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Shredding pow and pillows makes for an epic day :D
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Llegue al mundo mac con el Power Mac G5, de segunda mano que puede ver. Utilizo mac para los estudios, soy estudiante e ingenieria electronica i me resulta util i agradable poder hacer un trabajo sin tener ningun pantallazo azul XD
Me hice esta mesa con iluminación led, al no encontrar ninguna otra que me hiciera gracia.
El diseño se vasa en la silueta basica de un avion de combate. La estructura esta realizada en hierro, pintado de color blanco esmaltado. El cristal es de 19 milímetros.
En la estantería se pueden ver las cajas de los dispositivos, a un lado el CD de instalación del sistema Leopard i al otro un ipod shuffle desmontado, tras comprobar que no era acuático.
Gracias Por vuestra atención, espero que os guste i que la publiquéis ;)
- Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz
- iPhone 3G
- MacBook 13" early 2011
- Accesorios varios
- IronMan, Capitanl America, Clu (de Tron Legacy) i Thor.
Tess came over for some fun stuff with the strobist rig - I learned a lot from the session and it was great fun...
Strobist stuff:
1 x 580 EXII with shoot through umbrella half-left. Full power.
1 x 430 EXII with shoot through umbrella half-right. One eigth power.
Triggered by cheap Chinese wireless triggers.
Black backdrop levelled out in Photoshop.
Next time I'll do it somewhere industrial and not waste time with the backdrop...
Traffic Technicians attached to the Air Task Force load a CC-130J Hercules with Hesco barriers used to reduce the impact of the flooding in areas in and around Abbotsford, British Columbia in support of Operation LENTUS on 26 November 2021.
Please credit: S1 Brendan Gibson, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
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Des techniciens des mouvements affectés à la Force opérationnelle aérienne chargent à bord d’un avion CC-130J Hercules des barrières de protection HESCO qui seront utilisées pour réduire l’incidence des inondations dans les zones situées à Abbotsford et aux alentours, en Colombie Britannique, dans le cadre de l’opération LENTUS, le 26 novembre 2021.
Photo : Mat 1 Brendan Gibson, Forces armées canadiennes
POW Camp 198 (Island Farm) was a Prisoner of War Camp in Bridgend, South Wales. It was built originally as a dormitory for female factory workers in 1938, it became a POW camp in 1944. The camp hosted a number of Axis prisoners, most of them German, and was the scene of the largest escape attempt by German POW’s in Britain during World War II in March 1945.
These photographs, taken in September 2012, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for some of the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
The Pow burn seperates Prestwick and Monkton, it crosses Prestwick Airport and Prestwick Golf Course before reaching the sea.
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces respond to the province of Nova Scotia’s request for assistance with relief efforts during Operations LENTUS, in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona that took place on September 24, 2022.
Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes répondent à la demande d'aide de la province de la Nouvelle-Écosse dans le cadre de l’opération LENTUS, à la suite de l'ouragan Fiona qui a eu lieu le 24 septembre 2022.
Photo By: Corporal Connor Bennett, Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician
November 25, 2012 - The Cabazon Pow Wow at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA. Drums, Colors and Native American Culture.
Camp 50 is nowadays remembered, if at all, largely because of its connection with the celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann. No less interesting from a historical perspective is the story of the British army's official interpreter at the camp, Company Sergeant Major Kurt Bloch.
Born in Berlin on 20 March 1901, Kurt had married Ella Moses (b. 11 November 1904) in 1926. The Schöneberg district marriage register is endorsed to the effect that the couple were in fact divorced in 1931, but this seems to have had no effect on either their domestic situation or their professional activities. The Berlin telephone directory for 1937 places the couple at Dircksenstr. 51, also the location of the Kamm-Bloch factory of which Ella is named as “inhaberin” or proprietor. They are again included in the personal listings in the 1938 directory, but there is now no mention of the comb factory. It appears from other records that Kurt left Germany via the port of Bremen on 14 November 1938. Ella soon followed, travelling on passport no. J11/F856/38 issued at Berlin on 31 December 1938 and landing at Grimsby on 31 March 1939. Registration of the civilian population of England and Wales on 29 September 1939 found the pair reunited in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where Kurt is listed as “Hair Comb Maker” and Ella as engaged in “Unpaid Domestic Duties”. In the meanwhile, on 10 January 1939, Kurt's German birth registration had been endorsed to the effect that he was deemed to have taken the name “Israel” in accordance with an order of 17 August 1938 on identification of those deemed to be of Jewish extraction. The “Jüdischer Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930-1945” database, compiled in 2005-12 under the auspices of the Chair of 20th Century German History at Humboldt University (www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb/www/about), shows that the Bloch factory in Berlin had been taken over in 1938 and was liquidated by the Nazis in 1940.
The Bloch & Adler comb factory in Bradford, in which Kurt and/or Ella presumably had some interest, employed several European Jews who had arrived in the city via Kindertransports etc. One of them, Albert Waxman (1924-2019), would later join the RAF and serve as interpreter at POW Camp 265 Park Farm, near Peterborough. Before then, however, both Kurt Bloch and his wife were briefly interned as “enemy aliens”. Records show that Kurt was released on 8 November 1940 on account of his acceptance for enlistment in the Auxiliary Military Pioneers Corps of the British army. Ella was simultaneously released from her internment on the Isle of Man and, on 7 January 1941, she returned to Bradford.
Kurt Bloch's war service record has not been examined but it is apparent that, at least by April 1946, he held the positions of Staff-Sergeant and Interpreter at Camp 50 and had placed himself at the centre of political re-education efforts:
“The key man in re-education is the interpreter, S/Sgt Bloch, a German Jewish refugee. He is quite one of the best and most efficient interpreters I have yet encountered and takes a most active part in the re-education of the PsW”.*
An account of Bert Trautmann's first meeting with him is given by Trautmann biographer Catrine Clay:
“The first time thy met wasn't auspicious. Sergeant Bloch marched into the camp office in his British army uniform and discussed matters with [POW labour organiser] Mr Maynard before addressing POW Trautmann in what sounded like perfect English. 'My name is Sergeant Bloch', he announced, short and sharp, pronouncing his name 'Block' as in English. He ordered Trautmann to wait in the car, ready for a day of inspections... They had 8 farms to visit that day, which meant being on the road for a good 12 hours... [As they drove] Bloch sat looking out of the window at the passing countryside, smoking a cigarette and humming contentedly. He was a big man with a wide girth and seemed to have an easy temperament. After a while Bernd's curiosity got the better of him.
'I thought you interpreters spoke German'.
'We do', he said in English, adding, 'I'm as German as you are' in German in a strong Berlin accent, and laughing.
Bernd had to laugh as well at the way Bloch had caught him out like a typical Berliner. But after that a silence hung between them because they both knew why Bloch was in England not Berlin.
'I left in 1936', Bloch said after a few minutes, again in German. 'I used to have a brush and comb factory but the Nazis took it off me so I came here.... How about you?... You were a Fallschirmjäger [paratrooper], weren't you?'
So Bloch knew all about him.”**
Impressed by the CSM's evident concern for the welfare of the POWs, Trautmann told The Guardian in 2010:
“I quickly came to see Bloch, and every other Jew, as human beings. At first I sometimes lost my temper with him, but, in time, I talked to him as if he was just another English soldier. I liked him”.***
In October 1946 Kurt was naturalised as a British subject under the “Crown service” provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act. Shortly after this he was discharged from the army and so left the Camp. He and Ella settled in London, remaining there until their deaths in April 1968 and July 1965 respectively.
The almost universal praise that Kurt had received from visiting lecturers and PID inspectors alike for his efforts to further the political re-education of the POWs at Camp 50 makes all the more startling the claim, following his departure, that “CSM Bloch” had fostered in the Camp an “atmosphere of 'gestapo-mentality' and general mistrust” by using his influence to favour those who shared his “strong left wing views” when it came to deciding which prisoners should be repatriated or given certain privileges:
“Through his “agents” he knew of the individual PWs' political views. Nobody dared to utter opinions different from Bloch's, lest they jeopardized their chances of repat”.
Was Kurt Bloch a left-wing extremist? This seems unlikely given his background as an entrepreneur. Moreover it is surely understandable -even commendable- that he would wish to counter any lingering Nazi influence, given what had happened to his former homeland and all that he had suffered personally. Perhaps the strongest charge that can be levelled against him is that he seems to have been something of an opportunist who, in his eagerness to demonstrate his commitment to the cause of political re-education, failed to carry the generality of the POWs along with him or to notice that his superiors were increasingly more concerned about the spread of communism in Europe than they were about residual Nazism in the camps. I can find no record of his subsequent employment by PID.
*From the report by Major Readman, 8 July 1946, at National Archives ref. FO 939/132 “Prisoner of War Camps: 50 Working Camp, Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire”.
**“Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend”, Yellow Jersey Press 2010. The book is based partly on conversations between the author and her subject in 2007. Some factual inaccuracies – CSM Bloch is given the forename “Herman”, and his departure from Germany put back by two years- may be attributable to memory lapses and/or misunderstandings on Trautmann's part. It seems unlikely that he and Bloch would have been on first-name terms in 1946.
***“Bert Trautmann: from Nazi paratrooper to hero of Manchester City”, 10 April 2010.
Images from National Archives ref. FO 939/300 “Reports on Camp Lectures: 50 Working Camp, Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire”-
Left: Letter of 4 May 1946 from S/Sgt K Bloch to Major Robert Seeds, PID Lecture Section, enclosing manuscript copies of two lectures “which I held in this Camp and hostels recently”; offers to repeat them at other POW camps. (Major Seeds would return the manuscripts with his letter of 5 June to the Camp 50 commandant: “With such lecturing your S/Sgt must be doing a lot of good work in your camp but would you explain to him that I cannot use British camp staff for lecturing in other camps”.)
Right, above: Letter of 26 July 1946 from S/Sgt Bloch to Major Seeds' successor, G R Halkett, enclosing a copy of “Aufbauwille” No. 9 and seeking an interview.
Right, below: Note by G R Halkett of S/Sgt Bloch's visit on 31 July 1946: “Will be dem[obilised] in September and will apply for use as Lecturer or TA...”.
This shot was taken at the 38th Annual Yuba-Sutter Pow Wow held at the fairgrounds in Yuba City. Colorful regalia was worn by the dancers at this event.
TO VIEW sit back from your monitor 2 feet and place your index finger about 10 inches in front of your eyes and focus on your finger. This will cause your eyes to go comfortably cross eyed. Keep that same cross eyed focus and notice there are now 3 photos in the back ground. Do not let your eyes leave the cross eye as you look at the middle picture which has appeared. Now increase or decrease how much your eyes are cross eyed until the image pops into 3D. Your eyes will want to leave the cross eye, but fight that urge. This is an acquired skill and takes practice. Stop if it's uncomfortable.
The Pow Wow is a great yearly event here in Columbia. I usually try to shoot a lot of dancing and drumming, but this year John Leach and I set up a portrait station with a couple of different backgrounds.
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Strobist: Nikon D700 @ ISO 200 and 1/160 shutter with Sigma 70-200 @ f/5.6. Main light sun (r), Snooted & gridded Nikon sb-25 @ 1/4 power for hairlight high left rear, Nikon sb-25 in 42" brolly box for fill on left @ 1/32 power. Pocket Wizards
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The Stone Mountain Pow Wow, Stone Mountain Park,
Georgia, 11-08-09.
POWs, Russians, but among them might be a lot of Latvians or others. For the German soldier they were simply Russians.