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Please tell us a little bit about your background..
I was born in Brighton but lived in America and in Australia for 5 years. I did my secondary education and degree in the UK. Living in different countries and moving around has enabled me to be comfortable with change and to embrace the requirement to get involved.
I did a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. However, I didn't want to do anything with chemistry, so went into technical pre-sales and worked in a small company. From there, I pursued the commercial route for about 4 years. Bombardier was my first role in the rail industry but not my first one in a male dominated industry, so it wasn't that challenging! I started working on Technical Support Spares Supply Agreements (TSSSA) for Electrostar trains. I did this for 2.5 years and last month was promoted to the General Manager's position on the South Western Railway contract. I am accountable for the Wimbledon site depot, responsible for Health and Safety, contractors, Profit and Loss of the TSSSA and ensuring the project delivers its obligations.
I wanted something new and something a little bit more interesting to do. And as I've always had a technical mind, the engineering aspect of rail was attractive to me. In my last job, all the contracts were standard whereas in rail, the projects are all different. So, the ever-changing dimensions keeps me interested. Technology wise, I think the rail industry is a bit behind compared to other industries but we're moving in the right direction. The multidisciplinary aspect of rail keeps me interested. It's important not to be bored at work. I love being challenged. Each project throws up an operational or commercial challenge, which keeps you on your toes but I particularly like the engineering challenges, even though I'm not an engineer!
Getting recognition as my career goal is ultimately to be running the business. I think some women don't push for the recognition in the hope they will get it anyway, whereas men tend to be more forthcoming about what they have achieved and why they should get recognition for it. I want to be the best at what I do and that's what drives me. I want to be known to be doing a good job.
What aspects of your role do you find the most challenging and rewarding?
With respect to challenging, being promoted to the General Manager's position on the South Western Railway contract. I took a career focussed move forward into a more challenging role. It was a big risk, including that of potentially upsetting a line manager as I felt I was leaving him in the lurch. But actually, he was really supportive and continues to be. I really had to think about it and take a lot of time to make my decision. As for rewarding, I recently extended a TSSSA with GTR to include additional fleets that Bombardier had sold them without a service contract. It took us 1.5 years to achieve and it absolutely consumed me. One of the hardest projects I have done to date but it gave me the most rewarding feeling and it was a huge relief once completed! One of the most stressful few weeks of my life but the reward was so worth it. I took it from start to conclusion and that is very fulfilling.
I need operational experience, Profit and Loss responsibility and taking a position abroad at some point by means of an international assignment or secondment for example.
I think I would like to be head of something globally in Bombardier or the rail industry. I am passionate about rail and I want to operate at a senior level.
Rail needs to make the roles and opportunities more visible to women at universities. The same applies to apprenticeships. Attracting women when they're already in work is difficult if they're not in a male dominated environment. Women need to know that, if they want something that's challenging, then rail is a great industry to get into, an industry where you can progress your career quite quickly. The rail industry involves so Many projects and that aspect of the sector will never go away, so there's always going to be an opportunity.
Male or female, just keep pushing yourself forward and if you're in a company like Bombardier, which is huge, put yourself forward for projects and seize the opportunities that present themselves, even if you've never done them before. And join Women in Rail because it will give you networking opportunities and access to many different resources.
I organised fundraising for the charity "saying good bye" which supports people through various periods of grief relating to miscarriage through to death in early years. The topic is not gender related as it affects both men and women. I support Women in Rail and talk about the group's initiatives and I also call people out on gender equality if I see something that needs to be addressed. I think you have to be prepared to call it out or nothing will change.
Sheryl Sandberg – I feel like she's really going out there and telling women as it is. Encouraging them to get a mentor. Everything she says I can relate to.


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A Trlingual Dictionary of an Ancient Arabic Language
A.F.L. Beeston, M.A. Ghul, W.W. Muller, J. Ryckmans, Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic)/ Dictionnaire Sabeen (anglais-francaise-arabe) (Beyrouth: Lbrairie du Liban; Louvain-la-Neuve: Editions Peeters; University of Sanaa, Yemen, 1982).
Sabaic is the ancient Arabic language of Sheba, whose present, Arabic name is, I believe, Marib. It's located in what is now Yemen, and its Queen famously visited King Solomon. Fabulously wealthy, it flourished in the 10th century BC on the profits of the spice and perfume trades, and conquered Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. The Ethiopian languages Amharic, Tigray and Tigrina are Semitic languages descended from the South Arabic language spoken by these ancient settlers.
The book's the product of a Colloquium on Yemeni Civilisation, which requested the four authors to compile this dictionary. It appears to be of the terms found on inscriptions in the Yemen, and possibly one or two other places. It is just a dictionary, and doesn't include any texts or inscriptions although it does give the alphabet in which they were written. I picked it up really as a curiosity in one of the secondhand bookstalls in Bristol through my interest in archaeology and the Ancient Near East. The book's really of use only to archaeologists, linguists and historians working in Yemen, and it's another language that I haven't learned. Nevertheless it's a reminder of just how ancient and advanced civilisation has been in the Middle East. I don't know if there are any books specifically on the archaeology of Yemen, but I found a book a few years ago on the archaeology of Arabia, which I think contained a chapter or two on Yemen.
And these nations' antiquities are seriously threatened by the region's wars. When I was doing the doctorate at Bristol Uni, one of the speakers at an archaeological seminar said that much of the archaeological heritage of Syria had been trashed by the fighting. We've seen ISIS destroy precious mosques, churches and other shrines, as well as an ancient sculptures from the ancient Mesopotamian civilisations like Babylon and Akkad. It therefore wouldn't surprise me one bit if Yemen's archaeological heritage, including that of an Sheba, isn't also seriously endangered and damaged by the current war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia. And I am afraid that Iran's similarly ancient and precious archaeological heritage won't also suffer catastrophic losses if Trump and the Neocons have their way and launch an invasion of that country.
We need to stop these wars, because the cost in human lives and to the nations' cultural heritage has been immense. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, millions forced to flee and priceless objects and monuments destroyed. And so our knowledge of the past is diminished.
But books like this help preserve and stimulate an interest in the preservation and exploration of these ancient treasures, if only among those few scholars able to read the ancient languages.
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ISIS Atrocity in Yemen
Yesterday came the news that a suicide bomber had killed forty people at a mosque in Yemen. The country is currently torn in a civil war between its Sunni population and government, and the Houthi tribe, who are Shia. It was first feared that the bomber was a member of the latter. He wasn't. Nor was he a member al-Qaeda, who were also initially suspected of involvement.
It was ISIS, yet again.
This is extremely disturbing. It's not just that forty innocents were murdered and a house of worship desecrated for no other reason than that they and it belonged to a different faith, though this is bad enough. It's because ISIS also attempts to destroy the very culture, including the ancient monuments, of the peoples it conquers and rules. I've blogged several times this week, including today, about the cult's destruction of the Assyrian antiquities in Iraq, their smashing of art treasures in a museum in Mosul, the bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrod and their destruction of the mosques and shrines to the Patriarch Seth, revered in Islam as the Prophet Sheth, St. George, also revered in Islam as Jerjis, and the Prophet Jonah, known in the Qu'ran as Yunus. They also attempted to demolish one of the earliest minarets built in Iraq, but were fortunately prevented by the local people.
Yemen is also vulnerable to this destruction. It is, like the rest of the Middle East, a country with ancient and rich history. The city of Marib was the capital of the ancient South Arabian civilisation of Saba, known in the Bible as Sheba, whose queen visited King Solomon to test him with 'hard questions'. This episode is also mentioned in the Qu'ran, and the Muslim name for the Queen is 'Bilqis'. According to the chapter in the Qu'ran, the Surat al-Naml, which means 'The Ants' in English, Solomon could understand the language of birds. He was brought news of the Queen of Sheba by the hoopoe. the same sura also describes the destruction of the town's great dam, the remains of which are still extant. The South Arabian languages spoken in the Gulf are also the origin of the modern majority languages of Ethiopia, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya, which are all descended from the medieval language, Ge'ez. And the Ethiopian people themselves in their national epic, the Kebra Nagast, or 'Glory of Kings', traced their descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
The British Museum has a gallery devoted to the ancient cultures of Yemen, and a little while ago they staged an exhibition of its antiquities and the archaeology of this rich and ancient country. Any attack on these would be yet another blow against adab and the culture, not only of Islam and the Arabs, but of the world.
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Evolution, Race and African Civilisation: A Remedial Course for Kippers
A few days ago I reblogged a piece from Still Laughing At UKIP, reporting the massive racial abuse and vilification directed against the Labour MP, Chuka Umunna, by the Kippers on Facebook after he had the audacity to observe that they weren't actually very good at spelling and grammar. The article's 'Racism. Uncontrolled, Mass Racism', and it's at http://stilllaughingattheukip.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/racism-uncontrolled-mass-racism/, if you want to check it out for yourself. The racist remarks reported by the Kipper Smoker include the crass, racial insults of 'monkeys' and 'spear chuckers' to describe Blacks, as well as remarks that people of ancient African extraction are 'uncivilised'. So let's go through a few facts about evolution and African civilisation, just to straighten the record.
Archaic Features in First Human Colonists in Europe Compared to Africa
The comments about 'monkey's recalls the daft and dangerous racial hierarchies Europeans drew up in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which placed White Europeans at the top of the evolutionary ladder as the apex of human evolution, and Blacks at the bottom. The lowest rung was occupied by Aboriginal Australians. Below them were Orang-Utans, which Europeans were originally unsure whether they were human or apes. Science has overturned this classification, and I cannot see any modern, ethical archaeological department ever endorsing such claims that certain sections of the human species are inferior to Whites, no matter what the authors of the infamous 'Bell Curve' may claim about innate differences in cognitive ability between different ethnic groups.
It is true that physiologically Aboriginal Australians have many archaic features, such as a pronounced brow ridge. This is hardly surprising considering just how ancient these people are, having colonised the continent about 40,000 years ago. They are, however, just as human as every other part of the human race. Their facial features are also very close to those of the ancestral humans that colonised Europe at about the same time. Skeletons showing Australian Aboriginal characteristics from that remote epoch have been found in Southern France. A little while ago I went to a seminar at Uni taken by an American professor, who was one of the world's greatest authorities on early man and the Neanderthals. He pointed out that the skeletons of the early modern humans – Homo Sapiens Sapiens recovered from that period have archaic features, and are less gracile than African skeletons from the same period. If you want to put it crudely, at that stage the ancestors of modern Europeans were less evolved than their cousins in Africa. Despite their physiological differences, they were still Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Their appearance does not saying anything about their essential humanity.
Ancestral Modern Human Skull from Broken Hill, South Africa. The first humans to colonise Europe 30-40,000 years ago had similar features
Africa: Continent of Many Cultures and Civilisations
Now let's deal with the claims that Africans are somehow 'uncivilised'. For a start, Africa is a continent, not a single country, and contains a plethora of cultures and peoples, whose lifestyles can vary considerably. The Bushmen of South Africa – the Khoisan peoples – are hunter gatherers, while many of the peoples of East Africa were traditionally nomadic pastoralists, herding their cattle across the Savannah. Others have long been settled in village as settled farmers and agriculturalists. And some of these peoples have developed highly advanced civilisations.
Ancient and Christian Nubia
The Nubians of the Sudan took over much of the culture of ancient Egypt, and for a time even ruled the ancient Land of the Nile. Regardless of the claim that the Ancient Egyptians themselves were Black, there was a dynasty of Black pharaohs, whose empire stretched into the Ancient Near East. One of these was the pharaoh Taharqa, who is mentioned in the Bible for his part in struggling with the Assyrians for the control of the various minor, Near Eastern states dominated by these two superpowers, like ancient Israel. The Nubians later converted to Christianity, and had a literate, Christian civilisation with strong links to Egypt and the Byzantine Empire until the country was conquered by Islam in the 14th century. Archaeologists have been studying the remains of their ancient culture since that part of Africa was opened up to Europeans in the 19th century.
Further east is the equally ancient culture of Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. This too is also extremely ancient. There were early centres of civilisation at Meroe and then Aksum. Although Meroe was a literate civilisation, they spoke a language completely unrelated to any other, so that although their inscriptions can be read, scholars at still at a loss to know what they mean. The main languages of modern Ethiopia, Amharic, Tigre and Tigrinya, are descended from Ge'ez, which in turn is descended from the South Arabian languages, such as Sabaic, when colonists from these civilisations conquered and settled there well over 2,000 years ago. It converted to Christianity under its king, Ezana, in the fourth century, before the Anglo-Saxons had managed to over-run Roman Britain.
The Swahili in East Africa
South of Ethiopia, the great Muslim civilisation of the Swahili emerged later in the Middle Ages. They adopted not only Islam, but also other features of Islamic and Arabic life and culture. They built impressive cities from blocks of coral taken from the east African reefs, which were covered with a kind of lime wash produced by burning the same coral. In their time, they created some of the most outstanding examples of Islamic architecture, some of which can still be seen today in places like Zanzibar.
Nok, Benin and the Great Civilisations of West Africa
On the other side of Africa, other civilisations emerged which reached an extremely high level of civilisation. Africans in what is now Nigeria began smelting iron early, long before Europeans, in c. 1800 BC, due to the natural iron bloom available in the region. The earliest African artistic culture outside ancient Egypt, the Nok, appeared in Nigeria in the 3rd century BC. This is known for its highly stylised sculptures, the artistic skill of which has drawn admiration from modern art experts and connoisseurs. Other West African cultures also have been the subject of considerable scholarly interest for the high standard of their art, such as Ife and Benin. Both of these cultures produced extremely naturalistic metal sculptures. The Benin bronze heads, produced to form part of a shrine to the rulers' life-force, are justly famous and are found in many European collections after they were looted by punitive raids by the British in the 19th century after they expanded into the region.
Sculpture of a king of Ife. Similar works have been found in terracotta dating from before the 12th century.
Benin Bronze from Shrine to Ruler
These cultures also impressed European observers and traders when they first encountered them in the 16th and 17th centuries. They commented on the size of the cities they encountered, as well as the chastity of the indigenous women, which they considered to be far greater than their own. These civilisations did practise much that struck Europeans as barbaric, such as human sacrifice. What surprised them about this, however, was that such a cultured and civilised people should actually engage in such horrors. Captain Denman of the West African Squadron, charged with suppressing the slave trade between Africa and America, stated this in his evidence to a parliamentary inquiry in the 1840s. When asked whether mass human sacrifice really existed amongst the peoples of Dahomey, Ashanti and other cultures in the region, he replied that it did, and that it 'was remarkable, given the achievements they have made in most of the arts of civilisation'. In other words, what shocked Europeans wasn't that the Africans committing these atrocities were barbarous savages, but actually the complete opposite: they were highly civilised, and so the massacres they committed were even more shocking and horrifying by contrast to the rest of their civilisation.
Plan of the palace of the Deji of Akure, showing how complex great African buildings may be.
View of the City of Benin, published 1668 by the Dutch explorer, Dapper
North of these pagan civilisations was the great Islamic empire of Mali. Access to a plentiful supply of gold made it one of the richest civilisations in West Africa. So rich, that when its ruler passed through Egypt in the 12th century on the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the amount of gold he and his retainers carried was so great that it actually through the country into a recession. Mali was also an important religious and intellectual centre, in which the scientific literature of the Muslim world also circulated. Scholars have uncovered vast libraries of ancient manuscripts preserved in the empire's mosques from the Middle Ages. Amongst the treasures of this civilisation are manuscripts of the heliocentric system, showing the Earth and planets moving around the Sun, which Muslim scholars discovered independently of Copernicus about two centuries earlier.
Non-Ptolemaic Model of the Moon's orbit, produced by the Turkish astronomer Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi in 1285. Similar works were copied and circulated amongst scholars in Mali.
Further south, in Zimbabwe, is the great stone fort from which the country takes its modern name. This vast structure is so impressive that previous European scholars could not believe it had been built by Africans, and instead attributed it to the Arabs or Chinese. I've got a feeling that some of the Ufolks may well believe it was built by ancient space aliens. Examination of the ruins themselves, however, show that it is indeed African in design and construction, similar to the way wooden houses are built by the peoples of the area.
The Temple at the Great Fort of Zimbabwe
There may also have been many other African civilisations, of which we currently know little, simply because the evidence for them has not survived. Africans tend to build in wood, rather than stone, a material that is particularly vulnerable to the continent's climate and attack by termites. We only know of those civilisations that have either survived to the present day, such as Dahomey, Ashanti and the other contemporary Nigerian cultures, or who built in stone. Other civilisations may have existed which built in wood, the evidence for which perished over the centuries. However, merely because the evidence has not survived, does not mean that such civilisations weren't there in the first place.
The Kippers racially abusing and insulting Umunna thus reveal just the extent of their own vile bigotry, but also how little they know about human evolution and African culture and civilisation. While these are fairly exotic topics, they're not so arcane that only a few scholars know about them. There have been some excellent TV series on them, aimed at the general public. These include The Incredible Human Story on the BBC, presented by Time Team's own Dr Alice Roberts. The BBC also produced a series on human evolution, presented by the avuncular, moustachioed Dr Robert Winston. Further back in the 1990s, Channel 4 also screened a series on human evolution, which presented the case that the early human colonist of Europe were actually Black. Again, an entirely respectable viewpoint, considering that all modern humans arrived out of Africa.
As for African civilisation, there have been a number of blockbusting series. Back in the 1980s there were a couple, one on BBC 2, presented by the Black African scholar Dr Ali Mazrui, and another on Channel 4 presented by the White afrocentrist historian, Dr Basil Davidson. More recently, BBC 4 and 2 screened a series, Lost Kingdoms of Africa, presented by a Black British art historian. I'm afraid the only thing I can remember about this chap's name is that he was Gus somebody, and his name was double-barrelled. And that, like all archaeologists and intrepid explorers, he wore the de rigueur Indian Jones felt hat. This was also well worth watching, and there was a book to accompany the series. It's great series like that which provide the strongest argument for retaining the BBC, and keeping television out of the mitts of Murdoch.
Africa's Problems those of Human Evil, Corrupt International Economic and Political System
Terrible atrocities and crimes against humanity are being committed in Africa, by kleptocratic dictators and army generals, who are a blight on the human race. These have gained power partly through the profound economic and social problems of their nations, but also through the complicity of Western politicians, industrialists and financiers. The difference and superiority of western, scientific and industrial culture is only very recent. Western Europe only began to overtake Islam scientific and technologically in the 17th century, and there were still areas in which the Muslim world was superior in the 18th. Well into the 19th century, much of western Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, whose societies rested on serfdom, the effective enslavement of their peasants. One American historian of the Balkans has pointed out that while the Turks in the 19th century were seen as barbaric for taking the heads of those they slew in battle, this was actually common amongst American bounty hunters out West. Before the development of cheap, efficient photography, the only way you could prove that you had successfully hunted down and killed a dangerous criminal was to take their heads.
Africa is beset by many severe problems, but this is not because its people are somehow less 'evolved' or 'uncivilised'. Indeed, for much of human history, the opposite has been true. The continent's problems come from a number of causes, which include the legacy of colonialism, a corrupt and unfair international economic system, and simple pure, unrestrained human evil. The last knows no difference in colour, and affects every culture. Including the upper echelons of the Tory party, and even now clouds the judgment of Kippers towards their fellows.
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Dr. Segler CEO BMW M talks about the M3 GTS
Home » Dr. Segler CEO BMW M talks about the M3 GTS
November 5, 2009 / 2 minutes read
Beside being a very charismatic person, Dr. Kay Segler is also a huge car enthusiast. Coming from the MINI brand where he oversaw the Coopers and Cooper S Works development, Segler took the reign at the Motorsport division in May 2009 and during this short period, two production M cars were launched, X5 M and X6 M, and also the one-off M5 "CSL". While these projects started prior to his involvement at the M division, several new products under his command will be launched in the near future.
The fellows over at M-Power sat down with Dr. Segler for an interview on the new BMW M3 GTS and the future of his division.
Just half a year has passed since he took up his position as CEO in May 2009, and the BMW X5 M and BMW X6 M have been launched as new models during this period. So it's time to ask Dr. Kay Segler where BMW M is heading.
MPW: Dr. Segler, BMW X5 M and BMW X6 M deviate from a number of dogmas. Turbo, all-wheel drive, automatic transmission – is this the new M?
Segler: We have to be free of dogmas, I ask this of every staff member. It has always been a strength of M to question everything in a positive way.
MPW: Does that mean BMW M will be taking leave of longstanding beliefs?
Segler: Cars are created differently now. We clearly define our goals, derive the product properties from these and then decide which technology appears to be the best suited to the purpose.
MPW: Nonetheless, there are lots of customers who are very attached to tradition. What do you have to say to these fans?
Segler: I will say that they will continue to get fascinating products from BMW M. And I am sure that this applies more than ever before. We don't just listen to our customers: we also act on what they say.
MPW: What does that mean in practical terms?
Segler: The BMW M3 GTS which we are currently preparing in our BMW M production workshop is a response to frequently expressed customer wishes. This M3 is even hotter: lower weight, more power – including an increase in capacity – and lots of technical details which were only previously available on the tuning market, if at all. Complex and highly individual offers are available ex works.
MPW: What other features does the BMW M3 GTS offer?
Segler: We have a chassis which can be adjusted in compression and rebound, the car is fitted with a fixed caliper brake with six pistons at the front and four at the rear, and the rear silencer is made of titanium. The aerodynamics can be adjusted at the front and rear. We provide 6-point seatbelts for the racing bucket seats, a bolted roll-over protection structure is installed as is a fire extinguisher.
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