Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Sierra columbine: Re: News in England ~ Abolition! - and of the illegal sex industry? (following on the abolition of slavery there in 1833!) * * * Fettes College high school (IB too), Edinburgh, Scotland "Old Fettesian Association - AGM 2021" and old friends * * * Internet ity ? (offering new possibilities post-modernity's industrial cultures?) (continued with bagpiping, Rock and Roll transcendence & more)


Re: News in England ~ Abolition! - and of the illegal sex industry? (following on the abolition of slavery there in 1833!)


Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

1:32 PM (1 hour ago)

to Jane, Pin, Jim, Sandy, Larry, Henry, Ed, Alden, Richard, David, Cliona, Peter, Ann, Barbara, David, Hugh, lillianbthomas, Bob, Susan, David, Em4ofa@aol.com, Charles, Annelise, Grant, John, Greg, Nancy, George, Cate, Chris, Hal, Heather, Joan, Claudia, Matt, Peter, Nancy


Ma, Pin, Sandy, Jim, All, 

News in England - Shakespeare lens? 

How are you? And greetings! 

Abolitionism in the online Britannica encyclopedia is 'non-breaking news' there I suppose - https://www.britannica.com/topic/abolitionism-European-and-American-social-movement 

And, again, slavery as an institution was abolished in England in 1833, and in the USA on the legal books, in 1862 with the Emancipation proclamation ...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act


Double double toil and trouble, ... http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.4.1.html ... (MacBeth, Act 4, scene 1) - (1606)


Abolition ahead - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/minutes-for-91821-world-univ-sch-wuas.html (see Minute 7 and 7.1)

Warm regards, 

Scott 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Shakespeare

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Law


PS

Living in a 'safe house' and exploring options for asylum next year ...

and just thought of another way, I may be living in a 'safe house' re spurious illegal damaging legal notices ... and difficulties with delivery of spurious legal notices even!


PPS

In calling for the abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally, am realizing there are deep vested financial interests, and that the offenders, perpetrators, and purveyors, with their illegal networks of violence, have incentive to keep it going tragically for many ... Glad I came into communication with a retired General and head of southern Command, Douglas Malcolm Fraser ... and am curious in what ways World Univ & Sch could create a realistic virtual earth for journalism ...

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1359964200001445888?s=20 and https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForJournalism?src=hashtag_click - integrating video cameras everywhere, for one, and even from satellites, for a new definition of 'breaking news' ... 


Here are some related Tweets and an interesting video, with Douglas Fraser's 2 Twitters too ... thanks to him for following me on Twitter recently at @sgkmacleod - 


Am seeking to grow World Univ & Sch, and continue with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot springs' ethnographic project ... as well as start a family ... Good I think to be newly in communication with a Ret. General of the Air Force, and commander of the Southern Command Douglas Malcolm Fraser (very Scottish name ) ... on Twitter ... and possibly in some of these regards above too ... since in the hour long video I watched this morning, before an Oxford Philosophy talk, he's focused on stopping illegal trafficking questions, from a security point of view, and expresses many many other interests I share ... 



regarding this interesting video 


Military Strategy Forum Gen Douglas M Fraser, Commander, U S Southern Command

https://youtu.be/l8ALNgaDsBk


who followed me on Twitter recently, and then messaged me a picture of sunflowers this morning via Twitter Direct Messaging (DM) to which I've since replied (and he has since posted some new Tweet posts) ... 


Hello friend Douglas @douglas90455789 Thnx for pict. (I don't DM on Twitter for var. of reasons) Found this - https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1316856/douglas-fraser/ Congrats on retirement & being single Here are some sunflower pics for you too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/arctic-sunflower-trientalis-europaea.html?m=1 Looking forward to your Tweets. I Tweet also>



Sent as Twitter DM - 

Hello friend Douglas @douglas90455789 Thnx for pict. (I don't DM on Twitter for var. of reasons, in general) Found this -https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1316856/douglas-fraser/ Congrats on retirement & being single. Here are some sunflower pics for you too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/arctic-sunflower-trientalis-europaea.html?m=1 Looking forward to your Tweets  I Tweet also>@scottmacleod @HeartBobH @vanschewick @HarbinBook @TheOpenBand @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress (this @sgkmacleod seeks to develop wiki schools in all 7139 living languages). Do you have an email address? Mine is sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) Cheers, Scott GK MacLeod -scottmacleod.com, worlduniversityandschool.org -


https://investor.iridium.com/douglas-m-fraser

Re single realistic virtual earth for history of geology re iridium



Facilitating @DouglasMFrase19 @WorldUnivAndSch a single #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology re iridium & #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM  #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1450863541456551940





No pic

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1450859864574414858



How best to further @DouglasMFrase19 @WorldUnivAndSch a single #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM w #Filmto3D App w #WUaSRealisticAvatarBots #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords > #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider  #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1450862579861970944?s=20




https://twitter.com/geoSheree/status/697287762597122048?s=20


For ex., I've added @HarbinBook @Douglas90576032  this 2001 pic https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,111.5y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 to #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider (laptop) of Harbin's gatehouse & seek to patch it together with others to create entire 2001 Harbin Springs to move thru. 'Walk' about: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1450936316359630848


You can see his two Twitters above - and could he know T.L., my friend in the US State Department? Perhaps :)



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Old Fettesian Association - AGM 2021 (Sat,. October 2, 2021, 4am PT)

Fettes College high school (IB too), Edinburgh, Scotland "Old Fettesian Association - AGM 2021" and old friends 


Dear George (aka Droop :), Karen, Andrew, Yuen Lok, All,  

Greetings, and am recalling some Fettes' College Friends from when I was in the 6th form for a year of the A levels in 1977-78 ... 

I just recalled Hugh Rutherford from Kimmerghame House in 1977-78, and found him in this OFA directory - https://fettescommunity.org/user/779119 - which I was reminded of by Cambridge Univ affiliated geneticist Ewan Birney's re-Tweet here - https://twitter.com/aylwyn_scally/status/1450587286270201860?s=20. And while I've been in correspondence with Brit Ewan Birney, and Harvard and MIT geneticist George Church and other scientists re aging reversal genetic engineering drug therapies on the horizon, and a single realistic virtual earth for STEM which MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate, per these remarkable developments - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/greenland-shark.html?m=0 - "Greenland shark: 'The bridge between molecular and cellular worlds is being built. It’s a whole new world …' * * * * my mind kind of boggles when I try to envision Peter Norvig coding the Time Slider function in Google Street View at the cellular and molecular levels, in conversation with Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church, and regarding his 1 minute 60 Minutes' video interview" ... I'm glad to be coming in touch with old Fettesian friends thanks to this IT> Alas, few of them leave email addresses in this OFA directory (and isn't email the killer App if there ever was one these days??). 

And while I can't seem to find another friend, one Ditch MacKenzie, in Kimmerghame, whose first name I don't recall (and don't know why his 'mock,' or nickname, if this is what it is, was Ditch either, for that matter) ... yet in searching for and finding many MacKenzies in the OFA Directory, none seem to be from Peer Year of 1979. 

Am glad to have just found Stewart Leckie as well - https://fettescommunity.org/prepopulated/user/99339 - who kindly lent me his tent to go camping on the Isle of Mull, in cold, rainy, blustery April of 1978, and which the wind tore down ... and I would be interested in returning a new one to him when I might see him next, and am able to, perhaps in Scotland next as well.

While my mock in Kimmerghame was 'childish games' ... perhaps because I was quite playful at the time, and a teenager, I have never received that accolade, or heard my 'Gordon' name used again regularly (thanks to Mr. George 'Droop' Preston's naming (the tall man with a stoop, hence 'Droop,' perchance) of me upon arrival in the 'foreign world' of Edinburgh, Scotland, for this Yankee :), ... back on the west side of the 'pond.'

Nice to be in touch a bit with Andrew Lownie, and Yuen Lok Mok esp. 

Have been exploring too, Brainstorming-wise, how PM Stuart Liddell (above, and my bagpiping teacher on the Scottish small pipes from Argyllshire, and as I work toward my 2nd bagpiping album - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm) could even become a first faculty member at World Univ & Sch. And please see these recent 9/18/21 WUaS Minutes in these regards - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/minutes-for-91821-world-univ-sch-wuas.html - and for, for example, Bachelor degrees to matriculating Scottish students, in English, in the WUaS online Music School, possibly combined with a major in Computer Science (brainstorming-wise too). I'm also curious how Stuart, brainstorming-wise, could create, for example, a machine learning approach (with WUaS & Google IT support) to identifying all bagpipe tunes, both Piobaireachd (Ceol Mor), and Light Music (Ceol Beag), potentially via the Google ecosystem and platform, - and such that he could even publish a book about the process and the project as a consequence, and as a faculty member - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/skypilot-scotland-world-university-and.html. (Publish a new book in Google Street View with time slider, text in the side bar, even - if he were to explore developing this ethnomusicologically with contemporary greatest pipers on video:)?

And Fettes College friends, how might we bring Univ of Chicago Professor Catriona MacKay into this conversation per here too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/skypilot-scotland-world-university-and.html ? :)

The great PM Stuart Liddell recently told me that both Ali Henderson and Cameron Drummond, of the world champions' Inveraray & District Pipe Band both teach the Fettes College Pipe Band (which Andrew and I both played in a bit:). Could we find a way to matriculate Fettes College alumni OFA's to World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' online Bachelor - and PhD - degrees, and for example with a computer science major, and music performance (eg bagpiping) minor, and with everyone studying from the comfort of their own homes, - from among also the 5 million people in Scotland even? :)

All the Best, 
Scott





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'Internet ity' ? (offering new possibilities post-modernity's industrial cultures?) (continued with bagpiping, Rock and Roll transcendence & more, from Tu 10/19/21 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/centaurea-cyanus-bachelors-button.html?m=0)

Dear Ma, Ed, Larry, Sid, David Ross, All, 

Re Internetity, and TRANSCENDANCE (a Unitarian Universalist focus, emerging from Unitarian New England Transcendentalism emerging even from reading the Bhagavad Gita, and other Hindu texts in the first half of the 1800s ... William James in his Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902 talks given in Edinburgh, Scotland, refers to those too ) even (counter culturally esp), I am amazed how great rock and roll just kind of holds me in the 'NOW' moment, and increases pleasure through a select series of tones and rhythms and genres etc...... this is another one ... 

Derek and the Dominos - In Concert
The Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool does this in a different way (with some parallels as I've observed many times, with the meditation of un-programmed Quaker Meeting)

Cheers, 
Scott
(??? https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga - ??? UU label too? RockAndRoll label too?:)

Stuart ... you're extraordinary bagpiping uniquely does this for me too ... So how to get to Piobaireachding the Blues in a brand new genre-creating way in some of these regards? I'm asking myself, and with the new potentials of the Internet in REAL REAL TIME for Music-Making together? 

i just made a little further progress with bagpiping in a new Piobaireachding the Blues on a 9 note chanter, by playing a 1 4 5 progression on the A Scottish Small Pipes' chanter, interspersing it with "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" also in the key of A mixolydian ... which could become generative ... ) ...



And further re BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, am circling around to 'most beautiful Piobaireachds' again, and regarding the following ... 

As we delve deeper into Piobaireachd (and made a little Progress with Piobaireachding the Blues on a 9 note chanter, by playing a 1 4 5 progression on the A chanter, interspersing it with The Desperate Battle of the Birds ... which could become fruitful ... ) ...

re ... 4. "Lament for Queen Anne"  on Friday, which I found really beautiful  last night, with nice singing too by PM Donald MacLeod in a Tutorial, and which I have in Book 7 of the Piobaireachd Society, or  Craigelachie Piobaireachd piece - https://youtu.be/TG0zUvPzNTM - or ... the beautiful ...

Piobaireachd: Lament For The Laird of Annapool
played by PM Bill LIvingstone 
https://youtu.be/QuPnp5Ml3Yc

John D. Burgess - Performing Piobaireachd "Lament for the Children"
https://youtu.be/yKLIW-T4GNo ?


Cheers, Scott
re item 2 
2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).
- (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.). -
 

Again, perhaps, and with many helpful recordings to learn from directly (and also by memorizing, listening and feeling) per the great Stuart Liddell ... 

Am in exploring mode for the most beautiful Piobaireachds (to my ear:) ... Which Piobaireachds do you like most among the following? Which are some of the very most melodic or lyrical Piobaireachd you know? What are some of the most beautiful PIobaireachds ever for you (akin to The Desperate Battle of the Birds to your ear)?  (Of the CoP's Vol 4 Yellow Tutor's 4 pieces, 'Glengarry's Lament,' 'MacKintoshes' Banner,' 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry,' and 'The Company's Lament,' - and then also 'The Blind Piper's Obstinacy,' and 'The Desperate Battle of the Birds,' - I like The Desperate Battle the most, - it's my current favorite - as I think about this and feel this out too). 


1. "The Big Spree" It's anything but a spree, it's a wonderful sad,
evocative, haunting piece of music, definitely one to "feel" those emotions
in or sob your heart out to. Best recording I've heard is Donald MacPherson,
though Jack Lee also makes a splendid job of it in a Piping Centre recital
recording.

https://vimeo.com/143726073 (what 'derangement' does the MC talk of ... an artistic craziness, or altered consciousness, too even re Second Sightedness - https://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-belief-second-sight-gift-premonition-1482608 - re seeing ahead even into the Piobaireachd piece one's playing :)


2. "MacDougall's Gathering," An insistent call to the clan that cannot be
resisted, very musical with some very clever phrasing, a tune that sings and
soars away. Bill Livingstone's playing and interpretation of this tune is
second to none.


Pipe Major William Livingstone, MacDougall's Gathering
https://youtu.be/BJpTDBPgtDI 


3. "Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart's Lament no.1" A tune not heard very often
nowadays with a lovely melody line in the urlar which carries strongly
through the whole tune. I only have one very old recording of this by
William M. Macdonald.

James Robertson - MacDonald of Kinlochmoidarts Lament (No. 1) Ground (The Blue Chair Sessions #5)
https://youtu.be/B3AlGOJyMdc


4. "Lament for Queen Anne" This is a regal, stately and grand tune, it just
moves along so full of grace it does seem to have a Royal feel to it, again
a lovely melody that grows on you the more you listen to it and absorb it's
beautiful music. Only recording I have is by Fred Morrison, where he has the
misfortune to break down in the crunluath variations.

Queen Anne's Lament
https://youtu.be/wuKb73r8kGs


5. "Battle of Auldearn no.1" A great tune with a feel not so much of
lamenting for the dead of the battle but as an inspiring incitement to great
deeds and a promise of a glorious death. I love this tune and have a
wonderful recording of Captain Gavin Stoddart playing this faultlessly to
win at a Glenfiddich championship.

Pipe Major Gavin Stoddart MBE BEM, The Battle of Auldearn, Number 1
https://youtu.be/LSqmy-uR5XI


6. "Lament for Donald Doughal MacKay" this is probably the MOST popular
tune amongst top Piobaireachd players, a big tune in every sense of the
word, and one that just sings along on a well tuned pipe, full of expression
and life.
I have a good recording of Roddy MacLeod playing this on his peerless pipes,
but it has been done by others who also make a really good job of it.


Lament for Donald Dougal Mackay
https://youtu.be/Z8bAvpix5x4


7. "Rory MacLoude's Lament" Another tune that sings along with great melody
tinged with sadness, like MacDougall's Gathering it is cleverly written to
bring out the best of the melody, it's a tune that took a short while to
grow on me. I have good recordings of both Murray Henderson and Hugh
MacAllum playing this tune, both players do it splendid justice.

Metro Cup 2015: Chris Armstrong - Piobaireachd "Rory MacLoude's Lament"
https://youtu.be/aHQBdXn7Tok


8. "Lady Annapool's Lament" A truly magical tune especially when you get
into the variations, as a pentatonic tune the melody line is quite exquisite
from such a meagre range. I have a very old recording of John Stewart
playing this with complete mastery, he really rattles along in the taorluath
and crunluath variations losing none of the clarity of the movements but
driving the melody notes insistently forward, beautifully played.

Lady Annapool’s Lament
CPA C Grade Piobaireachd Bob Low
https://www.golectures.com/index.php?go=search&yti=5vCjRBmPK48


9. "The Desperate Battle" Another tune similar to the last one in that I
think the variations surpass the urlar in beauty and inventiveness, a tune
to soar away with "the birds" the high A's are pure magic. Great recording
of this tune by John D. Burgess.

The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
https://youtu.be/r1w9J2atyHw


10 "The Old Woman's Lullaby" I have loved this tune ever since I heard The
Invergordon Distillery "Pipes In Concert" LP record in 1966, the whole band
plays it with seconds. It's a great tune and I love it, I have trouble
memorising it for some strange reason but the melody develops along very
nicely but also very subtly. Good recordings abound of all the greats
playing this tune. Donald Macleod, Donald MacPherson, John D. Burgess,
Captain John MacLellan et al.


Just came across this "The Old Woman's Lullaby" which John Broadwell (https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.bagpipe/c/tHZPS2mbZMg?pli=1 - above are his choices of favorite Piobaireachd) had written was one of his favorite 10 Piobaireachds ever - and this is played as an ENSEMBLE by some of the greatest pipers in the world, with Roddy MacLeod I think offering some non-mensural beats with his foot (a bit like a Pipe Major - but not re the interesting mensural "The Desperate Battle" pipe band version you shared) ... 

2019-01-19: MHAF WinterStorm: Piobaireachd - The Old Woman's Lullaby
https://youtu.be/bnKTsSaRwpY 

Stuart, and All, regarding Internetity, am just seeking to get to beautiful, crescendoing and peaking moments in real real time music-making over the internet ... (to elicit even blissing neurophysiology ... loving bliss neurophysiology brain chemistry naturally, I mean, ... so what is this, and how can we get there without thinking? Listen to -  


Derek and the Dominos - In Concert
https://youtu.be/hDOcPMPn5iM (~1970?)

- if it's to people's taste or liking ?:)

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