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Fragments
'These fragments I have shored against my ruins'
- Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
- Fine And Mellow - Billie Holiday, with Lester Young
- James Joyce reading from the Aeolus episode of Ulysses
- Anna Livia Plurabelle - Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake
- John Henry - Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- Lonnie Donegan playlist
- The Black and White Minstrel Show, BBC TV, 1960s
- Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan, Newcastle, 1966
- Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan and the Byrds
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Taking A Chance on Love - Ethel Waters
- Hot House - Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
- Round Midnight; Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
- Malcolm X on black nationalism; house negro and field negro
- Randy Newman playlist
- The BNP's new strategy (2000)
- Nick Griffin on Obama and racism
- Throw the Jew Down the Well - Sacha Baron-Cohen
- Eric Clapton - lest we forget
- T S Eliot - lest we forget
- Circe (Nighttown) from James Joyce's Ulysses
- The death of the writer Bergotte;
The dangers of friendship - Marcel Proust - An afternoon party at the house of the Princesse de Guermantes - Marcel Proust
- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun - William Shakespeare
- When my love swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare
- A Slice of Wedding Cake;
Beauty in Trouble - Robert Graves - A Shropshire Lad - John Betjeman (with audio by JB)
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy - A E Housman
- The Shield of Achilles - W H Auden (with audio by WHA)
- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Chard Whitlow - T S Eliot
- Sweeney Agonistes - John Dankworth, Nicol Williamson, Cleo Laine, Anna Quayle, Clive Revill, Alec McCowen, Bernard Crbbins, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and John Le Mesurier, 1965
- From Canto II - Ezra Pound
- The 'B' Ark - Douglas Adams
- From The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- Scene from Wittgenstein - Derek Jarman
- Scenes from Breaking the Code (Alan Turing): mathematics; other people
- Breaking the Code - full film
- The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing, part 1; part 2
- Quantum physics - the double-slit experiment
- Richard Feynman - mirrors, how trains stay on the track, and the inconceivable nature of nature
- Richard Feynman - ways of thinking; No Ordinary Genius - full film
- Lindsay Anderson's If - final scenes; full film
- From Fellini Satyricon
- Jonathan Pryce in Trevor Griffiths' Comedians
- From White Teeth, based on Zadie Smith's novel
- The Thick of It, Series 3, Episode 8
- Withnail as Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet
- Under African Skies - Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon
- Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury, with Wilko Johnson
- 2 4 6 8 Motorway / Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band
- Up Against The Wall; Ain't Gonna Take It - Tom Robinson Band
- Malcom McLaren presents Double Dutch
- Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner
- Joan Armatrading playlist
- Mr Guilty; Talking New Bob Dylan - Loudon Wainwright
- Splendid Isolation - Warren Zevon
- Werewolves of London; My Shit's Fucked Up - Warren Zevon
- It Started With A Kiss - Hot Chocolate
- Up the Junction - Squeeze
- Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
- Walking Down Madison; Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim - Kirsty MacColl
- Terry - Kirsty MacColl, with Adrian Edmondson
- MIRACL Calc multi-precision calculator
A fully-functioned calculator that can calculate up to 10,000 places! Includes a button to generate random numbers, 0>1. MIRACL Calc depends upon the MIRACL C/C++ library developed by Mike Scott at Shamus Software (http://www.shamus.ie/). - Life
A Windows implementation of J H Conway's Game of Life, "a kind of two-dimensional physics" (Click here for a much slower Web/Java version.) - Universal Turing Machine
An attempt at the Universal Turing Machine described in Sir Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind. The programme uses a soft copy of the very large binary number u kindly provided by Sir Roger. This is included in the zip-file as the file u_number.txt , which should be in the same directory as the program-file. I have never had time to test this properly, and would welcome...feedback.
Geoff Wilkins' CV
Education:
| 1960-65 | Tonbridge School | Various O-, A- and S-levels; Open Scholarship in Classics to Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| 1966-71 | Pembroke College, Cambridge | First Class honours in both Parts of the Cambridge Classical Tripos (Part II in Classical Linguistics); two years' research in Linguistics; MA |
Employment history:
| 1969-72 | Part-time Supervisor of Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| 1971-72 | Specialist reader (in Classics and Linguistics) for Cambridge University Press |
| 1972-73 | Freelance writing and work for publishers |
| 1973 | Community Service Volunteer (CSV) at Hemswell Uganda Asian Resettlement Camp |
| 1973-74 | CSV with AFFOR, an independent community-relations agency based in Handsworth, Birmingham |
| 1974-76 | Director of AFFOR |
| 1976-77 | Community Worker for Handsworth Law Centre |
| 1977-78 | Co-ordinator of Birmingham Community Transport |
| 1978-79 | Employed by NACRO as sole worker on a small research project concerned with petty offenders in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham |
| 1979-80 | Local Director of Threshold housing aid centre for single people, Wandsworth, London |
| 1980-81 | Community Worker with Handsworth Single Homeless Action Group, working with mainly black young homeless |
| 1981-84 | Resource Worker with the Immigration Aid Unit |
| 1984 | Computer Worker, Birmingham Voluntary Service Council |
| 1985/86 | Working for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) as sole worker on their Local Authorities and Immigration Review Board projects |
| 1985/86 | Also self-employed as computer/fund-raising consultant |
| 1986/87 | Organising Secretary of the Charities Information Bureau, Birmingham |
| 1987 | Immigration caseworker with Tyndallwoods, solicitors |
| 1988-90 | Assistant to Clare Short, MP for Birmingham Ladywood |
| 1990-93 | Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman |
| 1993-94 | Manager of the Independent Immigration Support Agency |
| 1994-2000 | Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman (part-time) |
| 1995-96 | Software developer for Dorling Kindersley Multimedia (freelance) |
| 1996, 2000 | Software developer for COBUILD, Birmingham University (freelance) |
| 2001 | Project Development Worker, Immigration and Asylum Resource Project, Birmingham (now known as ASIRT) |
| 2001-2002 | In Bangladesh working with Transparency International Bangladesh |
| 2003-2004 | Development of People to Projects Bangladesh Web site (part-time) |
| 2003-2006 | Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman (part-time) |
| 1997- | Freelance and voluntary Internet/Web development work for BRAC (Bangladesh), Christian Aid, World Development Movement, Transparency International, Amnesty International, Red Cross, Refugee Week, Oxfam, ASIRT and many others |
| 2001- | Freelance project-development and fundraising work for Birmingham Asian Resource Centre, B-MAG / Birmingham Law Centre, National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns, ASIRT, and others |
| 2006-now | Co-ordinator of the Hope Projects (formerly part of Birmingham Law Centre, now an independent charitable company), working with destitute asylum-seekers in the West Midlands |
Publications:
| (with John Plummer) Racist Movements in the West Midlands, AFFOR, 1974 |
Strangled by the Safety Net , on the Supplementary Benefits System in Birmingham, AFFOR, 1975 |
| (with others) Wednesday's Children, on under-fives provision in Handsworth/Lozells, Birmingham, Community Relations Commission, 1975; Youth Provision in Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton CCR, 1976 |
| Making Them Pay, on the imprisonment of petty offenders, NACRO, 1980 |
| (with Clare Short and others) Immigration Law Handbook, Handsworth Law Centre, 1980 |
| Immigration Factsheets 1-5, JCWI/IAU, 1983/4 |
| No Passports to Services, on local authorities and immigration control, JCWI, 1985 |
| An Immigration Watchdog, on the need for an immigration review body, JCWI, 1986 |
Making Sense of English in Computers , Chambers Harrap, 1993 |
| Entries on popular music and jazz in Cambridge Encyclopedia, 1994, and Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 2000 |
| Shattered Homelands, Scattered Dreams, on asylum-seekers and refugees in Birmingham, BRAP, 2001 |
Experience and skills:
I have a wide range of experience and skills, partly from my employment as described above, and also through extensive voluntary involvement in a number of projects and organisations.
As Director of AFFOR in 1974-6, I ran a small independently-minded organisation, with a staff of around half a dozen, as an informal advice/casework agency, campaigning on race issues, and helping to establish other projects in the Handsworth area of Birmingham. Whilst at AFFOR I convened and chaired the setting-up committee of Handsworth Law Centre, and then became one of the Centre's first employees.
For ten years I worked as a volunteer adviser with Trinity Housing Advice Centre, an independent housing-aid centre in Handsworth, and as a member of its management committee was centrally involved in its development. In 1978, together with Trinity's Senior Housing Adviser, I convened the Handsworth Single Homeless Action Group, which worked to provide accommodation for mainly black young single homeless people; I chaired the Group until I moved briefly to London in 1979, and was one of its two full-time employees in 1980-81.
For a number of years in the ‘70s and ’80s, and again in recent years, I have worked as a volunteer with the Asian Resource Centre in Birmingham, in immigration casework and as a fundraiser. In 2001 I worked as Project Development Worker for the Centre's Immigration and Asylum Resource Project (later ASIRT).
I initiated Handsworth Law Centre's sponsorship of an Immigration Aid Unit serving the West Midlands, undertook fund-raising for the project, and worked there as a Resource Worker between 1981 and 1984: this involved casework, training of legal workers, publications, and campaigning. I was also the first chairperson of the Aekta Clothing Workers Project, again set up under the aegis of Handsworth Law Centre.
In 1985 and 1986 I worked for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to produce two reports, one on local authorities' policies and practices in relation to people's immigration status, and the other on the need for an independent review body to monitor British immigration control. In 1986 I initiated the establishment of a West Midlands branch of JCWI, and carried out fund-raising for the branch. In 1990 I initiated the formation of the Birmingham Black Oral History Project, and in 2009 I worked with others to make material collected by the project available on the Birmingham Black Oral History Project Web site, which is currently being developed to include other related material.
During 1986/87 I assisted Clare Short MP with constituency casework on a voluntary basis, and I accompanied her on trips to Pakistan and Bangladesh to visit families refused entry to join men settled in this country. In 1988-90 I was employed as Clare's constituency assistant, and I worked again for her briefly in 2002-3.
From 1990 to 2000 (part-time from 1994), and again part-time from 2003 to 2006, I worked as an Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman.
In 1993/94 I was Manager of the Independent Immigration Support Agencyin Birmingham. I continue to be involved with nearly all the local independent immigration and asylum projects. I worked with Birmingham Law Centre (formerly B-MAG)to develop and fund-raise for the Hope Destitution Fund (formerly Asylum-Seekers' Destitution Fund), Hope Housing, and other projects working with asylum-seekers and refugees in the West Midlands; and I am currently employed as Co-ordinator of Hope Projects, now an independent organisation.
I have considerable IT skills, particularly in Internet/Web development work, and programming in Perl (including CGI applications), Visual C++, assembly language, PHP and MySQL, Java/Javascript and other languages, as well as a good knowledge of standard micro-computer applications..
In the past I have used my Web programming skills in work, paid and voluntary, for a number of international, national and local voluntary organisations, including BRAC (Bangladesh), Christian Aid, Global Gang, the World Development Movement, Transparency International HQ and TI Chapters in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and the UK, the Red Cross, Landmine Action, Amnesty International, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and Oxfam. Current sites include the Hope Projects and Clare Short's site.
Geoff Wilkins' site and my site Some paradoxes - an anthology each currently receive hundreds of visits a day. My latest sites, still in development, are Richard Feynman and This Joint is Jumpin'.
References:
References may be taken up from the following:
Shari Brown
Chair, Hope Projects
Restore
St George's Community Hub
Great Hampton Row
Newtown
Birmingham
B17 9PT
tel. 0121-236-0069
email info@restore-uk.org
Clare Short
email shortclare@gmail.com
and you are also welcome to contact any of the organisations mentioned above.
May 2012
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