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FHE: Missionary Work
Conference Talk:
"Go Ye Therefore,"
by Silvia H. Allred,
Ensign, Nov 2008, 10-12.
Thought:
We can all participate in missionary work. This is the Lord's work,
and He will help us do it.
(Silvia H. Allred, "Go Ye Therefore," Ensign, Nov 2008, 10-12.)
Song:
"Called to Serve,"
Children's Songbook, p. 174
Scripture:
Wherefore, you are called to cry repentance unto this people.
(Doctrine and Covenants 18:14)
Object Lesson:
Materials Needed:
A flashlight and a mirror.
Procedure: Briefly explain to the group that by using the mirror you can reflect the beam of light to various areas of the room.
Give a quick demonstration, select a target point in the room, then use the mirror to direct the beam to that place (practice before).
Tell the family that even the darkest area of the room can be reached. It may take time and thought and effort to get around obstacles and figure out whish angle to use, but all areas can be used.
Liken this to missionary work.
With Christ as our light source, we act as the mirror which reflects the love and truth he offers. We can reflect this to all of our Heavenly Father's children.
There are so many who have lived in darkness all their lives. To us they may appear unapproachable, impossible to reach. Yet we learn from this lesson that they too can receive the light. It may take time and effort as we search for ways to reach them, but with diligence and faith we can be successful.
Story:
During the Second World War, most young men in the Church were being drafted into military service, and few were left to serve missions.
Thus Phileon B. Robinson of Boise, Idaho, was surprised to receive a mission call from his bishop in 1943.
He had five children.
Two of them were married, but one daughter's husband was in Europe "at the head of the battle," and the daughter and her baby were living with the Robinsons. Another daughter was attending Brigham Young University,
and Phil, Jr., was getting ready to leave for the war himself. Added to this, Brother Robinson's wife, Dorothy, had been suffering with health problems.
Brother Robinson accepted the call, but a number of friends told him: "Phil, I wouldn't go. The Church can get along without you. Stay home where you belong and take care of your family."
Brother Robinson wondered. He asked the stake patriarch and another friend to come to his home and pray with him. After their prayers, M. J. Benson, the patriarch, said, "Phil, you go on your mission, just as you have promised to do, and when you return after two years, all will be well with your family."
And so Phil Robinson kept his word. He and his son left on the same train, one to fight a war, the other to teach peace. Because of the shortage of missionaries, Elder Robinson was asked to labor alone for a time in the city of Oxnard [California]. News from home was that Dorothy was still not well, and the family was pressed for money. Meanwhile, he found that few wanted to listen to his message. When he tried to teach the principles of the gospel, many asked him, "Why don't you go home to your family, or go to work and help win the war?"
Elder Robinson became so discouraged that he thought of taking a job. He could work eight hours a day and provide for his family, and he could do missionary work in the evenings and on his days off. It seemed a reasonable solution to his problems, and yet he knew it wasn't what he was called to do. And so he turned to the Lord. He prayed longer and harder than usual. When he got into bed, he felt a powerful presence in the room which spread through his body. A deep understanding came to him regarding the truth of the gospel principles - and how simple they were to explain. It was the most glorious and peaceful feeling he had ever experienced, and it changed his mission and his life.
Elder Robinson's work went much better after that experience, and he had many fine experiences. He felt very blessed, at one point in his mission, to be given a somewhat damaged tent that he could live in - with some donated furniture. This provided adequate housing and saved him money.
In 1944 Elder Robinson was transferred to the desert country not far from Death Valley. While laboring in Tehachapi, he was asked by his mission president to move on to Inyokern as soon as he could find a suitable place to live there. And so one rainy day he hitchhiked to Inyokern. He had no success in his search for a room, so he traveled on to Ridgecrest, about ten miles away. Here, too, he found nothing.
Elder Robinson had spent a long day sloshing through the rain, and he wondered why he had felt inspired that morning to make the trip. But he was walking down a road when a car pulled up. The driver, a woman he didn't know, asked him whether he needed a ride, as people often did in those days. Elder Robinson was happy for the ride. When Elder Robinson told the woman that he was an elder of the Church, she replied: "You are? Isn't that wonderful?"
Elder Robinson laughed and said, "I don't see anything wonderful about walking in all this rain and mud."
But the woman explained what she had meant. She said that her neighbor was a Latter-day Saint woman, and was very sick. That morning she had said that she wished she knew where she could find some Mormon elders. The woman driving the car thought it an odd coincidence that she would decide to drive to Ridgecrest to see a friend, find the friend not home, and then spot Elder Robinson walking down the road. Elder Robinson, of course, took the opportunity to explain the power of healing and other principles of the gospel.
The woman took Elder Robinson to the home of the member, a Sister Maughan. There, Elder Robinson knocked on the door and then called out, "The Lord has sent me here to give you a blessing." Sister Maughan was joyous to let him in. She was pregnant and was in danger of miscarrying. She had been pregnant three times previously and had lost all three babies.
Elder Robinson blessed her, promising her she would carry the baby to full term and that the baby would be strong and healthy. He kept track of her in the coming months and learned that the promise was fulfilled. But even that night, as he found his way home, he already knew that the Lord had led him to Sister Maughan and would keep His promises to her.
Elder Robinson completed a successful mission and saw a number of people enter the Church. And his many faith-promoting experiences convinced him that he had done the right thing. When he returned home, another promise had been fulfilled. His family was doing better than ever. His wife's health had been restored, and all his children were prospering. Years later he would record that his children were all married in the temple and were well educated, and his grandchildren were now filling missions of their own. One of his sons served as a mission president. His example in serving a mission, when it was anything but convenient to do so, had established a family pattern that would continue in coming generations.
Activity
Have each member of the family write a letter to a family or ward member serving a mission.
You can't explain that.
So my camera's still dead, but The Youngest is letting me borrow his until I can decide on a replacement. I'd like a D300s, but it looks like it's about to be replaced by the D400 in mid to late August? So there's that. Although the D7000 might still be in the running.
Who Must Fast?
Fasting is compulsory for those who are mentally and physically fit,
past the age of puberty, in a settledsituation (not traveling), and
are sure fasting is unlikely to cause real physical or mental injury.
Exemptions from Fasting(some exemptions are optional)
*. Children under the age ofpuberty (Young children are encouraged to
fast asmuch as they are able.)
*. People who are mentallyincapacitated or not responsible for their actions
*. The elderly
*. The sick
*. Travelers who are on journeys of more than about fifty miles
*. Pregnant women and nursing mothers
*. Women who are menstruating
*. Those who are temporarily unable to fast must make up the missed
days at another time or feed the poor.
Special Events
*. Special prayers, called taraweeh, are performedafter the daily
nighttime prayer.
*. Lailat ul-Qadr ("Night of Power" or "Night of Destiny") marks the
anniversary of the night on which the Prophet Muhammad first began
receiving revelations from God, through the angel Gabriel. Muslims
believe Lailat ul-Qadr is one of the last odd-numbered nights of
Ramadhan.
Traditional Practices
*. Breaking the daily fast with a drink of water and dates
*. Reading the entire Quranduring Ramadhan
*. Social visits are encouraged.
Eid ul-Fitr ("Festival of Fast-Breaking") Prayers at the End of Ramadhan
*. Eid begins with special morning prayers on the first day of
Shawwal, the month following Ramadhan on the Islamiclunar calendar.
*. It is forbidden to performan optional fast during Eid because it is
a time for relaxation.
*. During Eid Muslims greet each other with the phrase "taqabbalallah
ta'atakum," or "may God accept your deeds" and"Eid Mubarak"
(eed-moo-bar-ak), meaning"blessed Eid."
Ramadhan Questionsand Answers
Q: How did the fast during Ramadhan become obligatory for Muslims?
The revelations from God to the Prophet Muhammadthat would eventually
be compiled as the Quran began during Ramadhan in the year 610, but
the fast of Ramadhan did not become a religious obligation for Muslims
until the year 624. The obligation to fast is explained in the second
chapter of the Quran: "O yewho believe! Fasting is prescribed to you
as it wasprescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn)
self-restraint...Ramadhan isthe (month) in which was sent down the
Quran, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and
judgment (between right and wrong). So everyone of you who is present
(at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting..."
(Chapter 2, verses183 and 185)
Q: What do Muslims believe they gain from fasting?
One of the main benefits of Ramadhan are an increased compassion for
those in need of the necessities of life, a sense of self-purification
and reflection and a renewed focus on spirituality. Muslims also
appreciate the feeling of togethernessshared by family and friends
throughout the month. Perhaps the greatest practical benefit isthe
yearly lesson in self-restraint and disciplinethat can carry forward
to other aspects of a Muslim'slife such as work and education.
Q: Why does Ramadhan begin on a different day each year?
Because Ramadhan is a lunar month, it begins about eleven days earlier
each year. Throughout a Muslim's lifetime, Ramadhan will fall both
during winter months, when the days are short, and summer months, when
the days are long and the fast is more difficult. In this way, the
difficulty of the fast is evenly distributed between Muslims living in
the northern and southernhemispheres.
Q: What is Lailat ul-Qadr?
Lailat ul-Qadr ("Night of Power") marks the anniversary of the night
on which the Prophet Muhammad first began receiving revelations from
God, through the angel Gabriel. An entire chapter in the Quran deals
with this night: "We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night
of Power: and what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down
the angels and the Spirit by God's permission, on everyerrand.
Peace!...This until the rise of morn." (Chapter 97) Muslims believe
Lailat ul-Qadr is one of the last odd-numbered nights of Ramadhan.
Q: Is it difficult to perform the fast in America?
In many ways, fasting in American society is easier than fasting in
areas where the climate is extremely hot. This year atleast, the
number of daylight hours will be less than when Ramadhan occurs during
the spring orsummer. In Muslim countries, most people are observing
the fast, so there are fewer temptations such as luncheon meetings,
daytime celebrations and offers of food from friends.....
Sang Angklung Udjo 03/03/2011 16h25
Now it was our turn to play the angklung. Our master explained how to play it and the audience was one big angklung orchestra.
Saung Angkoung Udjo
Saung Angklung Udjo (SAU) is one–stop cultural workshop, consists of : performance venue, bamboo handicraft centre, and bamboo instrument workshop. Apart from that, SAU has an honorable function as an educational laboratory and training centre to preserve the Sundanese culture – Angklung in particular.
Established in 1966 by Udjo Ngalagena and his beloved wife Uum Sumiati, with a strong purpose and dedication to conserve and preserve Sundanese traditional art and culture.
SAU illustrates nature and culture in harmony, its no wonder SAU becomes a noticeable destination where people could experience Sundanese culture as a part of world heritage.
Located in eastern Bandung, SAU is a perfect tranquility for enjoying fresh–breeze–air and beautiful bamboo domination, from the bamboo crafts and interiors to the sound of musical instruments.
More information:
Mia explains why it is so much fun to be in Ms. Cephus' class. "She is always funny, but you learn a lot!"
At the AIC, there were young students giving lessons on some of their favorite paintings. They were doing a great job and even fielding questions from their classmates.
Decorator crab climbing a soft coral. I used some notes to point out the eye, a claw and a leg of the crab so that you can visually parse it. Plenty of these curious animals in Nelson Bay.
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John explains citadel model that the prison now rests upon. The building was taken down to the top of the dry moat, and the Bureau of Prisons built the main cell block building on top.
PHILIPPINE SEA (June 23, 2016) Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Joshua Emmons, right, explains to Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Andre Clarke, left, how to communicate to Central Control Station (CCS) during engineering drill scenarios inside an auxiliary engine room aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54). Curtis Wilbur is on patrol with Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG 5) in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ellen Hilkowski/Released)
cologne - 25.01.2013
I cannot really explain what had driven me to play around with masking, filters and blurring. Maybe I saw an example somewhere. Maybe I remembered a dialog with a friend a few days ago, about my only Tilt-Shift picture I ever made of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. Whatever, today I went to the LVR Tower after work, bought a ticket for the lift, closed my jacket and went up the platform. I can tell you, it was fucking cold up there! Everybody in Cologne knows about the political issue regarding the LVR Tower and the cathedral. You must know that Cologne is very Catholic, and when they planed the tower, they had a conflict with the church, but also with UNESCO about the status of the cathedral as a world cultural heritage. I think that’s the reason why Cologne looks like a giant village, even after 2000 years. Thanks my dear cathedral!
Venice...floods about 100 times a year, beginning in October and running through late winter. I'm attaching an excellent article from Rick Steves's website that explains this, and also adding my personal observations and discussions with locals.
First, Steves's article, "Is Venice Sinking?":
www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/is-ven...
I spend three days and four nights in Venice in December 2019 (whence come these pictures). On two of the three days, high tide made it challenging to get around.
For those of you who have been to Venice, you know the main part of the city ("downtown," if you can call it that) is made up of 118 islands connected by over 400 (416, I think?) bridges and bisected by the Grand Canal. It's a maze. Even with Google maps, it's literally a maze, because not every bridge takes you easily from one island to another. Some are dead ends, etc. This is when it's dry.
Now, add the extra layer of rising tides that cut off even more avenues of the maze and it's an absolute headache getting around.
All of these pictures were taken as I tried (and failed) to walk across the island from Piazza San Marco on the south to the northern end of the island -- Cannaregio -- where my apartment was.
In dry conditions, this is about a 30 minute walk if you're good at navigating the maze. On this afternoon, I made it about 80% of the way back with no viable routes to walk the last 5 (well, certainly less than 10) minutes. My choices were either wait until the tide rolled out (1-2 hours) or pay a water taxi to take me. I couldn't wait and ended up paying an exorbitant fee of 60 euros to a taxi (from the train station) to take me on what would have been a 20 minute walk from there. Ouch.
Once I got back, I asked my friend Alexia whether this is normal, if it's global warming, bad luck, or what?
I was curious about whether it was normal as most of the Venetians seem prepared for this. Many had on knee high or thigh high rubber/plastic boats and slowly made their way through.
She told me that it's very normal in November, but not so much in December. It's not that the tides aren't normal (they happen every day, of course). It's the height of them.
Last month, in November 2019, I recall reading an article about Venice flooding with pictures that surprised me. On the day in question, the tide rose to 187 cm. (For those in the west, that's only 2 inches shorter than NBA star Steph Curry or, for those who know me...it's my exact height.) I'm not exactly short, by comparison, so that's a pretty tall change for a few hours.
In the pictures you see here, the tide was 120 cm./4 feet. That's certainly enough to flood the island.
Venice's quick solution to this is to throw up elevated wooden platforms as temporary sidewalks. In the main areas -- St. Mark's Square, specifically -- think of all the tourists you would normally have bottlenecked and you can imagine the slight headache of free motion. Before the tides (when it's dry), you see these supports and wooden slats stacked up and may wonder what they're purpose is. Tides more than answer that.
The following day, the city flooded again. As I was walking from my apartment to the southern end of the island to go to a museum, I got to the Grand Canal near Rialto Bridge and found myself at an impassable point...that was right in front of a gondola service. (I think I could have backtracked and made it, but no guarantee.)
I hadn't actually been on a gondola before and -- they're expensive, by the way...especially for a solo traveler (80 euro for about 30 minutes) -- decided to take one because it's Venice and if you're ever going to ride a gondola, it should be here.
The gondolier took me from just south of the Rialto Bridge up the Grand Canal just past the Rialto Market, and back. All in all, not very far (and I didn't check time, but I doubt it was 30 minutes).
However, we got to talking. I asked how the flooding impacts tourism and business and he says there are far fewer tourists now who are simply scared of floods. (The attached Rick Steves article points out why you may not need to worry much.)
The gondolier said that the tide on Sunday reached 125 cm (4'2"), though it didn't seem nearly as high as the previous day. I did actually walk across half the island reasonably easily, so I was thinking he's probably toning down the reality a little because it affects his livelihood. However...just a little. The things he said that I believe are that, "When the tide reaches 140 cm., this is a bit too much for the city to handle."
He also told me some facts about the city that have nothing to do with the flooding, yet I found interesting: There are 50,000 residents on the main islands and an apartment/house of 90 square meters (900 square feet) runs about 400,000 euros. So if you're in the market to move to Venice for the joy of wading through water, that's the cost of it.
After the gondola ride, I ended up hopping on a vaporetto (city bus, but on the water). They run up and down the Grand Canal. (You can see a "stop" in some of my Snapshots of Venice pictures; it's a little enclosed building with yellow trim around the top of it.)
Normally, vaporettos run 7.50 euro for a ticket valid for 75 minutes. They come by every 15 minutes or so. However, I never saw where to buy tickets so ended up taking a handful of vaporetto rides for free. I think three in total.
This particular one took me from next to the gondola service down to Accademia. The Gallerie dell'Accademia is there (lots of Tintoretto, Titian, Tiepolo, Bosch), directly in front of the Ponte dell'Accademia. For my purposes, the Guggenheim Collection is also here, but about a five minute walk on dry land to get there.
However, it was isolated by the tides and I ended up taking off shoes and socks, rolling up my pants, and wading through some bitingly cold (but not dangerously so) water to get there. All told, it was probably about 100 yards at most in water that was just over ankle deep. But, you still have to walk it slowly. Afterwards, I think it took my feet about 10 minutes to regain normal warmth/sensation. (Fortunately, after an hour in the museum -- which was nice, but not as nice as I had hoped -- the tide had receded enough that I didn't have to wade out. The sidewalk was still completely underwater, but only an inch or two by this point, which you can walk through. You tend to see locals walking through water like this balancing on their heels and keeping their toes in the air.
Am I personally satisfied that Venice isn't sinking? No. The Steves article does mention Italy's long-term solution to this, but I don't buy it. I don't know what the future holds, though, and won't be around to see the worst effects of it, I feel. I can say that the city's future is tenuous at the moment, but the present...is fine, if sometimes slightly inconvenient.
I did this diagram in 2002 to get my head around all the players and politics in the interactive television business.
Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. Shot with a Canon F1 with Canon FD 50mm 1.2L lens, on Kodak Trix 400 at f1.2 1/60. Developed with D76 and scanned using a Minolta Dimage Multi II.
Lisa Mangcu (Deputy Minister of Transport, South Africa) at the Closing Plenary "Transport enhancing economic growth: Local and regional perspectives". The Plenary closes out the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 26 May 2023.
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung SMART CAMERA NX20, which has been provided by Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd.
"...the highest enjoyment of timelessness... is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It's like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with the sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern..."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist and Lepidopterist
Yesterday we celebrated our anniversary by spending the day in the mountain meadows of the Alberta Rockies. It's one of our favourite things to do in the summer. We whiled away the hours chasing butterflies, enjoying the wildflowers, lying on our backs watching big white fluffy clouds go by, breathing in the delicious scented mountain air and quietly listening to the hypnotic harmonic hum of bees and the sound of the wild grasses swishing gently in the breeze.
As always, at this time of year, tons of bees and butterflies were happily buzzing and fluttering everywhere in the meadows, alighting on all the wildflowers. Mountain meadows are the best place to see butterflies: it was chock full of skippers, coppers, and gorgeous little blues, all of which were simply too fast for me to track. The fritillaries, checkerspots and swallowtails stay on flowers a bit longer, so they are my best bets for photographing. It was sunny and hot and there was a nice breeze blowing, which cooled us wonderfully but made it a bit difficult to photograph flowers and butterflies. But, as always, if I just keep clicking the shutter, I somehow manage to capture something in focus.
We ended the day sitting beside a cool burbling mountain stream in the dappled shade of aspen, birch and pines, where we devoured a delicious picnic I'd packed for us. It was an utterly perfect day.
Happy Anniversary, my Love! :)
"Someone's got some 'spainin' to do!!"
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A patrolman explains discusses traffic protocols during an educational fair at the Brentwood Mall in the 1960s. Formed in 1958, the Department of Highways Traffic Patrol was responsible for traffic control on five major lower mainland bridges – First Narrows (Lions Gate), Second Narrows (Ironworkers Memorial), Oak Street Bridge, George Massey Tunnel, Port Mann Bridge and all their approaches.
During the 1950s, British Columbia was undergoing an incredible post war boom. New highways infrastructure projects (bridges and freeways) were being built at a rapid pace, automobiles were everywhere, and cell phones and the internet were light years away. Motorists often needed help at the roadside and the Department of Highways Traffic Patrol was there to help.
Learn more about the patrol: www.tranbc.ca/2019/05/16/a-brief-history-of-the-bc-highwa...
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Kathy Dalwood's wonderful "Ballroom Banquet" at the Holburne Museum in Bath.
for the artist's own take on the show see her blog here:
The Petersons like to leave little notes explaining things on the trail to their cabin. At this location, the note says "Winter droppings from moose".
Rolf and Candy (Carolyn) Peterson have been conducting studies of wolf and moose interaction in conjunction with Michigan Technological University at Isle Royale for more than 40 years, spending thier summers in the Bangsund log cabin that was built starting in 1926. They also raised their sons on the island.
Each spring, about 60 volunteers scour the island to find moose skeletons from the winter. By studying the bones, Rolf Peterson can determine what diseases are in the Isle Royale moose herd. Generally, the wolves only take out the older moose population.
To learn more about thier work, visit www.isleroyalewolf.org
1915 postmarked postcard view of the Whitewater River and New Trenton, Indiana. This scene was looking south-southeast from the west side of the river. This was after the cleanup from the Great Flood of 1913. The railroad was the C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis), commonly known as the Big Four. It followed the Whitewater River southeast from the county seat at Brookville toward Cincinnati. The depot in this scene was constructed after the previous depot had been washed away by the flood. The following account explains the event.
“Near the railroad station at New Trenton was an old covered bridge which had seen service for many years. At the end of the bridge was an elevator, coal yard, lumber yard and saloon belonging to Mr. Brown. In previous floods the water had reached the floors in some of these buildings. During the flood of 1913 the bridge, station, and entire business of Mr. Brown were swept away almost instantly. It was stated by an eyewitness that at one moment everything was in place and in two minutes not a stick was left. Not only were the buildings swept away but the ground on which they had stood had disappeared after the flood receded.”¹
Postcard views from the years preceding the flood show buildings as well as log and lumber piles between the railroad and the river. One postcard shows “L. J. Brown’s Place” next to the railroad crossing on the road leading to the bridge. Another account of the flood mentioned L. J. Brown’s dance pavilion. Other postcards from 1913 show all of that having disappeared along with the depot and the covered bridge during the flood.
The only building left standing in that area was the house to the left of the new depot in this postcard scene. A close-up view of that house was used on a postcard titled “Brown’s, New Trenton, Ind.” That postcard shows a large addition on the back that wasn’t there in 1913 photographs. A copy of that postcard was mailed in 1914 and the message referred to Brown’s Saloon and Dance Hall. That postcard and its message suggest that L. J. Brown relocated his lost saloon and dance hall to this remodeled house following the flood. The house at that location today closely resembles the house in this postcard scene.
The road entering this scene from the left ended at the river. Prior to the flood, it had connected the town to the west side of the river via the old covered bridge. One of the postcards showing the immediate aftermath of the 1913 flood indicates the stone abutment on the east side of the river was destroyed by the flood. The pier in the middle of the river survived, but had been removed by the time this postcard was produced. The iron bridge that replaced the destroyed covered bridge wasn’t built until 1916 according to the Bridgehunter.com website.
In the background, most of the buildings in New Trenton were houses and outbuildings. An exception was the white bell tower in the center of this scene, directly above the railroad crossing. It was probably part of a church or maybe a school.
Elsewhere, A small concrete bridge was visible on the road very near the saloon. That bridge crossed Whistle Creek. A horse-drawn buggy was parked in the shade near the railroad crossing. At the depot, several milk cans lined the fence near the north end of the platform and an empty baggage cart stood at the south end. Freight was stacked against the front wall of the depot. A few large pieces of concrete and/or stone still littered the riverbank adjacent to the spot where Mr. Brown’s businesses had been located.
New Trenton wasn’t the only community along the Whitewater River to lose its depot during the 1913 flood. The Cedar Grove and Brookville depots on the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad system were also destroyed according to the railroad company's annual report for that year.²
1. William N. Logan et al, Handbook of Indiana Geology (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1922), page 313. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=y8sUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Railway Age Gazette, Volume 56 (New York, NY: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1914), page 968. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kJQlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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Alternative Names:
English (Rob 6): Purple Heron
English (Rob 7): Purple Heron
German: Purpurreiher
French: Héron pourpré
Indigenous: Ucofuza(X),Undofu(X),Gomugeha(K),Kokolofitoe(SS),Rikolwa(Ts),Kôkôlôhutwê(Tw),
Scientific Explained:
ardea: Latin, a heron.
purpurea/purpureus: Latin, purple.
Measurements: Length about 89 cm; wing (13 male) 357-371-383, (9 female) 337-355-372; tail (13 male) 118-125-136, (8 female) 112-119-127; tarsus (13 male) 113-122-131, (8 female) 112-118-125; culmen (13 male) 120-126-131. Weight (17) 525-920,2-1218 g.
Bare Parts: Iris yellow; bill buffy brown above with yellow base, buffy horn below with yellow tip; legs and feet dark brown with yellow behind tarsus and on soles of feet.
Identification: Medium-sized, slender build; bill very slim; above brownish grey with black crown and rufous neck, striped black at sides; below rufous and black; legs and bill look yellowish in the field; in flight neck has distinct downward bulge. Immature: Browner than adult, mottled and streaked; crown rufous; stripes on neck faint or absent.
Voice: Harsh kwaak or kreek on take-off; various other guttural croaks, clacks and whoops.
Distribution: Africa, Madagascar, Eurasia; most of s Africa, except dry west; vagrant to Windhoek and Hardap Dam.
Status: Mostly uncommon; may be common locally; resident.
Habitat: Inland and estuarine waters with dense reedbeds and other aquatic vegetation.
Habits: Solitary feeder, wading or standing in marshy places, often with bill and neck held horizontally. Shy and seldom seen until it takes off, usually with squawk. In flight legs look very long; about 114 wingbeats/minute. When alarmed may adopt upright "bittern posture" with bill pointing vertically and neck stripes giving excellent camouflage in reeds. Feeds by day or night. Roosts communally in reedbeds.
Food: Mostly fish; also frogs, small reptiles, birds (weavers, ducklings) and small mammals.
Breeding: Season: August to March in Transvaal (peak December), August to April in Zimbabwe; mainly spring and summer months in s Africa. Nest: Loosely made platform (about 35 cm diameter, 18 cm thick) of reeds and rushes on base of stems pulled down from surrounding vegetation; sometimes in small bush, mangrove or other tree up to 4 m above water; solitary or in small colonies, sometimes in mixed heronries. Clutch: (192) 2-2,3-5 eggs. Eggs: Pointed ovals, pale blue or greenish blue; measure (171) 55,8 x 40,1 (49,7-67,5 x 37-45); weigh (35) 39-47,4-59 g. Incubation: (31) 25-25,7-27 days by both sexes, starting with first egg. Nestling: About 24 days; flies at 30-35 days; fed by both parents.
Ref. Tomlinson, D.N.S. 1974. Ostrich 45:175-181; 209-223; 1975. Ostrich 46:157-165.
Back in 2005, I found a great description of IA in an article by Peter Kantor. As far as I'm concerned, the 2 quotes together are the best description of IA I know.
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I may need to explain this shot, and why the exif data is the way it is. 1/125 f/1.8 100 ISO 50mm. This was shot at 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun was still pretty high in the sky, and I live in Colorado, it was really bright outside.However, I found enough shade from the tree that we are under (go in the shade so there are no shadows) for me to set up an extra speed light on the right hand side with a shoot through umbrella creating a nice soft light, and more importantly using a wide aperture. How did I maintain a 1/125 shutter speed and a 1.8/f???? without a $3,000.00 camera body and a high speed sync flash in the middle of the day?
Here we go into the nuts and bolts of this shot. $30.00 and you can buy a .9 ND filter. .9 = 9 stops, just to be honest I have no idea what a techy smecky stop means, except it makes everything really dark, kinda like a pair of sunglasses. I have a 50mm 1.8/f prime on my camera because I like blurry backgrounds.Here is my take on what a stop is. To shoot in the afternoon and get a perfect exposure with your aperture wide open you have to have an extremely fast shutter speed IE 1/2500, but with my camera, I don't have a high speed sync flash! Shoot! Now,I move to a shady spot, it probably brought me down another couple stops, IE 1/1000 with my aperture wide open at 1.8. Still, not a slow enough shutter speed because my camera's max is 1/200.
Hmmm1 I lower the ISO to 100, and that makes it dark, I have a fast shutter speed so it doesn't let in too much light, but I really hate this harsh sunlight! AHHHH! And me, seeing as my style is like this. I like a bright subject and a darker blurry background.... So, I ran into a problem, a problem that I think many people have, but just don't know the simple fix. Sunglasses, and dark ones. So I put my 9 stop ND filter on. Hehehe...Now, I can drop my shutter speed down to 1/60 for a perfect matrix exposure! Haha! I got it now! But, perfect is too bright for me! So, I raise the shutter speed up to 1/125 to let less light in. Now, the whole image is too dark! Perfect! Now it is time to use my flash to brighten up the subject with soft light that I control... On my controller flash I raise the EV compensation of the speed light just camera right up one stop. Now, we can see that the entire photo is dark, but the accent is on the baby!
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