[Bible Study] | The Birth of Jesus: The Nativity Narrative – Bethlehem or Nazareth?
Bethlehem of Judea, where Jesus was born. Or perhaps not. We learn of these events within the canonical books of the Christian 'New Testament', implausibly credited with authorship by early followers of Jesus called Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
These Gospels are biographical works on Jesus; written not less than half a century after his departure. They are collectively called the Gospels, the etymological root of the word being "good news" in Greek.
Yet, this care to find a special name for the four books reflects their peculiar nature. Biographical works were not so rare in the ancient world and the Canonical Gospels do have many features in common with non-Christian examples. The Gospels are an unusually duff variety of biography, in their relation of events, in which ordinary people reflect on their experience of Jesus, where it is often the miskeen, the ill-educated, and the louche who lead the narrative and whose account with Jesus are often vividly described.
It is important to note that the book of good news is not the same as straightforward and structured reported news.
This nativity narrative is commemorated through an annual rendition of the events, which would obviously suggest to a layman that the details enshrouded in this celebration of the 'nativity' are reliable and authentic. Hence why laymen Christians are so accepting of the plot, without even consulting the account in their scripture, and are disposed to accept the portrayal as an incontrovertible accurate retelling.
Only two out of four Gospels, Matthew and Luke, have narratives of this birth in Bethlehem at the end of the reign of King Herod the Great [73 – 4 BCE], and outside those narratives, there is much to direct the alert reader to a contrary story.
John's Gospel is most explicit when it records arguments among people in Jerusalem, once Jesus had grown up and his teaching was making a stir; some sceptics pointed out that Jesus came from the northern district of Galilee, whereas the prophet they were told to expect, foretold by Micah, would come from Bethlehem in Judea, in the South.
Notice the assertion by the people that he was a Prophet.
"Ephrath" is a description for members of the Israelite tribe of Judah, as well as the possible founders of Bethlehem.
The other three Gospels – even the Gospels with narrations about the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem – repeatedly refer to Jesus as coming from Galilee, or more precisely from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. In fact, outside the text of the two birth narratives, the Gospels do not refer to Jesus being born in Bethlehem, nor does any other book of the New Testament.
Luke's birth narrative, the more elaborate, explains that Maryam [Jesus's Mother – peace be upon them both], travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem at the time of Jesus's birth because they had to comply with the residence terms of a Roman imperial census for tax purposes. "Census" for those who are unfamiliar with the term, is an official count of the population.
Implausible. The idea is based on Luke's ancestor list for Jesus, designed to show that Jesus was linked to King David a thousand years before, which was a matter of no concern whatsoever to Roman bureaucrats. Implausibilities multiply: the Roman authorities would not have held a census in a client kingdom of the empire such as Herod's, and in any case there really is no record elsewhere of such an empire-wide census.
There is no record of a census ordered by Augustus at this time. [It's acceptable to assert that of course not everything in history has been preserved, but…] It is hard to imagine that in all of the ancient histories, there is not even a single reference found to an empire-wide census.
You would not be required to travel in order to register for tax purposes. It would be taxation officers who would travel (because they had to link the property to their owners).
Joseph mentioned here, resident of Galilee and not Judea, would NOT have been affected by the census in any case.
There is, however, record of a census ordered during the time when Quirinius was governor of the Levant [Bilad ash-Sham], but this was in 6–7 CE / AD.
Apologists can argue: that Luke's usage of the term "Protos", translated in the excerpt I shared above as "First", literally implies "Before" – and that is a valid argument, because it is a legitimate and acceptable meaning of 'Protos'.
…and because there is some evidence to suggest that because of strained relations between Augustus and Herod in the latter's years the Roman Emperor demanded that Herod's subjects swear an oath of allegiance to him, and during the relatively brief and incompetent rule of Herod's son, a census was ordered. It may be that Luke viewed the entire sequence as a single episode.
In the sense of "this was the census before the one issued when Quirinius was governor of Syria" in an effort to differentiate between the census to which he refers in 2:1-2 and the better known census taken in 6–7 CE / AD.
But this just doesn't quite cut it. Why? because this entire suggestion and retort is challenged and troubled by Luke implying no such differentiation when he explicitly refers to one census in Acts 5:37, and by the proposed translation of 2:2 in the argument which renders the term "Protos" in an unusual way.
The story seems to embody a confusion with a well-attested Roman imperial census which did happen, but in 6 CE / AD, far too late for the birth of Jesus, and long remembered as a traumatic event because it was the first real taste of what direct Roman rule meant for Judea.
The suspicion then arises that someone writing a good deal later, rather hazy about the chronology of decades before, has been fairly cavalier with the story of Jesus's birth, for reasons other than retrieving events as they actually happened. The suspicion grows more when one observes how little the birth and infancy narratives have to do with the later story of Jesus's life, which occupies all four Gospels; nowhere do these Gospels refer back to the tales of birth or infancy, which suggest that the bulk of their texts were written before the infancy narratives. Remember these are written accounts, penned decades after, by humans with deep convictions.
What would motivate these particular unknown authors to add these strange details into their accounts? One motive for locating the birth in Bethlehem might be precisely to settle the argument noted in John's Gospel about Jesus's status as Messiah of his people Israel. It answered the sceptics who pointed out the problem with Micah's prophecy [in the excerpt above].
But there is much else to these stories. We must conclude, though, that beside the likelihood that Christmas did not happen at Christmas [deserving of a separate article], it probably didn't happen in Bethlehem.


Cold and flu season is here! I just met a sick family at my office–and it's Sunday! This time of year parents commonly ask, "Can my child go to school or day care tomorrow? Will she be well enough for a birthday party this weekend?" Every winter I help families with these questions in my office and in my own home (I have three boys and currently has a cold).
So how do you know when your child is too sick for school, birthday parties, or other activities? Here are the most common illness symptoms kids have this time of year, and my guidance on when to keep them at home and when to check in with your pediatrician.
If your child has a temperature of 100.4 or higher, that is considered a fever and he should stay home (even if it's his best friend's birthday party). As long as your child is over 3 months of age, it's usually not important how high the fever is, but how your child is acting and what other symptoms he has. If he looks really sick, won't drink fluids, has trouble breathing or anything hurts, call your pediatrician. He can return to school once the fever is gone for 24 hours and he's feeling better.
schoolwork. So if there's no fever and the runny nose and cough isn't continuous or interfering with activity, send her to school. And teach her how to do the elbow cough, use tissue and wash her hands.
If the cough is really bad, the kind where heads turn and look at you like you're a bad mom for taking your child out and contaminating the world, keep him home until the cough improves. If the cough isn't improving after 4 or 5 days, there is associated fever, trouble breathing or he is looking sick, see your pediatrician to make sure there isn't an infection in the lungs such as pneumonia or the flu that needs specific treatment.
If your child is vomiting or having diarrhea, they shouldn't be in school. If he can't keep fluids down, looks sick or is showing signs of dehydration (eg. decreased urine, tired, no tears) call your pediatrician. 24 hours after the vomiting and diarrhea have resolved he can return to school, but make sure everyone continues to practice good hand washing techniques, as stomach bugs can spread easily and quickly from person to person (parents included!).
Minor sore throat usually isn't a problem and may just be part of a cold, virus or even irritation from the weather or heat on at night. If your child has a more severe sore throat, especially if there is a fever involved or it's hard to swallow, she should be evaluated and tested for strep throat, which needs antibiotic treatment. After 24 hours on antibiotics, or if antibiotics aren't needed, 24 hours after your child is feeling better, she can return to school.
If your child has goopy colored eye discharge check with your pediatrician before sending him to school, otherwise you'll get a call from the school asking you to pick him up. Pink eye is very contagious. Most cases are viral and no treatment is needed, but if there is colored eye discharge doctors often assume it is bacterial and prescribe antibiotic eye drops. Your child can return to school after 24 hours on eye drops and the discharge has cleared.
Rash can be tough to determine without looking at it (a photo via email can help). Many things can cause rashes from dry skin to infections. My usual rule of thumb is that if the rash isn't bothering your child, it doesn't bother me. If the rash is severe, hurts, itches, is associated with a fever or other illness symptoms call your pediatrician.
Those are a few of the many illness symptoms I see every winter at my office and even in my own home. It's important to know that if your child has been placed on an antibiotic for any reason, she should receive the medication for at least 24 hours before returning to school, attending a party or being around others.
that leave many parents wondering what to do. Only you can make that game-day decision, but be considerate of others–before you take him out, think to yourself, would I want another child with the same symptoms around my son? You can always check with your childcare or school as they may have specific guidelines for when previously sick children can return.
As a parent, you know your child best, so if he is acting different from usual, maybe a little more tired or irritable, or you think something is wrong, don't send him to school. If you're concerned, call your pediatrician. That's what we are here for, even on Sunday.


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What ever happened to reading comprehension?
I think that our society has given up on reading anything that we see on the internet (and yes, I'm aware of the irony here).
As a case in point, a customer of ours just received an enquiry on one of their products. To put this into perspective, each product has it's own 'Add to enquiry' area that asks for quantity, colour and has a space for notes for that item. Apparently, that's all to hard, because two weeks after launching, we had to modify that form so that it had defaults set for every field, because people couldn't work out that if they wanted to enquire about a particular item, they'd actually have to say what they wanted.
This latest enquiry came in asking:
I need 60 of these blue widgets, so let me know price and availability.
By itself, that's no problem. When you think about what was submitted, there is.
The fields for that product indicated that the customer wanted a price on one widget in red. That's right. The user completely bypassed the quantity field, and the colour field and typed in the notes that they wanted something completely different.
There's two lessons in here, one for consumers and one for suppliers.
First, for users: Please look at what you're filling out as there's normally somewhere for you to choose what you want, and if there is a field, use it! That saves a lot of confusion and possible issues for the company that you're trying to contact.
Secondly, for suppliers: When you're setting up your site, think about how stupid that average person is, and then remember that half the people in the world are more stupid. If there's any way for someone to get something wrong, they will. There is a fine line between too many options and not enough options, but there definitively needs to be a balance in there somewhere.
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Everton have revealed their new 08/09 Umbro 3rd kit. The fluorescent yellow jersey will be worn on Saturday when Everton take on West Brom Albion.
The kit, which also comprises navy shorts and yellow socks, will be the away kit for European matches too.
Names and numbers will be available in navy, with the special Uefa Cup numbers to be launched prior to the first round of the competition. With the likes of Barcelona adopting the flourescent look in recent years.
Everton midfield stars Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill donned the kit for the photo shoot and were impressed with the new offering.
Sweden played a World Cup 1958 Anniversary match against France (2-3) yesterday, and while France was wearing their new Home adidas kit, the swedish team was wearing a Sweden World Cup 1958 Home anniversary kit to celebrate the World Cup held in Sweden 50 years ago.
Umbro supported the anniversary by producing a Swedish Home kit inspired by the kit used in 1958. On Tuesday, the kit was shown for the first time and who was more suited to launch it than Agne Simonsson.
Agne who played in five of the six World Cup matches in 1958 made both the first and last Swedish goal in the tournament.
France unveiled the new adidas home shirt for the World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign.
Although we showed you a leaked picture before, the home shirt was officially presented for the first time this Tuesday at Clairefontaine by Raymond Domenech and captain Thierry Henry.
Manchester City will kick off the new league season at Villa Park sporting their new le coq sportif 08/09 third kit, which will be available to pre-order before the end of this month.
The blaze orange shirt, accompanied by navy shorts, will be available as a limited edition in the shops from 27th September, but you can pre-order yours from Tuesday, 26th August.
It will also be on display in the CityStore from tomorrow, so pop in and take a closer look.
Derby County's new 08/09 away Adidas kit was revealed to the public for the first time as part of Green Day - at the Carling Cup clash with Lincoln City.
Young professionals Mark Dudley, Paris Simmons, Mitch Hanson and Aleksandar Prijovic paraded the vibrant lime-green outfit at half-time against the Imps and it was well-received by the Pride Park crowd.
Along with the teams home shirt, the away shirt will carry the name of sponsors the Greenbank Group on the back.
The green shirts were being launched as part of a Green Day to promote environmental awareness at the club and involve such innovations as players arriving at the ground in Toyota Hybrid cars, and the evening's edition of The Ram being printed on recycled paper.
The new Swindon Town home shirts for the 2008/09 season finally went on sale at the Club Shop on Thursday morning.
Queues began to form around 9am with great interest ahead of the launch of the new home shirts, which are sponsored by FourFourTwo.
Town legend Don Rogers joined Chief Executive, Nick Watkins, in welcoming supporters into the refurbished shop.
2008/09 home and away shorts are also now on sale in addition to the initial batch of 950 home shirts.
This is the new Scotland home 08/10 home kit made by Diadora. The kit has been revealed to the national press at Stirling Castle.
The new Home kit is a true combination of the latest in performance garment technology, Scottish football tradition and Italian styling and will be worn by the team for the first time against Northern Ireland on the 20th August 2008 at Hampden Park.
"The partnership between the Scottish F.A. and Diadora has grown with each new kit produced for the national team utilising all of our design, technologies and expertise in the technical apparel business which has seen, in our opinion some of the greatest kits produced in the modern game. Following the near qualification in the recent European Championships and previous success of the Home, Away and 3rd kits we've had a challenge to produce a product suitable for the Players, staff and fans alike to a level to which they have come accustomed too and most importantly deserve, but we have!
Liverpool, in partnership with DHL Express UK, will ensure that fans have access to the new Liverpool FC European kit.
Thousands of Liverpool FC supporters have pre-ordered the shirt and the five times European Champions entrusted DHL with the task of ensuring over 10,000 new kits arrive in time for the start of the season.
The release of the new European shirt has been anticipated for several weeks and DHL has ensured the kit has remained under tight security and was delivered on time to various locations throughout Liverpool. Over the past couple of month's DHL has delivered over 16,000 Home and Away shirts for Liverpool Football Club.
The new Brentford 2008/09 Puma Away Kit was officially launched at Griffin Park. Brentford have followed in the footsteps of Aston Villa and Hampton & Richmond Borough by giving over kit sponsorship to charity.
The secondary sponsors' patch on their new away kit, launched on Friday and to be worn for the first time at Swansea tomorrow, will be donated to the national heart charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).
CRY's logo will appear on the back of the shirts forthcoming season.
Brentford already have good links with the charity as manager Andy Scott is one of their patrons.
Former Bees striker Scott had to retire early from playing after suffering a life-threatening heart disorder called hypertrophic cardiomypathy while playing for Leyton Orient.
Scott said: "I'm very grateful to Brentford FC for the opportunity given of linking up with a charity that is very close to me personally.
Jésica Cirio and Valeria Davicce unveiled the new Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata 08/09 home and away kit made by Puma.
The "Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata" was founded on June 3, 1887 as a civil association, and thus is the oldest surviving football club in the whole of South America.
Its foundation came barely five years after the creation of the City of La Plata in 1882. The first sports offered to its members were, as its Spanish name indicates, gymnastics and fencing. Clubs supporting these sports were common among the upper classes at the end of the 19th century (cf. the prior foundation of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires in 1880). Later on, other disciplines were added, including track and field, football, basketball and rugby.


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When your office is in the metaverse
Kang Yo-Sik, president of the Seoul Digital Foundation, declared that they will try their 'best to use Metaverse Seoul in providing equal services to every Seoul citizen.'
A tech company in Seoul has opened a new office branch that is identical to its headquarters but located in the metaverse. Same chairs, same coffee cups but all virtual. It represents a revolution for remote working, and the foundation hopes that will encourage better production and connections among employees..
The Seoul Digital Foundation (SDF) is setting up in the metaverse. On Wednesday, December 22, the foundation, associated with the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea, announced it was opening an office in Gather Town. Don't bother consulting your regular mapping applications: Gather Town is a video conferencing application in which each individual logs in with an avatar and can roam the virtual world to meet other users.
"The SDF aims to apply key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, such as metaverse and AI, to its administrative tasks," declared the foundation in a press release. It added,"Particularly to help Seoul improve its competitiveness as a global smart city, it will use metaverse in its entire work process."
Remote employees will be able to meet once a month in a metaverse office that has the same features as the headquarters located in Sangam-Dong, a business center in western Seoul. Connecting to the platform will allow them to sit at their virtual desk through their avatar while the SDF will be able to verify their presence at the office remotely. The foundation hopes for an increase in "work efficiency as remote meetings are available regardless of physical barriers."
Getting citizens involved
While using such a platform on a long-term basis to organize office life and work may seem revolutionary, the foundation wishes to allow citizens to also take advantage of its benefits in line with its mission of digital innovation as a smart city. Through this citizen platform, the SDF hopes to reduce social and cultural discrepancies.
"There are some citizens who cannot enjoy all of the services we provide due to physical restraints. We will try our best to use Metaverse Seoul in providing equal services to every Seoul citizen," outlined Kang Yo-Sik, president of the foundation.
Citizens will then be able to use the functionality to create content or organize virtual exhibitions. This aspect of the platform is expected to take shape as early as 2022.
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I mean they're my babies, they always will be, no matter how much they grow (or complain!).
The youngest will be 10, in just a few short months. Middle boy has started GCSE work and the eldest has moved out! Thankfully, there will no babies coming from them anytime soon........I hope!
So how do you write about babies, when you don't have any? One of the things I haven't talked about, on here, before is how hard it was for me to have my first baby.
I was very young wanting children, I'd never considered that I wouldn't. At 18 I was living with Mr. Ojo, engaged and wanting a family, I'd already been with him 2 years by now. I came off the contraceptive pill and, as far as I was concerned, that was that, we were going to be a family.
Just after my 19th birthday we got married, still not pregnant, but still young and carefree, so didn't think of it as a problem. The following year I had started to wonder why I was not conceiving, but suffering horribly painful periods. So off to my doctor I went. My doctor decided, without a proper examination, that it was a hormone imbalance, due to the weather! Is that even a thing?!
I was so upset at his apparent lack of care, I decided to change doctors. Me and the Mr decided, between us, I would go to his Dr, he'd always been reliable and caring. My first appointment he was sat with me, and my notes (bare in mind, this was over 20 years ago, it was all on paper). I told him the same as I had told my previous Dr and he asked how long I'd been off the pill. When I told him 2 years, he asked why I wasn't pregnant, and so a battery of tests was ordered.
From that day my life got turned on it's head!
To cut a long story short, I ended up spending years going back and forth to a fertility clinic. I was diagnosed with precancerous cells and sent in for a minor op, still being young, I didn't realise that this could have been quite serious. I ended up having a cervical smear annually, for quite a few years. I honestly didn't realise that 21 year old females, in the UK, don't get those as standard!
We discovered that I was getting pregnant regularly and those horribly painful periods were, in fact, early miscarriages. It was an utterly heartbreaking time for me and Mr. Ojo. So much so that by the time I was 24, with no real reason for my lack of conception, we decided it was too much. I went back to college, part time, and got a job.
Yup, I got pregnant, almost straight away!
It was a wonderfully easy pregnancy, with my beautiful, healthy boy, at the end of it. He was 9lb 4.5oz of perfection.
It took a few years before I could face trying again, when I did it ended in another miscarriage. When we could face trying again I got pregnant immediately, with my gorgeous middle boy.
After 2 easy male pregnancy, the unofficial opinion is that I can't carry girls. It doesn't really bother me as I always wanted a houseful of boys, my dream number was 5 (mad I know!), but that was not to be.
What was meant to be, however, was boy number 3. Shockingly, after all my history, he was a stunning little surprise. I say little, if he'd gone to term he would have been around 12lb!
I guess there's something to say about never giving up, but in our case it was giving up that helped. It took the pressure off.
It's a part of my history that I tend to leave there, in the past. I'm just grateful that I ended up with my 3 boys. If I'm honest, I still baby them, they don't help around the house nearly as much as they should.
Sorry for the slightly bleak post, but it's a story very few know.
Hopefully tomorrow will be back to normal.
Such a honest post, so sad to read the struggles that you faced.
You did right changing doctors.
So much heartache, but how wonderful that you never gave up! And what a good looking bunch of boys you have. Always your babies!


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Home Pick of the Day Little old lady Corvair coupe named Rosie in as-new condition
Little old lady Corvair coupe named Rosie in as-new condition
By Bob Golfen
The Corvair was rescued from long-term storage
"The little old lady from Pasadena (go granny, go granny, go granny, go)."
Little remembered nowadays are the roots of this song originally recorded by surf-rock duo Jan and Dean in 1964. As the story goes, used-car salesmen in Southern California way back when would tell a prospective customer that the vehicle for sale formerly belonged to "a little old lady from Pasadena who only drove it to church on Sundays."
A Chevy graphic decorates the car's flanks
That became a joke and a cliché, which the writers of the song turned on its head by portraying The Little Old Lady from Pasadena as a street-racing hot rodder.
All of which leads to the Pick of the Day, a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair two-door coupe, said to be in pristine condition after being driven only 12,000 miles by a little old lady who stored it away after having a stroke.
The car is named Rosie, the original owner was named Rose Ruse and the Corvair is being advertised on ClassicCars.com by a California dealer located in Roseville, of course. Quite a bouquet of roses.
The interior looks about perfect
The coupe is a standard-issue Corvair, the kind of compact car that a little old lady might own in the 1960s, with the flat-6 engine hooked up to an automatic transmission, with blue metallic paint, a blue interior, chrome trim and wire-wheel hubcaps. Incongruously, there's a Chevy graphic on its sides, which is not mentioned in the ad as being original or not.
What makes the car special is its exceptional preserved condition, supported by "lots of documentation," the seller says.
"Rose suffered a stroke in 1969 and refused to sell Rosie and kept her in storage until 1986," the dealer says in the ad. "Rosie was sold to a collector after that and… won over 25 awards and trophies over the years. Truly a special car."
The rear-mounted engine compartment looks very clean
As always, the question with such a time-warp perfect collector car is what to do with it. Store it in bubble wrap and only trailer it to shows? Or drive it, knowing that every mile you put on the car lowers its value precipitously?
As it is, the dealer is asking a strong $25,000 for this unusual Corvair presented in what appears to be showroom condition.
Ideally, it will be purchased by another little old lady who's also a classic car buff, and who will keep it and maintain it as is. Go granny, go!
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Bob Golfen is a longtime automotive writer and editor, focusing on new vehicles, collector cars, car culture and the automotive lifestyle. He is the former automotive writer and editor for The Arizona Republic and SPEED.com, the website for the SPEED motorsports channel. He has written free-lance articles for a number of publications, including Autoweek, The New York Times and Barrett-Jackson auction catalogs. A collector car enthusiast with a wide range of knowledge about the old cars that we all love and desire, Bob enjoys tinkering with archaic machinery. His current obsession is a 1962 Porsche 356 Super coupe.
Jim A February 10, 2019	At	4:45 AM
This was one of my cars I owned when I was in highschool. It had a 3 spd manual and a manual convertible top. Leaked and used more oil than gas. The memories are priceless.
Jeff Henry February 10, 2019	At	6:03 AM
Well sir l would by for $22000.00 thanks Jeff
Chris Dehner February 10, 2019	At	9:30 AM
Maybe it is time for GM to bring back the Corvair, albeit with modern day safety. The platform can be a bare bones, good fuel economy, water cooled, naturally aspirated, boxer with six cylinders, the vehicle will be a starter for young consumers; for people that want to own! No frills.= low cost.
Uncle Al February 10, 2019	At	12:37 PM
hahahaha………$25,000 ? My '95 BMW 840CI can be had for half that !
SCOTT PENDLETON May 9, 2019	At	10:10 AM
Ah, but who would want it?
James Kansier February 10, 2019	At	3:49 PM
Do you remember how many people had toxic CO death from this mutant. A black mark on the wonderful Chevy's that were built in that era.
R R February 11, 2019	At	7:18 PM
While any time capsule is worth good money, that's tall cotton for a Corvair, for $25 (or less) I can find other, potentially better cars. The market interest in Corvairs just isn't there to pay a super premium. It is super cool though. Dad had a '64 Corvair convertible w/a 4 speed. I hope a Corvair person does get it and enjoys it.
Michael Matthews February 19, 2019	At	6:22 PM
how much is it. im serious
Brad October 10, 2020	At	12:08 PM
Were this a 1963 to 1967 Chevelle …
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L'accident ferroviaire de Courville a eu lieu le , dans cette commune du département d'Eure-et-Loir située à dix-neuf kilomètres de Chartres sur la ligne Paris-Le Mans appartenant à l'État depuis le rachat par celui-ci de la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest au . Son lourd bilan, s'ajoutant à ceux d'une longue série d'autres accidents meurtriers survenus peu de temps avant sur le même réseau, contribua à amplifier encore la controverse sur l'exploitation publique du chemin de fer.

Les circonstances
Les communiqués officiels sur l'accident sont restés vagues, et la presse a plus insisté sur ses conséquences que sur les circonstances exactes dans lesquelles il avait eu lieu. Aussi, celles-ci ne peuvent-elles être reconstituées que par recoupement d'informations éparses, souvent présentées avec beaucoup d'approximations.

Quatre trains pour une gare
Le mardi  à 18h 07, le train de marchandises 6330, composé de trente quatre wagons, était arrivé du Mans avec trois heures quinze de retard en gare de Courville, et avait été aussitôt aiguillé sur la voie ter, unique voie de garage située côté pair, afin de permettre l'arrivée à quai sur la voie numéro 2, voie principale montante, d'un autre train de marchandises, dit de détail, le 2338, venant de la même direction, qui devait débarquer et charger des colis.

Derrière eux était attendu l'omnibus 516 Guingamp – Paris. Afin de le laisser accéder à son tour au quai et repartir vers Chartres avec voie libre, le chef de gare Raymond avait décidé qu'une fois les opérations de manutention terminées pour le 2338, celui-ci serait déplacé sur l'autre voie de garage restant seule disponible, dite 1 ter, située côté impair, dont l'accès depuis la voie 2 exigeait la traversée, à environ trois cents mètres de la gare, de la voie principale descendante, la numéro 1.
Le chef de gare devant assurer le service des billets pour le 516, c'est le facteur-chef Launay qui avait été chargé de la manœuvre. Avant d'entreprendre de garer le 2338, il s'était d'abord assuré par téléphone auprès du poste de block-system situé 3, 7 km en amont que le rapide  513, pour Brest et Nantes, parti de  Paris Montparnasse à 16 heures 40 et devant passer sans arrêt sur la voie 1, n'était pas encore annoncé.Toutefois, alors que l'opération avait déjà commencé, un nouvel appel du poste de block l'avait informé de l'arrivée imminente du 513, et il avait aussitôt actionné le levier fermant le disque d'entrée de la gare à un kilomètre de là, et envoyé l'homme d'équipe Chailloux muni d'une lanterne rouge à la rencontre du rapide pour le stopper.

 La collision

Malgré les précautions prises pour le faire arrêter, le 513 survint alors que le 2338 traversait la voie 1.
Sa locomotive, du type Pacific, prit en écharpe le convoi à pleine vitesse par le milieu, renversant et pulvérisant dix wagons, puis emportée par son élan, partit sur la droite en labourant la voie sur près d'une centaine de mètres au milieu des débris, pour finir sa course, suivie du tender et du fourgon de tête, deux cents mètres avant la gare, couchée sur le côté gauche. Derrière eux, après une première rupture d'attelage, trois voiture s'étaient télescopées, une de troisième classe, une mixte première/deuxième classe/compartiment postal, et le wagon-restaurant, qui avait escaladé les deux autres, écrasant leurs compartiments. Par chance, les voitures suivantes avaient été séparées du reste du train par une seconde rupture d'attelage provoquant leur freinage automatique, et étaient presque intactes, bien que déraillées.

Au même moment, arrivait dans l'autre sens sur la voie 2 l'omnibus 516, qui après son arrêt en gare, était reparti vers Chartres et prenait de la vitesse. Son mécanicien, Georges Béquille, voyant se produire l'accident à cent mètres de là, freina immédiatement et parvint à arrêter son train à temps pour préserver l'intégrité des voitures et de leurs passagers, mais sans toutefois pouvoir éviter que la locomotive heurte l'amoncellement des épaves et se renverse, ajoutant encore au chaos de la scène.

 Secours et bilan
Dans le choc, les réservoir de gaz d'éclairage placés sous les caisses des trois voitures disloquées avaient été percés, provoquant immédiatement un incendie. Le personnel de la gare, les voyageurs de l'omnibus et ceux du rapide sortis indemnes de la collision, s'efforcèrent de soustraire aux flammes les victimes restées coincées dans l'amas des débris, déposant provisoirement morts et blessés dans la salle d'attente. Si les employés et les dix neuf dîneurs du wagon-restaurant réussirent tous à s'échapper, seuls quelques passagers des deux voitures écrasées purent être extraits à temps des carcasses de leurs compartiments, avant que les sauveteurs ne soient contraints de reculer devant le feu, que les pompiers de Courville ne parvinrent pas à éteindre totalement, et qui couva jusqu'au lendemain.
Les blessés, au nombre d'une quinzaine, parmi lesquels un homme d'équipe de la gare préposé à la manœuvre, furent transportés à l'hôpital de Courville.
Selon une première estimation, l'accident avait fait huit morts, mais ce bilan fut porté à treize après que les restes de nouvelles victimes eurent été dégagés des épaves carbonisées et que des survivants gravement atteints eurent succombé.
La presse s'émut du sort tragique des onze convives d'une noce, dont les deux mariés et sept de leurs proches perdirent la vie, et s'attarda parfois avec complaisance sur des détails morbides, tels l'odeur infecte dégagée par l'incendie ou la liste détaillée des débris humains carbonisés restant à identifier.

Dans les heures qui avaient suivi l'accident, un train de secours venu de Chartres avait amené le préfet d'Eure-et-Loir, M. Raymond Le Bourdon, une compagnie du 102e d'Infanterie et des médecins. Arrivèrent également par la route des soldats du 13e régiment de cuirassiers, si bien qu'environ deux cents personnes participèrent au déblaiement, aidées par une grue de cinquante tonnes prêtée par la Compagnie d'Orléans pour le relèvement des deux machines. Le ministre des travaux publics, Louis Puech, se rendit sur place en train spécial.

Compte tenu du nombre de carcasses enchevêtrées à dégager et de l'importance des dégâts causés aux installations, la circulation ne put être rétablie sur une voie unique temporaire que le surlendemain à 7 heures 30. Des services religieux en mémoire des victimes se succédèrent dans l'église de Courville, avant leur inhumation dans leurs communes respectives.

 Suites
Au-delà de la question des responsabilités directes, l'événement, qui s'ajoutait à une liste déjà longue d'accidents survenus sur le même réseau, raviva le débat sur l'exploitation des chemins de fer par l'État. L'émoi qu'il souleva incita les autorités publiques à prendre dans l'urgence des mesures pour corriger les lacunes les plus criantes qu'il avait révélées.

 Détermination des responsabilités
 La recherche des causes
La responsabilité directe de l'accident semblait au premier abord devoir être imputée au mécanicien Bourcier, 46 ans, 17 ans de service, conduisant le rapide, que le juge d'instruction, tout en le laissant en liberté, inculpa d'homicide par imprudence pour n'avoir pas respecté les signaux lui prescrivant l'arrêt. Pour sa défense, celui-ci affirmait ne pas avoir vu le disque fermé et la lanterne agitée par l'homme d'équipe à cause de la fumée de sa locomotive rabattue par le vent, et expliquait qu'après être passé de la gauche à la droite de la cabine pour améliorer sa visibilité, il avait seulement aperçu un feu blanc, qu'il avait pris pour un signal de voie libre alors qu'il s'agissait du fanal de tête du train en manœuvre. Intervenant quelques semaines plus tard à la Chambre, après avoir tenu à effectuer lui-même sur une locomotive le trajet de Chartres à Courville, le nouveau ministre des Travaux publics, Charles Dumont, estimait cette explication plausible.

Le personnel de la gare avait bien pris la précaution de couvrir par une signalisation réglementaire la manœuvre entreprise, mais il pouvait lui être reproché de l'avoir engagée en violation du règlement général de l'ancien réseau de l'Ouest, reprenant une disposition applicable à l'ensemble des compagnies, et disposant que « chacune des voies principales d'une gare doit être dégagée cinq minutes au moins avant l'heure réglementaire de l'arrivée de chacun des trains circulant sur cette voie, et doit être maintenue libre à partir de ce moment jusqu'après l'arrivée du train attendu. Il ne peut être dérogé à cette règle que dans des cas exceptionnels faisant l'objet d'autorisations spéciales, ou les cas d'urgence absolue ».
En effet, alors que le rapide était normalement attendu à 18 heures 12, la manœuvre avait été entamée trop peu de temps avant, et l'équipe de conduite du train pris en écharpe déclarait avoir fait part de sa réticence à l'effectuer car elle la jugeait risquée. Le chef de gare, M. Raymond et le facteur-chef Launay qui l'assistait expliquaient que le train n'avait toujours pas été annoncé par le poste de sémaphore et qu'ils escomptaient que comme les jours précédents, il ne passerait pas à l'heure prévue puisqu'il serait ralenti par trois chantiers de voie en cours entre Paris et Chartres.
Subsidiairement, ils faisaient valoir qu'en toute hypothèse l'interdiction posée dans le règlement était assortie d'une exception en cas durgence absolue, et que la nécessité de remédier aux importants retards des trains entrait dans le champ de cette dérogation. Malgré cette argumentation, ils furent eux aussi inculpés et traduits avec le mécanicien Bourcier devant le tribunal correctionnel de Chartres.

 Les condamnations judiciaires
Le procès des trois inculpés se tint en deux audiences, les 14 et . L'État ayant indemnisé à l'amiable la plupart des victimes, aucune n'était partie civile à cette instance pénale. Faute d'accord, les filles de deux d'entre elles, un cheminot de l'État et sa femme, avaient cependant saisi la justice, mais d'une action contre l'État devant le Tribunal civil de la Seine.

Le tribunal entendit douze témoins, dont M. de Pontevès, ingénieur, qui affirma notamment que les employés de la gare devaient se renseigner sur la marche du rapide avant de commencer la manœuvre, et que le mécanicien n'avait pas pu confondre le feu blanc du train avec un signal de voie libre. Dans son réquisitoire, le procureur de la République fit preuve d'une relative indulgence à l'égard du chef de gare et du facteur-chef, proposant de leur reconnaître les circonstances atténuantes compte tenu de leurs bons antécédents. En revanche, il réclama une sanction sévère sévère contre le mécanicien Bourcier, dont il énuméra les multiples cas de fautes précédentes.

Dans leur jugement, rendu le  les juges condamnèrent chacun des deux agents de la gare à six mois de prison et cent francs d'amende, en considérant qu'ils ne pouvaient invoquer aucune autorisation spéciale et ne se trouvaient pas dans un cas d'urgence absolue puisque le déplacement du train de marchandises 3828 n'était pas indispensable. Le mécanicien Bourcier était puni d'un an de prison et cinq cents francs d'amende pour avoir abandonné le poste qui lui était assigné sur sa machine et brûlé les signaux. L'ensemble de ces condamnations était toutefois assorti du sursis.

Après appel, puis cassation et renvoi, la Cour d'appel de Paris réduisit à deux mois la peine de prison du mécanicien Bourcier, et maintint celle de six mois pour le facteur-chef Launay, mais en supprimant le sursis dont ils avaient initialement bénéficié. Brièvement incarcéré le , Bourcier obtint, à la suite des démarches pressantes de la Fédération des Mécaniciens-Chauffeurs et électriciens des Chemins de fer de France et de ses colonies, une réduction de peine, et fut remis en liberté

 Réactions politiques
La collision de Courville était la dernière en date d'une longue série d'incidents et accidents survenus en peu de temps sur le réseau dit désormais de l'Ouest-État, que nombre de journaux, à l'instar du Figaro, se plurent à énumérer. Après les remous soulevés entre 1906 et 1908 à propos du rachat par l'État de la Compagnie de l'Ouest en déconfiture, elle ne pouvait que raviver la controverse sur l'opération, à la fois au Parlement et dans la presse.
 Effervescence parlementaire
Au Sénat, Georges Fessard (Eure-et-Loir), Eugène Brager de La Ville-Moysan (Ille-et-Vilaine), Adrien Gaudin de Villaine (Manche), et Dominique Delahaye (Maine-et-Loire) déposèrent des demandes d'interpellation, qui donnèrent lieu à de longues discussions lors des séances des 23 et , puis du  .

À la Chambre des députés, si Joseph Patureau-Mirand (Indre) se borna à poser une question écrite sur les causes de l'accident et les mesures à prendre, à la suite des interpellations déposées par Jean-Baptiste Gioux (Maine-et-Loire) et Maurice Maunoury (Eure-et-Loir), un débat sur les mêmes thèmes eut lieu le .

Entretemps, après la chute du deuxième ministère Briand le , et son remplacement par un gouvernement Ernest Monis, Charles Dumont  avait succédé à Louis Puech comme ministre des travaux publics.

Dans les deux chambres, bien que l'évocation de l'accident ait été l'occasion d'aborder longuement les nombreuses imperfections du réseau de l'État, les débats furent clos par le vote d'un ordre du jour de confiance au gouvernement.

 Nouvelles offensives dans la presse

Bien que le quotidien La Lanterne, dans un éditorial mesuré sur « La catastrophe », ait invité « les politiciens de parti » à « ne pas abuser des arguments qu'un hasard impitoyable vient de leur apporter », en considérant qu'il « n'y a pas de providence rachatiste ni antirachatiste » , les adversaires du rachat trouvèrent dans l'accident une nouvelle occasion de réaffirmer leur opposition par voie de presse.

Ainsi, imputant aux parlementaires ayant voté le rachat une « responsabilité écrasante » dans l'accident, des journaux les désignèrent à la vindicte populaire en publiant leur liste complète, comme le firent notamment La Croix et Le Figaro, ou en présentant certains d'entre eux sous un jour outrageusement défavorable, comme le fit Le Matin dans un article intitulé «Chez le défenseur de l'O-E », prêtant au député de Chartres Gustave Lhopiteau une désinvolture choquante après le drame.

Si la reprise de l'Ouest par l'État, constituant une nationalisation, était considérée comme une « funeste opération » par les tenants de l'économie libérale, c'est à raison de leur opposition de principe à l'exploitation publique d'activités industrielles ou commerciales, et notamment des chemins de fer. Le Temps estimait en effet que « L'Etat a toujours prouvé, dans tous les domaines, une radicale inaptitude industrielle, pour cette raison fondamentale que des fonctionnaires n'ont pas le même intérêt que des particuliers à réussir dans leurs entreprises. Les mœurs administratives sont faites d'indifférence et d'inertie, parce que personne dans une administration n'a rien à gagner au succès. », et dans L'Intransigeant, Léon Bailby affirmait qu'il « y a évidemment dans le système qui fait administrer une entreprise commerciale par une direction et par des fonctionnaires irresponsables, un vice foncier, dont chaque nouvelle catastrophe apporte la preuve la plus éclatante ». La presse catholique s'associait à ces critiques, reprises dans un rapport intitulé « L'État directeur de chemins de fer », présenté au  Congrès des jurisconsultes catholiques par le sénateur Paul Le Breton, affirmant notamment que « tout ce que fait l'État coûte plus cher que ce que font les Compagnies ».

À l'inverse, L'Humanité, habituellement prompte à fustiger les compagnies privées en cas de catastrophe, relata l'accident sur le réseau de l'État avec une grande sobriété, son éditorialiste André Morizet reprochant à « la presse des requins » de lui accorder une importance disproportionnée par rapport à un autre du même jour sur celui du Nord. Son directeur, Jean Jaurès, avait, il est vrai, déjà réaffirmé quelques mois auparavant sa foi dans les nationalisations juste après la catastrophe de Bernay, survenue elle aussi sur l'Ouest-État.

 Mesures correctrices
L'analyse des causes de l'accident avait mis en lumière des déficiences, tant humaines que matérielles, dont certaines, propres au réseau de l'État, furent longuement dénoncées dans la presse ou lors des débats parlementaires, et auxquelles les autorités s'efforcèrent de remédier.
 Réorganisation immédiate de l'administration du réseau
Compte tenu de l'effervescence soulevée par l'accident, il parut urgent au gouvernement de convaincre l'opinion publique de sa volonté de réforme en opérant, avant même les changements d'organisation en profondeur, des modifications immédiates à la fois dans la direction du réseau de l'État et dans le fonctionnement des lignes récemment acquises de l'ancienne compagnie de l'Ouest. Aussi, quatre jours après le drame, le conseil des ministres annonçait le limogeage de Raymond Beaugey, directeur général, et son remplacement par Albert Claveille. En même temps, Louis Puech, ministre des travaux publics prenait un arrêté regroupant en quatre directions les douze services créés deux ans plus tôt par l'administration précédente. En outre, dans l'attente des travaux nécessaires pour améliorer la sécurité sur l'ancien réseau de l'Ouest, un certain nombre de trains y étaient provisoirement supprimés.

Le gouvernement entreprit ensuite la préparation d'un projet de loi précisant les grandes ligne du régime juridique des chemins de fer de l'État. Après sa chute le , le texte fut finalement adopté sous forme de cavalier budgétaire dans la loi du , portant fixation du budget général des dépenses et des recettes de l'exercice 1911. Il prévoyait, entre autres dispositions, l'élaboration dans l'année à venir d'un nouveau statut du personnel du réseau.

 Réforme du statut des personnels
Dès le lendemain de l'accident, nombre de journaux évoquaient parmi les causes du mauvais fonctionnement du réseau de l'État le manque de zèle de son personnel, favorisé par une surveillance trop laxiste. Était notamment critiqué le mode de promotion automatique à l'ancienneté, indifférent à la motivation et aux aptitudes d'agents pourtant chargés d'activité de sécurité. Après la condamnation pénale de ceux reconnus responsables de l'accident, on n'avait pas manqué d'observer que le mécanicien Bourcier avait pu accéder à la conduite des rapides et y être maintenu en dépit d'une longue liste de punitions pour fautes graves, et que le chef de gare Launay avait, depuis et malgré son inculpation, bénéficié d'un avancement comme sous-chef de gare à Rouen.

Ce fut Jean Dupuy, ministre des travaux publics du gouvernement Poincaré qui publia, par arrêtés du , le nouveau statut des cheminots de l'État, entré en vigueur le , prévoyant notamment la suppression de l'avancement automatique.

Si la presse libérale approuva le nouveau régime, les syndicats le contestèrent comme contraire aux droits acquis et ouvrant la porte au favoritisme. Sous leur pression, les représentants du personnel au conseil de réseau démissionnèrent. Toutefois, après avoir obtenu des garanties du Comité de direction, ils revinrent sur leur décision.
 Annonce d'améliorations d'ordre technique
Lors de la discussion des interpellations, un certain nombre de lacunes d'ordre technique du réseau, telles que l'insuffisance du nombre de ses voies de garage, avaient été dénoncées. Les débats se focalisèrent plus spécialement sur deux questions conditionnant la sécurité : l'encadrement des manœuvres sur les voies principales et la perception de la signalisation par les mécaniciens, pour lesquelles les ministres annoncèrent des améliorations prochaines, voire immédiates.
 L'encadrement des manœuvres
Malgré son caractère apparemment contraignant, le règlement interdisant les manœuvres sur les voies principales cinq minutes avant le passage d'un train laissait aux chefs de gare une double marge d'appréciation. Ils pouvaient en effet calculer le délai non à partir de l'horaire théorique de passage mais en fonction d'un éventuel retard, et aussi user de la faculté de dérogation expressément prévue par le texte en cas d'''« urgence absolue », en considérant qu'entrait dans ce champ la nécessité d'assurer la ponctualité des circulations.

Laissant de côté la question cruciale du choix entre marche théorique ou réelle, le ministre des travaux publics, Charles Dumont, s'efforça de limiter l'étendue de l'exception en demandant à l'ensemble des réseaux dans une circulaire du , de remplacer dans leurs règlements la formule initiale par celle de « péril imminent pour les convois en gare », qu'il jugeait plus restrictive.

 La perception de la signalisation
Le mécanicien Bourcier conduisant le train tamponneur affirmait qu'aveuglé dans sa cabine par la fumée et la vapeur de la Pacific, il n'avait vu ni le carré fermant l'accès à la gare ni le drapeau et la lanterne agités par l'homme d'équipe, et qu'une fois sa visibilité recouvrée, il avait confondu le feu blanc de la machine du train coupant sa route avec un signal de voie libre.

À l'époque, les dispositifs susceptibles de limiter le rabattement des fumées sur les cabines de conduite étaient encore inconnus, aussi les améliorations envisagées visaient-elles essentiellement d'une part à rendre plus visibles les signaux optiques  et d'autre part à rappeler par voie sonore leurs indications aux mécanicien qui ne les auraient pas aperçus.

Ainsi, après qu'eut été rapidement écartée l'installation d'une vigie à l'avant des locomotives, fut évoquée pêle-mêle au Parlement l'urgence d'augmenter la hauteur des mâts des signaux, de modifier leur forme et leur couleur, de les doubler par des pétards lorsqu'ils étaient fermés, et de généraliser leur répétition sur les machines. Faute de pouvoir mettre à exécution ces mesures à bref délai, dans sa circulaire du , le ministre se borna à demander que l'utilisation complémentaire des pétards soit prescrite aux porteurs de signaux d'arrêt manuels (lanternes, drapeaux).

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Reconstructing the Classics
December 18th, 2008 Posted by nicolecontessa
The Getty Villa's classically inspired architecture has always set the perfect stage to view art of the antiquities by enabling the illusion of authentic perspective. However, the three current exhibits: Reconstructing Identity: The Statue of a God from Dresden, The Getty Commodus: Roman Portraits and Modern Copies and Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration do more than allow classical art enthusiasts a place to view their objects of desire; they allow a behind-the-scenes peek at the challenges of object collection and conservation.
Reconstructing Identity traces the history of a monumental statue that has worn many hats, or more accurately, many heads. Since his discovery in Italy in the seventeenth century, the statue has posed as Alexander the Great, Bacchus the god of wine, and the youth Antinous. The exhibit tells the tale of this mystery man and how he ended up in a villa overlooking the Pacific Ocean by the examining the singular sculptural figure and exploring his morphic identity through the different heads he has donned.
The Getty Commodus, inspired by the Getty's acquisition of the marble bust of Commodus (A.D. 161-192) showcases a number of busts with similar characteristics to the ancient Getty Commodus thereby creating a conversation of influence between the pieces. By looking at Commodus and its figural descendents, the exhibit serves to illuminate the history of bust-sculpture as well as shed some light on the replication of the portrait bust into the Renaissance.
Fragment to Vase explains the restoration process of classical ceramic art pieces. As someone who can scarcely amble through her friends' tiny post-grad apartments without knocking over a 29-dollar vase from West Elm, I have always been fascinated by thousand-year-old ceramic vases that remain fully intact. It seems impossible that one could remain intact through ages traveling through continents, natural disasters and dish-throwing break-ups. Fragment to Vase exposes the truth that most vases do require restoration. The exhibit shows a number of fully restored classical vases and also reveals the process of restoration. Partially restored vases allow viewers to take a peek at the reconstructed cracks on the inside of the vases and learn about the methods restorers rely on to ensure the original integrity of the vase is honored.
The Getty Villa stays true to its mission of education as these three exhibitions dedicate as much attention to the illumination of these art-historical tales as they do the displays the artworks themselves. Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, best explains the unique nature of these exhibits "These exhibitions provide an opportunity for the public to see that the works of art they view in museums do not necessarily have static lives. Bringing these works to life is an exciting process that often involves determination, collaboration, and detective work."
Where: Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA
When: December 18, 2008 to June 1, 2009
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If the Fort-La-Latte castle looks familiar, it is. This fortress has been used in many historical movies (like The Vikings with Kirk Douglas).
The Fort was built to protect the Brittany (Bretagne) coastline, including St. Malo and Dinard. The fortress is located on a peninsula and therefore the only access to the fort is via the drawbridge.
As is the case with all of the Cotes-d'Amors' area of Brittany, the rocky coastline makes for great protection from invaders. Access via the sea makes the castle very difficult to defeat (there have been several attempts made, some with success).
The rocks alongside the beach, made out of granite, were used for the construction of the walls and towers.
The dungeon, built in 1365, offers a full view of the land and the sea.
The fort has 6 towers/turrets for its defenses and observation.
The furthest part of the castle gives a great view for miles over the sea.
Inside the fort's grounds are several well kept buildings, including the Lord's manor, chapel and garrison (40 soldiers were stationed here at all times).
Today, the fortress can be visited (for a small fee), and regular events are organised (check their web site for dates). The Fort-La-Latte is a must-visit if you are in the area.


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"It just looks so awful."
Agnes was referring to the streets of our small town. Like many, they were transformed a few weeks back to accommodate the 2-metre rule; this involved "widening" the pavements, which in turn narrowed the roads. This was achieved with the use of barriers, sandbags and cones, running the length of three of the shopping streets, adding over a metre to the pedestrian walkway, with perhaps two crossing gaps in every hundred yards. The barriers were made of plastic or metal grilles. To soften the impact the council has added flowered planters at some strategic points, which according to Agnes – a newcomer to our crumbly cohort – sadly emphasises the ugliness of the barrier system.
I volunteered with others to test the public reaction for the council. There were two of us on at any one time, a broad demographic mix from university students to older people like myself. Most of us did a couple of shifts, morning or afternoon during the fortnight consultation. The trouble was that there was hardly anyone to consult; lockdown may have ended and retail reopened, but people were still reluctant to risk the town. Footfall and wheeltread were well down.
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Conversation however was easy and ranged across the Covid-19 spectrum with wildly contrasting views on masks, Sage, experts in general, and, of course, Boris Johnson. Yet while there was plenty of passion, all exchanges, with very few exceptions, remained good-humoured. The lycra-lad cyclists felt marginalised by the pavement widening and the motorists concerned at queues and, with it, the rise in pollution. The pedestrians were the only really happy bunnies, but all agreed that something had to be done.
Joyce, who had also done the question-asking agreed that it was not just a relief to engage with people again, but a comfort to realise we remained a relatively genial species. This hopeful sentiment was given a surprising endorsement when I joined a friend who picks up litter in the town park. A grassed area, about a couple of acres, criss-crossed with paths, it has been packed afternoon and evening – and night – with alfresco eaters and drinkers since the relaxation of lockdown. And practically no litter, he told me – all of it stashed into the seven or eight litter bins – even taken home - amounting to over a dozen full black bags when collected, but nothing other than a few bottle tops and fag ends on the grassed area.
He invited me to join him one Sunday morning and it was true. He reckoned it was because this was our "local"; the users were stakeholders.
Yet for all the positives, the Covid-friendly pavement business bothered me, not so much for its aesthetic insult to the landscape, which Agnes objected to, but for the social damage to its residents.
I believe that the theory behind social distancing, which manifests itself in the 2-metre rule, is a piece of pseudoscientific sophistry, plucked out of the air by socially illiterate panjandrums and mathematical modellers with no regard for its impact on mental health.
Crumbly life is one of intensifying "social distancing" and we know just how toxic it can be. Social intimacy is the genius of humanity. We are a connected creature, reflected in our cultural and congregational furniture and fittings.
But not in these new town pavements. These simply authorise a social anxiety disorder which views all around us as potential dangers – or as the the big beasts of Silicon Valley call us, "biohazards". We are being programmed into anthropophobia, an aerosol away from generic misanthropy.
• Stewart Dakers is an 81-year-old community voluntary worker


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This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng
I was a Girl Scout when I was a kid. Unlike a lot of girls I knew, I stayed a Girl Scout until my late teen years. Some of my favorite memories are from that time: camping trips, white water rafting, parade marches, volunteering at nursing homes, crafting projects, and selling cookies. Boxes and boxes of cookies. I didn't really "get" why I was Girl Scout back then, even though words like "service," "stewardship," "volunteering," and "leader" were often thrown around. Looking back on it, I did some pretty cool things. In my search for all things interesting about the area, I discovered DC has some pretty strong ties to Girl Scout history.
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides in 1912, which became known as The Girl Scouts of the United States (GSUSA) in 1915. The first troop consisted of 18 members. Over the years, it has grown into an American institution, with nearly 2.8 million active scouts and volunteers today. In the 1920s and 1930s, the mission of Girl Scouting had strong emphasis on community service, camping, and leadership, much like the current mission. They also stressed domestic values such as cooking and childcare. While it can be argued that one faction was more prominent than the other, evidence suggests there was emphasis on both.
Julia Blackwelder's book How Hiring mentions a history of scouting published in the late 40s that notes, "publications of the 1920s and 1930s had included photos of girls involved with domestic chores, but camping and other outdoor activities predominated." Washington, DC's National Women's Museum website recalls how Girl Scouts collected food and clothing for families during the Great Depression. Timothy Walch notes that the President of GSUSA during this early time period, Lou Henry Hoover, believed that scouting included "one's civic duty to promote the health and well-being of one's community and nation." Ultimately, she declined to acknowledge one duty was emphasized more than the other.
The juxtaposition between civic and domestic service was illustrated clearly in the institution of the Girl Scout "Little House." The first Girl Scout Little House was built behind the White House around 1923. One blogger mentioned that it was originally built for a Better Homes and Gardens exhibition, and then donated to the Scouts by Better Homes in America and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Lou Henry Hoover paid to have the house relocated to 1750 New York Avenue and become a meeting place for the Girl Scouts of DC.
The Girl Scout Little House around 1924. It appears the house is in transit, as evidenced by the raised foundation
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"a thoroughly modern kitchen, an enchanting breakfast nook, a dining room, and an oblong living room where they may gather around a friendly fireplace, on the first floor; and with three bedrooms and a nursery on the second floor." The purpose of acquiring the home, the pamphlet continues, was to "be used as a national training center and experiment station in the great work of helping the girls of the United States . . . to become true home-makers and true citizens."
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Walch mentions the house as a site of "training courses in hygiene, childcare, and nutrition." On a couple of occasions, the Scouts cooked dinners for high profile guests, including President and Mrs. Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt. Other distinguished guests included First Lady Coolidge, Danish Minister Otto Wedsted, Princess Martha of Norway, President Hoover, Mabel Boardman, Secretary of the Red Cross, and Mrs. William Jardino, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Eleanor Roosevelt watches on as the Scouts cook for a luncheon in 1940
A blog post on the history of the Little House outlines what happened to the house after the initial opening. Aside from serving food and entertaining high profile guests, it was the site of the GSUSA National Headquarters until 1928. The house itself was in use and continued to be a showplace for the Scouts' endeavors until 1945. Afterwards, it because a branch office for GSUSA. Little is known of what happened to the house afterwards, but it was torn down in the 1970s.
The DC Little House was not the only one in the United States. A number were built throughout the country following the success of the DC one. Some are still standing, such as the one in Hope Fair Park, Arkansas. While the DC Little House does not fully exist anymore, it lives on in another form. In 1930, Lou Hoover had an exact replica dollhouse built of the Little House in DC. Legacy lives on through the model and provides a unique view to the role DC played in Girl Scouting history.
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These apt observation of the Argentine superstar were made by the three of the five former greats who played an exhibition match to mark the 30 days to go to FIFA U-17 World Cup picked legendary Argentine Diego Maradona as their favourite footballer, says a PTI report.
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Maradona, considered to be one of the greatest football players ever, appeared in four FIFA World Cups, including the one in 1986 in Mexico, where he led Argentina to victory over West Germany in the final and also won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player.
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An Unexpected Music: The Beast Player
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Japanese Children's Literature Introduced, Publication News.	Tagged: Alexander O. Smith, Cathy Hirano, fantasy, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi, Pushkin Children's, The Beast Player, world-building.	Leave a comment
Review by Alexander O. Smith, Kamakura
Fans of Nahoko Uehashi have had a long wait for another book in English translation from the internationally acclaimed fantasy author since the publication of the second volume of the Moribito series in 2009. The Beast Player is not a continuation of that, but the first English entry in an entirely new story that already spans four volumes in Japanese. Available as of March 1st from Pushkin Press, The Beast Player collects the first two volumes of the series with translation into English courtesy of Cathy Hirano, who also translated the Moribito books.
Right: Nahoko Uehashi (Goodreads)
The Beast Player follows the story of Elin, the green-eyed daughter of a "beast doctor" who looks after the Toda—massive, scaled creatures ridden into battle by the Toda warriors. Elin and her mother's eyes mark them as members of a secretive tribe of wanderers called the Ahlyo, though her mother renounced her tribal affiliations to live amongst the Toda Stewards.
In the first half of the book, we learn how Elin comes to leave her home and settle into a new life under the care of Joeun, a lapsed academic who has taken up beekeeping. We are also introduced to some of the other major players in the world: the Yojeh, an empress who acts as the political and spiritual leader of the land, and the Aluhan, a duke who commands armies faithful to the Yojeh to protect their borders. The second half follows Elin as she rises through the ranks of students at Kazalumu, a sanctuary where they care for Royal Beasts—fantastical creatures that look something like giant wolves with wings.
Along the way, we occasionally step into the viewpoint of other characters, such as Ialu, one of a cohort of bodyguards who serve the Yojeh for life (a life often cut short by an assassin's arrow—not all is well in the Yojeh's realm), and Esalu, the headmistress at the sanctuary. Those with difficulty keeping the large cast of characters straight will be happy to hear there is a list at the beginning of the book that includes a family tree for the Yojeh's royal family.
Uehashi's story is an intriguing blend of many elements that will be familiar to fans of contemporary western fantasy—a strong female lead, a school for gifted students, the challenges of taming fantastical creatures—and other details that will feel more specifically Japanese, like meals of steamed rice and miso, and an emperor considered by many of her subjects to be divine.
One of the cornerstones of fantasy is worldbuilding, and here The Beast Player does not disappoint. Perhaps taking cues from her earlier work as an anthropologist, Uehashi lays out the tribal affiliations and politics of her world with clarity and depth. Class plays a large role in the story as well, with details such as dress and occupation following the internal logic of a carefully crafted fictional society. This enables the main narrative thread following Elin's attempts at inter-species communication with the Royal Beasts via playing a hand-made harp to function as a kind of allegory for communication across barriers of class and race.
Language is an aspect of fantasy worldbuilding that can either be treated as an afterthought or, as is the case in Tolkien's Middle Earth, an integral part of the story. In The Beast Player, we learn early on that the name for Elin's people, the Ahlyo, is a bastardization of their true name, "Ao-Loh," meaning "Guardians of the Oath." The oath, we are told, was sworn by their people to never repeat a terrible mistake made long in the past. This is the first glimpse we are given of a secret history that is frequently hinted at throughout the story, the knowledge of which ultimately comes to play a role in informing our heroine's actions.
Somewhat challenging is the terminology in the book. In the opening, many aspects of caring for the Toda are described with capitalized words: the Ponds, the Chambers, the Law. There are also words in an indeterminate language, such as the tokujisui medicine administered to the Toda, and political terms—the Chief Steward, the Aluhan—that can be a bit confusing at first. Here again, I turned back to the list of characters at the beginning to keep everything straight.
Thankfully, the prose is more than strong enough to carry the reader through those initial speed bumps. Hirano is a gifted stylist, and the combination of her deft word choice with Uehashi's evocative images keeps the story flowing while bringing us moments of lyrical beauty.
In a market glutted with streamlined page-turners that take more hints from Hollywood than the classics of fantasy, The Beast Player, with its leisurely paced, meandering storytelling, can feel at times like a throwback. And yet, opening a doorway to different takes on familiar genres is exactly the aim of Pushkin Children's Books. Given the alternative of shelves laden with dystopian Hunger Games clones I'm glad that Pushkin and Hirano opened that door and let The Beast Player, like its titular character, make an unexpected music of its own.
Right: Cathy Hirano (Skye Hohmann for BookBlast®)
Novel by Andersen Laureate to Launch in English
Posted by averyscbwi in Awards, Publication News.	Tagged: Cathy Hirano, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi, Pushkin Children's.	Leave a comment
By Avery Fischer Udagawa, Bangkok
Happy Year of the Dog! SCBWI Japan translator member Cathy Hirano has translated The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, winner of the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing ("little Nobel") in 2014. This novel will launch in English in March 2018 in the UK, and subsequently in the US.
UK publisher Pushkin Children's describes The Beast Player as a fantasy novel for ages 10 and up, in which heroine Elin must prevent beloved beasts from being used as tools of war.
Uehashi's prior publications in English are the YA novels Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, which won the Batchelder Award and a Batchelder Honor, respectively, in the US. A resource list about the Moribito books, Uehashi, and Hirano appears here. The Beast Player is available for preorder globally in paperback and ebook.
Thirty Japan Kidlit Picks
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Japanese Children's Literature Introduced, TOMO.	Tagged: Cathy Hirano, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Japan Writers Conference, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi.	Leave a comment
Looking for good reads? At the last Japan Writers Conference, I recommended thirty Japan titles for young readers (picture books, middle grade, and YA) including about two dozen translations. Here is the full slideshow, downloadable or viewable online. Happy reading!
Translator Cathy Hirano, the YA novels Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, and Andersen Award-winning author Nahoko Uehashi. Click image for full slideshow.
Kyoto Journal Features Translator Cathy Hirano
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Why We Translate for Children.	Tagged: Cathy Hirano, Kazumi Yumoto, Kyoto Journal, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi, The Friends, Translation Day 2014.	1 comment
By Wendy Uchimura, Yokohama
The inspiring talk "Why I Translate for Children and Teens in a Translation-Resistant Market," given by translator Cathy Hirano at the 2014 SCBWI Japan Translation Day, a biennial event, has been skillfully adapted into an article that appears in Kyoto Journal Volume 86.
Cathy Hirano is an award-winning translator whose works include The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto, as well as Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi.
With an introduction by Avery Fischer Udagawa, this article delves into why we should bother to translate children's literature, the benefits of sharing culture, how the English publishing world can sometimes act as an obstacle, and how the translator can play mediator between the author and the editor.
Top: page 132 of Kyoto Journal Volume 86. This issue is downloadable here.
Moribito Giveaway at Cynsations!
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Event and Exhibit News, Translator Interviews.	Tagged: Arthur A. Levine Books, Batchelder Award, Cathy Hirano, Cynsations, Giveaways, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi.	1 comment
Members of SCBWI Japan Translation Group have published an interview with translator Cathy Hirano at Cynsations, the children's literature blog.
The interview includes a giveaway (open to entrants worldwide) of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano.
This title won the 2009 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for publisher Arthur A. Levine Books, and Uehashi later won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing. The hardback version of Moribito is now a collector's item. Four more days to enter!
Cathy Hirano and Cynsations' own Cynthia Leitich Smith will speak at Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC), 25-29 May 2016.
Andersen Award Sparks Interest in Nahoko Uehashi's Moribito Series
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Awards, Japanese Children's Literature Introduced, Publishers.	Tagged: Arthur A. Levine Books, Cathy Hirano, Goodreads, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Mildred L. Batchelder Award, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi, NHK TV.	4 comments
Author Nahoko Uehashi has smiled out from many a feature article, sales display, and book obi (advertising "sash") in Japan since receiving the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing—a biennial award sometimes dubbed the Nobel Prize for children's literature.
This past New Year's Eve in Kamakura, I watched Uehashi help judge the TV special Kohaku uta gassen (Red and White Singing Contest), a celebrity sing-off as famous in Japan as New Year's Rockin' Eve in the U.S. Uehashi judged alongside figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu and other stars. Already a bestselling author, Uehashi is now a household name.
Her acclaimed Moribito novels have been adapted for radio, manga, and anime, and the first novel will become a four-part TV drama aired beginning this March in Japan. Overseas, rights to the full book series have sold in China, with rights to individual books sold in Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Indonesia, Taiwan, the U.S., and Vietnam. In the U.S., the first two Moribito novels—translated by Cathy Hirano as Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness—have won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award and a Batchelder Honor for publisher Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.
Above: Haruka Ayase stars as Balsa in the upcoming NHK TV dramatization of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit.
Many readers of English long to see more translations of books in the Moribito series—as shown in comments to the 2014 post on our blog announcing Uehashi's Andersen Award. Since 2014, this post has ranked among our blog's top-three most viewed.
Have you treated yourself to a reading of Moribito and Moribito II? If not, both books are worth adding to your 2016 reading list. Happy reading, and Happy New Year!
Above: Click to read more about Nahoko Uehashi and the Moribito series at Goodreads.
How Is This Book Not Translated?!
Posted by SCBWI Japan Translation Group in Japanese Children's Literature Introduced.	Tagged: Ginny Tapley Takemori, Moribito, Nahoko Uehashi, The Guardian, Tomiko Inui.	2 comments
By Emily Balistrieri, Tokyo
Probably anyone who knows a language besides English can think of at least couple great books that remain surprisingly untranslated. Last month The Guardian's children's books site started up a conversation to collect a list.
Which brilliant books have never been translated into English? Join the discussion Children's books | The Guardian
Avery Fischer Udagawa chimed in wondering how it is that only the first two books in Nahoko Uehashi's Moribito series have made it over. Any other Japanese children's titles that seem like obvious candidates? (The inherent dilemma here, of course, is that translators don't want to give away their next dream projects in the comments. Right?! Man!)
We could also examine the flip side: What are some classic Japanese children's books that probably wouldn't work in English (and why not)? If a picture book is a masterpiece but the first page is a visual pun, is there anything to do but sigh and savor the Japanese?
Bonus: As an example of the good work being done to allow beloved children's lit to flow across language barriers, The Guardian highlights Ginny Tapley Takemori's translation of The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui with an excerpt. Check it out! An interview with Takemori appears on this blog here.
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Франс ПоурбюсСогласно нидерландско-русской практической транскрипции, более точным русским вариантом будет Паурбус. Младший (, МФА: ) (1569, Антверпен — 1622, Париж) — южнонидерландский (фламандский) художник.

Сын Франса Пурбуса Старшего, внук Петера Пурбуса. Наиболее известный представитель этой художественной династии.

Биография
Сын Франса Пурбуса Старшего, Франс Младший учился у него живописи. В 1591 г. был принят в гильдию св. Луки в Антверпене. В 1594 году в Брюсселе стал придворным художником испанских наместников Фландрии. В 1600 году переехал в Мантую по приглашению Винченцо Гонзага I. До 1609 года одновременно с Рубенсом работал в качестве главного портретиста герцогского двора. Выполнял заказы высоких персон, в частности императора Рудольфа II.

Затем Пурбус отправился через Брюссель в Италию, успел посетить Турин, Неаполь, Инсбрук, Рим и Париж, в Италии поступил в придворные живописцы герцога Мантуанского. Наконец, он добрался до Парижа, где самой смерти работал при дворе Генриха Наваррского.

Живопись

Уступая своему отцу в теплоте колорита и сочности кисти, он тем не менее высказал себя весьма искусным мастером, и тоже — в портретном жанре.

Наиболее удачные его произведения — «Тайная вечеря», «Св. Франциск, получающий стигматы Христовы», «Портрет Генриха IV», «Портрет Марии Медичи» (все — Лувр), «Мужской портрет» (галерея гр. Гарраха в Вене), «Портрет Генриха II» (Стаффорд-Хаус, Лондон), «Убитый Генрих IV на парадном смертном ложе» (Берлинский музей).

В Эрмитаже — три вырезки с портретами из одной большой исторической картины, когда-то украшавшей парижскую ратушу и уничтоженной во время французской революции.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Pourbus at Artcyclopedia
 Pourbus in Web Gallery of Art
 Поурбус в Эрмитаже
 Поурбус как придворный портретист.

Художники-портретисты Фландрии
Художники Фландрии


The extreme cold temperatures of this winter have some people wondering how to care for their outside and inside plants. Many are finding that Jack Frost is an unwelcome visitor, especially in locales that rarely see freezing temperatures.
Why the worry? Because frost can not only damage but kill plants. Ice crystals form in plant cells making water unavailable to plant tissues and the movement of fluids. You can identify frost damage if you see leaves that look water-soaked, have shriveled or appear dark brown or black.
Here are some tips on how to protect your plants from succumbing to harsh, cold temperatures.
* When the temperature drops outside it's good to take some extra care to keep your houseplants happy. If they live close to a window, make sure they're not touching the panes of glass which could freeze their leaves. Take a piece of cardboard and place it between your plant and the window.
* Avoid putting your houseplants on heater vents as this can quickly dry out the soil and harm the plants' roots. Place your plants near a sunny window grouping them together. Being in a 'crowd' helps them share the heat. Any ambient light from your indoor spaces is helpful, as well as grow lights which really crank up the heat and light.
* Cut down on watering by half until active growth resumes, and hold off on fertilizing during the cold months of winter.
* Indoor plants like a nice warm bath occasionally. Re-use your pasta water, letting it cool a bit to water your houseplants. Stagger the usual waterings with warm water to rejuvenate the plants roots.
* Provide a fresh cover up by replacing the top third of the potting soil with new potting soil.
* If the weather permits, open your doors and windows for a brief time to flush in some fresh air. This is good for you and your plants.
All outdoor plants have a specific tolerance for cold weather. You can easily check to see if any plants you have in your garden can be harmed by a slight or hard frost depending on the hardiness zone you live in.
Plants are most vulnerable at night when temperatures drop. Keep an eye out for a frost or freeze and protect your plants before the sun goes down. Remember to take coverings off during the day so the plants can get the full benefit of the sun.
* You've probably got the necessary 'tools' right in your home to protect your outdoor plants. Try newspaper, a spare bed sheet, wicker baskets or clothes hampers, buckets or any sturdy container. If using fabric, avoid any that are heavy and could weigh down branches or limbs.
* Make a tepee by using 3 pieces of wood stuck into the ground, twine the top to connect them and place a tarp around it to protect larger plants or shrubs from the cold.
* Short on time? Grab a porch chair or table, place it over the plant or plants and cover with a sturdy blanket. This creates a quick shelter to shield the plants from freezing temps.
* Cut off the top of a 2-liter soda bottle or an empty milk jug and place them over smaller plants.
* Apply a 2-3" layer of mulch to the base of your plants. Mulch is a great insulator and helps to keep heat and moisture around the root systems.
* Most garden centers and big boxes sell plant covers in various styles and price ranges.
Plants are resilient, so don't be overly concerned if you do see frost damage. Wait until the spring to see if new growth appears at the base of the plant and then begin pruning out damaged parts. With a little TLC now during our extreme weather, your houseplants and garden plants can weather the storm and come back strong in Spring. We'd love to hear other tips you may have for cold weather plant care.