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La ermita de San Ambrosio es un yacimiento arqueológico y arquitectónico que se encuentra en el municipio de Barbate (Cádiz, España), en el diseminado del mismo nombre, cerca del parque natural de la Breña y Marismas del Barbate. Ha sido declarada, junto con dos objetos encontrados en ella, Bien de Interés Cultural, y actualmente es propiedad de la Diócesis de Cádiz y Ceuta. Es uno de los pocos ejemplos de basílica paleocristiana encontrados en el suroeste de la península ibérica, junto a la ermita de los Santos Mártires de Medina Sidonia y la ermita de la Silla del Papa.

Historia
En los años centrales del siglo VII, el obispo de la sede Asidonense, Pimenio, ordenó la construcción de una serie de basílicas en las grandes propiedades laicas y eclesiásticas, así como en las aldeas. Una de esas basílicas fue la ermita de San Ambrosio, levantada en el año 644, sobre los restos de una villa romana.

La ermita fue objeto de reformas mudéjares, que conformaron la totalidad de su estructura.

Descripción

Edificio principal

Se trata de una nave estructurada mediante cuatro arcos fajones apuntados de ladrillo, sobre los que se sustentaba una cubierta a dos aguas con viguería de madera, tablazón y teja. Coincidiendo con los apoyos de los arcos, se adosan a los muros perimetrales sendas columnas, de diámetros desiguales y rematadas superiormente con cimacios de nacela, excepto las dos más próximas al ábside, con capiteles de orden compuesto, probablemente de origen romano.

A los pies de la nave se define un nártex, mediante la inserción en la construcción principal de un muro interior con puerta. La cabecera se remata con un ábside rectangular, subdividido a su vez en un espacio central, correspondiente al presbiterio, y sendos ámbitos laterales correspondientes a una posible cripta y al arranque de una torre, hoy muy deteriorada. El muro que separa el presbiterio de la nave, resuelto mediante sillarejos y ripios, representa un gran arco ojival central, con sendos medios arcos de descarga laterales. Tras el ábside se sitúan los restos de una alberca o piscina, posiblemente correspondiente a un baptisterio y, según algunos autores, a una villa romana anterior.

El acceso desde el nártex, cubierto mediante un solo faldón con caída hacia el oeste, se realiza a través de un muro en el que se abre un hueco de herradura apuntado, enmarcado por un alfiz y rematado por un escudo, ejecutado en fábrica de sillares de arenisca. Por encima del faldón de cubierta, hoy desaparecido, el muro se remataba con un frontón triangular con un óculo central abocinado y un reloj de sol en el vértice superior. Los muros perimetrales de esta nave única, que presentan dos hojas yuxtapuestas, comprenden la fábrica original de sillarejos visigoda, hasta la altura de los cimacios, y a partir de éstos se prolongan muros de tapial y los arcos fajones ya descritos. El pavimento actual presenta una cota muy superior a la del basamento original de las columnas, como parecen revelar las proporciones aparentes de los fustes y de algunos huecos.

Esta construcción principal se completa con una capilla lateral de planta cuadrada, situada al norte, anexa a la nave y con acceso actual desde el exterior. La capilla, que albergó hasta hace escasos años una imagen de San Ambrosio, se construye mediante muros de mampostería, rematados con una bóveda ochavada sobre trompas simples en fábrica de ladrillo. Ambas construcciones, nave principal y capilla lateral, definen hacia el este los límites de un atrio actualmente delimitado por los restos de los muros, incluyendo en su frente oeste dos dependencias posiblemente correspondientes a la vivienda del ermitaño, así como a un horno de planta circular dispuesto en el espacio libre del atrio. En el flanco norte del atrio se intercalan otras casas o chozas, análogas a las situadas en el entorno inmediato a este atrio, hacia el norte. En este ámbito se encuentran igualmente restos de dos posibles tumbas, aparentemente similares a los de la vecina finca de "El Pabellón", investigados y publicados en 1980.

Bienes muebles
La declaración de Bien de Interés Cultural protege, además del edificio principal, dos bienes muebles:
 Inscripción fundacional de la ermita de San Ambrosio. En su origen estaba situada en el fuste de una columna adosada a la nave de la ermita. Actualmente está depositada en la ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Oliva de Vejer, cerca de Barbate.
 Imagen de San Ambrosio. Se trata de una figura humana de bulto redondo, vestida y sobre pedestal, que se identifica con San Ambrosio. Actualmente se encuentra en la Parroquia del Divino Salvador de Vejer de la Frontera.

Véase también
 Diócesis de Asidonia-Jerez

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Televejer ermita San Ambrosio (parte 1)
 Ruiz Prieto, E. y Herrera, M., "La ermita de San Ambrosio (Barbate, Cádiz): ¿una iglesia construida en el siglo VII?", Revista Ligustinus 3, diciembre de 2014: 15-35.

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Bienes de interés cultural de la provincia de Cádiz
Villas romanas de Andalucía
Yacimientos arqueológicos de la provincia de Cádiz
Arquitectura visigoda
Arquitectura de España del siglo VII

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Fans are just one day away from the Grey's Anatomy Season 11 premiere, and there are new spoilers out for those that cannot wait until tomorrow. According to TV Line, Meredith Grey will have a lot to deal with when the new season begins on Thursday night.
Grey's Anatomy ended Season 10 with the departure of Cristina Yang. Fans knew of Sandra Oh's departure since before Season 10 began, but it was still not an easy exit for fans of the series. The exit will not be easy for Meredith, either. Cristina Yang was one of the last remaining original characters on the series. Meredith Grey and Alex Karev, who are played by Ellen Pompeo and Justin Chambers, are the only characters left from the original set of interns who started on Grey's Anatomy.
With Yang's departure, Meredith will need someone new to lean on. She will turn to Alex Karev, and this will cause some problems for Jo. Alex and Jo reached a good place at the end of Grey's Anatomy Season 10, but Jo's jealous side will show up this season. Camilla Luddington did reveal some details about the couple and Meredith's friendship with Karev.
Meredith will need to lean on Alex a lot after Yang's exit. The Grey's Anatomy finale showed Meredith and Derek fighting over a move to Washington D.C. after he was offered a job there. Meredith stood up for herself and told him her life was in Seattle. This will cause problems for the couple.
However, this is not the only problem Meredith will face this season. At the end of the Grey's Anatomy finale, Richard found out that Yang's replacement was his daughter and Meredith's sister. Meredith will learn that fact herself this season, but that reveal will not come during the season premiere. Kelly McCreary revealed that Maggie will not drop that bombshell on Meredith until she is settled into her job at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. A sneak peek for the Grey's Anatomy episode shared by the Grey's Anatomy Facebook page shows Meredith and Maggie having an intense argument.
It is clear from that scene that Meredith and Maggie will not get along well. Will that change once Meredith knows Maggie is her sister?
The Grey's Anatomy Season 11 premiere is titled "I Must Have Lost It On the Wind." The episode will pick up the day after Yang's departure, so fans will not miss a moment of Meredith's angst over the exit of her best friend from the hospital.
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With all the varied and complex measurement, control, and network hardware and software the typical automation professional is expected to specify, it would be nice to have a few things that didn't require much stress or scrutiny. Wire and cable once was pretty simple. For point-to-point analog and discretes, we just bought the same thing all the time, without many concerns beyond price and availability. I confess I never gave a lot of thought to the specs. High-speed digital networks changed all that, so a brief look at cable from the inside out might be enlightening.
Aside from the gauge (outside diameter) of the conductors, each conductor can be manufactured as either solid or stranded. Stranded is composed of seven to 50 or more smaller-gauge wires spun together to approximate the same cross section as the solid conductor. I used to think this increased the current-carrying capability, but, in fact, it has little effect. The main reason is flexibility. Minimum bending radius is improved proportionately, as is the tolerance of repeated flexing, like power cords and machine tool cabling.
Stranded conductors can be a real pain when making field terminations using insulation-displacement connectors like the familiar RJ45 (8P8C), but insulation-piercing connectors work better with the stranded variety. The overall gauge of the conductors determines resistance and hence current-carrying capability, but it also affects strength. If you expect some challenging "pulls" during installation, defaulting to the smallest gauge could increase the risk of stretched or broken cables.
Years ago I was interested to learn that most noise reduction/rejection comes not from shielding, but from the "lay of the twist" of twisted-pair cable itself. The technology dates back to Alexander Graham Bell, and cancels noise induced by electromagnetic interference (EMI) by causing it to manifest alternately in each conductor over the length of the twist—effectively canceling it out. Some cables—Cat 5 is a good example—go further and specify different twists-per-inch for each of its pairs. This helps the signals on the different pairs minimize crosstalk over longer runs.
Regarding insulation, the thickness and dielectric strength of the insulator (PVC, for example) determines voltage rating, an empirically validated measure of how much electrical stress the cable can withstand without failing. However, the thickness, composition and uniformity of the insulation also affect a very important property for digital communications, the characteristic impedance at a specified frequency. Cat 5, for example, is supposed to "look like" 100 Ω to a 100 MHz signal. When complex impedance is off or wrong, the digital square wave can be distorted and/or attenuated to the point where zero crossings indicating 1s and 0s are skewed beyond recognition by the receiver (jitter). Too little impedance can make the peak-to-peak voltage too small, causing dropped tokens, packets and retries.
Surprisingly, some majors in the cable manufacturing industry have no established methods to test and certify the capacitance of manufactured cable on the reel. If your project is pushing the limits of a protocol's specification, you might be well served to choose your cable supplier very judiciously, and/or test it thoroughly when it arrives on site.
Then, there's shielding. Individual and/or overall cable shields are specified for increased EMI and radio frequency interference (RFI) for signal-carrying pairs. Braided copper shields are flexible and tolerate more repeated flexing, but braided shields have more gaps where strong EMI can leak through. Foil or Mylar shields provide better overall coverage. They are flexible, but not as tolerant of repeated flexing.
Jackets affect flexibility too. Be sure your cable jackets have a UV-resistant specification if they'll be out in the sun. Their dielectric properties degrade from UV radiation. Jacket and insulation materials also affect the chemical/oil resistance and plenum rating of the cable, so you might be faced with specifying a different cable for indoor runs than those in outdoor raceways.
A few other things to consider. The last time I tried to affix an RJ45 (8P8C) connector to some hardware-store Cat 5 cable, it took me about five tries and 90 minutes to get it right. Cheap consumer-grade cable can have pairs so faintly colored that even those without bifocals will be challenged to get them terminated correctly. Wherever possible, I'm buying made-to-length complete factory assemblies. Cycle-tested standard products are available from most major suppliers, and users can specify a variety of male, female and right-angle connector ends.


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Q: Am trying to get a simple program that will work out and state if a user is the same age, older or younger but I can't get it to work properly Am trying to get a simple program that will work out and state if a user is the same age, older or younger but I can't get it to work properly. Where am I going wrong please?
print('Hello! I am your faithful computer!')
Person=input('Whats your name?')
print('Hello,', Person)
Age = (input('How old are you?'))

if Age == '9':
    print ('We are the same age!')

elif Age < '9':
    print ('You are younger than me')

else Age > '9':
    print ('You are older than me')

A: You are getting the input as text, and you can't use > nor < with text.
To fix it you need to convert the variable Age to integer.

A:     print('Hello! I am your faithful computer!')
    Person=input('Whats your name?')
    print('Hello,', Person)

    # your input now is an integer
    Age = (int(input('How old are you?')))

    # all comparisons must be between numbers
    if Age == 9:
        print ('We are the same age!')

    elif Age < 9:
        print ('You are younger than me')

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Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno announced Monday that he is ending the "exploratory process" of selling the franchise and will continue with ownership "through the 2023 season and beyond."
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For homework this week, my teacher assigned reading a passage of "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You" by Sam Gosling. Then, we were to examine our own environments, looking for cases of identity claims, feeling regulators and behavioral residue. "…The environments that people craft around themselves are rich with information about their personalities, values and lifestyles" (Gosling 1).
This summer, my partner and I moved to a new apartment we purchased and the apartment is: a) both cleaner and messier than I know would be normally (yes! both at the same time), b) still filled with boxes which house many of my identity claims and feeling regulators, and c) filled with behavioural residue which is a more of a function of moving, than everyday life. I felt it important to note because my home does not have the same feeling of a place which has been lived in for months/years, but I still found traces of all three cases.
These are used to make a declaration about who you are. These are examples of "posters, awards, photos, trinkets, and other mementos – that make deliberate symbolic statements" (Gosling 2). Gosling's book states there are identity claims that are self-directed ("which reinforce how we see ourselves") and other-directed (these "signal how [individuals] want to be regarded").
Here is an assortment of personal items, which came from a box labeled "Bailey's office". The label is not to indicate where the items came from, but to indicate where they should go in our new home. There is a worn, old photograph of my partner and I, which was/will be placed next to an Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote. The photograph symbolizes: how far we've come as a couple from when the picture was taken 11 years ago, love, a joyous occasion and my identity as a person in a committed, long-term relationship. The photographs in the top right corner are of: my parents & I, my father's college student card, and old photographs of my mother & her family. These are clear displays of how important my family is in my life and how much love I have for them. My father's college student card also serves to remind me how important an education is, as he dropped out after two weeks. I have the old photographs (versus current ones) because it reminds me of the nostalgia of growing up on the Prairies and my mother's family history. The bottom left photograph is of my partner and his brothers and nephew. This represents my love and importance placed within these siblings. As I am an only child, these are my brothers too and I know the value of them because I grew up without. The bottom right is an inspirational quote to motivate me to try my hardest and not focus on being "perfect". It reminds me that whatever I do, it can and will be great. The moose and Inuit with seal are chachkas that my Aunt Bobbie passed down to me. She knows I am enamored with the Great White North and that I love family mementos, things with history. Growing up an only child my friends have become my family and the memories we made are a part of who I am. I keep all my photographs and film negatives, and will have many pictures of friends, family & adventures out on display in all rooms. These are some of my examples of identity claims because I have a high value on the people in my life, who add love and feeling of family. No room in our home is off limits to our guests, we are very open. My examples of identity claims are self-directed because they reaffirm, remind and encourage myself with mementos of my history, people who love, care, support & encourage me, and quotes that motivate me to try my hardest. My identity claims are also directed towards others because that is the image I wish to portray and share with others.
My feeling regulators are peppered throughout our place, but many are still in boxes. What I did find, were grouped together conveniently. On a tin which houses a comfy fleece blanket, you'll find a scented candle, a porcelain cat which hangs on the edge of a potted plant (plant to come!) and a quote on a round of wood. These are items that physically comfort me: the blanket wraps me in warmth and shields me from external stressors, the candle smells like trees covered in snow which transports me to fond memories of winter adventures with my partner and friends, the quote on the wooden round is a visual cue to transport me to the forest where I feel calm and in control. Lastly the cat reminds me of my grandmother and her warm demeanor.
These are the remnants that we leave behind in our surroundings by our routine actions. "Not all behavior leaves physical remains… the residue of actions that do leave their mark can tell us a lot about a person's traits, values and goals" (Gosling 8).
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It's the start of the week and the General Manager at Cavendish has lots to do! A short, sharp activity to deliver KEY lessons on organising your time effectively, increasing productivity and improving wellbeing.
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Talk to staff in any organisation and there's usually agreement that there is "too much to do". But often, it's simply a matter of being more disciplined and taking a few moments, on a regular basis, to plan the time available.
In this 60-minute activity participants are faced with a stream of emails and ongoing projects.
to sometimes just say 'NO'.
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VIDEO: George Preston Rec Centre readies for curlers competing at the Canadian Juniors
Tournament runs Jan. 18 to 26, with 28 teams coming to Langley for shot at Worlds in Russia
Ryan Uytdewilligen
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Juniors Curling Championships will get underway this Saturday – meaning the country's best under-21 curlers will be headed to Langley to compete.
The tournament runs from Jan. 18 to 26, which qualifies the winners to represent Canada at the World Juniors Championship in Krasnoyarsk, Russia next month.
The round-robin games will have 14 men's and 14 women's teams competing for titles, bringing more than 100 curlers to Langley from all across the country.
That doesn't even include coaches, family members, spectators, and broadcasters all coming down to the rink as well; the teams will be staying at the Sandman Hotel.
All of the action takes place at George Preston Recreation Centre at 20699 42 Ave, home of the Langley Curling Centre where many of the local curling bonspiels and league games take place.
Nigel Easton, chair of local committee hosting the games, said Langley has never held a national curling tournament before.
"The last big one really was the 2007 men's provincials; so, we ended up with the juniors through a bidding process," Easton recounted. "We put our name in last October (2018) but didn't get selected. Then we heard back from them in February asking if we could do it and we said 'we're in,'."
The idea to host stemmed from Cloverdale's Tyler Tardi's overwhelming success in the junior league.
"He's a two-time world champion who curls out of this club," Easton said. "This was going to be his last year as a junior and we thought it would be fitting to have the games here, but it was his decision to move up and play in the Brier instead."
Despite Tardi's absence, Easton said this will be a great chance to see the country's up and coming curlers and for out-of-town players to come visit the area.
He said 250 volunteers from the Langley Curling Club, as well as others from all over the Fraser Valley including Cloverdale, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and White Rock are lending a hand.
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The hockey arena, where the Langley Rivermen call home, has been turned into a five-sheet curling rink, while three sheets in the existing curling club will also be used to house more games.
Support from sponsors and multiple levels of government helped cover a budget of roughly $150,000.
"That all goes into construction, transportation for the teams, advertising, uniforms, even the ceremony which requires a pipe band," the chair explained.
A "future stars" program will also be running throughout the tournament for youth under 16. They can put their name in for a chance at working with some of the teams on curling basics, while also receiving a backpack and broom.
The arena layout, beyond the evident curling hacks and houses, has undergone a complete makeover; a media booth at one end will house all of the people giving the games coverage; TSN will broadcast the semi-finals and championships on Jan. 25 and 26.
A brand new restaurant, the Horse and Rider, will additionally be opening just in time for Saturday to feed the players and fans; it will remain open and operate as a year-round pub inside the complex.
Carpeting and a staging area sits on the opposite end, while all the running boards will be wrapped up in black drapes.
Easton said the capacity of the arena is 1,000 and hopes to get between 400 to 800 spectators.
"I hope people enjoy our hospitality," he added, also hoping that the snow cooperates as the tournament begins.
People can purchase their tickets for the games at www.curling.ca/2020juniors or in person at George Preston.
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How did Queen Victoria prevent her balls getting warped?
Her billiard table was heated by zinc tubes, to stop the ivory balls from warping.
Well technically they were Albert's balls although young Vicky laid claim to them. She kept the bed heated with zinc tubes. It must have made for an interesting game of billiards.
Queen Victoria had a billard table (only one?) that was heated using zinc tubes, the aim was chiefly to keep the then-used ivory balls from warping. Not sure of the relevance of the tubes being zinc.
She kept them warm – at about 2 or 3 degrees below normothermia to maintain maximal viable sperm production. Warped balls do not make happy sperm. Used lots of zinc ( zinc puts lead in your pencil? ) for the warm fluids passing through the seminiferous tubules under the playing surface.
Zinc Fallopian tubes. Er, almost, sorry for my English: zinc tubes for sure, less sure about Fallopian (you know, "her balls" is a term rather confusing for not-mother-tongue like me). So, zinc tubes inside her pool just to warm her ivory billard balls, correct?
She left them on the elephant?
By refusing to serve any stimulant other than alcohol at them, of course.
She heated her table naturally! The balls to which you refer are surely billiard balls which from 1627 to the early 20th century were, certainly for the wealthy, made of ivory a natural substance forcibly removed from elephants. As a natural substance it is subject to variations in shape and size after it is carved into, for example, a sphere due to variations in room temperature, humidity and so on. One solution adopted (while they were waiting for someone to invent plastics) was to heat the table and so keep it, and thus the balls, in a constant condition. A New York billiard table manufacturer eventually offered a prize of $10,000 to the inventor of a substitute material and in 1868 this resulted in the invention of 'celluloid' the first of the modern artificial substances which unfortunately proved to be volatile and unstable – sometimes exploding during manufacture and it was also highly flammable. This is very possibly where the term 'great balls of fire' originated – it would certainly add a lot of much needed excitement to a game of billiards if the balls randomly exploded or burst into flames!
She made sure Prince Albert wore warm undies in winter that were supportive but not restrictive. It must have worked; did you see the tribe of kids they produced? Oh, and to keep Ma'am's ivory balls warm, she put zinc piping around her billiard table.
Used zinc tubing for heating, of course.
Well, as I understand it Prince Albert (let the Saxon theme begin) was the one that looked after the balls. After a cold winters night in the billiards room with HRH Victoria, working on their royal succession plan the comment was passed that the cold felt-covered slate was a little hard on the royal posterior, and it made that metal thingy that Albert had dreadfully uncomfortable. So get it heated…But what to tell the "help" who were already sniggering about the nocturnal activities of the Royal couple? Oh, that heating is just to stop the ivory billiard balls errr umm warping, now get back to polishing the silver!
Several thousand invading Vikings attempted to land at Maldon, England in 991 AD. What gallant gesture was made by Byrhtnoth, the commander of the defending forces?
The Vikings had landed on a small island a few metres off the coast, and Byrhtnoth allowed them to come onto the mainland so that they could form up properly for battle.
To maintain a level playing field, and so the visiting team wouldn't have to get their feet wet, he let them cross a flooded causeway and form up before fighting them.
Byrhtnoth intended to give the violent visiting Vikings the finger, but then realised that that particular gesture could not be described as 'gallant'. So he gave them the Maldon Moon instead.
Byrhtnoth made many heroic gestures during the Battle of Maldon commemorated in a poem written in Anglo-Saxon called, imaginatively, The Battle of Maldon. The one he is chiefly remembered for though is allowing the Viking forces to cross the land bridge (rapidly appearing with the ebbing of the tide) which a few of his men had been holding against them so letting the two opposing forces meet on the shore (a level playing field so to speak?) He is, in my view, unfairly criticised for this. He was the military leader of Aethelred's forces and he had called up the fyrd and was facing the Vikings with a full complement of his thegns (who were to show such Germanic steadfastness later). This Viking force was a raiding party, not a group of settlers, and had already carried out surprise attacks on several other coastal towns and were, presumably, eyeing off the mint situated in the town of Maldon. Byrhtnoth was the foremost of Aethelred's deeply divided advisors on the side of a military solution to the Viking problem as an alternative to the other solution proposed i.e. pay them off (or send them to East Timor). Byrthnoth had to try for a decisive battle. It was his duty to confront and if possible defeat the Vikings, or they would just go on to raid other towns (as indeed they did) which would not have the benefit of being defended by a proper force. He very nearly succeeded – inflicting heavy losses on the Vikings, stopping their raid at Maldon and holding off further raids for a time while the Viking force replenished itself. That the victory looks a little Pyrrhic to us is with the benefit of hindsight.
Flipping the bird isn't very gallant, is it? Okay, Dr Bob, this is a guess based on skim reading the whole flippin' battle poem coz I couldn't find an easy preview answer in google, but was it when he let the bad dudes cross a bridge or a river or something coz it was too boggy on their side, but he gave away too much land and they chopped his arm off, amongst other things? Hang on, have just read the question properly (must learn to do that more often!). He let them off their boats and past the shoreline before he let them murder him. I did mention it was a guess didn't I? I couldn't find the words 'gallant' or 'gesture' in any of the poem's parts and it was just too epic to understand any of it. No, hang on, I've got it! He let the Vikings win an away game!!!
He provided a level playing field.
It was seemingly gallant to allow the Vikings to cross the causeway so they could gather for a proper fight.
Was this where the Vikings landed in a swamp, and didn't they gallantly allow them to try to crawl their way out before slaughtering them?
In some later analyses of the Battle of Maldon (991 AD), it has been said that the resultant massacre was due to an attribute of Byrhtnoth called overmod in Saxon. What does this translate roughly into?
Tolkien's definition was "overmastering pride".
"Coglioneria". Well, this is a highly technical and specific Italian term, and I suppose it's hard to translate in basic English (I also suggest to not publish it, if you have many technical and specific Italian readers). However, it seems to me a quite appropriate term, better than the ancient Greek "ubris theon", ad quite better than the plain "pride" or "excess of pride".
Being overly proud of being able to pronounce Ælfflæd.
Clever old google has detected a Danish flavour in the translation and means hubris.
Hubris is one translation; although other terms like recklessness, cunning and stupidity are valid also – depending on your point of view. Some feel if they were going to be beaten this was the place and it wouldn't have happened if they'd just rowed away. Missed it by that much.
Ofermod literally means 'over heart' it implies 'high spirits' or 'overconfidence', 'recklessness' perhaps or an 'excess of courage' (something like hubris?) It has been translated as 'arrogance' or 'extravagant spirit' and the translations reflect the translator's attitudes to Byrthnoth and the battle – is the poem a celebration of his heroic actions, a rousing call to arms and an exemplum of how Anglo-Saxons should behave or is it an elegy on a terrible loss, a Gotterdammerung for Anglo-Saxon society in the face of relentless change? Tolkien plumped for the latter and translated it as 'pride' but as in the sin of pride (there's hubris again!) This interpretation is bolstered by the fact that the only other attested examples of this word (we don't have a lot of examples of Anglo-Saxon really) refer to Satan's pride and its consequences!
Well who's a Wally with head too big for his helmet then? Thinks he's Woden's gift to the Long House, he does.
In those days, circa 991 AD, of whom else was overmod a noted characteristic?
Any WW1 British, German or French general at the western front.
Anyone else who happened to be married to an Ælfflæd.
Dr Bob, this could be any of your fave quiz topics: Hitler, Ivan the Terrible, King Zog. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Kevin Rudd. And look where it got him.
Exactly a millennium after 991CE came Saddam Hussein in Gulf War #1. Saddam was so outrageously overmod that he made Byrhtnoth look like an amateur in the dickhead stakes..
It's long list but Olaf Tryggvason would be on it also for accepting Byrhtnoth's kind offer of guaranteed safe conduct to a good flogging.
Oh those Saxons… Now it is a bit of a stretch but I reckon calling yourself the Emperor of the World, not to mention; the servant of Jesus Christ and the servant of the apostles, when you have not made it out of Europe, and there were lots of bits of the world that weren't on his taxation rounds might smack of a slight ego overload. Having not had the pleasure of chatting to Otto III Holy Roman Emperor, I might be maligning the gent. He did after all archive the Skin of Saint Bartholomew in a new church in Rome. Besides Alan Jones was not available as a contestant in 10th century.
Uh, well, according to the Italian main meaning of the term, every era has plenty of overmoded guys. What about Carlo and Arnolfo of Carolingi dinasty, imprisoned and almost killed by the archibishop Adalbertone "Asselino" of Laon? The holy man said he, former Capetingi-supporter, was now suddenly converted to Carolingi devotion, and they believed… .
Well, lots of people I should imagine – it was not necessarily seen as an undesirable trait in the 10th century. One example that you might mean is Olaf Tryggvason, the leader of the Viking forces who later became king of Norway. One of his honorifics is 'Olaf the Glorious' which sounds a bit ofermod –ish. Pope Sylvester II (Gerbert d'Aurillac) is another possible candidate. He was a great scholar before becoming pope (now there's a precedent!) and introduced the maths and science of the Arabs to the west and was the tutor of the emperor Otto III. His connections with the mysterious east gave rise to rumours that he was a sorcerer and in league with the devil (another interesting precedent for selection as pope?) and he was reputed to have built a 'robotic' head that could answer questions put to it by saying 'yes' or 'no' (the binary nature of this communication surely implies a primitive computer? Could he be an unrecognised companion of the doctor?) In AD 991 (as we historian's liked to put it in the past, 991 CE as we say now!) before he became pope he said: 'I profess that outside the Catholic Church no one is saved' a doctrine that was to lead to the spreading of a lot of Christian love and Catholic values – just ask the Cathars etc etc. He might be said to exhibit a bit of ofermod (and he did choose to name himself after a cartoon cat) Another possible that occurs to me is Airlangga (born in Bali in 991 CE) heir to the kingdom of Medan (which historian's used to call Mataram in case it is unfamiliar to you under its new nomenclature) As the great kingdom of Srivijaya collapsed he cobbled together bits of it and the old kingdom of Medan and became the first king of Kahuripan which he ruled wisely and justly, exhibiting religious tolerance to all and, when he decided to go off and become a hermit at the end of his life, he divided his kingdom between his two sons. He is often shown as deified and why not?
How much soap and tallow was used to grease the slipway at the launch of RMS Titanic?
See, the Poms do have a use for soap that doesn't involve getting their feet wet. You can get rid of 22 tons of it by shoving it under a boat. Brand Life Buoy for preference.
22 tons. Better, 22 tons of "soap, tallow and oil". Now, if you are really asking to me the actual ratios of soap, tallow and oil, I can only say that I'm far to be so overmoded (Italian meaning) like Byrhnoth.
A couple of whales' worth.
A good greasing requires about 22tons (20t) of soap and tallow.
Short answer 22t but that not the real answer is it? What they should have done is built the tub just a little closer to the Irish Sea and let sea level change do all the work for them what with all the coal that the industrial revolution was burning and all that carbon going into the atmosphere. They could have used all that fat to grease the side of the boat so that it slid harmlessly off the side of any offending ice it met while out and about in the Atlantic. Just as an aside, could they not have waited till a winter frost and slide the hull down the ice???
Sufficient saponitic surfactant supplied so ship slipped successfully – satisfied?
The builders of the Titanic had to upgrade their Belfast site to accommodate the Olympic class liners that they were hoping to build lots of. They built two massive slipways in the space that had previously had three and built a huge gantry over the lot so they could build two at once. When the Titanic was launched she was just the hull (plus the engines etc) and already at 26 000 tons the heaviest object ever moved by humans. Twenty-two tons of tallow and soap (your original question does not ask for it to be broken down for just the amount of soap?) provided a coating about one inch deep on the slipways so it would slide down smoothly, indeed 'slip' down them. We wouldn't want it to have an accident would we?
They should've saved some to grease the outside of the ship, maybe it would've slid over the iceberg.
tons and tons and tons…okay, I'm not going to write it 22 times, but that's how many tons. Apparently tallow was involved in it too. I can't think of anything fun or double entendre-esque for this one. I hope someone else comes up with something wittier than my contribution.
This is a soldier of 3 Bn, 3rd Marines in Afghanistan. What is he looking for?
Signs of poor hygiene and spreadable diseases. (Quite why he needs to wear camouflage and carry a gun to do this is beyond me).
Witty answers to Dr Bob's devilishly tricky quiz.
A quiet spot for a quick piss and the chance to check for any sign of illness or disease. A serious worry for any young soldier. As a medical corpsman he knows just what to look for.
2nd Class Alonzo Gonzales with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walks through an alley looking for signs of sickness or disease during an operation to capture suspected Anti-Coalition Forces in the vicinity of Methar Lam.
He seeks Queen Victoria's unwarped balls, which were taken by the Akhoond of Swat to Afghanistan upon her death, where they were secreted in the Akhoond's Tora Bora hideaway. The balls are an object of veneration by the Taliban so NATO wants to find them quickly in order to stop the local mullah from continually making a prick of himself.
It is lunch time, so he is off to find a bakery that sells Talibuns. Osama shops there all the time.
See the little door a little in front of him to his left? He's looking for leprechauns. It's been a long war.
The TARDIS. Well, it's more believable than weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And if that's not the right answer then how about: King Zog's tailor as he'd been invited over for arvo tea and needed to wear something a little more comfortable.
This corpsman from the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines (known since the 1980's as 'America's Battalion' Good grief!) is with Kilo Company in Afghanistan in 2005. They participated in Operation Spurs and Operation Mavericks in 2005 – described as 'counter-insurgency and humanitarian operations' presumably by someone who has never read George Orwell – which involved 22 firefights with the Taliban (I guess this was the humanitarian aspect of the operation?) I therefore conclude that he is probably looking for Osama Bin Laden and probably has a pack of cards in his pocket (featuring the Chaser team) so he can identify him if he finds him. They didn't find Osama – or their secondary target, Wally, either.
Well all that cold weather has frozen the balls off his brass monkey, so he is looking for a house with a heated Billiard table to warm up with.
Who really knows, in reality? Maybe Osama bin Laden, maybe his own soul, maybe a lost cigarette. Being a corpsman and being of the Kilo company, probably he's looking for massive wounded persons, or maybe just Ron Allen… but who knows, actually?
Bastille Day this month, Dr Bob, but no French questions. Pourquoi?
First time back in ages having resisted the new format and still almost semi undecided.
My result this month could rival my footy tipping.
The election hasn't even started and I'm already over it, Dr Bob. I'm very skeptical about all politicians these days, even La Gillardine! What has the world come to when pollies lose their shine after only a month in the job? Anyway, here's an interesting, if incredibly trivial, fact to get you through those long, lonely winter nights: the member for Ryan, who was elected as a Liberal and is now an Independent after being dumped by his party, named his son after his electorate. That's gotta hurt! Still, it's better than Sparrow Midnight James Madden.
We seek them here, we seek them there, Those Quizzies seek them everywhere. Is they in heaven?-Is they in hell? Those demmed, elusive Dryas octopetala.
Quite wet and hot, in this part of the planet, Dr.Bob. Hope it's better, down under.
Really, Dr Bob! 'A.D.' stands for Anno domini, which means 'in the year of our lord'. It doesn't make any sense (as I have explained and demonstrated to hundreds of history students) to put it AFTER the number you have assigned to the year. I am surprised that you still give space to Dennis the Small's flawed system anyway!
Was there supposed to be a theme to these questions? I didn't get it this month.


Where are Stalin and Lenin today?
Question: About Stalin and Lenin: What is known about the lifestream of Stalin, where is it today? The second question: What kind of burden for Russia is created by the unburied body of Lenin?
The lifestream of Lenin is, as mentioned before, situated in a level of what you would call hell. It corresponds to his level of consciousness in his last embodiment, but also to the consciousness he had for several embodiments before the last one.
This is a level of hell where he is not particularly suffering, but where he is completely blinded by his own self-created illusions. He feels as if he is one of these houses you have where the walls are made of glass and mirrors. Once you get into the maze, you cannot find your way out. He has been in this situation since the passing of his body and could potentially remain there for a long time, because the reality is that he cannot escape on his own accord.
He cannot get out of the mind-created maze by using his own mind. Thus, he can only get out by asking for help, and he has so far been to proud to ask because of his denial of any spiritual beings.
The lifestream of Stalin is in the process, the final stages, before it will be taken to the Court of Sacred Fire and face the initiation that can lead to the second death, unless the lifestream is willing to repent. There are still some ascended beings working with this lifestream to see if it can be brought to the point of being willing to look at its past and the consequences of its choices.
It may still take some time before it enters the Court of the Sacred Fire, and it is, of course, not set in stone that the lifestream will go through the second death. The likelihood of lifestreams who have committed such atrocities being willing to acknowledge their errors and turn around is traditionally quite low.
In terms of the burdens for Russia, well it is the same as it is for China. When you have a previous leader who took the nation into a downward spiral and you maintain the physical body of that leader (even if it is a wax figure that has very little of the original tissue left), then you are maintaining a focus in the physical octave of the consciousness that caused the leader to initiate the downward spiral. It is also a focus for the consciousness that the entire nation built during that spiral. Therefore, it does not make it easier for a nation to transcend the past. Yet I will say that in the case of China, the impact is much greater much more negative from maintaining Mao's body, because there are so few people in China who recognize the ascended masters and use our decrees.
Because of the larger number of people in Russia who acknowledge our existence and use our decrees, whether given through this messenger or previous dispensations, the negative impact of Lenin has been neutralized to the point where, although it is still there, it will not have a decisive impact on the future of Russia.
This is to the credit of the many ascended master students who have used our decrees and who have also been willing to look at the mindset, the consciousness, of the Soviet era and transcend it in themselves. It is even to the point where we can say that for the majority of the Russian people, Lenin has become largely irrelevant.
Stalin is still a more powerful symbol for too many Russians. Yet even the impact of Stalin as a symbol has been reduced dramatically, as this messenger was shown when he visited the Red Square. He felt that what used to be the central symbol of Soviet power has largely been neutralized to the point, where it really is not the strong downward pull that it used to be until very few years ago.
Again, this is a credit to the students who have used the ascended master decrees, studied our teachings and applied them. I would like to give special recognition to the students who have used the decrees and invocations and rosaries released through this messenger and who have been willing to study the teachings given at our conference in St Petersburg.


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Music has always been a large part of my life. We spent a lot of time camping, fishing and time in the mountains. We didn't own Walkman's or Discman's so we had to do our own singing and my mother had a great voice and songs that really bring me back.
If we weren't in the mountains as a family we could often be found at my grandparents who have a jukebox in the basement filled with songs. Songs that most wouldn't be caught dead listening to now, but for me they bring memories rushing back. Playing cops and robbers, racing on the pedal tractors and just hanging out singing (we thought we were amazing!).
Below are four songs that helped shaped my life or hold a special moments. My Sister, My Friend by Reba McEntire is a shoutout for my best friend April. While we may not be blood sisters it is the story of our lives. We have shared a lot of memories through the years and while we don't talk as much as I feel we should because of our separate lives, she is always on my mind.
Let Them Be Little was a song that brought tears to my eyes the first time I heard it. I heard Let Them Be Little while laying in bed one morning before I even had kids. I swore the artist as Trace Adkins and spent a couple years looking before I heard it again and realized I was wrong and it was actually sung by Billy Dean. Let Them Be Little can still bring tears to my eyes and is a reminder to myself as a mom that they are little and it only happens once.
Coat of Many Colors by Emmylou Harris (written by Dolly Parton) was April and I's favorite song on my grandparents jukebox. We would listen to this song for hours! Even before we understood the meaning. I can remember being so jealous when we were about 10 and April's mom found her a coat of many colors at the thrift store. Oh I wanted that coat so bad!
While Billy Gilman was a six hit wonder but his young voice will always hold a special place in my heart. I worked at the Truckstop with my cousin Krista and Kristy in highschool and we would spend hours singing Oklahoma by Billy Gilman. With the help of our director (our night dishwasher) we thought we would perform it for the high school talent show. Boy am I glad that never happened because the three of us together weren't as good as we though, but it still brought a lot of laughs and memories to hold onto.
As I said we spent a lot of time in the mountains and my mom would sing every song under the stars. Where Have All The Pretty Flowers Gone by Peter Paul and Mary was my favorite song and I would beg her to sing this song at every chance I got, I still do actually. To this day it is still one of my favorite songs with my mom and while it is as old fashioned as they come it will always be the song that reminder me of my mom (along with a 100 others!). It's an oldie but a goodie and carries such a powerful story about War.
What songs bring the memories rushing back for you?
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Music has always played major roles in my life, through tough and good times. Thanks for sharing. Crazy how songs can bring you back to memories and stir emotions.
It is crazy how important music becomes for each of us. We all have a love song, break up song and usually one that we associate with most family members. I love how it can shape a life and even change our thoughts on a certain matter.


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The year was 2007. Steve Jobs had just introduced the iPhone at MacWorld, in a presentation that people now recall as one of the best product unv
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The year was 2007. Steve Jobs had just introduced the iPhone at MacWorld, in a presentation that people now recall as one of the best product unveilings in history.
If you watch just a few minutes of the January 2007 presentation, it's really instructive (also kind of fun). The audience goes nuts over features that we take for granted now, but that were really ground-breaking at the time.
"You had me at scrolling," one person said.
But, Jobs wasn't satisfied.
The iPhone Jobs used in the keynote was a prototype. (He actually had 10 of them on stage in case the first one — or nine — didn't work.) Apple engineers were racing to have the real iPhone ready in time for delivery in June.
However, Jobs wanted a few small changes first. Not-so-little things, like changing the plastic screen on the prototype to glass.
'You don't understand'
Jeff Williams, who was Apple's vice-president of operations at the time (he's now the chief operating officer), recalled the phone call he received from Jobs about the screen the day after the demo.
Jobs: "I've been carrying this thing around and it's scratched in my pocket. … We need [scratch-resistant] glass."
Williams: "We've been looking at that. I think within three to four years, technology may evolve …"
Jobs: "No, no, no. You don't understand. When this ships in June, it needs to be glass."
Williams: "But we've tested all the current glass [options] and when you drop it, it breaks, 100 percent of the time."
Jobs: "I don't know how we're going to do it. But when it ships in June, it's going to be glass."
As Williams told the story at an event two years ago at a Corning factory in Kentucky, this exchange with Jobs led to a discussion with Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning Inc. (The story is getting new attention now after Dave Mark at The Loop wrote about it recently.)
Weeks said Jobs had called him directly with a three word message: "Your glass sucks."
But, Weeks also revealed that Corning had developed a special type of glass technology that was stuck in research and development, since it didn't have a practical use or a customer yet, but that might fit the bill.
To cut to the end of the story, Williams says that despite "many months of sheer terror about whether this was gonna work," every iPhone that shipped on the official launch date in June had a glass screen rather than plastic.
I'm going to allow for the possibility that Williams allowed a bit of drama to creep into this story, given that Jobs is now gone, and that he was telling the story at Corning itself. (Although it's not too far off from how Jobs's biographer Walter Isaacson told the story — from a different perspective — in 2011.
But I think we can identify five key lessons from how Jobs was able to throw up his hands just months before the delivery date and add a feature that was both something people didn't know they wanted yet, but also incredibly difficult to create:
1. He set a clear objective.
It might have seemed like an insane objective, but at least was a clear one.
Jobs didn't say: "We need to find a way for the iPhone not to scratch," which could have led to a vibrant internal debate about what the solution would even be. Instead, he said three words: "We need glass."
2. He cleared obstacles.
You'll notice in the story above that Jobs talked to Weeks at Corning first. ("Your glass sucks.") So, Corning knew this wasn't just a "nice to have" to have feature for Apple. It was a passionate directive from the CEO.
So by the time Williams and Weeks were talking, and a team was coming together to tackle this issue — Jobs had already cleared obstacles for them and found a corporate partner.
3. There was a clear timeframe.
Again, maybe it was an insane timeframe — but there was one. They'd already introduced the iPhone and announced it would be available in June. So the deadline was clear.
4. There was a backup plan.
If things didn't work out, it was not as if there would be no iPhone; it would just be one with a screen that wasn't as nice — and maybe a lot of complaints about scratches. Jobs was putting pressure on the team, sure — but not so much pressure that they'd feel like if they didn't get it done, the whole product would fail.
5. He had the vision.
This one's the kicker. And it's why just telling your team to do something that follows lessons 1 through 4 above won't always work.
It's that Jobs already had credibility as a kind of soothsayer. Literally nobody was asking for a glass-screened iPhone. Heck, not a single customer had even seen a real iPhone in person yet, except on stage at MacWorld.
But Jobs had that prophetic sight, and that "reality distortion field." Really, those are just fancy ways of saying he'd convinced people that he was a visionary leader, and so they followed him as if he were one.
I know it's a bit cyclical. But the key reason why Jobs was able to pull things like this out and make other people follow him was that both they — and he — believed he could.
This article is from Inc.com
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