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Russia-Africa Cooperation a Top Priority
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Russia has the potential to play a leading role in the development of Africa's energy and infrastructure development — leveraging on Russia's historic ties with Africa during the continent's independence movements and its current technological expertise, said African officials at Russian Energy Week.
"The Russians should not be timid. Africa is part of Russia and Russia is part of Africa. You guys should be even more aggressive than the Chinese," said H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obian Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea during the Russia-Africa Energy Roundtable on October 3.
It seems Russia is launching a more aggressive campaign in Africa, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying Russia will 'light up Africa' at a Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) summit that took place in Johannesburg in July this year.
"I would especially like to note that Russia is planning to step up its assistance in development of national energy in African states," he said.
Putin added that Russia is already in talks with Angola, Mozambique and Gabon on oil and gas projects.
Putin also advocated for a Russia-Africa Summit to organize a roadmap of strategic opportunities and economic sectors for investment in Africa.
"I would like to inform you that we are studying the idea of holding a Russia-Africa summit with the participation of heads of African states. This could be preceded by meetings of prominent businessmen, policy experts and public figures. I intend to discuss this with representatives of African countries."
An integrated history
"Do you know how many presidents speak Russian in Africa? Do you know how many ministers speak Russian? Do you know how many civil servants speak Russian and even have Russian wives and children?" asked Lima at the Russia-Africa Energy Roundtable, referencing the former Soviet Union's leading role in the independence movements in several African countries, including Angola, Algeria, Ghana and Sudan.
He specifically called for Russian investment in the oil and gas sectors and in industrialization.
H.E. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, Minister of Petroleum of the Republic of South Sudan, highlighted the need for international investment.
Speaking as part of the round table, Gatkuoth noted that Africa was a large continent with a population of 1.2 billion; a huge market that needed to be developed.
"We have vast resources and they need to be used. We are very interested in having investors from Russia come to us. We would be happy to use Russian technologies and investments to advance oil production," he said.
New partnerships on the horizon
Just days after the conference, South Sudan's Ministry of Petroleum signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Russia-based JSC Zarubezhneft to begin exploring the country's open acreage and trading, as well as implement enhanced oil recovery technology and other maintenance programs.
The ministers from Equatorial Guinea and South Sudan were joined in Moscow by ministerial delegations from Sierra Leone, Angola and Libya, as well as the Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, H.E. Mohammed Barkindo.
Equatorial Guinea, taking a leading role in the development of liquid natural gas (LNG) in Africa, also joined a delegation to Yamal LNG facility in northern Russia during Russian Energy Week, and called for closer collaborations between Russia and Africa on the import and export of gas, especially as Africa seeks to use gas to power electricity for nearly 600 million people without power on the continent.
"LNG is the best solution," said Lima about Africa's energy crisis.
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WRNL Round Table
The WRNL Round Table: February 11, 2015
Hope glimmered anew with Kansas' loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday, and then it disappeared.
By KnowDan, Vegas CyClown, MatthewGray, jwillyISU, Kevin Fitzpatrick, austinnarber, CyPike, and The CYdeliner Feb 11, 2015, 8:18am CST
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It's all basketball this week as the WRNL staff celebrates Kansas losing in Stillwater, talks about how Baylor could be a real threat down the stretch, and then scratches their heads over what happened in Norman on Monday night. Another week, another WTF inducing set of games in the Big XII. And boy, does Fred look tired.
On to the discussion.
KnowDan
Oklahoma State finally stepped up to the plate and knocked off Kansas. With West Virginia's loss to Baylor, Iowa State now holds down second place by itself and is a game back of Kansas. Is this team still realistically in the conference hunt? And where can Kansas falter down the line to make the final few weeks of the season interesting?
And let's discuss Baylor. Don't look now but the Bears have figured out how to shoot and the defense is once again slowing teams down to a grind. Could they be the team that makes a run late in February and in to March?
Vegas CyClown
We will realistically be in the hunt if with a win in Norman even though the toughest part of our schedule is still ahead of us. A win guarantees nothing but lose that game and I'm not sure it is possible. Kansas has three games left I could see them losing but we can probably only count on them losing one of the three if any. Baylor at home, Saturday, February 14th; not very likely, but possible as well as Baylor has been playing lately. At West Virginia, Monday, February 16th; Morgantown is still a tough place to play even if the Mountaineers have lost their home games to the league's top teams. At Norman, Saturday, March 7th; probably the toughest of the three and is their last of the conference season. Iowa State plays at TCU the same weekend. If we enter the weekend tied at the top, some new banners could be coming to Hilton next season.
Baylor seems to go through a similar scenario each season. Do well in non-con, slow start in conference play, come together, "potential matchup problem come March", fizzle and done. I'm not concerned about the Bears. That said, I'm glad we don't face them for another two weeks.
FiftyShadesofGray
The question of if we are still realistically in the conference hunt comes down to two things: the continued unpredictability of the Big XII, and our own ability to win on the road. Kansas still has a couple challenging games left, but there is still the possibility of a team coming alive and shocking the rest of the conference. Oklahoma, OK State, and Baylor are all prime candidates, and our schedule has four of our remaining eight against those teams. Additionally, five of our last eight are on the road, which means this is the stretch that will decide our fate. Score key wins tonight against OU, next week against OKST and Texas, and we're still definitely in it. Drop more than one of those games, and we're effectively out, barring a major KU collapse.
Baylor could make a run- but so could Texas or either of the Oklahoma teams. They may not look poised to do so now, but we can't forget that there's still an entire month left of conference play. TEXAS TECH COULD STILL END UP WITH 10 LEAGUE WINS. They obviously won't, but eight games is a lot of time for anybody. All four of those teams are dangerous, and one big win could kick start them in to top form.
jwillyISU
From the words of Dumb and Dumber - So you're telling me there's a chance. Yes!
Now while ISU is clearly the 2nd best team in the conference, Texas, K-State, West Virginia and Okie State have all fallen off the map. Clearly Oklahoma and Baylor are 3 and 4 right now. But this is what makes the Big 12 Conference great - anybody can beat anybody! (ask Kansas) Who knows, maybe Texas will start winning again, and Baylor and the fighting Scott Drews will fall into one of their funks at end of season.
All ISU can do is take care of their own business. This team can beat anybody at home, but on the road - it's a different story. The emergence of Jameel McKay could pay huge dividends off in the future. Nader has found his role. And if BDJ is ok with coming off the bench (aka he doesn't pout) then this team can make some noise the rest of the season.
The hardest games remaining on the schedule are going to be at Oklahoma, at Texas, at Okie State and at Kansas State. Now if this is the same team as old, they will lose 3-4 of those. If this team has truly turned the corner, then they will either split or go 3-1. Time will tell, but then again, I would much rather win a Conference Tournament than the Regular Season.
As for Baylor - as long as Scott Drew and his temporary hair piece is concerned, it wouldn't surprise me if Baylor wins out or they lose out. That team is a bottle of fireworks.
[Oklahoma happens]
Niang's NBA chances took a solid dump last night with Buddy Hield on him throughout the night. An athletic guard giving up a few inches can completely unwind Georges in a heartbeat. That said, I think Fred was painfully slow to adjust to some of Oklahoma's defensive changes in the second half. What do the rest of you take away from the game in Norman?
I wasn't able to watch the game, but losing to Oklahoma on the road is nothing to be ashamed about. However champions find ways to win in tough environments. I still believe this is a very good team capable of a deep tournament run in March, but unless they prove me wrong down the stretch, they do not have the mental capabilities of a championship team. That said, we are still in better position today than we were a year ago today, so there is plenty to be excited about and I will enjoy the rest of this season and postseason's games albeit with slightly modified expectations.
The CYdeliner
I refrained from giving you my take until after the Oklahoma game. Now that the Oklahoma game happened, my take just got a little hotter. The defense got exposed. Again. They brutalized us down low because mostly we weren't doubling. We weren't doubling because they were shooting lights out. Do one, get burnt on the other. A good ol' Catch 22.
But yes, the Big XII is still within reach. But with each loss it becomes more and more apparent that winning it is unlikely. Iowa State still has some hazardous road games. And if trends mean anything, is not good. In my opinion, Iowa State is going to have to pull off at least three wins out of the games at OSU, UT, K-State, and TCU to stay in contention at the top. But their is some hope here. Kansas still has to go OU and OU still has to come to Hilton. So there's a chance for this last game to even out, per say. Get a few teams to help us out and we are back to pumping sunshine again. Always possible in this year's version of the Big XII.
KFitzy87
The thing I can't stand the most about this team is how easily they seem to let other teams make big runs on them. We've seen it in most of our losses and a few of our wins now... Last year it seemed like when we needed a bucket, someone would step up and get one. I think Fred got a little spoiled in this regard last year, and we're seeing him not use his timeouts very effectively now because of it. There were a couple times last night when I was thinking that Fred should call a timeout to stop momentum, but didn't. Both times we failed to score and OU added to their lead.
How about a trend that's been developing in these runs other than Fred's lack of timeouts: adjustments. It's hard to tell sometimes who is doing what Fred told them and who is freelancing, but how do you not get Niang on to the block immediately after you see Hield is his primary defender? For as much as this team is learning to navigate the rough patches I think Fred is having to do the same.
As underwhelming as Fred's adjustments may have been yesterday, I fully expect the game plan for when we play the Sooners in Hilton to address whatever issues we had in Norman. I bet the Mayor will spend more hours watching film of the game this week than he will sleeping.
He looks tired doesn't he? More tired than any other season.
Do you think Infiniti made him dance too much?
Editor's Note: Go vote
austinnarber
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm not sure we really knew what we had in Doc Sadler until he left. I used to think it was a cute little scenario. Former head coach, well-known, well-respected, quite a few years Hoiberg's senior, lands on his feet with the Iowa State coaching staff -- and sure, why the hell not, let's call this perpetually disheveled old man the "defensive specialist."
Yet here we are. And are we scheming any differently? Nope. What has changed so drastically in less than a year that causes the defensive lapses we're seeing on a weekly basis? It's painful to watch six or seven guys stroke it and then come completely unraveled at the other end of the floor. And shit, how bad might it be without Jameel McKay?
I don't know the answer to any of these questions. But the takeaway from the game in Norman, yet again, is that Iowa State has got some SHIT to figure out defensively. If they don't, someone's going to bounce these guys straight out of the tournament come March, far sooner than any of us care to see.
CyPike
This league is tough, toughest in the nation in fact. Would I have loved to have won at OU? Yes of course I would have. Did we have a chance to do just that? Not in the second half. But lets take a step back and take a look at just what happened. The first half of the game was one of the most entertaining games I have ever seen. That is the way that basketball is supposed to look, and Jay Williams agrees with that sentiment. Did the loss suck? You bet your cardinal ass it sucked. But I'm not too worked up about losing to Oklahoma at their home. I think that fans in general are overreacting about this loss.
I have noticed some things that need to be corrected though, and which I believe will be corrected by Hoiberg. I've noticed that when we get down by 6+ we stop passing, and when we stop passing we stop scoring. Our team is built off of passing, and nothing good happens when we stop the assist machine. I think that this is fixed by getting out of the mindset that we need to hit a big shot to get back into the game. I think once the players see that we are in the middle of the opposite teams run, they need to make something happen. What they really should be doing is passing more and trusting in each other. This will happen, mark my words, Fred will get it figured out. Our team's defense is not stellar, but our team is built on offense, and passing will help cure what ails the Cyclones.
Time to kick WVU in the stomach, or at least let Hogue do that.
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HTTP security headers - Nice list of HTTP security headers. I think I've posted about month ago or so lots of stuff about HTTP security headers and related implications. Like that getting CSP right can be challenging.
About the customer tracking, like being said. One 'entity' gave up their loyalty program. Because they could already track people at least as well, without it. Using cameras, mobile tracking, and all the technologies the tracking industries are pushing. This might be also one of the reasons why basically every shopping mall providers free WiFi / WLAN. Providing some Internet bandwidth is virtually free, but at the same time you can get so much other information about the devices being used, where those are being used and what those are being used for, etc.
Implemented JSON feed for one site / project. Why? Because it was fun and I can.
Studied PostgreSQL 10 new features. Awesome stuff like: Logical Replication, Native Table Partitioning, Additional Query Parallelism, Quorum Commit for Synchronous Replication, Multi-host failover, Crash-safe hash indexes, Multi-column correlation statistics, XMLTABLE, FTS with JSON and JSONB (Binary JSON).
Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) - Pretty traditional solution, nothing new afaik.
Google.ai - Federated Learning will change how smart AI systems are. It's just as the collective mind, seen in many cases. Collaborative Machine Learning. kw: Distributed Learning, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), Federated Averaging algorithm, Secure Aggregation protocol.
Other comments about Google.ai writing. Another ridiculous engineering fail. Why they need wireless connection for updates? Isn't 300 Mbit/s unlimited 4G LTE data enough? No, it seems. Maybe they're expecting to get unlimited 1 gigabit wifi? You know what guys, in many cases the WiFi / WLAN is slower than the 4G LTE network. Especially in congested areas, 4G is often really much faster than WiFi. Because WiFi networks very rarely cut down on power, to improve density. But 4G networks of course allow all kind of small cells very efficiently, versus WiFi which unfortunately doesn't do that in most of cases. It's so smart to connect mobile phone with unlimited data to WiFi which is connected to mobile network with unlimited data. Does that sound like sane engineering to you? It's only sane, if you're selling 4G access points or data plans. Duh! I've for a long time recommended for normal users, that there's no reason to get anything else than just one 4G data plan, and that's for your phone. You can then use everything else utilizing the phones tethering. No need for extra devices, no need for extra SIMs no need for extra plans. Just get the data moving simply and sanely.
Found issue with Duplicati 2 - which prevents backups from running. Reported it on GitHub issues. It also got fixed incredibly fast. That's what I really do like.
Mind blowing discussions about data cardinality and indexing, etc. Nothing to comment about this. But yep, some things can be done correct, or absolutely wrong. I think I've written about this several times too.
Finland is planning for national AI strategy. How it's going to change the technology and even more importantly whole society.
One major Finnish telco doesn't know difference between bytes and bits. I wonder if it's intentional misleading, or if they just honestly think their customers are stupid.
Another silly article, where they talk about WiFi / WLAN usage and 4G usage. Don't they realize that at least half of people are using 4G WiFi routers, which create WiFi from 4G network. So saying using wifi or 4G doesn't really make any difference. Well, fixed wireless, is interesting. Yet it's not going to replace good old single mode fiber.
Checked out: TFS and HAMMER file systems, which are under development. This one made me smile, it's almost like from b-class Sci-Fi movie: "implementing pulse-width modulated time-domain multiplexer on B-tree cursor operation". W0w, that must be something. Maybe we could fit in quantum fusion and dimensional parallel universes too? Yet they do have some interesting points especially on TFS side. But as being said, everything is a trade-off. Something gets better and something else gets worse. It's interesting to see if this ever gets off the ground. File system development is extremely demanding and tedious task. Of course some things can be simplified on purpose, making naive implementations. But that usually leads to other trade-offs like poor performance in some or even many cases. The page and cluster compression scheme is something very similar, I used with my archive system.


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January 18, 2017 — Jordan Baker
Mi Casta es Su Casta: The Casta System of Racial Hierarchy in New Spain
Hernan Cortes, his band of merry war criminals, and their Mesoamerican allies completed the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. After taking control of Tenonchtitlan, the Aztec capital, and turning it into Mexico city, the Spanish faced the problem of cementing their control over this vast new territory. Despite their military victories over Montezuma's troops, and the rampant diseases that ran through indigenous towns, the Spanish remained vastly outnumbered by native Mesoamericans. Indeed, after eight decades of colonization, the Spanish would only make up 10% of New Spain's population. In order to cement their place as the new ruling class, the Spaniards began implementing policies meant to distinguish them from native Mesoamericans, and, later, imported African slaves. The casta system was one such policy.
What Was the Casta System?
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the Aztecs had organized their society into a rigid caste system that loosely reflected that of Late Medieval European societies: nobles sat at the top, while indentured servants, serfs, and slaves made up the lowest classes.1 Rather than reinvent the imperial wheel, the Spanish sought to use this caste system and slot themselves in at the top.2
The casta system resulted from the Spanish use of the Aztec caste system mixed with their own notion of "purity of blood," which they used back in Iberia to marginalize people of Jewish and Moorish descent.3 The casta system organized society into various levels, much as the Aztec caste system had, but race formed the basis of each level.
An 18th century painting detailing 16 different categories in the casta system.
This image illustrates the extremity of the casta system. Each of the squares represented a different race within the Spanish Empire. And in New Spain, whichever one of these races you belonged to by and large determined just how much you could accomplish in life. Race determined your occupation, how much money you made, how much you paid in taxes, who you could marry, and whether or not you were legally free.
The Categories in the Casta System
At its simplest, the casta system categorized four races; at its most complex, it categorized over 40. The most well-known of these racial categories are españoles peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain), españoles criollos (white Spaniards born in the Americas), indios (Native Americans), mestizos (people with a Spanish father and Native mother), negros (Africans), and mulattoes (a person with both European and African ancestry).
The peninsulares sat at the top of this new social pyramid, followed by their Spanish cousins born in the New World. The peninsulares were the only group allowed to hold high-ranking positions in the government, Catholic church, and the army – the theory being they felt greater allegiance to the crown.4 Criollos, while sometimes poor, often made decent, if not amazing, livings for themselves as traders or owners of mines, haciendas, and ranches. Criollos also often served as lower-level government officials.5
Several of the other groups of this strange racial pyramid, namely indios, mestizos, and mulattoes, made up New Spain's large class of legally free but economically poor subjects. And, while examples of free blacks do exist from the colonial era, people of African decscent (categorized as negros) largely lived as slaves.6
But, when you put a group of people together, even with such rigid labels, they tend to mingle with one another in the biblical sense. And so it happened in New Spain. As the decades wore on and Spanish control over their empire became more entrenched, the castas's racial lines were blurred, causing the Spanish to take their already extreme race-based class system even further.
The Gente
As racial lines became more and more blurred, people couldn't always tell which of the categories someone belonged to. So, the powers-that-were in New Spain also differentiated between those that acted Spanish, and those that didn't. The Gente de razón, literally translated as 'reasonable person,' were those who, no matter their skin color, had become acculturated to the Spanish way of behaving. Gente sin razón, or 'people without reason,' were those who had not become acculturated, i.e. those who still acted in accordance to Native American, African, or Creole cultural norms rather than European-Spanish cultural norms. Though, by and large, the gente sin razón were the descendants of African and Native American people.7
Sources on the Casta System:
"Aztecs," History.com
James W. Russell, After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994), 32.
José Cuello, "Racialized Hierarchies of Power in Colonial Mexican Society: The Sistema de Castas as a From of Social Control in Saltillo," in Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers ed. Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 202.
"Las Castas – Spanish Racial Classifications," nativeheritageproject.com
Russell, After the Fifth Sun, 35.
Gloria E. Miranda, "Racial and Cultural Dimensions of 'Gente de Razon' Status in Spanish and Mexican California," Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 70 No. 31988 (Fall 1988), 265.
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PalaeoPoems
Palaeopoems is a project that brings together the world's palaeontology poetry in one place for the first time. We seek out poetry by real palaeontologists and share them with short biographies of the authors, natural history context, and original artwork.
The Poems
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Glenn Jepsen & Tilly Edinger
The Tilly-bat – by Dr. Glenn Jepsen
A curious beast is the Tillybat
It surely seems odd and quite silly that
With a brain shape so batty,
We'd find glenoids so catty!
You see why we call it a dilly, Pat?
"The midbrain is hilly, —
and further", says Tilly,
"Look here quick and see
Those colliculi!
It had to squeak, not mew, —
it never walked, it flew!
Jep, don't be so placid,
It's not a miacid!"
Glenn "Jep" Jepsen
Listen to the poem below:
The Tilly-bat by G. Jepsen, recited by Brigid Christison
Guest artwork by Greer Stothers (website: http://www.greerstothers.com/)
The "Tillybat" in the poem is the unknown Paleocene mammal whose braincase was preserved as an endocast. Tilly Edinger thought it belonged to a bat, and Glenn "Jep" Jepsen thought it belonged to a miacid (a group that appeared before cats and other carnivores). Another palaeontologist Bryan "Pat" Patterson was invited to mediate but couldn't be convinced one way or the other. The specimen is still classified as a miacid today.
The natural history of this poem
Most people are familiar with bats, but not everyone has heard of a "miacid" before. Miacids were members of a now-extinct group of carnivorous mammals (Miacidae) that lived from approximately 62 to 34 million years ago. Miacids were closely related to modern carnivorous mammals (Carnivora), and they looked a bit like a cross between modern mongooses and housecats.
Tilly and "Jep" (Glenn Jepsen) tried to figure out the Tilly-Bat's identity based on two main features mentioned in the poem. The first mentioned are the glenoids. The glenoids (or glenoid fossae) are the main "sockets" in the skull where the mandible (lower jaw) fits into. The shape of the glenoids can vary greatly between different animals based on how their jaw muscles and bones must move and be used for feeding. The glenoids in miacids and bats might then be expected to look different due to differences in their diet, as miacids likely ate more meat and bats commonly eat small insects.
The second feature mentioned used to identify the Tilly-Bat is the midbrain, and specifically the colliculi (plural of colliculus). The midbrain connects the forebrain, which is responsible for sensory information, and the hindbrain, which is responsible for motor information. The colliculi are the paired structures in the midbrain responsible for taking sights and sounds and transforming them into information for the motor system. The auditory colliculi are unique in bats because bats use echolocation to "see," giving their midbrains a "hilly" appearance like the Tilly-bat has.
Dr. Tilly Edinger
Dr. Tilly Edinger – portrait by Katrin Emery
Tilly Edinger was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt in 1897, and grew up with a keen interest in science. In 1921 she earned a doctoral degree in geology, zoology, and psychology from Frankfurt University. She spent the 1920s reinventing comparative fossil brain anatomy, developing the field of paleoneurology, doing science education, and unpaid curatorial work at the Senckenberg Museum. Unpaid because it was illegal to pay Jewish citizens.
When the Nazi regime began restricting the lives of Jewish citizens in the 1930s, Tilly was forced to keep a low profile at the Museum and stay out of public light. She was eventually forced to leave all of her friends and family in Germany, and with the support of her overseas colleagues she was able to obtain a temporary visa in London in 1939 and a Research Associate position at the Harvard university Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) in 1940. With the resources available to her at the MCZ, Tilly's research on fossil braincases thrived, and in 1963 she became the first woman president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Dr. Glenn Jepsen
Glenn Jepsen, YPMN Archives
Glenn Jepsen's entire academic career was spent at Princeton University, conducting field work and research on behalf of their Geological Museum. On one of his expeditions he became close friends with William Sinclair, whom he would eventually succeed as Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. Glenn believed that the sole purpose of natural history museums like the one at Yale was to educate their students and preserve the past.
Glenn dedicated his research to the Paleocene (66-56 million years ago) fauna of Polecat Bench, Wyoming, and particularly to the fossil mammals there. He chose to study the mammals from this area because of how important they are in the history of mammal evolution. The Paleocene was the first time that mammals could evolve without dinosaurs around, so they diversified into a lot of the mammal groups we would recognise today, along with many strange animals that have since gone extinct.
Poem source & Tilly Edinger biography:
The study of "fossil brains" – Emily A. Buchholtz & Ernst-August Seyfarth
Drs. Jepsen & Edinger:
Glenn Jepsen – Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Tilly Edinger – Jewish Women's Archive
Tilly Edinger – Trowelblazers
Palaeoneurology and fossil mammal resources:
Wikipedia – Bats, midbrains, and glenoids
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology – Miacid family tree
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The Red Line Cafe was a popular addition to Thursdays in term one and will continue on the first week of term two.
Red Line is slightly different to the popular North Lake Cafe in that the Hospitality students are working on their Prepare & Serve Non-alcoholic Beverages competency. So plunger coffee was serves along with pots of tea and iced drink options like smoothies, frappe and mocktails.
Dine-in and take away customers – students, staff and visitors – could also purchase tasty treats.
Espresso lovers will be pleased to hear the North Cafe will be up and running later in term two.


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San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has just forked out a $30,000 bounty to the finder of a critical bug in its systems.
As reported by The Next Web, the bounty is the latest to be posted on vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform HackerOne. Previously a large number of smaller bounties, mostly in the range of $100–$1,000, have been paid out, but on Feb. 12 what appears to be the largest bounty on the site so far was logged.
TNW's Hard Fork said Coinbase had confirmed that the vulnerability has since been fixed, but would not provide specific details of the issue.
Based on the severity of the code flaw found, Coinbase offers rewards in four tiers: $200 (low), $2,000 (medium), $15,000 (high) and $50,000 (critical). Tuesday's bounty appears to sit somewhere between high and critical as a result.
The program allows the public to report for rewards on "all software vulnerabilities in services provided by Coinbase," it adds. The exchange grants bounties based on severity of the bug found, judging severity by two factors: impact and exploitability.
With crypto companies and protocols under constant attack from increasingly sophisticated hackers, finding bugs in systems is a critical endeavor.
Ethereum bug bounty websites like Gitcoin and Bounties Network have seen increased use of late, and the growing opportunity for rewards via white hack hacking success is even proving to be a way out of poverty, according to a CoinDesk report from last year.
No web service using crypto is immune from the threat of hacks and even dark markets have been offering bounties to those that find provable code errors with potential impact.


(This article is based on a presentation at the Foreign Policy Research Institute on 19 April 2005).
Little more than a decade ago there was no such thing as television journalism in the Arab world. State-owned national television channels had news bulletins, but in the sense of news value—stories covered and transmitted because of some intangible but intrinsic news value about which professionals are almost always in a rough consensus—there was no such thing as "TV journalism." News bulletins were dominated by footage covering ceremonial occasions of state and this held true whether the country was a republic or a monarchy: the ruler receiving newly accredited diplomats; the ruler hosting another head of state and more recently, with his guest addressing the press; the ruler received at the airport upon returning home; the ruler addressing parliament on a significant occasion; or the ruler inaugurating a new dam or some other massive facility. But do not imagine that state television was devoted solely to recording ceremonial activities of the ruler; there was also the prime minister—the prime minister convening a meeting of the cabinet; the prime minister or other ministers opening factories. In this sealed universe, there were no television reporters, just a cameraman who recorded the event, editing-in-camera so to speak, in order that his film or tape could be played directly that evening on the news, while a presenter read a wire copy from the state or semi-official news agency that had covered the same event.
Since the wire copy only approximated the footage being shown—the same event but with nothing written to picture, nor any picture edited to fit the copy—there was always a desultory, oddly detached quality, aside from the basic banality of the events that were covered. Unlike radio there was no comparison effect. Terrestrial television had a range of 50 miles. With boosters the signal could be relayed the length of a country but not beyond its borders. Unlike BBC Arabic Radio Service, which anyone could listen to in the Arab world, no one in the Arab world could see BBC television news, or any other broadcaster (be they American, French, or Italian) covering the news according to international standards. Global television news agencies supplied videos of major international news, which at times included regional events such as the civil war in Lebanon. But again, this was footage from the field, not a field report. The television news agencies provided pictures and a written description of the shots, the location, and names of personalities, but it did not include a script which could be translated and read.
The national television channels would again take copy from their own state news agency, or even an international news agency—the copy carefully vetted so as not to contradict the official take on the event. But again, this wasn't a news report and the copy the anchor read rarely amplified the significance of the picture shown. If it did, the result was purely accidental, since the idea of writing to picture was part of the art of a television journalism that simply wasn't practiced.
Regional news—a coup, a civil war, a massacre—might never be broadcast if deemed embarrassing to a friendly fellow Arab state. Or perhaps a report would finally appear a few days late because the channel had waited for the political leadership to decide what its response to the event in a neighboring country might be. Of course this could be ludicrous since short-wave radio—BBC Arabic service, VOA and Monte Carlo Arabic radio—already would be reporting on these events. So at the very least, the "educated classes"—a linguistic flourish I've gotten use to, living as I do in the Arab world—were aware of the event. Most notoriously in that vein was the failure of the Saudi official media to mention the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for more than 48 hours after the event.
I must confess that once one understood the system, it had its extra-journalistic uses. Let's say our bureau (at the time, the NBC News Bureau) was in desperate need of a difficult-to-secure international telephone line. There were very few available in Cairo in the mid-'70s. I knew President Sadat was to inaugurate a new cultural center, so that morning I would show up with my camera crew. Of course NBC News wouldn't have had the slightest interest in the event and I had no intention of shipping the film we would shoot. Needless to say, my competition, CBS and ABC, weren't covering; only an Egypt TV cameraman always accompanying the President would be doing so, which was just fine.
At the right moment I would approach the President and ask him for his reaction to any seemingly relevant question or two—a rumor from Washington, a report from Tel Aviv. Needless to say, my crew would film the stand-up interview. But more importantly, Egypt TV, not having its own correspondent, would film every second of the interview. Now in those days there was no television to watch outside Egypt TV and that night 50 million Egyptians would watch the President and I chatting together about reports from Washington and Tel Aviv, just like old friends. The next morning I would rush over to the Ministry of Telecommunications where everybody would recognize me—it was the foreign correspondent friend of the President!! I would be ushered into the office of the minister and within minutes, the phone line was ours.
What changed all of this—and here is a pertinent lesson of how benign foreign intervention by force of example can be a motor for change in the Arab world—was CNN coverage of the build-up and the eventual combat between the American-led Alliance and Iraq in 1991. There were very few dishes in the Arab world at the time, but given the need to dispel outrageous Iraqi radio propaganda, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries in the American-led Alliance pulled down CNN 24/7 coverage of the build-up and then the war and subsequently re-transmitted it via terrestrial television. Suddenly, Arabs could see events in the Arab world comprehensively covered—CNN reporters out in the field coming back with finished reports.
Since the reports were in English, English speakers were suddenly in great demand in millions of Arab households and coffee shops. In Egypt, a new pay TV company, CNE, continued to retransmit CNN terrestrially after the war had ended. Saudi private interests with very close ties to the palace sensed the importance of satellite news and the potential for mischief if placed in the wrong hands. They quickly moved after the war ended to establish a satellite channel with morning and evening news bulletins transmitting real reports—footage from the field edited into meaningful news stories by Arab correspondents in the field with their cameramen.
In such an environment, real news reports from the field, narrated in Arabic and available on television, were stunning experiences. MBC quickly acquired a large audience particularly in the Gulf and eastern Saudi Arabia because the satellite signal was downloaded in Bahrain and retransmitted terrestrially. In those parts of Arabia and the Gulf, MBC took major audience share. Other channels followed and after an aborted attempt at 24/7 Arab language TV news coverage produced by BBC in the service of another Saudi group, the newly installed Emir of Qatar provided funds and facilities to launch Al Jazeera in 1996, approximating the BBC model of public owned but not state controlled television.
The core staff at Al Jazeera had all been trained and served as broadcasters at BBC. By now, dishes and a number of entertainment satellite channels were proliferating across most of the Arab world. That proliferation of dishes provided Al Jazeera with a rapidly growing mass audience, now estimated at more than 50 million viewers. Because Al Jazeera is a 24/7 news operation, it quickly seized the leadership position in Arab satellite broadcasting; a position that would not be significantly challenged until just before the invasion of Iraq, when the MBC group which had first launched TV news coverage in a limited news bulletin format back in 1992, now gathered together a group of Arab journalists, including the first news director at Al Jazeera and a number of Al Jazeera reporters for the launch of Al Arabiya.
The competition has had a positive effect. Arab satellite television journalists are less likely to indulge their personal ideological takes on the news when they know a more detached and thus a more reliable version of the same event is available on the TV screen just one click away on everybody's remote control. So here we have one of those amazing historic reverses: The most servile, the most state controlled, the least professional of all media in the Arab world, is suddenly refashioned in a satellite format, providing news reports more in accord with international professional standards than any other form of media in the region. And because those reports can be uplinked from Europe to a satellite, which can download these reports to dishes anywhere in the Arab world, this becomes an un-censorable format due to the transmission technology and satellite links.
For many Arabs, however, the great joy in Al Jazeera was to watch the several "Cross-fire" types of political talk shows that would pit critics of Arab regimes against their defenders: Islamists against either liberal secularists or Arab nationalists. While debates that were unimaginable on the state national television channels flowed back and forth, the audience could join in by telephone, again expressing their own opinions and doing so in a manner also unimaginable only a decade ago. But as Ibrahim Helal, former chief editor at Al Jazeera acknowledged, at that same Cambridge conference on Arab media last winter, all too often these talk shows degenerated into unproductive shouting matches in which abuse replaced dialogue and analysis.
One senses that these talk shows are too often a vehicle for the collective venting of emotion rather than an exercise in critical thinking. I would argue that it is informed opinion that is of value—not opinion for its own sake. The Arab world has for too long suffered from the conspiracy mania and political hysteria fostered by uninformed opinion. Reporting from the field and reporting the facts as they are in the field, informs opinion. When Saad Eddin Ibrahim was finally released from prison, during which time he had been vilified by nearly the entire Egyptian press, it was Al Jazeera that interviewed Saad Eddin and allowed him again to raise the very issue—the possibility of hereditary succession to power in Egypt—which had resulted in his imprisonment in the first place. A critical issue for the democratic process had been put into play by a news report; by an interview. This novelty offered great improvement over the previously dominant confrontational talk shows, which at best function after the facts are established, but all too often are oblivious, if not indifferent to facts.
Both Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya responded to widespread concern and anger in the Arab world with America's deepening involvement in the region—in particular the invasion and occupation of Iraq and what has appeared as continued U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories—by increasing coverage of American political life.
This involved providing intensive coverage of the 2004 US presidential election campaign. Even if the interest in the campaign was stimulated in part by the fact that several of the contenders for the Democratic Party nomination challenged the wisdom and conduct of the invasion of Iraq, the result was nonetheless extraordinary coverage of the democratic process starting from the time of the primaries. Indeed, Hugh Miles, the author of a recent book about Al Jazeera, observed at a recent media workshop in Doha that Al Jazeera has done more to educate Arabs about democracy than any other broadcaster.
He was alluding to Al Jazeera's regular weekly program, From Washington, with guests from both the administration and the opposition, as well as the special weekly show, "US Presidential Race," which started in January 2004. The latter program took great pains to educate Arab viewers on the American political and electoral process, how delegates to the conventions are chosen, how the modern primary system evolved and how the Electoral College functions. This show was supplemented by special reports, documentaries and live coverage of many of the highlights in the primary campaigns, the conventions (with four reporters covering both conventions) and then the election campaign itself. In contrast to the usual confrontational talk shows, Al Jazeera's programs, From Washington and The American Presidential Race, produced by the Washington bureau and hosted by Al Jazeera's veteran correspondent, Hafez Al Mirazi, had a distinctly informative style. These shows and in particular the latter one, were obviously designed to help viewers newly interested in American politics to easily understand what was happening during the campaign and to grasp the basic workings of the American democratic system. The coverage deepened the Arab world's factual, rather than imaginatively preconceived, understanding of America. As an additional side effect, it provided a familiarization course in the operations of a functioning democracy.
A similar effect has been underway in the intense reporting on political life in England by the Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya bureaus in London. Again, the stimulus may be issues of particular interest to an Arab audience, such as the debates in parliament related to the Iraqi invasion, but the side-effect has been a protracted education in the democratic process. The importance of this development cannot be exaggerated. Until a few years ago, there was not a single Center for American studies at any Arab university. Now there are two: one at Cairo University and the other has just begun at the American University in Cairo, funded, interestingly enough, by the Saudi Prince and global investor, Alwalid bin Talal (who is deeply involved in Arab satellite television). Additionally, the RAND Corporation has launched a regional research center in Qatar, the host country for Al Jazeera.
Two other elections have had a profound effect on stimulating the democratic process in the Arab world. I am referring to the Palestinian election for President (which was a contested election) and also the local elections in which Hamas entered the political process and did quite well, suggesting to Fatah's leadership that there is a price to be paid for the sort of casual corruption that characterized Palestinian Authority's rule in the territories since Oslo. But the election with the greatest impact of all was the one in Iraq, in which millions of Arabs watched millions of Iraqis braving terrorist threats to vote in a highly competitive election. And the great question those elections pose in the consciousness of every Arab, in every Arab country, is: If free, competitive elections can be held in Iraq, despite a violent insurgency and a foreign occupation, then why not here?


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2 women injured in fight at North Port school bus stop
NORTH PORT, Fla. -- Two women were taken to the hospital after a violent fight in front of children at a school bus stop Tuesday morning.
North Port Police say it happened at the corner of Aero Avenue and Eager Street around 7:45 a.m.
Police say two adult women got into an altercation during which a coffee mug was broken. Pieces of the mug were then used to slash the other person.
This all happened in front of dozens of children waiting for the school bus.
One woman was trauma alerted to a local hospital. The other woman was taken to the hospital via ambulance.
Counseling has been made available to any students at Glenallen Elementary that witnessed the fight.
If anyone feels their child may need to make a statement after witnessing this incident, you can contact Detective Adam Taylor at 941-429-1586.


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Dr. Richard Francis Weymouth (M.A., D.Litt.) (1822–1902) was an English schoolmaster, Baptist layman and Bible student known particularly for producing one of the earliest modern language translations of the New Testament.

Life
Born near Devonport, Devon, he was the son of Richard Weymouth and his wife Ann Sprague. He was educated at University College London. He taught at a private school in Surrey before being appointed headmaster of Mill Hill School in 1869, when Thomas Scrutton and his supporters formed a new trust to reopen and revive the school, which had closed the previous year. Weymouth was also a fellow of University College London from 1869, and taught there until 1886, before retiring in 1891 to devote himself to textual criticism and Bible study. He died in 1902.

Works
Weymouth's first important work was The Resultant Greek Testament, an eclectic text based on the work of the most prominent textual critics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His major publication was The Modern Speech New Testament, known as the Weymouth New Testament, edited by his secretary, Ernest Hampden-Cook, and published in 1903 in New York and London, England. Weymouth wanted to produce a version that ordinary people could read. It renders Greek idioms into modern English. He also published A literal translation of Cynewulf's Elene from Zupitza's text (1888), based on Cynewulfs Elene mit einem Glossar by German philologist Julius Zupitza.

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External links

English early 20th century versions of the Bible
Today in history December 27

1822 births
1902 deaths
People from Devonport, Plymouth
Alumni of University College London
English Baptists
Translators of the Bible into English
British biblical scholars
19th-century Baptists
19th-century English people
19th-century translators

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The 2012 Southeast Regional EMS meeting will take place March 23-24 at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC in conjunction with the Evangelical Theological Society. For registration and lodging details click here. To join or renew your EMS membership, click here.
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Roland Allen's missionary classic, Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? our theme will be "Missionary Methods." Our plenary plenary speakers will be: J.D. Payne (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), "The Legacy of Roland Allen" and Tom Steffen (Biola University), "The Facilitator Era."
Doug Coleman (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary/IMB), "Examining Insider Movements: Selected Biblical and Theological Issues"
Carlos Martin (Southern Adventist University), "A Biblical Critique of C5"
Mike Shipman (IMB), "A Case Study in Church Planting Movements: The 'Be-New' People of South Asia"
Scott D. Edgar (University of Phoenix/Liberty University), "Missionary Methods for Leadership Development"
Jerry Ireland (Assemblies of God, Zambia), " Missionary Methods for Addressing Animism in Zambia from 1900 to the Present: A Case Study on the Importance of a Biblical and Relevant Pneumatology in an Animistic Context"
George Robinson (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), "The Gospel as Story and Evangelism as Storytelling"


Portugal progressed to the World Cup knockout stage after drawing with Iran in a game full of VAR controversy.
Iran scored a late penalty, given after another video review, and almost snatched a winner in stoppage time which would have seen them not only go through at Portugal's expense but also top the group, with Spain held to a 2-2 draw by Morocco.
Ricardo Quaresma had put Portugal in front with a sensational goal at the end of the first half.
VAR has been a major talking point in the 2018 World Cup but the final matches in Group B provided its most controversial night so far.
The controversy began with the award of Portugal's penalty, which was saved by Iran goalkeeper Ali Beiranvand, diving to his left to deny Ronaldo.
The Real Madrid striker had gone down under the challenge of Iran's Saeid Ezatolahi and, after originally waving away appeals, Enrique Caceres rightly reversed his decision and awarded the spot-kick after checking VAR.
The game became heated after that decision, with both sides asking for further reviews, but its next use again involved Ronaldo.
Attempting to get in front of Morteza Pouraliganji, Ronaldo caught the Iranian in the face with a flailing arm.
After a lengthy stoppage while he watched replays on the VAR pitchside TV monitor, the referee deemed it worthy only of a yellow card.
But perhaps the most controversial decision came in second-half stoppage time and resulted in Iran's penalty.
Iran played a deep cross towards Sardar Azmoun and from close range his knockdown hit the outstretched arm of Portugal defender Cedric Soares, who was jumping to head the ball.
Again the referee took his time in making a decision and once again changed his original call, ultimately choosing to award a penalty.
BBC pundit Alan Shearer described the decision to award Iran's late penalty as "shambolic".
"How on earth can he think that is a penalty?" the former England captain added. "If he thinks it is deliberate handball, he is crazy.
"There is no way on earth that is deliberate handball. It turns the game into an absolute farce."
Iran's Portuguese manager Carlos Queiroz, who managed his country at the 2010 World Cup, suggested the referee chose not to send off Ronaldo because of the forward's high profile.
"In the rules, an elbow is a red card, it doesn't matter if it's Lionel Messi or Ronaldo," he said.
But Portugal manager coach Fernando Santos played down the incident.
"I wasn't concerned," he said. "It seemed like a normal thing in the match and the referee did what he had to do.
"I think the VAR did its job and that's what we have to accept."
What of the rest of the game?
Portugal had been frustrated for 44 minutes in the first half by a well-organised Iran who also looked dangerous on the break.
But the game's first goal came with a piece of magic from the boot of former Chelsea loanee Quaresma in the 45th minute.
The winger cut in from the right flank, played a one-two with a team-mate, then curled a right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area into the far top corner with the outside of his boot.
Play in the second half was repeatedly broken up by fouls, VAR incidents and strong protests in response to tackles from both sides.
Queiroz had to be spoken to by the referee both for encroaching on the pitch and for his complaints at the referee's decisions.
Even after Karim Ansarifard had scored Iran's controversial penalty, winger Mehdi Taremi could have won the game with a chance in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but he hit the side-netting with his effort from inside the penalty box.
Aside from his penalty miss, Ronaldo had few chances on goal, with his best effort a shot straight at the goalkeeper in the third minute.
The blank means he remains on four goals for the tournament, one behind England striker Harry Kane, who leads the race for the Golden Boot.
Portugal have progressed from the group stage of the World Cup for the fourth time in their history (also 1966, 2006 and 2010).
Iran have been eliminated from the group stage at the World Cup in all five tournaments they've competed in (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014 and 2018).
Both of Iran's goals at the 2018 World Cup were scored in injury time (94:06 against Morocco, 92:48 against Portugal).
Quaresma (34y 272d) is the oldest player to score on his first World Cup start since Yahya Golmohammadi (35y 84d), who did so for Iran in 2006 against Mexico.
Iran are the second Asian nation in World Cup history to have won their first match at a World Cup but be eliminated at the group stage, after South Korea in 2006.
Two of the three penalties Ronaldo has taken at World Cups for Portugal have been against Iran - he scored in 2006 but saw his effort saved in this game.
Ronaldo has a 50% penalty success rate in major tournaments for Portugal, scoring two (against Iran and Spain at the World Cups in 2006 and 2018 respectively) but also failing with two (against Austria at Euro 2016 and Iran).
Iran remain winless in eight World Cup matches against European opposition (D2 L6).
Iran's goal - scored after 92 minutes and 48 seconds - was the latest goal Portugal have ever conceded at the World Cup.
Portugal have never lost a World Cup match when they've scored first (W13 D3).
Match ends, Iran 1, Portugal 1.
Cédric Soares (Portugal) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Iran 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt missed. Mehdi Taremi (Iran) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Saman Ghoddos (Iran) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun with a headed pass.
Ramin Rezaeian (Iran) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Iran 1, Portugal 1. Karim Ansarifard (Iran) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty conceded by Cédric Soares (Portugal) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Karim Ansarifard (Iran).
Foul by Sardar Azmoun (Iran).
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Video Review: Red Card. Referee decision on field cancelled.
Morteza Pouraliganji (Iran) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Vahid Amiri (Iran) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. André Silva (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Substitution, Iran. Karim Ansarifard replaces Saeid Ezatolahi.
Omid Ebrahimi (Iran) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ramin Rezaeian (Iran).
Attempt missed. Saman Ghoddos (Iran) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun.
Attempt missed. Adrien Silva (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by João Mário.
Foul by Saman Ghoddos (Iran).
Substitution, Iran. Saman Ghoddos replaces Alireza Jahanbakhsh.
Substitution, Portugal. Bernardo Silva replaces Ricardo Quaresma.
Foul by Vahid Amiri (Iran).


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Knutbühren is a village in southern Lower Saxony, Germany.  It is a western borough of Göttingen.

Administratively, it forms a unit (here, Ortschaft) with Groß Ellershausen and Hetjershausen.

There were 129 residents in 2006.

Villages in Lower Saxony
Göttingen


Holstrom Block & Parke is a family law firm in Southern California. Their experience working in family law allows them to empathize with every client who walks in their office – they know the pain, anxiety, and fear associated with marital or familial legal issues.
Holstrom Block & Parke worked with Crisp Video Group to create a legal brand video that encapsulated their firm's values and dedication to their clients. Check out the video above to see the final product!


OldSchool Country Boy that's honest, respectful,and Loyal til the day I die. Am Real Man with No Tolerance To Fake People That Lie and Steal.
Sick of being lonely that's how I describe myself. On the other hand I'm outgoing I don't judge I don't like to be judged especially when you don't know the person or persons your judging.Thats not me.
My life revolves around my recovery, my family and my job .
I am new at this .
I'm a divorced father of 2. Looking for a new relationship.


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Dewi's Trains,
Footplate Daze:
learning to drive a steam locomotive
Comments/corrections to: Dewi Williams
An account of participation in the "Footplate Days and Ways" course on Steam Locomotive Firing and Driving,
run by Clive Groome at the Bluebell Railway, East Sussex, England, September 28 through October 2, 1993.
Go to [Trains page] [Home page] [Personal Page]
Prelude: Monday, 27 September, 1993
I'd made arrangements to stay at a bed-and-breakfast establishment for the duration of the course, and my cousin was kind enough to give me a ride there on the day before the course actually started. He dropped me off mid-morning: there was nobody at home, but I left my suitcase and backpack in the front porch and set out for the Bluebell Line, the railway where the course was to take place.
The footpath wandered away from the road; I followed it but it lead to a windmill. However, after about a mile, there was a sign pointing to the railway, plus the "King's Arms" pub. After another two miles, I came to Sheffield Park station, where I wandered around getting the geography of the place. By now I was getting pretty hungry, so I went into the pub: it's built into the station, downstairs from the cafeteria. I made my usual mistake: ordering while hungry. The steak-and-kidney pie was huge! It had a great mound of puff pastry rising out of the dish. When I saw it, I gasped, and this attracted the attention of the couple at the next table, who had North American accents. It later turned out that these were Ray, another of the students on the course, and his wife Marilyn.
After lunch, I rode to the end of the line (Coombe Bridge) and back on the 2 o'clock train just to get the feel of the line, and then purchased my mandatory British Railways "grease-top" cap at the station store.
Walking back to the B-and-B, I was able to keep away from the road for most of the route and walk across the common keeping the windmill in sight.
At this point, there were three of us from the course (Jim, Dave and myself) staying at Lynn Hartley's "Wayside Cottage". Jim had already arrived, and he, too, like Ray and myself, had been exploring the Bluebell Line before the course started. Dave was still trying to finish up work so he could join us, and in fact he didn't arrive until early the next morning.
First and Second days: Tuesday and Wednesday
We were due to meet at Sheffield Park station at 08:45, so Lynn told us to be down for breakfast before 7:45. She provided an excellent breakfast, with orange juice, cereal, bacon, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms, and toast and marmalade. Plus coffee, real coffee, as well as tea. Jim and I both made approving noises about the coffee, and got into a discussion of the quality of coffee at work. "Our cafeteria is a room filled with Sirius Cybernetics Corporation vending machines" said Jim, Automat-ically.
I scrounged a ride with the others to the station (in fact, they were very kind about transporting me all week). In the parking lot, we eventually identified Clive's van: dark green, it was originally a BBC-TV outside broadcast control van. He intends to have it repainted with his logo. As the others showed up, we squeezed along the benches in the van, and started on the many cups of tea we were to consume, as we introduced ourselves and described our footplate experience (in most cases, very little) and numbered ourselves in order, so that we could work in pairs. There were six students altogether, all male: one from California, one from Canada (me) and four British.
Then, in our overalls and shiny new caps, we were shown the "enginemen's lobby", where we were warned we should sign-in every day that we were to be on-site, and where we made our daily contribution to the enginemen's tea fund.
This part of the course consisted of two days of theory: each morning and afternoon had a lecture session and a session of looking at locomotives (or parts of them) and crawling on, under and inside them.
The Bluebell Line's training room was in the throes of refurbishment, so we used the reading room for lectures, upstairs in the station building. Here, Clive started us on learning the mechanics of producing steam: the boiler, firebox, firetubes, superheater, smoke box, and so on; and fusible plugs - especially fusible plugs. From the simple square firebox he moved into the development of the sloping firebox as a true combustion chamber, with thermic siphons or water legs, and then into the techniques of firing: where to throw the coal, and how much, and when; and how to avoid the horrors of a "green fire" and a "hole in the fire". (Some of us had reservations when he said that we'd easily recognize a hole in the fire by the distinctive sound it created. How, we thought, would we recognize one sound among all the other noises? But he was right: the "thrumming" sound differs from any other sound on the footplate).
This seemed plenty in itself, but we also covered control of the engine, which included valve-gear, timing, cut-off, use of the regulator, plus a few goodies like blowing the ends off the cylinders by not exhausting condensed steam; "going hydraulic" and not being able to close the regulator, "priming" through having too high a water level in the boiler, forgetting to use the feed-water injector and letting the water level get too low, and so on!
Then there were the brakes: vacuum brakes, air brakes, steam brakes, and "screw 'er down" (screw down the hand-brake).
And the lubrication: when and where to squirt in what type of oil, and how that oil gets to the bearing surfaces. At this point we had a bit of practical work: we each had to make "trimmings" consisting of strands of wool held in place by copper wire, which siphon oil from a container to where it's needed.
At the end of the first day, three of us were ready to stagger back to Lynn Hartley's. Les had expected to bunk in a sleeping car or the crew car, and had come equipped with a sleeping bag etc. but found that he was not expected: in fact there was no room for him. So he too came to "Wayside Cottage" and prepared to put his bed in the sitting room.
Each evening Lynn provided us with tea and buns or cookies as soon as we came in the door. On each day after the first, we weren't really fit to sit on the furniture in our working clothes, even with the overalls stripped off; so we showered and changed in turn, and the last one waiting for the shower had to drink tea standing up. Later in the evening we all went to one of the pubs for food. We tried the "King's Arms" and the "Five Bells". The latter insisted that Christmas had come early this year, with carols and Christmas dinners.
Naturally, there was a practical side to this part of the course as well as the theory. It started with our being taken around the yard, the Bluebell Line's workshops, and the public shed where various restored and partially restored locomotives were kept. This was for familiarization with different parts of locomotives, and how to identify the controls on different types of loco, and all the variations of the different types of linkage for the valve-gear.
The most spectacular part was climbing into the firebox of a Bulleid Pacific, two people at a time. The trick is to grasp a fairly high-up handle in each hand, swing both feet into the fire-door opening, transfer hand grip to lower handles, ease body further in, turn over and wriggle the remaining distance. Inside the firebox we could easily identify the components, including the enormous thermic siphons. Coming out of the firebox was a slight variation on the entry procedure: squeeze out, roll over and get two people to help you up. Clive did give us one warning: on these engines, there's a stub lever sticking up beside the firebox: it's used for rocking the grate. Make sure somebody is covering it because if you slip, you'll be like the engine itself: you'll have a tender behind!
Another thing we had to learn was the name of each track and which signal controlled which road: which switch was controlled from the box in the station, and which could be accessed by throwing the point lever in the yard, adjacent to the switch. There were the two platform roads in the station, the Pump-house siding, the Newick road (which used to be the running line to Newick when the Bluebell was a "real" railway), the headshunt, and the six yard tracks. There were the starter signals, the two signals controlling entrance to the two station roads and their shorter counterparts allowing cautious entry even when the track was occupied, and "dummy" signals at ground level.
During the second afternoon we were introduced to "our" locomotive, no. 263. It was an 0-4-4 tank engine built in about 1905 for the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway. From our point of view, it had two "interesting" characteristics: it used the regular train vacuum brake rather than steam brakes for the engine itself, and it had a steam-powered reverser. It was parked over the pit, so we could walk down the steps and look underneath at the points that would need lubrication and examine the reverser mechanism and dampers.
At the end of the second day Clive handed us our exam papers, to be handed in by Friday. The cover sheet was a list of safety rules and regulations which we were to sign as "read and understood". Back at Wayside Cottage, I failed to obey the rule "Look out for metal obstructions above your head". I bent over to unlace my safety shoes in the porch, straightened up, hit my head on a metal flower basket, staggered back, and banged into and cracked a window pane.
Third day: Thursday, 30 September
We knew we'd have to start at about 08:00, because it would take about two hours to get steam up. Lynn expected us down for breakfast soon after 7am. Somewhere about the second pot of coffee, Lynn asked "Where's Dave?" He was still asleep! But he was up in time to eat breakfast and sign in more or less on time.
I was number two, so my first task was to oil the inside and underneath stuff: the axle journals, the big end cranks and the oiling points on the trailing 4-wheeled bogie. Clive tossed me a long once-white coat, with the comment "No need to get your overalls dirty!". I put this on, filled up the lubricating can from the large oil-can, and went under. First the big ends: to do this I had to lay a plank across the pit and climb up on it. In this position I was bending right across the axle, but it was reasonably easy to grab each cork with a rag, twist it out, fill up with oil and replace the cork. One bearing took an incredible amount of oil, but none seemed to be leaking out. The other needed hardly any oil.
Then came the wheel bearings, and then off to the other end of the locomotive. The movement of the bogie (truck) is lubricated by four "onions", open-topped onion-shaped steel capsules, which hold the oil that is siphoned onto the actual bearing surfaces by trimmings. The only problem was how to get oil to flow into the onions, since there was no room to hold the oiling can high enough for oil to flow. The solution was to work with a very full can of oil, and then there was just enough gradient for the liquid to flow.
Meanwhile, the rest of the crew was getting the fire going, attending to all the other oiling points and putting trimmings in the oil feed pipes, and polishing the brass within the cab and outside. Anybody who finished their assigned task had to grab a paraffin-soaked rag and wipe down the painted areas. When we were about finished, it started to rain, but the rain just beaded up and ran off the oily paintwork.
Eventually, the moment arrived: we had about 140 lb/in² pressure, and the engine could be moved, literally under its own steam. We backed up to the headshunt, picked up the smaller brake van, and we were ready for practical instruction. First, student no. 1 drove while no. 2 (that's me) fired; then no. 2 drove while no. 3 fired, and so on.
The student who was learning to fire was introduced to John, who had been with the Bluebell Line for 16 years. He showed us how to pick up the deceptively small amount of coal on the shovel, make a full swing, and turn the shovel's handle to flip the coal to the desired place on the grate. It didn't need much effort for throwing, but that flip! Sometimes the coals would stay together in a clump and land in one spot, even if it was not quite the right spot, but sometimes they would spray right across the full width of the grate. I ran through my repertoire of curses.
John also showed us how to work the feed-water injector. I'm convinced that this is a black art. Turn on the water three-quarters full, turn on the steam, knock the water back a little, then on a little more, and the injector starts. Well, that's how John did it. For me, it was fiddle, fiddle, fiddle with the water control until John gave it one final gentle knock which started the injector every time.
Clive instructed the student driver. "Make a brake" was easy: move the little black handle to turn on steam to the brake ejector to create a vacuum. Then the reverser, tricky, but not a black art because you could see what was happening by looking at the brass pointer. The method is: put the reverser lever to forward or back, and "blip" the steam control. The brass pointer echoes, on a graduated scale, the position of the reversing gear, and if you overshoot you can put the lever the other way and "blip" the steam control again. Finally, put the lever in the middle.
After a few tries at the reverser, the student could check the signal (and get John to check all was clear on his side), toot the whistle, and push the regulator open.
The object of the lesson was to drive to a specific point just outside the station or to a specific point on the platform, and stop without a jerk: that is, at the final stop the brake should be off. We quickly found out about momentum: on the flat, an engine will coast a very long way with steam shut off! The little van we had was equipped with vacuum brakes which helped with stopping where we intended, but the van also held the four students who were awaiting their turns. They were able to comment among themselves on the success (or otherwise) of each attempt. The prime rule was: DO NOT LAUGH! for the next attempt may be yours.
Each run was only two or three hundred metres: but on each run, we travelled from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere, since the line crosses the meridian of Greenwich close to the station.
The Fat Controller (actually, he's not fat, but he just seems to fit that character in TV's "Shining Time Station") told Clive that we had to shunt into the Pump-house siding while the service train came into the station and the engine ran around to the other end of the train. Once in the siding, we were stuck for half an hour or so, and some people left the brake van for tea or personal pit stop. "I'm going outside now chaps; I may be some time" said Jim, freezingly.
There's another short siding off the Pump-house siding, and here we each practised hooking-up to other vehicles using the old three-link coupling that was fitted to unbraked vehicles. This needs a "shunter's pole", a long pole made of baseball-bat wood with a hook on one end. To hook-up, one needs to catch a link on the hook at the end of the pole, make a long swing, and flip the link over the hook of the adjacent vehicle. To un-hook, slide the pole up the slope of the hook, pushing the link up until it falls off the hook. It's tricky because you have to manipulate the weight and momentum of the link from several feet away, but after a few tries we were all able to do it without much trouble, and earned our class the title of "The Master Coupler".
At the end of the day we had to dispose the engine, but couldn't do a complete job as there was another engine with a "Do Not Move" sign on it parked over the pit. There was very little ash in the smoke-box, but we did attend to the fire, the lubrication, and got a load of firewood (broken-up old pallets) stacked in the cab to dry out for the next morning.
Fourth day: Friday, 1 October
Another 8 o'clock start. It was my turn for Brasso on the dome, safety valves and anything else outside the cab. That dome is enormous! I discovered that there is a strong incentive to get the dome polished as early as possible: as the boiler warms up, the dome starts to get hot - and more difficult to polish. From the dome, safety valves, boiler bands and cab window-frames, I worked my way downwards: brass numbers, oil reservoirs, brass trim on splashers, assorted copper pipes. Polishing the brass turns into a stand-off between the Brasso boys and paraffin-pushers: Brasso leaves marks on adjacent paintwork, paraffin oil dulls adjacent brasswork.
The first movements of the engine, once we had steam up, were to park the small brake van (caboose) and couple-up a larger one. The new one didn't have vacuum brakes but it did have a little stove, which we immediately fired up since the weather was distinctly cold and wet. The lack of vacuum brake didn't matter since we towed the van into the station, uncoupled it, and screwed the hand-brake on, very thoroughly. The day's mission was to practice driving up to the van and stopping: stopping close enough to compress the buffers so that engine and van could be coupled, but to do it gently enough that we didn't push the van from its parked position.
It turned into a lesson on parking by ear! It's impossible to see exactly where the buffers are, or to see the closing distance between the engine and van, so the trick is to make the final approach with enough momentum to carry the engine the whole distance, but slowly enough for the buffers to absorb the impact.
As on the previous day, we had to move out of the way each time the service train approached the station.
During the day, too, we each learned how to fill up the tanks with water (to "put in the bag"). The bag, a very wide flexible hose, sprayed water from its connection with the hinged metal pipe. While we couldn't get clear of the spray, we did learn the best position to stand, on the engine's side tank.
At the end of the day, there was still an engine (ex-Southern Railway Q-class) parked over the pit, so we still couldn't dump the contents of the ash-pan.
Clive suggested that we have curry for dinner at an Indian restaurant in the next village. I mentioned my ignorance of Indian food, and I hoped that Clive, who'd fired locomotives in India, would be able to advise me. "Clive of India?" asked Jim, bravely. In fact it was an excellent meal: good food and good service.
Fifth day: Saturday, 2 October
Today we had to book in at 07:00, since our first run was scheduled for 09:30. As well as three runs of the regular service train, there were to be two "Golden Arrow" runs. Our training runs out on the main line had to be squeezed in between these public trains.
My job that morning was coaling: I followed Clive on to the tank and on to the roof of the cab. Coal is loaded from a skip attached to a fork-lift truck: I'd wondered how a skip could tip coal into the narrow coal-bunker behind the cab. The answer became clear: the engine was deliberately parked in an area that was paved between and around the tracks. The fork-lift came up behind the engine and drove forward until the skip hung over the bunker. Clive demonstrated the method of unloading the skip and I attempted to emulate: he pushed his shovel under the coal and withdrew it, bringing with it a huge load which he directed to the emptiest part of the bunker. I jerked my shovel into the coal and withdrew it, bearing one shovelful of coal, part of which I dropped overboard. Ah well, practice makes perfect.
Clive's daughter Elizabeth meanwhile got the stove going in the brake van. I was able to conceal the coal that had fallen overboard by shovelling it into a bucket for the stove.
The Q-class engine was still parked over the pit, but the "Do Not Move" sign had been taken down: we were allowed to tow it away so we could use the pit to clean out the ashpan. Clive treated us to an unplanned demonstration of driving skill as soon as our engine had enough steam pressure to move. At that point, we had 60 lb/in² pressure: but it would take 120 lb/in² to work the ejector for the vacuum brakes, so we had no brakes at all. In spite of this, Clive backed out, drove up to the parked engine, towed it up to the headshunt, drove it forward onto another yard track and parked it close to a stationary engine. We were of course closely watching his use of the reversing gear as a brake.
We were ready to leave before 09:30, but we were to be the first train out, so off we went. It had been raining heavily and continuously for hours, so as we drove along the track on an embankment, we could look down on submerged fields, flooded roads, and streams turned into rushing rivers. As we left Sheffield Park station there were pheasants in one of the drier fields; and shortly after, we ran into a flock of grouse (do grouse come in flocks?) apparently using the track as an overnight stop. The right-of-way was covered in birds: they were even perched on the rails. A toot on the whistle had no effect. Most flew away as we got close, but on our return past this point, I was looking out of the back and saw a bemused grouse appear from beneath the van, in the four-foot way.
At Horsted Keynes, the engine ran around the brake van and back we went, about 5 miles (8km) each way. After two trips, it was my turn to fire.
To start with, we had a thin even fire. But we'd need steam for the climb up the bank to H-K (Horsted Keynes, not Hong Kong). But we'd have a long lay-over at H-K so we didn't want an enormous fire when we got there. It was just as well that John was there to give me instruction! Apart from one "hole in the fire" all was well. I managed to spray coal in all directions when I tried to cover the hole, but after a couple more attempts John said "Shut the doors" and very quickly the general vibration shook the coal over the hole and the thrumming noise ceased.
Meanwhile John again had me practicing the art of the injector. Once or twice I did manage to get it going at once. On the other hand, there were those times when . . .
As we approached H-K, John had me load up the back of the grate with coal; both corners, and just under the door. Then we were at the entry to the station, and I had to lean out with the staff: the token which had been our authority to enter the single track. Following instructions, I held it out so that the signalman could grab it from me as we passed. Then we entered platform 1 and ran the engine around the van. This gave practice in uncoupling and coupling the screw couplings. Safety first! I think everyone remembered to remove the brake hose as the first task, and replace it as the last task.
During our 90-minute lay-over, we parked just at the end of a normally unused platform, so we could have use of the station's facilities. While we were there, Ray and his wife showed up. Ray had fallen sick and had been in bed most of the previous day; even on Saturday he was very weak and couldn't even ride back with us in the brake van. Marilyn told us the story of washing his borrowed overalls before returning them: they had rented a cottage with a washer and dryer in the bathroom. The dryer exhaust pipe was not connected but had a note stuck on it to the effect that it should be connected before use. She hooked it up then opened the dryer - and a small animal popped out! She screamed, shot out of the room and closed the door. Unfortunately, she'd left the bath water running, and by the time she dared to crack the door open and look inside, the animal had gone - but the bath had overflowed.
After lunch, when the service train had left, we returned to Sheffield Park. John spread the piled-up coals across the grate, I started the injector, and off we went, downhill for most of the way, but pouring rain again. My cousins were bravely standing on the platform as we entered the station, rain dripping off them, cameras at the ready.
And then, it was my turn to drive. There was a train in the other platform road, so we could not run around the van. We uncoupled the van and moved off to the Newick road; the train engine moved onto the track we'd been on, pushed the van into the head- shunt, and returned to its train. We drove forward, backed up to the van, and coupled up. We knew we had to move away from there, because we'd be trapped when the "Golden Arrow" special arrived at platform 2; so we moved forward, right through the station, and backed up to the train in platform 1. I was to back up to a train loaded with passengers, with a van behind me! Gulp! But I did achieve it, stopping about a metre away, as I was told later.
After the Golden Arrow had arrived, we were given the staff (the single-line token) and a clear signal, and off we went. The start was similar to all the other starts we had made, but after that I was in unfamiliar territory: whistle for the bridle-path crossing, open the regulator more for the up-grade, slow for the speed-restriction area. Then stop on a slope, and do a hill-start. I learned that it's a good idea to keep your hand on the regulator after you open it, so you can immediately close it if the wheels slip!
For the first time I got to push the regulator hard over, to open the second valve, and we roared up the slope. Somewhere in that sequence I noticed that Les, who was firing for me, was not wearing his hat. Apparently he'd lost it some way back.
At H-K we made the run-around, but then had to wait for the passenger train. We took the opportunity to look at the work going on in the carriage repair shed (passenger car shop).
On the return run, Les remembered approximately where he'd lost his hat, so I slowed down, and all hands kept a look-out. When his hat was spotted, I heard a shout of "Whoa!" so I put the handle down: full brake application. Even so, it took quite a distance to stop, so Les had to run back for his hat. Then a toot, and we resumed, going to the flag-stop (the halt) with its one-car-length platform. I managed to stop with only the front of the brake van at the platform: still, it fitted the definition of "at the platform". Then another toot, back to Sheffield Park, and to dispose of the engine.
Again, my job was to be up on the roof for coaling, and surprise! I was getting the coal to go more or less where I wanted it to. Finally, we shovelled the hot coals from the grate into a wheelbarrow, taking turns so no one person got scorched but all had tanned arms, and stacked wood for the next crew. Clive removed his Ways and Days headboard, and we all said our good-byes.
Postlude: Sunday, 3 October
Homeward bound! Air Canada had overbooked the economy class, so poor me, I was forced into first class. I loved it.
Six days later, we attended a wedding as friends of the bride. To my surprise, one of the groom's friends had attended the "Footplate Days and Ways" course: and what's more he lives only a few houses away from me.
One further thought: before taking the course, I'd wondered whether I had the strength needed for shovelling the coal, and I'd practiced left-handed and right-handed snow-shovelling all winter. I found that great strength isn't needed: it's quite small amounts of coal, but skill is needed to deliver these where they are needed. I'm sure though that endurance is needed for a long run.
You can write to the author: Dewi Williams
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Williamstown High School (WHS) is a public, co-educational school situated in the historic Williamstown area. It is a multi-campus school - Years 7- 9 are housed on the junior campus, Bayview St, Williamstown and the senior campus, with Years 10 -12 is located in Pasco St, Williamstown. WHS has a proud history of over 100 years. It began as Williamstown Grammar School in 1867, and in 1914 became WHS - a State Government funded public school. In 2000 WHS merged with Gellibrand Girl's school to become the school it is today.
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