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for 7DoS: the barcodes in supermarkets aren't just used to keep control of stock and prices anymore, I use them to buy my shopping ... so sneaking a photo is pretty easy, as I have it in my hand zapping barcodes along the way.
It's a shame my supermarket hasn't quite mastered the technology regarding stock control, as the empty shelf was were the eggs I wanted, should have been :(
and receaves a rare paintwork (paper glued on very neatly) clubland cd range .and has her stagecoach logo put on the rear
Vodafone has announced plans to provide coding training to 1,000 teenage girls across 26 countries in what is the world’s furthest-reaching in-person global coding programme of its kind. The commitment was announced in advance of @WomenScienceDay. Vodafone is partnering with @CodeFirstGirls to address widening gender gap in STEM.
For many years, women and girls have played an important role in science and technology. Without the work of technology pioneers like Hedy Lamarr and Barbara Liskov, we would not have Wi-Fi and email as we know it. But despite this, women and girls are still grossly under-represented in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and careers. Only 35% of girls enter further education in STEM subjects, and many have little encouragement to equip themselves with the skills to thrive in these industries.
Vodafone wants to help change this. In a partnership with social enterprise Code First: Girls, Vodafone’s #CodeLikeAGirl programme will provide five-day, coding workshops for girls, ages 14-18, across its geographical footprint in Europe, India, the Middle East, South Africa and Australasia. In 2017, 500 girls across Vodafone’s 26 markets were taught to code as part of the Vodafone and Code First: Girls partnership. This year, 1,000 teenage girls will benefit from the programme.
I thought Source Code was a pretty slick thriller and decided to attempt a version of the poster.
I went with more of a minimalistic teaser version of the poster so as to try and draw the viewer in.
You can check it out on my blog www.juusmedia.com
I wore this to an office holiday party - the dress code was "casual festive." Sounded like a great excuse to break out my leopard print skirt, and I was happy with the way the long wool sweater dressed it down.
Vintage encklace and belt
Land's End sweater
Ellen Tracy skirt
Aldo boots
Code [Norway] @ Brutal Assault XIII www.codeblackmetal.co.uk
Open Air Festival Of Extreme Art
(Vojenská pevnost Josefov, Jaroměř, Czech Republic)
August 14-16, 2008
The card is shaped differently so that a blind user can feel the text braille instructions, a low vision user can read the important information in high contrast & because of the bump, blind users can use the QR codes to know which corner of the card to scan. Notice the ridge around the QR code in the bottom right. It's brilliant! The second side is in small text.
accessibil-IT
Adam Spencer
aspencer@accessibilit.com
Code [Norway] @ Brutal Assault XIII www.codeblackmetal.co.uk
Open Air Festival Of Extreme Art
(Vojenská pevnost Josefov, Jaroměř, Czech Republic)
August 14-16, 2008
Girls Who Code group photo with members of Congress, July 10, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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Another Turboprop that became something of an early relic very quickly, thanks largely to the effects of the Jet Age. However, if such an aircraft was to have been built under similar circumstances to today, it may have found itself becoming a much more popular aircraft.
The Vickers Vanguard was conceived following an order by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seater turboprop airliner that would replace the company’s earliest Viscounts, the pioneering turboprop design. Designed under code Type 870, the promise of an improved and larger Viscount design attracted the interest of Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA), which needed a medium-range turboprop airliner to work its trunk routes between its major cities. This resulted in the design being modified for such routes and redesignated the Vanguard Type 950.
The original Type 870 design followed similar principles to that of the previous Viscount, but following TCA’s order, the design changes lead to the aircraft instead having a larger dimensional ‘double-bubble’ fuselage, with a wider cross-section for the upper body that would accommodate the passengers, while the lower body was similar in width to that of the Viscount. Such a design wasn’t a new concept, as the Boeing Stratocruiser of the late 1940’s also followed this principle.
However, the effects of the larger fuselage meant that the aircraft was heavier, and thus needed to be propelled by more powerful engines. While Rolls Royce’s highly successful Dart engines had worked wonders with the Viscount, Rolls Royce took this as an opportunity to create an all new and highly advanced set of powerplants known as the Rolls Royce Tyne, weighing in at 4,000hp each. The result was that the Vanguard was, and arguably still is, the fastest turboprop ever built, faster than the SAAB 2000 and the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 of present day. The performance of the Vanguard and its Tyne engines was apparently put through its paces by a pilot who was able to maintain 10,000ft with three engines feathered and the port outer at maximum cruise power, while also carrying a weight of 112,000lbs. This story therefore makes the Vanguard’s ability to maintain flight on one engine vastly superior to the military spec Lockheed C-130 Prototype, though it is often speculated that such a tale is the result of hyperbole. Nevertheless, the Vanguard was vastly overpowered for its role in life.
Vanguard Type 950 prototype G-AOYW took to the skies for the first time on January 20th, 1959, as part of a transfer flight from the Vickers factory at Brooklands to the BAC factory at Wisley, a distance of 3 miles. Full flight testing was to commence immediately after, but the engines had to be returned to Rolls Royce for slight alterations. Testing eventually recommenced throughout 1959 and early 1960.
The aircraft was given CAA airworthiness certification in mid-1960, and was delivered to launch customers BEA and TCA later the same year. The first flight of a Vanguard in passenger service was from Heathrow to Paris on December 17th, 1960. This was followed on February 1st, 1961, with the launch of operations in Canada for TCA, with 2 flights from Toronto and Montreal via intermediate stopes to Vancouver. The Vanguard lived up to its name of capacity and sturdy reliability, and was also very cheap to run, with very low cost per seat/mile ratio. On routes up to 300 miles, the aircraft could easily match in terms of speed the earliest regional jets such as the Boeing 727 and the DC-9.
However, such credentials were not enough to save the Vanguard from incredibly low popularity. The aircraft, while fast, cheap and highly advanced, simply came out at the wrong time, the dawn of the Jet Age. With the likes of the Trident, Boeing 727, the Douglas DC-9, and with the prospect of the Boeing 737 on the horizon, major airlines simply weren’t interested in a 100-seater, medium-range turboprop. Therefore, only 44 aircraft were built by the time production ended in 1962.
While much loved by flight crews, the Vanguard was quickly deemed non-standard, especially when surrounded by a sea of jets. As such, BEA removed the aircraft from passenger operations on June 16th, 1974, shortly before the company was merged with BOAC to form British Airways. TCA however had begun to retire their fleet from passenger service as early as 1966, starting with the conversion of one aircraft from passenger to cargo operations. The spacious double-bubble design meant the aircraft was well suited for carrying freight, up to 42,000lbs of it. As such, the aircraft was renamed the Cargoliner, and would go on to be the last of the Vanguard’s retired from Canadian service in 1972, by which time TCA had been rebranded as Air Canada.
In the UK, the success of the Canadian trials meant that in 1969, BEA had begun conversion of Vanguards into cargo aircraft too, these being renamed the Merchantman. The conversion included the fitting of a large cargo door in the forward fuselage, and roller floors for easy movement of freight pallets inside the plane. British Airways continued to use these aircraft on widespread cargo operations until 1979, when the last five were sold off.
This wasn’t the end for the Vanguard, as many filtered down through a variety of European cargo carriers throughout the 1980’s. Mostly, the aircraft were dedicated to nocturnal mail and freight operations across the European Continent and to Great Britain, working for a number of airlines including DHL subsidiary, Air Bridge Carriers. This company was eventually renamed Hunting Cargo Airlines, and operated Merchantman aircraft until mid-1996, when the last known airworthy unit, G-APEP, was retired.
The aircraft was flown to its original home at Brooklands, now a museum, on October 17th of the same year, though the landing was somewhat spectacular as the runway at Brooklands had been shortened somewhat over the years. As such, after performing a low pass to scout the approach, the aircraft touched down 20ft short of the runway, leaving substantial trenches in the ground. It should be noted also that the area of open ground it touched down on had until recently been covered in trees, which had been cut down so the Merchantman could land, though the stumps from the trees were still in the ground, which could’ve made the landing a touch more… bumpy.
The Vanguard however was not immune to accidents, and in total suffered 5 throughout its working life. The first was on October 27th, 1965, when a BEA Vanguard overshot the runway at Heathrow in poor visibility after arriving from Edinburgh, killing all 36 aboard. Such conditions and incidents resulted in further research into the ‘Blind Landing’ automatic approach and landing systems pioneered on the Trident jets.
The next was on October 2nd, 1971, when BEA Flight 706 disintegrated mid-flight over Belgium, killing all 63 aboard. The cause of the crash was the failure of the rear pressure bulkhead which severed the tail from the fuselage. This was followed 2 years later on April 10th, 1973, by the crash of Invicta International Flight 435, which crashed near Basel with the deaths of all 108 aboard.
The next crash came on January 29th, 1988, when Inter Cargo Service Flight 1004 crashed on takeoff from Toulouse-Blagnac while attempting to depart with only 3 engines, thankfully with no casualties among the three crew members. The final crash came just over a year later, again with Inter Cargo Service, on February 6th, 1989, when Flight 3132 crashed on takeoff from Marseille-Marignane Airport, killing all three crew members.
Today, only two of these formidable aircraft remain in preservation, but only one complete airframe. The nose section of G-APES is on display at the East Midlands Aeropark, while the complete airframe of G-APEP is at Brooklands.
It truly is a shame that the Vanguard never truly caught on because it was a very good aircraft, strong, dependable, cheap to run, easy to maintain, incredibly fast (perhaps even too fast) for what it was, and was all around a good egg. Perhaps if timing hadn’t been so poor for this prop plane to make its debut in a world full of jets, then the Vanguard might have made a name for itself. Instead, it’s often forgotten and seldom recognised.
Detail of a German WWII cypher machine of the famous/infamous 'Enigma' type.
This particular model is an army version (3 rotors as opposed to the 4-rotor-submarine type) that usually is on display in the TMW (science museum vienna).
Øyafestivalen 2022, Oslo.
RAL 1018G12 - Zinc Yellow
Design: Hong Ngo-Aandal & Johan Verde
Photo: Nicolas Tourrenc
Best Buy uses QR codes to gauge how employees are feeling at its corporate headquarters in Richfield, MN.
Øyafestivalen 2022, Oslo.
RAL 1018G12 - Zinc Yellow
Design: Hong Ngo-Aandal & Johan Verde
Photo: Nicolas Tourrenc
GDS colleagues participated in 3 introductory sessions to coding at GDS. Students were from the Women's and BAME network. Volunteer coaches were from across the organisation, and included frontend developers, backend developers, and site reliability engineers.
The toy that comes with its own app. And for that instant gratification, a QR code to retrieve it. The stats of kids with mobile devices is pretty intense. But I'm not sure if this age group would qualify.
QR codes are a great way to put information right into the hands of the consumer. There are many great uses for QR codes. Ask a C2 rep how to integrate them into your campaign.
QR Code T-shirt at the ISS Show in Fort Worth.
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