Scott GK MacLeod's Blog, page 103

California Coastal National Monument: Atheist Quakers + non-theist Friends (planning for Friends' General Conference 2020) * * * Am wishing I could be going to Nontheist F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' warm pool somewhat

Hi Victor, Os, Anita, and NtFs,

Thanks for this advance FGC planning. Re 'theological diversity among the leaders of the workshop' at FGC, it would be great if there was a Friend who could share about atheistic Quakers re this NtF email list. I'm appreciative of Anita Bower's sharing and plain language in these regards, multiple times, in this email list. Anita?

- https://twitter.com/hashtag/NontheistFriends?src=hash
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtheistQuakers?src=hash

Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down email here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/purple-throated-carib-hummingbird-great.html … - plus more :) #NontheistFriends #AtheistQuakers Re NtF meditation & inner releasing action: Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html … ~ @HarbinBook soaking meditation

Appreciating the sweetness of NtF centering down email here: https://t.co/gBAgMONvhC - plus more :) #NontheistFriends #AtheistQuakers Re NtF meditation & inner releasing action: Arc: Steps to Elicit the Relaxation Response: https://t.co/FUciBHDjCC ~ @HarbinBook soaking meditation— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) April 7, 2019

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1114968725499703297

Nice to talk about NtF / Atheist Quaker meditation in the manner of Friends (among other things) with you about 3 months ago, Victor, in this video -
'NtFriends' Conversation about Meditation'

https://youtu.be/TBGIqp8EKfg

NtF / AQ cheers, Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

Whom else NtF-wise is in the QuakerQuaker social media - http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod ? Please connect!


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- World University and School
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- 415 480 4577
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Thanks, John, Victor, NtFs and All,

Sounds good (sociologically somehow too).

Am wishing I could be going to F/friendly 'Silent Meeting' in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days - re all of this NtF process - both actually and virtually (but the realistic virtual Harbin isn't yet that far along) - and even re NtF research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology (without a concept of the divine or devotion or other 'religiony' practices from India that might open the way to these qualities of experience).

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends
(Not sure how we might wiki-add some of these upcoming developments to these Friendly schools, in English, let alone in other languages, but to be seen).





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Am wishing I could be going to F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days both actually & virtually (but #RealisticVirtualHarbin isn't yet that far along) - & for research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology

Am wishing I could be going to F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days both actually & virtually (but #RealisticVirtualHarbin isn't yet that far along) - & for research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) July 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1149693763855323137
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1149694017002602498


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Am wishing I could be going to F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in Harbin Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days both actually & virtually (but #RealisticVirtualHarbin isn't yet that far along) & for research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology (@scottmacleod)

Am wishing I could be going to F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in Harbin Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days both actually & virtually (but #RealisticVirtualHarbin isn't yet that far along) & for research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology (@scottmacleod)— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1149694657665744896


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Blogged a bit about some of this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/california-coastal-national-monument.html?m=0 -  
California Coastal National Monument: Atheist Quakers + non-theist Friends (planning for Friends' General Conference 2020) * * * Am wishing I could be going to Nontheist F/friendly Quaker 'Silent Meeting' in the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' warm pool somewhat regularly these days both actually & virtually (but #RealisticVirtualHarbin isn't yet that far along) - & for research into eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/california-coastal-national-monument.html) 
- and turned it into a bit of Nontheist Friendly art as well (re the Wikipedia photos, etc). :)
NtF cheers, Scott'Religiony' traditions have a long history of creating art (sociology of religion-wise, as well!:)





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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Coastal_National_Monument...

Hawksbill sea turtle: Glad WUaS is collaborating with / member of Stanford Center for Digital Health re our online Medical Schools: "CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities" and re further collaboration with Stanford 1)

Glad WUaS is collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools:
"CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-work... & re further collaboration with Stanford
1) Medicine
2) Law
(both in ~200 countries' official languages)
3) and potentially re licensing with California's Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, and the
4) Handshake platform for hiring interns / externs from Stanford and other greatest Universities.

Glad WUaS is collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools:
"CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities"https://t.co/wgPBzSYNKW & re
1) Medicine
2) Law (both in ~200 countries' official languages)
3) California BPPE
4) Handshake platform— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1149093617778081792

Glad WUaS is collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools:
"CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities"https://t.co/w6DuH1PZvM & re
1) Medicine
2) Law (both in ~200 countries' official languages)
3) California BPPE
4) Handshake platform— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) July 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1149094123590127616

Glad WUaS is collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools:
"CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities"https://t.co/RTSpBMdG8g & re
1) Medicine
2) Law (both in ~200 countries' official languages)
3) California BPPE
4) Handshake platform— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) July 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1149094289416183810



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World University and School's Medical Schools, beginning with online MD degrees offered about 4 years from now, first in English, but then in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, seek to collaborate too with both A) Project ECHO and with B) Stanford / Duke / Google's Project Baseline. And WUaS also seeks to develop these with medical devices such as Mobile Apps for STEM research  ...

World University Medical School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

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

Clinical Trials at WUaS (for all languages) -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)


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And World Univ & Sch is in communication with Stanford Chair of Medicine, and Director of CDH, Bob Harrington about some of this as well ...

Robert Harrington
@HeartBobH

Congrats to you, your daughter and family.  Great day to turn 18 and watch this historic event, celebrating sporting excellence and women's achievement.  #equity #equality @WomenAs1 #WIC

Congrats to you, your daughter and family.  Great day to turn 18 and watch this historic event, celebrating sporting excellence and women's achievement.  #equity #equality @WomenAs1 #WIC https://t.co/aKOu1K8uyK— Robert Harrington (@HeartBobH) July 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1149096458093658112


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In what ways might WUaS in collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools: "CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities" https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s... - best explore early emerging medical devices for health at Harbin Hot Springs @HarbinBook ?

In what ways might WUaS in collab. w/ Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools: "CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities" https://t.co/hO9WXQvdbM - best explore early emerging medical devices for health at Harbin Hot Springs @HarbinBook ?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1149177927767977984


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And Harbin being Heart Consciousness Church ...

In what ways might @WorldUnivAndSch in collab. with Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools: "CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities" https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s... best develop medical devices for HEALTH OUTCOMES / RESEARCH at Harbin Hot Springs?

In what ways might @WorldUnivAndSch in collab. with Stanford CDH re our online Medical Schools: "CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities" https://t.co/JpsasXvJTf best develop medical devices for HEALTH OUTCOMES / RESEARCH at Harbin Hot Springs?— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1149179073958010880






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksbill_sea_turtle

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Blue Ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata): TRAVELING, Unitarian Universalist Association Summer Institute at Oberlin - FOR SINGING, In Monday, July 8th's World Univ & Sch Live Hangout on Air - talked much about affiliating further with Stanford - 1) Medicine, 2)

Ma,

Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Association Summer Institute at Oberlin -
https://www.uua.org/central-east/programs/camps/si -
and I hope it's going singingly, if not swimmingly. :) How is it going, and how are you? How did the travel go? Here's Pete Seeger talking about singing Gospel before singing "Down By The Riverside Pete Seeger 7 24 1963" - https://youtu.be/bYe-bLaqhhY - (a good Quaker song as well).

Down By The Riverside Pete Seeger 7 24 1963

 - https://youtu.be/bYe-bLaqhhY -

Medical appointment 'annual prevention physical' - which Dr. d, who went to Stanford as undergrad (whom I met for first time and liked) prefers to call an 'annual review' went well. I weigh 183.8 pounds light! with a blood pressure of 100/63 - both excellent from my perspective. My diet of the past 4 weeks or so is showing results - an additional low carbohydrates, low salt diet with increased movement. They took blood fro lab work, which I should hear about soon re further preventive knowledge. Good veggie diet with lots of fruits and vegetables, but far fewer grains these days, plus an egg and multi-vitamin a day (for b12 and iron).

In Monday, July 8th's World Univ & Sch Live Hangout on Air -
"World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?" ...

https://youtu.be/GmLtKcTAKEg -

... I talked much about affiliating further with Stanford -

1) Medicine,
2) Law, both in ~200 countries' official languages -
3) California BPPE licensing for Bachelor and Ph.D., and
4) Handshake platform (affiliations potentially with greatest universities in US) for hiring interns/ externs, but am not sure entirely what the next steps for this are. Stanford CDH meeting this Thursday at 4 -
"CDH Workshop: MyHeart Counts- How Mobile Apps Expand Research Possibilities"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-myheart-counts-how-mobile-apps-expand-research-possibilities-tickets-63447019744 (and where Stanford Chair of Medicine is also the CDH's Director).

Recording all of the tunes The College of Piping's Green Tutor vol 1 as a kind of Tune Tutorial on the D chanter of the Scottish Small Pipes is happening, and I'll follow suit with the CoP Blue Tutor Vol 3, and possibly the Golden CoP  Piobaireachd Tutor Vol 4, too.

Haven't heard back from the National Piping Centre's Roddy MacLeod or Finlay MacDonald yet about lessons - re even to approaches to producing my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish Small Pipes' CD (potentially with blockchain, and Google Bach Doodle AI for writing harmonies). I wrote too Lorne MacDougall about this, but also haven't heard back from him. Am in waiting mode.

On with A) writing my next book of poetry, B) further Scottish Small Pipes in D (then in B flat too) recordings - both here and on Cuttyhunk - and C) World Univ & Sch development. T seems promising, but would like still to connect with a MD too.

Ancestry.com which I just got into - with Mark MacLeod's encouragement - and will send DNA into soon, is blowing my mind - and will update this soon http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm. Will show you Ancestry.com on Cuttyhunk, Ma!

Are you growing vocal community fulsomely? Sounds like a fun week of singing!

Love, Scott


Ancestry.com is "also a whole new approach to history itself in an amazing way," - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html - with more about conversation with Mark MacLeod here!


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- http://scottmacleod.com


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See, too:

Aurorae: Boreraig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, this cairn to the MacCrimmon pipers, hereditary bagpipers to the Clan MacLeod, but I don't recall (from the 1970s) this particular event of John MacFadyen piping, Musings about the latent, very latent, Scottish IDENTITY I think I learned, and with regards to this web pages' pictures - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history * * * A kind of a latent MacLEOD identification seemed to happen in our family from when I was 10 or 11 or so at least, I think Dad, with his very Scottish name, Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD (my name too - Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III, where my nickname is Scott ... and that Dad ... until he became a medical doctor), MacLeod family history emails with my cousin Mark MacLeod, Genealogy and DNA - "I hope that with enough MacLeod DNA we might be able to reduce the uncertainty on where James Edward McLeod was born" - before he arrived on Prince Edward Island in the 1850s, (Ancestry.com related pages/links here - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm) * * * Having recorded all of the bagpiping tunes in the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol. 1 on the Scottish Small Pipes on an A chanter, and appreciating how this goal of recording so that others learning the SSP in A could learn with a Tutor (by playing with eventually), I think I'm now going to try to record as many tunes from the CoP Green Tutor Vol. 1 as possible that work on the Scottish Small Pipes on a D chanter - and soon on B flat chanter, which is coming in the mail, Just began a Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod family tree in WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ~- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html -




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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_quadrangulata


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Catalan Sheepdog: World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?, BPPE * * * MIT - 'WHAT IS MACHINE LEARNING,' "Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world" * * * ee, too, thi

World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?

https://youtu.be/GmLtKcTAKEg


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10 am this morning Pacific Time 
Hi Universitians:

WUaS Live Hangout on Air - July 8, 2019
Beginning now
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ekhoxz4uubf2zgzcarhpqomigae


World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
http://youtu.be/enCmBGvctrs  ~
http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States …
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Airhttps://t.co/l7gHqiP8gm ~
http:// https://t.co/DZJYZUiWSs . com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1147965770824990720

See you online! - Scott


--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com


- 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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10:45 am this morning Pacific Time 

Hi All,
Here's the Hangout from today:
World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?

https://youtu.be/GmLtKcTAKEg
Thanks, Fritz, for participating.

And here's the blog post from yesterday with the MIT Tech Review article I mentioned -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/fireworks-galaxy-ngc-6946-frankly.html

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world.

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. https://t.co/2w8ckMNafI— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1147628528797716483

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by Karen Hao

Nov 17, 2018
"What is Machine Learning?


Machine-learning algorithms find and apply patterns in data. And they pretty much run the world."- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612437/what-is-machine-learning-we-drew-you-another-flowchart

Cheers, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch




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See, too, this post from earlier this month -
Montserrat: ! #ManuelCastells' book "Communication Power" (2009/2013) is fascinating, - "Book Reviews: Manuel Castells, Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press" by Paschal Preston, 11/22/10 > #NetworkSociety * * * Will engage some of this in the course I teach: Society, Information Technology, and the Global University ~ * * * Manuel Castells was compared to Max Weber by LSE's Anthony Giddens, and Karl Marx by the Wall Street Journal in his theorizing of the information age: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.html - - - "Communication Power" (2009 / 2013) by Manuel Castells' notes * * * Here's a recent WUaS Live Hangout on Air I did which touches on related themes and ideas: "World Univ & Sch Live Hangout on Air, News, Updates 7/1/19" * * * About yesterday's big 6.4 earthquake in California from Stanford Earth: "Can AI help researchers predict #aftershocks?" https://twitter.com/StanfordEarth/status/1147216777509625856 How will this play out in #RealisticVirtualEarth at cell & atomic levels with machine learning? #earthquake > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geology_and_Geophysics ~https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/montserrat-manuelcastells-book.html



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Sheepdog
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Catalan Sheepdog: World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?, BPPE * * * MIT - 'WHAT IS MACHINE LEARNING,' "Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world."

World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?

https://youtu.be/GmLtKcTAKEg


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10 am this morning Pacific Time 
Hi Universitians:

WUaS Live Hangout on Air - July 8, 2019
Beginning now
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ekhoxz4uubf2zgzcarhpqomigae


World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
http://youtu.be/enCmBGvctrs  ~
http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States …
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Airhttps://t.co/l7gHqiP8gm ~
http:// https://t.co/DZJYZUiWSs . com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1147965770824990720

See you online! - Scott


--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com


- 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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10:45 am this morning Pacific Time 

Hi All,
Here's the Hangout from today:
World Univ & Sch Live Hangout - News and Updates - Stanford Affiliation further?

https://youtu.be/GmLtKcTAKEg
Thanks, Fritz, for participating.

And here's the blog post from yesterday with the MIT Tech Review article I mentioned -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/fireworks-galaxy-ngc-6946-frankly.html

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world.

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. https://t.co/2w8ckMNafI— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1147628528797716483

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by Karen Hao

Nov 17, 2018
"What is Machine Learning?


Machine-learning algorithms find and apply patterns in data. And they pretty much run the world."- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612437/what-is-machine-learning-we-drew-you-another-flowchart

Cheers, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Sheepdog
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Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946): "Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world." - MIT Tech Review * * * WUaS http://worlduniversityandschool.org is postponing seeking our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class for

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world.

Frankly, the process of machine learning is quite basic. But it pretty much runs the world. https://t.co/2w8ckMNafI— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1147628528797716483



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WUaS http://worlduniversityandschool.org is postponing seeking our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best CC-4 OCW online Bachelor degrees until January 2020 as we develop funding for licensing with the state of California's @CaBPPE & then proceed with accreditation

WUaS https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 is postponing seeking our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best CC-4 OCW online Bachelor degrees until January 2020 as we develop funding for licensing with the state of California's @CaBPPE & then proceed with accreditation— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1147901896276840450


WUaS @WorldUnivAndSch is postponing seeking our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best CC-4 OCW online Bachelor degrees until January 2020 as we develop funding for licensing with the state of California's @CaBPPE & then proceed with accreditation (WASC)

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1147943547351388160



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World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
http://youtu.be/enCmBGvctrs ~
http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Questions / ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A Live Hangout on Airhttps://t.co/l7gHqiP8gm ~
http:// https://t.co/DZJYZUiWSs . com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon. July 8, '19, 10 am PT 1700 UTC
Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch re https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4
by @ScottMacLeod
info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1147965770824990720






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6946....

Aurorae: Boreraig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, this cairn to the MacCrimmon pipers, hereditary bagpipers to the Clan MacLeod, but I don't recall (from the 1970s) this particular event of John MacFadyen piping, Musings about the latent, very latent, Scottish ID

Hi Ma, 
Just found this salient information about MacLeod history - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history - from the Scottish / British Clan MacLeod out of 10 MacLeod societies worldwide. I remember receiving MacLeod publications as early as Hamden, CT / Bethesda, MD / Pittsburgh, PA with some of this information. And this boils the history down to a lot of salient points I've heard over the decades. A kind of a latent MacLeod identification seemed to happen in our family from when I was 10 or 11 or so at least ... interesting to think about. 
Emailing from my YogaMacFlower@gmail.com email address (partly for size of image files I'm saving here potentially). 
L, Scott



With regards to the narratives in this - "Clan MacLeod Society of Scotland - 'History of the Clan MacLeod: Early History' " page - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history - I was familiar with some of this in the 1970s ... 


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Clan MacLeod Society of ScotlandHistory of the Clan MacLeodEarly HistoryThe 17th CenturyThe 18th CenturyThe 19th and 20th CenturiesEarly HistoryThe progenitor of the Clan was Leod, who gained possession of much of Skye, including the Cuillins, Harris and Lewis in the mid 13th century. Later tradition claimed that he was descended from the Norse Kings of Man. Dunvegan was acquired by marriage to the MacRailt heiress and became the principle seat of the Clan where the Castle was built and developed. The Clan takes its name from Leod, whose sons were called MacLeod, mac being Gaelic for son.Leod had two sons, or grandsons, Tormod, English Norman, andTorcall, English Torquil, who became progenitors of the MacLeods of Harris and Dunvegan and the MacLeods of the Lewes.In the 14th century the MacLeods of Harris acquired Glenelg on the mainland at the strategic crossing point to Skye. Malcolm MacLeod, 3rdChief of Harris, built the keep at Dunvegan.The MacLeods of the Lewes acquired Gairloch and Assynt on the mainland and the Isle of Raasay.Both MacLeod Clans supported the MacDonald Lord of the Isles, semi independent kings on the west coast. In Skye land was lost to the MacDonalds. After the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isle, in 1493, the MacLeods and MacDonalds began feuding. At this difficult time Alexander MacLeod, 8thChief of Harris, known as Alasdair Crotach, kept the clan lands together and built himself a fine tomb in St Clement's Church, Rodel, Harris.Alasdair Crotach MacLeod built the Fairy Tower and the Fairy Flag is still the most celebrated relic at the Castle. The flag was given to a MacLeod chief by the fairies and had the power to summon up a magic host in time of need. It was twice used in defeating the MacDonalds.The MacCrimmons, hereditary pipers at Dunvegan, became pre-eminent pipers and people were sent from all over Scotland to be perfected as pipers. The MacCrimmons had a piping college at Boreraig, where a cairn now commemorates the family.
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Hi Ma,

Some further musings about the latent, very latent, Scottish identity I think I learned (curiously somehow) in our family growing up - and with regards to this web pages' pictures - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history - which are all symbols of this MacLeod identity, as I see it, - yet I was only familiar with some of these. Interesting to see the above page on a smartphone per this email (as a record too) - because they're quite visible (whereas the web page in gmail is very spread out and the pictures aren't so easily seen) - with regards to the Internet too re identity. I'd like to ask you further about how such identity emerged in our family history - from Grandpa (Alexander Chadbourne Brown aka Sandy), Granny (Rachel Gilbert Brown) and Dad (Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD) and yourself (Janet Kirkbride Brown - with your quite Scottish name too), at some point.

With regards to this 1st picture of Dunvegan Castle "The Keep was built inside the curtain wall at Dunvegan Castle, around 1340" -

- http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/fields/image/dunvegan_castle_1841.gif?itok=M8AFkqOD - I've been aware of this since the early 1970s or so.

With regards to this second picture of the MacCrimmon Cairn, Boreraig "John MacFadyen piping at the MacCrimmon Cairn, Boreraig in 1974. Seton Gordon is on the left" -

- http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/fields/image/macfadyen_piping_cairn_600.jpg?itok=i0zAI2l3 - I recall being aware of Boreraig, this cairn to the MacCrimmon pipers, hereditary bagpipers to the Clan MacLeod (from the 1970s), but I don't recall this particular event of John MacFadyen piping - and in this photo with Seton Gordon (to the left) in a very Scottish POSTURE leaning on his shepherd's crook / staff, back to the wind probably, and LISTENING to bagpiping (all very symbolic). FASCINATING too that I went to a College of Piping summer camp with the great piper JOHN MacFADYEN (whose first book of bagpipe music, I still play tunes from - this past week, for example), thanks to PM Sandy Jones, in part, in North Carolina preceding the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in the 1970s.

With regards to this third picture of the "The tomb made for Alasdair Crotach MacLeod at St Clement's Church, Rodel, Harris, as it might have appeared" -

- http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/crotach_tomb_cl_600.jpg?itok=QGwSEsJZ - this is completely new for me. I didn't know this narrative from the 1970s as a teen, and would like to learn more. (Would like too to develop all this pictures into a realistic virtual earth for history - think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, and here's the isle of Harris itself in Street View with photos too - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harris/@57.8896184,-7.4593356,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x488d994a185ff281:0x955e10628e919da9!8m2!3d57.9932604!4d-6.8736215 - AND Alasdair Crotach MacLeod's tomb in Street View - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harris/@57.7409139,-6.9631456,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNkb4gf2-AJQR2ZzxrOwo_d9CbNfh15yX4xkFpk!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNkb4gf2-AJQR2ZzxrOwo_d9CbNfh15yX4xkFpk%3Dw203-h130-k-no!7i3450!8i2217!4m5!3m4!1s0x488d994a185ff281:0x955e10628e919da9!8m2!3d57.9932604!4d-6.8736215). What's also FASCINATING name-wise (Lacanian-wise even too) is that I currently play in Open Band (in Berkeley, California) in a church of the same name - St. Clement's (Episcopal Church) - on Monday evenings for Scottish Country Dancing. ...


Open Band will play again on Mondays in September in the beautiful hall at St. Clement's Episcopal Church (2837 Claremont Blvd, Berkeley) near Claremont Hotel & Spa. Scottish Country Dancers & Musicians Welcome. See too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … for @WorldUnivAndSch music+ subjects

Open Band will play again on Mondays in September in the beautiful hall at St. Clement's Episcopal Church (2837 Claremont Blvd, Berkeley) near Claremont Hotel & Spa. Scottish Country Dancers & Musicians Welcome. See too https://t.co/jralgPlavK for @WorldUnivAndSch music+ subjects pic.twitter.com/nXrve6xIUj— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) June 25, 2019

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1143625333037342720 ...


With regards to this fourth picture of the Fairy Flag, and the Dunvegan tower - "The Fairy Flag is still preserved at Dunvegan. Alasdair Crotach MacLeod added the Fairy Tower to the Castle" -

- http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/fairy_tower_flag_600.gif?itok=fr_WD6c0 - I recall hearing of and reading about the Fairy Flag in the 1970s in my teens, but I never really resonated with the fairy or magic stories associated with it, or with the rallying around a flag aspect of it either symbolically.  "The Fairy Flag is known for the numerous traditions of fairies, and magical properties associated with it" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Flag).

FASCINATING too as I think through making my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish Small Pipes' CD in 2020, that I studied with John MacFadyen as a teen, and somehow that I even play the bagpipes - identity-wise. (And that I studied at Fettes College too in 1976-1977 or 1977-1978, and have also studied at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-2004, identity-wise too).


With regards to the narratives in this - "Clan MacLeod Society of Scotland - 'History of the Clan MacLeod: Early History' " page - http://www.clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/clan-history - I was familiar with some of this in the 1970s, but interesting that I play a bagpipe tune (from the College of Piping's Green Tutor vol. 1, called "The High Road to Gairloch" and another tune with "Assynt House" in it) ... and that, according to this history, "The MacLeods of the Lewes acquired Gairloch and Assynt on the mainland and the Isle of Raasay," which I just learned, for ex.

And with regards to this paragraph "Both MacLeod Clans supported the MacDonald Lord of the Isles, semi independent kings on the west coast. In Skye land was lost to the MacDonalds. After the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isle, in 1493, the MacLeods and MacDonalds began feuding. At this difficult time Alexander MacLeod, 8th Chief of Harris, known as Alasdair Crotach, kept the clan lands together and built himself a fine tomb in St Clement's Church, Rodel, Harris," it's interesting to me that Roddy MacLeod and Finlay MacDonald are the two current heads of the National PIping Centre, which just merged with the College of Piping (in 2018). I also didn't know the history of Alexander MacLeod, 8th Chief of Harris, later known as Alasdair Crotach. (Am appreciative of the fact that I'm emailing you from my Yoga Mac Flower email re all this 'feuding' language, and also that I'm a Quaker, a f/Friend, and a nontheist Friend too - and that you and I, Ma, are communicating about all of this via email over the Internet, with many nice Dunvegan Castle web sites on the web, but not much yet in a realistic virtual earth, realistic virtual Scotland, realistic virtual Skye, Harris and Lewis, for example).

Re the last paragraph, am appreciative, too, of this very long tradition of MacLeod piping, identity-wise too, re MacLeod history ...
"The MacCrimmons, hereditary pipers at Dunvegan, became pre-eminent pipers and people were sent from all over Scotland to be perfected as pipers. The MacCrimmons had a piping college at Boreraig, where a cairn now commemorates the family" - re the last paragraph in this description.

I think Dad, with his very Scottish name, Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD (my name too - Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III, where my nickname is Scott, and that Dad was formerly GKM Jr. until he became a medical doctor) - learned much of this MacLeod history by reading and possibly from acquaintances, but possibly some from his parents and family, Gordon Kenneth MacLeod Sr. and Margaret Driscoll MacLeod  (but I don't really know).

But am curious in an ongoing way about what I'll call this latent, quite latent, IDENTITY (social theory-wise esp.) generation of "MacLeod" and "Scottish" and how it somehow took shape in our family.  And MacLeod name family history-wise, and re Scottish identity too, I'm glad I'm an American, and developing too World University and School, in that it will potentially help a lot of Scots and MacLeods in Scotland too. (There's even a not yet begun MacLeod Society Worldwide wiki subject at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).

Having recorded all of the bagpiping tunes in the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol. 1 on the Scottish Small Pipes on an A chanter, and appreciating how this goal of recording so that others learning the SSP in A could learn with a Tutor (by playing with eventually), I think I'm now going to try to record as many tunes as possible that work on the Scottish Small Pipes on a D chanter - and soon on B flat chanter, which is coming in the mail.

What do you think about all of this family history re the MacLeod name, Ma? :)

Love, Scott

Pretty cool pictures here of Dunvegan Castle - https://www.dunvegancastle.com

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunvegan_Castle

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Flag

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/mysterious-fairy-flag-clan-macleod-and-its-legendary-protective-powers-020884

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Fairy-Flag-of-the-MacLeods/





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Scott MacLeod
May 18, 2019, 5:39 PM
to Mark

Mark,

I'm writing to wish you a very happy birthday:

Guitar four-hands? Now, wait a minute ... cross-handed, too :) Lovely music, as well ... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaavt9 ... worth re-visiting :) Joyeux anniversaire!

With very best wishes, Scott

Doobie Bros-Listen to the Music ~https://t.co/kz2jdMpEkf
Been going off on a blockchain ledger riff and re Brìghde Chaimbeul's new piping CD - "The Reeling" + ... https://t.co/08oCqXEQFO & ELECTRIC CHURCH MUSIC-wise + re blockchain below - https://t.co/uycgkY0TBq @TheOpenBand ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 4, 2019

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1102669699110776832



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Mark MacLeod
May 19, 2019, 4:09 PM
to me

Thanks Scott! Great video, looks quite hard.

FYI, I've met up with your brother Sandy a couple of times recently. I'm building a house in Portland and have re-connected with Gerry Kennedy and Mary Lou, and they're good friends with Sandy. He seems well and we'll soon be neighbors.


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Scott MacLeod
May 19, 2019, 8:42 PM
to Mark

Thanks Mark too! The music-making in video looks fun too - quite synchronized brains-wise even, and lyrical ! Happy birthday ! :)

Sounds great too that all you 1st cousins will be neighbors soon in the Portland Maine area (and re many family roots). When might you move in? And would you move completely from Newfoundland, or live part time in Canada as you children go through university there?  Greetings to Gerry, Mary Lou and Sandy, when you see them next!

Warm regards, Scott



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Mark MacLeod
May 20, 2019, 1:28 AM
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Scott,

Our plans are to move to Portland near year end. As to Newfoundland, our middle child Kyle will likely stay here. He got a Master's degree in economics a couple of years ago and now works as an energy marketer. Our oldest Kenneth works as a lawyer in Manchester England and our youngest Claire is finishing her second year at University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That said, both Roberta and I have connections here in St John's (ongoing research projects for Roberta and Board positions for me) so we will be back and forth, and we might keep an apartment here.

I've been spending a fair bit of time on MacLeod genealogy. I've got a pretty good idea of our family connections here in Newfoundland and back to Ireland and I have a few distant cousins here in town. I've also found a MacLeod from James MacLeod's first marriage to Ann Bulger who settled in Portland, Maine (a George S. MacLeod). All fun stuff!

Hope all is well with you!



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Scott MacLeod
May 20, 2019, 8:40 AM
to Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your email. Your family genealogy research sounds great and interesting. What main software are you using and have you found most helpful for organization and research? (Any of the one's below?) Thanks too for your kids' news. Interesting to learn of their career developments in a variety of English-speaking countries (and re my seeking to begin a family as well).


I had Family Tree Maker (and related) some years ago (in the 1990s) and had uploaded most of my ~400 items of data before hard drive failure:

Scott Gordon K. MacLeod III's Family Tree Genealogy website -

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/c/Gordon-K-Macleod-iii/index.html

(with many more related pages/links here  http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm)
Your move to Portland, ME, sounds great, as well as your plans for multiple domiciles. Congratulations on all your kids successful career developments as well. Any chance if I got Family Tree Make again for the Mac, that we could sync family trees (if this is possible? - per the review below).


Scott


best genealogy software for Mac in 2019 in order of ranking.
RootsMagic. RootsMagic has been in the family tree business for years and although started life on Windows, can now be used on Mac too. ...
Family Tree Maker. ...
MacFamilyTree. ...
Heredis. ...
GEDitCOM II. ...
iFamily For Mac. ...
Gramps. ...
Reunion for Mac.
- https://machow2.com/best-family-tree-software-mac/


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Mark MacLeod
May 20, 2019, 12:21 PM
to me

Scott,

I read an article by a guy who was both a genealogy expert and an IT expert. His forecast was that genealogy software would move away from apps running on your home device to apps running entirely on the internet. In fact, a friend named Bob Glynn (note same surname as our g-grandmother Mary!) had his father's work on a discontinued PC app called The Master Genealogist and it has been a pain to convert.

So, I use Ancestry.com and it seems to work fine. It may not be pro stuff but it does what I need it to do. It provides access to incredible volumes of data and has links to DNA analysis. If your app can export a GEDCOM file, Ancestry can read it. I can send anyone a link to my family tree or demo the tree on any device. The downside is Ancestry will be after you to join.


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Scott MacLeod
May 20, 2019, 3:24 PM
to Mark

Mark,

I think I've used Ancestry.com as well in the past. That with Broderbund genealogy software & Family Tree Maker all may have merged I think I recall. Thanks too for the heads' up.

How old was kiltmaker and tailor James Edward McLeod on PEI in 1850s when he had his last children? And do we know whether he came from Inverness or Edinburgh, which Gerrard at one time suggested?

Am curious what WIKI geneaology software version might emerge, and re Wikidata, which WUaS is also in in its 300 languages, and even whether a realistic virtual earth for geneaology with avatar bots might energe and for genetic engineering even (thinking Google Street View with Stanford medicine here).

Cheers, Scott
(Ancestry.com related pages/links here I think:  http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm)


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Mark MacLeod
May 22, 2019, 6:03 AM
to me

Scott,

Assuming James Edward was born in 1824, he was 64 when his last child - Margaret Emilia McLeod, aka Amy MacLeod - was born in 1888 in Charlottetown. He fathered 17 children. Edward died in Boston in 1899 and Amy died in 1980. Edward's son and our great grandfather Ernest beat him on the age score. Ernest married his second wife Ruth White when he was 67 and their last child Helen was born when he was 81! Helen lives in Maine and is younger than me! Ernest fathered 14 children. 

I'm not sure where Edward was born. I've heard both Inverness-shire and Edinburgh. I like Edinburgh better because he seemed to like cities (Charlottetown, Halifax, Boston). and there is less need for a tailor in the countryside. I also found a marriage license for one of his sons (George S.) from the first marriage to Ann Bulger that lists his father's birth location as 'Edinburg'. 

I also think of advancing technology for genealogy. I expect a growing understanding of family histories as more data gets digitized, software improves, and more people build and share trees and get their DNA analyzed. BTW, have you had your DNA analyzed? If not, have it done by Ancestry and we can add it to the growing database on the MacLeods. It's quite simple to do. I hope that with enough MacLeod DNA we might be able to reduce the uncertainty on where James was born, among other benefits.



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Scott MacLeod
May 22, 2019, 9:39 AM
to Mark

Mark,

You're a wonderful trove of great family information and history. Thank you. I'd like to begin to look at the evidence with time as well.

With DNA tests now past the 'bleeding edge,' ie they're developed and are beginning to become somewhat sophisticated, I

Searched on
Does Family Tree Maker or Ancestry.com do better DNA tests?

Found: https://www.myfamilydnatest.com/best-dna-test-23andme-vs-ancestry-vs-ftdna/

Am learning what they have begun to home in on. Looks like Family Tree Maker has a smaller database, but is good in most other categories.

First probably to Family Tree Maker genealogy software, then in a few years to DNA tests, when they'll even be more developed. And maybe I'll have begun a family by then too. Am curious about the data-interoperability of genetic tests re these different software platforms too - re information-exchange, licensing, as well as related knowledge-generation. Something further to look into!

It's so interesting to read your James Edward McLeod history ... our great great grandfather from Scotland probably ... with time I'd like to examine the data too, including your great email. It's the
narratives that emerge from such sleuthing, and from the software that facilitates this, that I found particularly fascinating ... origin stories (and I write this as an anthropologist focusing on the physical-digital, the actual-virtual re emerging virtual worlds too!)

Appreciatively,
Scott


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Hi Mark, Gerrard and MacLeod family, 
Very appreciative of my 1st cousin's Mark MacLeod's recent emails re our family history (e.g. see the one here below) - and in my blog post from today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html - with much about Macleod identity generation re family history (even social theory-wise, or sociologically), yet writing to my mother from personal experience from the 1970s forward, and re learning piping too. Where are all of you with Macleod DNA sampling and family history software? (There's even a not-yet-begun 'MacLeod Society Worldwide' wiki subject page at World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).(Seeking of a partner here to begin a family continues).

I hope this finds you all well, and having a great summer! (Am heading to Cuttyhunk from July 17-July 29, and will overlap with my mother and Peg from the 26th to the 29th).

Warmly, Scotty
- http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm (accessible from "Love & links" http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm on home page)



Mark MacLeod
May 22, 2019, 6:03 AM
to me

Scott,

Assuming James Edward was born in 1824, he was 64 when his last child - Margaret Emilia McLeod, aka Amy MacLeod - was born in 1888 in Charlottetown. He fathered 17 children. Edward died in Boston in 1899 and Amy died in 1980. Edward's son and our great grandfather Ernest beat him on the age score. Ernest married his second wife Ruth White when he was 67 and their last child Helen was born when he was 81! Helen lives in Maine and is younger than me! Ernest fathered 14 children.

I'm not sure where Edward was born. I've heard both Inverness-shire and Edinburgh. I like Edinburgh better because he seemed to like cities (Charlottetown, Halifax, Boston). and there is less need for a tailor in the countryside. I also found a marriage license for one of his sons (George S.) from the first marriage to Ann Bulger that lists his father's birth location as 'Edinburg'.

I also think of advancing technology for genealogy. I expect a growing understanding of family histories as more data gets digitized, software improves, and more people build and share trees and get their DNA analyzed. BTW, have you had your DNA analyzed? If not, have it done by Ancestry and we can add it to the growing database on the MacLeods. It's quite simple to do. I hope that with enough MacLeod DNA we might be able to reduce the uncertainty on where James was born, among other benefits.



-- - Scott MacLeod - http://scottmacleod.com 

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Mark, 
What are Anne and Claire's current email addresses (and anyone else of the Paul, Bruce or Mary MacLeod's who might have an occasional interest in emailing about our MacLeod family history)? And I'm including my mother's current email address in this re-send as well (re - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html).
MacLeod family cheers, Scott- scottmacleod.com

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Mark, and MacLeods!
Re your great email about James Edward McLeod (now here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html), I found Anne, Claire', and Connie'ss current email addresses! :) (Please add anyone else of the Paul, Bruce, Gordon or Mary MacLeod's who might have an occasional interest in emailing about our MacLeod family history). And I'm re-including my mother's current email address in this re-send as well 
MacLeod family cheers, Scott- scottmacleod.com
P.S. It's particularly this page that I'd like to update significantly over time - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm - and connect with photos ... and eventually into a realistic virtual earth with interactive avatar bots of our ancestors with DNA where I'm thinking Google Street View with time slider with TensorFlow for machine learning & for Stanford Medicine tele-robotic surgery at the cellular and atomic levels, for ex. ... (and rehttps://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/c/Gordon-K-Macleod-iii/index.html - accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm) - and especially once I get some new genealogy software (leaning toward Family Tree Maker 2017 for Mac - https://www.mackiev.com/ftm/ - perhaps in its next version, potentially with a focus on DNA since it has such a wide group of users, and tops many lists).

this continues to be a work in progress :) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/aurorae-boreraig-isle-of-skye-scotland.html -
Scotty



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The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) in Glendale, Isle of SkyeGlendale, SkyeAurora Borealis ...
















http://www.glendaleskye.com/aurora_borealis.php
https://www.visitscotland.com/see-do/landscapes-nature/northern-lights/


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https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Northern_Lights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora

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Montserrat: ! #ManuelCastells' book "Communication Power" (2009/2013) is fascinating, - "Book Reviews: Manuel Castells, Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press" by Paschal Preston, 11/22/10 > #NetworkSociety * * * Will engage some of this in t

! #ManuelCastells' book "Communication Power" (2009/2014) is fascinating. See
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0163443710379951 …
"Book Reviews: Manuel Castells, Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press" by Paschal Preston, 11/22/10 > #NetworkSociety https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Network_Society … @WorldUnivAndSch ~

! #ManuelCastells' book "Communication Power" (2009/2014) is fascinating. See https://t.co/hiHQtm15DK
"Book Reviews: Manuel Castells, Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press" by Paschal Preston, 11/22/10 >#NetworkSociety https://t.co/vzGMqHCRdm @WorldUnivAndSch ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) July 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1146437194921336832
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1146437567379730434




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Will engage some of this in the course I teach:
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University ~http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html




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Manuel Castells was compared to Max Weber by LSE's Anthony Giddens, and Karl Marx by the Wall Street Journal in his theorizing of the information age:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.html -

"His publications include a three-volume trilogy on the Information Age: Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society; Volume II: The Power of Identity, and Volume III: End of Millennium. Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics, wrote in a review of the trilogy, "It would not be fanciful to compare the work to Max Weber's Economy in Society." And G.P. Zachary, writing in the Wall Street Journal, wrote, "Adam Smith explained how capitalism worked and Karl Marx explained why it didn't. Now the social and economic relations of the Information Age have been captured by Manual Castells." "


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"Communication Power" (2009 / 2013) by Manuel Castells' notes


"Communication Power" notes

Digital Networks and the Culture of the Autonomy: Introduction to the 2013 Edition
The core argument presented in this book is that power relationships, the foundation of the institutions that organize society, are largely constructed in people's minds through communication processes. ix
The transformation of communication in the digital ageix
" ... most important communication transformation ... shift of mass communication to mass self-communication, mass self-communication being the process of interactive communication that can potentially reach a mass audience, but in which the production of the message is self-generated, the retrieval of messages is self-directed, and the reception and remixing of content from electronic communication networks is self-selected." ix

Predicting the recent pastxxiii

Internet and the culture of freedomxxvi
The fast diffusion of the Internet from the mid-1990s onwards resulted from a combination of three factors:
1) The technological discovery of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee and his willingness to distribute the source code in order to improve it through the open source contribution of a global community of users, in continuity with the openness of the TCP/IP Internet protocols designed in 1973-75 by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. The Web keeps running under the same principle of open source. In fact, two-thirds of web servers are operated by Apache, an open source program operated by a free community of programmers. 
2) Institutional change in the management of the Internet, keeping it under the loose management of the global Internet community but privatizing it, and allowing both commercial uses and cooperative uses. 
3) Major changes in culture and social behavior: individuation and networking.xxvii


The construction of autonomy in the Internet agexxix
The key for the process of individuation is the construction of autonomy by social actors, who become subjects in the process. 

WikiLeaks and the control of informationxxxiii

Internet and networked social movementsxxxviii

Networked social movements and political changexliii

A communication theory of power and social changexlv

The technology and morphology of these communication networks shape the process of mobilization, and thus of social change, both as a process and as an outcome. The rise of digital communication networks as the prevalent form of meditated human interaction provides the new context, at the core of the network society as a new social structure. in which the social movements of the twenty-first century are being formed. And the project of the book you have in your hands, "Communication Power," is to provide the grounded theoretical framework to understand the avenues of social and political change in our time - a hypothetical framework that has to be contrasted with, and eventually rectified by historical experience as recorded by scholarly research. xlvi - xlvii


Opening 
I was eighteen years old. My urge for freedom was bumping against the walls that the dictator had erected around life. 1

Chapter 1
Power in the Network Society
What is Power?
Power is the most fundamental process in society, since society is designed around values and institutions, and what is valued and institutionalized defined by power relationships. 
Power is the relational capacity that enables a social actor to influence asymmetrically the decisions of other social actor(s) in ways that favor the empowered actor's will, interests, and values. 



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Here's a recent WUaS Live Hangout on Air I did which touches on related themes and ideas:

World Univ & Sch Live Hangout on Air, News, Updates 7/1/19



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Celestial Fireworks: What are all of you up to for the 4th of July? Would you like to head to the Youth Hostel at Fort Mason again to see the fireworks at the far end of Fisherman's Wharf - over that Scottish ship, The Balclutha? Fireworks are nice above t

Hi Ants, Koh and Scot,

What are all of you up to for the 4th of July? Would you like to head to the Youth Hostel at Fort Mason again to see the fireworks at the far end of Fisherman's Wharf - over that Scottish ship, The Balclutha? Fireworks are nice above the water!

And how is Midori doing? Would she enjoy seeing fireworks and reveling in American Independence as well?

Happy 4th of July !

Cheers, Scott


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Greetings all! Midori seems to be doing well (as far as can be discerned based on our observations and those of her paediatrician) and would most probably enjoy the festivities, having for instance reacted well to this year's Lunar New Year parade a few months ago and being generally curious and gregarious. May I ask roughly at what hour the celebrations might begin? Thanks - A.



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Yay, All! It looks like they go from about 9:30 - 10 per ... 
'The display starts when it gets dark. This is usually around 9:30pm. It lasts for about 30 minutes with a beautiful finale.'https://www.sftourismtips.com/fourth-of-july-fireworks.html

We could meet in the lobby of the Youth Hostel around 7:30 or 8 and if the Y.H. cafe is open - which it could well be - get a bite to eat there .  I think we could find parking as well in the area. 
What do you think? Aim for an 8pm rendezvous in the lobby of the Fort Mason Youth Hostel ...  240 Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 94123 ... or earlier or later? 


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Ok - do we know when the cafe' will be open? 8-ish would sound fine I'd say. All this is of course contingent on force majeure not intervening and wreaking havoc with our plans in Burnsian fashion ('the best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley' and such).


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Marco .... Polo ... Marco .... does look like Cafe Franco in the Fisherman's Wharf Youth Hostel (Fort Mason) has good value food ... https://www.hiusa.org/hostels/california/san-francisco/cafe-franco ... Veggie Breakfast Sandwich $3.75 (VE)  ... Yumm - and at night? ... and it also looks like it's often open until 9:30 pm - https://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-franco-san-francisco - except possibly today, when it may be closed (go figure:), in which case we could just hang out in the living room of the Youth Hostel, or meet there and then wander around outside ... Little Midori as force majeure - something to contend with! :) .... Let's hope the Boston Tea Party of political freedom celebration of major exploding bright lights, over the good ship Balclutha, (this being the Balclutha as you know in the background, by the way - https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper - opens a great way to American democracy further ... and now online?

Here by the way in the Boston Tea Party ship - https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89e370803c04bce1%3A0xd1ee7b7f9a93b4b3!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNFN04NesXjJJamN560Gr6S-CqSdT4Sg7R-vKly%3Dw240-h160-k-no!5sboston%20tea%20party%20ship%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipNFN04NesXjJJamN560Gr6S-CqSdT4Sg7R-vKly&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKjLWmvZvjAhWZITQIHe1JAnUQoiowF3oECAsQBg - still floating in Boston Harbor (and by which I pass nearly ever year on a water taxi on my way to Boston's South Station then to southeastern Massachusetts in the summer). It's name is "Beaver," whereas the other two revolutionary ships are / were the "Dartmouth" and the "Eleanor" - https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-facts .... 
8 pm-ish in the lobby of the Youth Hostel - by the world map on the wall (with cell phones as back up!)
Happy 4th of July! :)


Cheers, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod - http://scottmacleod.com 


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Did you know that UVA owns two copies of a rare early printing of the Declaration of Independence?
Happy Fourth of July, Hoos!

Did you know that UVA owns two copies of a rare early printing of the Declaration of Independence?
Happy Fourth of July, Hoos!https://t.co/gBchCNpfDE— UVA (@UVA) July 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/UVA/status/1146770654655590402




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RAINBOW GATHERING 2019 ~now~
Rainbow Family comes 'home' to northern Wisconsin | Duluth News
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/2933439-Rainbow-Family-comes-home-to-northern-Wisconsin
Thousands Descend On Northern Wisconsin For National Rainbow
https://www.wpr.org/thousands-descend-northern-wisconsin-national-rainbow-family-gathering
Rainbow Family of Living Light Unofficial Home Page
https://welcomehome.org ~

RAINBOW GATHERING 2019 ~now~
Rainbow Family comes 'home' to northern Wisconsin | Duluth Newshttps://t.co/RF1PglBBPG
Thousands Descend On Northern Wisconsin For National Rainbowhttps://t.co/Djr2fR064S
Rainbow Family of Living Light Unofficial Home Pagehttps://t.co/gI7RMN5aBn ~— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) July 4, 2019

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Rainbow Gathering, July 4, 2011, Washington
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WshXYyfGb3J8BVxG8 … #GooglePhotos @HarbinBook > ACADEMIC FREEDOM STUDIES https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Studies … @WorldUnivAndSch >Hippies https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hippies  >1960s https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/1960s  >Counterculture https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Counterculture … @sgkmacleod ~

Rainbow Gathering, July 4, 2011, Washingtonhttps://t.co/xu2VXyzbfI #GooglePhotos @HarbinBook > ACADEMIC FREEDOM STUDIES https://t.co/boxS7HM2vy @WorldUnivAndSch >Hippies https://t.co/NeWxdN8t8b >1960s https://t.co/O2aJHKTUpF >Counterculture https://t.co/7c6KR8KLIw @sgkmacleod ~— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) July 4, 2019

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Hi @EdwardGerwer Apply presently to info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.org . Older students absolutely can matriculate (@ licensing & accrediting WUaS) & in fact are very welcome to do so. Thanks for your question https://twitter.com/EdwardGerwer/stat... …
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Hi @EdwardGerwer Apply presently to info @ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2. Older students absolutely can matriculate (@ licensing & accrediting WUaS) & in fact are very welcome to do so. Thanks for your question https://t.co/zLSfQIs2ig https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E https://t.co/1mEu65GXFN -— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 1, 2019

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Startup CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned as major online Universities in ~200 countries' official and main languages (to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B high school) will seek with time to develop in some of the directions CMU mentions. Licensing and accrediting with the state of California's BPPE and WASC senior currently. Thank you for your comment.


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Stradivarius Operating System in @WorldUnivAndSch with QUANTUM computing: for Multi-lingual wiki best STEM CC-4 OCW Universities for degrees & wiki Schools in 300 @wikidata languages, anticipating a SINGLE #cryptocurrency w #UBI & in 200 nation states & in 7111 living languages?

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Mapping the brain with sensors & lasers like https://twitter.com/NatureElectron/st... into https://twitter.com/thinkhumm/status/... re https://twitter.com/thinkhumm/status/... to study meditation https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status... too Thnx Prashant Agrawal https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s... @_YasserKhan @tim_fiori &re Quantum https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s... ~

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Please do not forget to tell me once you're there @WF_Institute #Strandbeest https://t.co/pSwmujRm0S— Theo Jansen (@StrandBeests) October 28, 2015

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What did the bugs say to cheer on their firefly friend during the race? "You glow girl!" Summer is here which means the fireflies are too! Can your students build a firefly using #LEGO to explore various methods of communication used in the animal kingdom? http://lego.build/2IhPyjo

What did the bugs say to cheer on their firefly friend during the race? "You glow girl!" Summer is here which means the fireflies are too! Can your students build a firefly using #LEGO to explore various methods of communication used in the animal kingdom? https://t.co/Ez1sZxzd67 pic.twitter.com/425W7lF9j4— LEGO Education (@LEGO_Education) July 2, 2019

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#NontheistFriends / #AtheistQuakers #Meditation in the manner of Friends/Quakers: 'NtFriends' Conversation about Meditation'
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Any NtF activities (#NontheistFriends or #AtheistQuakers) on Twitter re #FGCgathering2020 #FGCgathering2019 or otherwise? Here's a NtF / Atheist Quaker wiki school https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... & check out the Quaker-RSOF wiki subject page too @WorldUnivAndSch >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...~

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Am thinking further that my "Honey in the Bag" CD will be kind of folk 'mountain' or rolling hills' music (it's not easy to pipe like the great Stuart Liddell or Gordon Duncan, both of whose piping I like a lot a lot:), as I develop further my own sound ... am inspired in these regards in particular by Northumbrian Piper Kathryn Tickell's music.


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