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Panther chameleon: Meditation in the clothing-optional Harbin warm pool, as generator of Harbin culture, is far-reaching and unique, How does this work, and how might we learn about this, and how might we co-create this virtually, and vis-a-vis ethnography? Anthropologically and meditatively, and to explore this, I'm excited about the possibility of creating a virtual Harbin in digital goggles like the Oculus Rift, For riffing with~in the Rift, And especially with interactive, movie realism ... {and eventually as 'class spaces' for WUaS, as well as part of a realistic, virtual earth with avatars}

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Meditation in the clothing-optional Harbin warm pool -

a kind of geothermally heated, warm water-induced relaxation response -

as generator of Harbin culture,

is far-reaching and unique.


{1960's influences contribute to Harbin's milieu in a myriad of ways ... 

parallels with Grateful Dead concerts, for sure, in terms of vibe  :}


How does this work, and how might we learn about this, and how might we co-create this virtually, and vis-a-vis ethnography?


Anthropologically and meditatively, and to explore this, I'm excited about the possibility of

creating a virtual Harbin in digital goggles like the Oculus Rift ...

see, especially ~

"Chameleons: Developing a virtual Harbin, Oculus Rift digital immersive goggles, Claude Monet-informed style, into interactive, and also realistic, 3-D, immersive environments, Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy too (for group building as in OpenSim and Second Life, etc.) ... See, too Virtual Worlds and Wearable Electronics at WUaS, E-Meditation"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/chameleons-developing-virtual-harbin.html ! ~

for riffing with~in the Rift ...

earphones by the ears ...

{and eventually with a brainwave headset} ...


and especially with interactive, movie realism ...

{and eventually as 'class spaces' for WUaS, as well as part of a realistic, virtual earth with avatars}


and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...

where we can all co-make this virtual world, and co-generate ethnography, - and flourishingly ...

as well as the Harbin experience, from our bathtubs ?



























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Adult western barred bandicoot: As World University and School begins to hire, WUaS would like, too, to offer child care for F/friends beginning to develop WUaS potentially at SFFM, In a related vein, WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend," WUaS received a Translation Affiliate agreement with MIT OCW to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian recently

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Hi Uncle N and Friends at SFFM,

Thanks for your email. Quaker-informed World University and School, as I've mentioned in both a 2nd hour presentation at San Francisco Friends' Meeting and in SFFM Business Meeting a few times would like to create numerous jobs, and within the Meeting, too, and also explore renting San Francisco Friends' Meeting during the week, as a WUaS Meeting place as we begin to grow. And as we begin to hire, WUaS would like, too, to offer child care for F/friends beginning to develop WUaS potentially at SFFM.

In a related vein, I'm glad to say, too, that WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend" for 3 issues this autumn, which reads - "Quaker-informed World University and School - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks high school students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in autumn 2014 for free, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degrees." You'll find an introductory video on this page (with SFFM's S.M. in it - yay, S! :), as well as the MIT OCW courses in video, a WUaS wiki page in the Conference Method and G+ group video Hangout information, for planning purposes.

I'm glad to say, also, that WUaS received a Translation Affiliate agreement with MIT OCW to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian recently. With WUaS's all languages-, Wiki- and MIT OCW-centricity, this agreement is what I think will become the beginning of WUaS contributing to translating MIT OCW into many, many languages - (see - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-10-business-meeting-agenda-at.html) - toward online credit and degrees, at the bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. and I.B. diploma levels, and in many, many languages and countries.

So WUaS is interested in exploring further not only a) hiring F/friends / people who might have children, b) providing great child care, but also c) renting SFFM during the week. And Quaker-informed WUaS has much to do this autumn in seeking its first high applicants (application deadline will likely be January 1, 2014) to matriculate online as undergraduates in the autumn 2014.

With F/friendly greetings,
Scott






Western barred bandicoot:





Eastern barred bandicoot:









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Vulturine guinea fowl: Just came across this far-reaching, beautiful and well-known Piobaireachd (classical bagpipe music) The Desperate Battle (of the Birds), played remarkably and transformatively by PM Jack Lee, making it sound like real birds squawking and clucking, and which is also a great recording for learners of this tune, Added it to WUaS's Piobaireachd, wiki, Subject page, Piping, wiki, Subject pages for open teaching and learning are growing at WUaS

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Just came across this far-reaching, beautiful and well-known Piobaireachd (classical bagpipe music) The Desperate Battle (of the Birds), -


"Kieran Blais - An Cath Gailbeach / The Desperate Battle (Piobaireachd)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkkMdCGRbU

... played remarkably and transformatively by PM Jack Lee, making it sound like real birds squawking and clucking, and which is also a great recording for learners of this tune. I've added it to WUaS's Piobaireachd, wiki, Subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r ...

Again, he begins to sound like birds, and might look a little in his tuxedo t-shirt, like a chicken with his head cut off, or a guinea fowl ... very funny, and somehow transformative ... great art, too, and for learners. :)


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Piping, wiki, Subject pages for open teaching and learning are growing at WUaS ~



Bagpipe Tutorials:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Celtic Music:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music

Great Highland Bagpipe:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe

Northumbrian smallpipes:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Northumbrian_smallpipes

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

Uilleann pipes:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Uilleann_pipes




















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Indonesian biodiversity: Malay/Indonesian language, Javanese language, wiki, subject pages at WUaS, Each language will become an online, wiki, MIT OCW-centric university in that language, If you find friends who would like to wiki-develop an university in Indonesian, please invite them to do so, This is a remarkable opportunity to develop a university in one's own language

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Hi Tito, G and Universitians,

Here are two, new, Indonesian language, wiki, subject pages -

Malay/Indonesian language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language

Javanese language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Javanese_language.


As it says on each of these pages, for example, ...

"This Malay/Indonesian language, wiki, subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language - will become an online, wiki, MIT OCW-centric university in the Malay/Indonesian language."


What's far-reaching about WUaS, is that ... Each language will become an online, wiki, MIT OCW-centric university in that language.

I'm getting the names for these languages from Wikipedia here -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers.

Tito, let's communicate again further about developing this MIT OCW-centric university in Malay/Indonesian and in English, and please remember that WUaS is wiki, so if you find friends who would like to wiki-develop an university in Indonesian, please invite them to do so. This is a remarkable opportunity to develop a university in one's own language.

Best regards,
Scott





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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-applying for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of August 2013.

Google + main, WUaS page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts











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Diamond Darter: Wikipedia's 'List of countries by population' suggests that these 10 countries are most populous - China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, And WUaS plans the bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to be in the main and official languages in the above countries, and here's the main - Languages at WUaS page, And here are MIT OCW Translated courses, as a beginning of some of the courseware, and a model for translation - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/, More countries (now 242+) and languages (7,105+) at WUaS to come, as beginnings of online, MIT OCW universities and schools

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Wikipedia's 'List of countries by population' -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population -

suggests that these 10 countries are most populous ...


China
India
United States
Indonesia
Brazil
Pakistan
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Russia
Japan

(I noticed, too, that Wikipedia lists 242 countries, up from the 204+ countries per "The Olympics" which WUaS has been planning for thus far).


WUaS has recently finished beginning wiki pages for each of these 10, each of which WUaS is planning to create an accredited, online, MIT OCW-centric, wiki university, - and all of which you'll find on the WUaS Nation States' page -

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States


China -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China -

India -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India

Indonesia -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Indonesia

Brazil -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brazil


Pakistan - 


Bangladesh -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bangladesh

Nigeria -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nigeria

Russian Federation -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Federation

Japan -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Japan



And WUaS plans the bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to be in the main and official languages in the above countries, and here's the main -

Languages at WUaS page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages -

and check out the main languages on this page, vis-a-vis the above countries.


And here are MIT OCW Translated courses, as a beginning of some of the courseware, and a model for translation -

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/.


Check out, too, the MIT OCW courses on the above pages, with an invitation to you, as well, to teach on these pages.

More countries (now 242+) and languages (7,105+) at WUaS to come, as beginnings of online, MIT OCW universities and schools.



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Again, what's far-reaching about WUaS, is that ... Each language will become an online, wiki, MIT OCW-centric university in that language.

And again, please remember that WUaS is wiki (editable web pages), so if you find friends who would like to wiki-develop an university in their country or language, please invite them to do so, or just email them a wiki page. This is a remarkable opportunity to develop a university in one's own country / language.






















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Darter - Etheostoma: Wikipedia's 'List of languages by number of native speakers' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers - suggests that these 15 languages have most native speakers, And each becomes its own, online, free, accredited, Creative Commons' licensed, wiki, WUaS University, Again EACH OF THE LANGUAGES at WUaS WILL BECOME A MIT OCW-centric UNIVERSITY IN THAT LANGUAGE ...

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Wikipedia's 'List of languages by number of native speakers' -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers -

suggests that these 15 languages have most native speakers (and I've included where these languages are spoken) ...


Mandarin - China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

Spanish - Hispanic America, Spain, United States, Equatorial Guinea
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_language

English - Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Singapore
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

Hindi - India, Fiji, Nepal … (Mutually intelligible with Urdu)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_language

Arabic - North Africa, Western Asia (Middle East), East Africa
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language

Portuguese - Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Portuguese_language

Bengali - Bangladesh, West Bengal (India), Tripura (India), Assam (India)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bengali_language

Russian - Russia, former Republics of the Soviet Union, Mongolia
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_language

Japanese - Japan
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Japanese_language

Punjabi - Punjab region (India, Pakistan)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Punjabi_language

German - Austria, Belgium (Eupen-Malmedy), Germany, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, South Tirol (in Italy)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language

Javanese - Java (Indonesia)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Javanese_language

Wu - Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu (eastern China)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wu_language_(Chinese)

Malay/Indonesian - Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language



WUaS has recently finished beginning wiki pages for each of these 15, each of which WUaS is planning to create an accredited (in their countries), online, MIT OCW-centric, wiki university, - and all of which you'll find on the WUaS Languages' page -


Languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages



And, again, WUaS plans for bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to be in the main and official languages in the above countries, and here's the main -

Nation States at WUaS page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States -

and check out the main nation states on this page, vis-a-vis the above countries.


And here are MIT OCW Translated courses, as a beginning of some of the courseware, and a model for translation -

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/.


(More countries (now 242+) and languages (7,105+) at WUaS to come, as beginnings of online, MIT OCW universities and schools).


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EACH OF THE ABOVE LANGUAGES WILL BECOME A MIT OCW-centric UNIVERSITY IN THAT LANGUAGE ...

as you'll see in the "Ideas" section in one of the United Nations' languages at WUaS, e.g.,  -


Mandarin language (Chinese) 


the above languages will dovetail with  the U.N. languages, for example -



"This Mandarin language (Chinese) language, wiki, subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) - will be an online university in Mandarin, paralleling the other United Nations' languages', wiki, subject pages, which will become MIT OCW-centric, WUaS universities, also in those languages:

Arabic -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language

English -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

French -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language

Mandarin -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

(Persian language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language)

Russian -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_language

Spanish -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_language"



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Again, what's far-reaching about WUaS, is that ... Each language will become an online, wiki, MIT OCW-centric university in that language.

And again, please remember that WUaS is wiki (editable web pages), so if you find friends who would like to wiki-develop an university in their country or language, please invite them to do so, or just email them a wiki page. This is a remarkable opportunity to develop a university in one's own country / language.


Best regards,
Scott






















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Saiga: WUaS is proceeding with BPPE and WASC senior accreditation as a beginning, and seeking student applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in the autumn of 2014, - and, T, if Indonesians are interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric, online degrees in English, WUaS would also plan to hire them eventually to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian, WUaS's first outreach video is here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html ...

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Universitians (and T),

YN at MIT OCW just emailed WUaS the following concerning the Translation Affiliate agreement for translation into Indonesian:

"Unfortunately, we won’t be able to enter into an agreement with the organization at this time. The decision is based upon the World University & School’s current funding situation and translation capacity.

We are open to revisiting an agreement as the situation improves and the organization has a team in place to create Indonesian translations."


WUaS is proceeding with BPPE and WASC senior accreditation as a beginning, and seeking student applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in the autumn of 2014, - and, T, if Indonesians are interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric, online degrees in English, WUaS would also plan to hire them eventually to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian.

Universitians, if you know of students, non-English speaking students who know English all around the world , who might want to apply to (and matriculate online at) free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OpenCourseWare-centric, World University and School in English these autumns 2013 and 2014, please let them know. :) It's a real opportunity.

WUaS's first outreach video is here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.

In a related vein, I'm glad to say, too, that WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend" for 3 issues this autumn, which reads - "Quaker-informed World University and School - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks high school students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in autumn 2014 for free, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degrees."

And WUaS will begin to seek further advertising opportunities around the world to reach overachieving high school students for great universities-centric degrees this autumn, probably in languages and countries with the greatest numbers of speakers and inhabitants, for example, - see these two blog entries ...


"Wikipedia's 'List of languages by number of native speakers' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers - suggests that these 15 languages have most native speakers, And each becomes its own, online, free, accredited, Creative Commons' licensed, wiki, WUaS University, EACH OF THE LANGUAGES at WUaS WILL BECOME A MIT OCW-centric UNIVERSITY IN THAT LANGUAGE ..."

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/darter-etheostoma-wikipedias-list-of.html


"Wikipedia's 'List of countries by population' suggests that these 10 countries are most populous - China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, And WUaS plans the bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to be in the main and official languages in the above countries, and here's the main - Languages at WUaS page, And here are MIT OCW Translated courses, as a beginning of some of the courseware, and a model for translation - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/, More countries (now 242+) and languages (7,105+) at WUaS to come, as beginnings of online, MIT OCW universities and schools"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/diamond-darter-wikipedias-list-of.html


Sincerely,
Scott






- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 


- World University and School - like Wikipedia with Great Universities' OpenCourseWare (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-applying for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of August 2013. 


worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com 







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Cloning endangered animals?: 'Additive manufacturing or 3D printing' and 'Synthetic Biology,' Home printers as manufacturing centers ... wild ... and for life science developments ... cool ...

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Great …

just added "How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue" to World University and School's

'Additive manufacturing or 3D printing' and

'Synthetic Biology,'

wiki, subject pages …


Leckart, Steven. 2013. [http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/how-it-works-3-d-printer-liver-tissue How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue: The first commercial 3-D bioprinter, Organovo's NovoGen MMX Bioprinter, is manufacturing functional liver tissues that will soon help biochemists test new drugs. Here’s a look at the printing process]. August 19. Popular Science.

"How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue"
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/how-it-works-3-d-printer-liver-tissue


Added this to ...

Additive manufacturing or 3D printing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Additive_manufacturing_or_3D_printing

Health Sciences and Technology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Health_Sciences_and_Technology

Life Sciences -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Life_Sciences

Synthetic Biology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_Biology



Home printers as manufacturing centers ... wild ...

and for life science developments ... cool ...

and for cloning endangered animals? ... probably ...










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Elephant: MuseScore | Free music composition and notation software - 'We connected a piano to the internet. It's ready to play your score!' - http://pianolive.musescore.com/ - WUaS Music School, Educational Software, and Music Composition, and this article to the Piano, "In a study by Harvard graduate Chia-Jung Tsay, nearly all participants — including highly trained musicians — were better able to identify the winners of classical music competitions by watching silent video clips than by listening to audio recordings," Connecting MuseScore to your piano opens up musical worlds :)

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Cool ...

'We connected a piano to the internet. It's ready to play your score!'

http://pianolive.musescore.com/

Reunion on a Steinway piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nJHc0Ha04

... will look to add the helpful MuseScore | Free music composition and notation software - http://musescore.org/ - (with bagpipe register, and already at the

WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School#Select_Programs.2C_Applications.2C_Languages.2C_Software ...

Bagpipe Tutorials ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...

Educational Software ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software ... and

Music Composition ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition) and the above article to the

Piano wiki subject page and others at WUaS ... http://worldumiversity.wiki.com/wiki/Piano ...


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"In a study by Harvard graduate Chia-Jung Tsay, nearly all participants — including highly trained musicians — were better able to identify the winners of classical music competitions by watching silent video clips than by listening to audio recordings."

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/the-look-of-music or
http://hvrd.me/14xH7Ef


Scott:
Why? ... may add to Piano wiki subject at WUaS … http://worldumiversity.wiki.com/wiki/Piano ...


WS:

It certainly is counter-intuitive - fascinating.


Scott:

Develop one's own bodymind language as a musical performer for improved playing?


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And connecting MuseScore to your piano opens up worlds :)









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Akia - Wikstroemia uva-ursi: In looking up the word 'virtual' in the great "Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary" (1901), I came across the entries of 'virtu' and 'virtue,' in which I found some relevant definitions, Under the entry 'virtue,' ... [a few definitions in] 'virtual' - "having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact; unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes" ... [and a few definitions further along] 'virtuality,' - "essential nature; potentiality," Defining and thinking through the 'Virtual'

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In looking up the word 'virtual' in the great "Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary" (first published in 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland by W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. - edited by William Geddie, M.A., B.Sc. with the Revised Edition with Supplement, appearing in 1959)

vis-a-vis revising my 400 page actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript (with building a virtual Harbin) and thinking further about the concept of the virtual, vis-a-vis multimedia and digital technologies, and Neil Stephenson's book "Snowcrash" (1992) which led to "Second Life" and possibly "OpenSim" and other virtual worlds ...

I came across the entries of

virtu,

virtue,

in which I found some relevant definitions.


Under the entry

virtu, 

n. a love of the fine arts; taste for curiosities; objects of art or antiquity ...


and under the entry

virtue, ... [a few definitions in]


virtual 
having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact; unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes. ...


[and a few definitions further along]


virtuality, 
essential nature; potentiality


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While I may or may not type out all of the meanings of virtu and virtue from "Chambers," under which I've found the above definitions,

I'll add below my current working definitions of 'virtual' from my book (please remember that in my book I'm coming into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" - Princeton 2008) :



"Virtual Harbin in this book refers to 4 aspects of conceiving of the virtual (the virtual: defined in my manuscript, pp. 39, 76, 122-123, 377,  … ), a) as something “that is so in essence or effect, although not formally or actually,” so something not physical, but also almost or nearly as described; b) “something not physical, but created by software to appear so” (Apple dictionary), both metaphorically, and especially vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs, as visionary, too; visionary here includes giving shape or form to what could be in a shared sense among human bodyminds in culture, and in Harbin's counterculture, vis-a-vis its pool area, can give this form in virtual expressions” c) primatologically, as symbolic or language, and across primate species that use symbols (e.g. Orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, for example), and d) “One useful definition of “virtual” is “a philosophical term meaning 'not actually, but as if'” especially vis-a-vis digitally constructed and informed processes. (In the next volume of my Harbin book project (of possibly five volumes and one, digital, cyber, virtual Harbin), I plan to build a cyber, virtual Harbin Hot Springs, probably as Harbin Bubble Glasses, or emerging cyber glasses, and write about this in terms of a further, actual – virtual ethnographic comparison. Actual, by contrast, here refers to "existing in fact; typically as contrasted with what is … believed, and what is also existing now, … and what … is current" (Apple dictionary). While the virtual here also articulates with the concepts of digital, cyber-, and computer mediated communications, as well as the internet galaxy (per Castells’ book title), virtual is the focus of this book because of the conversation methodologically I engage in with Tom Boellstorff’s “Coming of Age in Second Life” (2008)."


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Concerning the language of defining the word 'virtual,' see also, especially, my July 9, 2013 blog entry

"Loulu: Anthropology of virtual worlds, the Virtual and Techne for Boellstorff, Boellstorff video interview, Defining and thinking through the Virtual vis-a-vis information in my Harbin ethnographic book"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/loulu-anthropology-of-virtual-worlds.html


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I found this definition a few hours later in the online "Chambers 21st Century Dictionary" -


(Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments). Enter your search and choose your title from the drop-down menu.) ... 

http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=virtual&title=21st

virtual adj 1 being so in effect or in practice, but not in name • a virtual state of war2 nearly so; almost but not quite • the virtual collapse of the steel industry3 computing slang referring or relating to interaction, connection, use, etc via the Internet • pay by virtual money4 computingsaid of memory or storage: appearing to be internal but actually transfer-red a segment at a time as required from (and to) back-up storage into (and out of) the smaller internal memory. 
ETYMOLOGY: 17c in sense 1: from Latin virtualis, related to virtue.











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Achatinella sowerbyana: Saw the recent film "Lincoln" (in the Cuttyhunk Methodist Church, with its new African American, summer minister) and was impressed with its language in particular ... Emerging out of abolitionism, I also wondered in what ways Friendly/Quaker testimonies, as practices, might have taken away the seeds of that very bloody American civil war

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Saw the recent film "Lincoln" (in the Cuttyhunk Methodist Church, with its new African American, summer minister Wesley Williamson) and was impressed with its language in particular ...

Emerging out of abolitionism, I also wondered in what ways Friendly/Quaker testimonies, as practices, might have taken away the seeds of that very bloody American civil war ...



SPICES: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity (Honesty), Community, Equality, and Stewardship


An Introduction to Quaker Testimonies.https://afsc.org/testimonies/introduction

Quaker testimonies. http://www.quaker.org.uk/testimonies

Quaker Testimonies.http://www.quakersintheworld.org/home/testimonies.html

The Quaker Testimonies.http://www.quno.org/newyork/Resources/AllQuakerTestimonies.pdf

S-P-I-C-E-S: The Quaker Testimonies.http://www.friendsjournal.org/s-p-i-c-e-s-quaker-testimonies/


(which you'll also find here Quakers - Religious Society of Friends - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends ... and as a nontheist F/friend, as well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29) ...


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See, too,

"Giant Pandas: SPICES - Simplicity, Peace, Integrity (Honesty), Community, Equality, and Stewardship, Quaker-informed WUaS's mission and vision to provide online, MIT OCW-centric, universal education, with university and high school degrees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/giant-pandas-spices-simplicity-peace.html


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Within the context of, for example, dramatizations of epic, historical events, SPICES (and vis-a-vis WUaS, too), I continue to explore how to generate loving bliss neurophysiologies as and when one wants them, and as human primates ...


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I'm glad Steven Spielberg made this film and Rev. Wesley Williamson showed it.










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Bartram's Shadbush: Inspiration in learning at the university and high school levels, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW and as a wiki school in all 7,105 languages and countries?, Other examples of, and ideas for, inspiring higher education teaching and learning, and how to integrate this into wiki World University and School itself, besides with a wiki, Subject page, will appear here ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching ... Looking forward to helping this WUaS wiki page to grow

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Inspiration in learning at the university and high school levels, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW and as a wiki school in all 7,105 languages and countries?


I found Manuel Castells' lectures at UC Berkeley on the Network Society back in 2000 captivating and riveting.

Other examples of, and ideas for, inspiring higher education teaching and learning, and how to integrate this into wiki World University and School itself, besides with a wiki, Subject page, will appear here ...


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching

... looking forward to helping this WUaS wiki page to grow






























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Linces: Improvisation in Mozart quartets? Improvisation in J.S. Bach small musical ensembles? Improvisation with Mozart and Bach, and remarkably creatively? Bobby McFerrin - for example ... Whom else is doing this, and what are various chamber music 'group names' doing this?

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Improvisation in Mozart quartets?

Improvisation in J.S. Bach, small, musical ensembles?

Improvisation with Mozart and Bach, and remarkably creatively?


Bobby McFerrin - for example ...

Chord illustration of Bobby McFerrin's 'Bach improvisation'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWjlNjUltOY

Whom else is doing this, and what are various chamber music 'group names'? Examples from choral music?



Other interesting examples I found on Youtube to come ...














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Sierra light: Digital tool for India studies ... great ... added to WUaS's India, wiki, subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... which is the beginning of an accredited, MIT OCW-centric, online university in India ... (and in all it languages) ... http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ India Place Finder

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Digital tool for India studies ... great ...

"A state-of-the-art digital tool for India studies"
http://m.thehindu.com/news/international/a-stateoftheart-digital-tool-for-india-studies/article5062154.ece/?secid=2780 ...

added to WUaS's India, wiki, subject page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ...

which is the beginning of an accredited, MIT OCW-centric, online university in India ... (and in all it languages) ...


Menon, Parvathi. 2013. [http://m.thehindu.com/news/international/a-stateoftheart-digital-tool-for-india-studies/article5062154.ece/?secid=2780 A state-of-the-art digital tool for India studies]. August 26. New Dehli, India: The Hindu.


and

Mizushima, Tsukasa. 2011. [http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ India Place Finder]. Tokyo, Japan: Mizushima Lab at The University of Tokyo.








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Light: "Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows," To Language at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language ...

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To 'Language' at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language ...


"Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826180526.htm


Barncard, Chris. 2013. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826180526.htm Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows]. August 26. sciencedaily.com.


... Language is so far-reaching and WUaS has many language and linguistic subjects, as well as plans for universities and schools in all 7,105 languages ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ...











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Massachusetts' floods: "By 2050, sea-levels could rise as much as 26 inches. Speculation on how to remake coastline city infrastructures" in Harvard Gazette, Ocean and Climate Management Plan, wiki, page at WUaS, This week I was in Boston, which lies very close to sea level, with storms flooding its rivers occasionally. In what ways are the museums along the Fenway such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum planning for such dramatic changes?

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"By 2050, sea-levels could rise as much as 26 inches. Speculation on how to remake coastline city infrastructures" - http://hvrd.me/14m6CMx
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/ideas-to-build-on/



Ocean and Climate Management Plan, wiki, page at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


How are cities planning for ocean level rise?


This week I was in Boston, Massachusetts, which lies very close to sea level, with storms flooding its rivers occasionally. In what ways are the museums along the Fenway such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum planning for such dramatic changes?











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Capsicum annuum - Solanaceae: "Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold," "List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow," ... added to the Programming, wiki, Subject page at WUaS ... ... excited to see how such resources will dovetail with WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology" - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/ - which you'll find in the Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS

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Will look to add this


"Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold"

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb400058n?journalCode=asbcd6


(Shao, Zengyi, Guodong Rao, Chun Li, Zhanar Abil, Yunzi Luo, and Huimin Zhao. 2013. [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb400058n?journalCode=asbcd6 Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold]. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society - Synthetic Biology. )

to


Synthetic Biology -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_Biology - and


Genomics -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genomics -

at WUaS.



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"List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow" ...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books/392926#392926


... added to the Programming, wiki, Subject page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Programming ...


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... excited to see how such resources will dovetail with WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like

Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology"
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/

which you'll find in the
Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biology ...









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Northern California dragonflies: During and after a good soak when everything comes into harmony and ease and great concordance, neurophysiologically, Virtual Harbin, Bagpipe competitions, Loving bliss neurosphysiology nine hours a day when desired, with consciousness

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During and after a good soak (like earlier today), most often in the warm pool, when everything comes into harmony and ease and great concordance, neurophysiologically, I remember more fulsomely what brings me to Harbin again and again ... am glad I navigated to the pools, through various ‘winds.’ ... The freedoms of it’s clothing-optionalness seem to offer a window of opening, too, and which openness also keeps Harbin alive to the naked serenity and meditations in/of the pool area. 

Harbin is ~ what it is, ... even as it gradually changes and grows over the years emerging from the '60s as it does.


         I think I’m homing in on good definitions of ‘virtual’ with which to move further in my revisions of my manuscript, as well as ways to address having written about building a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site, but not having actually built it yet.


         In what way can I focus these notes for volume 2 of my actual virtual Harbin book project, and group building virtual Harbin in the Oculus Rift or in something like the good fitting, and cool, REI Glacier Glasses, as unfolding ethnographic field site, when and as interactive movie realism emerges.

         Competing on my bagpipe on Friday and Saturday, and possibly Sunday, at the Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton. 


         Interested ongoingly in realizing loving bliss nine hours a day when desired, with awareness or consciousness. May begin a new WUaS wiki subject page on 'Daily loving bliss elicitation' - in addition to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) -  and how to generate this for oneself and with friends with music … what tunes, and how sung, or how to sing them?





Far-reaching, warm water informed relaxation response in the Harbin warm pool ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response

in which Watsu emerged ...  














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Rock bridges: September 8, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School, MIT OCW Translation Affiliate into Malay/Indonesian language, MIT student application

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September 8, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
Saturday, September 8, 2013
9 am, Pacific Time
accessible here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts


1. Welcome and Greetings - News

a.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate

T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G

G in Indonesia - meeting

I'm following up with YN at MIT OCW about 10 initial courses to translate into Indonesian (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language), that might also be a basis for WUaS eventually studying how students learn in exchange for WUaS free degrees (ideally hiring MIT graduate students, for example, as graduate student instructors), as WUaS begins to matriculate students (online Indonesians, especially, for 32 courses for a free, undergraduate degree) first in English, and then in other languages (beginning with United Nations' languages among others). I think you said that of the 7-8 MIT OCW languages, 3 had one course in common.


b. Accreditation
b.1
BPPE

For the BPPE forms, and as a start, WUaS is looking for

a Chief Academic Officer

a Chief Operating Officer and

$5000 to pay the fees to BPPE


b.2
WASC Senior

$12,500 initially


c.
Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore


d.
WUaS tax-exempt status update


e.
WUaS Student Application for this autumn

e.1
RS
DME

e.2
combine with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and  Wikidata

e.3

MIT Freshman Applicants
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates

e.4
WUaS would like to get started with developing the WUaS student application per WUaS Board member Tito Dimas's request a few weeks ago, - for Indonesian students first in English. Here's MIT's actual application - http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates - and WUaS is seeking to matriculate online a class of possibly 2000 undergraduates in the autumn of 2014 in English.

Could we please possibly begin this WUaS form possibly in a Google form, vis-a-vis a secure WUaS registrar, and eventually coding this in SQL with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and  Wikidata/MediaWiki in mind, or in other ways you would suggest, and eventually in all languages?


f.
Fundraising events

f.1
G
S

f.2
Crowd funding, and at least getting the word out?


Cytocomp example:

"The team with the most bit coins raised or the most tweets will get promotion.

You can be a part of this in several ways:

1) Go to the app and press the tweet button

2) donate some bit coins and get exiting rewards, be one of the first 100 people in the world to get hand on a revolutionary product

If you do not have BitCoins, they can be easily purchased at https://coinbase.com or if you press the order with Bitcoins button (Don`t have any Bitcoins) on http://cytocomp-bitstarter-mooc.herokuapp.com

Thanks for your support.

BTW CytoComp is for the moment among the Top 10 Social. You can have a look at the leader board here http://startupmooc.org.


Thanks in advance for your support."


g.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate

T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G

G in Indonesia - meeting


h.
h.1
Western Friend and advertising

h.2
other Quaker advertising

h.3
advertising in Indonesia

h.4
advertising in the US


i.
Minutes
WUaS also plans to improve our Minutes and distributing them after each WUaS monthly business meeting (2nd Saturdays of the month), as well as WUaS committee meetings.


j.
"Information Technology and the Network Society" course

j.1
In preparing to teach a C.C. free, online course this autumn called "Information Technology and the Network Society," - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sumatran-elephants-mcgill-thesis-and.html - probably on Harvard's virtual island in SL (where I've taught this course for 7 semesters in the past) and in Google + group video Hangouts, I'd like to develop it further in Google course builder with a MIT OCW course template for a model, if one exists. Do you know of a MIT OCW course template or similar? Would it be best to model my course on, for example, MIT OCW's Introduction to Psychology or similar, in terms of MIT OCW structure?

j.2
This class will meet possibly on Thursdays, and not on Saturdays



k.
First year required courses at WUaS?


k.1 
Humanities 101 vis-a-vis Reed College's first year Hum 110 but online


k.2
WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like

Professor Eric Lander and friends'"Fundamentals of Biology"

which you'll find in the 
Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS -



See, too, World University and School's blog entry ... 
"September 8, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School"


















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Yosemite: Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton, They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing, Am enjoying Corvus Corax from Germany and their piping on bagpipes from the Middle Ages, Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland

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Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton in the SF Bay Area's East Bay are happening this Saturday and Sunday.

They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, and have a lot going on (these games are big in a good way)

http://www.thescottishgames.com/

http://www.caledonian.org/

Visitors can pay at the gate to the Games (about $20 for a day).

(I'm competing on bagpipes :)



Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games (and these particularly Scottish Games are in the United States) informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing.


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Am enjoying Corvus Corax and their piping - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWS1xUkUaA  ...

Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zvKbl1R54 - these days.


Here's a helpful page on piping, among many piping pages, at wiki (editable) World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...










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