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Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages


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Here is my new book, Friends ~ "Naked Harbin Ethnography" with a virtual world aspect, and many mentions of Quakers ~ with Discount code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... and which you can order at - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 .
Here is my new book, Friends ~ "Naked Harbin Ethnography" with a virtual world aspect, and many mentions of Quakers ~ with Discount code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... and which you can order at - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 .


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To "Teaching " and to "Theories of Learning" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Teaching - and - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning - around best STEM CC OCW at World University and School, planned in countries' main and official languages.


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Bagpiping and Scottish Country Dancing demonstrations with competition team at the Caledonian Club of SF's 151st Scottish Highland Games in Pleasanton beginning tonight and going through Sunday late - http://www.thescottishgames.com/ .


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To Costa Rica World University & School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Costa_Rica - planned in Spanish, and accrediting on CC MIT OCW for free degrees ... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/ ... while also developing as wiki for open teaching and learning in all subjects - and where you can teach!
#Wikidata - La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica
#Marketing is something the #Wikimedia Foundation does not do. It does not mean that concepts like KPI are foreign to the WMF. Take this list from the English article " La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica " the women listed are "women who have broken ge...


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There's floating at Harbin ... into the Virtual Harbin here ...

Manatee: Very first two paper copies of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book today, Will get 5 different channels for distribution via CreateSpace in the very first book in the new Academic Press at World University and School, planned in each of all 7,943 languages with machine translation, AI and machine learning, Very first book in Academic Press ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/manatee-very-first-two-paper-copies-of.html


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Hi B, A, R, :)

Here's Rees and I playing Amazing Grace on practice chanters a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1uB2I2qnE :)

A fan of Steeleye Span from the early 70s especially (and folk rock too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music) - here's "Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again" (great name for an album:)) from them from 1971 ... https://open.spotify.com/album/5rXXUQOu5zelG0Rb4Va7pR or https://play.spotify.com/album/56fS1iUenSQIITEmBwm5kp (which I hadn't heard of before) and on the good Spotify radio channel maker ...

I'd like to explore creating recordings (with you all, and online?) coming into conversation with such, perhaps emerging out of our music playing spaces. Are any of you Steeleye Span fans? (I don't recall that they play with pipes very much).

I'm attaching Amazing Grace in 5 parts ... might be fun to explore playing together in terms of singing, as well as singing harmony lines while playing Scottish smallpipes, as well as exploring in terms of musicality ...

Which versions of Amazing Grace make people cry with happiness and why (and how)? :) The relative slowness of Amazing Grace (and its beauty) may allow us to explore how make music online together in real time with Alan in New Zealand (over Android smartphones which synch with Google Hangouts .... still wouldn't resolve Alan's distance)! Here's Rees and I playing Amazing Grace on practice chanters a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1uB2I2qnE :)

To exploring "Music Playing Spaces" on Tuesdays from 8-9 or 10 pm in a few weeks ... to begin ... (after my shoulder heals a little further, and explicitly for exploring happiness / bliss generation through group music making:)


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A little Krishna action here ... what's the dance between Krishna & Yoga in Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and in India ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... ?


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There's some Yoga in these masterpieces from India ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India World University and School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... planned in Hindi and other official languages there for free CC University and high school online degrees.


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To Earth, _Atmospheric, _and_Planetary_Sciences ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences ... and Space ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Space ... and Aerospace Engineering ... http: // worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Aerospace_Engineering ... and Geology ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Geology ... Planned in MANY Countries' languages. ..
A new technique from the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences may help the 2020 Mars rover select rocks to study for signs of life.

#Mars#Astrobiology#Space#NASA#Geology#MIT


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Are we surfing the internet? :)


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Would like Wiki World Universitians around the world to tell World University and School what to do ... worlduniversityandschool.org ... (accrediting on best STEM CC OpenCourseWare for free university degrees in all countries' main languages) ... Harvards of the Web ... including open Yoga wiki schools / subjects ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... planned in many languages
Would like Wiki World Universitians around the world to tell World University and School what to do ... worlduniversityandschool.org ... (accrediting on best STEM CC OpenCourseWare for free university degrees in all countries' main languages) ... Harvards of the Web ... including open Yoga wiki schools / subjects ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... planned in many languages


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Would like Wiki World Universitians around the world to tell World University and School what to do ... worlduniversityandschool.org ... (accrediting on best STEM CC OpenCourseWare for free university degrees in all countries' main languages) ... Harvards of the Web ... including open Yoga wiki schools / subjects ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... planned in many languages


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Indonesian traditional dancing ... interesting https://plus.google.com/+FarizDarari/posts/MnifPXqTonN ... To Indonesia World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IndonesiaPlanned in Indonesian languages with free best STEM CC OpenCourseWare university degrees (accrediting on MIT OCW and Yale OYC) ... Thank you, Fariz!
Indonesian traditional dancing ... interesting https://plus.google.com/+FarizDarari/posts/MnifPXqTonN ... To Indonesia World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Indonesia Planned in Indonesian languages with free best STEM CC OpenCourseWare university degrees (accrediting on MIT OCW and Yale OYC) ... Thank you, Fariz!


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A collaboration between MIT and Brazilian researchers has identified a promising drug target for three serious diseases.

#enzyme#newdrug#newtreatment#MIT


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Inveraray & District bagpipe band’s Medley http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044l47s & MSR http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044kkwt - Inveraray IS overall CHAMPION at the Worlds in Glasgow this year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inveraray_%26_District_Pipe_Band - This post to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ... Congratulations PM Stuart LIddell!


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The Inaugural CUHK Research Summit "Digital Methods and Social Development" will be held this Sunday (August 21st) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. You can watch all talks live broadcast online at http://ow.ly/be1s303h8Cg.

Thanks, Jack and AoIR!

Here's Hong Kong World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hong_Kong (before moving into a new wiki emerging from Wikidata/Wikibase, which is Wikipedia's 3 1/2 year old database now in 358 languages).

And here's China World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China - planned in Mandarin for free best STEM CC OpenCourseWare university degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. ((as well as IB high school)), accrediting on, for example, CC MIT OCW in Mandarin - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/.

And here's the beginning China Law School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS - also planned in Mandarin, and potentially other main languages in China and Hong Kong. WUaS is also planned as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in ALL languages in China and Hong Kong (and in all 7,943 languages too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages).

And here's the beginning Mandarin language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) .

Thanks for sharing information about online video streaming of this "Digital Methods and Social Development" conference in Hong Kong! (Glad to see that Isaac Mao is presenting and a panelist too!). WUaS will look to add online resources from this conference after WUaS moves to our new wiki.

Cheers,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
The Inaugural CUHK Research Summit "Digital Methods and Social Development" will be held this Sunday (August 21st) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. You can watch all talks live broadcast online at http://ow.ly/be1s303h8Cg.

Thanks, Jack and AoIR!

Here's Hong Kong World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hong_Kong (before moving into a new wiki emerging from Wikidata/Wikibase, which is Wikipedia's 3 1/2 year old database now in 358 languages).

And here's China World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China - planned in Mandarin for free best STEM CC OpenCourseWare university degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. ((as well as IB high school)), accrediting on, for example, CC MIT OCW in Mandarin - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/.

And here's the beginning China Law School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS - also planned in Mandarin, and potentially other main languages in China and Hong Kong. WUaS is also planned as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in ALL languages in China and Hong Kong (and in all 7,943 languages too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages).

And here's the beginning Mandarin language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) .

Thanks for sharing information about online video streaming of this "Digital Methods and Social Development" conference in Hong Kong! (Glad to see that Isaac Mao is presenting and a panelist too!). WUaS will look to add online resources from this conference after WUaS moves to our new wiki.

Cheers,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch


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Bite the cat on the butt turtle :)
Don't you hate when that happens?

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New Scotland - Nova Scotia in Canada ... To Canada World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Canada planned in all its languages including Gaelic and First Nations' languages ... !


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Inveraray & District bagpipe band’s Medley http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044l47s& MSR http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044kkwt - Inveraray IS overall CHAMPION at the Worlds in Glasgow this year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inveraray_%26_District_Pipe_Band - This post to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ... Congratulations PM Stuart LIddell!


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Eric Clapton
From the DVD "Eric Clapton & Friends"
Live at Madison Square Garden Concert
in NY,US. 1999.

🎧 Sunshine of Your Love
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=yt2KyRyr6Zw

🎧 Layla
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=GCY3Mx2ZjUA

🎧 Wonderful Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=AHeuVFodZxE

🎧 *Old Love*👍👍💕
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=INaQLP0TnSY

🎧 *River of Tears*👍👍💕
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=zYFlKjRq7xQ

🎧 *Little Wing*👍👍👍👍💕
(Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and David Sanborn)
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=EYoZOw_d_d4


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Sunheart-sen!

Yay, Shannon! ... To "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/MrQ53Ts21fA ...

Will check into the Harbin conversation in FB further and again after I get my Harbin book indexed ... you seem sporadic in FB ... Castells was suggesting that the sociological evidence in the 1990s for sociality increasing re the internet existed, contrary to those pundits who were suggesting that the internet was alienating us (probably a Marxian theme) ...

ain't nuthin' like soaking in the Harbin warm pool live, tho ...

Jaima, Scott
Sunheart-sen!

Yay, Shannon! ... To "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/MrQ53Ts21fA ...

Will check into the Harbin conversation in FB further and again after I get my Harbin book indexed ... you seem sporadic in FB ... Castells was suggesting that the sociological evidence in the 1990s for sociality increasing re the internet existed, contrary to those pundits who were suggesting that the internet was alienating us (probably a Marxian theme) ...

ain't nuthin' like soaking in the Harbin warm pool live, tho ...

Jaima, Scott


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Open Band ~ Scottish Country Dance Hallowe'en ~ Berkeley
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Open Band ~ Scottish Country Dance Hallowe'en ~ Berkeley
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Open Band ~ Scottish Country Dance Hallowe'en ~ Patti Cobb on piano, et moi,, a little wraith-like or ghoul-ish ~ Berkeley
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Open Band ~ Scottish Country Dance Hallowe'en ~ Patti Cobb on piano, et moi,, a little wraith-like or ghoul-ish ~ Berkeley
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Muir Woods in Marin with my mother a year ago. .. #GooglePhotos
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To the MIT wiki subject at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Physicsplanned in all 8k languages
MIT physicists are proposing a new experiment to detect a dark matter particle called the axion. If successful, the effort could crack one of the most perplexing unsolved mysteries in particle physics, as well as finally yield a glimpse of dark matter.

#darkmatter#universe#physics#MIT
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One year ago in and around Stanford with my mother Jane Macleod and cousins Alden & Marianne Briscoe #GooglePhotos
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The New Federal President: The Head of Die Linke ("the Left" party) in Germany suggests Steinmeier is unelectable (too unpopular)  ... To Germany World University and School, planned in German ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Germany ... (New Federal President: Left-Wing CEO considers Steinmeier "unwählbar"
Bernd Riexinger considers Frank-Walter Steinmeier to be "unpopular" - SPIEGEL ONLINE)
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Outamba Kilimi Park, Sierra Leone: Very first "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Releasing Party/Reading by meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs ~http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~Su 10/9 9am, Sierra valley ~5000 ft @ Sierra Hot Springs near airstrip~With Harbin Hot Springs 2 Anthro field sites~MIT Media Lab/SocSci grad students?, Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :) ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/outamba-kilimi-park-sierra-leone-very.html ...
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Cetonia aurata: How many further ways could we use a 15 foot cubed augmented reality "classroom" AROUND us?, Besides a STEM field site in all 8k languages, and for digital libraries and museums, in each of all 8k languages, Here are some possibilities: Digital humanities' project, Digital history around us from film/news, Digital stage set / opera space, Digital hospital / operating room, Digital brain at nano, molecular and neuronal levels, Digital galaxy for scientific space travel, Digital store (any store on earth), Digital ecosystem, A film production set, Synthetic biology/evolutionary biological laboratory, A way to travel to a 1968 Grateful Dead concert and be in the middle of it, and then with time slider to travel to a 1978 show for example, all by adding Youtube videos and converting them to avatars and augmented reality, Scutelleridae: Open "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book from within 15 ft cubed augmented reality "LIBRARY" around you from BATH TUB & enter Harbin warm pool~culture?
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/cetonia-aurata-how-many-further-ways-we.html
Cetonia aurata: How many further ways could we use a 15 foot cubed augmented reality "classroom" AROUND us?, Besides a STEM field site in all 8k languages, and for digital libraries and museums, in each of all 8k languages, Here are some possibilities: Digital humanities' project, Digital history around us from film/news, Digital stage set / opera space, Digital hospital / operating room, Digital brain at nano, molecular and neuronal levels, Digital galaxy for scientific space travel, Digital store (any store on earth), Digital ecosystem, A film production set, Synthetic biology/evolutionary biological laboratory, A way to travel to a 1968 Grateful Dead concert and be in the middle of it, and then with time slider to travel to a 1978 show for example, all by adding Youtube videos and converting them to avatars and augmented reality, Scutelleridae: Open "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book from within 15 ft cubed augmented reality "LIBRARY" around you from BATH TUB & enter Harbin warm pool~culture?
Cetonia aurata: How many further ways could we use a 15 foot cubed augmented reality "classroom" AROUND us?, Besides a STEM field site in all 8k languages, and for digital libraries and museums, in each of all 8k languages, Here are some possibilities: Digital humanities' project, Digital history around us from film/news, Digital stage set / opera space, Digital hospital / operating room, Digital brain at nano, molecular and neuronal levels, Digital galaxy for scientific space travel, Digital store (any store on earth), Digital ecosystem, A film production set, Synthetic biology/evolutionary biological laboratory, A way to travel to a 1968 Grateful Dead concert and be in the middle of it, and then with time slider to travel to a 1978 show for example, all by adding Youtube videos and converting them to avatars and augmented reality, Scutelleridae: Open "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book from within 15 ft cubed augmented reality "LIBRARY" around you from BATH TUB & enter Harbin warm pool~culture?
scott-macleod.blogspot.com
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Vision opportunity streaming online now -Inauguration of Pres Marc Tessier-Lavigne https://t.co/nnOL6fJA7s
https://t.co/m36MJTIdkY
Check out @WorldUnivAndSch's Tweet: https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/789500687432445953?s=09
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Wikidata research showcase at 11:30 am PT - https://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts/5ejaeSpAUuv?_utm_source=1-2-2 - To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems and WUaS /wiki Planned in Wikipedia's 358 Langs -+ ...
In 1 hour Charlie will talk about her work on editing Wikidata from Wikipedia in the Wikimedia Research Showcase:
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Conversation with President Barack Obama​ on ethics, society, regulation for self-driving cars and medicine and role of neurodiversity. ... To some wiki Subjects at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... Planned in many languages
Conversation with President Barack Obama​ on ethics, society, regulation for self-driving cars and medicine and role of neurodiversity.
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Our first Open Source Report Card reflects on top languages used, the most popular projects Google has released and some of the most interesting projects released this year.
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15 students worked with NRNB on open source software that supports network biology research. Learn more in our latest wrap-up post:
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Piping in the Bay Area 3 years ago #GooglePhotos
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Stanford talk 3 years ago ... #GooglePhotos
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To "Forestry""Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" and "Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan" ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Forestry and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan wiki subjects, planned in many languages
Keeping forests intact is worth US$523 billion–1.165 trillion over the next 20 years for Brazil alone, top economist calculates - and indigenous people can help
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Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space  ~~~ :)

~Scott
(Sierra Hot Springs, Sierraville, CA, October 9, 2016)

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Upcoming Harbin book releases' schedule - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook - one from UC Berkeley Anthropology's department Gifford Room streamed online ....
Calopteryx: Harbin Book Readings/Signings' Schedule (updating), UC Berkeley Anthro Dept. 11/11, 2 Lake County libraries 11/5, "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" by Scott MacLeod, Will learn a lot more about Harbin anthropologically in new ways in public conversations/talks/readings/signings of my Harbin book, - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/calopteryx-harbin-book-readingssignings.html .... Kinda on an e-mission to share about Harbin re "physical - o that warm water releasing meditation - or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy" :)
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How will WUaS in a realistic virtual earth like in Street View with time slider map cells (and atoms too) - http://3tags.org/article/new-map-finally-reveals-a-global-genetic-network-of-life - with, for example, Jeff Dean's neuron in Google Brain for robust developing Artificial Intelligence, develop and re http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences ?
How will WUaS in a realistic virtual earth in Street View with time slider map cells (and atoms too) - http://3tags.org/article/new-map-finally-reveals-a-global-genetic-network-of-life - with Jeff Dean's neuron in Google Brain for robust developing Artificial Intelligence?
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"Naked Harbin Ethnography" now an eBook! ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ with Kindle edition, readable on ANY device, - from Academic Press at WUaS
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Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages
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Muir woods with my letter
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Harvard student scholar-rocker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRoFCQTPzyQ Brynn Elliott ’18 studies Philosophy & writes rock songs with this - To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy& http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll
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What is happening here with beautiful floral wreath, and yogically as well (and in what language)? To Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India .
आज कुशीनगर में विशाल सभा को संबोधित करने का मौका मिला। यहां आए सभी नागरिकों का बहुत बहुत आभार। http://nm-4.com/tzmy
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Thanks and greetings. Here's Brazil World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brazil - not yet in Portuguese language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Portuguese_language (and Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is moving to a new wiki emerging out of CC Wikidata). CC WUaS seeks to offer free CC university (and high school) degrees https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/portuguese/ ACCREDITING on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in Portuguese. And CC WUaS seeks to increase by translation the number of CC MIT OCW courses building on their open license. How and with whom best to communicate further about this? (I'm sorry but I don't speak Portuguese). Thank you, Scott (http://worlduniversityandschool.org)
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To Energy Technologies and Energy Courses and Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan wiki subject pages -- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Courses and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan....
New findings suggest a route toward using the world’s existing infrastructure for fuel storage and distribution, without adding net greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere.

#greenhousegasses#sustainability#greenenergy#MIT
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Monsieur Professeur Latour ~Superb ! https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=SZQjsw5xx1s To /Ecology, /Science & /GLOBALIZATION at WUaS
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects)
@LatourBot with great Harvard panel too 
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Artificial Intelligence at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence - planned in all countries' main languages for accrediting degrees ... check out its great CC MIT OpenCourseWare
It's time to get hands-on with A.I. Explore #aiexperiments and play with pictures, drawings, music, code, and more → http://g.co/aiexperiments
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Canyon, CA, 8 years' ago ...#GooglePhotos
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Great ... to MIT at WUaS ...
"Whatever may change in Washington, I believe there is great power in remembering that it will not change the values and the mission that unite us.” —MIT President L. Rafael Reif

#Election2016#MIT
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Friends Committee on National Legislation's recent letter from Executive Secretary Diane Randall "Looking Forward" ...
http://fcnl.actionkit.com/mailings/view/6937?akid=6937.11702.cl3w_k ...
Looking Forward
Looking Forward
fcnl.actionkit.com
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MuseScore Crash Course ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaitaNxyd8SE_D6PtNvA5vXn8VpXsbA7Z !!! To "Music Composition" wiki subject at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition (check out the great OCW) in the ALL instruments/ALL languages Music School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ...
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MuseScore Crash Course ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaitaNxyd8SE_D6PtNvA5vXn8VpXsbA7Z !!! To "Music Composition" wiki subject at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition (check out the great OCW) in the ALL instruments/ALL languages Music School at WUaS.
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Estonia World University and School ...

Very nice to meet you yesterday at - https://events.stanford.edu/events/637/63739/ - and what an interesting presentation and information sharing!

Here are the very beginnings of wiki Estonia World University and School (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Estonia), and Estonian language WUaS (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Estonian_language), not yet with MIT OCW in Estonian - https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts/PP1G56btptN - and before WUaS emerges newly from Wikidata (Wikipedia's 4 year old database developing for Wikipedia's 358 languages) into a new, better wiki.

What would be the best way to communicate further about developing Estonia WUaS in Estonian (and possibly the other Baltic States' WUaSs as well)?

(And here is the beginning Russia WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Federation - not yet in Russian).

And here are CC MIT OCW Translated Courses in 6 languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ which CC WUaS will add to CC Wikidata.

With an explicit multi-lingual focus at CC WUaS, what would be helpful for Estonians re free, CC MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school diplomas eventually?

Looking forward to communicating further about this over time! And very nice to meet all of you!

Best regards, Scott
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Just emailed this to some "Music Playing Space" friends, one of whom lives in New Zealand for this evening (group playing for learning - independently yet socially - in a group video hangout)!

Does anyone know of a good free "music slower downer" application (for Android or MacBook laptop) ... to slow down, for example, String Fire's "Excited States" (if I had this digitally) for playing with it (on keyboard or pipes) and learning. 

I like the free "Soundcorset" and "BPMDetector" well enough for the musical things they do for Android smart sphones (but welcome learning of even better free apps in these categories). 

(SoundCorset Tuner and Metronome - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soundcorset.client.android&hl=en )
(Beats per Minute detector - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BPMDetector&hl=en )

Scott
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Stanford Law: U.S. Court of Appeals Sets High Bar for Legal Translation; Seminars in Asia - http://enews.law.stanford.edu/t/ViewEmail/r/E8CD85D3A4EBB7AC2540EF23F30FEDED/F8BE111D325A1982DBC23BD704D2542D - WUaS hopes to create excellent Legal Translation (so importantly) in our WUaS Law Schools (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS) in all countries' main & official languages and with our WUaS Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator
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The future is here: MIT engineers have created bionic plants that can send us text messages when they detect dangerous chemicals.

#engineering#chemistry#biology#nanotech#technews#MIT
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To Biological Engineering http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Engineering and Entrepreneurship http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship at WUaS - Planned in all countries' main languages ...
Young scientists ditch postdocs for biotech start-ups
Academia has no future
http://go.nature.com/2ejlGlH
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Yogically, what happens to our consciousness when we read, watch and understand Yonatan's post here? (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness) ... and how would this work in a realistic virtual earth - re a Harbin warm pool in Google Street View, for example?
Today, a simple illustration of physics. You might wonder why so much liquid splashes backwards; you can see what's happening most clearly with the water bottle (second from the bottom). The bullet strikes the liquid and starts transferring energy to it. (That energy transfer is why a bullet damages things) This, in turn, pushes a wave forward, moving faster than the bullet until it strikes the front wall and begins to break it. That breakage will be amplified by the bullet's impact a moment later, but before that, the wave has started to bounce back -- until shortly afterwards, it strikes the back wall, already damaged by the bullet hole, and blows it open.

All of this works because the bullet is travelling slower than the speed of sound in the liquid. (The speed of sound in liquid is much higher than it is in air) If the bullet were travelling much faster, around 3,400mph, then you would see a different reaction: the bullet would strike the front wall before the wave did, and by the time the wave hit it there would be much less for it to bounce against. Almost all of the splatter would fly forward, in that case.

If the bullet were travelling faster still, at around 11,000mph, it would be going faster than the speed of sound in glass, and things would change even more: the bullet would make it out of the glass before the shock waves from the impact had a chance to spread, and it would punch a fairly clean hole through it rather than shattering it. Of course, the impact of the water wave (if it were a filled bottle target) would then shatter the glass anyway.

I know this thanks to Prof. Bob Laughlin, a slightly mad physicist (and Nobel laureate) for whom I TA'd for many years. He asked a version of this question on the qualifying exam for the PhD, asking students to design a new "Star Wars"-type defense system called Brilliant Potroast. The idea (an improvement, no doubt, over the real "brilliant pebbles" design) was that we would attach rocket engines to a bunch of pot roasts, put them in orbit, and then fire them at incoming ICBM's; students were tasked with doing all the calculations for this, from calculating fuel needs to describing what would happen when a pot roast struck a nuclear missile.

The correct answer turned out to depend on the angle and position of impact, because (given orbital speeds and so on) the relative speed of the pot roast and the missile could fall anywhere above or below the speeds of sound in pot roast, structural Aluminum, and Plutonium. In almost all the cases, though, the effect would look sort of like a "water balloon:" the pot roast would punch a hole almost straight through the missile, and splatter outwards as it flew like a water balloon hitting, well, an ICBM.

Hopefully, this would damage critical components of the missile, and/or make it aerodynamically unstable once it reentered the atmosphere. Alternatively, you could design the flying meatsacks to deliberately hit the missile at an angle so that it would always be below the speed of sound in structural metals, and cause much more shattering along the length of the missile.

As a footnote: When Prof. Laughlin won the Nobel, the department held a party for him. A bunch of students got together and got him a very large pot roast as a gift.

h/t +Steven Flaeck and +İsmet D. İstanbul for the wonderful image.
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Happy Halloween!
Haunted MIT Dome via the MIT Media Lab 👻
Learn about the MIT Nightmare Machine: http://mitsha.re/ZCur305HgZp

#happyhalloween  #nightmare  #AI  #MIT 
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Open Band ~ Scottish Country Dance Hallowe'en ~ Berkeley
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Foxfire (Panellus Stipticus): Looking for the "magic microphone" with a MOBILE SPEAKER...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

Maybe finding a kind of modified BULLHORN - a hot commodity back in the day (but haven't seen them around recently - free speech-wise, that is) - would be a sensible approach to a MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER re amplifying my Scottish small pipes for mobility at a gig (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations with a slight wind ... (how did bullhorns handle the feedback issue I wonder - they weren't light weight back then either) ... 

Aloha from SF, and see you this evening at OpenBand, 
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

Foxfire (Panellus Stipticus): Looking for the "magic microphone" with a MOBILE SPEAKER...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

Maybe finding a kind of modified BULLHORN - a hot commodity back in the day (but haven't seen them around recently - free speech-wise, that is) - would be a sensible approach to a MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER re amplifying my Scottish small pipes for mobility at a gig (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations with a slight wind ... (how did bullhorns handle the feedback issue I wonder - they weren't light weight back then either) ...

Aloha from SF, and see you this evening at OpenBand,
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages
Originally shared by Scott MacLeod (YogaMacFlower)!
Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages ... Harbin has Yoga ...
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To Anthropology and Dialogue at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... Excellent conversation about "theories of learning" and the potential for online education. 
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To Anthropology and Dialogue at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... Excellent conversation about "theories of learning" and the potential for online education.

WUaS February 11, 2017 OPEN monthly business meeting - News / Agenda, In conversation with the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services to develop WUaS's "front end" in HTML 5 first in Switzerland's languages of French, German, and Italian, and Romansh - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/anggrek-bulan-moon-orchid-wuas-february.html ...

WUaS February 11, 2017 OPEN monthly business meeting - News / Agenda, In conversation with the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services to develop WUaS's "front end" in HTML 5 first in Switzerland's languages of French, German, and Italian, and Romansh - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/anggrek-bulan-moon-orchid-wuas-february.html and http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/02/wuas-february-11-2017-monthly-business.html ...
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A favorite restorative yoga pose ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... Planned in many languages at World University and School 
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It's Trump vs. the U.S. Constitution, Trump vs U.S. Law, Trump vs the IRS and U.S. Federal Government, Trump vs the Media, Trump vs the Internet, Trump vs Global Warming, Trump vs women, Trump vs people of color, Trump vs the World, Trump vs ethics ... seems we have an "opponent process" opportunity for understanding ... how quickly could US public opinion come to impeach him?
It's Trump vs. the U.S. Constitution, Trump vs U.S. Law, Trump vs the IRS and U.S. Federal Government, Trump vs the Media, Trump vs the Internet, Trump vs Global Warming, Trump vs women, Trump vs people of color, Trump vs the World, Trump vs ethics ... seems we have an "opponent process" opportunity for understanding ... how quickly could US public opinion come to impeach him?
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To Web Page Design wiki Subject page gor open teaching and kearning at World University ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production ...
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Website is the most valuable marketing tool for businesses since it generates leads and traffic. A simple mistake can result in loss of potential customers. Here are some of the widely observed web design mistakes that small businesses make:
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Wisdom Creek Ranch ... about 2 years ago #GooglePhotos
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World University and School January 14, 2017 monthly business meeting - Agenda - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/mediterranean-moray-wuas-january-14.html
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Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS Music School, each a wiki subject page to begin ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/dicotyledon-two-ipads-on-hinge-produced.html... 
Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS Music School, each a wiki subject page to begin ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/dicotyledon-two-ipads-on-hinge-produced.html ...
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To Hong Kong World Universoty and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States (each nation state a major university in its official and main languages) and the MIT wiki subject page at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ...
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The culture in which Yoga emerged ... To Yoga at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... planned in Hindi and India's 22 official / ALL languages as major universities and schools, accrediting on best STEM OpenCourseWare such as CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC.
Offered prayers at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple. Feeling blessed.
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World University joins with MIT in wishing you a wonders-of-discovery filled New Year .... http://worlduniversityandschool.org ... We hope your year is filled with wonder and discovery. #HappyNewYear2017 ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/+mit/posts/8GCDadukN9z ...

World University joins with MIT in wishing you a wonders-of-discovery filled New Year .... http://worlduniversityandschool.org ...
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What is happening here with beautiful floral wreath, and yogically as well (and in what language)? To Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ...
आज कुशीनगर में विशाल सभा को संबोधित करने का मौका मिला। यहां आए सभी नागरिकों का बहुत बहुत आभार। http://nm-4.com/tzmy
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“People are drawn to MIT to genuinely work together to solve hard problems and make the world a better place. ... It’s in the blood of the faculty, and it’s in the blood of the students.”

#teaching#engineering#science#students#highered#MIT
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Christmas Holidays in Pittsburgh, PA, in 2010 ...
Christmas Holidays in Pittsburgh, PA, in 2010 ...
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Professor Mainak Mazumdar from Pittsburgh (Pin/Siddartha's father, my best friend in high school) and Baltimore and Scott MacLeod in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on December 29, 123013rd ... https://goo.gl/photos/ENr8pZ8vud4wQ7wy8#GooglePhotos
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Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS Music School, each a wiki subject page to begin ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/dicotyledon-two-ipads-on-hinge-produced.html ...
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Rare Footage of Pipe Major Willie Ross at Edinburgh Castle ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpbN8JpP92o ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...
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Mark Helpsmeet!

Thank you for your great Northern Spirit Radio interview conversation about World University and School! ...
free universal school
http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school ... so great!

It's the first real interview press for WUaS!

I like the songs a lot as well, and your written text and spoken introduction are both great.

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Here are my 3 recent blog posts re your great show
- http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/04/free-universal-school-interview.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/columbidae-free-universal-school-first.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/dove-free-universal-school-great.html

Appreciating your great interviewing skills, Mark! Thank you.

Friendly regards,
Scott
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World University and School open monthly business meeting - Welcome! -
Please feel free to drop in online with questions or ideas. 

World University's open monthly business meeting on April 8 2017:
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/04/world-universitys-open-monthly-business.html &

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/motor-neuron-world-universitys-open.html ...
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"Magic MIcrophone with Mobile Speaker" continuing ...

In terms of a mobile speaker which - "gets really loud" - here's an idea - and app called "AmpMe," available for iOS and Android
- for networking mobile speakers, which are a collection of smartphones ...

"How to Turn a Few Phones Into a Legit Sound System"
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/turn-handful-phones-speaker-system-app/

It's still not a single amplifying mobile speaker for one musical instrument at a gig, such as what I'm looking for for my Scottish small pipes, but perhaps I'll find a way to make a single amplifying smartphone mic with speaker to become as loud as needed for a gig in a winery in multiple locations, and over a mile or two with slight wind. 

Scots' First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is speaking on Tuesday at noon at Stanford ... http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/nicola-sturgeon ... and this will be live-streamed, if any of you are interested.

Musical cheers, 
Scott


New related blog link - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/isle-of-skye-mystery-of-magic.html
"Magic MIcrophone with Mobile Speaker" continuing ...

In terms of a mobile speaker which - "gets really loud" - here's an idea - and app called "AmpMe," available for iOS and Android
- for networking mobile speakers, which are a collection of smartphones ...

"How to Turn a Few Phones Into a Legit Sound System"
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/turn-handful-phones-speaker-system-app/

It's still not a single amplifying mobile speaker for one musical instrument at a gig, such as what I'm looking for for my Scottish small pipes, but perhaps I'll find a way to make a single amplifying smartphone mic with speaker to become as loud as needed for a gig in a winery in multiple locations, and over a mile or two with slight wind.

Scots' First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is speaking on Tuesday at noon at Stanford ... http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/nicola-sturgeon ... and this will be live-streamed, if any of you are interested.

Musical cheers,
Scott


New related blog link -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/isle-of-skye-mystery-of-magic.html
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To /Virtual_Choir and Yoga at WUaS ...
Choir friends -

Enjoying the subtle energies - under-explored physical manifestations of music-making, with singing, in the bodymind - we're exploring with Bruce ... (Angela and Victor explore many parallel subtle energies in their yoga courses - http://angela-victor.com :)

Palestrina was beautiful this morning ... thanks, Bruce and All!

Scott
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Music-making online ...
Tom MacAllister / Links of Forth played by Scott MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgyfmEpnhU
Playing here lyrical tunes that I find a joy in ... PM Tom MacAllister / Links of Forth (6 part 2/4 March) played by Scott MacLeod on the Scottish small pipes ... Check out also the Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes & Celtic_Music wiki subjects for open teaching & learning http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipeshttp://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music - at free CC OCW wiki World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.
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Isle of Skye: The mystery of the "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" still UNSOLVED - especially for roving bands of island minstrels, "The mystery of the "Magic Microphone ..." is here too at "(Scott MacLeod's (MusicalMacFlower), (YogaMacFlower), (Musical-Aphilo) are all G+ Profiles of mine)" To Scottish Country Dancing and Music wiki subjects at WUaS (and Music School at WUaS too) ... "Two iPads on a Hinge" and "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" to "Computer Music" and "Mobile Technologies" at WUaS, A realistic virtual Harbin / earth re my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project may be where the Music School at WUaS partly emerges from here in Google Streetview ... tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... https://twitter.com/HarbinBook http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/isle-of-skye-mystery-of-magic.html ....
Isle of Skye: The mystery of the "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" still UNSOLVED - especially for roving bands of island minstrels, "The mystery of the "Magic Microphone ..." is here too at "(Scott MacLeod's (MusicalMacFlower), (YogaMacFlower), (Musical-Aphilo) are all G+ Profiles of mine)" To Scottish Country Dancing and Music wiki subjects at WUaS (and Music School at WUaS too) ... "Two iPads on a Hinge" and "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" to "Computer Music" and "Mobile Technologies" at WUaS, A realistic virtual Harbin / earth re my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project may be where the Music School at WUaS partly emerges from here in Google Streetview ... tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/isle-of-skye-mystery-of-magic.html ....
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In the Music School at WUaS ... 

In what ways can WIKI World University and School create a different learning culture than this - and in all nation states - and at the high school, college, Ph.D., as well as online law and medical school levels - and in group video and in an emerging realistic virtual earth designed for learning? (worlduniversityandschool.org)
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Newnes, and Wolgan Valley, NSW: What's the newness "program" in the philosophical / brain science study of consciousness ... as in the school of "New Mysterions" (Nagel, McGinn et al.)?, What new possibilities for understanding consciousness will emerge by modeling it in a realistic virtual earth/virtual brains/bodyminds at the atomic, molecular, cellular and street view levels for many/all species?, So, in a way, philosophical and brain/bodymind science questions of consciousness are an amazingly beautiful flag for those who think about these questions, - since they are unresolved questions ... for us human primates, post-Darwin, Seems like we need to understand a lot more about genetics before we will be able to ask new questions about how consciousness or awareness "works" in humans, and in a variety of species, Virtual world/brain modeling school of consciousness ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/newnes-and-wolgan-valley-nsw-whats.html ... 
Newnes, and Wolgan Valley, NSW: What's the newness "program" in the philosophical / brain science study of consciousness ... as in the school of "New Mysterions" (Nagel, McGinn et al.)?, What new possibilities for understanding consciousness will emerge by modeling it in a realistic virtual earth/virtual brains/bodyminds at the atomic, molecular, cellular and street view levels for many/all species?, So, in a way, philosophical and brain/bodymind science questions of consciousness are an amazingly beautiful flag for those who think about these questions, - since they are unresolved questions ... for us human primates, post-Darwin, Seems like we need to understand a lot more about genetics before we will be able to ask new questions about how consciousness or awareness "works" in humans, and in a variety of species, Virtual world/brain modeling school of consciousness ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/newnes-and-wolgan-valley-nsw-whats.html ...
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The mystery of the "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" still unsolved - and especially for roving bands of island minstrels (hoping for a form factor of an 8 inch radiant paper star - feather weight and like a speaker's bass woofer - which we can wear on each of our chests - not sure where the D batteries would go) - I'm wondering ...

What is this dance that James Boswell on the Isle of Skye on 2 Oct 1773 called "America"? http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/scottish-clans-story-behind-macleod-3654716 

Linda? David?

Is it a Scottish Country Dance? ... https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/847139337422553089 ... 

Carl MacDougall's clan histories are great - any relation, Lorne?

Musical cheers, 
Scott

Much of this here: 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html
The mystery of the "Magic Microphone with Mobile Speaker" still unsolved - and especially for roving bands of island minstrels (hoping for a form factor of an 8 inch radiant paper star - feather weight and like a speaker's bass woofer - which we can wear on each of our chests - not sure where the D batteries would go) - I'm wondering ...

What is this dance that James Boswell on the Isle of Skye on 2 Oct 1773 called "America"? http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/scottish-clans-story-behind-macleod-3654716

Linda? David?

Is it a Scottish Country Dance? ... https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/847139337422553089 ...

Carl MacDougall's clan histories are great - any relation, Lorne?

Musical cheers,
Scott

Much of this here:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html
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In an ongoing search for a "MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER," with a range of a mile or two, and for outdoor Scottish small pipes' gigs with slight wind (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations), 

I'm curious in what ways an engineer could NETWORK together 10 or a 100 oF the large size of the following mobil speakers - for a BAND OF ROVING MINSTRELS, for example. 

And I return to - conceptually - 

- The medium or large size of these two portable speakers (which may not exist yet - and if the sound is good)) with 4 or 8 D size batteries ...

JS Portable Mini Wireless Bluetooth Nut Speaker with Sling for iPhone iPad Android and More
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L3YMW8O/ 

Mini Bluetooth Speaker Portable by Ancord Small Body Loud Voice Shutter Button Selfie Features Blue
https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Speaker-Portable-Ancord-Features/dp/B01GR46AVU

- And this DPA omni microphone (which as an omni would hopefully amplify my SSP drones as well )

DPA d:vote 4099V - Violin Mic w/Clip
https://www.amazon.com/DPA-vote-4099V-Violin-Clip/dp/B00ITV9CJ2


Much of this here: 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

How best to explore networking such speakers together and with DPA microphone quality? 

Do such speakers or NETWORKED speakers WITH GREAT SOUND exist in other ways, that anyone knows of? 

In this group think "mobile speaker with magic microphone" email process, I welcome your further thoughts, ideas and questions especially for better (louder and good sound quality and battery efficiency) speaker ideas ... 

Musical cheers, 
Scott
In an ongoing search for a "MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER," with a range of a mile or two, and for outdoor Scottish small pipes' gigs with slight wind (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations),

I'm curious in what ways an engineer could NETWORK together 10 or a 100 oF the large size of the following mobil speakers - for a BAND OF ROVING MINSTRELS, for example.

And I return to - conceptually -

- The medium or large size of these two portable speakers (which may not exist yet - and if the sound is good)) with 4 or 8 D size batteries ...

JS Portable Mini Wireless Bluetooth Nut Speaker with Sling for iPhone iPad Android and More
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L3YMW8O/

Mini Bluetooth Speaker Portable by Ancord Small Body Loud Voice Shutter Button Selfie Features Blue
https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Speaker-Portable-Ancord-Features/dp/B01GR46AVU

- And this DPA omni microphone (which as an omni would hopefully amplify my SSP drones as well )

DPA d:vote 4099V - Violin Mic w/Clip
https://www.amazon.com/DPA-vote-4099V-Violin-Clip/dp/B00ITV9CJ2


Much of this here:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

How best to explore networking such speakers together and with DPA microphone quality?

Do such speakers or NETWORKED speakers WITH GREAT SOUND exist in other ways, that anyone knows of?

In this group think "mobile speaker with magic microphone" email process, I welcome your further thoughts, ideas and questions especially for better (louder and good sound quality and battery efficiency) speaker ideas ...

Musical cheers,
Scott
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In an ongoing search for a "MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER," with a range of a mile or two, and for outdoor Scottish small pipes' gigs with slight wind (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations), 

I'm curious in what ways an engineer could NETWORK together 10 or a 100 oF the large size of the following mobil speakers - for a BAND OF ROVING MINSTRELS, for example. 

And I return to - conceptually - 

- The medium or large size of these two portable speakers (which may not exist yet - and if the sound is good)) with 4 or 8 D size batteries ...

JS Portable Mini Wireless Bluetooth Nut Speaker with Sling for iPhone iPad Android and More
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L3YMW8O/ 

Mini Bluetooth Speaker Portable by Ancord Small Body Loud Voice Shutter Button Selfie Features Blue
https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Speaker-Portable-Ancord-Features/dp/B01GR46AVU

- And this DPA omni microphone (which as an omni would hopefully amplify my SSP drones as well )

DPA d:vote 4099V - Violin Mic w/Clip
https://www.amazon.com/DPA-vote-4099V-Violin-Clip/dp/B00ITV9CJ2


Much of this here: 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

How best to explore networking such speakers together and with DPA microphone quality? 

Do such speakers or NETWORKED speakers WITH GREAT SOUND exist in other ways, that anyone knows of? 

In this group think "mobile speaker with magic microphone" email process, I welcome your further thoughts, ideas and questions especially for better (louder and good sound quality and battery efficiency) speaker ideas ... 

Musical cheers, 
Scott
In an ongoing search for a "MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER," with a range of a mile or two, and for outdoor Scottish small pipes' gigs with slight wind (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations),

I'm curious in what ways an engineer could NETWORK together 10 or a 100 oF the large size of the following mobil speakers - for a BAND OF ROVING MINSTRELS, for example.

And I return to - conceptually -

- The medium or large size of these two portable speakers (which may not exist yet - and if the sound is good)) with 4 or 8 D size batteries ...

JS Portable Mini Wireless Bluetooth Nut Speaker with Sling for iPhone iPad Android and More
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L3YMW8O/

Mini Bluetooth Speaker Portable by Ancord Small Body Loud Voice Shutter Button Selfie Features Blue
https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Speaker-Portable-Ancord-Features/dp/B01GR46AVU

- And this DPA omni microphone (which as an omni would hopefully amplify my SSP drones as well )

DPA d:vote 4099V - Violin Mic w/Clip
https://www.amazon.com/DPA-vote-4099V-Violin-Clip/dp/B00ITV9CJ2


Much of this here:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

How best to explore networking such speakers together and with DPA microphone quality?

Do such speakers or NETWORKED speakers WITH GREAT SOUND exist in other ways, that anyone knows of?

In this group think "mobile speaker with magic microphone" email process, I welcome your further thoughts, ideas and questions especially for better (louder and good sound quality and battery efficiency) speaker ideas ...

Musical cheers,
Scott

Updated Course Catalog at WUaS here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/kri-kri-updated-course-catalog-at-wuas.html ... 6 majors for a free CC OCW-centric undergraduate degree online beginning this autumn, The first undergraduate majors are: Computer Science/EE, General Science, Engineering, History, English, Business, The first languages are (CC MIT OCW): English, Traditional Chinese (Mandarin), Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Korean, The first law course is an archived free HarvardX/edX one called "JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change", The first World University and School course is "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"

See, too: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/03/wuas-updated-course-catalog-here-6.html ...

Updated Course Catalog at WUaS here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/kri-kri-updated-course-catalog-at-wuas.html ... 6 majors for a free CC OCW-centric undergraduate degree online beginning this autumn, The first undergraduate majors are: Computer Science/EE, General Science, Engineering, History, English, Business, The first languages are (CC MIT OCW): English, Traditional Chinese (Mandarin), Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Korean, The first law course is an archived free HarvardX/edX one called "JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change", The first World University and School course is "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"

See, too: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/03/wuas-updated-course-catalog-here-6.html ...
Updated Course Catalog at WUaS here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/kri-kri-updated-course-catalog-at-wuas.html ... 6 majors for a free CC OCW-centric undergraduate degree online beginning this autumn, The first undergraduate majors are: Computer Science/EE, General Science, Engineering, History, English, Business, The first languages are (CC MIT OCW): English, Traditional Chinese (Mandarin), Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Korean, The first law course is an archived free HarvardX/edX one called "JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change", The first World University and School course is "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"

See, too: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/03/wuas-updated-course-catalog-here-6.html ...
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Hmm ... interesting exploration of possible approaches to meditation ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Meditation & /Yoga ... and innovation in a yoga mat ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Materials_Science ) too ...
Work done. Time to relax :)

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To "Harp" and "Scotland" World University and Schools (wiki subject pages now - soon however to grow in a new wiki) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Harp (see the Music School at WUaS as well) and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland ... planned in many languages .... (Don't really want to close my eyes for this +AA MacKenzie the videography of Skye is too beautiful :)
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Interesting MIT Media Lab live-streaming conference today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/outer-space-space-will-be-hackable.html - and WUaS seeks to create a realistic virtual earth/universe for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. 

Interesting and on now - https://www.media.mit.edu/events/beyond-the-cradle/
Super Telescopes.

Here's a look at TMT, the Thirty Meter Telescope, set for construction on Mauna Kea, but which may be moved to the Canary Islands.

http://www.universetoday.com/134032/rise-super-telescopes-thirty-meter-telescope/
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Hi David, George Lakey and friends,

Thank you. Friendly-informed World University and School -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org - will look to add the courses you shared about Nonviolence to the following wiki subjects for open teaching and learning -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonharming_-_Nonviolence_-_To_avoid_violence
(George Lakey's Nonviolent Database is here, for example)

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

(among others - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects)

- planned in all countries' main and official languages (WUaS is
moving to a new wiki soon, emerging from Wikipedia's database
Wikidata/Wikibase which is in 358 languages).

CC World University and School is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT
OpenCourseWare (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC, and planning to offer
accrediting online free CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees
in all countries' main and official languages (to become the
"Harvards/Haverfords of the Internet") and to create wiki schools in
all languages - 7,097 living languages (per Ethnologue) and 7,943
entries in languages (per Glottolog).

World University and School (WUaS) is seeking to matriculate our first
online class of undergraduates this autumn for free CC OCW Bachelors'
degrees (taking about 36 courses over 4 years interactively in group
video from the comfort of their homes) and welcomes students from all
countries in the world, first in English. I'm glad to say WUaS has our
first prospective matriculating undergraduate student - she's sent us
her transcript - (and I met her in the SF Quaker Meeting a few Sundays
ago).

Please invite 17 and 18 year olds+ you may know to add their names to
the WUaS sign up sheet if interested in these online free degrees; on
WUaS's wiki side please wiki-teach (e.g. 3 minutes to your web camera,
or by creating a new wiki subject about an aspect of nonviolence that
you love) and wiki-learn openly and with an invitation to tell your
friends, in all languages.

Friendly regards,
Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :)

~Scott
(Sierra Hot Springs, Sierraville, CA, October 9, 2016)

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :)

~Scott
(Sierra Hot Springs, Sierraville, CA, October 9, 2016)

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Aloha ~ ~ ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/832731516631265282

Patricia Kopatchinskaja -Bach Chaconne w A Romaniuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSEivYbfEBA … Poetry in two languages & beautiful video To /Johann_Sebastian_Bach

Scott
Aloha ~ ~ ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/832731516631265282

Patricia Kopatchinskaja -Bach Chaconne w A Romaniuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSEivYbfEBA… Poetry in two languages & beautiful video To /Johann_Sebastian_Bach

Scott
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Hi All, 

Have been exploring "singing the Boar's Head Carol" ... traveled a little further with musical envisioning re "Boar's Head Carol" here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/wild-boar-carols-music-singing-boars.html - and a wee bit in the direction of Stanford and the Grateful Dead musically ... the Letterman interview here from 1982 is great ... and check out great Steeleye Span reviews (as well as the PDFs of the whole Stanford Daily papers from the 1970s) ... how to bring together "Boar's Head Carol," one's own singing group {UUCPA}, Stanford and Grateful Dead ? (just thinking a little bit out of the box) ... 

Aloha, 
Scott
Hi All,

Have been exploring "singing the Boar's Head Carol" ... traveled a little further with musical envisioning re "Boar's Head Carol" here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/wild-boar-carols-music-singing-boars.html - and a wee bit in the direction of Stanford and the Grateful Dead musically ... the Letterman interview here from 1982 is great ... and check out great Steeleye Span reviews (as well as the PDFs of the whole Stanford Daily papers from the 1970s) ... how to bring together "Boar's Head Carol," one's own singing group {UUCPA}, Stanford and Grateful Dead ? (just thinking a little bit out of the box) ...

Aloha,
Scott
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I recall that MuseScore - https://musescore.org/ - has been written for bagpipe sheet music - so it should be easy to go from the clarinet or base clarinet MS scorings, for example, back to the bagpipe scoring ... :)

What other unique instruments is it written for, I wonder? World University and School's Music School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ...would like to begin with a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning for each musical instrument in each of all 7,097 languages (structured data - "populate this list" should make this easy not too long from now:) ... For jamming and innovating online as well .. 
I recall that MuseScore - https://musescore.org/ - has been written for bagpipe sheet music - so it should be easy to go from the clarinet or base clarinet MS scorings, for example, back to the bagpipe scoring ... :)

What other unique instruments is it written for, I wonder? World University and School's Music School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ...would like to begin with a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning for each musical instrument in each of all 7,097 languages (structured data - "populate this list" should make this easy not too long from now:) ... For jamming and innovating online as well ..
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Inspiringly, educationally, generatively (and MIT) brilliant dialogue ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching at CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School ... planned in all countries' main languages + ...
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Foxfire (Panellus Stipticus): Looking for the "magic microphone" with a MOBILE SPEAKER...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

Maybe finding a kind of modified BULLHORN - a hot commodity back in the day (but haven't seen them around recently - free speech-wise, that is) - would be a sensible approach to a MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER re amplifying my Scottish small pipes for mobility at a gig (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations with a slight wind ... (how did bullhorns handle the feedback issue I wonder - they weren't light weight back then either) ... 

Aloha from SF, and see you this evening at OpenBand, 
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

Foxfire (Panellus Stipticus): Looking for the "magic microphone" with a MOBILE SPEAKER...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/foxfire-panellus-stipticus-looking-for.html

Maybe finding a kind of modified BULLHORN - a hot commodity back in the day (but haven't seen them around recently - free speech-wise, that is) - would be a sensible approach to a MAGIC MICROPHONE with MOBILE SPEAKER re amplifying my Scottish small pipes for mobility at a gig (e.g. in a winery in multiple locations with a slight wind ... (how did bullhorns handle the feedback issue I wonder - they weren't light weight back then either) ...

Aloha from SF, and see you this evening at OpenBand,
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Poetry (2017) ... brand new book ... https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ...
Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (2017)
ISBN139780692049037
http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html ~
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)
ISBN139780692646137
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~


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Very nice playing on the Boderpipes ... Chris Stout and Finlay MacDonald - Fiddle and Pipes -Piping Live! 2010 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3r97gyxGoE - To ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ...


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Came across this Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White music ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. (Thanks, +AA MacKenzie !) Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...

There's a great zephyr of music and music-making online in video of all kinds streaming forth all over the world these days ... Hope to add some of the best and most lyrical, inspiring etc to World University and School's music school -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments in ALL 7,099 living languages + as wiki schools for open learning and teaching! (Meeting on Wednesday about upcoming wiki platform developments :)


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To Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ... Thank you, Vix!


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To the "iPhone as a Musical instrument" wiki subject page at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument ...
Automated Robot Vs iPhone Rhythm Game

that's the way to do it :)


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Here are my main Music web sites:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodMusic

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107756025217438713733

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

... and here’s my recent book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" has a Hippies' focus too - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook



And Twitter's pretty interesting these days. Who's Twitter profiles do you glance at occasionally? Here are mine:

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

WUaS Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

( OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )

Scott
(accessible from here - scottmacleod.com )



And here are my main Yoga web resources ~

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodYogaMacFlower

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yoga

http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm

http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html




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To India World University and School planned in Gujarati language


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Brilliant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8NgMdhbcc - @ClaireHastings1 Methinks you learned folk rock o'er traditional Scots in 2017 & did it well https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/906212019363184640& https://twitter.com/TopFloorTaivers/status/892778860885966850… with dancing!


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Glad to say I'm going to be singing with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir in Burlingame this autumn (and potentially as countertenor with time:).

Good music, good singers, too, and we'll be singing the JS Bach Christmas Oratorio and the Mozart Requiem, along with an anthem every week, as well as Episcopal hymns ... it's actually pretty great music too ... may explore descant lines if I begin to sing countertenor (Singing Descant: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Descant), although this morning I sang bass ... (for further bliss neurophysiology elicitation focus here re neural cascades of pleasure and music-making ...)

Heard them sing in Stanford Memorial Church - https://events.stanford.edu/events/696/69687/ - not long ago.

Perhaps we can explore collaboration with time about a virtual choir - Virtual Choir: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - (in the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ).

A Tongan choir sang this morning in addition to the Chancel Choir ... and this Tongan choir could emerge online as well - in Tongan - https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_faka-Tonga - ! Since Wikipedia is in Tongan, this NEW wiki World University and School !! - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University - will soon be in Tongan too :) Please feel free to wiki-edit / teach to wiki World University and School.

Thank you Unitarian Universalist Choir of Palo Alto!

Musical regards, Scott
Glad to say I'm going to be singing with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir in Burlingame this autumn (and potentially as countertenor with time:).

Good music, good singers, too, and we'll be singing the JS Bach Christmas Oratorio and the Mozart Requiem, along with an anthem every week, as well as Episcopal hymns ... it's actually pretty great music too ... may explore descant lines if I begin to sing countertenor (Singing Descant: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Descant), although this morning I sang bass ... (for further bliss neurophysiology elicitation focus here re neural cascades of pleasure and music-making ...)

Heard them sing in Stanford Memorial Church - https://events.stanford.edu/events/696/69687/ - not long ago.

Perhaps we can explore collaboration with time about a virtual choir - Virtual Choir: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - (in the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ).

A Tongan choir sang this morning in addition to the Chancel Choir ... and this Tongan choir could emerge online as well - in Tongan - https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_faka-Tonga - ! Since Wikipedia is in Tongan, this NEW wiki World University and School !! - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University - will soon be in Tongan too :) Please feel free to wiki-edit / teach to wiki World University and School.

Thank you Unitarian Universalist Choir of Palo Alto!

Musical regards, Scott


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Online virtual choir wiki subject page at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - in English (accessible from the Music School here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School)...
Bruce, Robert, Jack and UUCPA (and greetings, Tim!)

This sheet music and these SATB recorded parts are great for learning to sing UU choir music from home, for one! Thank you. I'm curious now - in a building kind of way - whether it might be additionally possible to sing this, for example, FROM home WITH the UUCPA choir in Thursday rehearsals and on occasional Sunday mornings via a 10-person Google group video Hangout, - now silently, but also after Hangouts get up to speed with real real time music-making.

And could this be a start-simple-and-build-it model for virtual UU choirs, for UU choirs and singers everywhere, and perhaps also the beginnings of an online UU choir school for UUs and Us and also other church choirs, around the world even (in many languages), - since the Google group video Hangouts could be saved to Youtube, and be used for practicing with by anyone with broadband at anytime?

"Bruce Olstad, musical director of the online UU choir school, for a) music directors and b) choir singers"

For further virtual choir idea-sharing, I'm including Tim House in this email, a friend from Massachusetts, who is also UU minister at First UU Church of Boston - http://www.firstchurchboston.org/people/269.

Here's the virtual choir wiki subject page at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - in English (accessible from the Music School here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School).

I'm glad to say that the NEW (long, long awaited WUaS wiki) should be accessible here tomorrow - wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org - and from here too - worlduniversityandschool.org - (with worlduniversity.wikia.com soon to become obsolete).

Thank you for these great learning tools!

Friendly, musical regards, Scott
... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/natural-bridges-australia-realizing.html ...


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Interesting narrative ... to Scotland World University and School ... at wiki WUAS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland ... in the new wiki WUAS ... wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org ...
Forward units of Corbyn’s British Labourite Red Army – Momentum – have fired the opening shots in Labour’s anti-SNP offensive. Of course, idiots that they are, they have targeted the railways. Not the wisest of opening moves.

Comrade Corbyn is marching north to Scotland with his wee pokey army to “win back” seats from the SNP because he wants to be Prime Minister of a united Britain. He appears to have gotten it into his head, no doubt emboldened by Cat Boyd and her like, that Scotland is right on the verge of turning back to Labour and embracing Corbynism; this wonderful new brand of socialism. He, travelling in the footsteps of many an English nationalist politician, is incapable of understanding how strongly we feel about our decision to remain in Europe and how much we loath being Westminster’s nuclear weapons dump. He’s coming anyway.

As is the fashion in every half decent invasion plan, his vanguard Momentum has started bombing the railways in an effort to soften us up, but it has done nothing but make a pig’s breakfast of this. Momentum, being an entirely English outfit under the effective command of Owen Jones, has never encountered a well-run rail service. So coming after ScotRail, which consistently outperforms what passes for a train service south of the border, is an odd move to say the least.

They couldn’t come after its performance record because that would be just too hilarious. What they decided to do instead – as British Labour always does – is go after them foreigners; the ones who are coming here and operating our trains. Momentum, in a short anti-SNP and overtly xenophobic video, has taken issue with the fact that our rail network has been privatised and is currently under the control of Abellio – a Dutch company. Oh those pesky foreigners.....see video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWvSvymj6AE

It doesn’t help Labour’s cause, considering Scotland is very much on the EU side of the Brexit debate, that this video mocks the Netherlands with a series of nasty stereotypes and is voiced-over with an embarrassing faux Dutch accent. We can see it now; lines of Europeans living in Scotland banging on the doors of Scottish Labour begging to be let in. While they should be congratulated for at last learning that that sort of gutter anti-foreigner politics works where they come from, someone really ought to tell them it doesn’t wash up here in Scotland.

What’s more is that, while they have taken the hump with the SNP for letting these wicked Europeans in to profit from Scottish commuters, they appear not to have done their homework. Abellio doesn’t only operate in Scotland. It operates trains in London, Surrey, Greater Anglia, Liverpool, and the West Midlands. Now we can’t really stop them heading to those parts of England with their Britain First placards and Enoch Powell attitudes and harassing the Dutch there, but God only knows how they will manage to blame the SNP for it.

According to this video it is the Scottish government’s fault that ScotRail is run by who they clearly see as unwelcome outlanders. It wasn’t the Scottish government that privatised the rail network. Back in 1994 when that ugly process began there was no Scottish government. Scotland had nothing to do with it. Privatisation was all down to a Tory Westminster government. Labour had a whole decade in government shortly thereafter – between 1997 and 2007 – and it did absolutely nothing about re-nationalising the rails. Now this shower of weekend revolutionaries has the audacity to come to Scotland screaming “SNP bad.”

Scotland has now spoken twice on what it thinks of Labour.

If all this wasn’t enough, there’s more. When the tender was last put out – the time when Abellio secured the contract – the Scottish government was quite actually powerless to put in a public bid. The reason for that was because London hadn’t given us that power, now that the ability has been devolved – no thanks to Scottish Labour of course – there are plans in place by the Scottish government – that’s the SNP government – to make a public bid the next time the contract is up for renewal. So yeah, going for the Dutch and ScotRail was a worse than stupid idea – and this is coming from the masterminds at Momentum; the Corbynistas who hope to win a few more seats in Scotland. Well thanks but no thanks. I would rather pull out my own teeth.

But supposing this gormless clown – the man behind the Jeremy Corbyn Show – manages to get a few folk listening to his fairy tales, what then? No one in Scotland will ever get a chance to vote for him. Neither he nor Corbynite Labourism is on the ballot paper here. What we get instead is Scottish Labour and Kezia – freaking – Dugdale, with all the stink that has been left behind by such unionist worthies as Johann – “we’re not genetically programmed in Scotland to make political decisions” – Lamont and Jim – “fundilymundily” – Murphy. Any vote for Labour in Scotland is a vote for a return to moronic third-rate and bigoted politics. Again, no – bloody – thanks.


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Course begins Tu Sep 26, 9am PT, NEW WIKI NEW LOGO!

World University and School
Society, Information Technology,
and the Global University ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ... Begins online on Tuesdays, Sep 26, 2017 at 9am Pacific Time, 4pm UTC, 6pm CEST ... hour-long ... (wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org ) ... Wiki und CC MIT OCW-centric in English this autumn ...



World University and School -

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To Turkey World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Turkey(http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ .... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) - planned in Turkish (see CC MIT OCW in Turkish -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ ) with an online Law School eventually -
and to Human Rights at WUaS as well ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Rights ... learned at a Stanford talk recently from activist Zeynep, originally from Turkey, that Turkey is very chaotic these days, so WUaS will wait for some time before growing Turkey WUaS ...


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What CAN'T virtual reality do?? ;) ... let's build out in Google Streetview and then compare and contrast and think about the actual and the virtual ... :) (... bit.ly/HarbinBook does this in a sense...)


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Ann Brown and Scott MacLeod at Wisdom Creek Ranch, Medical Springs, in eastern Oregon, July 2, 2017, at celebration of my wonderful uncle Ted Brown's life ... with multimedia presentation here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/07/eagle-cap-wilderness-my-wonderful-uncle.html ...
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A kind of Scottish Yoga ... won't say that virtuoso bagpiper Stuart Liddell is a Scottish Yogi ... but there is an inspiring and moving Scots' oneness in the way he plays that is like Yogic oneness for some/moi (re V&A's Yoga?) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ....
Here's the great piper Stuart:

Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWSrDX7zrs

Stuart's piping is just so brilliant and dazzling - and moving :) (- for me)!


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To ESL at World Univ & Sch
Motivation
If you are an English teacher, you are going to like this video. If you are a student, you will find some useful, and interesting things here.
Canguro English, Channel
Video 9 min.


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Very beautiful! (To /Virtual_Worlds + /Art + +++ )

Björk’s Real-Time Music Video Wins Digital Craft Grand Prix for Breaking New Ground With VR
http://bit.ly/2tclcsY
Björk 'Notget VR' - YouTube


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Lovely ...

Cameron playing bellows blown small pipes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8nV2FyPXRk (Cameron plays his new pipes (bellows blown) in the CCTV studio (Salem, Oregon) for a music production. He plays his pipes and sings for the first time ever! With the bellows blown pipes your mouth is free for singing! Pipes were made by John Walsh from Nova Scotia). ... enjoying Cameron's piping, singing, and both together, as well as his Walsh small pipes (now to listen anew to my Walsh pipes re these) and microphoning too ... re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/isle-of-skye-mystery-of-magic.html ... (Thanks, Alan +AA MacKenzie!)

Here too is the Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - wiki subject for open teaching learning at wiki CC OCW World University and School ...


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World University and School, which is CC MIT OCW- in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC-centric, is offering MIT OCW-centric free online accrediting university (and high school) degrees beginning with this WUaS Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing - first in English, but eventually in all countries' languages - beginning this autumn. Sign up here - worlduniversityandschool.org - or invite students you know who might be interested to sign up. 


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Glad Angela Farmer is teaching at I Love Namaste Yoga in Berkeley this October 2017 ... http://www.angela-victor.com/content/schedule ... Much here on the open Yoga page at wiki World University School of Angela and Victor's inspiring Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ...



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Glad Angela Farmer is teaching at I Love Namaste Yoga in Berkeley this October 2017 ... http://www.angela-victor.com/content/schedule ... Much here on the open Yoga page at wiki World University School of Angela and Victor's inspiring Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ...
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To Black Studies at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Studies - planned in many languages.
Bobby Seale Speaking Across America "From The Sixties To The Future"

Within the last three decades plus, the demise of several sixties left radical icons [including Huey P. Newton's death in August of 1989; Abbie Hoffman 1991; Jerry Reubin 1993 & Eldridge Cleaver & Quame Turea in 1998], Bobby Seale, (the original 1966 Founding Chairman & National Organizer of the Black Panther Party & “The Eighth Defendant: of the Great Chicago ‘7’ Conspiracy Trial.) in effect, has become one of the last surviving architects of the most important social change movements in American and African American history, complete with his historic political court room trials of that era.

Taking to the stage with his lively charismatic and activist eloquence Mr. Seale illuminates the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the BPP. Unfolding the pragmatic unknown philosophical range of the sixties protest movement, ["…which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic grass-roots community organizing. NOT street life hooliganism as COINTELPRO political conservatism continues to distort…"].

Mr. Seale transports the audience back to the turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. A time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters of many different ethnic groups created coalitions, which included young Black men and women selling hundreds of thousands of "THE BLACK PANTHER" weekly newspaper. Who created numerous community programs and registered thousands to vote, complete with law books in their hands and "legal" guns handy for self defense against racist and fascist police and FBI's planned COINTELPRO vicious overt racist attacks at the time. Today our right to self defense stance is unheard of.

"Today you don't need guns" charges Bobby Seale. "If you want to observe police brutality, use the technology. Network with thousands of cell phone video recorders [from Rodney King to Oscar Grant] and put it all on the internet! Implement real people's economic parity and greater three dimensional direct-democracy complete with real people's community control of police and economics."

"Social change? Organizationally learn to think and act with a "...polylectic nonlinear view. Why? Because today we live in an over developed, fast-pacedglobalizing high-tech computerized scientific social order. Our ideas, beliefs, understanding and realizations must correspond correctly to reality. Teaching our youth the same for all people's earthly human liberation."

Defining himself as "revolutionary humanist" Seale brings the BPP/Sixties protest movement era full circle showing how times have changed. How we must reach for the future: Demonstrate, Protest, organize real peoples' programs and evolve a greater direct [participatory] community control democracy, void of racist, bigoted or chauvinistic practices. Void of all the extremes of global corporate exploitation. Complete with a profound cyber-space cell phone rights, science-based civil-human rights, and all people's ecological rights activism. Understanding how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, intertwined, interdependent, and interrelated with ecological environmental problems, new-millennium political issues, and global economics.

If you are interested in having Bobby Seale speak at your university, college, service group, community gathering or event you may be holding send an e-mail request to bobbysealecom@yahoo.com.

Be sure to include all your contact info. Bobby Seale will contact you to go over the speaking event arrangements.

Power To All The People!

Bobby Seale
1966 Founding Chairman &
National organizer of the Black Panther Party, USA
http://bobbyseale.com/

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"Naked Harbin Ethnography" - "It's a magnificent book" said Prof. Nelson Graburn at UC Berkeley on Friday at the Tourism Studies Working Group in the Anthropology department.

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook !
"Naked Harbin Ethnography" - "It's a magnificent book" said Prof. Nelson Graburn at UC Berkeley on Friday at the Tourism Studies Working Group in the Anthropology department.

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook !
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MIT OpenCourseWare as MITx https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ & re WUaS's planned online Med & Law Schools in all countries' main/official languages? 
Here are MIT OpenCourseWare courses as MITx ... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ aka "MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware" ... and re eventually WUaS's planned online Medical and Law Schools in all countries' main and official languages? Have to develop further great medical and law CC OCW ...
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Curious kilts everywhere ... 
With more than five million people crammed into an island of less than a thousand square kilometers, every inch of urban planning space must be meticulously organized and sorted to maximize living conditions.
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The electrical grid playing jump rope - and shaking the earth? 
... Gives me hope for animating photos, and transforming film into interactive 3D virtual worlds (and for design too!) in developing a realistic virtual earth (conceptually like Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with TIME SLIDER and group build-able like OpenSim/SL - in all 8,000 languages) ... To the wiki "Virtual Worlds" subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - for open teaching and learning at World University and School ... 
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Beautiful yoga visionary art ... and India religion especially ... To /Art, /Yoga, /Religious_Studies + ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... 
One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun, and He is transcendental, beyond this material nature.
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Mark Helpsmeet!

Thank you for your great Northern Spirit Radio interview conversation about World University and School! ...
free universal school
http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school ... so great!

It's the first real interview press for WUaS!

I like the songs a lot as well, and your written text and spoken introduction are both great.

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Stanford Online High School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmAR071ZcYI

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Here are my 3 recent blog posts re your great show
- http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/04/free-universal-school-interview.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/columbidae-free-universal-school-first.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/dove-free-universal-school-great.html

Appreciating your great interviewing skills, Mark! Thank you.

Friendly regards,
Scott
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World University and School News and Conversation Hangout 
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- Topic: How to teach at @WorldUnivAndSch 
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/983137056825028609 
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440 -
World University and School News and Q & A
Wed, April 4, 2018 10am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Next http://worlduniversityandschool.org Google Live Hangout on Air ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States… (online Univ & High Sch degrees planned in countries' official / main languages) ~
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I went to hear Dr. King speak for the first time as a young man in 1962 at Oakland Auditorium. I was an engineering and design major at college and I wasn't a part of any organization yet. The auditorium held 7,000 people and every seat was packed. He was speaking about boycotting the bread companies who were refusing to hire people of color. He talked about boycotting Wonder Bread and he said,"We're going to boycott them so consistently and so profoundly, we're going to make Wonder Bread wonder where the money went." I got enthusiastically involved with the civil rights movement after that. This is the man who first inspired me to be involved.

A few years later, I worked with and gave the Black Panther Party support to Dr. King on his Poor People's March. Dr. Ralph Abernathy called me personally and said "Mr. Seale, Dr. King would like to know if you would be willing to participate in a broad roundtable of organizations across the country working together in the struggle to end institutionalized racism." I said, "Yes, the Black Panther Party will definitely work with you and Dr. King on anything you want to do." People don't know that we crossed those lines.

Dr. King's legacy is manifested in moving to evolve and get rid of institutionalized racism in America. From the moral standpoint to the practical community organizing standpoint. It was about nonviolence and rightfully so. It was about the first amendment of the constitution. The first amendment of the Constitution gives all of us the right to peacefully assemble and address our grievances. At that time the power structure began to attack, murder, shoot, kill and brutalize peaceful demonstrators. In other words violating their constitutional, democratic, civil and human rights to organize, unify and educate the people.

When I look at Dr. King's legacy and what we stood up for, the amount of people that were killed in the civil rights protests and later in my organization - I had 28 Black Panther Party members killed in attacks from the police who were trying terrorize us out of existence - when I look at that I have a very great affinity for Dr. King and everything he inspired me to be.


All Power To All The People!
Bobby Seale
http://bobbyseale.com/

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#drmartinlutherking#blackpantherparty#bobbyseale
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World University and School News and Conversation Hangout 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440 
Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
Topic: Testing Hangouts 
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/980117848784699392 -
World University and School News and Conversation Hangout
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Topic: Testing Hangouts
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/980117848784699392 -
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World University and School News and Conversation Hangout
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Topic: Testing Hangouts
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/980117848784699392 -
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World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
WEDNESDAY, Mar 28 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
WEDNESDAY, Mar 28 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
World University and School -
World University and School -
worlduniversityandschool.org
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Amblyopsis rosae: WorldUnivAndSch's Youtube Channel, World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air on Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC, Friends' Dalton Letter about love/care ... Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations ... "NtFs, Cadbury, Quakers, the British Isles and online free MIT OCW education," for online free-to-students CC-4 OCW-centric courses and degrees, ... To British Quaker Members of Parliament Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West, Tania Mathias, ... To Oxford Professors of the Internet, ... To Stanford President John Hennessy (recent past) Stanford Board Chair (recent past) Stanford Rev Jane Shaw (outgoing) ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/amblyopsis-rosae-worldunivandschs.html ...
Amblyopsis rosae: WorldUnivAndSch's Youtube Channel, World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air on Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC, Friends' Dalton Letter about love/care ... Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations ... "NtFs, Cadbury, Quakers, the British Isles and online free MIT OCW education," for online free-to-students CC-4 OCW-centric courses and degrees, ... To British Quaker Members of Parliament Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West, Tania Mathias, ... To Oxford Professors of the Internet, ... To Stanford President John Hennessy (recent past) Stanford Board Chair (recent past) Stanford Rev Jane Shaw (outgoing) ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/amblyopsis-rosae-worldunivandschs.html ...
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World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
https://youtu.be/kJeEW3bp95c
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
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Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park: Yoga, dancing, Scotland (SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING in Berkeley), global university, India, writing, virtual world, Brain, STEM, robotics, programming, MIT, virtual Harbin, Designing a WARM POOL in Google Earth, Site Modeling in Sketchup, ~ VISIT THE HARBIN GATE HERE ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ … SOAKING from home in bathtub at virtual Harbin in Cardboard while hanging in pool area? ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/akiyoshidai-quasi-national-park-yoga.html ... 
Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park: Yoga, dancing, Scotland (SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING in Berkeley), global university, India, writing, virtual world, Brain, STEM, robotics, programming, MIT, virtual Harbin, Designing a WARM POOL in Google Earth, Site Modeling in Sketchup, ~ VISIT THE HARBIN GATE HERE ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ … SOAKING from home in bathtub at virtual Harbin in Cardboard while hanging in pool area? ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/akiyoshidai-quasi-national-park-yoga.html ...
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World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
Topic: Testing Hangouts 
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://youtu.be/FRGNjpK2YXE
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Topic: Testing Hangouts
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://youtu.be/FRGNjpK2YXE
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
World University and School -
World University and School -
worlduniversityandschool.org
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Dear Kangah, 

Sharing with you off list this Côte d'Ivoire online University at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) - which is not yet in French or the other languages of Côte d'Ivoire (as wiki schools for open teaching and learning). World Univ & Sch is like Wikipedia/Wikidata in its 298 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages, and plans to offer online free CC-4 OCW-centric university and high school degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. and I.B. high school - in all ~200 countries' official languages. (WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and got this new WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki in 2017 as a consequence).

Cheers, 
Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- http://scottmacleod.com
Dear Kangah,

Sharing with you off list this Côte d'Ivoire online University at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) - which is not yet in French or the other languages of Côte d'Ivoire (as wiki schools for open teaching and learning). World Univ & Sch is like Wikipedia/Wikidata in its 298 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages, and plans to offer online free CC-4 OCW-centric university and high school degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. and I.B. high school - in all ~200 countries' official languages. (WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and got this new WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki in 2017 as a consequence).

Cheers,
Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://scottmacleod.com
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Yale: curling - it's a chill sport ... https://youtu.be/LML4k8lJvs4 ... also a Scottish sport .... @TheOpenBand @scottmacleod what's its language @sgkmacleod ?? ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling ... to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress to print stones?
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... an ONLINE Robotics, Programming and ESL for kids learning opportunity all in one :)

Hi Ralph,

Thanks so much for your email just now. It looks like we emailed from about 11/28/2015 to 3/26/2016 and re our English speaking learning in group video Hangouts. How are you in Venezuela? The weather isn't too bad in winter in the SF Bay Area. World Univ & Sch has gotten our new wiki and here's the new ESL wiki page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language - which anybody can edit. (And here's the related https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids ).

I'm checking out the Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 - https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300 . It works with the Scratch drag and drop programming language - https://scratch.mit.edu/download - from MIT. (Both involve a couple of other pre-software installations).

I found We Do 2.0 Lego for Education on Harvard Prof. Karen Brennan's Twitter feed recently - https://twitter.com/karen_brennan .

and re a We Do 2.0 and Scratch Meetup in the city where I was born - https://twitter.com/TOTALTeacher/status/969993653568589824 .

We Do 2.0 is potentially usable in an actual-virtual way - https://twitter.com/SpeakkVisually/status/957331694452969472
and https://twitter.com/scratch/status/969333088575684609 - with Scratch programming of the Lego. Cool. I posted all of these tweets here recently - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

If you got a set of We Do 2.0 Lego Education Robots for your son (and if I get a set too), would you like to explore building Lego robots remotely and as ESL for Kids - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids - remotely?

This is an ONLINE Robotics, Programming and ESL for kids learning opportunity all in one :)

Let's see if we can make further the world a better place to live. (Organizing remote We Do 2.0 / Scratch Meetups in Spanish might be a further opportunity here, but people would need to get the We Do 2.0 Legos). Does your son already have access to some Lego?

Cheers,
Scott

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/aesculapian-snake-online-robotics.html ...
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To Banking and Money

Android Pay is now Google Pay
So, one thing Google loves doing is changing. They adapt their search engine algorithm all the time. But the branding they have around items has been horrendous when it comes to change. Google Talk, G+ Messenger, Hangouts, Hangouts Meet, Allo... what next...

To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Banking_and_Money

planned in all Countries' official languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ...
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Check out Markus Kroetzsch's video, pinned here to the top of Info @ World University and School .org 's G+ feed -
https://plus.google.com/u/2/+InfoWorldUniversityinEnglish/posts/c4QyjJ4dnRS (see email address above too).

I think he's one of the founders of the Semantic Web - http://korrekt.org/ - and is now one of the main structured knowledge database heads at Wikidata/Wikibase, which is Wikipedia's "back end" in 299 languages. His Semantic Web papers could be very helpful here- https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wissensbasierte_Systeme/en - and as a Professor of this in Dresden, his team is growing.

While World University and School is like Wikipedia in 299 languages plus CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages, we seek to develop in all 7,099 living languages, nation state by state - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each a major online university in the countries' language. The linguistic A.I. that emerges from this will be significant to your work, Mark, I think. We donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and are also in Google Education, and are very Google-ecosystem centric e.g. re TensorFlow and Google Translate (GNMT), conceptually.

What's your focus these days, Mark?

Scott
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

World Univ & Sch (a 501 c 3): https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en
WUaS Corp (a startup for profit general stock company): https://twitter.com/WUaSPress?lang=en
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To the WIKI Yoga subject at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ?
Morning stress mitigation before #samagala14 this Friday
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A moat ✔️
A twin-towered gatehouse ✔️
A triangular shape ✔️

Caerlaverock Castle is pretty unique! ➡️ http://go.visit.sc/OI

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Aerial root: AMAZING Actual-Virtual potential here > Could probably CUT some LEGO out of this GOOGLE VR - and "SURGICALLY" with direct correspondence with physical/actual world ... (This Google VR GIF image could become the basis for actual medical surgery and within the Google ecosystem ... and re WUaS planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for clinical care ... in all nation states' official and main languages ... (and hopefully in conjunction with Stanford Medicine)) ... & PROGRAMMABLE actual < > virtual LEGO - WITH the drag and drop SCRATCH Programming Language ... Connect all of this together & you'll have an amazing basis for a realistic virtual Harbin & for actual < > virtual correspondence, & programming, engineering & PLAY, both directions, Harbin ethnographic realistic virtual earth project should be able to open up the potential in ALL countries' official / main LANGUAGES (ANY LANGUAGE actually) of an ACTUAL < > VIRTUAL CONVERSATION @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress with Google VR, Blocks, Lego and Scratch plus in a virtual Harbin ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/01/aerial-root-amazing-actual-virtual.html ...
Aerial root: AMAZING Actual-Virtual potential here > Could probably CUT some LEGO out of this GOOGLE VR - and "SURGICALLY" with direct correspondence with physical/actual world ... (This Google VR GIF image could become the basis for actual medical surgery and within the Google ecosystem ... and re WUaS planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for clinical care ... in all nation states' official and main languages ... (and hopefully in conjunction with Stanford Medicine)) ... & PROGRAMMABLE actual < > virtual LEGO - WITH the drag and drop SCRATCH Programming Language ... Connect all of this together & you'll have an amazing basis for a realistic virtual Harbin & for actual < > virtual correspondence, & programming, engineering & PLAY, both directions, Harbin ethnographic realistic virtual earth project should be able to open up the potential in ALL countries' official / main LANGUAGES (ANY LANGUAGE actually) of an ACTUAL < > VIRTUAL CONVERSATION @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress with Google VR, Blocks, Lego and Scratch plus in a virtual Harbin
Aerial root: AMAZING Actual-Virtual potential here > Could probably CUT some LEGO out of this GOOGLE VR - and "SURGICALLY" with direct correspondence with physical/actual world ... (This Google VR GIF image could become the basis for actual medical surgery and within the Google ecosystem ... and re WUaS planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for clinical care ... in all nation states' official and main languages ... (and hopefully in conjunction with Stanford Medicine)) ... & PROGRAMMABLE actual < > virtual LEGO - WITH the drag and drop SCRATCH Programming Language ... Connect all of this together & you'll have an amazing basis for a realistic virtual Harbin & for actual < > virtual correspondence, & programming, engineering & PLAY, both directions, Harbin ethnographic realistic virtual earth project should be able to open up the potential in ALL countries' official / main LANGUAGES (ANY LANGUAGE actually) of an ACTUAL < > VIRTUAL CONVERSATION @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress with Google VR, Blocks, Lego and Scratch plus in a virtual Harbin
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Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Poetry (2017) ... brand new book ... https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ...
Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (2017)
ISBN139780692049037
http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html ~
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)
ISBN139780692646137
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~
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Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Poetry (2017) ... brand new book ... https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ...
Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (2017)
ISBN139780692049037
http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html ~
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037/ ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)
ISBN139780692646137
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~
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Very nice playing on the Boderpipes ... Chris Stout and Finlay MacDonald - Fiddle and Pipes -Piping Live! 2010 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3r97gyxGoE - To ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ...
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Came across this Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White music ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. (Thanks, +AA MacKenzie !) Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...

There's a great zephyr of music and music-making online in video of all kinds streaming forth all over the world these days ... Hope to add some of the best and most lyrical, inspiring etc to World University and School's music school -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments in ALL 7,099 living languages + as wiki schools for open learning and teaching! (Meeting on Wednesday about upcoming wiki platform developments :)
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To Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ... Thank you, Vix!
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To the "iPhone as a Musical instrument" wiki subject page at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument ...
Automated Robot Vs iPhone Rhythm Game

that's the way to do it :)
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Here are my main Music web sites:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodMusic

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107756025217438713733

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

... and here’s my recent book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" has a Hippies' focus too - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook



And Twitter's pretty interesting these days. Who's Twitter profiles do you glance at occasionally? Here are mine:

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

WUaS Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

( OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )

Scott
(accessible from here - scottmacleod.com )



And here are my main Yoga web resources ~

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodYogaMacFlower

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yoga

http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm

http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html


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To India World University and School planned in Gujarati language
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Brilliant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8NgMdhbcc - @ClaireHastings1 Methinks you learned folk rock o'er traditional Scots in 2017 & did it well https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/906212019363184640& https://twitter.com/TopFloorTaivers/status/892778860885966850… with dancing!
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Glad to say I'm going to be singing with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir in Burlingame this autumn (and potentially as countertenor with time:). 

Good music, good singers, too, and we'll be singing the JS Bach Christmas Oratorio and the Mozart Requiem, along with an anthem every week, as well as Episcopal hymns ... it's actually pretty great music too ... may explore descant lines if I begin to sing countertenor (Singing Descant: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Descant), although this morning I sang bass ... (for further bliss neurophysiology elicitation focus here re neural cascades of pleasure and music-making ...)

Heard them sing in Stanford Memorial Church - https://events.stanford.edu/events/696/69687/ - not long ago. 

Perhaps we can explore collaboration with time about a virtual choir - Virtual Choir: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - (in the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ). 

A Tongan choir sang this morning in addition to the Chancel Choir ... and this Tongan choir could emerge online as well - in Tongan - https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_faka-Tonga - ! Since Wikipedia is in Tongan, this NEW wiki World University and School !! - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University - will soon be in Tongan too :) Please feel free to wiki-edit / teach to wiki World University and School. 

Thank you Unitarian Universalist Choir of Palo Alto!

Musical regards, Scott
Glad to say I'm going to be singing with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir in Burlingame this autumn (and potentially as countertenor with time:).

Good music, good singers, too, and we'll be singing the JS Bach Christmas Oratorio and the Mozart Requiem, along with an anthem every week, as well as Episcopal hymns ... it's actually pretty great music too ... may explore descant lines if I begin to sing countertenor (Singing Descant: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Descant), although this morning I sang bass ... (for further bliss neurophysiology elicitation focus here re neural cascades of pleasure and music-making ...)

Heard them sing in Stanford Memorial Church - https://events.stanford.edu/events/696/69687/ - not long ago.

Perhaps we can explore collaboration with time about a virtual choir - Virtual Choir: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - (in the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ).

A Tongan choir sang this morning in addition to the Chancel Choir ... and this Tongan choir could emerge online as well - in Tongan - https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_faka-Tonga - ! Since Wikipedia is in Tongan, this NEW wiki World University and School !! - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University - will soon be in Tongan too :) Please feel free to wiki-edit / teach to wiki World University and School.

Thank you Unitarian Universalist Choir of Palo Alto!

Musical regards, Scott
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Online virtual choir wiki subject page at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - in English (accessible from the Music School here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School)...
Bruce, Robert, Jack and UUCPA (and greetings, Tim!)

This sheet music and these SATB recorded parts are great for learning to sing UU choir music from home, for one! Thank you. I'm curious now - in a building kind of way - whether it might be additionally possible to sing this, for example, FROM home WITH the UUCPA choir in Thursday rehearsals and on occasional Sunday mornings via a 10-person Google group video Hangout, - now silently, but also after Hangouts get up to speed with real real time music-making.

And could this be a start-simple-and-build-it model for virtual UU choirs, for UU choirs and singers everywhere, and perhaps also the beginnings of an online UU choir school for UUs and Us and also other church choirs, around the world even (in many languages), - since the Google group video Hangouts could be saved to Youtube, and be used for practicing with by anyone with broadband at anytime?

"Bruce Olstad, musical director of the online UU choir school, for a) music directors and b) choir singers"

For further virtual choir idea-sharing, I'm including Tim House in this email, a friend from Massachusetts, who is also UU minister at First UU Church of Boston - http://www.firstchurchboston.org/people/269.

Here's the virtual choir wiki subject page at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - in English (accessible from the Music School here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School).

I'm glad to say that the NEW (long, long awaited WUaS wiki) should be accessible here tomorrow - wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org - and from here too - worlduniversityandschool.org - (with worlduniversity.wikia.com soon to become obsolete).

Thank you for these great learning tools!

Friendly, musical regards, Scott
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Interesting narrative ... to Scotland World University and School ... at wiki WUAS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland ... in the new wiki WUAS ... wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org ...
Forward units of Corbyn’s British Labourite Red Army – Momentum – have fired the opening shots in Labour’s anti-SNP offensive. Of course, idiots that they are, they have targeted the railways. Not the wisest of opening moves.

Comrade Corbyn is marching north to Scotland with his wee pokey army to “win back” seats from the SNP because he wants to be Prime Minister of a united Britain. He appears to have gotten it into his head, no doubt emboldened by Cat Boyd and her like, that Scotland is right on the verge of turning back to Labour and embracing Corbynism; this wonderful new brand of socialism. He, travelling in the footsteps of many an English nationalist politician, is incapable of understanding how strongly we feel about our decision to remain in Europe and how much we loath being Westminster’s nuclear weapons dump. He’s coming anyway.

As is the fashion in every half decent invasion plan, his vanguard Momentum has started bombing the railways in an effort to soften us up, but it has done nothing but make a pig’s breakfast of this. Momentum, being an entirely English outfit under the effective command of Owen Jones, has never encountered a well-run rail service. So coming after ScotRail, which consistently outperforms what passes for a train service south of the border, is an odd move to say the least.

They couldn’t come after its performance record because that would be just too hilarious. What they decided to do instead – as British Labour always does – is go after them foreigners; the ones who are coming here and operating our trains. Momentum, in a short anti-SNP and overtly xenophobic video, has taken issue with the fact that our rail network has been privatised and is currently under the control of Abellio – a Dutch company. Oh those pesky foreigners.....see video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWvSvymj6AE

It doesn’t help Labour’s cause, considering Scotland is very much on the EU side of the Brexit debate, that this video mocks the Netherlands with a series of nasty stereotypes and is voiced-over with an embarrassing faux Dutch accent. We can see it now; lines of Europeans living in Scotland banging on the doors of Scottish Labour begging to be let in. While they should be congratulated for at last learning that that sort of gutter anti-foreigner politics works where they come from, someone really ought to tell them it doesn’t wash up here in Scotland.

What’s more is that, while they have taken the hump with the SNP for letting these wicked Europeans in to profit from Scottish commuters, they appear not to have done their homework. Abellio doesn’t only operate in Scotland. It operates trains in London, Surrey, Greater Anglia, Liverpool, and the West Midlands. Now we can’t really stop them heading to those parts of England with their Britain First placards and Enoch Powell attitudes and harassing the Dutch there, but God only knows how they will manage to blame the SNP for it.

According to this video it is the Scottish government’s fault that ScotRail is run by who they clearly see as unwelcome outlanders. It wasn’t the Scottish government that privatised the rail network. Back in 1994 when that ugly process began there was no Scottish government. Scotland had nothing to do with it. Privatisation was all down to a Tory Westminster government. Labour had a whole decade in government shortly thereafter – between 1997 and 2007 – and it did absolutely nothing about re-nationalising the rails. Now this shower of weekend revolutionaries has the audacity to come to Scotland screaming “SNP bad.”

Scotland has now spoken twice on what it thinks of Labour.

If all this wasn’t enough, there’s more. When the tender was last put out – the time when Abellio secured the contract – the Scottish government was quite actually powerless to put in a public bid. The reason for that was because London hadn’t given us that power, now that the ability has been devolved – no thanks to Scottish Labour of course – there are plans in place by the Scottish government – that’s the SNP government – to make a public bid the next time the contract is up for renewal. So yeah, going for the Dutch and ScotRail was a worse than stupid idea – and this is coming from the masterminds at Momentum; the Corbynistas who hope to win a few more seats in Scotland. Well thanks but no thanks. I would rather pull out my own teeth.

But supposing this gormless clown – the man behind the Jeremy Corbyn Show – manages to get a few folk listening to his fairy tales, what then? No one in Scotland will ever get a chance to vote for him. Neither he nor Corbynite Labourism is on the ballot paper here. What we get instead is Scottish Labour and Kezia – freaking – Dugdale, with all the stink that has been left behind by such unionist worthies as Johann – “we’re not genetically programmed in Scotland to make political decisions” – Lamont and Jim – “fundilymundily” – Murphy. Any vote for Labour in Scotland is a vote for a return to moronic third-rate and bigoted politics. Again, no – bloody – thanks.
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Course begins Tu Sep 26, 9am PT, NEW WIKI NEW LOGO!

World University and School
Society, Information Technology,
and the Global University ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ... Begins online on Tuesdays, Sep 26, 2017 at 9am Pacific Time, 4pm UTC, 6pm CEST ... hour-long ... (wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org ) ... Wiki und CC MIT OCW-centric in English this autumn ...
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P 
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P 
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...
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Odysseus & Homer speak: When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I bade my men on board and loose the hawsers. Then they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars; so we sailed on
https://t.co/N4RYVsCAVj ~ https://t.co/uL6lrr8NMt @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1015592364419645442& https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1015588158866505728 ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing ...
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WWW - Wood Wide Web: trees talk to each other - after all

Researchers have found out that trees communicate - or even fight - with one another by using fungal networks.

More on this here:
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Came across this Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White music ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. (Thanks, +AA MacKenzie !) Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...

There's a great zephyr of music and music-making online in video of all kinds streaming forth all over the world these days ... Hope to add some of the best and most lyrical, inspiring etc to World University and School's music school -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments in ALL 7,099 living languages + as wiki schools for open learning and teaching! (Meeting on Wednesday about upcoming wiki platform developments :)
Came across Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...
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World University and School plans to offer an online Medical School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online Teaching Hospital - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care with online Pharmacy (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology) available from our online store (https://twitter.com/WUaSPress) ... in the Gujarati language (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) and accrediting academically and licensing-wise at India World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (planned in official languages in India too) ...
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This is a great family tree of alphabets — and isn't very conjectural at all, since we actually know how writing spread. The color codes are by kinds of writing.

The oldest forms of writing are true pictograms, not shown here; these are scripts like the earliest forms of Egyptian, Sumerian, and Chinese writing, which are basically pictures (slightly stylized) of physical objects. These aren't full writing systems, in that they can generally only code things like "three sheep, four barrels of wine..."

These quickly evolved into logograms, a few of which are shown here in blue — not only the bulk of ancient Egyptian, but also modern Chinese and part of modern Japanese writing as well. In logograms, a small group of symbols represents a word, not phonetically but conceptually. (This is why the different Chinese languages, which sound almost nothing alike, can nonetheless share a single writing system! The writing codes ideas, not sounds.)

A common extension of logograms is to add sound representations, typically starting with using words to represent homonyms, and then adding logographic marks to indicate "the word symbolized by which sounds like " to clarify synonyms, and so on. Nearly all logographic writing systems adopted this.

Ancient Egyptian did in particular, and an entire subbranch of its writing system started to adopt this more seriously, starting to use purely phonetic representations — that is, symbols that described sounds instead of concepts. This is one of the earliest forms of alphabetic writing.

This kind of "phonetic writing" then has a history which you can see here.

Abjads are scripts like Hebrew and Arabic, where each letter represents a syllable, but only uniquely describes the consonants; you're supposed to know the vowels from context. These work well in languages where the vowels vary following predictable rules and primarily indicate parts of speech, and so are still used in such languages to this day. (The name "abjad" comes from the first four letters of the old Arabic alphabet, a, b, j, and d.)

Abugidas (green) and alphabets (red) take this further, adding accent marks (in abugidas) or separate letter-signs (alphabets) for the vowels, as well. As Barry Powell argued in Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet, this likely emerged as a pattern whenever abjads reached areas where the local language didn't have the same kinds of rules for vowels as Semitic languages, and the ability to explicitly code vowels was important for telling words apart — and, critically, for recording poetry and verse.

Finally, featural alphabets take the march towards phonetic clarity even further. The classic example of this is Hangul, the script invented for Korean in the 15th century. In these writing systems, symbols go beyond coding for sounds — they code for individual features, like "plosive sounds" (you stop the air and then suddenly release it, like t or p), "aspirated sounds" (with a breath), and so on. So for example, ㅌ can be immediately recognized as a voiceless, aspirated, alveolar plosive, or tʰ.

English is in many ways a strange case in this family. The Latin alphabet that it uses is a true alphabet: someone reading Latin immediately knows how to pronounce any word they see, just like someone reading Spanish or Polish would. But English both assembled its lexicon from a bunch of languages, and standardized its spelling system much earlier than most other modern languages — and unfortunately, did so not too long before a major change in how words were pronounced, which gives it all sorts of oddities like "silent e," how tough it is to cough through a rough slough, and so on. (There are not many languages where "being able to spell things correctly" is a televised sport!) In fact, despite its use of an alphabet, English is in many ways moving back towards being a logographic language, where you have to know what a word is (and which language it comes from) to know how to pronounce it.

Via +John Hardy
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To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ... and potentially to facilitate this and even through G + eventually ...
Where is my Chinese speaking Partner?
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Happy #FathersDay to all of the dads who are showing their kids that anything is possible. ... and re http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ...
Happy #FathersDay to all of the dads who are showing their kids that anything is possible.

Image: Dominick Reuter and Chelsea Turner
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Camping outdoors at Harbin too ... & re https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ...
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World University and School plans to offer an online Medical School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online Teaching Hospital - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care with online Pharmacy (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology) available from our online store (https://twitter.com/WUaSPress) ... in the Gujarati language (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) and accrediting academically and licensing-wise at India World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (planned in official languages in India too) ...
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Ann Brown and Scott MacLeod at Wisdom Creek ranch, Medical Springs, in eastern Oregon, June 14, 2018 :)
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“If the robot could touch the object, have a notion of tactile information, and be able to react to that information, it will have much more success. —Maria Bauza

#robots#machinelearning#robotics#MIT
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World University and School News and Q & A
Mon, May 28, 2018 10am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Next http://worlduniversityandschool.org Google Live Hangout on Air ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States… (online Univ & High Sch degrees planned) ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1000105950714343424
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World University Hangouts on Air are growing! ....
World University & School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, May 14, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: "Language Communities" @ @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/995771216731324416
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/995770780058243072
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
~ https://plus.google.com/u/5/events/cmaso38i1bs0jj2del5la0n0vc0?authkey=CI2vwKWm_Ja1PA&cfem=1 ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
~ https://plus.google.com/u/5/events/cmaso38i1bs0jj2del5la0n0vc0?authkey=CI2vwKWm_Ja1PA&cfem=1 ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, May 7, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS (and both wings of WUaS: @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress cont.) ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, May 7, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS (and both wings of WUaS: @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress cont.) ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
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Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Hangout Events" page - plus.google.com - World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air - Google+ -
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 https://plus.google.com/u/5/events/cmaso38i1bs0jj2del5la0n0vc0?authkey=CI2vwKWm_Ja1PA&cfem=1  
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Hangout Events" page - plus.google.com - World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air - Google+ -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl0u4gdic4651tke0gl0687t2pg -
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
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To Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland - and planned with online Music School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - as well.
A most gorgeous setting -- played by a gaggle o the most gorgeous young musicians ever assembled.... well done all!!!
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World University and School News and Conversation Hangout 
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- Topic: How to teach at @WorldUnivAndSch 
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/983137056825028609 
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440 -
World University and School News and Q & A
Wed, April 4, 2018 10am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Next http://worlduniversityandschool.org Google Live Hangout on Air ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States… (online Univ & High Sch degrees planned in countries' official / main languages) ~
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To Harbin on this day -
in cool, winter-is-coming,
autumn, nice-like-summers-
in-San-Francisco,
California weather.

Now Harbin is so beautifully quiet ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-longer-twilight-to-harbin-on-this.html
Next book - of poetry - coming
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry :)
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ @WUaSPress ~


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An old classic piped by the best in the world at one time


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World University and School Hangouts
Every Monday 10 am Pacific Time, 17:00 UTC
For more information, follow:
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https://www.youtube.com//WorldUnivandSch ~


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World University and School Hangouts
Every Monday 10 am Pacific Time, 17:00 UTC
For more information, follow:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/+InfoWorldUniversityinEnglish ~

https://www.youtube.com//WorldUnivandSch ~
World University and School Hangouts
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For more information, follow:
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Mmmmm … restorative yoga asana! ... to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga at best WIKI World Univ & Sch ... & into https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds in a #RealisticVirtualEarth at the Street View, cellular and atomic levels too
"The problem with this way of living is that it makes us miss the present—and the present is all we really have.

Our frequent dissatisfaction with life comes from never fully tasting it exactly as it happens. Asana practice can help us reconnect with the sacred by requiring that we pay attention to the miracle that we are and to the wonder of creation in which we live."

~ Dearest Feathered Pipe friend Judith Hanson Lasater, returning to the Ranch, August 3 -10, 2019. Filling Fast!


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In what ways could we define psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis anew - https://youtu.be/ai7keGdGEzw (children’s psychiatry too) - in all ~200 countries' main languages - in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin@HarbinBook re "Mental health is really important for overall health. If you're..." Prof Shashank Joshi https://twitter.com/StanfordMed/status/1028349579614474240 … ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1028351860439048192 ~
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In what ways could we define psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis anew - https://youtu.be/ai7keGdGEzw (children’s psychiatry too) - in all ~200 countries' main languages - in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook re "Mental health is really important for overall health. If you're..." Prof Shashank Joshi ... https://twitter.com/StanfordMed/status/1028349579614474240 … ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1028351860439048192 ~
In what ways could we define psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis anew - https://youtu.be/ai7keGdGEzw (children’s psychiatry too) - in all ~200 countries' main languages - in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook re "Mental health is really important for overall health. If you're..." Prof Shashank Joshi https://twitter.com/StanfordMed/status/1028349579614474240… ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1028351860439048192 ~


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To Harbin on this day -
in cool, winter-is-coming,
autumn, nice-like-summers-
in-San-Francisco,
California weather.

Now Harbin is so beautifully quiet ~

... and good sleep
comes under the canopy :}

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-longer-twilight-to-harbin-on-this.html

Next book - of poetry - coming ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... :)
... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ...


World University and School -
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Hi Mrs MacLeod of California, Tammy, Tegan, & All,

Your Dunvegan Castle on Skye travels sound great!

You probably already know about this, but anyway:

I thought you might be interested in knowing about the open Piobaireachd, MSR and Hornpipe/Jig bagpiping competitions beginning mid-morning on Friday. This is some of the best live piping around the SF Bay Area, and one can simply go in and listen - and it's free.

Solo Events:

NOTE: ALL PIOBAIREACHD EVENTS HELD AT THE SAN RAMON- MARRIOTT HOTEL: 2600 Bishop Drive, San Ramon 94583

http://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=24936


Here's further information about the piping at the Games themselves - http://www.thescottishgames.com/piping.php - re Saturday and Sunday.


See you in the MacLeod tent at the The Scottish Games in Pleasanton, perchance!

Cheers, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1034556265416904704 ...


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To the /Biological_Engineering wiki subject for open teaching and learning at World Univ & Schhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Biological_Engineering … ...
https://plus.google.com/+mit/posts/UuaGuzD1fS1?_utm_source=1-2-2 … planned in countries' main languages (@sgkmacleod) and for Academic Publishing in these languages @WUaSPress w machine translation - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1031939134321975296 -
Scientists have now discovered that other peptides in the human body can also have potent antimicrobial effects, expanding the pool of new antibiotic candidates.

#biologicalengineering#antibiotics#medicine#MIT


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Thanks so so much, Prasanna +R. Prasanna Venkatesan, for your encouragement for World University and School from India, and your email,

Waiting to hear back about the National Science Foundation grant which WUaS has submitted (including for paying accreditation agencies). The state of California's definition of a private educational institution is that students pay tuition. And our World University and School's Creative Commons-4 licensed MIT OCW-centricity means that WUaS can't ask for tuition from students (since CC-4 licensing says we can A) share, B) adapt but C) non-commercially). And WUaS seeks to accredit with the state of California's BPPE (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education), and concurrently with WASC senior, - so WUaS seeks to inquire if BBPE can add an amendment to their regulation, allowing for CC-4 WUaS to offer online OCW and related online degrees for free. WUaS would thus not, and can't, ask for tuition from students, such that Californians will get MIT OCW-centric online classes and degrees that are free-to-students, in CA and around the world - via World Univeristy and School and other CC-4 OCW-centric universities too - and first in English at WUaS, but later in countries' main / official languages. Free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online degrees, eventually in their 5 languages, and many more!

Wishing you all the best, Scott
Thanks so so much, Prasanna +R. Prasanna Venkatesan, for your encouragement for World University and School from India, and your email,

Waiting to hear back about the National Science Foundation grant which WUaS has submitted (including for paying accreditation agencies). The state of California's definition of a private educational institution is that students pay tuition. And our World University and School's Creative Commons-4 licensed MIT OCW-centricity means that WUaS can't ask for tuition from students (since CC-4 licensing says we can A) share, B) adapt but C) non-commercially). And WUaS seeks to accredit with the state of California's BPPE (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education), and concurrently with WASC senior, - so WUaS seeks to inquire if BBPE can add an amendment to their regulation, allowing for CC-4 WUaS to offer online OCW and related online degrees for free. WUaS would thus not, and can't, ask for tuition from students, such that Californians will get MIT OCW-centric online classes and degrees that are free-to-students, in CA and around the world - via World Univeristy and School and other CC-4 OCW-centric universities too - and first in English at WUaS, but later in countries' main / official languages. Free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online degrees, eventually in their 5 languages, and many more!

Wishing you all the best, Scott


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'Getting a glimpse of a truer view of myself ... ' (around 24 minutes)
Gernot Huber - “Disrupting the Stress Response” - Thailand-based Yoga Teacher, Ecologist, Evolutionary Biologist
https://www.jbrownyoga.com/yoga-talks-podcast/2018/3/gernot-huber -
- To ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga - (I hear a bit of a Yoga meme out of the 1960s and California in this interview with Gernot ... )
'Getting a glimpse of a truer view of myself ... ' (around 24 minutes)
Gernot Huber - “Disrupting the Stress Response” - Thailand-based Yoga Teacher, Ecologist, Evolutionary Biologist
- https://www.jbrownyoga.com/yoga-talks-podcast/2018/3/gernot-huber -
- To ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga - (I hear a bit of a Yoga meme out of the 1960s and California in this interview with Gernot ... )


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Starting Sept. 2018 - DEUTSCHTALK Language Hangouts
New Hangouts - New content - New levels - New structure
Follow the new DEUTSCHTALK page for more information
Starting Sept. 2018 - DEUTSCHTALK Language Hangouts
New Hangouts - New content - New levels - New structure
Follow the new DEUTSCHTALK page for more information


DEUTSCHTALK
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Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch monthly business meeting - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/agenda-news-for-world-univ-schs-open.html - this Saturday, July 14, 2018, at 9 am Pacific Time, electronically - in a Google group video Hangout, if interested people email WUaS about this info@worlduniversityandschool.org -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1017472250025369600 …
Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch monthly business meeting - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/agenda-news-for-world-univ-schs-open.html - this Saturday, July 14, 2018, at 9 am Pacific Time, electronically - in a Google group video Hangout, if interested people email WUaS about this info@worlduniversityandschool.org -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1017472250025369600


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High Cairngorms: Nontheist Friends (NtFs) / Atheist Quakers (AQs), Some basic beliefs / assumptions / understandings of Quakers, World Univ & Sch's A) Nontheist Friends/Atheist Quaker and B) Quaker - Religious Society of Friends' wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning, "[NTF-talk] New Amsterdam Figured Out Religious Tolerance 361 Years Ago," #NoMuslim Ban and Quakers, AFSC and Western Friend magazine (IMYM+) posts about the No Muslim ban in the US ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/high-cairngorms-nontheist-friends-ntfs.html ...
High Cairngorms: Nontheist Friends (NtFs) / Atheist Quakers (AQs), Some basic beliefs / assumptions / understandings of Quakers, World Univ & Sch's A) Nontheist Friends/Atheist Quaker and B) Quaker - Religious Society of Friends' wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning, "[NTF-talk] New Amsterdam Figured Out Religious Tolerance 361 Years Ago,"#NoMuslim Ban and Quakers, AFSC and Western Friend magazine (IMYM+) posts about the No Muslim ban in the US ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/high-cairngorms-nontheist-friends-ntfs.html ...


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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P 
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...


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Peach blossom: World Univ & Sch - A University Internet Company, News, Hangout * * * Longevity ... Re questions about human longevity and gene editing * * * Some further interesting Brighde Chaimbeul Scottish small piping * * * Google + is closing consumer G+ tomorrow 4/2/19 - so I'm saving some years of G+ Profiles' posts to my blog (about 20 posts to a blog post page):

Next: Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter,""We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)
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World Univ & Sch - A University Internet Company, News, Hangout


https://youtu.be/0B9CfgJpSVU



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Re questions about human longevity and gene editing ...




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1107726947310723073


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https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1109790798265176064


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https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/1108941458340372481


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https://twitter.com/gerosciencecom/status/1104743806556143616


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https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/850521155819667456


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https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1096818138438606848


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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1107727256309264384


Just re-tweeted the posts above here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch ...



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Just did good big Yoga standing poses today ... am fairly strong and limber ... will we live longer than 122? .. .and will such movement be beneficial then as well, Ma? :) Glad you're still very active physically ... 

Re gene editing and longevity ... 

Happy "Hamilton: the musical" travels, M!


L, Scott



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Hi Bruce, Patti and Barbara, 

Some further interesting Brighde Chaimbeul Scottish small piping:

Piping Live 2017 - Brighde Chaimbeul and Innes White

Brighde Chaimbeul - "Hackey Honey"

ROSS AINSLIE, BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL and STEVEN BYRNES




Google + is closing consumer G+ tomorrow 4/2/19 - so I'm saving some years of G+ Profiles' posts to my blog (about 20 posts to a blog post page): 

Carolina wild petunia 1: Musical Mac Flower (Scott MacLeod) G+ posts THRU 5

Petunia 1 (Musical Aphilo) through ?


Ashoka 1 Yoga Mac Flower - 1-22 

See you this evening at OpenBand!

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Piping Live 2017 - Brighde Chaimbeul and Innes White
https://youtu.be/9owse95kgV4
Brighde Chaimbeul - "Hackey Honey"
https://youtu.be/Urzt_3PuFEs
ROSS AINSLIE, BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL and STEVEN BYRNES
https://youtu.be/G8gDqZ_hW3k




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1112811970086891520

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1112811732458598406


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Carolina wild petunia 1: Musical Mac Flower
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/carolina-wild-petunia-1-musical-mac.html
Petunia 1 (Musical Aphilo)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/petunia-1-musical-aphilo-scott-macleod.html
Zinnia 1 - 16 (Meeting@w)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/zinnia-1-meeting-worlduniversity.html
Ashoka 1 Yoga Mac Flower
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka.html ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1112813287039619072


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World University & School News and Conversation Hangout
Mon, April 1, 2019, 10 am Pacific Time, 6pm UTC / GMT
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas, Thoughts
Hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https:// youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch ~
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States /Languages-@sgkmacleod  (@WUaSPress)


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1112547222753697792


World University and School News and Conversation Hangout
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, April 1, 2019, 10 am Pacific Time, 6pm UTC / GMT
Topic: Testing Hangouts
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States /Languages-@sgkmacleod~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1112547775751704578




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Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter,""We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)

Next: Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" - "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - 1978, ... Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004 , (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually) ... and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here, Am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology) * * * WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home * * * Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World Univ and Sch's planned online IB degrees
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Dear Mr. Henry Gray, (and Mr. George Preston),

Thank you for your email. I was glad to find a recent update online on the The Iain Macleod Award here - http://fettescommunity.com/uk/fettes/uploads/files/Final%20Fettes%20OFA%20Newsletter%202018.pdf (more about this award here - https://issuu.com/fettes_college/docs/fettes_ofa_newsletter_2017 - too) - with great photos too of my Kimmerghame Housemaster, Mr. George Preston, with computer terminals, on its very first page. I attended Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1977-'78, I think, when I studied English, History and Geography (and Scottish Higher Maths) in the 1st year 6th form. 

And thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" award, as well. While adventurously traveling to the wind-blown Isle of Mull in April to camp out was part of this, I'm glad to write about aspects of my whole year in Edinburgh for this as well. 


1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award: 1978

2. Where you went/what you did (in brief): Adventurously traveled to the wind-blown Isle of Mull in April to camp, and studied A-Levels for a year in the 1st Year 6th Form at Fettes College while living in Kimmerghame House in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Yuen Lok Mok was my study mate, and Andrew Lownie and I were in the Fettes College pipe band together - both above).

3. What you do now: am A) President, Professor, Founder at CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki multi-lingual World University and School; B) Developing my Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project further as writer / ethnographer / poet / realistic virtual Harbin / Earth / Universe coder for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!): Am including a recent photo at Stanford University with regards to my first book, but will ask my mother for a photo or two from '77-1978, and seek to email them to you at some point too.

Thank you. 

All the best, Gordon 
Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III
- Free-to-students' ~200 online Universities planned emerging from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in their main / official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (and planning for all 7,111 living languages with machine learning and translation +); planning too to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. MIT OCW-centric degrees in each of all ~200 countries
- Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland - 





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Dear Scott

I hope this finds you well. I am writing because this year’s Old Fettesian Newsletter will include a feature on the history of the Iain Macleod Award and some of its recipients. According to our records, this means you!
Traditionally, the report that each recipient produces following their trip would be published, but last year’s recipient, Evan Li, has postponed his trip, meaning no report.
In lieu of this, I would be incredibly grateful if you’d like to be a possible part of this feature. If so, please reply with:
1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award
2. Where you went/what you did (in brief)
3. What you do now
4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!)
I cannot guarantee all replies will see publication but all are appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,
Henry Gray
Old Fettesian Co-ordinator
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:48 AM Old Fettesian Association <OFA@fettes.com> wrote:
Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter

Dear Scott

I hope this finds you well. I am writing because this year’s Old Fettesian Newsletter will include a feature on the history of the Iain Macleod Award and some of its recipients. According to our records, this means you!
Traditionally, the report that each recipient produces following their trip would be published, but last year’s recipient, Evan Li, has postponed his trip, meaning no report.
In lieu of this, I would be incredibly grateful if you’d like to be a possible part of this feature. If so, please reply with:
1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award
2. Where you went/what you did (in brief)
3. What you do now
4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!)
I cannot guarantee all replies will see publication but all are appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,
Henry Gray
Old Fettesian Co-ordinator
Carrington Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH4 1QX
Andrew Lownie

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Andrew Lownie

10:50 AM (1 hour ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

Very good to hear all your news. I remember fondly our trips up town.

Best wishes, Andrew
From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 April 2019 18:38
To: OFA@fettes.com; George Preston; George Preston; George Preston; MacLeod, Janie; Andrew Lownie; Yuen Lok Mok; s m; Scott MacLeod
Subject: Re: OF Newsletter & The Iain Macleod Award



Dear Andrew, 

Thanks very much for your best wishes, and likewise. I stay tuned to your Twitter profile - https://twitter.com/andrewlownie -
- periodically.

Have you heard Brighde Chaimbeul from Skye on the Scottish small pipes - 
- at all?

Fond regards, Gordon




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Andrew Lownie

12:34 PM (8 minutes ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University,  took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping  up the pipes.

Best wishes, Andrew

From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 April 2019 19:16
To: Andrew Lownie
Subject: Re: OF Newsletter & The Iain Macleod Award


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Dear Andrew, 

Many thanks. 

Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals. The planned tune list is in a blog post within the above.

Is your son continuing to play chanter or pipes while at the University of Edinburgh?  

Best wishes, Gordon



-- 
- Scott MacLeod 




Andrew Lownie

2:02 PM (10 minutes ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

Alas not. Now a boxer.

Best, Andrew


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Dear Andrew, 

Thanks for letting me know. Have created a blog entry about "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related Scottish Country Dancing music-thinking at its conclusion. 

Best, Scott


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Dear Andrew, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Preston, 

With regards to "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" (the Iain Macleod award which promotes travel with objectives), I've created a blog entry here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related thinking with Scottish Country Dancing musician friends at its conclusion. I've also included some of my and Andrew's recent correspondence. No mention yet about this award here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Macleod. Thank you. I think my mother would be pleased, and on her birthday today. 

All the best, Gordon

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Dear Mr. Henry Gray and George Preston, 

This is great, thank you!

My year at Fettes College in Edinburgh inspired me, when I was studying in Munich at LMU and through Reed College in 1981-1982, to come back to Scotland to study piping there. For this, I got a ZIS grant / stipendium, and took a workshop with the great piper, Duncan Johnstone, and wrote a paper, entitled something like "Piping in Scotland," about this as well, which should be in the ZIS library at Schloss Salem - https://www.zis-reisen.de/start/ - still. I may seek in German to inquire at some point about how I could read an online version of this or similar. 

Sincerely, Gordon 


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Hi Bruce, Patti and Barbara, 

Very nice to see you yesterday evening ... may head to the colorful, wear-sunglasses-only, tie-die, Hawaiian shirts and kilts' Santa Cruz Scottish Country Dance in Aptos on Saturday - https://www.rscds-sf.org/events/parties.php. Who knows, but may Scottish small pipe a bit beforehand as well. 

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Hoping you get much needed rest Patti, and that your find back pain relief, Barbara! Here's a Harvard article on Yoga for back issues - https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-safe-way-to-do-yoga-for-back-pain. How do somewhat regular gentle twists while lying on your backs (and other gentle consistent poses) help for both inner scapula and back issues, Barbara and Patti?  


Warm regards, Scott

Continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html ...



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Hi Patti, Bruce and Barbara: 

This just in from Jim Spohrer and re AI and "Honey in the Bag" CD - 
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1113103928080678912 ... how to add a uniquely interesting and creative visual component to "Honey in the Bag" with TensorFlow? (am a Google baby here ... re both Bach Doodle AI and TensorFlow visuals :) ... 

- Scott

These are some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... 
https://youtu.be/Y4TW70xVkmU - but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead ... 

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O my goodness: just received an award today from Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland (which I attended for a year in 1977-'78): 

With regards to "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects," (the Iain Macleod award which promotes travel with objectives), I've created a blog entry here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related thinking with Scottish Country Dancing musician friends at its conclusion. (I've also included some of my and Andrew's recent correspondence, whom I remember from that time - in the Fettes College pipe band, for one. No mention yet about this award here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Macleod). think my mother would be pleased, and on her birthday today. 

It contains some ongoing envisioning re upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD as well ... :) (The Dead - and the the '60s & '70s - generated some of the most interesting musical visuals I know of). 

Musical cheer, Scott


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Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for the Fettes'"Iain Macleod Award," @andrewlownie & I played in @FettesCollegePB & his son took up chanter @EdinburghUni Continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1113202319032586240












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Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" - "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - 1978, ... Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004 , (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually) ... and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here, Am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology) * * * WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home * * * Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World Univ and Sch's planned online IB degrees

Next: Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinationg to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness * * * STEPHEN CAVE: "There’s No Such Thing as Free Will But we’re better off believing in it anyway" * * * David Chalmers: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" Stanford University talk ... * * * Re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... "Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Consciousness questions addressed anew
Previous: Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter,""We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)
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Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...

Just came across this on the Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland, web site:

https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/ (posted below as well)

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Two recent blog posts (Apr 2, Apr 3, 2019) about the Fettes College "The Iain Macleod Award"-

Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -


Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html -



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Hi Scott

Splendid to know that you flourish and still remember me! I think we have communicated over the years and I remember you well but I have discovered a problem which must be rectified forthwith.

To my great surprise I find that I do not have you listed in my Fettes Register and you do not appear in either the 1976 or 77 Ki House photos. I presume that Henry found you via winners of the Ian MacLeod Award. I can only assume this omission was due to you not arriving until after the Autumn term started and possibly you left before the House photo was taken. I am creating a record for you

Dick Cole-Hamilton and I maintained the Register and hoped that the first digitised Fettes List published in 1984 was definitive. In 1998 I foolishly agreed to add valete information this for the Millennium. A stupid thing to do because creating the register entries was a massive (almost impossible) job and it is still incomplete.

I look forward to reading your tale of enterprise in the piping world - assume you have the Gaelic in order to speak to other professionals! Our Police cars now have the Gaelic word for this - at least I presume that is what it says. (There are more Polish speakers in Scotland that Gaelic!)

All the best

George
George Preston, Fettes College, (Former Housemaster of Kimmerghame House), Edinburgh, Scotland

Keeper of the Fettes Register

George Preston (Sh, CW 1944-1950) (Staff 1955-1991) Senior OF Science


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Dear George, and All,

Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004, (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/greyhound-how-best-to-co-create.html - wherein you can find a link to the paper itself, and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here).

An email within the past year or so from you, George, raised the question in my mind of whether I attended Fettes in 1977-'78, (and not '76-'77) - see, too: https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/ - and this could make sense since I graduated from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1979, beginning to study at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, that autumn, and my Fettes' 1st year 6th A Levels' year was in a way a junior year abroad at the high school level, directly preceding my senior year at Shady Side Academy/SSA. Will seek further confirmation from other documents / sources with time. Yuen Lok or Andrew - can you corroborate this at all? If this is the case, this would suggest too that I received the Iain Macleod award in 1978 and not '77, per our emails yesterday, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. I have since changed my blog (web log) post from yesterday to read that I was at Fettes in 1977-'78 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html (until ... ). Would the Kimmerghame House photos have evidence of my being there in the spring of '78 (or autumn of '77)?

I am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology), will likely build out of Google for Education (which WUaS has for free), and the Google ecosystem/platform for our related record keeping, as we begin to first license with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (and then likely accredit with WASC senior, which accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and the others UCs +). (WUaS attended a day long workshop with the CA BPPE on 2/20/19, another green light re initial licensing with CA - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/red-veined-darter-day-with-state.html - and receiving a 'green light' first in 2013 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/bee-in-poppy-quakers-accreditation-and.html - both significant milestones in the emergence of World Univ & Sch). Such Google student WUaS matriculant records, with machine learning and machine translation eventually, will be invaluable in the future - and in many languages, not just Scots' Gaelic or Polish. Depending on how long the BPPE and WASC senior processes take, CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch may be seeking online undergraduates this autumn 2019 for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees in English. Please let Fettes' students and the 'university admissions/advising' office at Fettes know of this remarkable and far-reaching opportunity. Signing up / Registering / Applying will emerge from here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - re - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - where students will be taking MIT OCW courses and related Stanford OCW in their studies.  

WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home - and in something like Google group video Hangouts conceptually, with MIT faculty in video, and MIT and Stanford graduate students as instructors / tutors teaching 'sections,' an approach which works with BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation. (World Univ & Sch plans to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and will begin licensing for the Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English with CA's BPPE).

Wonderful to hear from you, George, and will keep you posted re my "tale of enterprise in the piping world." And thank you for the Iain MacLeod award.

All the best, 

Scott
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 




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Dear Scott,

I think you were there in my last year 1977-1978.

Best wishes, Andrew


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Dear Andrew, Yuen Lok, and George, 

Thanks! You may well be correct. Just to confirm this, Yuen Lok, when we shared a study on the ground floor of Kimmerghame House, we were both in the 1st Year 6th Form, What year was that, and what year did you sit your A Levels? 

Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World University and School's planned online IB degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - and eventually in many languages, with CC-4 MIT OCW High School at its center in part - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ . There's an enterprising opportunity here as well. And Fettes' British excellence might be something Fettes could extend online in these regards. 
the IB organization seems to have some headquarters in Wales - https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/publications/become-an-ib-school/rules-for-ib-candidate-schools-en.pdf - in these regards. If Fettes and WUaS could launch an online MIT OCW High School-centric curriculum partly with a MIT computer science / engineering focus, who would be the Fettisians to talk with about this?

Thank you again for the Fettes'"Iain Macleod award" - and with regards to 1978. 

Best wishes, Scott



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Just came across this on the Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland, web site (probably thanks to George Preston):


https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/


Gordon K. MacLeod III (Scott MacLeod)

House and Years at Fettes:
Kimmerghame 1977-1978

Qualifications and career: 
I have a Master's Degree in sociocultural Anthropology. I've taught college, most recently a course on "Information Technology and Society" on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life.
I'm presently developing the free, open, 'edit this page' World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - potentially in all languages, countries, subjects and levels.
http://scottmacleod.com/
What is your most cherished memory from your time at Fettes? 
The milieu of beautiful Fettes - its buildings and grounds, Kimmerghame House and the main building, Scots' accents, making friends - especially coming from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was a very different 'world.'
And your least?
Being an 'outsider' can be unknowingly difficult, - unfamiliar with Fettesian and Scots' cultural patterns as I was.
What event or personality left a lasting impression on you? 
I enjoyed the atmosphere of good will which our Housemaster and Housemistress, Mr. and Mrs. George Preston, created in Kimmerghame House. I also enjoyed getting to know the Headmaster and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chenevix-Trench, through a cooking class Mrs. Chenevix-Trench taught where they lived.
I also enjoyed playing in the Fettes College Pipes & Drums. When competing against Gordonstoun in 1977, we took second place in piping; just starting to grow a spotty beard then, and coming out of liberal America, which had slightly less emphasis on Dress than a Scots' Pipe Band does, I hadn't shaved, and the judge commented on this. I wondered if this contributed to our taking second prize, instead of a first, because we were playing well. We also piped in the Edinburgh Castle, which was exciting for a 17 year old from the States.
Were you a conscientious student?
In some respects.
Outside the classroom, how did you spend your free time at Fettes?
Travelling. I visited family friends, the Cuthbertsons on holiday in a hunting lodge in the very north of Scotland near John O'Groats, the MacKays and Schradings in Edinburgh, and I spent some time on the Isle of Mull, camping in a tent in windy April, and I also visited friends I made at Fettes in their families' homes in Scotland.

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Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter,""We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -

Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html



Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...

Two recent blog posts (Apr 2, Apr 3, 2019) about the Fettes College "The Iain Macleod Award"-

Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -

Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html -





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Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinationg to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness * * * STEPHEN CAVE: "There’s No Such Thing as Free Will But we’re better off believing in it anyway" * * * David Chalmers: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" Stanford University talk ... * * * Re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... "Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Consciousness questions addressed anew

Previous: Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" - "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - 1978, ... Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004 , (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually) ... and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here, Am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology) * * * WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home * * * Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World Univ and Sch's planned online IB degrees
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Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinating to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL consciousness https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/consciousness/… - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness… - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0… -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1113834099410518017


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Where, and how best, to begin 'building out' in a realistic virtual earth with individual human & species' avatar bots - and re brain modeling, both conceptually and actually, for experimentation?

(and re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...)


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HEALTH
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
But we’re better off believing in it anyway.

STEPHEN CAVE
JUNE 2016 ISSUE

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/


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Appreciating Stephen Cove's focus on free will vs determinism, and analysis of evolutionary biology in these regards.

To riff a bit with this:
when I headed up to Harbin Hot Springs to do ethnographic field work from around 2005-2015, and when all kinds of other northern California folks also head to Harbin, I want to suggest we all do this with 'intentional action' (that is, with free will), and further more that each of our "consciousnesses" (awarenesses), 'gave' us the freedom to make this choice, to begin traveling there, then to soak and hang out.

How might one model this for humans with realistic avatar bots of you and me for brain science (building out of models of fly and mouse brains at the cellular and atomic levels too) in terms of the actual and virtual ... ?


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David Chalmers:

"The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality"
 Stanford University talk ...
https://events.stanford.edu/events/698/69825/ -

May 30, 2017 - ... "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality". ... David Chalmers, the 2017 Symbolic Systems Program ... and a Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. ... Lecture / Reading.

... which great Stanford talk I attended (and took notes of) ...


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The "hard problem" per Chalmers:

"Others may seem less tractable, especially the so-called “hard problem” (Chalmers 1995) which is more or less that of giving an intelligible account that lets us see in an intuitively satisfying way how phenomenal or “what it's like” consciousness might arise from physical or neural processes in the brain."

And the "easy problem" per Chalmers:

"Progress may seem likely on some of the so called “easy problems” of consciousness, such as explaining the dynamics of access consciousness in terms of the functional or computational organization of the brain (Baars 1988)."



Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Consciousness

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/


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riff with hard and easy questions:
re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...




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Nagel's something it's like to be conscious

"What is it like to be a bat?"


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riff with this re the virtual
(re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...)


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Colin McGinn's
"The Mysterious Flame"
Chapter 1: http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mcginn-flame.html


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Colin McGinn Why is Consciousness so Mysterious


https://youtu.be/ALvjBZyCXzA


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riff with the idea of the metaphor or symbol of consciousness as "flame" or "floating"- and the idea of metaphors in explaining consciousness in general, re the virtual and modeling

(and re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...)


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Caesalpinia pulcherrima: Knowledge--consciousness * * * (and my idea: put networking video camera computers on neurons inside the head/in the brain - re awareness and subjectivity questions?) * * * "In "What is it Like to Be a Bat?", Nagel argues that consciousness has essential to it a subjective character, a what it is like aspect. He states that "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism""

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/caesalpinia-pulcherrima-knowledge.html


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re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ...

Re "Caesalpinia pulcherrima: Knowledge--consciousness * * * (and my idea: put networking video camera computers on neurons inside the head/in the brain - re awareness and subjectivity questions?)" ... for what it's like questions across species (and transmitting the data wirelessly into a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels),

a new "hard problem" emerges ... namely actually designing and implementing this information technology of networking camera on brain cells ... (or perhaps Chalmers''easy problem' becomes another 'hard problem')


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How might one best add such networking video camera computer arrays with internet connectivity on neurons inside the head/in the brain - re awareness and subjectivity questions ... in humans with realistic avatar bots of you and me for brain science (and in octopuses in water, in flies (re Tom Dean's brain modeling at Google/Stanford) in bats (with flight and echo locations) and in mice brains at the cellular and atomic levels too) in terms of the actual and virtual, the physical and the digital ... ?


While one might somehow explore surgical approaches (difficult with octopi), I'd think that inviting such individuals and species to ingest capsules or similar with molecular / nano-scale video cameras, or at the cellular level too, would be a less invasive, and possible non-harming approach.

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Re the
Actual/Real - Virtual
Physical - Digital

Whether such "networking video camera computer arrays with internet connectivity on neurons" experiments could work, and then provide virtual approaches to beginning to explain "what it's like" to be an organism" or "if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism" would emerge in the 'building out' of these methods and approaches.



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Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinating to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/consciousness/ … - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness … - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0 …-

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1113834542169636864 -

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In my book "Naked Harbin Ethnography:                
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin," I define the virtual in terms of "as if" with regards to multimedia representations ...


"d) “One useful definition of “virtual” is “a philosophical term meaning 'not actually, but as if’” (Heim 1998:220 in
Boellstorff 2008:249), especially vis-à-vis digitally constructed and informational processes and ... "


~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



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So such a "networking cameras on neural cells transmitting into virtual brains of a variety of species and individual humans - with language - in a realistic virtual earth" as people consciously heading up to Harbin Hot Springs - which for me is an example of agency or free will - both actually and virtually, approach, would generate vast new amounts of data that could be used to further explore consciousness re questions of freedom virtually. STEAM brain researchers might even be able to model some of this data from networking cameras on brain cells about consciousness re the images or metaphors of a flame or floating (e.g. the symbol of a lotus floating and how this represents consciousness in the brain).

> to "Harbin Consciousness Church," nee or formerly known as "Heart Consciousness Church" (HCC) - and which is incorporated as a non-profit legally in the state of California - where the consciousness word, linguistically, offers another Harbin angle to understanding such brain awareness processes, and re choosing freely to travel to Harbin and soak in the warm pool, for example.

"Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin is something I'm seeking to understand and explain in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), so understanding or explaining how consciousness works would be key to this research.


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Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) /Consciousness @WorldUnivAndSch & traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs @HarbinBook https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-flame-falls-agency-as.html~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1114198894932418560






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Previous: Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinationg to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness * * * STEPHEN CAVE: "There’s No Such Thing as Free Will But we’re better off believing in it anyway" * * * David Chalmers: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" Stanford University talk ... * * * Re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... "Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Consciousness questions addressed anew

Olive 1: Info@worlduniversityandschool.org G+ Profile closure


Earth 1: World Univ & Sch ~ G+ posts worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com G+ Profile closure * * * Am curious if the G+ Profile system could be used to distribute a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by some proportion of ~200 countries' central banks, and even re UBI experiments, in part

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World Univ & Sch ~ G+ posts - re its closing, are archived, but no visible in this blog (unlike some other of my G+ Profiles which are visible in this blog)

This post is in a series of blog posts of some of my G+ Posts, relating to the recent closing of G+


Questions to
Peter Norvig, head of AI at Google,
about G+'s closing

and re:
a single crypto currency ...


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This post is in a series of blog posts of some of my G+ Posts, relating to the recent closing of G+


Am also curious if the G+ Profile system could be used to distribute a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by some proportion of ~200 countries' central banks, and even re UBI experiments, in part?


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Hi Peter, 

Thanks so much. I tried successfully downloading 1 G+ Profile of mine per that page as an archive, but didn't see how to transfer my G+ profiles into my blogspot. So today, I created ~22 blogspot posts dated March 24, 2019 from 'Yoga Mac Flower' (and here's the first one - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka.html - in the 'Yoga' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga). I put the G+ Profile page in a single column and copied about 20 posts per blogspot page, and that worked, - not bumping up against blogspot space limitations. 

(Curiously, yesterday morning someone very unusually knocked on my door on the ridge in rural Canyon 94516 asking for '29,' an address apparently, the whereabouts I didn't know). But 29 G+ Profile posts seem to be about the upper limit for what I can copy and paste into a blogspot page. Will look through the page you sent further soon. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Am curious if the G+ Profile system could be used to distribute a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by some proportion of ~200 countries' central banks, and even re UBI experiments, in part).

Best regards, Scott 


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Dear Peter, 

I was able to post some G+ posts for Yoga Mac Flower just now! Selecting only about 10, I was able to copy and post in bulk, and then publish these ... There seems to be a size limit (different from when I copied each post individually here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka-tree-yoga-mac-flower-g-posts.html - where I also may have bumped up against a size limit)

Thank you and sorry to interrupt your day. 


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This is the instruction page -- does this do what you want? https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788?hl=en

Peter


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Hi Peter, 

I'm writing with some G+ shutting down questions. I'm seeking to save my G+ posts from a variety of Profiles ... and successfully saved by hand - Yoga Mac Flowers' profile from 2012 - 2015 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka-tree-yoga-mac-flower-g-posts.html ... But in seeking to save 2016-2019's G+ Posts, I found that it's possible to make a single column of the G+ page - https://plus.google.com/u/0/114745337283538691852 - and then copy all of the posts year by year into blogspot, thus into a draft blog post for this purpose, BUT in Safari, this new way of saving Google + posts would NOT 'save' - so work was lost. In Chrome into my blogspot, the "Save" button works, but the posts aren't there when I "view" the draft list, while they are there in the open draft blogspot page - yet I can't publish them. 

For example, A) here's a draft of YogaMacFlower 2016-2019 posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmDkbzxzvgx7pWR803uLSzKQcDHpFRxaWmPXiLzcxnh7nHULB-4WRmfb0RHFMu6JjUT4tD4M38SPhyxkCVSLRo3BqJ4XpVwNf_V_KD0vEtuYeidOvJASjkdEN_9tJwfTOcSiNqfr&postId=7193430924695109672&type=POST - but there's now draft in my blogspot draft list - so I can only see the G+ profile posts in the open blogspot draft. And there's B) a second version of saved G+ posts that also doesn't show up in the list of my drafts/posts. 

Also it's not clear if G Suite posts of mine at worlduniversityandschool.org (e.g. associated with these GSuite email addresses and G+ pages - meeting, Info, and sgkmacleod) will disappear after April 2 either - although their 'parent' gmail account worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com says it will disappear ... so I'm assuming these other 3 will disappear too, and I should seek to save their posts as well. 
I have about 8 G+ profiles I want to save. 

How could I please save and publish these G+ posts with this much easier save-copy-and-post-a-whole-years' worth of posts - with many images too? Is this G+ Publish functionality still not active - but will / might it be soon? Thank you so much for your help. 

Sincerely, Scott
( All ~8 G+ profiles of mine and WUaSs should be listed here - scottmacleod.com - thank you! )


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Peter, Thanks very much for the clarification. 

(Curiously to me, this email address - helianth@gmail.com - is somehow not functional on my Galaxy S3 Android OS smartphone, and when I asked at a T-Mobile store about this, they couldn't help; it seems somehow to be 'locked down').

Have you ever visited Harbin Hot Springs ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ ?
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April 3, 2019 

Hi M,


Successfully saved and posted about half of G+ posts into my web log blog posts, and then archived all of my Google Profiles thanks to Google's impressive I.T. & archive planning for this. Here's an example - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/sunflower-5-helianthg-scott-macleods-g.html?m=0 . Maybe a different information technology will develop to re-post these social media profiles and posts in the future.


L,
Scott



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MIT's Tech Review:

re G+ closing ...

UPDATE: RIP Google+


https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1113477742933286913


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Looks like one can import G+ Posts and Communities into MeWe, which I learned from Peter Bothe (mewe.com/i/peterbothe), facilitator of DeutschKlub newly in MeWe ...

Rettung der alten Google+ DEUTSCHKLUB Community Posts
Die meisten der Posts sind jetzt in die MeWe-Gruppe importiert.
Mehr G+ Community Posts findet man auf meinem Privat-Profil:
mewe.com/i/peterbothe

https://mewe.com/join/deutschklub

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Peter Bothe:

Time's Running Out - Import Your Google+ Posts Into MeWe Now
Read the instructions how to download from Google+ very carefully!

Google Plus Export Instructions.pdf
https://mewe.com/profile/5be858e9bc86c90ab7b2b9b5 -



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Green-headed tanager: Doing a major revision of my CV at top here: http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm ...

Next: Purple-throated carib hummingbird: Great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom * * * "Hamilton the musical" - Revolutionary and radical? * * * Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe * * * Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) * * * Collecting in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room in Anthropology department
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Doing a major revision of my CV at top here:

Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod, III, M.A., D.R.

P.O. Box 442 (670A Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 USA
412 478 0116 – sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL (like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare; a 501(c)(3) non profit educational organization)
- Academic & Leadership Positions
2007-2019 - Founder, Professor, Developer, CEO, President, Presiding Clerk, Librarian
- Educational Software
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - for online Universities in all ~200 countries’ official languages
- Planning to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. & I.B. high school degrees online in all ~200 countries’ official languages, and degrees in all 7,000 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

WUaS CORPORATION (a for profit general stock company), planned as academic markets in all 7,111 living languages with machine translation
2017-2019 - Founder, Developer, Acting President, Presiding Clerk, Publisher
- Educational Services
WUaS Corporation's 10 planned for profit revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/06/wuas-corporations-10-planned-for-profit.html
(See, too, for both wings of WUaS: https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html)


TEACHING POSITIONS

World University & School (in Google + Hangout)
2018 - Society, Information Society and the Global University
(First matriculated undergraduate class of WUaS)

World University & School (in Second Life (Harvard’s virtual island) and Google + Hangouts)
2013-2017 – Network Society, Information Society and the Global University

Harvard's Virtual Island (not on Harvard’s faculty) (in Second Life)
2007-2013 - Society and Information Technology

Penn State University
2007 (Summer) – Society and Information Technology (in Second Life)
2007 (Spring) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)

University of Pittsburgh (OSHER Program)
2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)

Chatham University
2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)

Penn State University
2006 (Fall) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)


RESEARCH 

2016 – Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (book) - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (and https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) in Academic Press at World University and School, planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html 




PUBLICATIONS 

Scott MacLeod’s daily blog post (4,520 published blog posts by April 6, 2019, since June 2008)  - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com

2019 - World University and School Live Hangouts on Air (video) -  https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/videos (120 videos on 4.6.2019) (https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

2019 - Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinationg to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness * * * STEPHEN CAVE: "There’s No Such Thing as Free Will But we’re better off believing in it anyway" * * * David Chalmers:  "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" Stanford University talk ... * * * Re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... "Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Consciousness questions addressed anew - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-flame-falls-agency-as.html

2019 - World University and School’s open Monthly Business Meeting May 16, 2019 session (video) - https://youtu.be/EPAOoCUg81k (https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

2019 - World University and School’s open Monthly Business Meeting Minutes:



2019 - Bark (botany): Immortality - or reversing aging - via gene editing * * * World Univ & Sch Hangout, News, Minutes 3/16/19 (videos) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/bark-botany-immortality-or-reversing.html

2018 - Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering Poetry of Loving Bliss (book) –
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. Fr 12/14/18. Poetry Press at World University and School. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578435187

2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video & slides) - 10/26/18 Fr ~ https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I& https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RSWzevDqjDXZQsLShnWKp-R76GkIcy18-wzQfMtu1oA/edit?usp=sharing (new slides) ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

2018 - “Sequoia sempervirens: Reaching out to Stanford re World Univ and Sch, and particularly to Stanford Law, (and to Stanford Medicine eventually too)” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sequoia-sempervirens-reaching-out-to.html

2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 2/23/18 Fr ~ RESCHEDULED ~
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19uZyMkk5ScQH747p-GfJdhFUCjtcQnUrvjGWwTsxbIs/edit?usp=sharing

2018 - “Lithops: Collaboration between Stanford Medicine and World Univ and Sch Medical Schools in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, Some details” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/lithops-collaboration-between-stanford.html

2017 - Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (book) –

2017 - ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM: "Naked Harbin Ethnography." UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video? & slides) - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/astrapia-birds-of-paradise-actual.html)

2017 - MacLeod, Scott G.K. Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations. Canyon, CA: www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html

2017 - MacLeod, Scott, and Mark Judkins Helpsmeet (interviewer). Free Universal School. http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Northern Spirit Radio

2017 – Developing realistic virtual Harbin/earth/universe. Visit the virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) - (Think Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth married conceptually with Minecraft/OpenSim/Second Life for group build-ability with physical world, but realistic, with species' AVATAR BOTS - and at the cellular and atomic levels too)  

2017 - Scott MacLeod - SGKMacLeod - online videos (Bagpiping / MacLeod / Brown family history) - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos - (31 videos on 4.6.2019)

2016 – Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (book) - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html and https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttps://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692646132/ Academic Press at World University and School, planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html 

2016 - IBM CSIG talk “A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test” https://youtu.be/f48b0Z4VffQ (http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/)

2016 - “Lamiaceae: MIT OCW CC licensing and endorsement clarifications to WUaS from MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira recently, a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu ... Added these recently to World University Law School (planned in all ~204 countries' official languages) AND the SUBJECT TEMPLATE, (which template informs nearly every page/school at WUaS and potentially in all 7,943 languages+ on WUaS's CC side with MIT OCW on them).”

2016 – “14 planned WUaS revenue streams, Business plan update” - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html

2015 - Helianth (Scott MacLeod - Rainbow) online videos (Quaker, virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnography, Cuttyhunk Island, Music, Internet History) - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth/videos - (17 videos on 4.6.2019)

2015 – “Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences” - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides, but no video) – http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm (http://scott-macleod. spot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html)

2015 - WUaS-1000 Proposed ISSIP Grand Challenge: An Universal Translator, beginning as a Guidebook with Test - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/beluga-whale-course-in-1000-languages.html

2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” talk - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/op2W_V5xUtM - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html)

2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” video abstract - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/p8gur9SMPlw - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html)

2011–2018 – World University and School’s Monthly Business Meeting and Blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

2009 - “The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator” or “Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction” (video) - https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth

2008-2019 – http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - Scott Macleod's anthropology of information technology & counterculture: To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss


Information Technology Revolution video talks

2007 - 7 The New Economy and Information Technology: Production. July 6, 2007. Google Video (28 mins.): - https://youtu.be/I9awgJlZ93k

2007 - 6 The Internet and Social Political Environments. July 4, 2007. Google Video (31 mins.): https://youtu.be/JNTVix681Ok

2007 - 5 Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization. July 3, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/QKvSITu9XPg

2007 - 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.): https://youtu.be/6VKh-22l-w4

2007 - 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.): https://youtu.be/Fj5cnr-xjJ0

2007 - 2 Social History of the Internet. Posted online: June 17, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/jghU_CM4R9Y
2007 - 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Posted online: June 11, 2007. Google Video (43 mins.): https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI

2007 - Internet History and the Hacker Ethos. Posted online: March 14, 2007. Google Video (13 mins.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjDjNNS3tE

2006 - "Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and 'Middle Eastern' UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online" in 'Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation.' Edited by Rami Farouk Daher, University of Jordan. Tourism and Cultural Change Series, #9, edited by Mike Robinson of Sheffield Hallam University, England, and Dr. Alison Phipps of Glasgow University. Channel View Publications. (https://www.amazon.com/Tourism-Middle-East-Continuity-Transformation/dp/1845410505/)
ISBN: 1845410505.

2006 - An Empathic Argument for Developing Cuttyhunk Island, and Video to Conserve it: Developing the West End of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? Harvard University. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast/2006/11/06/cuttyhunk-island-ma-2/ CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion course. (On Berkman Island in Second Life). Harvard University. Autumn 2006. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/

2004 - UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’ (http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf). D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland


Loving Bliss Letters (Eliciting this Neurophysiology)

  • Friends' Dalton Letter

  • Loving Bliss and Practices to Elicit This
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

  • Loving Bliss as Friends
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm

  • Eudaimonia is Flow and Bliss
scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm

  • Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument
scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm

  • Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at wiki World University & School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)


Anthropology papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara

MacLeod, Scott. February 3, 2003. James Clifford's "The Predicament of Culture"

MacLeod, Scott. December 9, 2002. George C. Williams’ “Adaptation and Natural Selection” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. December 30, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “How the Mind Works” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. November 11, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. May 24, 2002. Social Processes which Shape the Significance of Objects

MacLeod, Scott. May 20, 2002. Who Can Speak for Whom?

MacLeod, Scott. April 22, 2002. Taos Pueblo and the UNESCO World Heritage Designation

MacLeod, Scott. April 15, 2002. Anthropology, Representation and Reality In online UNESCO World Heritage Sites

MacLeod, Scott. April 08, 2002. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online: The "Field Site" in a Global Context

MacLeod, Scott. November 28, 2001. Interpretive Anthropology and Symbol Formation

MacLeod, Scott. November 26, 2001. Science and Interpretive Anthropology

MacLeod, Scott. November 5, 2001. Epistemology and Anthropology

MacLeod, Scott. October 26, 2001. Durkheim’s Functionalism and Agency

MacLeod, Scott. October 17, 2001. Anthropology? The Boasian Revolution and Culture as Unique Phenomena

MacLeod, Scott. October 10, 2001. Boas and the Logic and Sociology of Scientific Inquiry

Anthropology papers at U.C. Berkeley

2001 - Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity). Accessed online March 17, 2009. Berkeley, CA:  http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm

2001 - Science in Malinowski, Bateson and Sociocultural Anthropology. Accessed online March 17, 2009. Berkeley, CA:  http://scottmacleod.com/anth250x.htm

2000 - Consumption of the WWW for Medical Information: What U.C. Berkeley Students Make of It. Accessed online March 17, 2009. Berkeley, CA:  http://scottmacleod.com/Anth250x-6.htm

1998-2019 – http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm– Scott MacLeod's Research: World University & School, Courses, Papers, and Media

1985 - “Women in Religion: Rosemary Ruether's Methodology and Theology in Sexism and God-talk,” Senior Thesis, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

EDUCATION

2016 (fall) - Harvard Law School - JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change with Professor Charles Nesson (Internet Law)

2010 (spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professor Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity)

2008-2009 (Autumn/Spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Bill Hanks (Linguistics), Charles Briggs (Theories of Modernity), and Paul Rabinow (Foucault & Anthropology of the Contemporary–related)

2003-2004 – D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies – Thesis Topic: UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’

2001-2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on sociocultural anthropological theory and information technology

2000-2001 – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Laura Nader (Classic Ethnographies), Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity), Rebecca Stein (Politics of Consumption), and Professor Manuel Castells (Society and Information Technology)

1998-2000 – City College of San Francisco (CCSF), full time undergraduate student in Anthropology, Multimedia, and Computer Science

1987-1988 - Pendle Hill, Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Wallingford, Pennsylvania

1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

1981-1982 – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (University of Munich), Munich, Germany

1979 – Diploma, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1977 – 1978 - 1st year 6th Form (high school year abroad in Scotland), Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland

1972 - 1973 - l'Ecole Internationale de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (6 months in English with some French)


COURSES TAUGHT AS GRADUATE STUDENT

University of California, Santa Barbara

2003 (Spring) – Communication Research Methods, Department of Communication
2002 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Dept. of Law and Society (Head TA)
2002 (Winter) – Technology and Culture, Department of Anthropology
2001 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Department of Law and Society


ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORK SITES

http://www.academicroom.com/users/sgkmacleod

https://github.com/ScottWUaS



https://iris.reed.edu/
https://reed.switchboardhq.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Macleod2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch

https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/SMacLeod
https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod


SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK SITES

Twitter:

World Univ & Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod 


“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand 


http://about.me/scott_macleod

https://www.alignable.com/canyon-ca/wuas-corporation-world-university-and-school


https://angel.co/scott-macleod-4

https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/scott-macleod-1

https://www.entrepnr.com/members/1531048



https://www.flickr.com/photos/40632665@N00

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17846323-scott-macleod

https://www.instagram.com/worlduniversityandschool/

https://issuu.com/worlduniversityandschool


https://livestream.com/accounts/9578703

https://www.meetup.com/members/243278267

https://mewe.com/profile/5c06c414f9f143691b44d182
https://mewe.com/i/scottmacleod2

http://www.mosaichub.com/member/p/worldunivandsch-worldunivandsch and



http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod

http://www.quora.com/Scott-MacLeod-3  

https://www.quora.com/profile/Scott-MacLeod-28

https://www.Reddit.com/r/Quakers

https://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

https://www.scoop.it/u/worldunivandsch


https://vimeo.com/user12804337

https://zoom.us/j/3291730207


Email Discussion Groups

Nontheist Friends’ Email Discussion (atheist Quakers?); see, too:


ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

Deutschklub: Deutsche Sprachen Community mit Peter Bothe in Google group video Hangout - https://mewe.com/group/5be859f3bc86c90ab7194525  

Tourism Studies’ Working Group (TSWG), Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.tourismstudies.org


MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Scottish small pipes - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm  

Baselines on keyboard (piano)

Musician in Open Band (Berkeley). Scottish Country Dancers and Musicians Welcome - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand


RESEARCH GRANTS

2003 – (Summer) University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Division Humanities / Social Sciences Pre-Dissertation Research Grant Award ($2,000)

2002 – University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER) grant to study “UNESCO online: Information Technology and the Middle East” ($7,000)


AWARDS

2019 / 1978 - The Iain Macleod Award, Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland


GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION (GRE)

2000 – Verbal score 99th Percentile


COMPUTER LANGUAGES

HTML

Scratch:


Website development:




WUaS DEGREES (planned)
(in ~200 countries’ official / main languages)

M.D. -

With online teaching HOSPITALS for online clinical care -


Law -

E.g.
Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

- World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School


Ph.D. -

Bachelor -

International Baccalaureate (online high schools) -


LANGUAGES

English, German (Good – Reading, Speaking)

Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod 

All 7,111 living languages' foci, each a WIKI school, https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch is like CC Wikipedia (in ~300 languages) & CA BPPE licensing:  https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf& then accrediting on CC OYC OpenYaleCourses and best STEM CC-4 OCW OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages)


REFERENCES  

- Professor Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 510 642 2120
- Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 805 893 8449
- Professor Larry Viehland, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, 412-365-1100










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Purple-throated carib hummingbird: Great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom * * * "Hamilton the musical" - Revolutionary and radical? * * * Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe * * * Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) * * * Collecting in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room in Anthropology department

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Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) ...

Was exploring this morning saying "non-theist Friends""atheist Quakers" as I sat in home-Meeting : ) re


NtF cheers, 
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Barbara Forrest-Ball

10:28 AM (1 hour ago)
to nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com
Walking out the door in a few minutes to go to Meeting for 11 AM worship. I have this link open on my phone and will re-read when I get seated and settled. Thank you for posting, Scott.
Barbara

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Hi Barbara, and NtFs, 

Greetings to Corvallis Monthly Meeting from the Nontheist Friends' email list: 

(Are you in Corvallis or Salem or? ... Oregon? (I used to live in Portland OR:) )

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
Posted the previous "Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down" email here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/purple-throated-carib-hummingbird-great.html - plus more. :) How's the surfing in Corvallis Friends Meeting these days? :)


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Please give NtF greetings to Friends at Corvallis Monthly Meeting in North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) as well, Barbara.

(I attended I think the very first NPYM gathering in around 1981, while actively being involved in Multonomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon). 
Re your theology questions, Angelo, I'm finding the Corvallis Monthly Meeting's welcoming website http://quaker.org/legacy/corvallis/welcome_pamphlet.htm a familiar expression of Friends' testimonies / understandings. (Am also appreciative of this NtF email's list potential freedom from such Friendly 'theology,' or conversation about non-theology / non-theism or a-theology ... and, for me, even re words like 'worship' while NtFs continue to remain loosely in the stream of Quaker un-programmed Meetings' practices (I'm an anthropologist re the 'practices' word here, but also re the word in the F&P titles of many yearly meetings). While the Monthly Meeting (due to Business Meeting convening monthly) is kind of a drum beat or hearth place for un-programmed Friends, the Yearly Meeting might be metaphorically the Swarthmoor Hall (Margaret and Judge Thomas Fell's great house / hall with many rooms, in England - https://www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk/ - where early Quakers met - now a retreat house / guest house - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarthmoor_Hall). Swarthmore College in Philadelphia takes its name from this hall. Re a defining kind of Quaker 'theology,' here too is Barclay's Apology in full - https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Apology_for_the_True_Christian_Divini.html?id=FtsRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false - first published in 1676. 


Re NtF meditation and the inner releasing action link you'll have open in Meeting, Barbara -

Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response:


- I'm curious in what ways re my research into actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs for soaking meditation in the Harbin warm pool from home in one's bathtub may be differentially explored (i.e. putting a smartphone into Google Cardboard and seeing the Harbin warm pool in StreetView). I think the warm waters at Harbin's warm pool ~ Visit the Harbin Gate in StreetView here ...  http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg~ deepen the relaxation response with many, many parallels to centering down in Quaker meeting per where I think a de facto relaxation response centering down occurs. If we can sit at home and visit the Harbin warm pool visually, but not be in our bath tubs (re eliciting the neurophysiology of the relaxation response thanks to the warm pool), how could we begin to understand how, for example, the visual aspects of being in the Harbin warm pool might facilitate a f/Friendly centering down, comparable with the visual aspects of sitting in a Quaker Meeting room (not inquiring anthropologically or brain science-wise about culture here, just about effects of warm water and visual aspects of "centering down" / Friendly meditation in Meeting). And similarly, if we could be at home and in a Quaker Meeting house on a Sunday morning, could we do so too from our bathtubs for deepening centering down / Friendly meditation? (All of this could become academic research studies even:). 

Happy surfing of the inner releasing action of centering down in friendly Corvallis Quaker Meeting, Barbara. :)

NtF cheers, 
Scott



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Hi David,


Nice to talk yesterday, and glad you heard some great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom (pour moi:)

I learned a little more about "Hamilton" the musical's producer Thomas Kail (with Miranda), who went like you to Sidwell Friends (Quaker school) and Wesleyan, per - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kail + 

And exploring a little further:
"Why is Hamilton so revolutionary?"

"Hamilton is Innovative, But Not Quite Revolutionary"

"Hamilton is creative and radical – in the proud tradition of musical theatre"
Mark Lawson

Perhaps it's retro in its ongoing expression of "revolutionary" memes ('replicating cultural units' per my def. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/tanagers-meme-as-cultural-replicating.html - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/08/chimpanzee-pant-hoot-dancing-meme-in.html) since the American Revolution circa 1776 - but H expresses kind of tamed revolution envisioning (& esp. without the violence) ... and while art in some countries can bring about socially just change for the better, I think "Hamilton" may not be as far-reaching as other musicals .... 

Sylvia Earle's worth hearing but she may be based partly in the SF Bay Area / Oakland - https://twitter.com/SylviaEarle -  possibly 

... just Tweeted here about Sylvia here:

Monterey, CA, near Stanford Hopkin's Marine Center (where I @scottmacleod too heard yesterday the amazing oceanographer '@SylviaEarle, Mission Blue, Exploring the Deep Ocean Frontier'
https://events.stanford.edu/events/829/82938/ … ML Map oceans in #RealisticVirtualEarth at StreetView cell/atom levels?

The film she was talking about only in part at Stanford Hopkins' Marine Center is "Mission Blue" (2014) ... not sure if this is it or a precursor: 
Mission Blue: Protecting the Blue Heart of the Planet with Sylvia Earle (2012)






Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe. 

Would be wonderful to see you on July on Cuttyhunk, David ...

Cheers, Scott

Just doing a major revision of my CV 

& at top here:



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Just found this re "Hair" which was kind of revolutionary for me: 

Sep 27, 2018 - The musical Hair was a revolution for London theatre, breaking taboos around nudity and drug-taking.




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April 3, 2019 

Hi M,

Have a great trip to see 'Hamilton!' Sounds fun.


Successfully saved and posted about half of G+ posts into my web log blog posts, and then archived all of my Google Profiles thanks to Google's impressive I.T. & archive planning for this. Here's an example - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/sunflower-5-helianthg-scott-macleods-g.html?m=0 . Maybe a different infoformation technology will develop to re-post these social media profiles and posts in the future.

Hi to Sandy and Peg! And happy travels!

L,
Scott



March 31, 2019

Hi M,

What are you up to today? Here's a picture of you and Chris in Schenley Park - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1078334929631625216 - from possibly Dec 2017 which I just found. What are you up to for your birthday besides seeing 'Hamilton' in NYC? - What a great trip and celebration!

Figured out an approach to saving about 8 of my Google+ Profiles' posts to my blog but this will take time before 4/2 (most of which are currently listed here - scottmacleod.com ... eg here's my Yoga Mac Flower G+ profile - https://plus.google.com/u/0/114745337283538691852 - and I created ~22 blogspot posts from thee dated March 24, 2019 from 'Yoga Mac Flower' and here's the first one - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ashoka.html - in the 'Yoga' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga ). 

BPPE licensing App is looming large and a gigantic job and Larry is probably available for some phone calls re language ... but it feels like a nightmare.

Just saw the amazing film "Apollo 11" landing on the moon and return to earth in Berkeley last night - worth seeing (here's 28 minutes of related - https://youtu.be/B6Na63NNxFY - but the movie in a theater is cool). I think we MacLeods as a family might have been watching this together in the den TV room in Hamden, Connecticut, in July 1969. What do you recall? Check the film out for your birthday. :) Some highlights for me: - how well it was documented, how relatively little hippy stuff there is in it (but it's there), the amazingly successful planning and execution, the incredible technology that was made, the lack of mention of MIT which grAduates played a significant role I think, the virtual experience of traveling to the moon because of the film, that the audience in Berkeley wasn't very politicized in their reception of it, the excellent narrative and production of the film, seeing the people involved (who were somehow familiar - including the styles of clothes - for ex. I remember thinking that "I wore a striped shirt like that 10 year old" and you wore dresses like those women), the simple computers, the teamwork and organization and knowledgeable people.m - such an amazing knowledge and learning, the tie in with Massachusetts in part - so a lot! of cultural familiarity (and Florida and Texas). A Lovell is mentioned with his name displayed (Jim Lovell's brother?) The momentousness and significance of this achievement.

Glad to say, I was just informed I automatically borrowed the audio eBook 'Hamilton' from the SF Public Library - so will begin to listen to it before seeing Hamilton on 4/10. Looking forward to hearing from you what I should look for when you see it on 4/5.

Re Canyon water, about 2-3 weeks ago I wrote something judiciously and circumspectly to about 3 people ('just adding my 2 cents' worth') about the 'calcite' - white mineral stuff (eg in my egg pan and on the dish drainer board, and on the wine glasses after they dried) - in the Canyon water  (Canyon can have a kind of agonized Critter 'male primal dominant' strong arm roar in response to some such public discourse - and I only sent my email to 3 people / friends ) ... And Canyon got a new water pump system a few years ago as well. Well, now when I look at my just washed wine glasses - on their new rack too - I can't see any more 'calcite' - light colored mineral powder ... so now it seems possibly wise to drink the water here, because this 'calcite' was the main reason I began buying water fairly recently. There's no public health service in Canyon, and not really anyone I could ask ... so I get to decide ... :) Maybe someone added a module to the water system, and flipped a switch to activate a filter, for example, in recent weeks. (It's not easy to know).

Blog continues to be generative from yesterday, I like this Tweet, and the other two related Tweets, from item 1 :

Seeking to get virtual TRAVELING experience down - like an actual trip to Harbin with movement - in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for the freedom, physicality, refreshment of journeying, wandering, (dancing too) & from home in bath tub, on incline walking machines, or walking outside in #VR mask?

Have a great day! And Happy Upcoming Birthday, M!

L, Scott




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Wanted to collect in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room (but can't seem to find the one in Google from 2017, and the one from 2015 didn't work out):

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HARBIN AND AVATAR BOTS: Robotics and Tourism (2018)


https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I


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Live, interactive broadcast for my UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' talk "Naked, Virtual Harbin" (2012)


https://youtu.be/op2W_V5xUtM


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Abstract for UC Berkeley talk "Naked, Virtual Harbin" today, 2 Nov 2012


https://youtu.be/p8gur9SMPlw


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“The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator” or

Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction (2009)


https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE






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Sally Lightfoot crabs: World Univ & Sch - Applying to matriculate at WUaS

Next: Marine iguana (Galapagos): Looks like World Univ & Sch is blocked from asking questions in Wikimedia office hours re '[Wikidata] Next IRC office hour on April 9th' * * * How please could I add this WUaS "Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems" wiki subject as a 'front end" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems (or any of the others here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) - to Wikidata / Wikibase as a "back end" (paralleling a Wikipedia page as a "front end" with Wikidata as a back end: for ex. front end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - and back end: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7049628)? And how also please could WUaS do this for all 725 WUaS wiki pages currently here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University ? * * * How could WUaS linguists and anthropologists, for example, add any of the remaining languages of the 7,111 living languages (https://www.ethnologue.com/) or of the 8,496 entries listed in Glottolog (https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) and eventually in voice - am thinking conceptually re Google Voice / Google Translate too? * * * Some amazing recent developments mentioned in this Wikidata office hour today * * * In response to: [Wikidata] Invitation to join Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Affinity Group
Previous: Purple-throated carib hummingbird: Great Telemann (and Vivaldi did you say?) music + ... Great musicians playing great pieces can transport to a kind of freedom * * * "Hamilton the musical" - Revolutionary and radical? * * * Whither American culture ahead, I wonder (for each of us re ongoing individuation)? Am taking a kind of constructionist approach in these regards with both World Univ & Sch, as well as with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project - and esp. the making of a realistic virtual Harbin / earth / universe * * * Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down every morning at home - Non-theist Friend (atheist Quakers-wise) * * * Collecting in one place my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' UC Berkeley talks' videos in the Gifford Room in Anthropology department
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Hi NtFs / Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?), 

Live WUaS Hangout on Air happening now - http://youtu.be/it3NpZDPEX4 - and can talk about for example NtF wiki school at WUaS or what you're interested in. 

Scott


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World Univ & Sch - Applying to matriculate at WUaS


https://youtu.be/it3NpZDPEX4


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Here's the main wiki subjects' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - where you can teach, for example, by adding a video or an idea (book, etc.) - a little like editing a Wikipedia page (e.g. see video re Non-theist Friends' wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) ). 


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The College at WUaS for Bachelors' degrees -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

Ph.D. degrees at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

(MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu)



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Per today's WUaS Live Hangout on Air video per the state of California's BPPE licensing:



12. INSTRUCTION AND DEGREES OFFERED (5 C.C.R. Section 71210)
Identify and describe the educational program(s) the institution offers or proposes to offer.
If the educational program is a degree program, identify the full title including the name of a specific major field of learning involved, which the institution will place on each degree awarded.
List the following for each educational program offered:
1. The admissions requirements, including minimum levels of prior education, preparation, or training;
2. If applicable, information regarding the ability-to-benefit examination as required by section 94904 of the Code.
3. The types and amount of general education required.
4. The title of the educational programs and other components of instruction offered.
5. The method of instruction.
6. The graduation requirements.
7. If the educational program is designed to fit or prepare students for employment in any occupation, identify each occupation and job title to which each educational program is represented to lead.

To begin WUaS will offer 6 undergraduate degree programs - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit#gid=1316151271 (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - and then think in terms of 6 Ph.D. programs initially for planning purposes, but see what emerges and how extensible this will be re CC-4 MIT OCW's ~32 departments online.


Electrical Engineering / Computer Science - EECS
General Science - GSCI
General Engineering - GENG
History - HIST
English - ENGL
Business - BUS


1. The admissions requirements, including minimum levels of prior education, preparation, or training;


High school diploma or equivalent such as GED


C average or higher


Math thru algebra


For Ph.D.


Bachelor’s degree with set of core courses within discipline


GRE or equivalent


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Similar to Stanford's eventually (and MIT's as well)


2. If applicable, information regarding the ability-to-benefit examination as required by section 94904 of the Code.


NA


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Since WUaS is CC-4 MIT OCW-centric, and seeks to get reimbursement from departments of education from many governments, these questions are not applicable - like question 12.2


3. The types and amount of general education required.


Bachelors -
40 courses online over 4 years or 120 credit hours


Ph.D. -
2 years of course work initially

4. The title of the educational programs and other components of instruction offered.


Programs


BS - Bachelor of Science
BA - Bachelor of Arts
BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration


Electrical Engineering / Computer Science - EECS
General Science - GSCI
General Engineering - GENG
History - HIST
English - ENGL
Business - BUS

Ph.D.


Will build on CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare’s ~32 departments with time

5. The method of instruction.


Primarily online


Conference method - in Google group video Hangouts with graduate student instructors teaching to the MIT OCW faculty in video for planning purposes


Threads' approach re HarvardX / edX / JuryX - per Charles Nesson's recent course - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x-0


6. The graduation requirements.


Bachelor -
120 credit hours


(40 courses over 4 years)


See Reed College's graduation requirements


Ph.D.


See WUaS departmental web pages as they emerge


7. If the educational program is designed to fit or prepare students for employment in any occupation, identify each occupation and job title to which each educational program is represented to lead.


NA


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WUaS Ph.D. programs as employment for WUaS graduate students teaching sections for one.










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https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/sally-lightfoot-crab/





https://twitter.com/jlovellsjawp/status/1114638600023367680





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SALLY LIGHTFOOT CRABS - Galapagos Islands


https://youtu.be/D7WGqmUj2U4

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Marine iguana (Galapagos): Looks like World Univ & Sch is blocked from asking questions in Wikimedia office hours re '[Wikidata] Next IRC office hour on April 9th' * * * How please could I add this WUaS "Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems" wiki subject as a 'front end" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems (or any of the others here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) - to Wikidata / Wikibase as a "back end" (paralleling a Wikipedia page as a "front end" with Wikidata as a back end: for ex. front end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - and back end: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7049628)? And how also please could WUaS do this for all 725 WUaS wiki pages currently here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University ? * * * How could WUaS linguists and anthropologists, for example, add any of the remaining languages of the 7,111 living languages (https://www.ethnologue.com/) or of the 8,496 entries listed in Glottolog (https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) and eventually in voice - am thinking conceptually re Google Voice / Google Translate too? * * * Some amazing recent developments mentioned in this Wikidata office hour today * * * In response to: [Wikidata] Invitation to join Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Affinity Group

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Wikidata IRC office hour is happening now 4.9.19 at 9:30am PT https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours… on the #wikimedia-office channel to present the state of development, the plans for the future, & answer all of your questions. Notes of the meetings will be published https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office… ~

Wikidata IRC office hour is happening now 4.9.19 at 9:30am PT on the -office channel to present the state of development, the plans for the future, & answer all of your questions. Notes of the meetings will be published ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1115664413703331841 -



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[Wikidata] Next IRC office hour on April 9th

Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

10:48 AM (4 minutes ago)
to lea.lecroixLydiakchapmanKatherineLarryMarkusDennyScottStephen
Hi Lydia, Lea, Kate and Katherine (and all),

Just checking in: Looks like World Univ & Sch (Scott_WUaS) is blocked from asking questions in the office hour today, and also in another recent related office hour event (with Kate Chapman) in IRC:

[10:20] <Vigneron> (for people like me who just heard of "signed statements" where can I find some more basic explanation of what it is and how it works?)
[10:20] <superyetkin> Auregann_WMDE: thanks for the link, I will examine it
[10:20] <Scott_WUaS> whispers “hi everyone!” & "thank you!" for these great Wikidata developments
[10:20] == Cannot send to nick/channel: #wikimedia-office
[10:22] <Vigneron> Auregann_WMDE: thanks !
[10:23] <Auregann_WMDE> A few minutes left, do you have any other questions? :)

And WUaS isn't in the log here - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2019-04-09 . Thanks, Lea!

Am wondering then how best to communicate about further best co-developing our World Univ & Sch donation to Wikidata (in 2015 and the getting WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017) to make them interoperable (a long standing question)?

For example, how please could I add this WUaS "Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems" wiki subject as a 'front end" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems (or any of the others here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) - to Wikidata / Wikibase as a "back end" (paralleling a Wikipedia page as a "front end" with Wikidata as a back end: for ex. front end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - and back end: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7049628)? And how also please could WUaS do this for all 725 WUaS wiki pages currently here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University ?

And my question in this office hour too has to do with adding languages -

[09:36] <Lydia_WMDE> It is currently not shown on the mobile view. It is currently also not possible to add a new language that isn't already there or in your prefered languages. We want to change both things.

 - and since WUaS would like to make possible having our linguists and anthropologists, for example, add any of the remaining languages of the 7,111 living languages (https://www.ethnologue.com/) or of the 8,496 entries listed in Glottolog (https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) and eventually in voice - am thinking conceptually re Google Voice / Google Translate too.

How best to communicate if WUaS is blocked in IRC office hours?

Thank you so much, Scott

Nation States' Univs - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (Planning major CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric universities online in each of ~200 countries' official / main languages)

All languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (Planning wiki schools for open teaching and learning in each of all 7,111 living languages from here)



On 1:53AM, Mon, Apr 8, 2019 Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello all,

The next Wikidata IRC office hour will take place on April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin). As usual, we will meet on the #wikimedia-office channel to present the state of development, the plans for the future, and answer all of your questions.

If you can't join, the notes of the meetings will be published after the meeting.
Sorry for the late announcement and see you there!

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Having donated World Univ & Sch to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, WUaS seems to be "blocked" on the Wikidata email list too, with this message:

"Your mail to 'Wikidata' with the subject

    Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to join Linked Data for Libraries
Wikidata Affinity Group

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

    Post to moderated list"


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In response to:

[Wikidata] Invitation to join Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Affinity Group

Hello all,

I'm a new Wikimedian in Residence as part of the Linked Data for Production project. One of the goals of the project is understanding how libraries can contribute to and leverage Wikidata as a platform for publishing, linking, and enriching library linked data. A number of institutions that are part of the grant are working on projects involving Wikidata and we decided to start an interest group with biweekly meetings to discuss various aspects of Wikidata in support of the projects. Possible topics include Wikidata best practices, documentation, communication channels, policies, and tools.

At each meeting, myself or a guest will present some relevant material related to the topic and we’ll discuss any issues members have encountered as well as helpful resources. At the first meeting on April 23rd, we’ll talk about the purpose and goals of the group as well as the Wikidata related projects that are part of the grant. 


I'd like to invite any interested Wikidata community members to join us. The call details and communication channels are below. 

First call details:
April 23, 2019 9am PST / 12noon EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BuszEQQxlOY14hK60Fl7n8Huvh6jEWXre0-wSvpyq84/edit?usp=sharing
Join: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188


The Affinity Group is open to anyone interested in libraries and Wikidata, so feel free to share this invitation. 

Cheers,
Hilary




Hilary Thorsen
Wikimedian in Residence
Digital Library Systems and ServicesStanford LibrariesLathrop LibraryStanford, CA 94305thorsenh@stanford.edu650-285-9429
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Thad Guidry thadguidry@gmail.com via lists.wikimedia.org 

6:04 PM (26 minutes ago)
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Hi Hilary,

I noted this comment on your doc :
what tools haven't been developed yet, but are also in demand by Wikimedia and library communities? so we can collaborate"

So what features or changes could be added to our OpenRefine to help with any Partner Projects?  We're all ears.




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Just emailed both:




Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

6:18 PM (15 minutes ago)
to thorsenhDiscussion

Hi Hilary, and Wikidatans, 

Greetings. Thanks so much for this Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Affinity Group and call. Having donated WUaS to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development, and in developing wiki World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC-4 OCW in 5 languages, WUaS would like to develop wiki library pages for online libraries in each of all 7,111 living languages. Here's the beginning Library Resources' wiki page in English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - but not yet connected with Wikidata / Wikibase. WUaS is also seeking to develop online university libraries for matriculated WUaS students (as we license and accredit with the state of California's BPPE + for free-to-students' university and high school degrees)  in online WUaS Universities in each of all ~200 countries' main / official languages from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States. May seek to join the call on April 23. Thank you. Friendly greetings, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


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Just added 'Stanford' and 'libraries' to the Labels' list for this blog, as a consequence of this email exchange ...


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Will see if my email goes through eventually ...


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April 10, 2019

Hi Hilary, Thad, Claudio, and Wikidatans, 

Thanks for your emails. Am re-sending this to you, since this message was rejected in sending it to the entire group. How best to wiki-add libraries in the remaining 6811 known living languages at World University and School is another important question (Have blogged here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/marine-iguana-galapagos-looks-like.html - about 2 related 'blocks' re Wikidata/Wikimedia communications).


Greetings. Thanks so much for this Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Affinity Group and call. Having donated WUaS to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development, and in developing wiki World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC-4 OCW in 5 languages, WUaS would like to develop wiki library pages for online libraries in each of all 7,111 living languages. Here's the beginning Library Resources' wiki page in English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - but not yet connected with Wikidata / Wikibase. WUaS is also seeking to develop online university libraries for matriculated WUaS students (as we license and accredit with the state of California's BPPE + for free-to-students' university and high school degrees)  in online WUaS Universities in each of all ~200 countries' main / official languages from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States. May seek to join the call on April 23. Thank you. 

Friendly greetings, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


Planning all 7, 11 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod



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There are some amazing recent developments mentioned in this Wikidata office hour today:


9:34] == Scott_WUaS [d04c1d1a@gateway/web/freenode/ip.208.76.29.26] has joined #wikimedia-office
[09:34] <Lydia_WMDE> We've now worked on making it possible to store these on Wikidata itself. You can already test it on https://wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org and hopefully soon on Wikidata itself.
[09:34] Lucas_WMDE whispers “hi everyone!”
[09:35] <Lydia_WMDE> We are currently only waiting on the security review and then we're ready to go.
[09:35] <Lydia_WMDE> This will be another important piece to help us all keep the data on Wikidata in good shape.
[09:35] <Auregann_WMDE> In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Shape Expressions, you can check the documentation on the wikiproject page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ShEx
[09:35] <Lydia_WMDE> Another thing that occupied a lot of the dev time was the termbox. That's the box that holds labels, descriptions and aliases.
[09:36] <Auregann_WMDE> also known as "the box that holds labels, descriptions and aliases"
[09:36] <Lydia_WMDE> It is currently not shown on the mobile view. It is currently also not possible to add a new language that isn't already there or in your prefered languages. We want to change both things.
[09:36] <Lydia_WMDE> And that requires quite some work behind the scenes to make it all come together.
[09:37] <Lydia_WMDE> The good thing is that as part of that we are experimenting with better technology that will help us in the future in a lot of other areas of Wikidata as well.
[09:37] <Lydia_WMDE> That will still take some time to complete but it's making good progress.
[09:38] <Lydia_WMDE> Then we wanted to be a bit more artsy and added a new datatype for musical notation so you can have pretty notes to illustrate songs and so on.
[09:39] <Lydia_WMDE> We also did a lot of small usability fixes for Lexemes and made them show up nicer on social networks. So when you now share a link to a Lexeme it'll get a nice card on Tiwtter and co.
[09:39] <Lydia_WMDE> you can try it here: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
[09:39] <Lydia_WMDE> Another cool thing coming soon is the URL shortener.
[09:40] <superyetkin> what is the use case for URL shortening?
[09:40] <Lydia_WMDE> It's been discussed a lot in Wikimedia for a long time but it was especially important for Wikidata because the shortlinks to queries on the queryservice use tinyurl which is blacklisted on wiki so you couldn't share those links in discussions. Meh!
[09:41] <superyetkin> I see
[09:41] <Lydia_WMDE> Soon we will have our own one that only links to Wikimedia sites and not blocked.
[09:42] <Lydia_WMDE> Another thing we did that was requested is to add no-follow indicators to all the external identifier links in Wikidata so they are less attractive for search engine optimisation people who are spamming Wikidata
[09:43] <Lydia_WMDE> On the more hard-core technical side we investigated how to continue improving the wb_terms database table. It's one of the pieces that is getting a lot more painful for the developers as Wikidata grows. Since we don't want to tell people to stop adding things to Wikidata we need to spend time on that at the moment.
[09:44] <Lydia_WMDE> And last but not least we supported the WMF team working on Structured Data on Commons so they can make Commons better and helped a few large Wikibase installations so they can continue open up more data.
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[09:45] <Auregann_WMDE> Thanks Lydia! Plenty of things have been done during this first quarter of 2019 and more is to come :)
[09:45] <Auregann_WMDE> Now let's go through a few other things that are not directly development-related
[09:45] <Auregann_WMDE> First of all, Wikidata has two new admins: Esteban16, Stanglavine, welcome onboard!
[09:45] == Tulsi [uid192784@wikimedia/Tulsi-Bhagat] has joined #wikimedia-office
[09:46] <Auregann_WMDE> During the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin, WMDE and WMF people have been discussing about the strategy behind Wikidata and Wikibase. We mostly wrote down things that we’ve been already doing or discussing with the community over the past years. The result of this will be published soon. The discussions were focused on 3 big areas: Wikidata for the Wikimedia projects, Wikidata as a platform, and the Wikibase
[09:46] <Auregann_WMDE> ecosystem.
[09:47] <Auregann_WMDE> once the documents are online, we'll be very happy to get your input :)
[09:47] <Auregann_WMDE> We asked you for input about issues with adding new language codes in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identify_problems_with_adding_new_languages_into_Wikidata A wrap-up has been done, with a suggestion for next steps, now some community members should handle it if they want to :)
[09:48] <Auregann_WMDE> WikidataCon applications are open!!!1! You can now apply to participate, as well as submit program sessions or apply for a scholarship. Deadline is April 29th, don’t miss it, as it won’t be possible to get a seat after this date! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Uwnvvuwlnox50iw8
[09:48] <Auregann_WMDE> And of course you can read more details about the conference on this page and its subpages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019
[09:48] <Vigneron> \o/
[09:49] <Auregann_WMDE> Ever wondered how to optimize your sparql query so it runs faster and doesn’t time out? You can find some tips here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/query_optimization#Optimization_strategies
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> JanAinali has been experimenting with live-streaming Wikidata editing on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/janainali That's awesome, we want moar \o/
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> And now here’s one of my favorite sections of the meeting: presenting all the cool new tools developed by the community \o/
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> SpeedPatrolling, a tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling/
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> Related Properties, providing statistics about the usage of properties in Wikidata items https://tools.dicare.org/properties/
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> New dashboard giving the percentage of articles making use of data from Wikidata on all Wikimedia projects https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard/
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> A great dashboard showing property statistics for sum of all paintings: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Property_statistics and now also on the Wikiproject Video games! Feel free to adapt it for your own project :)
[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> During the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, a bunch of cool projects have been developed. See for example the card game generator https://cardgame.morr.cc/ , a multiplayer game “guess the (German) politician” https://gtp.krmax44.de/
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[09:51] <Auregann_WMDE> (it's pretty hard, I fail all the time against my colleagues :( )
[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> Also: a Telegram bot, because it’s a thing now! There is @WikidataMisfitBot, a game sending you pictures where one has a wrong label
[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> But there’s also the Wikidata Search bot, @wkdt_bot, you can basically search Wikidata directly from Telegram
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[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> Speaking about Telegram, the Wikidata group is pretty active, more than IRC these days ;) https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5Uag92TB4U9eBdQ
[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> Back to tools: here’s the Wikidata mapping validator  https://tools.wmflabs.org/tptools/wd_mapping_validator.php
[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> A tool generating the shape of a country based of the location of its big cities https://cities.k-nut.eu/
[09:52] <Auregann_WMDE> And last but not least, the awesome Wikidata History Query Service, querying through the edit history of Wikidata! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:History_Query_Service
[09:53] <Auregann_WMDE> Now, here is the traditional list of “recommended reading” that you will open in a tab, then forget about, then remember later :D
[09:53] <Auregann_WMDE> Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words https://blog.wikimedia.de/2019/03/25/lexicographical-data-on-wikidata-words-words-words/
[09:53] <Auregann_WMDE> Inside the Alexa-friendly world of Wikidata https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-alexa-friendly-world-of-wikidata/
[09:53] <Auregann_WMDE> Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2019/wikipedia-art-and-ai
[09:53] <Auregann_WMDE> Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up https://blog.wikimedia.de/2019/03/07/data-quality-management-in-wikidata-workshop-write-up/
[09:54] <Auregann_WMDE> Making Wikidata visible http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/01/23/making-wikidata-visible/
[09:54] <Auregann_WMDE> What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/03/14/what-wikidata-offers-oxfords-glam-digital-strategy/
[09:54] <Auregann_WMDE> Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/02/14/lets-tango-computational-musicology-using-wikidata-musicbrainz-and-the-wolfram-language/
[09:55] <Auregann_WMDE> That's it for now :)
[09:55] <Auregann_WMDE>  (advertisement break: when you see a cool article or tool, don't forget to add it to the Weekly Summary! It makes sun shine and Léa happy)
[09:55] <Auregann_WMDE> And now Lydia_WMDE, what's going to happen next?
[09:55] <Lydia_WMDE> All the good stuff!
[09:55] <superyetkin> wow
[09:55] <Lydia_WMDE> We'll roll out support for Schemas as I said earlier.
[09:56] <Lydia_WMDE> We will also finish up the work on getting the termbox on mobile visible and editable.
[09:57] <Lydia_WMDE> We'll roll out a new level for the constraints so that you can indicate a constraint is only a suggestion instead of a big violation. This is for example useful if you want to say "if an item has a date of birth then it should probably also have a place of birth".
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[09:58] <Lydia_WMDE> We will write the first code to get us to editing Wikidata's data directly from Wikipedia. This has been requested many many times and is a major hurdle still for using more of Wikidata's data in Wikipedia and co.
[09:59] <Lydia_WMDE> We will also look into planning and design for signed statements. This is another thing that'll help us keep data quality high by making it harder to change a statement while still keeping the old reference.
[09:59] <Lydia_WMDE> And last but not least we will overhaul the website for Wikibase so people can actually understand what it is and why they'd want to use it.
[10:00] <Auregann_WMDE> Such good stuff \o/
[10:00] <Auregann_WMDE> Now, we still have 30 minutes for questions and discussions
[10:00] <Auregann_WMDE> So, feel free to ask anything you want :)
[10:01] <superyetkin> when I look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388995#sitelinks-wikipedia I can see there are two values for population
[10:01] <superyetkin> how can I fetch the date for those properties?
[10:01] <superyetkin> I mean the literals 2015 and 2018
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[10:01] <Lydia_WMDE> Those are the qualifiers.
[10:01] <Lydia_WMDE> Do you want to use them in Lua?
[10:02] <Lydia_WMDE> Or?
[10:02] <superyetkin> on Wi
[10:02] <superyetkin> on WQikipedia
[10:02] <superyetkin> through Lua or templates
[10:02] <superyetkin> parser functions
[10:02] <Lydia_WMDE> Unfortunately the parser function doesn't give you access to that.
[10:02] <superyetkin> we are currently displaying the up-to-date populations of cities but not the years associated with them
[10:03] <Lydia_WMDE> It only returns the value with the "best" rank. In this case the first.
[10:03] <Lydia_WMDE> So it is only possible in Lua.
[10:03] <superyetkinhttps://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabzon shows the population but not the year :(
[10:03] <Lydia_WMDE> Auregann_WMDE is trying to find some documentation
[10:04] <Vigneron> superyetkin: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabzon the infobox is not using Wikidata in this article :/
[10:05] <superyetkin> Lydia, we are using it :)
[10:05] <superyetkin> look at the value in the "nüfus_toplam" parameter and you will see
[10:06] <superyetkin> |nüfus_toplam   = 779.379 and the actual Wikidata value is 807,903, which is correct
[10:09] <superyetkin> we are trying to fetch as much data as we can from Wikidatas
[10:09] <Tpt[m]> "We will also look into planning and design for signed statements." That's great!
[10:09] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: you can have a look here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.getBestStatements to get all the content of statements, including qualifiers
[10:09] <Lydia_WMDE> Tpt[m]: \o/ If you have input for it I'd love to hear it in an email or call.
[10:09] <Spinster> I'm also very interested in signed statements, and I know some GLAMs who would like to try them if that's helpful
[10:09] <Lydia_WMDE> Spinster: absolutely!
[10:09] <Lydia_WMDE> Spinster: send me all the things :)
[10:09] <sjoerddebruin> what's the eta for constraints in the query service?
[10:09] <superyetkin> thanks Lydia, do you know a Lua module using that client library?
[10:09] <Spinster> So in the upcoming quarter you are going to work on planning/design for signed statements, with the intention to start implementing later in the year if that works out?
[10:09] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: I'm looking at the code of the infobox but i see that the number is written locally, is there something I'm missing here?
[10:09] <superyetkin> creating one from scratch would be really hard at the moment :)
[10:09] <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: very good question. My last status update was that it's blocked on a service we need which needs some coordination with the WMF and an RFC. Let me get the link for that.
[10:10] <superyetkin> Auregann: |nüfus_toplam   = 779.379 and the actual Wikidata value is 807,903, which is correct
[10:10] <superyetkin> the value in the infobox parameter is outdated
[10:11] <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362 needs to get unstuck. I'll poke about it again.
[10:11] <Lydia_WMDE> Spinster: yes
[10:11] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: so you're editing the value by hand, not displaying it automatically from Wikidata?
[10:11] <sjoerddebruin> Lydia_WMDE: great
[10:11] <superyetkin> no, we are fetching it from Wikidata
[10:11] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope you can see that the "construction" values come from qualifiers on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1513315
[10:12] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: and here's the template itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope
[10:12] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: how? with a bot?
[10:12] <superyetkin> hmm.. {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getQualifierValue |P79 will help, I think
[10:12] <superyetkin> thanks for that
[10:13] <Tpt[m]> Lydia_WMDE: I have not really an opinion except that it should be easy for third party code to compute the signature.
[10:13] <Lydia_WMDE> Tpt[m]: *nod*
[10:13] <Tpt[m]> so, it should not rely on PHP specific thing unlike some hashes used in the datamodel
[10:14] <chicagohil> Lydia_WMDE: I'm interested in signed statements as well and am working with some libraries that would be interested in them. Is there any documentation about that project already?
[10:14] <Lydia_WMDE> chicagohil: so far not really. If you want i'm happy to have a chat with you.
[10:15] <chicagohil> that would be great. Thank you
[10:15] <Lydia_WMDE> superyetkin: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:HakanIST might be a good person to reach out to for some help
[10:15] <Lydia_WMDE> chicagohil: cool. i'll send you a link to my calendar in a private chat.
[10:16] <pintoch> actually, I'm not too sure about signed statements, if I can bring in a different note ^
[10:16] <pintoch> (yay I can finally speak!)
[10:16] <superyetkin> yes, I know HakanÝST, lydia
[10:16] <Lydia_WMDE> pintoch: heh I want to hear that too obviously
[10:16] <Auregann_WMDE> yay pintoch \o/
[10:17] <pintoch> I don't know, is public key cryptography really the right solution for the problem of discarding references when statement values change?
[10:17] <pintoch> thanks Auregann_WMDE! :)
[10:17] <Lydia_WMDE> pintoch: *nod*  let's also find time for a longer chat about it?
[10:17] <Lydia_WMDE> I'm currently in the phase of gathering all the input so some longer chats really help me
[10:17] <pintoch> sure! for me this is more of an UI issue really (but given the enthusiasm above I might well be wrong!)
[10:17] <Lydia_WMDE> hehe
[10:18] <Lydia_WMDE> superyetkin: great! If that works for you I recommend talking to him.
[10:18] <Spinster> I think it's really good to go to the 'why' of signed statements. I know that GLAMs want a way to indicate that certain statements are truly backed by them. By which technical means we support that, is another issue
[10:19] <superyetkin> we are already talking, Lydia :)
[10:19] <Auregann_WMDE> btw superyetkin if you want to start a Wikidata-powered infobox from scratch, feel free to look at DataBox https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:Databox
[10:19] <superyetkin> Turkish Wikipedia user group is not very large due to the Wikipedia ban in Turkey :(
[10:19] <superyetkin> that affects Wikidata as well
[10:19] <Lydia_WMDE> :(
[10:20] <Vigneron> (for people like me who just heard of "signed statements" where can I find some more basic explanation of what it is and how it works?)
[10:20] <superyetkin> Auregann_WMDE: thanks for the link, I will examine it
[10:20] <Scott_WUaS> whispers “hi everyone!” & "thank you!" for these great Wikidata developments
[10:20] == Cannot send to nick/channel: #wikimedia-office
[10:22] <Vigneron> Auregann_WMDE: thanks !
[10:23] <Auregann_WMDE> A few minutes left, do you have any other questions? :)
[10:25] <Auregann_WMDE> btw if someone has knowledge in Lua, could you look at the issue raised by katpatuka on the #wikidata channel? I quote: "what may be the cause of "Lua错误:not enough memory。" errors on zh.wiki ? I get it for example on zh:新立街道 (七台河市) . Removing template {{PRC admin/navcat|23/09... removes the error"
[10:26] <Auregann_WMDE> Alright, then I have a question :D What are the cool things you're working on these days?
[10:26] <sjoerddebruin> A Wikimedian-in-Residence project for documenting Dutch university teachers. :)
[10:26] <Lydia_WMDE> Nice!
[10:27] <sjoerddebruin> One of the first Wikidata-specific ones afaik
[10:27] <Spinster> I can +1000 that that is very cool
[10:27] <Auregann_WMDE> Fancy!
[10:27] <Vigneron> The WikidataCon :P
[10:27] <Auregann_WMDE> Excellent choice ;)
[10:28] <superyetkin> are there any plans to organize WikidataCon online?
[10:28] <Lucas_WMDE> I’m working on some improvements to SpeedPatrolling – work around that annoying “page sometimes blank” issue, suggest thanking users you’ve frequently patrolled, suggest requesting blocks for users you’ve frequently rolled back
[10:28] <superyetkin> considering the carbon footprint of the Wikidata project...
[10:28] <superyetkin> I can remember reading something about this on Meta
[10:29] <Vigneron> and other wiki-conferences (there is a lot comming: WikiEdu, Hackathon, Celtic Knot, Wikimania, and so on let's spread the Wikidata gospel there too \o/ )
[10:29] <Lydia_WMDE> Lucas_WMDE: post a link! :D
[10:29] <Spinster> The first WikidataCon had truly excellent video recording/streaming, are you thinking about doing that again?
[10:29] <Auregann_WMDE> superyetkin: just like in 2017, we'll make sure that the main tracks will be live-streamed and available in video after the conference
[10:29] <chicagohil> Working on how we can use Wikidata in a knowledge panel in our library catalog
[10:29] <Auregann_WMDE> for discussions and spontaneous networking, it's slightly more complicated
[10:30] <Vigneron> superyetkin: great question! at the very least there should be some recording online, maybe in realtime but we should think on how to do more active online participation
[10:30] <Lydia_WMDE> chicagohil: yay
[10:30] <superyetkin> Vigneron: I am looking forward to it
[10:30] <Vigneron> chicagohil: very nice!
[10:30] <Lucas_WMDE> Lydia_WMDE: well the link to the tool was already posted earlier, https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling/
[10:30] <Lucas_WMDE> just working on improvements
[10:30] <Lydia_WMDE> :)
[10:30] <Lucas_WMDE> (private time yadda yadda)
[10:30] <Auregann_WMDE> also, we plan to keep alterning between one big conference in Berlin, and plenty of decentralized events like in 2018
[10:31] <Vigneron> chicagohil: I'd like very much to see the result of that, is there already something we can see?
[10:31] <bawolff> On subject of video streaming, if you have live streaming for a tech related conference, please link in sitenotice  - I really want to promote remote participation options in conferences to new people/people not yet in our communities
[10:31] <superyetkin> also, what about plans for green servers for Wikimedia projects?
[10:31] <superyetkin> will that include Wikidata as well?
[10:31] <Auregann_WMDE> so, in 2020 you'll have the opportunity to organize your own meetup and reach local community - and spend less ozone-killing energy :)
[10:32] <superyetkin> bawolff: I completely agree with this
[10:32] <Auregann_WMDE> bawolff: good idea
[10:32] <chicagohil> Vigneron: not yet, but we'll have a development cycle starting in a few weeks, so I should have something to share by the beginning of May
[10:32] <Vigneron> superyetkin: do you know https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_Initiative ?
[10:32] <Lucas_WMDE> it looks like our eqiad datacenter should actually use renewable energy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinix#Sustainability
[10:32] <bawolff> I did it with the recent EMWCon, and i think it attracted more viewers
[10:32] <Lucas_WMDE> though not all our datacenters are with Equinix
[10:33] <Lucas_WMDE> but I’d assume eqiad is the most energy intensive one
[10:33] <superyetkin> Vigneron: yes, I remember that
[10:34] <superyetkin> good to hear that, Lydia
[10:35] <Auregann_WMDE> Alright people, let's close the official meeting for now- of course you can keep discussing after that ;)
[10:35] <Auregann_WMDE> Thanks a lot for your constructive questions and feedback
[10:36] <Auregann_WMDE> You can stay in touch with us anytime onwiki or various channels
[10:36] <superyetkin> thanks
[10:36] <Auregann_WMDE> See you soon!
[10:36] <Auregann_WMDE#endmeeting
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[10:36] <Lydia_WMDE> Thanks everyone :)
[10:37] <Lydia_WMDE> o/
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[10:45] <fuzheado> bawolff: Nice. Do you have any details on the setup the EMWCon used for video? Nice use of live video and presentation sldies
[10:45] <bawolff> I think they used a company called next day video
[10:45] <bawolff> CindyCicaleseWMF would know more
[10:46] <fuzheado> Ah, they hired out? Looks pro
[10:55] <bawolff> I think the person they hired may have been associated with the conference though, so not sure how much it was "hired out"
[10:55] <bawolff> But i agree they did a good job
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[10:55] <bawolff> which reminds me i need to review the video of my thing so it gets released on youtube
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Hi Lydia, Léa, Kate, Katherine (and all), 

Am re-sending this email inquiry about WUaS communication with Wikidata since I got a bounce-back from Léa's email (I may have mis-typed this). 

I also blogged about this here: 

Am presently working on initial licensing / accrediting WUaS for Bachelor / Ph.D. degrees in English with the state of California's BPPE, and it may make sense to develop our WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki with Wikidata / Wikibase in the process - for students' majors and programs - re a kind of MIT OpenCourseWare WUaS course catalog on each of our WUaS subject pages, for example, and in other ways too - and especially in anticipating ~200 countries' main / official languages re Wikipedia's ~300 languages, eventually with machine translation.  

Cheers, and thank you,
Scott

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And this could possibly partially be a response to some of my questions above:


[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2019-03-25

Inbox
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Chris Koerner ckoerner@wikimedia.org

1:34 PM (4 minutes ago)
to Awikitech-l
Greetings,

This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week
starting 2019-03-25 and 2019-04-01.

As always, feedback and questions are welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* ElasticSearch upgrade to v6:
** incident [0]
*Trey finished a deep dive into the performance of language
identification for cross-wiki searching [1] (example [2]) and
punctuation-related problems, and discovered things are working pretty
well overall, but the Chinese language model is a bit off.
* Erik noticed that the inlabel / incaption keywords should highlight
the label/caption but were not [3]
* David worked on fixing an error code that Elasticsearch 6
nested_path and nested_filter are deprecated [4] and
_retry_on_conflict was deprecated [5]
* We worked on migrating mjolnir to stdout/syslog/cee logging output [6]
* The team worked on upgrade to elasticsearch 6.5.4 for cirrus / codfw
(specifically) [7] and for eqiad [8]
* Erik worked on the implementation and testing of glent m0
integration with wmf infrastructure [9]
* David did a lot of work to update the mw-config to use the psi&omega
elastic clusters [10]
* David found that the auto_generate_phrase_queries is deprecated and
ineffective [11]
* The team fixed an old bug where we were getting fatal errors -
"cannot perform this operation with arrays" from
CirrusSearch/ElasticaWrite (using JobQueueDB) [12]
* Gehel worked to make spicerack more robust when unfreezing writes to
elasticsearch / cirrus [13] as well as creating a cookbook to reset
frozen write state on elasticsearch / cirrus [14]
* Stas moved WikibaseLexeme search code to WikibaseLexemeCirrusSearch
extension [15]
* We noticed that Elasticsearch indices went read-only, causing a huge lag [16]
* We also saw where search exceptions handling was printing response
information on the screen [17]
* The team fixed an issue where mwgrep was not working [18]
* We also fixed an issue where Elasticsearch 6 needed to silence
deprecation warnings to avoid logspam [19]
* We needed to create an extra elasticsearch clusters in the beta cluster [20]
* We also needed some alerts so we know if mjolnir starts misbehaving [21]
* We also converted check_elasticsearch.py icinga plugin to py3 [22]
* We needed to start using local nginx reverse proxy for connections reuse [23]
* The version of curator that we currently use (5.2.0) isn't
compatible with elasticsearch 6. Which causes issues in a few cron on
logtash servers (see blelow). Version 5.6.0 supports both
elasticsearch 5 and 6.....so...we updated it [24]
* We also did some cleanup of the reprepro configuration for
elasticsearch-curator [25]
* Getting a centralized way to inspect the content of the search
profiles might be helpful when investigating search behaviors. In the
same vein as other dump debug APIs (mapping/settings/cirrusdoc) David
suggested that we should add a new simple API to dump the profiles
(cirrus-profiles-dump) [26]
* David also found that a call to a member function toArray() on a
non-object (null) in
vendor/ruflin/elastica/lib/Elastica/Client.php:736 and fixed it [27]

[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20190327-elasticsearch
report
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Review_of_Language_Identification_in_Production,_with_a_Special_Focus_on_Stupid_Identification_Tricks
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8+%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217809
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219266
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219265
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218833
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218878
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218879
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218164
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210381
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219267
[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124196
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219640
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219638
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206
[16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219364
[17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216959
[18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219162
[19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219269
[20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213940
[21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214494
[22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215439
[23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215491
[24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218991
[25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216235
[26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218682
[27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217402

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Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or
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[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.33 branch announcement

Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org

Wed, Apr 10, 5:12 PM (1 day ago)
to WikimediaDevelopment
Hello!

We are beginning the process of working on the 1.33.0 release of
MediaWiki. The release is currently scheduled for May 2019.

We created the REL1_33 branch this week (aligned with the final
Wikimedia alpha, 1.33.0-wmf.25), and will be generating the first
release candidate soon, so this means it's now "pencils down".

If you have any open Phabricator tasks tagged with mw-1.33-release
[0], please check to see if they are indeed blockers for the release.
If not, please remove the tag from them. Conversely, if there are any
blockers that are not tagged with mw-1.33.release, please tag them.
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about
this.

We will be in the normal patch master + backport process from now
until the release in May.

Thanks,

Greg

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.33-release/


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When this is available for Miraheze MediaWiki, we'll be able to begin develop WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki (as "front end") ... and probably with WUaS in Wikidata (as "back end").



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[Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

Léa Lacroix via lists.wikimedia.org 

5:37 AM (12 hours ago)
to Discussion
Hello all,

I'm forwarding this information, in case you didn't see this discussion yet. 
In short, the Wikimedia Foundation is considering rebranding the organization as well as the projects from "Wikimedia" to "Wikipedia".
If you have an opinion on this, feel free to voice it on the Meta page, or directly to their team by email, until May 2019. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/community_review


Cheers, Léa


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Zack McCune <zmccune@wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 04:15
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals
To: <wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


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10963 Berlin
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Zack McCune zmccune@wikimedia.org

Feb 25, 2019, 7:14 PM
to wikimediaannounce-lWikimedia
:: Apologies for cross-posting to multiple mailing lists. We want to ensure
we spread the word about this opportunity to as many people as possible. ::

Hi all,

We are writing today to invite you to be a part of a community review on
Wikimedia brand research and strategy.

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation set out to better understand how the
world sees Wikimedia and Wikimedia projects as brands.[1] We wanted to get
a sense of the general visibility of our different projects, and evaluate
public support of our mission to spread free knowledge.

We launched a global brand study to research these questions, as part of
our planning toward our 2030 strategic goals.[2] The study was commissioned
by the Board, carried out by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, and
directed by the Foundation’s Communications team.[3][4] It collected
perspectives from the internet users of seven countries (India, China,
Nigeria, Egypt, Germany, Mexico and the US) on Wikimedia projects and
values.

The study revealed some interesting trends:

- Awareness of Wikipedia is above 80% in Western Europe and North America.

- Awareness of Wikipedia averages above 40% in emerging markets,[5] and is
fast growing.

- There is awareness of other projects, but was significantly lower. For
example, awareness of Wikisource was at 30%, Wiktionary at 25%, Wikidata at
20%, and Wikivoyage at 8%.

- There was significant confusion around the name Wikimedia. Respondents
reported they had either not heard of it, or extrapolated its relationship
to Wikipedia.

- In spite of lack of awareness about Wikimedia, respondents showed a high
level of support for our mission.

Following from these research insights, the Wolff Olins team also made a
strategic suggestion to refine the Wikimedia brand system.[6] The
suggestions include:

- Use Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia.

- Provide clearer connections to the Movement projects from Wikipedia to
drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to smaller projects.

- Retain Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons
which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with
other projects.

- Explore new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups
that use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia.

- Consider expository taglines and other naming conventions to reassert the
connections between projects (e.g. “______ - A Wikipedia project”).

This is not a new idea.[7][8]

By definition, Wikimedia brands are shared among the communities who give
them meaning. So in considering this change, the Wikimedia Foundation is
collecting feedback from across our communities. Our goal is to speak with
more than 80% of affiliates and as many individual contributors as possible
before May 2019, when we will offer the Board of Trustees a summary of
community response.

We invite you to look at a project summary [9], the brand research [10],
and the brand strategy suggestion [11] Wolff Olins prepared working with us.

For feedback, please add comments on the Community Review talk page [12] or
email brandproject@wikimedia.org with direct feedback. You can also use
either of these channels to request to join a group meeting.

We know this is big topic and we’re excited to hear from you!


- Zack McCune and the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department


[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia-brands/

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20

[3] https://www.wolffolins.com/

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications

[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Communities

[6]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/26/leading-with-wikipedia-a-brand-proposal-for-2030/

[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/029991.html

[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AStrengthening_and_unifying_the_visual_identity_of_Wikimedia_projects_-_a_step_towards_maturity_-_Wikimania_2007.pdf&page=56

[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/project_summary

[10]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Brand_Research_Report.pdf

[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wikimedia_brand_strategy_proposal_for_2030.pdf

[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/community_review


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A:
Emailing directly to a team (and not to the whole email list) has merit, and is something WUaS is beginning to do with Wikidatans.


B:
And, having donated WUaS to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, this thus raises questions about about World University and School branding as well, and with regards to Wikipedia.  






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