Northern Gannett: VIRTUAL college STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS BACHELOR students for PHYSICAL Ph.D. chemistry laboratories * * * Create 'lovely and lyrical' ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as a new form of 'writing' even :) . . . I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda, Scotland (re my Univ of Edinburgh Master's thesis on virtual senses of place) . . . Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here - I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?) * * * NO World Univ & Sch Monday TALK Q & A News TODAY 1/11/19 10am PT due to WIFI issues * * * Annual Meeting for World University and School meets this Saturday at 9am PT, electronically-mediated, at open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting * * * No Open Band at St. Clement's in Berkeley, playing for Scottish Country Dancers, this evening due to Veterans' Day. And is anyone heading to hear Northumbrian piper Dick Hensold and Irish guitar-player Patsy O'Brien this Thursday

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Hi M, 

Very nice to talk. And your book looks 'lovely and lyrical' - "Emma Hooper’s book about Newfoundland, Our Homesick Songs, is ‘lovely and lyrical’" ... https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2018/08/03/emma-hoopers-book-about-newfoundland-our-homesick-songs-is-lovely-and-lyrical.html ... I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda. But maybe a realistic virtual earth will opportunity to create lovely and lyrical 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' as a new form of 'writing' even :) ... 

Just sent David the following: 

Hi David, 

Great to hear you're super busy with work in the DC area. I just spoke with my mother, and it looks like she'd like to head to Washington for possibly 2 nights, and she mentioned the 26th and 27th, so if we can find an Air BnB with your helpful thinking, and if you're going to be in town it would be really great to see you. (My mother is also hoping to see her cousin Karen Leighty, and visit some museums in your amazing city for this - all interesting from my perspective as well). 

Hoping we overlap as well. 

Cheers, Scott

Looks like Catherine Ashcroft (whom I mentioned living in the NW of England), whose 1 Youtube  I admire much in particular, playing the Uilleann pipies - 


Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson (Mochara) - Táimse im' Chodladh/King of the Pipers

https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk - with her Mochara musical partner, is 'with' Steven Johnston, another piper / musician and reed maker, another musical partner/boyfriend - and in the NW of England. Catherine and Steven appear to make a good couple. Perhaps I will connect similarly here in the SF Bay Area with a good fit! 

Am curious about the psychology of my bagpiping ... and the ways a teacher will open ways in these regards ... Possibly Finlay .... who's teaching I enjoy ... on with recording for learning here ... as I seek a partner who might be both musical, as well as listen in unique connecting ways ... and possibly what I texted you recently ... 

How was your day? One hope re upcoming piping House Concert. SINCE it's near Open Band at St. Clement's in a nice house, if a 28 yo musician came, might she come play in on Mondays, (might she have gone to Oberlin or high achieving college), might someone like Barbara have talked with her, might we even play together in other contexts + ... and might we have coffee ? :)

L, Scott

Nice to talk again last night. 

After your mentioning in Emma Hooper's book "Our Homesick Songs" those Newfoundland towns that ran out of fish and therefore food and had to be evacuated, and our also talking about St. Kilda (Hirta) off of the west coast of Scotland and its evacuation, and my Univ of Edinburgh's Master's thesis in 2003-2004 on St. Kilda as virtual place, I wanted to find out more about what a "Factor" (in Scotland) is, since I had mentioned that MacLeods at Dunvegan were the Factors of St. Kilda. So a Factor is a property manager - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_(Scotland) ... and St. Kilda had a Factor's house I just learned here - https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/stories-from-st-kilda ... which all makes more sense now (compared with the 'tax collector' idea - see my 2012 description below). 

Per your question last night, here's a description of my engagement with St. Kilda academically in 2003-2004 from 2012 in my blog (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/macleod-piping-stories-traditions-and.html): 

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/macleod-piping-stories-traditions-and.html - 

(And with regards to how you signed off last night, I'm reminded that fish and food metaphors for women seem in the air here in California as well. I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?). Let the sex trade operate under legal auspices, for example, in Nevada and the Netherlands; what goes on under-the-radar culture or discourse-wise sometimes comes to light eventually, and it can be media-attention that can limit or lessen the illegal sex trade, for example. Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here as well. And perhaps in a realistic virtual earth / realistic virtual Harbin, with avatar bots, societies, countries and legal systems will be able to address such questions anew - and re the actual-virtual, physical-digital, and even re law enforcement on-the-ground for example. In my experience, the illegal sex trade brings people down and creates un-great cultural processes ... and can make criminals and victims of people too. Becoming an adult in the 1970s, I'd like to envision a good flourishing society world ... free and and improving ... and to echo IBM's Jim Spohrer re questions of process re Ethical AI, the law is a good place to start. California law has probably improved over the decades as well, even as its limits were stretched ... and can be smart in its regulatory processes. Women are neither food nor fish (and I wrote a feminist theology thesis at Reed), and yet a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs may be also a place to explore sexual freedom and creativity as well (but perhaps not Stanford), in addition to developing actual-virtual research approaches to ethnography and STEM. I'm not clear at this stage how all of us will represent such questions iteratively via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in a realistic virtual earth for history and anthropology yet (but books and film have paved the way for centuries). )

Your book looks interesting, Ma, ... and good luck getting it read by Wednesday! 

I was envisioning a realistic virtual earth in 2003-2004 when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh, pre Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field work as well. My field site was - https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/st-kilda - but back in 2004, and as nascent place you could visit online. So I visited the 360 degree QuickTime surround-videos of specific places on the virtual St. Kilda web site, looked at the pictures of the wildlife, and listened to some bird sounds, and importantly, looked at comments from the online guest book where people had also left their email addresses. As part of my study, I contacted this people with a questionnaire, to inquire if and how they had visited the NTS online St. Kilda virtually as place.  My Edinburgh MSc thesis - http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf 

Looked up too the Scottish clan system to learn more, and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_clan and https://www.scotclans.com/scottish-clans/the-clan-system/ and https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-scottish-clan-system/ but would appreciate a more pacific interpretation ... Appreciating too that Scotland in these recent centuries is a very civil place, and that the crazed-in-part clan system of yore appears to be history. 

All identity-questions in part (and re Manuel Castells'"The Power of Identity," his middle book in his Information Age trilogy, "The Rise of the Network Society" being the first book in the series) I recall too that you and Dad went to the Isle of Skye for your honeymoon in these regards, pre-dating my interest in piping and Scottish Country Dancing in my teens in Pittsburgh, for example. ... On with circulating and seeking a life-partner, perhaps via my outgoing-ness and re meeting friends in groups (here in individualistic California).

L, Scott

Some blog posts about my University of Edinburgh dissertation / thesis

MacLeod Piping Stories & Traditions (and some of Donald MacLeod's Music)

On with seeking a friend / partner / mom-to-be ... :)

Hi Patti, Barbara, and electricity outage friends, 

WiFi signal erratic-ness today here along this electricity outage theme, so  ... 

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And if there were a major earthquake topping the 8.0+ of  historical record ... how big an earthquake would it take to flatten all the houses in the SF Bay Area - a 25? ... a big wiggle ... and if still navigable, and with power out, please remember that Canyon 94516 has its own wells, pumps and water supply ... and is in the woods ...  so please make it over here with your camping gear in a catastrophe, if you can, and where in Canyon-in-East-Bay-MUD the aftermath of a city after major event like this might not be such a nightmare. (From the US Post Office in Canyon CA 94516, head 6/10s of a mile up the paved main road).

You might enjoy again this great Allman Bros' concert to turn your lights on :)

The Allman Brothers Band - HD (40th Anniversary - Full Concert)

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