Saturday, August 31, 2013

Scottish birds of prey: Inspired by the Scottish Games at Pleasanton, California, to further flying with the great piper Stuart Liddell, in these recent (and new to me) videos ... Glad to have taken bagpiping prizes


Inspired by the Scottish Games at Pleasanton, California, to further flying with the great piper Stuart Liddell, in these recent (and new to me) videos ...


Stuart Liddell Solo from Inveraray Concert, 2013


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKBMBO9S_3s


Piping Live! 2013 - Day 4 - Ascension

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P72EroM9TCE


The Mason's Apron Reel Set, Inveraray and District Pipe Band's Ascension Concert.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVW8l0V4m8&feature=c4-overview&list=UUIbSDI4VfpESdKBBydcE5EA


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Glad to have taken 2 first bagpiping prizes (one in the classical form of piping music called Piobaireachd, pronounced Pibroch) and 1 3rd prize in competition at the Scottish Games in Pleasanton in the East Bay so far ... play offs tomorrow ... and it was my first time competing on bagpipes since around 1975.









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Friday, August 30, 2013

Yosemite: Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton, They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing, Am enjoying Corvus Corax from Germany and their piping on bagpipes from the Middle Ages, Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland




Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton in the SF Bay Area's East Bay are happening this Saturday and Sunday.

They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, and have a lot going on (these games are big in a good way)

http://www.thescottishgames.com/

http://www.caledonian.org/

Visitors can pay at the gate to the Games (about $20 for a day).

(I'm competing on bagpipes :)



Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games (and these particularly Scottish Games are in the United States) informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing.


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Am enjoying Corvus Corax and their piping - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWS1xUkUaA  ...

Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zvKbl1R54 - these days.


Here's a helpful page on piping, among many piping pages, at wiki (editable) World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...










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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Rock bridges: September 14, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School, MIT OCW Translation Affiliate into Malay/Indonesian language, MIT student application


September 14, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
Saturday, September 14, 2013
9 am, Pacific Time
accessible here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts


1. Welcome and Greetings - News

a.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate

T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G

G in Indonesia - meeting

I'm following up with YN at MIT OCW about 10 initial courses to translate into Indonesian (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language), that might also be a basis for WUaS eventually studying how students learn in exchange for WUaS free degrees (ideally hiring MIT graduate students, for example, as graduate student instructors), as WUaS begins to matriculate students (online Indonesians, especially, for 32 courses for a free, undergraduate degree) first in English, and then in other languages (beginning with United Nations' languages among others). I think you said that of the 7-8 MIT OCW languages, 3 had one course in common.


b. Accreditation
b.1
BPPE

For the BPPE forms, and as a start, WUaS is looking for

a Chief Academic Officer

a Chief Operating Officer and

$5000 to pay the fees to BPPE


b.2
WASC Senior

$12,500 initially


c.
Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore


d.
WUaS tax-exempt status update


e.
WUaS Student Application for this autumn

e.1
RS
DME

e.2
combine with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and  Wikidata

e.3

MIT Freshman Applicants
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates

e.4
WUaS would like to get started with developing the WUaS student application per WUaS Board member Tito Dimas's request a few weeks ago, - for Indonesian students first in English. Here's MIT's actual application - http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates - and WUaS is seeking to matriculate online a class of possibly 2000 undergraduates in the autumn of 2014 in English.

Could we please possibly begin this WUaS form possibly in a Google form, vis-a-vis a secure WUaS registrar, and eventually coding this in SQL with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and  Wikidata/MediaWiki in mind, or in other ways you would suggest, and eventually in all languages?


f.
Fundraising events

f.1
G
S

f.2
Crowd funding, and at least getting the word out?


Cytocomp example:

"The team with the most bit coins raised or the most tweets will get promotion.

You can be a part of this in several ways:

1) Go to the app and press the tweet button

2) donate some bit coins and get exiting rewards, be one of the first 100 people in the world to get hand on a revolutionary product

If you do not have BitCoins, they can be easily purchased at https://coinbase.com or if you press the order with Bitcoins button (Don`t have any Bitcoins) on http://cytocomp-bitstarter-mooc.herokuapp.com

Thanks for your support.

BTW CytoComp is for the moment among the Top 10 Social. You can have a look at the leader board here http://startupmooc.org.


Thanks in advance for your support."


g.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate

T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G

G in Indonesia - meeting


h.
h.1
Western Friend and advertising

h.2
other Quaker advertising

h.3
advertising in Indonesia

h.4
advertising in the US


i.
Minutes
WUaS also plans to improve our Minutes and distributing them after each WUaS monthly business meeting (2nd Saturdays of the month), as well as WUaS committee meetings.


j.
"Information Technology and the Network Society" course

j.1
In preparing to teach a C.C. free, online course this autumn called "Information Technology and the Network Society," - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sumatran-elephants-mcgill-thesis-and.html - probably on Harvard's virtual island in SL (where I've taught this course for 7 semesters in the past) and in Google + group video Hangouts, I'd like to develop it further in Google course builder with a MIT OCW course template for a model, if one exists. Do you know of a MIT OCW course template or similar? Would it be best to model my course on, for example, MIT OCW's Introduction to Psychology or similar, in terms of MIT OCW structure?

j.2
This class will meet possibly on Thursdays, and not on Saturdays



k.
First year required courses at WUaS?


k.1 
Humanities 101 vis-a-vis Reed College's first year Hum 110 but online


k.2
WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like

Professor Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology"

which you'll find in the 
Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS -



See, too, World University and School's blog entry ... 
"September 14, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School"


















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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Northern California dragonflies: During and after a good soak when everything comes into harmony and ease and great concordance, neurophysiologically, Virtual Harbin, Bagpipe competitions, Loving bliss neurosphysiology nine hours a day when desired, with consciousness



During and after a good soak (like earlier today), most often in the warm pool, when everything comes into harmony and ease and great concordance, neurophysiologically, I remember more fulsomely what brings me to Harbin again and again ... am glad I navigated to the pools, through various ‘winds.’ ... The freedoms of it’s clothing-optionalness seem to offer a window of opening, too, and which openness also keeps Harbin alive to the naked serenity and meditations in/of the pool area. 

Harbin is ~ what it is, ... even as it gradually changes and grows over the years emerging from the '60s as it does.

         I think I’m homing in on good definitions of ‘virtual’ with which to move further in my revisions of my manuscript, as well as ways to address having written about building a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site, but not having actually built it yet.

         In what way can I focus these notes for volume 2 of my actual virtual Harbin book project, and group building virtual Harbin in the Oculus Rift or in something like the good fitting, and cool, REI Glacier Glasses, as unfolding ethnographic field site, when and as interactive movie realism emerges.

         Competing on my bagpipe on Friday and Saturday, and possibly Sunday, at the Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton. 

         Interested ongoingly in realizing loving bliss nine hours a day when desired, with awareness or consciousness. May begin a new WUaS wiki subject page on 'Daily loving bliss elicitation' - in addition to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) -  and how to generate this for oneself and with friends with music … what tunes, and how sung, or how to sing them?





Far-reaching, warm water informed relaxation response in the Harbin warm pool ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response

in which Watsu emerged ...  














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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Light: "Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows," To Language at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language ...


To 'Language' at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language ...


"Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826180526.htm


Barncard, Chris. 2013. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826180526.htm Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows]. August 26. sciencedaily.com.


... Language is so far-reaching and WUaS has many language and linguistics' subjects, as well as plans for universities and schools in all 7,105 languages ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ...











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Monday, August 26, 2013

Sierra light: Digital tool for India studies ... great ... added to WUaS's India, wiki, subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... which is the beginning of an accredited, MIT OCW-centric, online university in India ... (and in all it languages) ... http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ India Place Finder



Digital tool for India studies ... great ...

"A state-of-the-art digital tool for India studies"
http://m.thehindu.com/news/international/a-stateoftheart-digital-tool-for-india-studies/article5062154.ece/?secid=2780 ...

added to WUaS's India, wiki, subject page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ...

which is the beginning of an accredited, MIT OCW-centric, online university in India ... (and in all it languages) ...


Menon, Parvathi. 2013. [http://m.thehindu.com/news/international/a-stateoftheart-digital-tool-for-india-studies/article5062154.ece/?secid=2780 A state-of-the-art digital tool for India studies]. August 26. New Dehli, India: The Hindu.


and

Mizushima, Tsukasa. 2011. [http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ India Place Finder]. Tokyo, Japan: Mizushima Lab at The University of Tokyo.








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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Capsicum annuum - Solanaceae: "Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold," "List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow," ... added to the Programming, wiki, Subject page at WUaS ... ... excited to see how such resources will dovetail with WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology" - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/ - which you'll find in the Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS


Will look to add this


"Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold"

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb400058n?journalCode=asbcd6


(Shao, Zengyi, Guodong Rao, Chun Li, Zhanar Abil, Yunzi Luo, and Huimin Zhao. 2013. [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb400058n?journalCode=asbcd6 Refactoring the Silent Spectinabilin Gene Cluster Using a Plug-and-Play Scaffold]. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society - Synthetic Biology. )

to


Synthetic Biology -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_Biology - and


Genomics -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genomics -

at WUaS.



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"List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow" ...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books/392926#392926


... added to the Programming, wiki, Subject page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Programming ...


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... excited to see how such resources will dovetail with WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like

Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology"
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/

which you'll find in the
Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biology ...









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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Massachusetts' floods: "By 2050, sea-levels could rise as much as 26 inches. Speculation on how to remake coastline city infrastructures" in Harvard Gazette, Ocean and Climate Management Plan, wiki, page at WUaS, This week I was in Boston, which lies very close to sea level, with storms flooding its rivers occasionally. In what ways are the museums along the Fenway such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum planning for such dramatic changes?



"By 2050, sea-levels could rise as much as 26 inches. Speculation on how to remake coastline city infrastructures" - http://hvrd.me/14m6CMx
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/ideas-to-build-on/



Ocean and Climate Management Plan, wiki, page at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


How are cities planning for ocean level rise?


This week I was in Boston, Massachusetts, which lies very close to sea level, with storms flooding its rivers occasionally. In what ways are the museums along the Fenway such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum planning for such dramatic changes?











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Friday, August 23, 2013

Linces: Improvisation in Mozart quartets? Improvisation in J.S. Bach small musical ensembles? Improvisation with Mozart and Bach, and remarkably creatively? Bobby McFerrin - for example ... Whom else is doing this, and what are various chamber music 'group names' doing this?


Improvisation in Mozart quartets?

Improvisation in J.S. Bach, small, musical ensembles?

Improvisation with Mozart and Bach, and remarkably creatively?


See, too, the Mozart and Bach wiki, subject pages at WUaS's Music School ...

World University Music School ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart ...

Johann Sebastian Bach ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach




Bobby McFerrin - for example ...

Chord illustration of Bobby McFerrin's 'Bach improvisation'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWjlNjUltOY

Whom else is doing this, and what are various chamber music 'group names'? Examples from choral music?



Other interesting examples I found on Youtube to come ...


Mozart - 


'Zaide' K. 344 Opera Aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, flute improvisational solo by Dameon Locklear 


IMPS May 09 Improv 


Tartarov plays in the style of Mozart - ALLEGRO SPIRITUOSO Studio Film 



J.S. Bach -

J.S. Bach Jazz Improv - Barbara Dennerlein on Hammond B3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgsU-RuKlo


Improvisation on Bach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYThR0dl6c


Bach Improvisation, Bobby McFerrin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQqrf6CWgQc


Gabriela Montero - Improvisation on Bach's Goldberg Variations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUfZeag_28g















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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Bartram's Shadbush: Inspiration in learning at the university and high school levels, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW and as a wiki school in all 7,105 languages and countries?, Other examples of, and ideas for, inspiring higher education teaching and learning, and how to integrate this into wiki World University and School itself, besides with a wiki, Subject page, will appear here ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching ... Looking forward to helping this WUaS wiki page to grow


Inspiration in learning at the university and high school levels, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW and as a wiki school in all 7,105 languages and countries?


I found Manuel Castells' lectures at UC Berkeley on the Network Society back in 2000 captivating and riveting.

Other examples of, and ideas for, inspiring higher education teaching and learning, and how to integrate this into wiki World University and School itself, besides with a wiki, Subject page, will appear here ...

'Inspiration in learning and teaching,' wiki, subject page at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching

... looking forward to helping this WUaS wiki page to grow






























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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Elephant: MuseScore | Free music composition and notation software - 'We connected a piano to the internet. It's ready to play your score!' - http://pianolive.musescore.com/ - WUaS Music School, Educational Software, and Music Composition, and this article to the Piano, "In a study by Harvard graduate Chia-Jung Tsay, nearly all participants — including highly trained musicians — were better able to identify the winners of classical music competitions by watching silent video clips than by listening to audio recordings," Develop one's own bodymind language as a musical performer for improved playing?, Connecting MuseScore to your piano opens up musical worlds :)



Cool ...

'We connected a piano to the internet. It's ready to play your score!'

http://pianolive.musescore.com/

Reunion on a Steinway piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nJHc0Ha04

... will look to add the helpful MuseScore | Free music composition and notation software - http://musescore.org/ - (with bagpipe register, and already at the

WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School#Select_Programs.2C_Applications.2C_Languages.2C_Software ...

Bagpipe Tutorials ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...

Educational Software ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software ... and

Music Composition ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition) and the above article to the

Piano wiki subject page and others at WUaS ... http://worldumiversity.wiki.com/wiki/Piano ...


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"In a study by Harvard graduate Chia-Jung Tsay, nearly all participants — including highly trained musicians — were better able to identify the winners of classical music competitions by watching silent video clips than by listening to audio recordings."

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/the-look-of-music or
http://hvrd.me/14xH7Ef


Scott:
Why? ... may add to Piano wiki subject at WUaS … http://worldumiversity.wiki.com/wiki/Piano ...


WS:

It certainly is counter-intuitive - fascinating.


Scott:

Develop one's own bodymind language as a musical performer for improved playing?


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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Cloning endangered animals?: 'Additive manufacturing or 3D printing' and 'Synthetic Biology,' Home printers as manufacturing centers ... wild ... and for life science developments ... cool ...


Great …

just added "How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue" to World University and School's



Additive manufacturing or 3D printing -

Synthetic Biology -



as well as to the 

Health Sciences and Technology -

Life Sciences -


wiki, subject pages …


Leckart, Steven. 2013. [http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/how-it-works-3-d-printer-liver-tissue How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue: The first commercial 3-D bioprinter, Organovo's NovoGen MMX Bioprinter, is manufacturing functional liver tissues that will soon help biochemists test new drugs. Here’s a look at the printing process]. August 19. Popular Science.

"How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue"
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/how-it-works-3-d-printer-liver-tissue


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Home printers as manufacturing centers ... wild ...

and for life science developments ... cool ...

and for cloning endangered animals? ... probably ...










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Monday, August 19, 2013

Achatinella sowerbyana: Saw the recent film "Lincoln" (in the Cuttyhunk Methodist Church, with its new African American, summer minister) and was impressed with its language in particular ... Emerging out of abolitionism, I also wondered in what ways Friendly/Quaker testimonies, as practices, might have taken away the seeds of that very bloody American civil war


Saw the recent film "Lincoln" (in the Cuttyhunk Methodist Church, with its new African American, summer minister Wesley Williamson) and was impressed with its language in particular ...

Emerging out of abolitionism, I also wondered in what ways Friendly/Quaker testimonies, as practices, might have taken away the seeds of that very bloody American civil war ...



SPICES: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity (Honesty), Community, Equality, and Stewardship


An Introduction to Quaker Testimonies.https://afsc.org/testimonies/introduction

Quaker testimonies. http://www.quaker.org.uk/testimonies

Quaker Testimonies.http://www.quakersintheworld.org/home/testimonies.html

The Quaker Testimonies.http://www.quno.org/newyork/Resources/AllQuakerTestimonies.pdf

S-P-I-C-E-S: The Quaker Testimonies.http://www.friendsjournal.org/s-p-i-c-e-s-quaker-testimonies/


(which you'll also find here Quakers - Religious Society of Friends - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends ... and as a nontheist F/friend, as well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29) ...


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See, too,

"Giant Pandas: SPICES - Simplicity, Peace, Integrity (Honesty), Community, Equality, and Stewardship, Quaker-informed WUaS's mission and vision to provide online, MIT OCW-centric, universal education, with university and high school degrees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/giant-pandas-spices-simplicity-peace.html


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Within the context of, for example, dramatizations of epic, historical events, SPICES (and vis-a-vis WUaS, too), I continue to explore how to generate loving bliss neurophysiologies as and when one wants them, and as human primates ...


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I'm glad Steven Spielberg made this film and Rev. Wesley Williamson showed it.










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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Akia - Wikstroemia uva-ursi: In looking up the word 'virtual' in the great "Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary" (1901), I came across the entries of 'virtu' and 'virtue,' in which I found some relevant definitions, Under the entry 'virtue,' ... [a few definitions in] 'virtual' - "having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact; unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes" ... [and a few definitions further along] 'virtuality,' - "essential nature; potentiality," Defining and thinking through the 'Virtual'


In looking up the word 'virtual' in the great "Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary" (first published in 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland by W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. - edited by William Geddie, M.A., B.Sc. with the Revised Edition with Supplement, appearing in 1959)

vis-a-vis revising my 400 page actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript (with building a virtual Harbin) and thinking further about the concept of the virtual, vis-a-vis multimedia and digital technologies, and Neil Stephenson's book "Snowcrash" (1992) which led to "Second Life" and possibly "OpenSim" and other virtual worlds ...

I came across the entries of

virtu,

virtue,

in which I found some relevant definitions.


Under the entry

virtu, 

n. a love of the fine arts; taste for curiosities; objects of art or antiquity ...


and under the entry

virtue, ... [a few definitions in]


virtual 
having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact; unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes. ...


[and a few definitions further along]


virtuality, 
essential nature; potentiality


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While I may or may not type out all of the meanings of virtu and virtue from "Chambers," under which I've found the above definitions,

I'll add below my current working definitions of 'virtual' from my book (please remember that in my book I'm coming into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" - Princeton 2008) :



"Virtual Harbin in this book refers to 4 aspects of conceiving of the virtual (the virtual: defined in my manuscript, pp. 39, 76, 122-123, 377,  … ), a) as something “that is so in essence or effect, although not formally or actually,” so something not physical, but also almost or nearly as described; b) “something not physical, but created by software to appear so” (Apple dictionary), both metaphorically, and especially vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs, as visionary, too; visionary here includes giving shape or form to what could be in a shared sense among human bodyminds in culture, and in Harbin's counterculture, vis-a-vis its pool area, can give this form in virtual expressions” c) primatologically, as symbolic or language, and across primate species that use symbols (e.g. Orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, for example), and d) “One useful definition of “virtual” is “a philosophical term meaning 'not actually, but as if'” especially vis-a-vis digitally constructed and informed processes. (In the next volume of my Harbin book project (of possibly five volumes and one, digital, cyber, virtual Harbin), I plan to build a cyber, virtual Harbin Hot Springs, probably as Harbin Bubble Glasses, or emerging cyber glasses, and write about this in terms of a further, actual – virtual ethnographic comparison. Actual, by contrast, here refers to "existing in fact; typically as contrasted with what is … believed, and what is also existing now, … and what … is current" (Apple dictionary). While the virtual here also articulates with the concepts of digital, cyber-, and computer mediated communications, as well as the internet galaxy (per Castells’ book title), virtual is the focus of this book because of the conversation methodologically I engage in with Tom Boellstorff’s “Coming of Age in Second Life” (2008)."


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Concerning the language of defining the word 'virtual,' see also, especially, my July 9, 2013 blog entry

"Loulu: Anthropology of virtual worlds, the Virtual and Techne for Boellstorff, Boellstorff video interview, Defining and thinking through the Virtual vis-a-vis information in my Harbin ethnographic book"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/loulu-anthropology-of-virtual-worlds.html


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I found this definition a few hours later in the online "Chambers 21st Century Dictionary" -


(Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments). Enter your search and choose your title from the drop-down menu.) ... 

http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=virtual&title=21st

virtual adj 1 being so in effect or in practice, but not in name • a virtual state of war2 nearly so; almost but not quite • the virtual collapse of the steel industry3 computing slang referring or relating to interaction, connection, use, etc via the Internet • pay by virtual money4 computing said of memory or storage: appearing to be internal but actually transfer-red a segment at a time as required from (and to) back-up storage into (and out of) the smaller internal memory. 
ETYMOLOGY: 17c in sense 1: from Latin virtualis, related to virtue.











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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Saiga: WUaS is proceeding with BPPE and WASC senior accreditation as a beginning, and seeking student applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in the autumn of 2014, - and, T, if Indonesians are interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric, online degrees in English, WUaS would also plan to hire them eventually to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian, WUaS's first outreach video is here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html ...



Universitians (and T),

YN at MIT OCW just emailed WUaS the following concerning the Translation Affiliate agreement for translation into Indonesian:

"Unfortunately, we won’t be able to enter into an agreement with the organization at this time. The decision is based upon the World University & School’s current funding situation and translation capacity.

We are open to revisiting an agreement as the situation improves and the organization has a team in place to create Indonesian translations."


WUaS is proceeding with BPPE and WASC senior accreditation as a beginning, and seeking student applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in the autumn of 2014, - and, T, if Indonesians are interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric, online degrees in English, WUaS would also plan to hire them eventually to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian.

Universitians, if you know of students, non-English speaking students who know English all around the world , who might want to apply to (and matriculate online at) free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OpenCourseWare-centric, World University and School in English these autumns 2013 and 2014, please let them know. :) It's a real opportunity.

WUaS's first outreach video is here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.

In a related vein, I'm glad to say, too, that WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend" for 3 issues this autumn, which reads - "Quaker-informed World University and School - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks high school students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in autumn 2014 for free, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degrees."

And WUaS will begin to seek further advertising opportunities around the world to reach overachieving high school students for great universities-centric degrees this autumn, probably in languages and countries with the greatest numbers of speakers and inhabitants, for example, - see these two blog entries ...


"Wikipedia's 'List of languages by number of native speakers' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers - suggests that these 15 languages have most native speakers, And each becomes its own, online, free, accredited, Creative Commons' licensed, wiki, WUaS University, EACH OF THE LANGUAGES at WUaS WILL BECOME A MIT OCW-centric UNIVERSITY IN THAT LANGUAGE ..."

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/darter-etheostoma-wikipedias-list-of.html


"Wikipedia's 'List of countries by population' suggests that these 10 countries are most populous - China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, And WUaS plans the bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to be in the main and official languages in the above countries, and here's the main - Languages at WUaS page, And here are MIT OCW Translated courses, as a beginning of some of the courseware, and a model for translation - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/, More countries (now 242+) and languages (7,105+) at WUaS to come, as beginnings of online, MIT OCW universities and schools"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/diamond-darter-wikipedias-list-of.html


Sincerely,
Scott






- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 


- World University and School - like Wikipedia with Great Universities' OpenCourseWare (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-applying for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of August 2013. 


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