Cotton (UZ - National flower of Uzbekistan): M 2/12/24 open World Univ & Sch - WUaS News and Q&A at 10 AM ET, with Zoom URL

Happy Lunar New Year! 

Just shared this with you, and my mother - 

After meeting Trixie (Sabundayo - who joined Shady Side Academy as head of the Senior School in 2020 - https://www.shadysideacademy.org/schools/senior-school/senior-school-head) outside the Waterworks' Barnes and Noble bookstore on Friday evening driving a SSA van with a funny hat on (and I had one on too:) for one of two food runs for SSA students from the Croft dormitory, I think, this one of Chinese students, and who said something like come find her on campus, to ask questions about World Univ accreditation in particular ... it might be a great idea to try to find her with you (Ma, Janie MacLeod) at SSA this afternoon, on the way back from our walk, in the Croft dormitory (hunting Trixie down like this, or finding someone, may be the only way to get something done at Shady Side, I'm hypothesizing - and have a vague recollection of this at SSA from the second half of the 1970s) ... AND WUaS needs STUDENTS, particularly, for the MSCHE accreditation process, and SSA recent and upcoming graduates, and alumni from its wide networks too could be great ... Could World Univ & Sch in its next phase, with accreditation and PA licensure, begin to emerge out of Shady Side Academy senior school itself? Brainstorming, could the one Chinese student, actually from China or similar, with whom I spoke in the van a little, be becoming an assistant Chinese language teacher at SSA upon graduation this spring from SSA, then living on campus at SSA, - and could she matriculate concurrently at World Univ concurrently for a free Bachelor degree too (with the 'learning culture' of SSA informing this?) ... and help facilitate the WUaS accreditation process as a student, and help Trixie and all of us grow the first year of courses and culture at WUaS from - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - and Google-WUaS like "CS First With Google at World Univs" - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home ... an extraordinarily interesting creative project (to create the Harvard/ MIT /Stanford /Oxbridge of the internet in all ~200 countries and in their main languages) ... and could Trixie lead or head the WUaS accreditation process in all of this too ? She's a professional educator :)

Trixie, can my mother and I come try to find you around 5pm at Croft this afternoon, or would it be better possibly to schedule a time to meet ? Meeting this upcoming Saturday at 10 am ET in the coffee chat in Zoom could also work (and just before World Univ & Sch's hour-long Monthly Business Meeting - to which you're also both welcome - at noon) - https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75126832612?pwd=WfNNckjgPhndXR5PqBCBxGKxjTDgek.1 - and regarding setting up future possible approaches to meetings about this too. 

Very nice to see and talk with you and SSA students on Friday evening, Trixie. And looking forward to talking again.

Best regards, thank you, until soon I hope, 

Scott 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/02/rose-us-national-flower-of-united.html 

Lawdy, lawdy, Ma,

Thanks for the lovely Valentine's Day plant - pretty in the center of my main space on the brown carpet near my other pretty plants, some from you. Thanks too for the Valentine's Day cheese card - a good idea for this ovo lacto vegetarian and regarding the deliciousness of a huge variety of cheeses ...

Trixie wasn't in the Croft dormitory at SSA at 5 ... I got the impression today she doesn't live there 

.... Whereas after her invitation on Friday I then had wondered if she might live there possibly as a dorm parent (since she was driving a van on a Friday night) ... After I knocked on the Croft door, a Chinese American SSA student, I think, called down from the 3rd floor of Croft to ask if I needed to be let in ... But then 2 students said Trixie wasn't there ...  so I am not sure how to proceed with the questions I have about WUaS accreditation which she invited me to come ask her about ... I also had forgotten my funny hat at your place (good for east of Sierra mountains especially, and much of California, later this year) ... so maybe that's why we also didn't connect today :) 

The 1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogh's  stained glass windows in Shadyside were illuminated this evening as I drove by after dark - and after our walk and visit - while the Pittsburgh Friends Meetings' windows  reminded me that 'Black Lives Matter' - they were dark. (I sat in a little Friendly silence in the parking lot outside the dark building - and as I and World Univ & Sch continue to grow a worldwide abolition movement to protect people). The Apple Computer Store windows however on Walnut st in Shadyside were bright, and it newly has the Apple Pro Vision Digital Mask visible through them, and written on the window too. Will the 'flagship' World Univ Bookstore possibly 4 doors down in the old William Sonoma building make all MIT OCW's books available and visible through WUaS Google CardBoard and our smartphones and a new App in store ... and possibly Printable in the store even (Kinkos copies' wise ? ... seems unlikely however, but maybe ... ) 

And how could a whole Shady Side Academy network of alumni get this bookstore and all WUaS Educational Services bookstores, computer stores, robotics stores, department stores up and running I wonder? 

Thanks too for the yummy omelet +, Ma ... 

(Although you're an amazing walker these days, brainstorming, would you take "higher faster stronger Olympic" genetic drugs for mobility as a 115 year old (25 years from now) do you think ... and created from molecular compounds from human genomes .

or even from deer genomes from the hips and hind quarters, for example, for unusual jumping abilities:)?  

Love, 

Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/02/jasmine-tn-national-flower-of-tunisia.html 

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Topic: M 2/12/24 open MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - WUaS News and Q&A at 10 AM ET
Time: Feb 12, 2024 07:00 AM Pacific Time, 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada), 7:30 PM India Time 

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