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For various practical reasons I decided to switch from using DSLR cameras to using small and lighter mirrorless equipment and I decided that I would go down the Sony Alpha route. In order to switch from Canon and at the same time avoid writing off a very large investment in Canon lenses I needed to purchase an adaptor which would allow me to mount my excellent Canon lenses on a Sony E-Mount body so I purchased a Metabones adaptor.
Unfortunately the combination did not work out as well as I had hoped. The main issue is that I have to focus manually and this has proved to be much more difficult than I had expected. The secondary issue is that my Canon lenses are big and heavy and this does somewhat defeat my ongoing plan to reduce the size and weight of my equipment.
Yesterday Sony announced the Sony A7R MkII and according to various reports this body does address some of the issues that have bothered me but the price of the body will be greater than €3000.
After a long day nursing or teaching unruly children, the last thing a middle class lady wants is to bind herself down in layers of frills. This dress was designed to be practical in every sense, including the lack of many of the unnecessary frills that hinder the wealthier ladies. With this dress, the Victorian lady can play croquet and other genteel and healthful games, while protecting one's modest image.
Practical Nursing students participated in the PN Pinning Ceremony on Wednesday, July 19, in the Crist Student Center at the Main Campus in Galesburg. The annual event for recent graduates is a celebration of the culmination of their efforts from their time in the program and includes the opportunity for family members and loved ones to participate in the ceremony.
"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not
necessarilly a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!"
Movie Quote~
© Elizabeth Ralph
Thursday 20 August 2009
Practical Truths includes the work of Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Jenna Collins, G. Leddington, Olivia Plender and Ben Rivers whose work is represented in film, sculpture and photography. The show explores issues around methods of documentation that attempt to grasp the dichotomy of the individual and the universal revealing various truths about human culture. The works in Practical Truths often use narratives that focus on individuals or communities that sit uncomfortably with the demands of conventional living and thereby convey a timeless sentiment that is neither defined within the present-day nor within a specific historic decade.
1st Winter course practical held at Temple Newsam apiary hosted by Leeds Beekeepers Association . first session was 2 short chats about beekeeping and the course, split up by a practical hands on input in the apiary, this lasted a couple of hours. A great evening
Continuing this week's theme of magazine covers.
This is stuff that I sell on eBay. I think that book and magazine covers have some interest and there are a number of Flickr groups for them.
Canon Canoscan LiDE 25, a really basic USB-powered scanner.
Practical Nursing students participated in the PN Pinning Ceremony on Wednesday, July 19, in the Crist Student Center at the Main Campus in Galesburg. The annual event for recent graduates is a celebration of the culmination of their efforts from their time in the program and includes the opportunity for family members and loved ones to participate in the ceremony.
© Elizabeth Ralph
Thursday 20 August 2009
Practical Truths includes the work of Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Jenna Collins, G. Leddington, Olivia Plender and Ben Rivers whose work is represented in film, sculpture and photography. The show explores issues around methods of documentation that attempt to grasp the dichotomy of the individual and the universal revealing various truths about human culture. The works in Practical Truths often use narratives that focus on individuals or communities that sit uncomfortably with the demands of conventional living and thereby convey a timeless sentiment that is neither defined within the present-day nor within a specific historic decade.
1st Winter course practical held at Temple Newsam apiary hosted by Leeds Beekeepers Association . first session was 2 short chats about beekeeping and the course, split up by a practical hands on input in the apiary, this lasted a couple of hours. A great evening
With Revvin' Kevin Schwantz - Star letter in Practical Sports bikes - that's a years free subscription too - fantastic prize - cheers to Mark Graham editor of the mag for selecting me for this.
Riley made this deceptively simple circuit; flick the switch and annoying beeping begins, but flip it back and it doesn't stop! It can only be disabled and reset by disconnecting a battery lead. Very clever!
Go to Page 134 in the Internet Archive
Title: A Practical treatise on sexual disorders of the male and female
Creator: Taylor, Robert W. (Robert William), 1842-1908
Publisher: New York ; Philadelphia : Lea Brothers
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons
Contributor: Columbia University Libraries
Date: 1900
Language: eng
Description: Spine title: Sexual disorders of the male and female
Catalogue of books published by Lea Brothers & Co. bound at end of volume
If you have questions concerning reproductions, please contact the Contributing Library.
Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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"Created in 1766, by the Central School of the Department of the Channel for its practical courses, it was in 1799, that the first plantations make of this space a garden. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the camellias, rose bush, hydrangea, magnolias and La Malmaison were introduced into the garden. The first rhododendrons were imported from the island of Java. The garden becomes the place of inspiration for writers as talented as Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo or Paul Féval. It was at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century that it became a veritable garden of plants: plantations of shrubs, lawns and flower beds. Later, in May 1944, the site was classified. Today, the garden of plants of Avranches is a true invitation to the discovery of the botanical heritage with its superb masses in mosaiculture, and its remarkable trees, among which a Giant Sequoia, a Cephalotaxus of Ireland, a tree "despair of the monkeys ", a ginko biloba or a cedar of the Himalayas. The visitor will also be able to discover one of the great treasures of this garden: a unique and enchanting view on the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel."
www.normandie-tourisme.fr/pcu/jardin-des-plantes/avranche...
"Avranches is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. The inhabitants are called Avranchinais.
By the end of the Roman period, the settlement of Ingena, capital of the Abrincatui tribe, had taken the name of the tribe itself. This was the origin of the name Avranches. In 511 the town became the seat of a bishopric and subsequently of a major Romanesque cathedral dedicated to Saint Andrew which was dismantled during the French revolutionary period. As the region of Brittany emerged from the Roman region of Armorica, Avranchin was briefly held by Alan I, King of Brittany as part of the Kingdom of Brittany at the turn of the 10th century. The regions that later became the Duchies of Normandy and Brittany each experienced devastating Viking raids, with Brittany occupied by Vikings from 907 to 937. In 933 Avranches and its territory, the Avranchin, were ceded to the Normans.
In 1172 (September 27–28) a council was held at Avranches in response to the murder of Anglo-Norman Saint Thomas Becket. Henry II, King of England, after due penance done at Avranches on 21 May 1172, was absolved from the censures incurred by the assassination of the holy prelate and reached the Compromise of Avranches with the Church, swearing fidelity to Pope Alexander III in the person of the papal legate.
The town was damaged in both the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of Religion .Álvaro Vaz de Almada was made 1st Count of Avranches by King Henry VI of England on August 8, 1444.
A literal description of the town in the 19th century is recorded in Guy de Maupassant's novel Notre Cœur, when the main character Mariolle meets his lover and sets up for Mont Saint-Michel:
The houses crowning the heights gave to the place from a distance the appearance of a fortification. Seen close at hand, it was an ancient and pretty Norman city, with small dwellings of regular and almost similar appearance built closely adjoining one another, giving an aspect of ancient pride and modern comfort, a feudal yet peasant-like air.
The liberation of Avranches during World War II was led by General George S. Patton and began on 31 July 1944.
A museum houses the collection of manuscripts of Mont Saint-Michel, deposited in the municipal archives during the French Revolution. It is one of the largest collections of medieval illuminated manuscripts in France, outside national and university libraries.
Formerly dominated by the cathedral, where Henry II did penance, an open grassed area La Plate-Forme overlooking the bay towards Mont Saint-Michel displays only a few remnants of the destroyed building.
The major church Notre Dame des Champs was constructed in Gothic Revival style in the 19th century to restore the religious life of the town after the destruction of the cathedral.
The botanical gardens were founded in the grounds of the former Franciscan convent in the late 18th century. The expansion and introduction of exotic species in the 19th century and the location of the gardens overlooking the bay made the gardens an important sight in the town."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avranches
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