Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve: California honey drops, Birthday sitting meditation

California honey drops

sweet-'splode taste-wise

dancing, dancing, dancing

on the tongue 

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Birthday sitting

meditation

inner easing 

releasing action 

attunes ~

natural bridges

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

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Golden Gate Park: Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg, and walk all the way down the 4 mile road to Middletown, I'll likely be soaking in my bathtub a lot while visiting this virtual Harbin, (Cartoon-esque OpenSim and Second Life are models for how this might work with avatars and voice and how we might group build this too), I'll keep you in the loop as this virtual Harbin community emerges, and I bet you could help generate wonderful community therein.

Here's the current virtual Harbin - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ...

1)
The first virtual Harbin was a warm pool built in OpenSim in about 2008 with two avatars (B.H. and me) making this

2)
The second virtual Harbin was begun on Anteater Island - the American Anthropological Association's virtual island in SL - where I built the beginnings of a first Harbin Gatehouse with Tom Boellstorff's permission, who was then editor at the AAA, in the early 2010s.

3)
The third virtual Harbin - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - is in Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with Time Slider, and I've added one photo from 2001 to this.

4)
The fourth virtual Harbin will hopefully emerge in Google Expeditions, integrated into the Google Ecosystem for wiki STEM research planned in all 8k languages.

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http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html 

(http://bit.ly/HarbinBook)

https://www.createspace.com/6072369 

http://twitter.com/HarbinBook 

And here's the Amazon author's page for Scott MacLeod World University with both versions of "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ~ 

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

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Hi Scott,

It was so nice to meet you on Christmas eve at UU.  I love what you are doing with the world u and cyber community building.  I have been really longing for more community (and Harbin!!!) and I plan on trying out your google plus group.  

If you feel like going for a walk or cup of coffee before you leave, give me a ring ...  I'd love to visit again.  

warmly, 

Bets

Hi Bets,

Greetings from airport world. Very nice to talk with you as well on Christmas Eve at the Unitarian Church. I've had a busy past few days with family so couldn't really meet but thanks for your nice invitation.

Do you happen to know another Bets from Harbin, originally from Ma (whom I also know partly through Angela & Victor's Yoga)?

Click through on a big computer screen (not smartphone) to the Harbin gate in Google Maps / Streetview here -
http://twitter.com/HarbinBook (at the top Harbin Hot Springs Book http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  Visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg) and walk all the way down the 4 mile road to Middletown (or at least a little bit), if you're inclined. I hope this will become very realistic as a virtual Harbin/earth with time (in Google Expeditions?), and with realistic humans, both avatars and real people like you and I. I'll likely be soaking in my bathtub a lot while visiting this virtual Harbin. (Cartoon-esque OpenSim and Second Life are models for how this might work with avatars and voice and how we might group build this too).

Let's have a virtual coffee together in the virtual Harbin Blue Room cafe (post-fire) when it's built and happening and from where ever we are physically. I'm curious very much how to generate greatest Harbin community in such a realistic online virtual Harbin with realistic avatars, like you and I, and with fantastic avatars too. Right now getting into a Google group Video Hangout (a musical one, for example?, which live video can then be saved to Youtube, and then which people in Youtube videos will eventually become interactive avatars I predict), is the best way to participate in the kind of community I think will be in a realistic, virtual Harbin. I'll keep you in the loop as this virtual Harbin community emerges, and I bet you could help generate wonderful community therein.

Happy New Year!

Friendly regards,
Scott

Hi Scoot, 

Sorry not to get to see you in person again, but it will be interesting to have coffee in "the blue room!"  I have never done that sort of thing so I am interested to give it a try.  I teach on-line and am continually amazed both by the effectiveness of it and the extra effort it takes for me to make the connections work.  We will see!  I deeply crave community and am excited about the potential for good of the global reach.  You should check out The Shift Network to see the sort of things they have been doing.  

I don't know a Betsy from MA/Harbin, but is there a chance we have met at Harbin?  You looked familiar to me.  I apologize if I did not catch it out of context.  

Happy trails until we meet in blue!

warmly, 

Betsy

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I don't think we've met at Harbin, Bets.

Best,
Scott

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

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Danube near Iron Gate: Anonymity and Security resources, Current Digital Security Resources December 2016 Edition, a) Google ecosystem, b) Tor browser c) EFF's HTTPS Everywhere, Good summary of 3 major disagreements around internet security (through 2016+), Selected Papers in Anonymity 1977-2016, Where are we now?

Pragmatically, I think using the following can easily help improve ones security significantly

a) Gmail / Google ecosystem, which seems designed with security in mind (keep in mind that employees often have access to their companies' "products")

b) Tor browser project - https://www.torproject.org/download/download

c) Electronic Frontier Foundation's HTTPS ("hypertext transfer protocol security" layer) everywhere - https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

... although with information technologies from an end user perspective, one can't know for sure ...

d) I'd hazard that Google group video Hangouts within the Google ecosystem are or can be some of the most secure and anonymous video conferencing system around

e) And probably much thought has gone into Google's Tensor Flow AI software in terms of security as well - and again within the Google ecosystem

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Current Digital Security Resources

December 2016 Edition

https://medium.com/@mshelton/current-digital-security-resources-5c88ba40ce5c#.tgbqr94rx

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Anonymity and Security resources, Good summary of 3 major disagreements around internet security (through 2016+)

First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email

https://www.propublica.org/article/library-support-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email

Support Tor and Intellectual Freedom in Libraries

https://act.eff.org/action/support-tor-and-intellectual-freedom-in-libraries


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See
"Anonymity on the Internet" wiki subject to come here -

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

WUaS wiki Subjects about this ... 

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

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

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HOW TO STAY ANONYMOUS ONLINE

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-be-anonymous-online/

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Selected Papers in Anonymity

Anonymity Bibliography | Selected Papers in Anonymity

By topic | By date | By author

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Years: 1977 1978 1981 1985 1988 1990 1991 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Publications by date 1977 Non-Discretionary Access Control for Decentralized Computing Systems (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Paul A. Karger. Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology S. M. & E. E. thesis MIT/LCS/TR-179, May 1977. (BibTeX entry)· Chapter 11, "Limitations of End-to-End Encryption," has some early discussion of traffic analysis issues. 1978 Limitations of End-to-End Encryption in Secure Computer Networks (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Michael A. Padlipsky, David W. Snow, and Paul A. Karger. The MITRE Corporation: Bedford MA, HQ Electronic Systems Division technical report ESD-TR-78-158, August 1978. (BibTeX entry)· 1981 Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms (HTML, PDF, TXT) (Cached: HTML, PDF, TXT) by David Chaum. In Communications of the ACM 24(2), February 1981. (BibTeX entry)· 1985 Networks Without User Observability – Design Options (HTML) (Cached: HTML) by Andreas Pfitzmann and Michael Waidner. In the Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 1985, April 1985. (BibTeX entry)· Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete by David Chaum. In CACM 28(10), October 1985. (BibTeX entry)· 1988 The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by David Chaum. In Journal of Cryptology 1, 1988, pages 65-75. (BibTeX entry)· 1990 The dining cryptographers in the disco: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability (gzipped PS) (Cached: gzipped PS) by Michael Waidner and Birgit Pfitzmann. In the Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 1989, 1990. (BibTeX entry)· 1991 ISDN-mixes: Untraceable communication with very small bandwidth overhead (gzipped PS) (Cached: gzipped PS) by Andreas Pfitzmann, Birgit Pfitzmann, and Michael Waidner. In the Proceedings of the GI/ITG Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems, February 1991, pages 451-463. (BibTeX entry)· 1993 Cryptographic Defense Against Traffic Analysis (PS) (Cached: PS, gzipped PS) by Charles Rackoff and Daniel R. Simon. In the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1993, pages 672-681. (BibTeX entry)· Efficient anonymous channel and all/nothing election scheme by C. Park, K. Itoh, and K. Kurosawa. In the Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 1993, May 1993, pages 248-259. (BibTeX entry)· 1995 Private Information Retrieval (PS) (Cached: PS, gzipped PS) by Benny Chor, Oded Goldreich, Eyal Kushilevitz, and Madhu Sudan. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1995, pages 41-50. (BibTeX entry)· Receipt-Free MIX-Type Voting Scheme - A Practical Solution to the Implementation of a Voting Booth by Joe Kilian and Kazue Sako. In the Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 1995, May 1995. (BibTeX entry)· Preserving Privacy in a Network of Mobile Computers (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by David A. Cooper and Kenneth P. Birman. In the Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 1995. (BibTeX entry)· ... 2013 LIRA: Lightweight Incentivized Routing for Anonymity (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Rob Jansen, Aaron Johnson, and Paul Syverson. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium - NDSS'13, February 2013. (BibTeX entry)· rBridge: User Reputation based Tor Bridge Distribution with Privacy Preservation (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Qiyan Wang, Zi Lin, Nikita Borisov, and Nicholas J. Hopper. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium - NDSS'13, February 2013. (BibTeX entry)· An Empirical Evaluation of Relay Selection in Tor (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Christopher Wacek, Henry Tan, Kevin Bauer, and Micah Sherr. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium - NDSS'13, February 2013. (BibTeX entry)· Preventing Side-channel Leaks in Web Traffic: A Formal Approach (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Michael Backes, Goran Doychev, and Boris Köpf. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium - NDSS'13, February 2013. (BibTeX entry)· I Want my Voice to be Heard: IP over Voice-over-IP for Unobservable Censorship Circumvention (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Amir Houmansadr, Thomas Riedl, Nikita Borisov, and Andrew Singer. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium - NDSS'13, February 2013. (BibTeX entry)· The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Amir Houmansadr, Chad Brubaker, and Vitaly Shmatikov. In the Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2013. (BibTeX entry)· Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Alex Biryukov, Ivan Pustogarov, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann. In the Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2013. (BibTeX entry)· The Path Less Travelled: Overcoming Tor's Bottlenecks with Traffic Splitting (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Mashael Alsabah, Kevin Bauer, Tariq Elahi, and Ian Goldberg. In the Proceedings of the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013), July 2013. (BibTeX entry)· How Low Can You Go: Balancing Performance with Anonymity in Tor (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by John Geddes, Rob Jansen, and Nicholas Hopper. In the Proceedings of the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013), July 2013. (BibTeX entry)· OSS: Using Online Scanning Services for Censorship Circumvention (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by David Fifield, Gabi Nakibly, and Dan Boneh. In the Proceedings of the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013), July 2013. (BibTeX entry)· The need for flow fingerprints to link correlated network flows (PDF) (Cached: PDF) by Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov. In the Proceedings of the 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2013), July 2013. (BibTeX entry)· ( http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/date.html )

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Selected Papers in Anonymity (1977-2016)

• ( http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/date.html )

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

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

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

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

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

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Eurasian lynx: What do the MIT Media Lab and Wikidata do in terms of hiring 10 hr/week independent contractor coders like a kind of Uber's taxi driver model?, "2016: A year in the life of the Lab"

Although I can't think of many examples of how this "independent contractor" taxi driver interacting person-to-person and place-to-place (relating in an open source way to the Uber database) model might work yet at World University and School (even with a planned realistic virtual earth with time slider), I wonder what the MIT Media Lab and Wikidata do in these regards.

And WUaS would like to hire students to work 10/hours per week in all 8k languages directly too, like Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Oxbridge do, but this could have a more direct link to revenue generation (as would the FTE academics we seek to hire in all 200 countries' main languages - as "Harvards" of the web).

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Great ! Thanks, Joi! ... to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School ... and ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT ... planned in all c ountries' languages ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org ...

2016: A year in the life of the Lab

https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/2016-year-end-roundup/

https://plus.google.com/+InfoWorldUniversityinEnglish/posts/jDMSxW3pM76

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Curly bracken: How best to organize World University for 10 hours of work per week for anyone in each of all 8k languages, along the lines of hiring graduate students from highest achieving universities in all countries' languages for 10 hours/week work?, Something like the independent startup Uber taxi - and self-driving car - company, Begin holding meetings for 10/hour per week hiring in unprogrammed Quaker Meetings and Unitarian Churches around the U.S. and also in many countries? What would such folks do at WUaS? Add and create creatively to the wiki side of WUaS, but in conversation with WUaS facilitators?, How to make working 10/hours per week at WUaS as easy, and possibly as freeing, as driving a cab?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/curly-bracken-how-best-to-organize.html

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

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Curly bracken: How best to organize World University for 10 hours of work per week for anyone in each of all 8k languages, along the lines of hiring graduate students from highest achieving universities in all countries' languages for 10 hours/week work?, Something like the independent startup Uber taxi - and self-driving car - company, Begin holding meetings for 10/hour per week hiring in unprogrammed Quaker Meetings and Unitarian Churches around the U.S. and also in many countries? What would such folks do at WUaS? Add and create creatively to the wiki side of WUaS, but in conversation with WUaS facilitators?, How to make working 10/hours per week at WUaS as easy, and possibly as freeing, as driving a cab?

How best to organize World University for 10 hours of work per week for anyone in each of all 8k languages, (along the lines of hiring graduate students from highest achieving universities in all countries' languages for 10 hours/week work)? Something like the independent startup Uber taxi - and self-driving car - company. How best too to organize VOLUNTEERS at World University and School, along the lines of Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia volunteers?

Begin holding meetings for 10/hour per week hiring in unprogrammed Quaker Meetings and Unitarian Universalist churches (in Pittsburgh, PA, these "churches" are very nice buildings and close to Pitt and CMU-Carnegie Mellon re students who might be interested) - and online - around the U.S. and also in many countries?

What would such folks do at WUaS? Add and create creatively to the wiki side of WUaS, but in conversation with WUaS facilitators?

How to make working 10/hours per week at WUaS as easy, and possibly as freeing, as driving a cab?


http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Although I can't think of many examples of how this "independent contractor" taxi driver interacting person-to-person (relating in an open source way to the Uber database) model might work yet at World University and School, I wonder what the MIT Media Lab and Wikidata do in these regards.

And WUaS would like to hire students to work 10/hours per week in all 8k languages directly too, like Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Oxbridge do, but this could have a more direct link to revenue generation (as would the FTE academics we seek to hire in all 200 countries' main languages - as "Harvards" of the web).

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

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

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Dicotyledon: Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS Music School each a wiki page, Virtual Choirs at WUaS

Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS Music School, each a wiki subject page to begin ...

Two iPads on a Hinge Sheet Music Folder

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Two iPads on a hinge produced by WUaS for the REAL REAL time Music School at WUaS? All Instruments, All languages' WUaS each a wiki page pic.twitter.com/FU9mBHRIGP

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) December 26, 2016

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

Virtual Choir -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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

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Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon: "[NTF-talk] Are we still here? Or How we deal with Christmas," Beautiful Xmas music, Quakers/Nontheist Friends, My mother in her early 80s in enjoying learning about the new iPhone smartphone, NYT's article on the Great A.I. Awakening, Holiday Letter for all of you as well, My recent actual - virtual Harbin ethnographic book, in which I mention NtFs and Quakers both - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & http://twitter.com/HarbinBook, Richard Dawkins, To India World University and School planned in all official languages potentially as major universities (CC MIT OCW)

Merry Christmas, Anita, Os, Rosemary, John and Nontheist Friends!

Greatly enjoying the Xmas music here on the radio - while visiting in Pennsylvania (it's been a long time since it was a Friendly religious experiment as Penns' Woods - and I'm in the other smaller big city in western PA, and not in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, which has changed so much since its Quaker "heyday" in the the 1600s and 1700s) - even while thinking through how Richard Dawkins - https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins - might respond to the Bible Readings (mentioning nakedness in the garden, for example) in the music from Kings' College Cambridge - as a kind of atheist Quaker. 

My mother in her early 80s in enjoying learning about the new iPhone smartphone she got herself recently, and especially its robust voice recognition software (Siri is more robust than Google Voice, but Google Voice will improve with Google's A.I. software TensorFlow). Did NtFriends see the recent NYT's article on the Great A.I. Awakening, which you'll see here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/mantis-shrimp-world-university-and.html)?

Here's my Holiday Letter for all of you as well - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/muir-woods-holiday-greetings-2016.html. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Friendly greetings in this holiday season, 

Scott

Here's my recent actual - virtual Harbin ethnographic book, in which I mention NtFs and Quakers both: 

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook

http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

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Richard Dawkins:

Merry Christmas to anyone who might appreciate it, especially those Christians who enjoy pretending there’s a “War on Christmas.”

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) December 24, 2016

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Platypus: Richard Branson's "Giving Story," World University and School as a giving story, One exa... https://t.co/jRs9bitYMV

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) December 24, 2016

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Here's another way to say that, I guess. (h/t Buckminster Fuller) pic.twitter.com/m1bFXOf5mj

— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) December 22, 2016

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To India World University & School https://t.co/Aqwz6qtOWQ Planned in all official languages potentially as major universities (CC MIT OCW) https://t.co/w4T8MIvN5N

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 24, 2016

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

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Platypus: Richard Branson's "Giving Story," World University and School as a giving story, One example - Giving WUaS to Wikidata in October 2015 ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World University and School's Giving Story is partly in this blog ... 

One example - Giving CC WUaS to CC Wikidata in October 2015

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university ... 

more to come ...

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Richard Branson 

My Giving Story - the people behind the cause are what inspire me to give https://virg.in/ZwG #MyGivingStory

https://plus.google.com/+InfoWorldUniversityinEnglish/posts/ShC8RWK5Ho9


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http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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

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Three Sisters (Australia): "Vesting" at World University? How to build in happiness and flourishing for learners and teachers as "vesting" incentives as well, It's hard to say which Universities & Schools do this {happiness and flourishing} in great and creative ways, The Quaker Earlham College? Yoga-informed marriages?, Curious what a kind of "yoga of marriage" is for family generation, Culture (re identity and discourse), well beyond nation state to nation state, plays a role in both of these questions, Remarkable philosophy department (with linguistics especially) at CC MIT OCW which World University will be able to build on, "Joy to the World" in this holiday season

"Vesting" will be an important incentive at World University and School ... but how to build in happiness and flourishing for learners and teachers as incentives as well, M? It's hard to say which Universities do this in great and creative ways. (I've pointed anecdotally and from quite a distance to the Quaker Earlham College in Indiana in the past as an example of a culture which generated great happiness and flourishing, based on experiences with family members who have gone there, as well as people I've met who have graduated from Earlham since the 1950s).

Curious what a kind of "yoga of marriage" is for family generation (beyond, in the west, Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten's example, and perhaps Rodney Yee's and Colleen's as well) will emerge re WUaS. Social theory-wise, this would include questions of norms, which people and freedom-seeking moments in the 1960s and 1970s profoundly questioned and reformulated. (I can see Yoga from the 1970s and beyond, in the U.S., as an expression of freedom-seeking ... and in reference to somehow Patanjalian Yoga / India norms post 1960s, but emerging out of the West and western / U.S. cultural patterns ... e.g. family patterns giving rise to children, and now in the information technology age).

Culture (re identity and discourse), well beyond nation state to nation state, plays a role in both of these questions - a) how to build into this school (World University and school) great happiness and flourishing. as well as build in "vesting" financially (1 the conveying to an employee of unconditional entitlement to a share in a pension fund) for retirement, for example, and b) re "marriage" for harmonious families (and to have kids too), how this will "just happen" - as it has for billions of years - and re a new university and school planned in all countries' main languages (as the Harvards of the Internet) as well as in all 7,097+ living languages as wiki schools. 

L,
Scott

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It's quite a remarkable philosophy department (with linguistics especially) at CC MIT OCW which World University will be able to build on -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/ - by hiring graduate students to teach online in group video to these MIT faculty in video as they become faculty.

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"Joy to the World" in this holiday season, and greetings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I'm visiting for the holidays.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australia)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australien)

https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australia)

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Blue Mountains (New South Wales): http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ Leaving Harbin behind now and for good as field site, and as place to visit ... an act of renunciation of a kind - a Harbin renunciation story, and even as a nontheist F/friend/Quaker, Nonharming ethos, New hippy hot springs' ethnographic field sites, (Here's a list of Google Expeditions Virtual Reality locations: http://mrcaffrey.com/google-expeditions-world-map), {I'd like to visit Breitenbush in Oregon in the 60s and 70s, and Ten Thousand Waves Spa New Mexico? ... and Esalen then too, especially if there were film from these times, which was then converted into realistic avatars in a realistic virtual earth with a time slider for example - and ethnographically ... for participant observation}, Next book will be explicitlty not Harbin-centric (but could include some Harbin poetry possibly) ... Not seeing anyone in Google Cardboard viewing virtual reality

New hippy hot springs' ethnographic field sites

Hi E,

The weather looked nicely clear yesterday evening in Chicago, E - but with snow on the ground and 35 degrees outside! How are you? 

I think you're right about leaving Harbin behind now and for good as field site, and as place to visit (re: http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ... an act of renunciation of a kind - a Harbin renunciation story, and even as a nontheist F/friend/Quaker (... or until I learn remotely that a significant non-harming ethos has emerged there and then to wait a further 3-8 years - but if Harbin would like to get a batch of my Harbin books wholesale for resale in their bookstore beginning as early as this May 2017, I might head up there to deliver them and soak ... Renouncing Harbin Hot Springs doesn't make sense from a research perspective ... https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ... especially in helping to create a virtual Harbin for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), ... 

and Re realistic virtual world generation with hot springs for comparative ethnographic field work (and for soaking at home in bath tub for its warm water inner releasing meditation possibilities), I think I might explore a number of other hot springs and as virtual field sites for actual-virtual comparisons, and as both virtual and actual places to visit too, especially in other languages (India, Japan and German speaking ones perhaps? ...) {... and for studying great brain chemistry happiness}. Wonder what already exists re this in Google Expeditions (potentially with its Street View & Maps & Earth too), and which might develop further STEM- and wiki-wise, and as "classrooms" as well.

(Here's a list of Google Expeditions Virtual Reality locations: http://mrcaffrey.com/google-expeditions-world-map/ and http://mrcaffrey.com/google-expeditions/).

Re hippie informed ones - hot springs in the Pacific Northwest or Southwest? 

Re this and social, clothing optional ones? Same ... 

Re enjoyment of travel to and fro virtually ... Long walks beforehand ? 

(And visit actual ones within a few hours' drive of where I'm living ... possibly for example Wilbur, Orr etc). 

What are some great hot springs near Santa Cruz?

{I'd like to visit Breitenbush in Oregon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitenbush_Hot_Springs - in the 60s and 70s, and Ten Thousand Waves Spa New Mexico? ... and Esalen then too, especially if there were film from these times, which was then converted into realistic interactive A.I. avatar bots (e.g. of hippies emerging out of 1960s films from Esalen) in a realistic virtual earth with a time slider for example - and ethnographically ... for participant observation. }

Here's a plan or vision for this ...

Get off the plane in Pgh (with my friend/wife and 3 kids, for example), find my way to the home I lived in in high school, get into a bath tub, and visit whatever hot springs in the world I might like, which would be an actual/virtual amalgam (to protect identities STEM wise too) and soak and visit with people and make new friends too.

Some of the above could mean that my next book will be explicitlty not Harbin-centric (but could include some Harbin poetry possibly) ... and perhaps as smaller volumes via the Academic Press at WUaS  .... or a new World University Poetry Press ... How best writing-wise to make slim volumes "rock"? How too to take a photo, and then find an application which allows me to digitally "pencil draw" some art from this?

Looking forward to seeing ma mere, but more so to connecting eventually & naturally with a great partner-friend-wife-mom to be for family, kids and deep caring, affection and understanding - and even a co-thinking conversation over decades...

Have a great holiday season, E!

Fond regards,
Scott

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook 

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Hi E,

Traveling observations ...

Not seeing anyone in Google Cardboard viewing virtual reality (https://vr.google.com/cardboard/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cardboard), for example, but a few people are wearing earphones, and it seems like everyone has a smartphone or occasionally a  larger computer ...

All kinds of people ... Information age holiday airport passengers ...

Fondly, Scott

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wales)

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