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I've adopted varying workouts that get your heartrate up and down, up and down… but I have to write them out in short-hand or I will forget what goes in what order!
Old code line poles still stand at North Milwaukee Yard, where the last stub remnant of Milwaukee Road's "Beer Line" branches off to serve an oil dealer.
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CODE ORANGE KIDS playing Vlamrock (Belgium).
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The temp in my vehicle read +1F but the wind out on the Interstate pier made it feel well below zero. The Algoma Montrealais moves into position to unload at Holcim.
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.
the shot at hand: inspired by Ryan the one, the only....always pimp!
this is a regular family outing for the O'Connor family on any given saturday night...it started with "i've got a shot stuck in my head, who wants to help?"
my boy...first hand up!! and can i bring a friend....well only if said friend asks a parent because first, it's illegal and second, there is a small element of danger and third, it's illegal!!
so we're off....to a trespass into Holmes Foundry....hubby is never keen to trespass...what if we get caught, then what...and as always, i assure him that the cops have better things to do than to chase a family around in an abandoned place when all they're doing is taking pictures!!
the image above, truly a joint venture...included the following technicalities:
*the pose - strategically placed by me
*the subjects - 2 boys told to stay very still for 25 secs. (no easy task)
*handheld flashlight - me again to light the graffiti
*red gel flash - courtesy of hubby moving around the scene flashing on command
my son's friend, who had never done anything like this thought this was the best ever outing so the boys were paid with a late dinner out....we got home by midnight!!
isn't this a normal outing?
so now.....tell me what the rest of you do on any regular night out????
This took waaaay too long to do but I thought the composition needed some colour!
© 2009 James Duckworth
This is a little sneak peak as to how the comic starts off. Final photo shoot today and then begins the process of editing and formating the PDF comic, should be ready in two weeks if all things go according to plan. Question the store, website, I will be using allows pre-orders would you be interested or rather wait for the release?
accidentally generated by my friend ActionScript 3.0 :)
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i like it. it sums up something
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
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.
Latest to join the McKindless fleet is a model bought in from a friend and fellow modeller. The Leyland National was fairly popular with McKindless, being used in both green and cream for local services and the British Airways inspired livery for coaches and Glasgow Shuttle vehicles. It is shown here alongside YIB4528 a Plaxton Premiere also wearing the BA inspired livery. The Glasgow Shuttle itself ran from the operators home area in Newmains to Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station via Wishaw, Netherton and Motherwell. Other members of the fleet can be caught in some of the pictures, with a Dart SLF returning for the end of duty being caught in some pictures, meanwhile a Metrobus hides inside the depot building next to Metrorider minibus. All three of these models wear the standard McKindless livery of green and pale yellow/cream, for standard stage-carriage service vehicles. Again, these three models were also bought in to form the fleet while I was starting out with spray paints rather than hand painting. These three were bought from a different friend.