Nelumbo nucifera (lotus): Merry, merry & Happy, happy ~ I couldn't find the Scots' language in Google Translate yet, so I translated the following into Scottish Gaelic using Translate Perhaps a MIT Prof Diana Henderson with a Scots' Miss Punny Pennie can get the modern Scots' language working in Translate at some point, and also medieval Scots (if this is what it's called from the play "MacBeth's" time)

Merry, merry & Happy, happy ~

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

12:42 PM (10 hours ago)

to Byron, Byron, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce, Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott, Sandy, Mark

Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, Scotophiles, All, ...

Greetings on 1st day, and happy, happy birthday again Patti!

I couldn't find the Scots' language in Google Translate yet, so I translated the following into Scottish Gaelic using Translate (with recent emails here from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/mountain-avens-dryas-octopetala-happy.html). Perhaps a MIT Prof Diana Henderson with a Scots' Miss Punny Pennie can get the modern Scots' language working in Translate at some point, and also medieval Scots (if this is what it's called from the play "MacBeth's" time) ... not sure about the history of the Scots' language in general however :)

Rinn mi dìreach meòrachadh madainn Navalny - ann an ceann a tuath California - mar sheòrsa de ghearan sàmhach an aghaidh beachd-bharail Ishvara (Robert Hartley), a stèidhich Harbin Hot Springs / Eaglais Mothachaidh Cridhe (an làrach achaidh eitneòlach fìor-fhìor agam). Bha an gearan meòrachaidh agam madainn an-diugh cuideachd an aghaidh fàinneachan feise mì-laghail sam bith, agus an gnìomhachas feise mì-laghail ann an Sgìre Bàgh SF - me am measg Quakers, ann an Canyon 94516, agus ann an NorCal, agus cleachdadh co-cheangailte ri fòirneart, no bagairtean fòirneart, gus a chumail suas no iad. Bha meòrachadh na maidne math, a-rithist, agus mar sin sàmhach, meadhanachadh, lasachadh, leigeil ma sgaoil (ann an dòigh Caraidean / Quakers cuideachd, - deagh bheusachd / math ’gu sònraichte). Le bhith a ’feuchainn ri dreuchd èigneachaidh lagha feadarail a dh’ fhaodadh a bhith air leth soirbheachail thig pàirt ann a bhith a ’lughdachadh gu mòr gnìomhachas gnè mì-laghail ann an Sgìre Bàgh SF, agus gu sònraichte airson a bhith a’ dìon luchd-fulaing, neo-chiontach, boireannaich agus clann ... cha bhith mi nam cheann air ais suas gu Harbin Hot Springs gu math luath - eu-coltach ri Navalny a ’tilleadh air ais don Ruis às deidh a phuinnseanachadh faisg air marbhtach 5 mìosan air ais (gus gearan ÈIFEACHDACH a stiùireadh ann an RUSSIA?) - ach is dòcha gun till mi air ais gu Harbin Hot Springs aig a’ cheann thall ann an co-obrachadh le MIT eadhon , agus a thaobh fìor obair làraich eitneòlach le oileanaich, a dh ’fhaodadh agallamhan astrological domhainn a dhèanamh de luchd-còmhnaidh Harbin o chionn fhada (ris an do chuir an t-Àrd-ollamh Antroipeòlaiche Oilthigh Tuft Nick Seaver Tweeted mu dheidhinn - https://twitter.com/npseaver - agus a bhios mi ag ath-aithris Tweeted cuideachd gu Twitter, ach a dh ’fhalbh cuideachd bho Twitter), agus a dh’ fhaodadh sinn uile fhoillseachadh còmhla ÙR bho fhìor Harbin Hot Springs ann an Google Street View le TensorFlow / Maps / Ea rth, teacsa sa bhàr-taobh.

(Apologies for my poor Google Translate Scottish Gaelic :)

Here's the English:

"I just did a Navalny morning meditation - in northern California - as a kind of quiet protest to the hypothetical despotism of Ishvara (Robert Hartley), founder of Harbin Hot Springs / Heart Consciousness Church (my actual-virtual ethnographic field site). My meditation protest this morning was also against any illegal sex rings, and the illegal sex industry in the SF Bay Area - eg among Quakers, in Canyon 94516, and in NorCal, and related use of violence, or threats of violence, to maintain it or them. The morning meditation was good, again, so quieting, centering, easing, releasing (in the manner of Friends/Quakers too, - good/great ethics' wise especially). Hoping the role of federal law enforcement newly successful might come to play a role in significantly lessening the illegal sex industry in the SF Bay Area, and especially for the protection of potential victims, innocents, women and children ... I won't head back up to Harbin Hot Springs very soon - unlike Navalny heading back to Russia after his near fatal poisoning 5 months ago (to lead AN EFFECTIVE protest IN RUSSIA?) - but I might head back up to Harbin Hot Springs eventually in collaboration with MIT even, and regarding actual ethnographic field work by students, who might do in depth astrological interviews of long time Harbin residents (which the brilliant Tuft's University Anthropologist Professor Nick Seaver Tweeted about - https://twitter.com/npseaver - and which I re-Tweeted to Twitter, but which has disappeared from Twitter), and which we all might publish together NEWLY from a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs in Google Street View with TensorFlow / Maps / Earth, text in the side bar."   

The Navalny idea re his returning to Russia and regarding I think the seeming dictator Putin, and re Harbin Hot Springs, came to me this morning when I retweeted in Mike McFaul's Tweet - https://twitter.com/McFaul - in Russian something to  the effect of congratulations to the citizens of Russia in uprising (re Navalny), but this Tweet I couldn't find on my Harbin Book Twitter just now, and couldn't find also on Mike McFaul's Twitter. (Oh my, disappearing Tweets!)

As I write from a position of protest in a 'safe house' (which is 'beachy' with spectacular views of the SF Bay Area, but about 1 mile from the water of the SF Bay :) and overlooking industrialism and cities of Richmond and similar), having called the Moraga police twice this summer 2020 in Canyon 94516, I wonder too about Canyon 94516, where I lived for about 12 years - and where World Univ & Sch is still based - and even re criminality and mental illness there of former landlord, I wonder about returning to live in Canyon 94516 after it's been 'cleaned up' (after a century of outlaws and scofflaws?, criminality and mental illness?). On one of the last days I was there in October 2020, I walked up the main road in Canyon, and spoke with a Reedie (Reed College alum, like myself), Willy, with long hair, who had just backed into Canyon into his mother's house - who had just moved to Point Reyes with her husband, Jim, freeing up the house for Willy, his wife and their child. I like Willy's centeredness, don't know him very well, but he also grew up in the K-8 public Canyon School, and is now a public high school science teacher in an East Bay city. As I continue to whistleblow about Canyon, and the SF Quaker Meeting, am curious if there could be a curious SF Bay Area indirect Bay Area connection between a recent Stanford Law CodeX presenter's last name, (Carla) Reyes - https://law.stanford.edu/2021/01/20/codex-meeting-january-21st-2021/ - and Willy's mother Theo, and husband, moving to a new house in Pt Reyes (who has also been a Harvard Law Berkman Klein Center Fellow for 2 years), and my former landlord moving to a new house or place far from Canyon (to keep kids, and his own child, safe), and my moving in to Canyon.at 670A Ridgecrest again.  

Scots have a long history of protest against 'colonizers' even from the south (the English) ... And who knows too, whether Scots, like Navalny, will be successful in overturning the authoritarian oppressor? Taylor, do you happen to know Carla Reyes since you both went to Whitworth University (in the state of Washington) albeit at different times?

Am hoping we can all be Scottish country dancing and music-making in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - in Scots and in Scottish Gaelic - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click - in 1606, when MacBeth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForShakespeare?src=hashtag_click - may have first been performed :)

Seeking to send out the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from 1/16/2021 after getting the legal partnership papers to sign from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO re WUaS early this week :) - for ~200 planned online Academic Medical Centers, with ~200 online medical schools, and ~200 online teaching hospitals, in all these countries, and in their official and main languages even! :) (Am not sure yet how WUaS Psychiatry will unfold, and even re despotism, and the illegal sex industry, for example ... but the Covid-19 pandemic contact tracing App, and vaccinations in avatar bot electronic medical records, and in a realistic virtual earth for Genetics may help - 

what have we here #covid19pandemic & @ #mRNA level? CNBC: CDC quietly changes Covid vaccine guidance to OK mixing Pfizer & Moderna shots in 'exceptional situations'.https://t.co/DP0FAeLwHr #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.8 bill. people

— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) January 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1352744685010182144?s=20)

As Aye, 

Scott

Season's Greetings 2021 ~ and re Aging Reversal via genetic engineering ~ 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html

Question in my recent letter to Stanford Law CodeX presenters: 

"As a further question, and brainstorming-wise, how might blockchain (with UCC-related forms, Lexon and Gremlin?) work legally for, as I wrote to the WUaS Chairman, Larry Viehland, this morning, "WUaS 'avatar bot electronic medical records' for 7.8 billion people for tele-robotic surgery with blockchain ledger in digital forms (like PDFs) per Stanford Law CodeX presenters' Carla Reyes (a law professor at Southern Methodist University) and Henning Diedrich on Thursday -   https://law.stanford.edu/2021/01/20/codex-meeting-january-21st-2021/ ? Re Europe WUaS blockchain too? ... "

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- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com 

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On a walk Ma, at a turnaround spot 1.8 miles away (Unitarian Universalist Church of Kensington in Berkeley) on a nice afternoon. Have you been out walking today? In the curious covid-19 pandemic time we live in with self quarantine the wise spread norm - still - and quiet streets where I am, I'm appreciative that both Biden and Kamala Devi Harris (born in 1964) have progressive to radical 'sides' to them (Biden for ex as VP to Obama for 8 years) and both having lived through the 60s even ... What a change for the good :) uphill travels ahead for them in their new careers however even if Dems are in majority in all 3 branches, and regarding even Supreme Court nominees ... Wow :) 

The 3 tennis courts I pass by in a pretty nice park are all being used one with doubles no masks worn by players although others on street are wearing masks  - covid-19 news 

Ma, do you think all those Superbowl bound football players without masks will get SARSCoV2 and pass away? Some Sunday afternoon covid-19 news from your whistle-blowing son. Love, Scott :)

 

No mask on https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/24/sports/tom-brady-has-been-proving-doubters-wrong-his-entire-career-sunday-was-his-best-performance-yet/ in Boston Globe pic of QB Tom Brady :) ... Hope he stays well and doesn't infect others :)

Beautiful Valle Vista Staging Area 2.5 miles from Canyon 94516 on a wet day ... Checking out the marsh in the distance as dark comes on, Ma :) Just had a nice talk with Patti on retreat for her Bday in Tahoe ... Keyboard + lessons begin in 10 days .... Thank you :)

Uh oh for Putin? https://www.letemps.ch/monde/kremlin-gonfle-popularite-navalny (French to English with Translate) check out his interesting pic of large numbers of people in front of the Kremlin...  Another article, in a German translation into English, says "TikTok Putin" ... Re difficulty of Kremlin to control distributed social media - and time may be running out for the dictator of Russia

Digital protest in Russia

Tiktok, Putin behind

Young Russians in particular use apps to find out more. This is also where they post their protest. The Kremlin tries in vain to close down online channels.  INNA HARTWICH

https://taz.de/Digitaler-Protest-in-Russland/!5743066/

Time ran out for Rump in a sense & thanks to voters' time keeping :)

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Big change? Has #Covid19pandemic changed California and the world so dramatically that this lift won't change things 'back'? #GeneticEngineeringRevolution #WUaSAgingReversal 

NPR: California Lifts Stay-At-Home Orders: 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel'.

https://npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/25/960370453/california-lifts-stay-at-home-orders-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel ~

Big change? Has #Covid19pandemic changed California and the world so dramatically that this lift won't change things 'back'? #GeneticEngineeringRevolution #WUaSAgingReversal
NPR: California Lifts Stay-At-Home Orders: 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel'.https://t.co/oyJ9Qpj1HS ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1353804801927122945?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1353804264519344139?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1353805366207729666?s=20

 

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