube, you can click on other songs after each one is finished at the bottom of the screen. I have this CD, it's about 5 years old and I hadn't listened to them in several years. Hope it blesses you guys as much as it did me.
Several years ago the Lord nudged me to prepare to write a book about why we can know that Jesus is the only way to heaven. I have been distracted somewhat, because I have other projects I am working on, but I believe that the book will be written. The target audience will be Christians, nominal or genuine. It is essential for us to know what we believe and why we believe it and stand against the deception in this area. The "onliness" of Jesus is a basic tenet of Christianity, and if we compromise this area we destroy the foundation of it. I talk to my kids about this matter whenever there is a teachable moment to do so, because I am concerned that so many of the younger generation in the church have bought into the "many paths" nonsense, and I am determined that my kids are going to have a good foundation for their faith.
If you have any good resources that I can include in the book, please send them my way and I will try to view them. There is a host of good apologetic material out there, and I'm always willing to find more that I can get my hands on.
Years back many never heard of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit – today with the Charismatic movement most have at least heard about it and the gifts.
If churches and or individuals reject it, Tongues in particular. It is grounds to question their salvation.
Why? Acts 10:45 & 46 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus' last commandment he gave the disciples before his ascension was that they should wait for the promise from the Father!! That commandment seems to be forgotten about today.
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Judges order big cut in California prison population
August 7, 2009	9:12 AM CST
Saying that jamming more than 150,000 inmates into facilities designed for just over half that number has resulted in health care so poor it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a panel of three federal judges Aug. 4 ordered California to slash its prison population by more than a quarter over a two-year period.
The decision confirms the panel's preliminary ruling in February that the intense crowding, which has prisoners sleeping in triple-deck beds in gymnasiums, halls and day rooms and often puts one guard in charge of monitoring large numbers of inmates, is the main cause of the abysmal health care situation. The judges said that in the last four years, an inmate has died needlessly an average of once a week.
The panel pointed out that California officials had not fulfilled previous orders to fix the overcrowding and the health care system. They ordered the state to develop a detailed plan within 45 days, to cut the population in the state's 33 adult prisons to 110,000 within two years. This would still leave the prisons at 137.5 percent of designed capacity.
The judges maintained the cuts could be made "without a meaningful adverse impact on public safety" and without releasing inmates "indiscriminately" by assigning minor parole violators to local treatment, electronic monitoring or work-furlough programs instead of returning them to prison. They also suggested trimming sentences of low or moderate risk prisoners who participate in work, education or rehabilitation programs.
"In these overcrowded conditions, inmate-on-inmate violence is almost impossible to prevent, infectious diseases spread more easily, and lockdowns are sometimes the only means by which to maintain control," the panel said in its 184-page order.
"The medical and mental health care available to inmates in the California prison system is woefully and constitutionally inadequate, and has been for more than a decade," the order said.
Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration, and Republican legislators, quickly said they each would file appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. But prison reform advocates welcomed the ruling.
"We think it is a historic decision that should shift the tide in California corrections in a more sensible direction," Rebekah Evenson, a staff attorney with the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, said in a telephone interview. She said the state's "unsustainable" expansion of its prison population over decades, and the resulting inability to provide inmates with "even the most basic health and mental health care" were issues the Prison Law Office had raised in the lawsuit that led to the panel's ruling.
Evenson said those who claim such an inmate release would endanger public safety are "absolutely wrong about that." She said California imprisons "huge numbers" of parolees for technical violations and has a number of other policies and practices that are "completely out of step with the rest of the country."
The issue of prison overcrowding figured prominently in just-concluded negotiations to bridge a $26 billion gap in the state's general fund. Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut the prison population by 27,000 and at the same time cut prison spending by $1.2 billion was rejected by Republican legislators. The legislature will resume discussion later this month on how to cut the prison budget.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said of the panel's ruling, "The case for reform cannot be any clearer. We will return in August to produce reform that saves money, protects public safety, and takes back the control of our prison system."
But Sen. John Benoit, R-Palm Desert, vice chair of the Senate's Public Safety Committee, called the release of inmates "a horrible way to accomplish anything except higher crime rates."
The three judges on the panel were Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Federal District Court judges from California, Lawrence K. Karlton and Thelton Henderson. Three years ago Judge Henderson appointed a receiver to manage the state's prison health care after finding inadequate health care was causing an average of one inmate death per week.
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We launch our weekly look at cool crossover gadgets with a rock-solid iPad mount.
Some of the highest-quality gear I've ever owned has come from companies that don't cater primarily to the consumer market—they mainly supply industrial, commercial, military, or extremely niche customers. They might recognize crossover appeal of their products and sell them to consumers, or they may spin off versions of their bread-and-butter stuff for the consumer market. Every Monday we're going to feature products such as these—items you may not have heard about but may indeed find extremely useful in your real-world, non-industrial life.
Beware, though—you're entering the realm of companies that don't typically do a lot of hand-holding. A few hallmarks of such firms: decent, but not flashy, websites; packaging with few, if any, graphics; and, instructions that are either non-existent or which possess an extraordinarily high degree of assumed knowledge on the part of the user. These are the photocopied how-to's that seem to take for granted the fact that you a) already know what you're doing, or b) are smart enough to figure it out.
Another dead giveaway: their products are top-notch.
I found one such company, RAM Mounts, when I was looking for a way to securely attach my iPad to my treadmill and NordicTrack. (This so I could watch Netflix movies while exercising.) The Seattle-based firm manufactures secure, high-grade mounting systems for computers, monitors, and assorted mobile devices. Their primary markets include police and fire departments, military branches, aircraft operators, transport companies. etc. You can guess how tolerant those markets are of crappy products, so I had a feeling this group's stuff would be solid. I was right.
Naturally, RAM Mounts' expertise being what it is, it has a line of ultra-secure mounts for iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices. The website has a somewhat bewildering array of part combinations and mounting options, as well as thoroughly cryptic product descriptions, so you should probably email the company and ask what they recommend based on how you want to use your iPhone or iPad—whether it's in a moving vehicle, some stationary rig, on a bicycle or motorcycle, or, as in my case, affixed to a piece of fitness gear.
Once you do sort out what you need, it's pretty much up to you to study all the parts and figure out what goes where. You'll be rewarded, though, as the results are impressive. I've used with mounts purchased from big-box retailers and assorted aftermarket suppliers, and invariably they droop, "crawl." or just flat-out fall off. Not this stuff. I ordered both a suction-cup ($50) and rail-mount (also $50) for the iPad. The twist-lock suction cup (you twist a heavy-duty ring to activate the suction) can be attached to glass, obviously, such as in a car, but also a variety of smooth metal and plastic surfaces. It sticks like glue, and seemed to work fine suctioned to the panel of my treadmill. (Experiment without the iPad attached at first.) The rail-mount system clamped securely onto my NordicTrack and clearly has no intention of letting go. (There's also a quick-release version you can bring to fitness clubs, etc.) Snapping the iPad into the heavy plastic tray requires a degree of oomph that was both reassuring and satisfying—it's clear that even this cradle is engineered for heavy industrial use. Your device will not fall out. Period.


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Virginia Tech Hokies (11-1) vs. Boston College Eagles (6-6)
December 21, 2022 6:30 pm EDT
The Line: Boston College Eagles +8.5 / Virginia Tech Hokies -8.5 ; Over/Under: -
The Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles meet Wednesday in college basketball action from Conte Forum. Virginia Tech is 11-1 overall this year. The Hokies beat Grambling State in their last game. As for Boston College, they're sitting at 6-6 following a win over Stonehill. Check back all season long for free college basketball picks at Sports Chat Place.
Virginia Tech has just one loss to Charleston so far. Otherwise the wins have come over Delaware State, Lehigh, William & Mary, Old Dominion, Penn State, Charleston Southern, Minnesota, North Carolina, Dayton, Oklahoma State and Grambling State.
Matched up against Grambling State on Saturday, the Hokies didn't have too much trouble. Virginia Tech was up 34-25 by halftime and cruised to the win 74-48. Sean Pedulla led the team with his 21 points and six assists.
Over on the Boston College side, they've managed victories over Cornell, Detroit, George Mason, Wyoming, Rhode Island and Stonehill. The six losses were to Maine, Tarleton State, Nebraska, Duke, New Hampshire and Villanova.
Last Tuesday in the Stone hill game, the Eagles went into the break up 35-26. Boston College was outscored 30-28 from there but still won 63-56. Leading scorer Jaeden Zackery managed 16 points with three rebounds and three assists.
PICK: I'll lean toward Virginia Tech in this one. The Hokies put together another nice win over Grambling State in their last game, shooting 51 percent from the floor, going 40.7 percent from 3-point range (11-of-27) and snagging 31 rebounds. Virginia Tech has managed 70 or more points in four straight games; the Hokies should post a good total here as well. As for Boston College, they got a much-needed win over Stonehill in their last game but didn't look great doing it. The Eagles are just 1-4 over their last five outings, scoring 67 or fewer points in four of those. I don't think they'll stick around for long in this game.
Andrew's Free Pick: Virginia Tech Hokies -8.5
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We have a real problem here with wild birds eating our seedlings. They love broccoli, lettuce, beans, beetroot, silverbeet, corn – they even pulled out some of our onions and garlic!
Don't get me wrong, I love the birds – satin bowerbirds and purple swamphens are the main offenders – I just wish they'd leave our gardens alone!
Time for some defence structures.
I did a bit of thinking and some online research, and decided to rig up some simple bird nets over the beds. I cut 50cm (~18 inch) lengths of concrete reinforcing bar ("reo") and drove them partially into the ground around the garden bed, just deep enough so that they were secure. I got the reo bars from the garbage tip – 8x 2m bars for $5. I love the tip shop!
The beds are 1m (3 feet) wide, and I placed the reo bars about 1.5m (5 feet) apart along the length of the bed.
Next I cut 1.8m (6 foot) lengths of 19mm (3/4 inch) poly irrigation pipe, and formed arches across the bed between opposing reo bars. They were surprisingly sturdy.
I bought some 4m x 4m (13 foot square) bird nets from Bunnings (about $5), and cut them in half so they're 2m x 4m. This length and width nicely spans the bed and covers 3 pairs of hoops (i.e. a 3m (10 foot) long bed), with enough left over at the ends to reach to the ground. I cut up wire coathangers to make the pegs, and pinned down the sides and ends of the bird nets.
As you can see in the photo below, the end hoops get pulled inwards a little. I'm going to hammer in some tomato stakes to hold them up straight.
The end result looks pretty good, and so far is working really well to keep the birds out. They keep the free-ranging chooks away as well. Of course, these bird nets will only be good for low-growing plants (lettuce, broccoli, carrots, beetroot, strawberries, etc). I've built a different kind of net structure for the tall stuff like corn and tomatoes – but that's another story.
If you have a choice, the white bird nets seem to be better for this stuff. Black nets look nice because they're almost invisible, but that means that the birds can't see them and they'll get tangled up. Then you either have unnecessary slow deaths, or the thankless task of trying to untangle an ungrateful bird while avoiding its beak and claws.
How do you protect your gardens from birds? I'd love to hear about other cheap and simple solutions!
I hadn't thought about the colour of the nets before! But you're so right, the very reason black seems attractive to us is the same reason it doesn't really improve the situation.
@JulieG: I didn't realise the colour mattered either, until a friend pointed it out to me! Makes sense, though.
My main bird problem has been with Blackbirds. They love digging for worms in the most inconvenient places. They redistribute the mulch burying seedlings in the process. At times they have also, almost, uprooted established shrubs as they dig completely around the trunk of the plant – especially after watering.
We have to net our berries but were too late with the blueberries last summer and lost our first half-decent crop.
I have now started to use bird netting over my cabbages and broccoli – to see if it helps reduce problems with caterpillars. The net (hopefully) will keep the butterflies out so no eggs can be laid.
@Tim: We bought some nylon lace curtain material at the second-hand markets to try over broccoli plants. It's fine enough to exclude butterflies and moths, and was very cheap. I suspect they might be able to get through bird netting, though.
You need a sturdy wire mesh, around a metre wide. Less cheap than net, but very durable. 2.Cut lengths, I'd imagine about 2.5 metre, enough to make an arc of the desired height.
Attach flat 'side panels' of the same wire mesh to either side of your arc, and cut off excess.
You now have a wire mesh dome which holds its shape and is easy to lift and move. Works well for us, though I'll certainly try your design for beds we don't need to access so often.
Funny how in some areas birds are no problem; in others, they can destroy everything you plant.
Here is a thought. Because cabbage moths look for the shape of the cabbages/broccoli etc. maybe the white bird netting will confuse them?
The net looks fine. I also bought a net for my vegetable garden but still got no time to install it. But this one looks good, thanks for giving me an idea.
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We had the same idea on almost the same day 🙂 – across the indian ocean – http://ecofootprintsa.blogspot.com/2010/09/its-finally-spring-time-in-cape-town.html. I did it for insect / snail protection – only have a problem with birds going after our grapes.
Would love to know how you sorted out the corn and tomatoes (and grapes) problem.
@Dani: Cool, I like what you're doing with the yard! I'll post something soon(ish) about how I'm protecting my corn and tomatoes.
I've got white netting over my tomatoes and hve eliminated the moth problem. I also use egg shells to deter the moths as they think one of their own is already laying their eggs there.
However, I amstill getting snails munching away at my tomatoes and anything else they can in my vegetable patch. Nasturtiums seem to be one of the snails favourites and I have them planted to bring the bees and for brilliant colour.
@Julie: Good ideas. I've never really had many snails in my garden, here or in our previous house. I wish I knew why!


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'Love Jihad': An Imaginary Scarecrow To Dissuade Hindu Women From Marrying Muslim Men
"We Cannot Pressurise Oppressors To Not Oppress. We Can Only Compel Them, Force Them": Sharjeel Usmani's Letter To The Community
Bangalore Violence: Who Is Threatened By Dalit-Muslim Unity?
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Sameer Abdul Majeed
The heart-wrenching Hathras gang rape and maiming leading to the death of the Dalit victim sent shivers down the spine in all circles.
Not just for the macabre nature of the crime, what was even more horrendous, was the cover-up, blatant denial, harassment and role of the police and agencies in aiding the culprits in subverting the constitutional process of justice.
To further the agony of the victims family, some groups shamelessly rallied behind the culprits and even threatened the family with dire consequences.
Rattled by the outrage and the international coverage, the Uttar Pradesh government began to cry wolf and picked up its favourite punching bag – Popular Front of India (PFI) and some imaginary international organisations from Timbuktu.
No matter what happens, a PFI connection seems to spring up. Earlier it was ISI, later Al-Qaeda and now PFI. While the whole world was combating the COVID-19 pandemic, fascist forces used even a pandemic to leverage its communal rhetoric, pursuing a relentless witch hunt against anti-CAA activists. Anything connected with Islam and Muslim automatically become soft targets. Everyone is held responsible for the misery of the state, but not the state itself.
Also read: "Baseless Allegations, Sensational News Devoid Of Facts": PFI Over UP Police's Claims Of "Conspiracy To Defame Govt"
These outrageously ridiculous accusations by the UP government has even the staunchest allies fume with disgust and embarrassment. According to the NCRB-2019 report, 8 SC women are being raped daily in UP. Safeguarding the Hindu life and interest was a premise on which the BJP campaigned and rose to power, yet we see gross human rights violations against the Dalits. Aren't Dalits Hindu enough? Perhaps children of a lesser God.
It appears impossible to fathom how anyone with a modicum of rational and empathy would downplay the gravity of the crime and collude with the criminals. Is this caste hegemony at play? Or a manifestation of a classic fascist state.
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History of the Silmarillion vs. History of Middle-earth
OK, how about this example from your book (p.74; emphasis mine):
However there is a change that [Christopher] made to this paragraph that is less explicable. In the source text (LQ §42), Finarfin's daugher Galadriel is described as "the most valiant" of the house of Finwë, as well as the most beautiful. For some unexplained reason, Christopher removed that description. Thus, even Galadriel ... is somewhat diminished by Christopher's edits to the text.
Noting again that you were told in 2006 by Christopher Tolkien himself that:
The History of Middle-earth does not, and could not, provide all the massive manuscript material necessary to determine how The Silmarillion was constructed in detail — in particular, to determine which alterations were made with manuscript authority and which were not; nor was it intended to indicate the reasons in detail for the selections and changes made
and further, noting that Christopher states up front (MR 142-3) in his presentation of "LQ" — the complex tangle of texts, emendations, riders, typescripts, and copies that you refer to here as "the source text" — that "a complete documentation of every alteration from start to finish (that is, detailing the precise sequence of change through successive texts) is out of the question", we can well ask: why is it that you here nonetheless so baldly state — three times — that Christopher Tolkien made this change?
It is true that you go on to (weakly) raise what you call the "unlikely" possibility that "this omission reflects some other text that was not printed in HoMe"; but you then say that even if this is the case, "it seems quite odd that Christopher would choose to omit such an unambiguous statement of her standing, particularly without any explanation" — thus once again ascribing the omission to Christopher, even if it was made by Tolkien himself!
But why would you describe the possibility that the excision was made by Tolkien himself as "unlikely"? Given what Christopher says generally about HoMe and specifically about "LQ", isn't it in fact far more likely that at this point the Silmarillion text itself reflects the final state of the complex development of "LQ", as emended by Tolkien himself? Indeed, why would you ever even suppose otherwise (let alone assert it three times)?
And even if Christopher did make the change, why should it be "odd" that Christopher does not explain it? You had already been told by Christopher himself that HoMe was not "intended to indicate the reasons in detail for the selections and changes made": so while you are entitled to want an explanation, there was certainly no reason to expect one.
Voronwë the Faithful
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:13 pm
Okay, let's look at that example. (Interesting that that is what you would choose to point to, given our previous discussion.)
It is unambiguously clear that LQ 42 is the source for this paragraph. That is not a question; I think even you would accept that. Looking at the material in HoMe, specifically Morgoth's Ring, we see that this chapter is printed in full. Some emendations are noted in the text itself. It is then followed by extensive commentary in which Christopher notes other emendations that were made, including some that were much smaller than this one. The commentary for this very paragraph states:
$42 The passage describing the White Lady of the Noldor was added on a slip to the original QS typescript, and this slip is a page from a used engagement calendar dated October 1951. At that stage her name was still Isfin. A rejected draft for this rider on the same slip began thus:
She was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brethren, for she awoke in Valinor [not upon Middle-earth )] after the making of the Silmarils, and even as the first shadow fell upon the Blessed Realm; and when she was grown to full stature...
The words 'She was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brethren, for she awoke in Valinor not upon Middle-earth' are not in accord with AAm, where Fingolfin their father was himself born in Aman ($81).
The rider was not taken up into LQ 1 as typed, which still had the name Isfin, as in AAm (see p. 102 notes 8 and 9: the first birth-date for Isfin (1469) makes her born after the making of the Silmarils in 1450, but the second (1362) before). But later Isfin was changed to frith on LQ 1 (at the same time as the corrections of Finrod to Finarphin, etc.), and the same rider was attached on a slip, identical in wording to that attached to the old QS typescript, but with the name frith. This is presumably a case where a 'lost' change was recovered.
In QS Angrod and Egnor were friends of the sons of Fëanor, while Inglor and Orodreth were friends of the sons of Fingolfin, Fingon and Turgon. Now the association of Angrod and Egnor with the Feanorians (which led to their being allowed passage in the ships at the time of the crossing to Middle-earth, QS $73) was abandoned (as it was also in AAm, $135, pp. 113, 125), and all four of Finarphin's sons become the bosom friends of Fingon and Turgon. 'And these four' was changed to 'And these three' on LQ 1 when Orodreth was finally ejected entirely from the third generation of the Noldorin princes (see III.91, 246, and Unfinished Tales p. 255 note 20).
Here Galadriel enters the Quenta tradition; for Galadriel in AAm see $$85, 135 and commentary. On one copy of LQ 2 my father noted: 'In High-elvish her name was Altarielle "Lady with garland of sunlight", galata-rig-elle = S[indarin] Galadriel. It was thus mere accident that her name resembled galad (Silvan galad tree ). Cf. the Appendix to The Silmarillion p. 360, entry kal-.
Given how complete this is, I think it is reasonable to assume that there is no variant LQ text that includes the removal of the "most valiant" language. Certainly there is no place in Morgoth's Ring or any place else in HoMe that suggests that there is, or that the published Silmarillion reflects a further state of development of LQ by Tolkien himself. On the contrary, his comments suggest otherwise. The only thing that I have ever seen that suggests that is the material that you posted yesterday that he sent you regarding his "report" on the sample that I had sent him, talking about how much more extensive his History of the Silmarillion was than HoMe. I reiterate again that none of that material was sent to me. Only the brief brief statement that that HoMe does not provide all of the massive manuscript material necessary to determine how the Silmarillion was constructed and that he doubted "that such a close, line by line manuscript comparison with no leavening commentary or conclusion would be of sufficient interest to merit publication." He therefore declined to lend his support to the project.
This is a very, very different example than the one that you pointed to from the Ainulindalë, that was in the sample that I sent to Christopher, and which I explicitly removed from the final version of AR. In that case, the source text was not printed in full, and Christopher pointed out to you (but again NOT to me) that I was not justified in making an assumption about the source text based on what he had said about it. I independently reached the same conclusion, and removed that point (and many others like it) from the book (along with abandoning the close line by line manuscript comparison and adding considerably more commentary and conclusion). In this example, we have a source text that is given in full, with extensive commentary about what comments and changes were made to it. If we can't rely on it being complete other than in the most minor of details, than I don't know what we can rely on.
But given how precise and clear Christopher is, I continue to feel confident that we can rely on it.
As for why I said that I think it is "odd" that Christopher did not explain this change, it is because I believe that it is a particularly significant one. If he had explained it, there would have been no need to speculate as to why it was done. And we wouldn't be having this discussion. It's true that HoMe was not meant to explain the reasons for the selections and changes made, but he did do so in a few circumstances. I wish that this had been one of them.
In gratitude forever … .
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:10 am
It is unambiguously clear that LQ 42 is the source for this paragraph. That is not a question; I think even you would accept that.
If by "LQ 42" you mean the specific snapshot of the textual development that Christopher gives in edited, printed form on p.177 of HoMe, then no, I would not agree that it is "the source" (except imprecisely), only that it certainly underlies whatever final version of the text, as subsequently emended by Tolkien, Christopher used as the basis for the text as printed in The Silmarillion. As Christopher explains on p.143, the text he prints is that of the LQ1 typescript with indications of (at least some of) the emendations made to it (including, in this specific section, a rider) that were taken up into the LQ2 typescript when that was made. But we know (because Christopher tells us on p. 142) that there were subsequent developments to LQ2. And Christopher gives no indication that he has presented all of the changes made to (any copy of) LQ2. So, precisely speaking, it is the state of the text after emendations were made to LQ2 that is in fact the proximate source of the corresponding Silmarillion passage.
Doug continues:
Given how complete this is, I think it is reasonable to assume that there is no variant LQ text that includes the removal of the "most valiant" language.
First, how do you know how "complete" this is? Nearly all of what Christopher notes here has to do with either nomenclature or the now-you-see-him, now-you-don't nature of Orodreth and his relations, both of which were special concerns that Christopher was at pains to trace throughout HoMe. Apart from this is only the quite natural concern to portray how Galadriel entered the Quenta (via the rider to he describes here). There is thus no indication whatsoever that Christopher either does, or intended to, report here every subsequent detail of development in this text. Taking this in conjunction with Christopher's general statement concerning his presentation of the textual history of LQ that "a complete documentation of every alteration from start to finish (that is, detailing the precise sequence of change through successive texts) is out of the question", there is in fact good reason to assume that he did not do so.
So, second, I do not think it reasonable to assume what you do. The weight of evidence is in fact very much against such an assumption.
P.S. Since you bring up "our previous discussion", I will add that it is particularly wrong for you to assume that Christopher is responsible for this change, given what you then go on to imply about Christopher on the basis of this and other similar assumptions. Indeed, the implication you draw ought to have been sufficient warning that you should have been even more careful here not to assume that Christopher was responsible for it.
solicitr
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:44 am
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I think it is reasonable to assume that there is no variant LQ text that includes the removal of the "most valiant" language. Certainly there is no place in Morgoth's Ring or any place else in HoMe that suggests that there is, or that the published Silmarillion reflects a further state of development of LQ by Tolkien himself
And that assumption is the Achilles' Heel of it all. You can't conclude that, you can't "reasonably" assume that- certainly not with the level of certainty required to assert, positively, how the final reading came to be, when it did, or that it was CT who did it- and then on that basis make the claim that this was part and parcel of a 'diminish the females' campaign.
There's all the difference in the world between "could have" and "did."
Unless you've examined the original, you can't know this. Tolkien's manuscripts are by and large "chaotic palimpsests;" and annotating every change thereto, and trying to sort them all out (even when legible) can in some cases triple the bulk of the text. CT noted a selection of the emendations and variant readings... but to assume that that represents all or substantially all of them goes too far.
I still think AR is a very valuable guidebook to locating '77 passages in the published HME texts- where they match. But where they don't match- well, I would have preferred less confident assertion of the speculative.
First, of all, let me take a moment to thank you, Carl (and you too, soli), for taking the time to address these concerns. It's certainly never comfortable to have one's work challenged, but I think it is enormously important to have this kind of vigorous debate, and so I wanted to say that I appreciate it. And I also appreciate that you are able to keep it on a courteous and professional level, even though it is something that you clearly passionately care about.
That having been said, I'm not sure that you completely accurately represent what it is that Christopher says. On page 143 of Morgoth's Ring, following the quote that you cited, he goes on to say:
After much experimentation the plan I have followed is based on this consideration: seeing that a great deal of the development can be ascribed to a relatively short time (the '1951 revision'), it seems best to take LQ 1, marking the end of that stage, as the 'common text'. But while I print LQ 1 in full as it was typed (as far as Chapter 5: Chapters 6 - 8 are differently treated), I also include in the text the corrections and expansions made to it subsequently, indicated as such. This gives at once a view of the state of the work in both LQ 1, at the end of the 'first phase', and in LQ 2, at the beginning of the 'second phase' some seven years later. Beyond this, the treatment of each chapter varies according to the peculiarities of its history. The late expanded versions of certain chapters belonging to the 'second phase' are treated separately (pp. 199 ff.).
Do I believe that this means that he detailed every single manuscript deviation in LQ 2? No, of course not. But I do think, particularly after reviewing the manuscript changes that he does detail in those first five chapters, that it implies that he describes all of the manuscript deviations that are as significant as the one we are talking about. Nothing that either of you have said has convinced me otherwise.
Our main difference of opinion, it seems, is that you don't think that I am justified in considering this a particularly significant deviation. That I can't control, and I would say that we will have to agree to disagree.
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Doug, I referred to precisely this quote, and specifically to the part you emphasize, when I wrote that: "As Christopher explains on p.143, the text he prints is that of the LQ1 typescript with indications of (at least some of) the emendations made to it (including, in this specific section, a rider) that were taken up into the LQ2 typescript when that was made"; so I don't see how this is at all at variance with my portrayal.
Moreover, your emphasis stops just before what is in fact the most important part of this quote for the present purposes, sc. that the text represents the state of LQ2 "at the beginning of the 'second phase'": i.e., not at the end of that phase, which Christopher both here and on p. 142 indicates saw further developments in the text.
Our difference of opinion here in fact has nothing to do with my opinion as to the significance of this change, about which I've said precisely nothing. Our difference concerns the reasonableness of both assuming and asserting that Christopher is responsible for this change. (Indeed, I suspect you would have a rather different opinion about its significance if it turned out that the change was made by Tolkien; and even if you simply did not assume that Christopher was responsible for it.)
"solicitr" writes:
My sentiments exactly.
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It also occurs to me that LQ2 was made fifteen years before Tolkien died, and assuming that it was left alone for all that time (when he supposedly was "working on it" is a pretty big assumption.
Aelfwine wrote:
your emphasis stops just before what is in fact the most important part of this quote for the present purposes, sc. that the text represents the state of LQ2 "at the beginning of the 'second phase'": i.e., not at the end of that phase, which Christopher both here and on p. 142 indicates saw further developments in the text.
He goes on to say that "Beyond this, the treatment of each chapter varies according to the peculiarities of its history" suggesting that he details the significant additional developments in LQ. In the first five chapters, those developments are mostly minor, whereas is the "late expanded chapters" (e.g., the Valaquenta and chapters 6 -- including the Finwë and Míriel material-- and 7, which provide some of the source material for chapters 6-9 in the published Silmarillion) that mostly belong to the "second phase." I continue to believe that the implication is that all significant deviations are described.
On the contrary, my position is predicated on my belief that had this change been made by Tolkien it would have been so significant that Christopher would have mentioned it (particularly when it is compared to the other manuscript changes in those chapters, many of which don't appear to be as significant). Indeed, part of the reason why I believe that this was an editorial change rather than an authorial change is that the whole purpose of HoMe (at least as I understand) was to document as much as possible the history of Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth, whereas (as we have both acknowledged in this thread) the purpose of HoMe is explicitly NOT to detail the changes that Christopher made, and the reasons for them. Therefore, to me it seems quite clear that a deviation between the text printed in HoMe and that of the published Silmarillion of this magnitude that is not commented on at all in HoMe is far, far more likely to have been an editorial one than an authorial one.
I'm sure that you will disagree, and that is okay.
I'm glad you both still find some value in it.
In the first five chapters, those developments are mostly minor
Does Christopher say this? Otherwise, how can you know this, if you haven't seen all the developments? And in any event, how do you know that Christopher would not consider this change minor (even though you don't)?
I continue to believe that the implication is that all significant deviations are described.
But again, the issue then becomes, not what you think is a "significant deviation" (and certainly not what I think is a "significant deviation"), but what Christopher Tolkien thinks is a "significant deviation". And if you haven't seen all the "deviations" (which we very plainly haven't), how can you know this?
What is more reasonable to assume: that Tolkien excised the passage subsequent to the making of the LQ2 typescript, and that Christopher simply didn't feel that this subsequent change merited specific record or comment in his HoMe; or, that Christopher himself excised it as part of a "systematic lessening of the role of female characters" (and then himself provided the very means to uncover this fact!)?
I've already answered that; in my opinion based on his comments and the changes that he does document it is far more reasonable to assume that it was an editorial change than an authorial one.
And I maintain that until and unless you can identify and assess all the authorial changes present in The Silmarillion that Christopher didn't record in HoMe — which changes, as Christopher specifically informed you, do exist and cannot be surely identified as either authorial or editorial except by reference to the manuscripts themselves — you cannot know with surety just what sorts of authorial changes he considered minor, at least in the sense of not requiring comment or even record in their particular context; and so that you have no good basis to assume that Christopher could not have considered this change minor in this context; and therefore that you have no good basis to assume (let alone assert) that this omission isn't the result of an authorial change, even though Christopher doesn't record a subsequent authorial deletion in HoMe.
But you have allowed precisely this string of unfounded assumptions, ultimately based on your assessment of the significance of this omission, not (so far as we can know) on Christopher's, to lead you to assert that Christopher is responsible for the change (with dark adumbrations).
And with that I will say that we have both made our positions clear and simply add, "good night, and have a good weekend."
I was recently rereading Verlyn Flieger's book Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology, and I thought of this thread when I read this in her Introduction:
Encouraged by the favorable reception of these prelimanary volumes [The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales], over the following twenty years Christopher arranged and edited in chronological sequence all of the stories of his father's mythlogy. Now published as the twelve-volume series, the History of Middle-earth, this work presents Tolkien's mythlogy in its entirety, tracing the path of a remarkable vision, a musical score, if you will, from its ealiest conception to its author's last meditation on his creation.


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5 dead, 2 missing in fire on Mexican Gulf oil platform
Aug. 23, 2021 at 11:40 am Updated Aug. 23, 2021 at 2:46 pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's state-owned oil company said Monday five workers were killed, two workers are missing and six were injured in a massive fire at one of its oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Petroleos Mexicanos said the fire at the processing platform in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap field had been brought under control on Sunday.
The company said the blaze caused the shutdown of 125 wells in the field, which will reduce Mexico's daily output of oil equivalents by 421,000 barrels per day. The shutdown affects about one-quarter of Mexico's daily production of about 1.7 million barrels, costing the company about $25 million per day in lost income.
It was unclear what possibility remained of finding the two missing workers. The platform was badly charred. The company's director, Octavio Romero said some of the workers killed were carrying out routine maintenance and cleaning of gas lines on the platform.
Romero said the company would try to restore production "as soon as possible." A replacement generator would have to be brought in to resume electricity supplies to the wells. Romero expressed hope that the wells could be brought back on in a piecemeal fashion starting "today or tomorrow."
The platform is used to compress gas to re-inject it into wells to stimulate oil pumping, and to supply electricity.
The company, known as Pemex, said it was undertaking an "exhaustive search" for the missing. Pemex said three of the injured are its employees and three others are employed by a subcontractor.
One of the dead is a Pemex employee and the other four are from the subcontractor, Cotemar.
One of the injured working is in serious condition. The two missing workers are from another subcontractor. The maintenance work was being carried out by the subcontractors.
Romero said investigations are continuing into the cause of the accident.
"This was the result not of an equipment failure, not of a lack of maintenance, but rather of planned (maintenance) work, where what occurred is known as an accident," Romero said. "Why did it occur? That is something we will find out in coming days."
The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has gone on a ruthless cost-cutting campaign, and critics have said that and Pemex's staggering debt loads may have affected investment, safety and maintenance.
Romero hotly denied that.
"This is not due to an issue of lack of investment, as some media outlets have said," Romero said. "It is an issue related to the inherent risks of the oil industry."
The accident comes less than two months after another Petroleos Mexicanos pipeline in the Gulf leaked, causing a strange subaquatic fireball that Pemex said was caused by a bizarre chain of events, including a lightning storm and a simultaneous gas pipeline leak.
A leak in an underwater pipeline allowed natural gas to build up on the ocean floor and once it rose to the surface on July 2, it was probably ignited by a lightning bolt, the company said.


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