Scott GK MacLeod's Blog, page 37
December 9, 2020
eastern Mojave buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum): ~200 online Medical Schools' developments - How could Project ECHO and World University and School best collaborate to create ~200 online medical schools in all ~200 countries - ~ and with Stanford Medicin
How could Project ECHO and World University and School best collaborate to create ~200 online medical schools in all ~200 countries - ~ and with Stanford Medicine?
Dear Marissa, Sanjeev, Michael, Larry, EchoReplication,
Thanks so much. Since Michael wrote recently that "Since you [I] have already attended the Project ECHO Immersion ... " I wonder how best to proceed? Or what would you suggest, please? I noticed that the most recent upcoming introduction was yesterday. When is the one in January please?
Regarding the email I just sent to Education Echo (below), and your email, and Hepatitis C as a beginning case, I wonder further how, brainstorming-wise, it might be possible even to bring these recently 'matched' Stanford GI residents into a possible collaboration? - Stanford GI Congratulations to all of our incoming
@Stanford_GI fellows!
We are excited to welcome our new GI fellows!
December 8, 2020
Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT
My TSWG talk - http://tourismstudies.org/ - is in just 2 weeks!I'm sending you my
Title:
Abstract:
Bio paragraph:
Photo: Preferably illustrated the topic.
If possible, please include this GDocs' Slides' link - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing - as well as blog link - - for people before and after the talk to visit some of the media, (which won't be so easily engaged during my presentation).
Title:
Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study
Abstract:
In this TSWG talk I propose to facilitate tourists creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies, with a case study of actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/Realistic... (and with Gradara, Italy, as a complementary example). My intent, thesis, and even argument, is to create an actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs for tourists and tourism studies' researchers.
Please visit this Onsen (hot spring) - https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI - in Youtube, in your smartphone, interact with it, and move the device to explore. Click on the mask icon for binocular or stereo vision, which you could then use to slip it into Google Cardboard, and notice the fluidity of the immersive environment.
If, as Dean MacCannell suggests, tourism can be defined as visiting marked sites, often involving travel, or more specifically, following off site markers to onsite markers (p. 42, “The Tourist”), I want to facilitate tourists creating new virtual marked sites, and traveling to them, and visiting them in new ways, in a realistic virtual earth.
I also want to suggest that publishing academic papers from text-in-the-sidebar of Google Street View - this developing realistic virtual earth - will afford a new form of Tourism Studies.
'Authenticity' further, I suggest that virtual tourists, like you and I, visiting the Japanese Onsen above, as well as Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Gatehouse, and regarding its virtual walking potential, is both very genuine (authentic), and makes possible authenticity from a myriad of new perspectives, regarding "a SEARCH for authenticity in response to alienation, a condition of modernity (per MacCannell and MacLeod).
Lastly, I want to suggest that Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy is a new social science / TSWG method which can facilitate this generation of touristic virtual sites by tourists. Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy is the interpretive practice of ethnography as group wiki-collaboration in a virtual world to create anthropological field sites. Think add-able Google Street View with Text In The Side Bar with group-buildable Second Life for Avatar Bots, but newly with artificial humans, such as Samsung Neons.
Bio paragraph (just the number of known living languages, and the number of MIT OCW languages, have changed; everything else stays the same):
Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - worlduniversityandschool.org. He's taught "Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" on Harvard University's virtual island, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. He's taught both anthropology and sociology in real life at Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Master's Degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information technology network society age, the world wide web cosmos, the virtual, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, seeking to facilitate the development of a realistic virtual earth for STEM research, and as classrooms (Think Google Street View with time slider +). He is World University and School's founder, president and CEO. WUaS forked successfully in 2017 into a second legal entity, the WUaS Press / Corp, planned with machine translation in all 7,117 living languages. Wiki World University and School is CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in 4 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,117 living languages too; WUaS plans to offer online CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, partly in group video.
Personal website: http://www.scottmacleod.com
For additional books and bio information, see: https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
Representative publication:
"Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" (Academic Press at World University and School, 2016).
sgkmacleod (at) worlduniversityandschool.org
Photo: Preferably illustrated the topic.
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Best,
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December 6, 2020
Gorse: Sunheart at Harbin Hot Springs passed away ... ('Heartsong' is his name in my book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin") * * * WUaS's planning for online IB diplomas in 200 countries'
Can we bring Sunheart 'alive' again in 'avatar bot' form even, and articulating his Harbin knowledge and memories interactively with you or me, so talk and interact with him, as a first example of what might be possible in these regards? (See this "The Desidaerata" example -
Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation (3:07 minutes)
poetryreincarnations
as well as this Stanford philosopher Richard Rorty example - blog link: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/verreauxs-eagle-moving-digital-objects.html)
Remembering you, Sunheart!
Sunheart passed away ...
Thanks so much for letting me know, Eric Richardson (at Harbin HR) ... wishing him all the best on his journey. Hope you are well as well, Eric. My condolences to you and to his Harbin friends. He made a ginormous contribution to my Harbin ethnographic book, "Naked Harbin Ethnography," for which I am very grateful. I blogged about him and meditation very recently (11/22/20) here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/cairngorms-national-park-virtual-harbin.html (and he's much in this blog - search on Sunheart or Heartsong) - "Sunheart, a Harbin friend (& main informant in my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ visit a realistic virtual earth here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) ... " I'll explore his FB page with the memories you shared, Eric - thank you for telling me.
Jaima, SunheartSunheart Sunheart !
There are lots of memories and observations of Sunheart in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography," and among Harbinites.
Here are 10 references to audio interviews with Heartsong in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ book, which if synthesized digitally somehow could allow one to start to re-create an interactive Sunheart Avatar Bot even - (and eventually in Google Street View even?):
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 10, 2008.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong GST - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 17, 2008.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2008. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. November 22,
2008.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. January 1, 2009.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong Poly - Interview with Scott MacLeod. January 8, 2009.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong Spirituality at Harbin - Interview with Scott MacLeod. February 21, 2009.
Heartsong, Hunter and Scott MacLeod. 2009. Heartsong, Hunter and Scott - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 19, 2009.
Heartsong, and Scott MacLeod. 2010. Heartsong and Scott in Blueroom - Interview with Scott MacLeod. February 11, 2010.
Heartsong, Hunter and Scott MacLeod. 2010. Eric and Scott - Interview with Scott MacLeod. April 11, 2010.
Himanen,
I never knew his birth last name, although I think Colin was his first name, (and he may have had some Scottish ancestors), and he grew up in Ohio, where his father was a medical doctor, and his mother was involved in the Presbyterian church. He was in crypto in the army in the mid-1960s and stationed in Germany, and traveled in the late 1960s partly interested in Transcendental Meditation teachings of the Maharishi ... he came to Harbin Hot Springs around 1980 ... Sunheart, SunheartSunheart was his name. I never knew his birth last name, and this as an anthropologist, or as a line from a novel even ... and is somehow fitting of possibly Sunheart's humbleness ... missing him ... I last saw him in the town of St. Helena, in Napa, at his invitation to meet there and not in Middletown, about 6 months after the major Valley Fire of September 12th and 13th 2015. Sunheart was brilliant, and good and navigated the challenges of Harbin culture remarkably!
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Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation (3:07 minutes)
poetry reincarnations
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JOINING - 30th November – Fettes virtual events – St Andrew’s Day
Fettes College (IB) high school in Edinburgh, Scotland (1977-78) ...
WUaS's planning for online IB diplomas in 200 countries' languages, and Fettes College IB collaborations?
Karen (Houston) Jones:
I will speak to the Head, Helen Harrison regarding your questions below. Please give us some patience with the provision of a reply. Are there any plans to move Fettes further online due to Covid-19, and post Covid-19?And might there be opportunities between Fettes and World University and School to collaborate at the I.B level in this in a parallel way?
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Thu, Dec 3, 9:17 AM (3 days ago)
to George, Andrew, enquiries, Janie, MacLeod, Mok, Scott, Fettes.CommunityDear Karen, and Fettes Community (and George and Andrew), Thank you so much for your emails.
1There have been about 10-20 great ideas I've come across for country dancing at home during Covd-19 on Twitter, and I've re-Tweeted most of them, but haven't aggregated, or archived, them yet into a single Twitter post, eg - re like this one at the top of The Open Band (Berkeley), which I post to:The Monday #ScottishCountryDancing class in Berkeley at St. Clement's is cancelled for the foreseeable future due to concerns about novel #CoronavirusCOVID19 #DanceScottish ~Explore online: https://twitter.com/dancingforth/status/1284416503492816896?s=20 >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing
@WorldUnivAndSch
#DanceScottishAtHome?
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1284701015317417985?s=20
2Let's stay in touch about a #FilmTo3D App from smartphone - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click - into a single realistic virtual earth for libraries - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries?src=hashtag_click - with time, in a single #RealisticVirtualEarth.
3Am very glad George Preston is so involved with Old Fettesians' Archives ... if #AgingReversal via genetic engineering is realized, perhaps this will indeed be a long involvement - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSAgingReversal?src=hashtag_click - esp. as industry gets involved. Will we be still communicating in 500 years? :)
4Sounds like an interesting ethnomusicological set of questions about how "Blind Faith" (with Eric Clapton, Stever Winwood, Ginger Baker and Rick Grech) has been heard over the past 50 years by Fettes' students, for Old Fettesians' interviews even, and potentially out of the OFA office ... could a University of Edinburgh anthropology or ethnology student focus such questions, and a related ethnomusicological project, and online even?
5Thank you - regarding further online developments of Fettes during Covid-19.I can share with you, too, WUaS's planning for online IB diplomas - and even with #WUaSHomeRobotics with the Scratch programming language in an innovative way - in these regards as well - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - and in all ~200 countries and in their official languages. WUaS is very CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric, and for high school too - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ - and is seeking, as a consequence, reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of education, what the tuition would be to attend Fettes, for example, per student per year, or even to attend a high achieving private high school in the US, but WUaS would probably do best in these endeavors if we could be 'UNDER THE WING' of an established IB school. Thank you.
I will speak to the Head, Helen Harrison regarding your questions below. Please give us some patience with the provision of a reply. Are there any plans to move Fettes further online due to Covid-19, and post Covid-19?And might there be opportunities between Fettes and World University and School to collaborate at the I.B level in this in a parallel way?
Best wishes, Scott
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Message from old Auld Reekie (Edinburgh)
Scott
I received a message "Do not reply" from cyber space last night thanking me for arranging the virtual 150 celebrations. These thanks I have filed away for posterity, but I let you know that I can't Zoom, never twitter and shudder at the thought of showing my Face in any book.
Great to know that you pipe on the cliffs of Santa Barbara every morning.
Although I introduced computing in the year after you left (with an 8 Kb Commodore PET in my study in Ki) and continued until 3 years ago for the OFs, I am radidly losing the ability to keep up with the present complexities. I keep asking the Development Department if they cannot make a one click entry to their wonderful, informative ever changing web site! I can only go in circle around their maze!
At any rate bagpipes are not yet computerised! Those were the days - good to know you thrive.
Good wishes. GDCP
George Preston, my old Kimmerghame House Housemaster at Fettes College (1977-78)
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Dear George,Glad you enjoyed it! Am beginning to extend Google Meet video conference meetings to old friends - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/bluebell-barleria-barleria-cristata.html - like the Ehrmanns from 1966-1972 in New Haven, Connecticut (Hamden) when both of our fathers were on the faculty at Yale University, and it would be indeed great to see you again, somehow!
Am just 'giving birth' to my first Scottish Small Pipes' album, "Honey in the Bag," - and on bandcamp of all places (at first ... then maybe to CD, for the physicality of it all ) ... Have you ever gone to camp with a musical band? :) And greetings from the SF Bay Area ... I think we saw each other last after I had moved from UC Santa Barbara to matriculate in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh to study virtual St. Kilda (Hirta) as a nascent expression of online place (a bit out of the box for the discipline of ethnology, theoretically:). The quest for this 'holy grail' of "realistic virtual place" goes on ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ Am giving a talk about creating an actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth for ethnographic & STEM research on 12/18/2020 at UC Berkeley, in the Anthropology department. :) Let's make it!
Am looking toward where the ease of computing via using Google / Alphabet becomes even easier & better with brainwave headsets ... at least for basic brain research, and from the Harbin warm pool even, or even especially from our home bathtubs.
Know of any good computerized Scottish drumming programs, that I could then code further into Ginger Baker inspired drum interactive tracks to play and improvise with gradually on the Scottish small pipes?
Are you an appreciator of Cleesian humor - https://twitter.com/JohnCleese ?
Best wishes, ScottThis is what I've been up to in recent years, even as I continue to grow CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch with baby steps ~https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ 5th book due out (4th books of poetry) hopefully before Xmas! :)
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
I am on Twitter these days, but I don't see you, George, posting yet too much to the Fettes Community - https://fettescommunity.org/feed (I think people would love to learn of your thinking - thank you for your email:). And greetings to Fettes' Heads' Helen Harrison and Karen Jones, - and glad the 3 St. Andrew's Day celebrations were recorded and are the Fettes Community feed now, since I attended one beginning at 4 am PT at 4:20 a bit by accident, and didn't glean any insights into the Fettes IB program, and I missed the beginning of the other one I attended with Karen, and Craig Marshall (greetings, as well!) due to trying to attend an online University of Edinburgh Medical School Debate (re World Univ & Sch Medical Schools in 200 countries and their languages too!:), which wasn't accessible after all, and for which apparently the video will emerge :)
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch 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
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Sadly these days my use of email is only for communication. I don't twitter or tweet; I shuuder at the thought of facing a book; Zooming is quite beyond me! But good to know you thrive! GDCP
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From: "Scott MacLeod" <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
To: "G PRESTON" <em4gdcp@btinternet.com>; "Andrew Lownie" <lownie@globalnet.co.uk>; "Yuen Lok Mok" <yuenlok.mok@crowe.org>; "Em4ofa@aol.com" <Em4ofa@aol.com>
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George,
Thanks for your email. Good to hear from you. This - https://twitter.com/ishii_mit_BOT/status/1335509457384603651?s=19 - in a way is the idea for Scotland World University and School as well - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects. How to facilitate creative Scots' innovation with a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online free to students' education, with University and high school IB Degrees, as well as wiki (and potentially to in Scottish languages if helpful for degrees? (I ask this in a Friendly sense too).
Best wishes,Scott@scottmacleod worlduniversityandschool.orgscotacleod.com
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The very beginnings of Scotland World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland
Scott
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December 5, 2020
Strobilanthes kunthiana: EMERGING Scottish Small Pipes' 'Honey in the Bag' album ... * Just found this blog post - https://pteditor.blogspot.com/2010_04... - re Stuart Liddell's drumming ... He's a 'self-learner' - a self-taught learner
... and EMERGING Scottish Small Pipes'
'Honey in the Bag' album ...
scott macleod'shoney in the bag... new scottish small piping album ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...
scottish small piping
Scott MacLeod is a musician from the SF Bay Area ~ ScottMacLeod.com/piping.htm. His first album, 'Honey in the Bag,' seeks to expressively evoke the harmonious Scottish Small Pipes' sweetness in playing transcendent ceòl beag, or light music. He is the founder & president of free-to-students' World University & School, with its Scottish Small Piping WIKI subject for open teaching and learning.
~ and on 1st fridays of the month ~ we’re (bandcamp) waiving our revenue share again.
'Honey in the Bag'
... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...
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Just found this blog post -https://pteditor.blogspot.com/2010_04_25_archive.html?m=1 -
re Stuart Liddell's drumming ... He's a 'self-learner' - a self-taught learner in so many ways (and in a Scottish cultural context, as a Scot) - which he's done on his own, and a teacher (in this blog post), in so many ways too, and he's had a lot of lessons too I'm sure ... and he makes interesting and many connections (re Ma & Marsalis too:) ...
And tweeted about the blog post -
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1335248753142321152?s=19"with Stuart Liddell ... talented guy he is. He told me all about his job as a piano tuner & how it helped his pipe tuning & also the fact that he is virtually a self taught drummer coming 12th out of 13 at the All Ireland" https://t.co/Ei8bkQl09v>#EWVWG https://t.co/EnPftEGJTJ ~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) December 5, 2020
"with Stuart Liddell ... talented guy he is. He told me all about his job as a piano tuner & how it helped his pipe tuning & also the fact that he is virtually a self taught drummer coming 12th out of 13 at the All Ireland" https://t.co/Ei8bkQl09v>#EWVWG
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Drumming ~
EWVWG stands for http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=1
Here's this 'Piping the Way' video again - a team building exercise re Scottish language/culture, and a fund raiser too and Stuart lived in British Columbia for 10-15 years playing with the Simon Fraser University pipe band :)
Piping the Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film https://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4
Stuart's also represented or portrayed as a teacher in this film ...
Cheers, ScottI'd welcome any thoughts you might have about these web sites ...https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ -
Updated website - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
What does Catherine Ashcroft do uniquely in these two beautiful tunes on Uilleann pipes, I'm asking myself ...https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk
The emotion machine hashtag just popped up on Twitter too ~
https://twitter.com/RhapsodyML/status/1335249163383152640?s=19The latest Rhapsody Music Notes! https://t.co/vqU8KxfpQp Thanks to @TheOpenBand @HealingSoundsTx #ai #theemotionmachine
— RhapsodyMusicLessons (@RhapsodyML) December 5, 2020
How is this piping by Catherine an expression of music as an emotion machine idea? What are it's techniques (re M&M even?)? (Yogini Angela Farmer explores feeling in far-reaching and very enjoyable ~and also going into the dark spaces / negative emotions for learning too ~✓ ways too:)
A thought last night re Scottish bagpipes and their accompaniment instrument of choice, Scottish drums ... Scottish Pipes are the lead instrument
Here the 2 tablas are the lead instrument and there's a reedy sounding instrument in background as accompaniment :) https://twitter.com/tablajedi/status/1325833825516187650?s=19
How to learn further how to play lead Jerry Garcia with Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann in Grateful Dead??? :)
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HI Taylor,
Some further learning from the Web ~
I think playing and recording the rest of my 38 tunes for 'Honey in the Bag' with an expressiveness just like Catherine's slow and fast tunes would be the ticket :)
Scotthttp://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ~ and even per
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ... :)
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November 3, 2020
Hi Taylor,
Wow, in seeking out good Piobaireachd recordings for
The Company's Lament
Mackintosh's Banner
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
Glengarry's Lament
I had some wow experiences yesterday evening, all a little piping ethnomusicological as well -
Just came upon: Joyce MacFarlane, based in Pittsburgh, PA, in the mid-1970s, and who was my 2nd piping teacher, and this recent picture of JOYCE (in Scotland with her husband Jimmy McIntosh, also of Pgh) brought me 'there' in some time travel, here -
Jimmy McIntosh, DR’s Scrapbook and the Day John MacFadyen Did the Double
https://pipingpress.com/2018/05/17/jimmy-mcintosh-drs-scrapbook-and-the-day-john-macfadyen-did-the-double/
And then John MacFadyen in this same article was a teacher at a College of Piping summer camp near the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in NC for a summer or two, thanks to Sandy Jones bringing him over from Scotland -
(Drawing parallels, I think "Doing the Double" - or "Did the Double" re John MacFadyen winning the 2 top piping prizes in Scotland in one year, could be somehow similar to WUaS having created 2 legal entities in California - the non-profit in CA (and 501 c 3 federally) World University and School, and the 2) for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation, in California) - a kind of different "Doing the Double" :)
"John had pulled off the double, winning the Clasp and Gold Medal at the same meeting"
"winning both the Gold Medal competition and the Clasp at the Northern Meeting"
https://pipingpress.com/2018/05/17/jimmy-mcintosh-drs-scrapbook-and-the-day-john-macfadyen-did-the-double/
(Jimmy McIntosh's brogue, as you'll hear in another "Alasdair Dearg" email thread I'll send you, is very broad, a bit hard to understand, and he's lived in Pgh PA for decades, having left Scotland :))
John MacFadyen - http://schoolofpiping.com/photo_album/Pipers%20of%20Past%20Years%20©/slides/john-macfadyen.html
And here's a picture of John MacFadyen from the cover of his 1st volume of Bagpipe Tunes - https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d4/1c/e0/d41ce09c90a14b18956e59553114749f.jpg and https://www.pinterest.com/pin/196047390014890089/ - some of which I've shared with you, and many of which I find very 'lyrical.'
Recordings by him - https://www.discogs.com/John-MacFadyen-Champion-Piper-1968/release/15327136
And something further about John MacFadyen - https://www.pipesdrums.com/tag/john-macfadyen/
Ed Krintz was my first piping teacher, and thanks to Sandy Jones, both here:Ed Krintz has been a performer of the highland bagpipe for over 51 years, and has studied under P/M Sandy Jones, James MacIntosh, and the late John MacFadyen. He is a panel adjudicator for the EUSPBA, and currently teaches piping in the Charlotte, NC area.
http://www.naapd.org/instructors.php
https://www.timmyhordstudio.com/piping
http://www.pipebandsnc.com/brief-band-histories/
And Stuart Liddell is a teacher of mine in a sense too, and re -
Am liking how Stuart Liddell kind of becomes ONE with his pipes ... and then soars with high very rhythmic 'flight' flying directly into the sun or the light :)
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 4 of 8
https://youtu.be/e7zvKbl1R54
15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall
https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA
At 5:20 is about as free as he gets ... Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8https://youtu.be/HWWgJk2MyhU
Uniquely brilliant Stuart Liddell musical expressiveness ... and check out Gordon Duncan for other unique and brilliant Bagpiping musical expressiveness ... they've both created their own sound ..
Just some thoughts about previous bagpiping teachers - wow - and NOW :)
Scott
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December 4, 2020
Bluebell barleria (Barleria cristata): 'Honey in the Bag' ... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscot... ... * * * An old friend, Laurent (from 1966-1972), calling from France yesterday a
'Honey in the Bag'
... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...
Big piping web site update as well ... http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
Scott MacLeod'sHoney in the Bag
... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...
Scottish Small Piping
Scott MacLeod is a musician from the SF Bay Area ~ ScottMacLeod.com/piping.htm. His first album, 'Honey in the Bag,' seeks to expressively evoke the harmonious Scottish Small Pipes' sweetness in playing transcendent ceòl beag, or light music. He is the founder & president of free-to-students' World University & School, with its Scottish Small Piping WIKI subject for open teaching and learning.
~ and on 1st Fridays of the month ~ We’re (Bandcamp) waiving our revenue share again.
Online, East Bay, SF Bay Area & northern California
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(on Skype)
New Open Band (Berkeley) with Small Pipes' Twitter focus:
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For more information: sgkmacleod@gmail.com
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https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com
I've played pipes for more than 40 years, and usually perform in full highland regalia, - in the ancient, hunting, MacLeod tartan. I try to play for 5-9 engagements a month. I've played for numerous weddings, funerals, and other events, and in pipe bands.
I've studied in Edinburgh, Scotland, two separate years (1977-1978 and 2003-2004), playing in the Fettes College (IB) high school Pipe Band and at the Edinburgh Tattoo in the Castle; and studying in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
I've studied with some of the finest piping teachers and pipers in the world: Pipe Majors John MacFadyen, Duncan Johnstone, Alasdair Gillies, Ian Whitelaw, Jack Lee, Lorne MacDougall and Connor Sinclair.
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An old friend, Laurent, (from 1966-1972), called from France yesterday after a Nasdaq meeting re WUaS Corp (and subsequent scheduling of meeting with Nasdaq for WUaS Corp Board Governance) soon ~ How wonderful! (Our fathers were both faculty members at Yale University)
thank you, Laurent, for calling from France ... I looked up your old home on Armory street in Google Street View, but couldn't yet 'Time Slide' back to 1966 - 1972 (when I was between 6 & 12) to see how it changed in those years. Nice to see Mrs. Barker's house to the right of your house, and 'walk' down Armory to see the Ahlstrom's house on the corner. What an interesting time to live in New Haven (since revolution was in the air and happening:)
Here it is ! ~123 Armory Street, Hamden CT ... 06517
https://www.google.com/maps/place/123+Armory+St,+Hamden,+CT+06517/@41.3371517,-72.9157522,3a,75y,34.93h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEnWnrlCXNWvEyInjbtyMVw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e7d9f1693ccb13:0x1cbed5016bf544a8!8m2!3d41.3373532!4d-72.9155576
And then I found our house ~ but can't yet add those photos of you, Laurent and Guillaume, from Christmas I think - and re everyone playing musical instruments ...125 Mill Rock Road, Hamden CTwhere the MacLeods lived from 1966-1971 or 72https://www.google.com/maps/place/125+Mill+Rock+Rd,+Hamden,+CT+06517/@41.3382299,-72.9183528,3a,75y,28.54h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snfNg7RgGEAghzFS-8zsPuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e7d9f393f4a357:0x9321f6c60f7f2d3!8m2!3d41.3383547!4d-72.918257
Looking forward to talking again in the not-too-distant future. Want to hang out over a glass of wine in Google Meet video conference (for which I can send the invite) - all of us - in the next little while?
How soon until Aging Reversal Genetic Engineering (in a capsule?). Here's ...
Harvard and MIT's George Church - 60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
with some further thoughts here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity:)
Warm regards, Scott#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click
Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse in Street View here :) ~~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Hello Laurent, (Françoise, Guilliaume, Jane),
My telephone number is XXX XXX 0116 or the Google Voice number below. Am much more on email than FB. How are you doing?
Warm regards, Scott
From FB on November 19, 2020
Hello Scott Can you send me your telephone no. ?LoveJust to exchange
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Bonjour Laurent, Françoise, Guillaume, Jane, Sandy,
Re schools, I didn't attend Hamden High, like you both did ... I went to the Putnam Street school for a year, then Newhall Street School (which was an integrated schoo:l), from 2nd-5th grade, then to the new Ridgehill Street school - an OPEN CLASSROOM school, and architecturally, - can't remember whether I was in the Apollo or Gemini large open room / capsule (with none of that rigid desks in grid formation stuff) for 6th grade I think.We moved after that, I think, to the DC area, and I attended another OPEN CLASSROOM school - Green Acres in Rockville Maryland - for 6th and 7th grades, but during my 7th grade my parents, Sandy and I lived in Geneva, Switzerland (from Oct 1, 1972 or 3, until March 30 the following year, at 15 Avenue du Mirmont) ... since my father was doing a Ford Foundation grant sponsored study on health care systems in 3 European countries (Germany, Denmark, Britain???) ... as he was setting up the first HMOs in the country in Washington DC (). In Geneva, I think Sandy and I first attended a local Swiss public school in French, but then soon transferred to the Ecole Internationale Ecolint for learning in English.
All findable in Street View too.
Scott
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barleria_cristata
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December 3, 2020
Badger Creek Wilderness (Oregon): The #HomeSurgeon in the future @grok_ ? (Kate Darling studies human-robot interaction, tech policy & ethics at MIT @medialab) & > #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery w #MachineLearning &
The #HomeSurgeon in the future @grok_ ? (Kate Darling studies human-robot interaction, tech policy & ethics at MIT @medialab) https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1333944219656974337?s=20 & > #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery w #MachineLearning & #RealisticVirtualEarthFoRobotics?
The #HomeSurgeon in the future @grok_ ? (Kate Darling studies human-robot interaction, tech policy & ethics at MIT @medialab) https://t.co/iVeX2SxO16 & > #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery w #MachineLearning & #RealisticVirtualEarthFoRobotics? https://t.co/wFcj7O9Qkm
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) December 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1334748457387532288?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1334744195622289408?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1334748901249708032?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1334750330475565056?s=20
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Kate Darling
@grok_ Dec 1
I am truly blessed to be living in the best and most hilarious era of robotics
I am truly blessed to be living in the best and most hilarious era of robotics https://t.co/Q4NPgFmRXb
— Kate Darling (@grok_) December 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1333944219656974337?s=20
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Collaboration with Project ECHO?
Dear Sanjeev, Michael, and Larry,
Stanford Professor Dr. Oliver Aalami facilitated the Apple Cardinal Kit workshop, and while it was somewhat store and Apple focused, it was a good first monthly Cardinal Kit meeting, and Dr. Aalami - https://profiles.stanford.edu/oliver-aalami - I later noticed, is a vascular surgeon. He would be, in addition to Dr. Robert Harrington MD, Chair of Stanford Medical Center - https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-harrington (with whom I met in his office for 30 minutes a few years ago, about WUaS planning for online WUaS Medical Schools and online Teaching Hospitals in 200 countries and languages) - to be a great contact. I mentioned in this session planning for tele-robotic surgery in 10 or 20 years, and into avatar bot electronic medical records, and for 7.8 billion people, brainstorming-wise, and Dr. Aalami seemed interested. Here's a Tweet in these regards:
Thnks @DrAalami for Apple Cardinal Kit Meeting (out of #StanfordBiodesignBuildathon) re #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords How to build #FilmTo3D > #GooglePoly, at #StreetView, Cell & Atom levels? re #WUaSTeleroboticSurgery in #ML #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery for 7.8B peeps?
Thnks @DrAalami for Apple Cardinal Kit Meeting (out of #StanfordBiodesignBuildathon) re #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords How to build #FilmTo3D > #GooglePoly, at #StreetView, Cell & Atom levels? re #WUaSTeleroboticSurgery in #ML #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery for 7.8B peeps?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1333940429708902400?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333940245188943872?s=20
Could this be the home surgeon of the future ... (Kate Darling studies human-robot interaction, tech policy & ethics at MIT @medialab)
Kate Darling
@grok_ Dec 1
I am truly blessed to be living in the best and most hilarious era of robotics
https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1333944219656974337?s=20
... and into Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click - with machine learning?
How best to collaborate to create online Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online Teaching Hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ?
Thank you!
Sincerely, Scott
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_Creek_Wilderness
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December 2, 2020
Forest Park (Portland, Oregon): "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk * * * Psychiatry re Dr. John Money's 'Concepts of Determinism' and Sexology ideas, in part? * * * Won
Questions from your "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk
Dear Hiroshi,
Thank you very much for your amazing summary of your 30 years of work in one "Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire" talk - https://twitter.com/ishii_mit/status/1333081639438741505?s=20.
HCI Distinguished Lecture 6: Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab)
Here are my questions and comments from the Youtube livestream -
Scott MacLeod
What about a realistic virtual earth, think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with AI to integrate this, Professor Ishii - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarth&src=typeahead_click?
Thank you for this brilliant, and wondrous creativity, Professor Ishii!
... with a #FilmTo3D App, even - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click ... for some of the whole - in a realistic virtual earth and to integrate Tangible UI even?
Thank you - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org -
This could be an excellent beginning to a #FilmTo3D App:
AMAZING - & could this be beginnings of #FilmTo3D App from #SmartPhone (& into #GooglePoly even) into esp. 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #StreetView #TensorFlow), #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture & be combined with #MotionCapture & for #EWVWG #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy ?
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...
Sincerely, Scott
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Hiroshi Ishii4:14 PM (5 hours ago)to me, ishiiDear Scott, Thank you very much for your message regarding my talk at the University of Chicago.
The concept of a "realistic virtual earth" is intriguing since we love and care about the real earth. When a human being has to leave the earth and solar system due to the sun's explosion at its end of life, we may need to prepare for the realistic virtual earth to educate our descendants. ;-)
Sincerely,
Hiroshi ISHII
ishii@media.mit.edu
https://tangible.media.mit.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/ishii.mit
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
9:30 PM (15 minutes ago)
to ishii
Dear Hiroshi,
Thank you too for your email reply. And thank you again for your great -
"HCI Distinguished Lecture 6: Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab)"
- which I'll re-visit.
Would you and MIT be interested in 'taking on' creating the sun and galaxies in 1 realistic virtual universe, as well as life and death genetically + in a realistic virtual earth for genetics, for example?
See -
realistic virtual universe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click
and the image here (re Neha Narula and Arvin's MIT presentations esp.) -
Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://t.co/zdh1RAnWVL #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20
and in a related vein -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html
and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
... and regarding life and death ...
realistic virtual earth for genetics
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click
as well as aging reversal regarding genetic engineering -
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WUaSAgingReversal&src=typed_query
and in also a
realistic virtual earth for evolutionary biology
https://twitter.com/hashtag/realisticvirtualearthforevolutionarybiology?src=hashtag_click
in 1 single realistic virtual earth / universe
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click ?
And in what ways could we explore collaboration regarding creating a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (and wiki) Japan World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Japan - in Japanese, and offering free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and I.B. high school degrees as well? :) And an online Media Lab - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School - in each of all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in their official and main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages?
Thank you very much, Hiroshi, and looking forward to further communication.
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
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World Univ and Sch 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
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Maitreyi
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Hi Ma,
Glad Ed spent time with his family, 'blood,' over the weekend - who is his last surviving aunt, and older relative on his father's side, ... (And are he, Valerie and their kids a troop, as in troop-bonding, per John Money (http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html), - and were we as a family (the Brown genes on Thanksgiving) all a troop in Zoom video on Thursday, you, Cathy and Steve, Ann, and invisible Tim, Kate and Sandy and me ... ?)
Inaugurated my new red seat cushion today on a pretty day ...
And are we all navigating the 'fore-doomance' (per John Money too) idea with the interest in aging reversal via genetic engineering? ... with all of this having many implications even for psychiatry and in all countries and languages, I'd suggest and theorize (with related emails in Happy Thanksgiving! (and happy birthday, Pat & Marti!) thread here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fennec-fox.html - and I'll probably add this one: )
Great to be in touch with Fettes College in Edinburgh today, re 'blood' too in a sense, and these and email to Maitreyi in some of these regards from today are here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/pelican-loving-bliss-resaerch-aging.html -
Now have enjoyed both new Ikea red and green seat cushions, but will bring them inside regularly, to keep them clean ...
Has Jean found a buyer for their house, or could even Lillian move back in there again, after Jean moves out, for example?
How was your day?
Love, Scott
PS(Re the following picture, are we going to get great holograms out if Covid-19 ... and further bioterrorism preparedness, as well as further Aging Reversal genetic engineering successes, and developments in 2021?) ...
Photo: Elin Åberg
The government's crisis chief: May live with the virus throughout 2021
The report highlights concerns about reduced defense capability and questions about Sweden's access to vaccines.
https://www.dn.se/sverige/regeringens-krissamordnare-vi-far-leva-med-viruset-under-hela-nasta-ar/
(Check it out with Google Translate!)
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PSjust shared this with Elliott -
Hi Elliott!
Good to hear from you. Yes, glad to be in a (possibly temporary) safe house just north of Berkeley, away from the mentally ill former owner and his unwell daughter, landlady toward end, in Canyon. (I called the Moraga police twice over the summer to make 3 official reports if illegal beak ins, entries, thefts (which could even lead officially to involving federal authorities). New landlord, landlady are Indian / Gujurati, from Tanzania, Africa, in their early 80s, and who had at the end of career a 7000 sq ft import export shop at corner of Ashby and San Pablo. Enjoying living / being just north of Berkeley, but World Univ & Sch's addresses are still in Canyon, ... If sick landlord moved into secure nursing home, or prison, or bought a house in Watsonville, for ex. And his daughter and new husband moved to a nice house near their college, where they teach, I could see moving back in there ... If Canyon as a whole was somehow getting 'cleaned up' ... Am on Arlington in El Cerrito for awhile longer.
How are you, and Katherine? Nice to talk with David ☺️ not too long ago...
Good to be in touch!
Fond regards, ScottDaily blog is happening, and here are ok risk 5 Hypothetical News' Items re Covid-19 from 4/1/20 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/202... ... Cheers, Elliott, regards, Scott
Navin Doshi, my new landlord, first came to Berkeley in 1970... Berkeley at that was fascinating counter-culturally, I'd posit .. and lived through so much of it :) ... and I wanna see it and relive in a realistic virtual earth for history - :) https://twitter.com/hashtag/Realistic... ~Scott
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Pin, Mrs. Mazumdar, Marti, Pat, Ma, Tym, Sunheart, Mr. Mazumdar, All,So very nice that you called, Pin, last night! Thank you! I was just walking on my longest walk ever from my new home (a 'safe' house even, I'm calling this) north of Berkeley ... and 1.8 miles up to the closed (due to the Covid-19 pandemic) Unitarian Universalist Church of Kensington (Berkeley), and 1.8 miles back ... a de-stressor walk, and wellness walk, as well. I don't think I've ever been in this Church or met any of its community (but I was singing in UU Church of Palo Alto choir for a semester or two a year or 2 ago, when I was visiting Stanford almost daily).
I wonder about the transcendentalist tradition of Unitarians (writ personal) - and as a de-stressor - and appreciate sitting meditating daily, on the biological side of this (that I call the relaxation response re its biology - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html - or rename an inner releasing action), and which relaxation response I find happens naturally both in unprogrammed tradition of Quaker Silent Meetings (in the manner of Friends), and in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, which I explore here too in these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - but not yet in a realistic virtual Harbin from one's bathtub, for the releasing action on one's bodymind neurophysiology of the warm water.
Here's an interesting talk by a Harvard-trained UU minister, Paul Sawyer (who also invited the Grateful Dead to play in a UU church in southern California around 1966) - The #CoronavirusPandemic has still closed the #UnitarianUniversalistChurchofBerkeley (in Kensington) Enjoying this conversation with #UUMinister Paul Sawyer https://youtu.be/jmsWXa5D-As blogged abt http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/spicebush-swallowtail.html?m=0… & re #Quakers among #Unitarians re #RealisticVirtualHarbin too!
The #CoronavirusPandemic has still closed the #UnitarianUniversalistChurchofBerkeley (in Kensington) Enjoying this conversation with #UUMinister Paul Sawyer https://t.co/eV7njB0Xaw blogged abt https://t.co/bg90SHFYAJ & re #Quakers among #Unitarians re #RealisticVirtualHarbin too! pic.twitter.com/52s0RWmQAV
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312810649601232897?s=20
Maitreyi, and All, the idea for doing genetic engineering from home on smartphone is here -
Do #GeneticEngineering on it? Map your whole genome w next generation #GooglePixelSmartPhone? Visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with it https://9to5google.com/2020/11/30/pixel-4a-5g-review-the-price-perfect-pixel-video/ at cell & atom levels too? Think #StreetView with #TimeSlider @WorldUnivAndSch!
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1333608791787532288?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333613415416307714?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1333644494042906624?s=20
- and -
For #WUaSGeneticEngineering? #MapYourOwnGenome with the next generation #GooglePixelSmartPhone? Visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with it https://9to5google.com/2020/11/30/pixel-4a-5g-review-the-price-perfect-pixel-video/ at cell & atom levels too? Think #StreetView with #TimeSlider @WUaSPress!
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1333610873860997121?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333613227763122176?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1333644586913202176?s=20
Is the time now for this? ... :)
It looks like your Dean, George Church, Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics in HMS is leading an online genetics' conference on one's smartphone out of India as I write this, and is the keynote, which we can all attend (walk down the hall in the HMS if you're there tomorrow, and watch him teach research - or might you already be participating in this :) -
george church
@geochurch
http://riidl.org/bio
https://thedarwin.in
NOW! Dec 2-5
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1334134268747014146?s=20
Great !
Pin, Siddartha, might we explore talking monthly, like you do with Partha? :) And let's stay in touch, All, about both online #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.8 billion people (and in developing a single realistic virtual earth for telerobotics surgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - even, VASCULAR surgery first even?), with online WUaS medical schools and teaching hospitals, as well as UBI experiments with the Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency to DISTRIBUTE a single cryptocurrency in most of ~200 countries and their languages - brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people too (see WUaS Minutes below:)
And how to grow, or explore, the transcendentalist tradition of Harvard & Unitarians and in brand new ways, I wonder? (I don't head in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) direction, but my friend and Harbin informant, Sunheart, at Harbin Hot Springs ,learned much from the Maharishi, in this tradition in the late 1960s and in the '70s in the US - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/cairngorms-national-park-virtual-harbin.html :).
Warm regards, Scott~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
PSGood Minutes from the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (in the manner of Friends), which I sent out yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/mirabilis-jalapa-minutes.html :)
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Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
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“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
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- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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December 1, 2020
Mirabilis jalapa: Nov. 21, 2020 Minutes for World University and School’s Monthly Business Meeting * * * AND * * * Minutes for 11/21/2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Minutes for World University and School’s Monthly Business Meeting on 11/21/20
Present:
- Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)
- Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/12/nov-21-2020-minutes-for-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
(World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for November 21, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/11/nov-21-2020-wuas-agenda-news-both-np.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/popcorn-flower-plagiobothrys-agenda.html)
Minutes
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Further World University and School website updates – worlduniversityandschool.org - with new majors and how to apply for free-to-students’ best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric, and now edX-centric, online Bachelor’s degrees will occur after 30 November, 2020.
For students, WUaS will first contact heads of WUaS in other countries, and then reach out to college counselors at, for example, academically high achieving Shady Side Academy, in Pittsburgh, PA, and Fettes College (I.B.) high school in Edinburgh, Scotland.
If WUaS starts getting further student applicants, they can matriculate in January, 2021. Later student applications can wait until May 1, the beginning of the following term.
World University and School is currently evaluating the edX courses for the World University and School web site academically; in what ways has edX vetted their courses is one question in this process.
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Here is the beginning installation of WUaS Wikibase database (potentially in Wikipedia’s 300 languages) newly in WB Stack, With this WUaS has created the beginnings of a course catalog, coded I think in SQL, and with students as ‘individuals,’ and these items to begin -
Courses -
course - https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
People -
individual - https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
instructor - https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
Languages -
language - https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
accessible from -
You - Scott MacLeod - Scott_WUaS 11:02 AM
https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
in
recent changes - https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
and also from yesterday,
Houcemeddine Turki - Csisc - 11:34 AM
Institution: https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
Country: https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
Houcemeddine Turki11:36 AM
Source: https://worlduniversityandschooldatab...
Houcemeddine Turki11:53 AM
I see.
So in waiting to see what an emerging edX Online Campus DASHBOARD looks like, WUaS will begin to develop, first, these six major -
EECS:
Computer Science - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Electrical Engineering wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
GENG:
Engineering -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
GSCI:
Science -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
ENG:
English -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
HIST:
History -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
BUS:
Business -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
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WUaS interview on Romanian TV may follow with the emergence of a registration-ready World Univ & Sch professional university website (first in English) for free-to-students’ best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric, and with edX courses, Bachelor’s degrees.
4
World Univ & Sch continues to seek to develop 3 courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimen...
World Univ & Sch is seeking for departments of education in all ~200 countries to reimburse WUaS for CC-4 best STEM OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch free-to-student degrees, and potentially for each of the 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the poorer countries, if students matriculate for 4 years' degrees or similar - and for 'WUaS Home Robotics' - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeR... -
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Minutes for November 21, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Present:
- Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)
- Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)
Here are the Minutes for November 21, 2020 Minutes for the WUaS Corporation:
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The WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press
A
The WUaS Corp filed taxes for 2017, 2018, and 2019 in CA recently with the Frachise Tax Board, but hasn’t yet heard back.
B
Regarding facilitating a single crypto-currency in all ~200 countries’ nation states (backed somehow by most of ~200 countries’ central banks), and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages (and potentially all 7.8 billion people on the planet) – as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS, each a Wikidata Pin #, Wikidata Q-item # or a WUaS Q-item #- via Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments, to alleviate poverty, I successfully installed Stanford 'Mine Pi' crypto-currency yesterday - minepi.com/sgkmac (and you can too) – which is mine-able, and could become the basis for single crypto-currency.
The Stanford 'Mine Pi' crypto-currency involves the block chain ledger, and WUaS is beginning to explore bringing the Stanford Mine Pi blockchain together with the emergent WUaS block chain for WUaS degrees.
You can get free Stanford Mine Pi crypto currency by joining its network using this code - minepi.com/sgkmac -
See, for example:
Free #Stanford mine-able "Mine Pi" #cryptocurrency Use this reference code: http://minepi.com/sgkmac & How will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks? "What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like?" https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-co... #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress
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https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/...
It may be something like Co-operative’s legal entity law, which WUaS explores developing the “Mine Pi” crypto-currency in many countries as legal tender too. See, too the Cooperatives’ wiki subject at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool....
WUaS may also seek to develop with the “Mine Pi” crypto-currency regarding receiving reimbursements from departments of education in a ~200 countries’ nation states.
C
WUaS may also seek to develop with the “Mine Pi” crypto-currency regarding the WUaS Educational Services' Store, as an authorized Lego robotics' reseller (in the USA only currently), and with this “Mine Pi” crypto-currency, WUaS will explore ways to get Lego robotics' kits to our matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries, as our website develops - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A....
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Agenda and News for Sat November 21, 2020
World University and School
Monthly Business Meeting
World University and School
World Univ & Sch
Agenda & News
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The World University and School's home page is updated with 29 majors (from 6) - worlduniversityandschool.org - and how to apply to WUaS for this January 2021 for free-to-students' online Bachelor's degrees, first in English, in WUaS's new partnering with edX with more than 3,000 edX courses for students to choose from.
2
Thanks to Houcemeddine Turki for attending the WUaS News and Q&A on Monday, 11/16 from Tunisia. Thanks too to Houcemeddine for saying you think you might be able to have the beginnings of a new WUaS web site with a Wikidata / Wikibase installation in about 2 weeks from last Monday, I think - so Monday November 30th, 2021, beginning with this updated information -- worlduniversityandschool.org - and our wiki, here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... - for example, and potentially for our new 29 majors.
WUaS is seeking to plan for our matriculating students in all ~200 countries, wiki Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and, brainstorming-wise, wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people on the planet with time. Each matriculating student and wiki WUaS Universitian would get a Wikidata Q-item # or related forked Wikidata Pin #, and for accreditation and licensing purposes in the state of California, among the 5 reasons I've already shared with you - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... - to begin.
WUaS is seeking to matriculate 50-400 online students for free-to-students' Bachelor (licensing and accrediting) degrees beginning in January 2021, so we'd love to get this new WUaS web site development up soon, so we can reach out to the 8 or so heads of WUaS is a variety of countries, in seeking about 50 students from each of their countries who speak English then.
3
Thanks too to Nicolai in Romania for saying that he'd seek to facilitate News interviews for World Univ & Sch on Romanian TV.
4
Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimen...?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s...
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/stat...
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/...
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/statu...
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status...
https://twitter.com/msgilbertrocks/st...
World Univ & Sch is seeking for departments of education in all ~200 countries to reimburse WUaS for CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch free-to-student degrees, and potentially for each of the 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the poorer countries, if students matriculate for 4 years' degrees or similar - and for 'WUaS Home Robotics' - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeR... - combining both actual and virtual. See, too - https://twitter.com/hashtag/Realistic... - and - https://twitter.com/hashtag/Realistic....
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WUaS Corporation
Agenda & News
A
The WUaS Corp filed taxes for 2017 18 19 in CA recently per the FTB.
B
UBI experiments to distribute single cryptocurrency to alleviate poverty, in WUaS planning to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - regarding wiki teachers and learners at WUaS, each a Wikidata Pin #; this would be part of the Wikidata / Wikibase installation mentioned above.
C
The WUaS Educational Services' Store, as an authorized Lego robotics' reseller (in the USA currently), will explore ways to get Lego robotics' kits to our matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries, as our website develops - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabilis_jalapa
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November 30, 2020
Pelican: loving bliss research & aging reversal with genetic engineering from home & meditation in the Harbin warm pool? * * * JOINING - 30th November – Fettes College (high school) virtual events – St Andrew’s Day, Edinburgh, Scotland * Could Fettes stude
loving bliss research & aging reversal with genetic engineering from home & meditation in the Harbin warm pool?
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WUaS News, Q&A Livestream - 11/30/20 - cancelled
Dear Cisco, Universitians, All,
There will be no WUaS News, Q&A, Livestream today, 11/20/20 - am attending a University of Edinburgh Medical School Debate ...
WUaS has made ginormous steps in the past week, Read about them here:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fennec-fox.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/pelargonium.html
Planning next for ABlock chainMine Pi blockchain WUaS blockchain for WUaS degrees?
BVirtual Harbin / earth out of Wikibase installation ?virtual Harbin out of WUaS Wikibase installation talk on 12/18/20
CHonor Code
like edX, and WikiTree, and Reed College, WUaS is planning an Honor Code
The next WUaS News, Q&A, Livestream will meet next week.
Sincerely, ScottScott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch 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
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Monthly Gathering of the Stanford Medicine CardinalKit Digital Health Community
Join our Monthly Gathering of Digital Health Innovators!
Are you interested in joining a community of digital health innovators?
On Tues., Dec. 1 from 4-5:30pm PST we’ll be hosting a virtual event where we will highlight projects using CardinalKit, discuss opportunities that you might be interested in joining, and get to know each other and share ideas.
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Dear Sanjeev, Larry, Michael,
Any interest in this Stanford Medicine Cardinal Kit event tomorrow afternoon, 12/1/20 at 4pm PT, or as a monthly event? I've just registered and asked the following questions:
Creating #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click - (eg building on EPIC and Project Baseline) -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...- for all 7.8 billion people, each a #Wikidata Q-item #, in all ~200 countries and in all 7,117 known living languages, and for the WUaS online planned Teaching Hospitals for online clinical care, as well as clinical trials and research, in the WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - in each of all ~200 countries.
How to connect with Cardinal Kit for creating Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, for creating online teaching hospitals in all ~200 countries (in a realistic virtual earth, think Google Street View with TensorFlow AI with realistic avatar bots), and online Medical Schools, and with Stanford Medicine as well?
Best, Scott
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch 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
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 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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Michael P Stanton <MpStanton@salud.unm.edu>3:07 PM (1 hour ago)to Sanjeev, me, LarryDear Scott,
I am sorry that I cannot make it to this presentation. I have meeetings running into early evening here.
Respectfully,
Michael Stanton, PhD
Director, New Mexico ECHO Education Programs
ECHO Institute/Project ECHO
505-400-0172
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
3:30 PM (42 minutes ago)
to Michael, Sanjeev, Larry
Thanks for letting me know. Depending on what happens tomorrow, I may head to this somewhat monthly as well. Where does Project ECHO stand with some of the above questions? And how could we explore collaboration? Thanks.
All the best, Scott
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JOINING - 30th November – Fettes virtual events – St Andrew’s Day, Edinburgh, Scotland (high school)
Dear Fettes Head of School Mrs. Harrison, (and Mr. George Preston, my former Kimmerghame Housemaster, Yuen Lok Mok, my former study mate in Kimmerghame, and Andrew Lownie, with whom I was in the Fettes Pipe Band),
Greetings, Mrs. Harrison, Karen Jones, All! I hope this finds you well! Thank you for making these Fettes' St. Andrew's Day meetings possible - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fettes/451340/?bblinkid=245489686&bbemailid=26087250&bbejrid=1748104211.Free online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare and edX-centric University coming - worlduniversityandschool.org (see: scottmacleod.com) All the best, Scott(Scott Gordon K MacLeod, K' 78)More about this in today's daily blog post here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history - and the /Scotland label). Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch 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
Dear Craig (Marshall), Karen (Jones), George (Preston), and Fettes Community,
Thank you very much for these great St. Andrews' Day events online at Fettes. I attended two, at 4:20 am Pacific Time, with the Head of School Helen Harrison (and Karen Jones), and at 10:15am in the SF Bay Area; had registered concurrently for an University of Edinburgh Medical School Debate at 10 am PT, but that wasn't accessible live, and apparently Edinburgh Univ will send a recording of this as well. (I also studied at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-04 for a year in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, like at Fettes in 1977-78 for a year). Here are my questions from the most recent event with Craig Marshall and Karen Jones, as well as the email I sent about the first event with Head of School Helen Harrison.
Scott GK MacLeod (You) -
"Any explorations of online Scottish Country Dancing at Fettes - eg https://twitter.com/hashtag/DanceScottishAtHome?src=hashtag_click ? Best, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
Fettes College 10:25 AM
Private answer (from Karen Jones)
We'll get back to you on this and on your earlier question
Scott GK MacLeod (You) 10:26 AM
Thanks, Karen, and Craig!
Scott GK MacLeod (You) 10:37 AM
How might we explore adding all of these Fettes history objects to 1 realistic virtual earth in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - (am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth and with TensorFlow and realistic avatar bots even). Thank you again!
Fettes College 10:38 AM
Private answer (from Karen)
Scott - can you send all of these questions to fettes.community@fettes.com - we can then discuss/explore these things with you
Yes, Karen (and thank you both) - all of these questions are in a brainstorming vein … am thinking too in terms of # Film to 3D App, for ex., (not yet coded) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click -
Scott (Gordon K. MacLeod):
Has anyone interviewed George Preston (my old housemaster in Kimmerghame) in a systematic way, since he would know so much which might emerge in new ways in conversation? :)
In addition, Karen and Craig, am curious how the record "Blind Faith," and simlar great rock & roll music, has been 'heard' by Fettes students since it was first released in around 1970, as a novel question in ethnomusicology -
Blind Faith - 2001 - Blind Faith
https://youtu.be/o_Y84j3bXCA
This time period (the 1960s and '70s) is an academic and anthropological interest of mine as well.
It would be great to explore any recordings of these Fettes St. Andrew's Day events with a Film-To-3D App not yet created into a single realistic virtual earth for history, and even with avatar bots :).
(Craig, All, I think the forebears of bearing my parents' last names came from Scotland: with a James Edward MacLeod (son of Norman MacLeod of Isle of Raasay) emigrating to PEI Canada possibly in the 1820s, and a James Archibald Brown emigrating from Scotland, possibly to NYC, and then Vinton Iowa, in the 1840s. My father's name was also Gordon Kenneth MacLeod MD, and my mother's name is Janet Kirkibride Brown MacLeod. Some of this history is in both Ancestry .com - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/162331043 - as well as in WikiTree eg https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ; both of these organizations and platforms are working with DNA. Are you or anyone in the Fettes Archives exploring the free, high quality wiki WikiTree genealogy software by any chance? ).
Here, too, is the beginning of free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric and edX centric Scotland World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland (in English)- and not yet in Scottish Gaelic - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic (planned in the Scottish Gaelic language)or in Scots' https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic (planned in Scots' ) - as an wiki school for open teaching and learning.
Best regards, Scottrelated SGK MacLeod blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history - for '/history,' and see /history label as well as Gordon K MacLeod MD label, for example. - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
Fettes & World University and School collaboration?
M Nov 30, 2020, 4:45 am - my email early this morning to
Dear Fettes Head of School Mrs. Harrison, (and Mr. George Preston, Yuen Lok Mok, my former study mate in Kimmerghame House, and Andrew Lownie, with whom I was in the Fettes Pipe Band),
Greetings, Mrs. Harrison and Karen (I'm sorry that I didn't learn your last name), and I hope this finds you well! Thank you for making this Fettes meeting possible - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fettes/451340/?bblinkid=245489686&bbemailid=26087250&bbejrid=1748104211.
As I asked in the Zoom meeting just now:Are there any plans to move Fettes further online due to Covid-19, and post Covid-19? (Apologies that I arrived a bit late at 4am in the morning in the SF Bay Area. (Scott) Gordon MacLeod here, from Kimmerghame House in 1st year 6th in 1977-78 (Greetings, Mr. Preston, All!))
And might there be opportunities between Fettes and World University and School to collaborate at the I.B level in this in a parallel way?
Also, World University and School is working toward offering online free-to-students' online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric, edX-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., - licensing and accrediting in CA for these - and then Law and Medicine degrees first in English, and later in Mandarin, and all countries' official / main languages. Would this be of interest to Fettes? How might we best stay in touch and communicate about this, as well?
Thank you so much, Helen and Karen (and All),
Best regards, Scott (Gordon MacLeod)
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scottish Country Dancing Open Band (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
Is this you, Karen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenphjones/
Hi Karen, Thanks so much for both of your St. Andrew's Day Fettes' events today. Am following up with the 2nd email to Fettes community per your request. All the best, Scott (Gordon K. MacLeod - scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod @TheOpenBand @WorldUnivAndSch)
Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
And here are WUaS's 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.
WUaS academic and creative open wiki subjects, planned in all 7117 languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
...
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
https://fettescommunity.org/messages
Dear George,
Thanks for making these Fettes St. Andrew's Day events so interesting, and good to be in communication.
All the best, Gordon
* * * Fettes community messages today to Karen Jones, Andrew Lownie, and Yuen Lok Mok after St. Andrew's Day events
... - Hi Yuen Lok,
Nice to be in communication. Free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric edX centric World University and School is growing. Let's stay in touch about this as WUaS also explores facilitating a single cryptocurrency in all ~200 countries and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages, regarding your accounting focus.
All the best, Gordon (Scott GK MacLeod)
... - Hi Andrew,
Nice to be in communication. The Academic Press at World University and School is growing title by title. Let's trade notes regarding your publishing endeavors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress.
Best regards, Gordon (Scott GK MacLeod)
... - Hi Karen, Thanks so much for both of your St. Andrew's Day Fettes' events today. Have followed up with a 2nd email to the Fettes community per your suggestion. All the best, Scott (Gordon K. MacLeod - scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod @TheOpenBand @WorldUnivAndSch - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history )
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving! (and happy birthday, Pat & Marti!) [EXTERNAL]
loving bliss research & aging reversal with genetic engineering & meditation in the Harbin warm pool?
Mazumdar MD MPH, Maitreyi <Maitreyi.MazumdarMDMPH@childrens.harvard.edu>11:35 AM (4 hours ago)
to Sati, me, Pin, Mainak, mazumdarp@gmail.com, Janie, TymHI Scott,
Thank you for the birthday wishes and the updates – all very interesting and thought-provoking. We had a nice Thanksgiving via Zoom with my parents and brothers.
Best wishes,
Maitreyi
From: Sati Mazumdar <maz1@pitt.edu>
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 3:39 PM
To: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
Cc: Pin - Siddartha Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, "Mazumdar MD MPH, Maitreyi" <Maitreyi.MazumdarMDMPH@childrens.harvard.edu>, Mainak Mazumdar <mmazumd@pitt.edu>, Partha Mazumdar <mazumdarp@gmail.com>, Janie Kirkbride Brown MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Tym Lenderking <Lenderkingta@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! (and happy birthday, Pat & Marti!) [EXTERNAL]
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Thank you Scot. We had a nice time last year. Hope you are doing well. Stay safe and see us when the pandemic will be over.
Sati
Sati Mazumdar
Sent from my iPhone
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Dear Maitreyi, Partha, and All,
Thanks so much for your emails, and happy birthday again, Marti and Pat!
Maitreyi (Marti), re their thought-provocation, and your role as Harvard Professor in Havard / MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's lab, and regarding aging reversal and a single realistic virtual earth for Genetics (think Google Street View with TIME Slider), this is an amazing development (from a General Counsel at Google)
Kent Walker @Kent_Walker
DeepMind today announced an incredible AI advance -- a step-change improvement in understanding and predicting how proteins fold. It may open up new frontiers in biology and in developing new types of life-saving drugs. Kudos to the #DeepMind team.
AAA
https://twitter.com/Kent_Walker/statu...
Brainstorming-wise, how might I begin to see and study these new proteins at the atomic level - https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Deoxyribonucleic-Acid-Fact-Sheet - newly in Google's DeepMind (after pulling, and absorbing, a very new Genetics' textbook from my digital shelf; Maitreyi, are you a geneticist, in addition to being a pediatric neurologist MD and Harvard Prof?)
Harvard and MIT's George Church -
60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
QQQ
- and in one of the 8 ways that George Church refers to - on a computer screen (and no longer through the binoculars of a dated microscope) in a single realistic INTEGRATED virtual earth - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarth&src=typeahead_click
- and for Genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - with artificial humans - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArtificialHumans?src=hashtag_click ? And how might I study these particular hypothetical proteins with a focus on aging reversal, - and regarding this image specifically too -
AGAG
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1317607752479305728?s=20? In what ways could I add a Twins' focus, since you are both fraternal twins? :)
Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy Birthdays! :)
All the Best, Scott
Aging reversal #hashtag https://twitter.com/hashtag/AgingReversal?src=hashtag_click
WUaS Aging reversal #hashtag https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSAgingReversal?src=hashtag_click
Could I even hypothetically work with Biogen, per this image, and George Church -
BBB
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1324037800673517568?s=20 ?
Am heading in personally to a realistic virtual Harbin - and for meditation in the virtual warm pool research, and perhaps in collaborating with trained geneticist Ph.D.s to study even loving bliss at the atomic level, and regarding what bubbles up while soaking there. :) Not entirely easy yet with internet transmitting headbands yet ... into a realistic virtual earth for brain science :)
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November 29, 2020
Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus): 7.8 billion people, and identity verification too re World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation * * * Recent World University and School's successes - A) partnering with edX , B) sending
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Dear Abdelwaheb (or Houcemeddine, or ? - which do you prefer?),
Greetings, and I hope this email finds you well.
As I signed up for the Stanford 'Mine Pi' cryptocurrency yesterday successfully - minepi.com/sgkmac - I found the information they asked for, including passport name, and the name one is called, ETC., very relevant for planning for WUaS's student registration, since these could be the early steps to IDENTITY VERIFICATION in a developing and legal way for all ~200 countries, and regarding Stanford thinking. And since Mine Pi is in 175 countries, I wonder how the sign up information they ask for differs from country to country for them, and as a model for WUaS. I wonder too whether WUaS will be able to collaborate with MinePi digital currency, and regarding You at World University - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University, regarding these new items we created -
People -individual - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q4
instructor - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Property:P5
for 7.8 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # or a WUaS Q-item #, and with WikiTree too for genetics for a SINGLE Family Tree (eg https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 - and I've communicated about this in the past with the founder and its lead code)r, and presumably and potentially for 7.8 billion people too. AND Mine Pi may become the currency that WUaS uses, and legally regarding Co-operative legal entities (in many countries) ICO (Initial Coin Offering) relative to the state authorized legal currency.
Also I won't be holding the WUaS News and Q&A tomorrow morning at 10 am Pacific Time, since there's an Edinburgh Univ Medical School debate (a school I studied at in Scotland) at that time, with much possibly relevance for WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and our WUaS undergraduate medicine newly planned Bachelor's degree - worlduniversityandschool.org - and Scotland World University and School (first in English) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland - and re Scottish students studying at WUaS (regarding even reimbursement from the Scottish Parliament). If helpful I could meet at other times in the day.
Would you be interested in studying toward the undergraduate Medicine degree at WUaS at some point, and combined with a Computer Science major, and if this would lead to a graduate Medical Degree at WUaS?
In further developing the WUaS course catalog, first, in this new WUaS Wikibase installation, it seems like WUaS is taking 2 steps forward and 1 step back, returning to planning fo 6 majors, from 29 majors (which would include medicine), and as we wait too on the upcoming edX dashboard in part.
Aiming to get a university professional web site working, and with the first year's courses of these 6 majors -
EECS:
Computer Science - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science Electrical Engineering wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electrical_Engineering
GENG: Engineering - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering
GSCI:
Science -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science
ENG:
English -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature
HIST:
History -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History
BUS:Business - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business
Thoughts, questions, suggestions, further good ideas?
It also occurred to me to explore keeping the WUaS Wikibase installation separate from the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki initially. At first the WUaS Wikibase installation would be for course catalog and student registration, with the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki for open wiki schools in all 7117 living languages (and perhaps adding somehow Wikibase installation to the back end of WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki). What do you think?
Thank you so so much, Abdelwaheb (or Houcemeddine)!
Sincerely, Scotthttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fennec-fox.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/pelargonium.html
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>3:09 AM (8 hours ago)
to JaneMa,Played bagpipes, wrote book, wrote blog entry - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fennec-fox.html?m=0 (with somewhat interesting identity questions in email to Larry) - after walk, yesterday evening, am wondering about getting hair cut before UC Berkeley talk on F 12/18/20, but also liking my hair getting longer during Covid-19. Am wondering too about professionalism (and as WUaS president and professor) ... and yet am inspired by rock and roll long hair freedom.
Ed and I talked some about my big educational project's successes - A) partnering with edX , B) sending in the 2017, 18, & 19 tax forms for WUaS Corp, C) installation of WUaS WikiBase database, D) joining the Stanford 'Mine Pi' cryptocurrency network.
We also talked a tiny bit about a possible genetic engineering development allowing us to reverse aging. I'm a tiny bit optimistic, and due to Covid-19 and new intense Genetics' foci, - while retaining realism. ...
Seeking also to get another (the 3rd I think) group of recordings of 'Honey in the Bag" SSP tunes recorded AND uploaded by next week, before Friday, website developed - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ .
Newly seeking a 'cool' sound (have explored many visions for my album in blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping?m=0) - but playing daily, am also simply seeking to record tunes well, (leaving aside my 'perfectionism') ... Re rock and roll too (Allman Brothers, 'Blind Faith' album) ... And even re mistakes ...
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Could our family gathering over Thanksgiving, which I enjoyed a lot (for leading to a sense of feeling connected), even lead to connecting further with N...?
How are you doing, Ma? And how are you doing with your computers' usages? And how are you also doing with the Covid in your new home? And how is Jean Thomas, and how was your visit?
If I had a conversant avatar bot ... here's the idea ...
People? Re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital you & I with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth? #FilmTo3D into #GooglePoly for #WUaSAvatarBots #ArtificialHumans #SamsungNeons #RealisticVirtualEarthForAvatarBots for 1< >1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~
https://twitter.com/CRASSHlive/status/1159781371511857153?s=19'Philosophy, Poetry, and Utopian Politics: The Relevance of Richard Rorty'
— CRASSH, Cambridge (@CRASSHlive) August 9, 2019
This conference takes place on 12 and 13 September 2019 and registration is now open ➞ https://t.co/heNE9nkxQp#RichardRorty pic.twitter.com/7IZbCXbqet
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333002433878867969?s=19People? Re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital you & I with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth? #FilmTo3D into #GooglePoly for #WUaSAvatarBots #ArtificialHumans #SamsungNeons #RealisticVirtualEarthForAvatarBots for 1< >1#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics~ https://t.co/ZiYtbtOW0z
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 29, 2020
And it were a Richard Rorty, Stanford philosopher, whom I learned of from George, am curious how, in conversation, we could go way beyond the Desiderata ... https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
Thoughts, questions, ... ?
Sending love, Scott
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Ma,
Interesting video interview with Anders Tegnell from July re COVID-19 (RATHER THAN YOUR COVID) ... and the smart Swedish strategy, including keeping an open society, schools running, no masks, but with social distancing ...
Sweden's chief epidemiologist praises country's strategySweden's State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell tells Amanpour that despite the country's high mortality rate, the no-lockdown strategy has "served us very well."Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/07/23/anders-tegnell-amanpour-sweden-coronavirus.cnn
I appreciate this dissenting epidemiologist's thinking perspective (none of Chicken Little's "the sky is falling":)
Stay relatively open ???
Love, Scott
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Dear Larry,Thanks so much for your email, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and Karen (and your kids) too.
Am planning to give a TSWG talk on 12/18/20 and about the creation of a realistic virtual earth / Harbin. Just met this morning with Houcemeddine for the third time this week for more than an hour to install WUaS WikiBase, - and potentially the realistic virtual Harbin, (think Street View with Time Slider), will emerge from Wikidata/WikiBase databases (in Wikipedia's 300 languages) ... Perhaps to query image.net, for ex., in new ways - http://www.image-net.org/. This installation is a ginormous step for WUaS and hopefully will lead to free CA licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees online with edX courses in January, first in English ... Who knows when SAS will begin sailing again?
Happy Thanksgiving! :) Scott
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Thanks, Nelson, Dean, Larry,I have 35 slides as an outline for my 12/18/20 TSWG talk - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing - but not yet an abstract. And per my email to Larry on Thanksgiving, and in momentously installing WUaS Wikibase/Wikidata database this week, I'm wondering how best to develop in this, and show (e.g. to display a Tweet in GDocs' slides, and show its video in ZOOM ... ), how to co-create a realistic virtual Harbin / and a realistic virtual earth, for tourists, and tourism studies' theory -
Dear Larry,
Thanks so much for your email, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and Karen (and your kids) too.
Am planning to give a TSWG talk on 12/18/20 and about the creation of a realistic virtual earth / Harbin. Just met this morning with Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia for the third time this week for more than an hour to install WUaS WikiBase, - and potentially the realistic virtual Harbin, (think group-addable Street View with Time Slider, with text in the sidebar, not yet possible that I know of), will emerge from Wikidata/WikiBase databases (in Wikipedia's 300 languages) ... Perhaps to query Stanford's image.net, for ex., in new ways - http://www.image-net.org/. This installation is a ginormous step for WUaS and hopefully will lead to free CA licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees online with edX courses in January, first in English ... Who knows when SAS will begin sailing again?
Happy Thanksgiving! :) Scott
Dean, I may come into conversation with your TSWG paper the week before, too, and theoretically, if germane - in my 12/18 talk. Would love to sound out some of all of your thoughts further about my talk before giving my paper. Am deliberating too whether to write this a paper which I can submit to a journal (but not yet publish from text in the side bar, in Google Street View - as a new and even revolutionary approach to publishing).
Seeking to get you an abstract and new pic soon; title of talk remains the same.
Scott
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