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With code blue skies, Big Blue, 5418 sits on the old Saginaw main next to the coal tower awaiting it's day's work out on the Bald Eagle Job.
In 2008 we went to Pueblo Grande for the Annual Indian Market in Phoenix. The Navajo (Diné) Code Talkers played a vital role in winning World War II in the Pacific. Only one of the original 29 Code Talkers is still living. However, after they were established in 1942 there were approximately 400 Code Talkers.
During the early months of WW II Japanese intelligence experts broke every code the US forces devised. They were able to anticipate American actions at an alarming rate. With plenty of fluent English speakers at their disposal, they sabotaged messages and issued false commands to ambush Allied troops. To combat this, increasingly complex codes were initiated. At Guadalcanal, military leaders finally complained that sending and receiving these codes required hours of encryption and decryption—up to two and a half hours for a single message. They rightly argued the military needed a better way to communicate.
When Phillip Johnston, a civilian living in California learned of the crisis, he had the answer. As the son of a Protestant missionary, Johnston had grown up on the Navajo reservation and was one of less than 30 outsiders fluent in their difficult language. He realized that since it had no alphabet and was almost impossible to master without early exposure, the Navajo language had great potential as an indecipherable code. After an impressive demonstration to top commanders, he was given permission to begin a Navajo Code Talker test program.
Their elite unit was formed in early 1942 when the first 29 Navajo Code Talkers were recruited by Johnston. Although the code was modified and expanded throughout the war, this first group was the one to conceive it. Accordingly, they are often referred to reverently as the original 29. Many of these enlistees were just boys; most had never been away from home before. Often lacking birth certificates, it was impossible to verify ages. After the war it was discovered that recruits as young as 15 and as old as 35 had enlisted. Age notwithstanding, they easily bore the rigors of basic training, thanks to their upbringing in the southwestern desert.
The code was as ingenious as it was effective. It originated as approximately 200 terms—growing to over 600 by war's end—and could communicate in 20 seconds what took coding machines of the time 30 minutes to do. It consisted of native terms that were associated with the respective military terms they resembled. For example, the Navajo word for turtle meant tank, and a dive-bomber was a chicken hawk. To supplement those terms, words could be spelled out using Navajo terms assigned to individual letters of the alphabet—the selection of the Navajo term being based on the first letter of the Navajo word's English meaning. For instance, Wo-La-Chee means ant, and would represent the letter A. In this way the Navajo Code Talkers could quickly and concisely communicate with each other in a manner even uninitiated Navajos could not understand.
Once trained, the Navajo Code Talkers were sent to Marine divisions in the Pacific theater of WWII. Despite some initial skepticism by commanding officers, they quickly gained a distinguished reputation for their remarkable abilities. In the field, they were not allowed to write any part of the code down as a reference. They became living codes, and even under harried battle conditions, had to rapidly recall every word with utmost precision or risk hundreds or thousands of lives. In the battle for Iwo Jima, in the first 48 hours alone, they coded over 800 transmissions with perfect accuracy. Their heroism is widely acknowledged as the lynchpin of victory in the pivotal conflict.
Old code lines at Sparrowbush, NY left behind from the Erie Railroad still hang along side the rails of the former Delaware Division. Their purpose these days is only to sing in the wind and give birds a place to rest their wings.
I assembled a small book from test prints, scrap etc of various jobs and projects from the last couple of months.
I'll include it free w/ any purchase of Idyeahs or Hellberta from Colour Code!
Before responding to the 1182 at the exit behind him, this CHP officer finishes up a citation on the Tesla Model S he just had pulled over.
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Oil and pencil on thick paper, 21 x 15 cm, 2017. This original painting is available for sale. Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work, or the availability for work on graphics
accidentally generated by my friend ActionScript 3.0 :)
responsible line
tc_mc.x=45+i*10;
i like it. it sums up something
Binary Code quilt for my son's mancave. Made from recycled men's plaid shirts. Blogged here...zanyquilter.blogspot.com
The QR code @caseorganic drew on the plexiglass scanned successfully!
Behind the scenes of a photo shoot for a Portland publication.
Back to color coded library.
Still have 150+ books stacked... time for an expanded bookcase on the opposite side.
This photo doesn't do it justice. I'll shoot a new one on Monday. Ick.
printed hex code colors on cotton to help get specific shades when designing digitally printed fabrics. It's so pretty though, that I printed extra, and have enough for a blouse.
printed by Spoonflower.
Look who I got from stupid EMS today? It's my new guy from April Story, he is so cool! He hasn't got his own name and look, but we will work on it ^^ Now I call him JoJo, because I am huge fan of JoJo's Bizzarre Adventures
QR code close up, still work in progress painting Palermo by Fabrice de Nola.
The finished painting: flic.kr/p/8WxM1o
This work is part or the Palermu Project.
Cite as: Fabrice de Nola, 2010. Palermo, QR code still work in progress.
There's a Flickr group about the Genius of Palermo, please feel welcome to join! flic.kr/g/qJgY7
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Codes es una localidad de la provincia de Guadalajara, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla la Mancha, en España, en la actualidad es una pedanÃa adscrita al ayuntamiento de Maranchón.