Wednesday, September 8, 2021

sugar maple (Acer saccharum): Greens as a major party in a central Country in Europe (of 83 million) ~ Chancellor election on Sunday 9/26 in Germany after 16 years with Angela Merkel * Might some WUaS students eventually intern in the (virtual) US government, Tym, & Pin, in 2076, the 300th celebration of American independence ? :) ... if - it's a big iff - geneticists get their act together, and we get an aging reversal genetic drug therapy sooner than later :) * * * How is your retirement? Jim Spohrer - "Hang in there! WUaS will become a reality as the technologies get better to enable it. The vision is big and ambitious - so struggles along the way are a natural part of getting there" re 14 years of World Univ & Sc development with no remuneration * Thanks too for the 'news' that WUaS may be waiting for the information technologies to develop! 14 years or so now ... Not clear when it will be possible to hire faculty, for ex. * * Aging reversal beyond living beyond 122 years' old? This is what Harvard MIT Prof of Genetics George Church is heralding, and big pharmaceutical companies, and universities too, may have begun to martial their R&D resources in these directions in recent months significantly. And did we jumpstart the genetic engineering revolution further over the last 18 months? * * * Beginning Minutes for 8/21/21 at WUaS (both NP World Univ & Sch AND the FP WUaS Corporation) ~


Greens as a major party in a central Country in Europe (of 83 million)


Dear Tym, Sid, Ma, John, All,

Chancellor election on Sunday 9/26/21 in Germany after 16 years with Angela Merkel.

 In these very unfamiliar coalition politics, a

1) red-green-red coalition may be possible. And 

2) will Olaf Scholz (red) win, over the Green's Annalena Baerbock (green) and the conservative's Armin Laschet (black - not the other red party, but in the same CDU party as Merkel herself) to become the actual leader of Germany, the chancellor of the Bundestag? Am appreciative of Merkel. Here's an article -


"Debate about red-green-red coalition

Piece without performance"

BY  STEFAN REINECKE 

"Actually, there is a lot to be said for an alliance of the SPD, the Greens and the Left. But this time too, R2G is unlikely to become a reality - mainly because of foreign policy. "

https://taz.de/Debatte-ueber-rot-gruen-rote-Koalition/!5795469/ (read with Google Translate on phone?)

This could help -

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

What do you think? 

(Am in the American Green party ... And ... re ... ethics, in particular, in a state of 40 million).

A bit out of the box, am not eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology or exploring this much these days, but hope to soon (and, actually,  listening to the Allman Bros' and the Grateful Dead mostly before 1979 gets me 'there' some:) You?

And who knows, maybe I'll put on a suit coat and sweater and collared shirt like in the newspaper picture, if I head to Germany for CC-4 MIT OCW-CENTRIC wiki World University and School, - when I'm not soaking in the actual Harbin warm pool doing actual-virtual meditation brain science research, and ethno-wiki+virtual-world-graphy there :)

How are you doing 😊?

Warm regards, Scott


Loving bliss blog label -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss


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Hi, Tym, All, 

... Do you recognize this kind of politics, or even reporting - 


Bundestag:

Last speech in parliament: The Chancellor sacrifices herself to her party

The Union is nervous, the SPD relaxed and the opposition angry: Before the plenum approves the flood aid, there are three hours of election campaigning.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/letzte-rede-im-parlament-die-kanzlerin-opfert-sich-ihrer-partei-li.181420


And what could the destruction of Afghanistan data refer to by the Defense minister - re Freedom of Speech, and a public record in Germany? ...

"A request that the responsible ministries not destroy any data related to the Afghanistan mission was also not allowed. While Federal Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) has already declared her willingness to do so, the Federal Foreign Office is much more reluctant to provide information. An application for an extinguishing moratorium had already failed in the Foreign Affairs Committee due to the votes of the grand coalition. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) is not known to have made any concessions in this regard, which was particularly bitter among the opposition."

(And the current advertisement mentioned here looks a bit anthropological ... meaning?)

... (Did I sublet from a Marianne sp? Maas, same name as Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Park Merced SF in around 1993, when I travelled to New Zealand to visit my parents who were on a 6 month sabbatical there (and, thanks to my mother's ingenuity who found a woman living like 'the old lady in shoe" English nursery rhyme (https://www.fairytaletown.org/attractions/the-old-woman-in-the-shoe/), ... got an amazing pair of kilt socks knit in about 48 hours, ... after Marion Maas sent some pieces of kilt thread from my 1976-ish kilt in SF to us in NZ? MAYBE - and, long memories's wise, could they be related, - and was Marion even possibly a 'swinger' ? ... although I don't ... Ever ... but could this be an issue here re former CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in CA too somehow ? ... where the lead article in paper https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/9-11/bundeswehrsoldaten-nach-afghanistan-einsatz-ich-bin-doch-nicht-krank-li.181363 - had a picture that looks like a possible Schwarzenegger nephew / similar) ... But the spellings of these Maas names may be different too. 

Angela Merkel is leaving a cordial discourse and conversation it seems - n'est-ce pas? ... A tribute to her I think ... And could we even collaborate on MIT OCW wiki World University and School in October even when she's free? :) 

A red-green-red (SPD, Greens, & die Linken - the Left) coalition in power, after September 26? 

Warmly, Scott 


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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Tue, Sep 7, 5:15 PM (18 hours ago)

to Tym, Pin, Jane, Joan, John, Ed

And the current top advertising here - https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/letzte-rede-im-parlament-die-kanzlerin-opfert-sich-ihrer-partei-li.181420

- looks or looked a bit anthropological ... meaning?

Could Marion Maas have gone to Harbin Hot Springs some? I don't recall ...

Fondly, Scott



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Tym, 

I added you to this blog post with the amazing John Cleese re an Anton Chekhov sketch - 

Allegheny National Forest: Create a dramatic sketch, Cleese - "Romance with a Double Bass," (based on Chekhov play), 10 pictures of Pittsburgh parks as stage set for Virtual Theater creation?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/allegheny-national-forest-create.html?m=0 - and pictures from PGH too. (I didn't know 'Romance with a Double bass' was a Chekov comedy :) and might some WUaS students eventually intern in the (virtual) US government, Tym, & Pin, in 2076, the 300th celebration of American independence ? :) ... if - it's a big iff - geneticists get their act together, and we get an aging reversal genetic drug therapy sooner than later :) (Some of us would be about 116 years old - still under the 122 yo upper limit of aging per Jeanne Calment).

Please let me know if it works for you ☺️.

Warm regards, Scott



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Tym, Pin, All, 

How are you doing 😊?

While a red green red coalition would be kind of xmasy (and progressive and generous), a red green black (SPD Greens CDU) coalition would be a bit Kenya-y or Afghanistan-y (was this withdrawal an intl German diplomatic success, and foreign policy wise, re Angela Merkel's CDU??) whereas a red green yellow  coalition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_coalition_(politics) ) would be Jamaica-y a bit, and more conservative too) ... And would the CDU (black - one of the very different from USA conservative parties in Germany - Christian Democratic Union of Germany - and Merkel's father was a pastor by the way) bring a foreign policy approach to this coalition that die Linken - The Left party (red) doesn't have?

 I've seen re the green black yellow coalition the 'Jamaica' idea in print in these German coalitions' election context too. What are  other possibilities, and is Angela Merkel helping frame for the nation state of Germany these coalition possibilities' News' coverage, with her skill and experience as chancellor for 16 years? (CDU is her and Laschet's party) ... And I think she'll still be in this German leadership discourse for the foreseeable future with a desk in the 'parliamentary' buildings, and a driver, after her chancellorship is over ... a red green orange coalition ? re information age party (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany) ?:) The Greens are in the center ... And a major party - at least news' media-wise in a central Country in Europe (of 83 million).

Scott



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- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com 



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Again, - #WUaSNewsandQA on M 9/6/21 - a conversation between Scott in the SF Bay Area, and Fritz (in Munich, Germany) (here on Monday, 9/6/21 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/wild-black-cherry-prunus-serotina.html)

open #WUaSNewsandQA on M 9/6/21. Here's Pt1 of today's recorded conversation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyACn7fZZ4gZH2k3NZBxkCEuh-PBZAhv/view - after which my browser stopped, just at interesting idea abt #WUaSUBIexperiments to #EndPoverty 7.8 billion peops #WikidataQitem via #SingleCryptocurrency like #StanfordMinePi~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1434973201524662274?s=20




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How is your retirement? Jim Spohrer 

Dear Jim, 


Warm greetings from the SF Bay Area. How is your retirement, now some months in? How are you doing? Are you spending close-to-full-time now on growing ISSIP? Are you continuing on with IBM in some capacities too? Are you seeing some non-IBM-career travel ahead of you? I hope retirement is going well for you; it can be such a big change in one's life, I've read and observed. And will you be attending the 7th Naples Forum on Service virtually - https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1434144702341664772?s=20 ? And are you the founder of this, in some ways, with its service focus in particular? (It doesn't look like it's possible to register for this at this point, and it may take place very early in the morning here, but do you know if it is possible to attend some of these sessions virtually at this point?) 

Just this morning, I was wondering about your thinking too about preventing illicit use of World Univ & Sch's planning to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - and for related WUaS businesses, - each a Wikidata Pin # or Wikidata Q item #, and also to potentially distribute a single cryptocurrency via Stanford Mine Pi via UBI experiments to all people to end poverty, dovetailing with developing wiki free university education potentially for all 7.8 billion people - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - in each of all 7,139 known living languages; And also regarding our Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital planned educational services' stores in all 200 countries, and in speakers of 7139 known living languages. I emailed 2 people (below) interested in WUaS about this too, but am thinking there might be other approaches to this. Would be interested in your thoughts here as well.

I hope your retirement is going well. Are you exploring the possibilities of aging reversal genetic drug therapies, and their implications for retirement too, if for example, we live into our 200s and 300s (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity)? Hoping you had a good transition from your full-time IBM position to retirement now, and that the autumn is holding many creative possibilities for you.  

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is continuing to develop with no money to speak of whatsoever, and in some ongoing poverty, but just yesterday, one prospective PhD student in statistics and economics in Indonesia got back to WUaS that he is indeed seeking to matriculate after taking studying for 2 tests in the next 4 weeks - good news. 

Wishing you all the best in your retirement, Jim!

Best regards, Scott

Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School - 




Dear Nancy, (and Susan),

My condolences again, Nancy. I'm sorry you lost your younger brother recently. And I hope you are doing alright in the aftermath. Best wishes.

NB: I'm also writing to follow up on your business which you mentioned again - having alluded to this a few months ago - a second time in passing at the close of the WUaS News and Q&A on Monday 9/6/21, ... and that WUaS is not interested in collaboration with any illegal business such as illicit recreational drugs and Blockchain, for example, & re I think, your son?, C.D.? (... and your husband, partner too?) and his Blockchain technology interest out of Santa Barbara. Please so not approach WUaS with illegal business, - state, federal or international. As WUaS collaborates further with Google on its platforms, WUaS will bring Google's  legal scrutiny of https://twitter.com/Kent_Walker/status/1423358488433119240?s=19 - for example, to such questions.


  Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 





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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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Hi Scott,

Retirement is great!!!  So far :-)

Doing more for ISSIP.org work, working on my next book on service science, and helping my wife Diane with her two year long to-do list.  See my slideshare website for my latest thinking - I tend to think about a topic, give a talk about it, and then write a paper.

Naples Forum is almost over - but plenary talks are recorded - let me try to find the link and send it to you when I find it.  Their website is not the most intuitive - and I get lost when I visit their website.

I know nothing about crypto-currency and keep my distance from them.

Not interested (yet) in life extension - seems likely to be an important area in the coming decades for sure.  Not something I know anything about yet - other than eat right, exercise, stay active, and stay positive.  I am the most optimistic person on the planet (my wife says), so I am good in the positive department.

Hang in there! WUaS will become a reality as the technologies get better to enable it. The vision is big and ambitious - so struggles along the way are a natural part of getting there.

Thanks, -Jim Spohrer
Board of Directors, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP.org)
408-839-3112



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

1:55 PM (1 hour ago)

to Jim

Jim, 

Thanks for the news, and glad your retirement is great!!! - and productive it sounds too!

Thanks too for the 'news' that WUaS may be waiting for the information technologies to develop! 14 years or so now ... Not clear when it will be possible to hire faculty, for example, and it's not clear too when WUaS will be able to remunerate the people who continue to do the work ... (Larry Viehland, MYSELF, so far pretty much).

On with the WUaS Minutes from 8/21/21, - and glad you're staying positive! Daily blog continues to be generative http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university in a far reaching way.

Aging reversal beyond living beyond 122 years' old?  

This is what Harvard MIT Prof of Genetics George Church is heralding, and big pharmaceutical companies, and universities too, may have begun to martial their R&D resources in these directions in recent months significantly. 

And did we jumpstart the genetic engineering revolution further over the last 18 months? 

The rewards are remarkable.

Am hopeful Work World Univ & Sch can add further aging reversal genetics' tools in 1 realistic virtual earth for everything (esp. genetics and evolutionary biology).

Hoping your retirement continues to go well!

Thanks, Scott


Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) -

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116




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Dear Larry and Ed, Ma, Sandy (Pin, Jim & Tym),


It being the 8th of September, when the USPS said they would get, via a certified first class letter costing $4.53, the Form 100 tax returns from 2017 for the WUaS Corporation (WUaS's 3rd legal entity and a for profit general stock company in CA) to the CA Franchise Tax Board in Sacramento, when the due date was September 7, 2021, and I posted this on 9/2/21, and their 1) internet and 2) phone systems didn't work, and it took about 6 days to go from just north of Berkeley CA (where I'm living in a 'safe house' sadly), with Monday a holiday, to Sacramento (about 2 hours by car) ...

Your item was delivered at 4:03 am on September 7, 2021 in SACRAMENTO, CA 94240.

Status

Delivered

September 7, 2021 at 4:03 am

SACRAMENTO, CA 94240 


So I'm glad to write that the letter - which was a repeat of what the WUaS Corporation sent them in April - got there on September 7th. Modern communications' systems are anxiety producers sometimes ! (Is this what some social scientists might term as an example of alienating processes?). Yet, since this is the 2nd CA state legal entity, it could have been good for lack of confusion in the state of California's databases to mail this on paper, and at this time ... since the 2 together offer a far reaching opportunity, with WUaS planning to be in 200 countries, both actually and virtually, physically and digitally, and in 7139 languages - and even plan, brainstorming-wise to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet.

Would rather be 'dialing in' in the Harbin warm pool as I continue to seek to develop text in the sidebar in Google Street View publishing both to paper and to #wuAsvR books, and an academic press at WUaS in 7139 living languages with machine translation ... and in GDocs ... with Google Translate ... and maybe even in conjunction with the new Google Store in NYC, - but actually and virtually, in many countries. 

On the positive side, Jim Spohrer got back to me that the technologies that WUaS is seeking to develop in aren't built yet ... After 14 years of no remuneration, and very few students, which correspondence (and about aging reversal gene druge, the Greens, and much more) you'll find here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/acer-saccharum.html. Also, WUaS has a first matriculating PhD student in statistics and economics in Indonesia, who confirmed yesterday that he is indeed seeking to matriculate this autumn, I think!

So with this in, I've begun the WUaS Minutes for 8/21/21, and will post-date them and send them in a more finished form tomorrow - 

Minutes for 8/21/21 at WUaS (both NP World Univ & Sch AND the FP WUaS Corporation) ~ 

Sincerely, 
Scott








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