Well do I remember those cold winter days and nights when thousands queued silently to pay their respects to one of greatest figures of history.
And I remember the journey on the Thames barge, as if a salute by Royalty to a great Commoner.
To realize that was 50 years ago means we who remember him still have become a part of history.
Map of gaza; Wikimedia Commons
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-a-rizvi/picking-a-side-in-israel-palestine_b_5602701.html
‘Both sides of this conflict need to compromise’ John Kerry. By the way the USA paid for the bombs that did the damage in Gaza and will pay for most of the aid to rebuild it.
Billions of dollars that could have been spent constructively-treating malaria and Ebola for example.
Also bizarre seeing the commemoration of the centenary of the start of the ‘war to end wars’ by Britain juxtaposed on the TV news with pictures of the Israelis waging a ‘hightech war’ bombing Gaza installations and incurring heavy and predictable civilian casualities in the process.
Syria is cooperating with the inspectors to destroy chemical weapons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24424933
Pope Francis has a conversation with Eugenio Scalfari….How the Church must change. ‘You need to meet people and listen to them.’
http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/01/news/pope_s_conversation_with_scalfari_english-67643118/
Oracle retains America’s cup for the USA after a series of races that has transformed sailing for ever and demonstrates how teamwork can transform a situation.
People who look for good news.
http://www.happynews.com/
http://positivenews.org.uk/
Blood red towards the east was the sky that morning
But here was no blood, just desperate writhing bodies
Foaming at the mouth and gasping, struggling there.
Looking towards Syria that fateful morning.
But there was no blood, so why the red?
Perhaps it’s Gaia‘s blush of shame.
An attack at night on sleeping children.
Looking towards Syria. She tries to understand.
In future years the old soldier talking with yet unborn children….
Oh yes! He said, I was part of the brigade that did the gas attacks.
For there were many! He talked,eyes shining, standing straight.
“I saved my country then and I am proud to tell you that.”
Looking towards Syria and trying to understand.
Text and photographs geoff clements
All for one and one for all!
Appalled the world watches while children burn!
Horrified the spectators stare! So many maimed.
This is not a Virtual Reality show!
This is real! in living rooms everywhere!
Now! Do something! and act decisively!
But how?
Albi cathedral The Last Judgement.
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No quiz show with the answer there!
Real people dying on-screen now!
Death is no bluff to be postponed!
Or a political position
Taken at one’s choice!
It is there! Inevitable! For us all.
But now?
Syrian traditional costume. traveladventures.org
Details on Syria and an interactive map..
http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/syrian-people12.html
Is there no other way but force?
So many have died already.
Use our imagination and humanity.
Syria is a country of the bible,
Proud peoples with an ancient history.
The world wishes that no more should die.
Gassed in their sleep like rats.
A dirty deed that no one claims.
Women and children are fleeing
Leaving their men behind to fight and die.
Let us think. There are other ways.
Who is standing for what over Syria?
Stand up! Stand up and be counted!
Geoff Clements
The submarine base being built;
The Submarine Base Bordeaux now (Google)
Present and past are mixing now.
The veil of present sifting
Always sifting through the past.
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Isn’t she like her mother!
Such a joker, always laughing!
Blonde hair and so keen on the boys!
Hope she doesn’t end up in trouble!
I remember being stuck in a tram
Stuck in a tram during an air raid
On the Pont de Pierre
Nothing to be done but sit and hope.
The RAF was bombing the Nazi submarine base.
Two kilometers away down the river.
If they missed French lives were lost.
It is still there built by slave labour.
Impossible to destroy even now!
Thousands of tons of concrete reinforced
With railway lines. The bombs bounced
Off the roof when they hit directly.
Now a marine base and exhibition centre
With many coloured flags, modern art
And children playing. So different
From that dark night many years ago.
That I remember and which colours the present.
So when I am gone, who will remember?
Will some one carry the flame of that night
For those who died for us to be free.
Text Geoff Clements
French translation,: thanks, Anne Marie Clements
The origin of the term ‘entropy’, a measure of the quantity of information
within a signal.
I didn’t realize [Turing] was as important as he was.
— Claude Shannon1
In late 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, John von Neumann began assembling a small group of engineers at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton to design, build, and program an electronic digital computer. In the spring of that year, von Neumann had visited Los Alamos (specifically, the target selection committee of the Manhattan Project, the group responsible for choosing the first targets of the atomic bomb) to oversee computations related to the expected size of atomic bomb blasts, estimated death tolls, and the distance above the ground at which the bombs should be detonated for maximum effect (Rhodes, 1986). When von Neumann arrived at the IAS, his focus had shifted. “I am thinking about something much more important than bombs,” he remarked in 1946. “I am thinking about computers”…
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A eyewitness’s description of the bombing of Hiroshima.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/guns-love-them-or-hate-th_b_3193330.html
The Italian psychoanalyst Luigi Zoja interviewed by Pythia Peay. His perspective on the issues around owning guns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/drones-torture-technology_b_3237953.html
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