About to be unveiled and assembled. I use Blue Styrofoam under all of my raised beds and planters. The garden bags are filled with Bokashi soil. — in Toronto, Ontario.

What I pronounce my Ms and my Ps it looks like this because of my sever overbite, I cannot close my lips this is also my resting position I have to use my top teeth and my lower lips to create certain sounds. Sever Speech Impedimnent.

Text from the plaque on site:

"JAMI MASJID

This magnificent Jami Mosque occupied the central position in the geogrpahical layout and social life of the newly-built capital city of Ahmadabad. It was erected by Sultan Ahmad Shah-1 (AD 1411-1441) in 1424. The mosque has been considered by some scholars as one of the most beautiful in the east and by others as on of the most imposing structures of its class in the world.

Built on usual mosque plan with extensive courtyard, it has a spacious prayer hall partly of the closed and partly of the pillared hall variety on the west and enclosed by pillared corridors on the other three sides having entrance porticoes on eastern, northern and southern sides.

The prayer hall is roofed by fifteen principal domes with some three hundred tall slender and graceful stone pillars. The facade of the prayer hall is remarkable for its rhythmical elevation, graceful curves of the archways and richly carved and paneled two buttresses on each side of the central archway now devoid of lofty minarets which collapsed in 1819.

The mosque also provides a perfect arrangement of admitting light into the prayer hall by raising the central compartment to three stories with galleries enclosed by panels of beautiful stone grills - a device invariable copied in the subsequent mosques of western India.

The prayer hall is also notable for its colored marble used in designing the beautiful mihrabs with elegant floral medallions and corbelled ceilings."

Strobist Assignment

I spaced out on this one and forgot to adjust my aperture. This explains why I had to dial the SB-600 down to 1/128. (I probably should have been at 1/8 power with a small aperture.) I had already put everything away by the time I realized why I'd had to turn it so far down. Oh well, it still worked and I got the expected dark background.

SB-600 at 1/128 power about 2' away, f/4.5. Dark background.

One of a pair built between 1814 and 1918 this regular hexagon pillbox was constructed from poured concrete, creating bulletproof wall 12-15in thick, using timber shuttering. All six sides are approximately 7ft in length externally, one side has a low entrance with double steel doors, the other five sides have loopholes, both at high and low level (possibly with steel shutters). They were usually built in pairs to defend an important or vulnerable position. there are only five remaining examples, three of which are in Norfolk, these two positioned just outside Great Yarmouth, on the expected route (now the A47 Acle Straight) an invading army would take, and the third one at the river crossing in St Olaves (www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/E905E1wy5c)

Previous visit from 31/12/2010 – www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/eb6f5065s2

At the start of World War One in 1914, there were no effective defences at all in Norfolk, all existing forts had been dismantled except an obsolete battery in Great Yarmouth, the reason being stagnation from the Royal Navy, whose power at the time was such that it was not thought important to have coastal defensive installations. This attitude was dealt an early blow when, in November of the same year, the German Navy carried out a fast dash across the North Sea and shelled Great Yarmouth. Damage was light, but the incident raised fears of an Invasion and sparked a frenzied period of trench digging, and several coastal defence batteries were installed.

Fears of a German invasion persisted throughout World War One, and from 1916, Defence Lines were strengthened by concrete pillboxes. In North Norfolk, these were made of concrete blocks and were circular (it was the circular type that gave the emplacement the name pillbox, resembling as it did a box used in the past for containing pills). These pillboxes were placed mainly in a line inland from Weybourne to Sea Palling, broadly along the seaward side of the course of the River Ant.

In South Norfolk, pillboxes were hexagonal, (the prototype of one of the most common type seen in World War Two) and were positioned to protect Great Yarmouth on its landward side. Of course the anticipated Invasion never happened, and after the Armistice in 1918, all the field works and coastal batteries were abandoned, however, by and large, the pillboxes remained, although some were later demolished. Today there are thirty one recorded World War One pillbox sites across Norfolk, of these, seven have been demolished, and have been identified from earlier aerial photographs. The survivors are relatively rare, and some have been issued with Building Preservation Notices.

Information sourced from – www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record?tnf463#:~:text=At%20th....

This is a photograph from the first running of the newly situated Irish 3/4 Marathon (formerly the Athlone 3/4) which was held in Longwood, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 9th of October 2016 at 10:00. The event is positioned perfectly in the calendar as a key training race before the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. This year was the first year that the event was held in Longwood, Co. Meath which is now well known for its hosting of the Longwood 10KM/5KM annual races and a host venue for East of Ireland Marathon series marathons on a bi-annual basis. The race started and finished at Longwood GAA club just outside the village of Longwood. It followed an anti-clockwise course around the beautiful picturesque countryside of south Meath. The course went through the townlands of Longwood, Castlerickard, Killyon, Hill-of-Down, Anneville and Ashfield Clonard, Blackshare, Stoneyford and back to Longwood. The river Boyne and Blackwater were crossed as was the Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo Railway line at Hill-of-Down. Overall this was a very different course to the previous years in Athlone. The overall elevation of the course works out at 3/4 of the total elevation of the Dublin Marathon course. What most stood out about today's race was the course and how the countryside around it looked on a beautiful almost perfect Autumn morning. The organisation of the race was first class with every detail taken care of from the start until the finish.

There is a very large set of photographs from today's race - taken at the start in Longwood village, the 25KM mark outside our home and at about 17 miles at the top of Blackshade Bridge and the highest point of elevation on the course. They are available on our Flickr photostream at the following set. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157673672195732

NOTE: These are completely unofficial photographs are not connected commercially with the Irish 3/4 marathon event photography. Please check the Official Website irish3quartermarathon.ie/ for official photographs and other media.

Dean's Timbits Hockey team practicing at Max Bell Arena.

Positioning itself for the YULFRA run.

Fort Kochi, Kerala

1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Kellner 3-Position Cabriolet at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2015

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Digital or Computer Generated Image (C.G.I.), Photo-conceptual art, Size and medium variable. www.joecanuck.net

Flash very close - 1 foot or closer, 1/32 power, 1/60 sec

didn't look behind before he pulled out though

This is a photograph from the first running of the newly situated Irish 3/4 Marathon (formerly the Athlone 3/4) which was held in Longwood, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 9th of October 2016 at 10:00. The event is positioned perfectly in the calendar as a key training race before the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. This year was the first year that the event was held in Longwood, Co. Meath which is now well known for its hosting of the Longwood 10KM/5KM annual races and a host venue for East of Ireland Marathon series marathons on a bi-annual basis. The race started and finished at Longwood GAA club just outside the village of Longwood. It followed an anti-clockwise course around the beautiful picturesque countryside of south Meath. The course went through the townlands of Longwood, Castlerickard, Killyon, Hill-of-Down, Anneville and Ashfield Clonard, Blackshare, Stoneyford and back to Longwood. The river Boyne and Blackwater were crossed as was the Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo Railway line at Hill-of-Down. Overall this was a very different course to the previous years in Athlone. The overall elevation of the course works out at 3/4 of the total elevation of the Dublin Marathon course. What most stood out about today's race was the course and how the countryside around it looked on a beautiful almost perfect Autumn morning. The organisation of the race was first class with every detail taken care of from the start until the finish.

There is a very large set of photographs from today's race - taken at the start in Longwood village, the 25KM mark outside our home and at about 17 miles at the top of Blackshade Bridge and the highest point of elevation on the course. They are available on our Flickr photostream at the following set. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157673672195732

NOTE: These are completely unofficial photographs are not connected commercially with the Irish 3/4 marathon event photography. Please check the Official Website irish3quartermarathon.ie/ for official photographs and other media.

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

What a diva.

Taken for the Strobist.com Lighting 102 assignment 1.

Strobist Info: Canon Speedlite 430ex II at 1/8th power on light stand 45 degrees right of camera. Triggered by RF60

The New Village School - decant accommodation

Reloading!

make up your own story post it bellow

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Consist for VRE 305 passes L'Enfant Plaza. The train will return outbound from Union Station in 45 minutes.

Softbox III, 3-4 ft away from subject

Rowing in closely under the bow of the Flagg, a pair of Undertows remain undetected.

Allgäuer Alpen

The William M. Case House (1855-1859), near Aurora, Oregon.

This is the oldest house in Oregon's lovely Willamette Valley that's still occupied.

It belongs to one of Frank's clients, who had an open house yesterday.

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Esta es la casa del pionero William M. Case, construida entre 1855 y 1859.

En Lantinoamérica, la casa no sería muy antigua, pero como somos una nación jóven, no hay casa más antigua en el Valle del Río Willamette que esté habitado.

Tomé estas fotos ayer cuando un cliente de mi esposo celebró una jornada de puertas abiertas para compartir con sus amigos su nuevo hogar.

Edited NASA image of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule ready to be moved into position on the launch pad.

Original caption: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen prior to being raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission, Thursday, May 21, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test will serve as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

One of a series of post-war folded leaflets issued by London Transport Advertising and mostly designed by Pieter Byl. Using graphic design and typographical elements to produce a varying range of treatments these are, in many ways, amongst the most 'experimental' typographical treatments ever commissioned by London Transport; that is quite a statement given the company's long history and association with graphic design and publicity.

LT has always made significant income from advertising on stations, vehicles and other sites and these promotional brochures give details of the various options available to advertisers along with basic costs. They would have been a simpler supplement to the expensively produced full advertising rates book produced! I can find little or nothing out about Pieter Byl.

This leaflet shows the Country Bus outside advertising top rear panel position advertising; again Country Area costs were less than comparable Central Area prices.

This is a photograph from the first running of the newly situated Irish 3/4 Marathon (formerly the Athlone 3/4) which was held in Longwood, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 9th of October 2016 at 10:00. The event is positioned perfectly in the calendar as a key training race before the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. This year was the first year that the event was held in Longwood, Co. Meath which is now well known for its hosting of the Longwood 10KM/5KM annual races and a host venue for East of Ireland Marathon series marathons on a bi-annual basis. The race started and finished at Longwood GAA club just outside the village of Longwood. It followed an anti-clockwise course around the beautiful picturesque countryside of south Meath. The course went through the townlands of Longwood, Castlerickard, Killyon, Hill-of-Down, Anneville and Ashfield Clonard, Blackshare, Stoneyford and back to Longwood. The river Boyne and Blackwater were crossed as was the Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo Railway line at Hill-of-Down. Overall this was a very different course to the previous years in Athlone. The overall elevation of the course works out at 3/4 of the total elevation of the Dublin Marathon course. What most stood out about today's race was the course and how the countryside around it looked on a beautiful almost perfect Autumn morning. The organisation of the race was first class with every detail taken care of from the start until the finish.

There is a very large set of photographs from today's race - taken at the start in Longwood village, the 25KM mark outside our home and at about 17 miles at the top of Blackshade Bridge and the highest point of elevation on the course. They are available on our Flickr photostream at the following set. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157673672195732

NOTE: These are completely unofficial photographs are not connected commercially with the Irish 3/4 marathon event photography. Please check the Official Website irish3quartermarathon.ie/ for official photographs and other media.

The Allied Council represented an institution of the Allied Occupation Period (1945-1955) in Austria, created by the First Allied Control Agreement. The stabilization of the position of the occupying powers held there meant the creation of an Allied Commission consisting of the Allied Council, an executive committee and departments for various areas as well as specific institutions in Vienna (the Vienna Inter-Allied Command and the Inter-Allied Military Patrol). The Allied Council, due to its composition of Soviet, US, British and French allies, can to a certain extent be seen as a reflection of the "great politics" in post-war Europe.

It was composed of four commanders-in-chief, the military commanders of the Allies, who were called High Commissioners from the Second Allied Control Agreement (June 1946). These were the supreme authority in matters relating to the whole of Austria and acted upon instructions from their respective national governments. In addition, each member of the Allied Council held the highest power in the respective occupation zone. At the beginning of the occupation, Marie Emile Béthouart represented the French, Richard McCreery the British, Mark W. Clark the American and Ivan S. Konev the Soviet occupying power.

As head of the Allied Commission, the Allied Council was entrusted with the task of ensuring Austria's independence from Germany, enabling free elections and the establishment of an Austrian central administration, as well as taking over these until then.

In addition, as a result of the First Control Agreement, the Allied Council had to unanimously accept all the laws passed by the Austrian National Council. This changed only through the Second Control Agreement - now a unanimous veto was needed to prevent the entry into force of laws. Thus, the Allied occupying powers were able to significantly influence the policy in Austria at least until the Second Control Agreement and set their own priorities - such as in the denazification of Austria.

The meetings of the Allied Council took place for the time being in the headquarters of the Soviet, US and British Allies in Vienna: in the Hotel Imperial (1, Kärntner Ring 16), the headquarters of the Soviet Union, in the building of the Austrian National Bank (9, Otto-Wagner square 3), the headquarters of the United States, and the Schönbrunn Palace (13, Schönbrunn Palace street), which represented the headquarters of Great Britain. Later, the seat of the Allied Council was in the House of Industry (3, Schwarzenberg square 4, April 1946-July 1956 Stalin square 1). There also took place its first official meeting on September 11, 1945. The meetings took place on the 10th, 20th and 30th of the month and from the 25th of April 1946 every second and fourth Friday of the month. The presidency changed monthly, resulting in the following rhythm: the United States held the leadership in January, May and September, Britain in February, June and October, France in March, July and November and the Soviet Union in April, August and December.

The Allied Council existed until the end of the occupation in 1955.

Der Alliierte Rat stellte eine Einrichtung der Alliierten Besatzungszeit (1945-1955) in Österreich dar, die mit dem Ersten Alliierten Kontrollabkommen geschaffen wurde. Die dort festgehaltene Festigung der Stellung der Besatzungsmächte bedeutete die Einrichtung einer Alliierten Kommission, die neben dem Alliierten Rat an der Spitze aus einem Exekutivkomitee und Abteilungen für verschiedene Bereiche sowie spezifischen Institutionen in Wien (die Wiener Interalliierte Kommandantur und die Interalliierte Militärpatrouille) bestand. Der Alliierte Rat kann aufgrund seiner Zusammensetzung von sowjetischen, US-amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Alliierten zu einem gewissen Maß als ein Abbild der "Großen Politik" im Nachkriegseuropa gesehen werden.

Er setzte sich aus vier Oberbefehlshabern, den Militärkommissaren der Alliierten, die ab dem Zweiten Alliierten Kontrollabkommen (Juni 1946) Hochkommissare bezeichnet wurden, zusammen. Diese stellten die oberste Gewalt in Angelegenheiten, die sich auf ganz Österreich bezogen, dar und handelten nach Weisungen von ihren jeweiligen nationalen Regierungen. Zusätzlich hatte jedes Mitglied des Alliierten Rates die höchste Gewalt in der jeweiligen Besatzungszone inne. Zu Beginn der Besatzungszeit vertrat Marie Emile Béthouart die französische, Richard McCreery die britische, Mark W. Clark die US-amerikanische und Ivan S. Konev die sowjetische Besatzungsmacht.

Als Leitung der Alliierten Kommission war der Alliierte Rat mit folgenden Aufgaben betraut: Diese bestanden darin, die österreichische Unabhängigkeit von Deutschland zu gewährleisten, freie Wahlen und die Errichtung einer österreichischen Zentralverwaltung zu ermöglichen sowie diese bis dahin selbst zu übernehmen.

Zudem musste der Alliierte Rat infolge des Ersten Kontrollabkommens alle vom österreichischen Nationalrat beschlossenen Gesetzen einstimmig akzeptieren. Dies änderte sich erst durch das Zweite Kontrollabkommen – nun war ein einstimmiges Veto nötig, um das Inkrafttreten von Gesetzen zu verhindern. Somit konnten die alliierten Besatzungsmächte die Politik in Österreich zumindest bist zum Zweiten Kontrollabkommen maßgeblich beeinflussen und eigene Schwerpunkte – wie beispielsweise in der Entnazifizierung Österreichs – setzen.

Die Sitzungen des Alliierten Rates fanden vorerst in den Hauptquartieren der sowjetischen, US-amerikanischen und britischen Alliierten in Wien statt: Im Hotel Imperial (1, Kärntner Ring 16), dem Hauptquartier der Sowjetunion, im Gebäude der Österreichischen Nationalbank (9, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3), dem Hauptquartier der USA, und im Schloss Schönbrunn (13, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße), welches das Hauptquartier von Großbritannien darstellte. Später befand sich der Sitz des Alliierten Rates im Haus der Industrie (3, Schwarzenbergplatz 4; April 1946-Juli 1956 Stalinplatz 1). Dort fand auch seine erste offizielle Sitzung am 11. September 1945 statt. Die Zusammentreffen erfolgten an jedem 10., 20. und 30. des Monats sowie ab 25. April 1946 jeden zweiten und vierten Freitag des Monats. Der Vorsitz wechselte monatlich, so dass sich folgender Rhythmus ergab: Die USA stellten im Jänner, Mai und September die Leitung, Großbritannien im Februar, Juni und Oktober, Frankreich im März, Juli und November und die Sowjetunion im April, August und Dezember.

Der Alliierte Rat bestand bis zum Ende der Besatzungszeit 1955.

www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Alliierter_Rat

Pictures from the AHL Minor League hockey game between the Stockton Heat and the Manitoba Moose.